Assclown Alert is a column of opinion, analysis and snark. U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson’s recent trip to the Texas-Mexico border with 60 or so GOP colleagues suggests he’s got all the political chops of his bumbling predecessor, the recently ousted Kevin McCarthy.
U.S. Rep. Chip Roy is once again threatening to shut down the federal government if Congress can’t pass tougher border restrictions. And this time, the Austin-San Antonio Republican is claiming his constituents actually want him to force the closure.
Where the Caribbean, Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic converge lies a tiny island subject to one of the longest-running sanction policies in U.S. history. It is also the birthplace of some of the most influential conceptual artists in history — Coco Fusco, Felix Gonzalez-Torres and Ana Mendieta, among others.
The 12th annual San Antonio DreamWeek offers a packed series of civic-engagement events scheduled around Martin Luther King Jr. Day. How packed?
Bexar County Commissioner’s Court pulled the plug Tuesday on an incentives package for DeLorean Motors Reimagined, an electric-vehicle startup that pledged to create 450 jobs if it got tax breaks to locate its headquarters in San Antonio. The commissioners didn’t discuss the deal’s termination during their weekly meeting. Instead, they voted 5-0 to approve the […]
San Antonio soon will have one more spot to experience the “second most fun between two buns.” That, of course, is the suggestive slogan scrawled across the exterior wall of beloved north-of-downtown burger joint Mr. Juicy. And we may see the same phrase splashed across a new Castle Hills store, owner Andrew Weissman confirmed to […]
Texas officials quietly tried to thwart work by immigrant advocacy groups to ease the transition for migrants bused to Democrat-led cities as part of Gov. Greg Abbott’s immigration crackdown, according to a CBS News investigation. In September, officials with the Texas Division of Emergency Management (TDEM), which oversees the migrant buses, told the Val Verde Border […]
San Antonio native Mike Dillon is a musical innovator and provocateur whose punk-jazz hybrid is virtuosic, intense and, most of all, groovy. As a sideman, the ace vibraphonist has collaborated with Les Claypool, both on Primus releases and the bassist’s solo work.
San Antonio’s annual Martin Luther King Jr. March and Celebration will return to the city’s East Side for its 37th year. Known as one of the largest MLK Day celebrations in the nation and the largest MLK march in the country, the event has routinely drawn more than 300,000 participants in recent years.
It’s that time of year again — the Christmas decorations are coming down, the worst of the winter doldrums are setting in and a small army of gargantuan trucks with tires big enough to have their own ZIP Codes are rumbling into the Alamodome for Monster Jam. As the august and venerable New Yorker has […]