San Antonio Summer Restaurant Weeks just got a little tastier. Culinaria, the nonprofit behind the annual culinary event, is adding a third week to this summer’s installment of its semiannual fundraiser. That means local foodies can enjoy special Restaurant Weeks menus from Saturday, Aug. 8, through Saturday, Aug. 29. In past years, San Antonio […]
San Antonio Democrat Johnny Garcia, who is running to represent Texas’ red-leaning 35th District in Congress, blew past his Trump-backed Republican opponent in second-quarter fundraising Garcia reported raising $676,140 during the quarter, which ran from April 1 through June 30. He also reported that his campaign has no debt, with $323,108 cash on hand. Meanwhile, […]
More than seven years after Avengers: Endgame brought Marvel’s Infinity Saga to a close, the franchise is rallying Earth’s Mightiest Heroes again. Marvel Studios dropped the first full trailer for Avengers: Doomsday on Monday morning, sending fans in San Antonio and around the globe into a frenzy. Within four hours, the clip racked up more than 13 million views […]
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is facing accusations that he lied about the size of the crowd that showed up to his first campaign rally of the general election. Paxton, who’s running against Democrat State Rep. James Talarico for the state’s open U.S. Senate race, hosted a rally Tuesday at the University Draft House in […]
For those who didn’t get enough of Black Flag’s new Gen Z-dominated lineup last year at Paper Tiger, the seminal punk band will return to San Antonio for a Friday, Oct. 30, show at the Espee. Founding guitarist Greg Ginn took heat last year for revamping Black Flag — a band formed in the late ’70s […]
This article was originally published by the Texas Observer, a nonprofit investigative news outlet and magazine. Sign up for their weekly newsletter, or follow them on Facebook, X, and Bluesky. In 2015, a 25-year-old flooring installer named Roendy Granillo collapsed and died of heat stroke on a construction job in Melissa, a small town northeast of Dallas, after his family said he […]
SeaWorld San Antonio is joining a last-minute international rescue mission to save 30 beluga whales facing euthanasia at a defunct marine park in Canada. But not everyone’s happy about it. Gearing up for a complex journey south, 13 of the 30 belugas will find a new home in the Alamo City. Even though SeaWorld officials […]
State Rep. James Talarico received a jolt of social media attention over video of what the Houston Chronicle described as a “spirited exchange” over the weekend between the Democratic U.S. Senate candidate and a Black voter. The clip, posted by Austin-American-Statesman reporter Faith Bugenhagen, shows influencer Kandice Webber confronting Talarico at a Houston town hall. […]
About 22.3% of people with student loans in Texas are now in default, meaning they’re nine months or more behind on their payments, the Associated Press found in a nationwide analysis. Around 9.5 million U.S. student-loan borrowers, or more than 1 in 5, are in default, and many of those fell behind on payments as […]
This article was originally published by the Texas Observer, a nonprofit investigative news outlet and magazine. Sign up for their weekly newsletter, or follow them on Facebook, X, and Bluesky. In late June, the Texas State Board of Education (SBOE) set controversial new curriculum requirements for the state’s public schools, which educate approximately 5.5 million students. Alongside further curtailing of cultural, […]