Austin’s Tarka Indian Kitchen chain has opened a second San Antonio restaurant, this one on the city’s West Side. Tarka — which specializes in contemporary South Asian cuisine, including curries, kabobs, biryanis and flatbreads — has taken over a spot at Wender Plaza, 9710 State Highway 151, Suite 107, near Chicken Salad Chick, Dave’s Hot Chicken […]
This week’s top Current food news ran the gamut from openings to closings to a high profile eviction. Let’s jump in. Current readers wanted to know all the details surrounding nightclub Paramour’s recent legal woes, making that our top story of the week.
The placement of a San Antonio Louis Vuitton billboard featuring new brand ambassador Victor Wembanyama raised eyebrows on social media this week. That’s because the fashion brand’s ad towers above a relatively poor South Side neighborhood yet shows the Spurs phenomenon sporting a jacket with a $6,500 price tag. That’s outside the price range for […]
More than 400 workers at a Molson Coors brewery in Fort Worth began a strike this week, following unsuccessful contract negations with the beverage giant, industry site Food Dive reports. The 420 workers are represented by the local Fort Worth chapter of the Teamsters. They help produce, bottle and package beverages at Molson Coors’ only […]
A colleague of the Northside Independent School District employee who died over the weekend from an injury sustained while working at Brandeis High School has launched a launched a GoFundMe to cover his funeral expenses. NISD instructional assistant Alfred “Mr. Fred” Jimenez died Saturday due to a blunt-force head injury sustained earlier this month during what district […]
Many San Antonio music fans were caught by surprise when Hemisfair officials earlier this week trumpeted the relaunch of San Antonio’s decades-gone La Semana Alegre music festival. Officials at the downtown park and entertainment development said the new La Semana Alegre at Hemisfair will take place April 25-26 — a two-day event rather than the […]
Today, the term “icehouse” evokes visions of convivial conversation, shaded seating and cold longnecks slick with condensation. Back in the 1840s — when scholars agree Texas icehouses made their debut — the gathering spots were more utilitarian than social.
San Antonio sports broadcaster Mike Jimenez has once again waded into controversy, this time arguing during his podcast that San Antonio’s goal of landing another pro sports league is hindered by its relative poverty and lack of vision. But is he wrong? Jimenez’s comments came during Wednesday’s episode of the Alamo City Sportscast while he and […]
Over the weekend, ABC News correspondent and San Antonio native John Quiñones returned for a historic 16th season of What Would You Do? The hit hidden-camera series delivers a televised social experiment by putting unsuspecting people in different scenarios to see how they will react to conflict in a public setting.
ANAHUAC — A Texas judge on Thursday said the Barbers Hill Independent School District can punish a Black student who wears his hair in long locs without violating Texas’ new CROWN Act, which is meant to prevent hairstyle discrimination in schools and workplaces. The decision came after a monthslong dispute between the district and Darryl […]