Nineteen-year-old San Antonio Spurs star Victor Wembanyama is facing online criticism after video surfaced of him visiting a pair of San Antonio bars over the weekend. A now-viral clips of the 7-foot-3 hoops phenom appear to show him wearing a black cowboy hat and hanging out at Alamo City haunts Southtown 101 and the Roo […]
The day after the San Antonio Spurs landed French phenom Victor Wembanyama in the 2023 NBA Draft, the team pulled in an astounding 2,500 season-ticket deposits. With one of the basketball’s highest-profile players now on its roster, the Silver and Black are likely to be one of the league’s highest revenue-generating franchises for the upcoming […]
Elvis Costello & The Imposters will pump it up at a Monday, Jan. 22 Majestic Theatre concert that’s being billed as the rock legend’s first-ever San Antonio performance. The show is part of Costello’s 7-0-7 tour, which will traverse the Southeastern U.S. for most of January. Tickets will be available starting at 10 a.m. this Friday […]
San Antonio-based beer salt brand Twang has expanded its retail reach to include Walmart stores in all 50 states. The new deal with the world’s largest retailer will help 37-year-old Twang establish a national retail footprint, Marketing Director Edmundo Macias said. The expansion will bring its lime and lemon-lime beer salts into a total of 3,500 Walmart […]
Big Sam’s Funky Nation is bringing its raucous, brass-fueled funk to San Antonio as a headliner for the 40th annual Jazz’SAlive, scheduled for Sept. 29-30 in Hemisfair’s Civic Park. The New Orleans-based group is known for working from an eclectic sonic palate that includes not just the jazz and funk of its Big Easy roots […]
ODESSA — A new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention offers the oil and gas industry, federal workplace regulators and state policy makers a starting point to better understand the fatal risks that come with extraction. The first-of-its-kind, the study relies on federal workplace data from 2014 through 2019 and was released earlier […]
The San Antonio area posted one of the steepest year-over-year drops in both median home prices and pending home sales of any U.S. metro, according to a new Redfin report. Median home prices in the Alamo City metro are down 1.6% since September 2022, meaning the area posted the nation’s fourth-largest decline for the period, […]
Goodwill San Antonio will host a career fair this Wednesday featuring representatives from 45 employers. The fair will run 10 a.m.-1 p.m. at the Second Baptist Church, 3310 E. Commerce St., and employers represented at the event will include Amazon, the City of San Antonio, Marriott International and Zachary Construction Corp., Goodwill official said. Most are looking […]
San Antonio Spurs legend Manu Ginobili is trying his hand at a new sport. The NBA Hall-of-Famer last week became part owner of professional pingpong team the Florida Crocs, according to officials with Major League Table Tennis (MLTT), the sport’s first professional U.S. league.
Guns N’ Roses is heading to the Alamodome Tuesday to deliver a dose of stadium rock for those who crave such spectacle. However, that’s not the only reason for SA music fans to be excited.