The Tejano Conjunto Festival, the nation’s oldest and largest celebration of South Texas Chicano roots music, on Tuesday unveiled this year’s scheduled performers and the winner of its annual poster contest. The 42nd annual festival will take place will take place May 17-19 at Rosedale Park and feature three days of concerts along with a seniors’ dance […]
San Antonio’s laid-back attitude and day drinking-conducive weather have ensured the longevity of its icehouse tradition. San Antonio’s Third Annual Icehouse Week will celebrate these approachable and neighborhood-focused watering holes with discounts, giveaways and parties.
Over the past three weeks, TV station KSAT ran roughly a dozen stories highlighting the Bexar County District Attorney’s office relationship with Wren Collective, an Austin-based criminal justice reform group. Based on hundreds of emails and text messages between District Attorney Joe Gonzales’ office and Wren, KSAT reported that the “mysterious” outside group “wields significant […]
My computer ain’t woke. It underlines words like “placelessness” in angry red squiggles and phrases such as “culture of erasure” in double blue lines, indicating that I made a grammatical error or that something is missing.
If you’re an Insane Clown Posse fan, rejoice: the hardcore-rap duo’s Juggalo Weekend is coming to town. If you’re not, well, prepare to be confused by it — or just enjoy a good laugh. Fortunately, not all of this week’s live music events are ICP-adjacent, though.
Let’s face it: now matter how much fun Victor Wembanyama is to watch, the Spurs suck right now. At 11-44, the Silver and Black looks like it’s on track for its worst record since the 1996-97 regular season. Back then, the team finished with 62 losses.
In the latest turn in a convoluted property dispute, a Bexar County judge ruled that the owner of downtown’s Phipps Building can evict Paramour, its fancy rooftop bar, over unpaid rent, the Express-News reports. Judge Michele Garcia of Precinct 4 Justice of the Peace Court on Tuesday ruled in favor of building owner CDC Enterprises […]
During a San Antonio appearance Tuesday, Gov. Greg Abbott said Texas will have a $20 billion surplus at the end of the current budget cycle, but that money isn’t going to health care or public education, both severely underfunded in the state. Instead, the Republican governor bragged that he’ll use some of the funds to support […]
An instructor at St. Philip’s College who claimed he was fired last summer for teaching that X and Y chromosomes are the sole determinate of a person’s sex now says via a statement from his attorneys that he’s been rehired. Adjunct professor Johnson Varkey grabbed right-wing media headlines last summer when he alleged the Alamo […]
Eager to unleash what its leaders called a “sleeping giant,” the Poor People’s Campaign on Tuesday unveiled plans to mobilize low-income voters in Texas and 30 other states ahead of the November election. The Poor People’s Campaign will stage simultaneous Saturday, March 2, marches on the Texas Capitol and on statehouses in battleground states including […]