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After casting three separate votes to censure its members — including District 10’s Marc Whyte — San Antonio City Council will deliberate Thursday on passing a code of conduct. In addition to this month’s vote on Whyte, who was charged with driving while intoxicated, council has over the past 14 months also censured two now-former […]
San Antonio’s 2024 Martin Luther King Jr. March, canceled earlier this month due to freezing rain and icy roads, won’t be rescheduled, according to organizers. The City of San Antonio and the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Commission made the announcement in a joint statement released Tuesday afternoon. The annual march is one of the largest […]
San Antonio ventriloquist, comedian and motivational entertainer Ignacio “Nacho”Estrada, best known locally for his performances at schools during the 1980s and 1990s, has died. He was 77. Estrada’s death was confirmed on social media by longtime friend and fellow comedian Efrain “Happy” Guerrero.
Police have arrested a San Antonio man accused in a now-viral social media video of hitting a woman twice during an encounter last year in a public park. On Monday, San Antonio police charged Noah Ochoa, 24, with misdemeanor assault — bodily injury.
It’s official: Texas is the most Stanley cup-crazed state in the nation, according to a new study. And no, we’re not talking about the hockey trophy. For those out of the know, Stanley cups are the latest rabid consumer craze.
The Spurs’ Victor Wembanyama’s jersey is among the NBA’s top-sellers for the first half of this year’s regular season, according to tweets shared Tuesday by the league. The new sales numbers mark the first time a rookie has cracked the top 10 since the 2015-16 season. Wembanyama’s jersey was No. 4 seller for the first […]
Jonny Loquasto, an up-and-coming comedian who formerly worked as a WWE announcer, is coming to San Antonio’s Upstage Comedy Lounge this Saturday. Loquasto will perform at 7:30 p.m. No opening acts are listed on the club’s webite.
Oops. A 911 call about an explosion in Northeast Texas led the Upshur County Sheriff’s Department to what was intended to be a secret cannabis-growing operation, TV station KLTV reports. The county dispatched first responders to a home just south of Gilmer, about 30 miles from Longview, after a witness called in Saturday to report […]
Social media users roasted a right-wing conspiracy theorist running for the Texas House of Representatives after he offered his “services” in Gov. Greg Abbott’s border pissing match with the White House. On Monday, Joshua Feuerstein, lead pastor of the evangelical AmericasChurch in Dallas-Fort Worth, tweeted his offer to participate in an armed standoff along the […]