San Antonio city officials are moving to give the gay nightlife district on North Main Street a special designation recognizing its cultural significance to the LGBTQ+ community, the Express-News reports. The stretch spanning the 1300 through 1900 blocks of North Main is home to landmark nightclubs including Heat, Pegasus and Sparky’s Pub, and it hosts […]
Over the weekend, the Dallas Morning-News, in collaboration with PolitiFact, debunked a viral video that appeared to capture President Joe Biden threatening to wage war with Texas. “We’re going to make sure those cowboys don’t stop the surge of military-age men from entering,” a voice sounding eerily like the president’s said in the clip.
A San Antonio woman is recovering at a local hospital after yet another dog attack, this one on the city’s Southside, according to the Express-News. The latest attack, which occurred Tuesday, follows several high-profile and grisly incidents last year, some of which grabbed national headlines. The woman was walking her “purse-size” dog along the 1000 […]
San Antonio’s recent cold snap made it difficult to lure music fans out to venues, but with that behind us, there’s great music on the horizon and no compelling reason not to check it out. Whether you’re craving jazz takes on Disney tunes, the shoegazy pop of Moving Panoramas or the infectious conjunto of Los […]
Texas oil refineries, petrochemical plants and other industrial sites reported releasing 2.1 million pounds of unauthorized air pollution during last week’s freezing temperatures, newly released data show. Paperwork businesses filed with the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality documents 92 releases of toxic chemicals across 27 counties between Jan. 13 and Jan. 16, according to an analysis released this week […]
Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. Texas child welfare officials are reassigning staff to focus on monitoring the unlicensed motels and rental homes that house some of the most vulnerable children in the foster-care system — a move officials […]
Gov. Greg Abbott insinuated Monday on social media that he’ll ignore a U.S. Supreme Court order clearing federal agents to cut concertina wire the state deployed along the Rio Grande as part of the his Operation Lone Star border crackdown. After the high court’s 5-4 vote, Texas Department of Public Safety spokesman Chris Olivarez announced […]
Beloved San Antonio hole-in-the-wall Gino’s Deli grabbed the No. 9 spot on Yelp’s annual Top 100 Places to Eat in the U.S. This marks at least the third time owner Aleem Chaudhry’s Brooklyn-style deli — located inside a Shavano Park-area convenience store, no less — has landed on the list. The deli, known as much […]
Last week, MovieMaker magazine for its sixth consecutive year named San Antonio one of the Best Places to Live and Work as a Moviemaker. In describing the advantages of filming in San Antonio, the publication noted its access to production facilities and equipment rental houses along with state and supplemental local film incentives, which can […]
Freetail Brewing Co., San Antonio’s second-largest brewery, is up for sale by the ownership group that’s controlled the company since 2016. The 15-year-old business, which launched at North Loop 1604 and Northwest Military Highway with used brewing equipment and a wood-fired brick pizza oven, now includes two restaurant brewpubs, a production brewery and retail distribution […]