Downtown San Antonio’s old Marriott Plaza — now called Plaza San Antonio Hotel & Spa — is sharing swanky sneak peeks of its upcoming bar and restaurant concepts, set to open this fall. Corinne and Anaqua Garden Bar’s Instagram feeds share highly stylized photos that have ramped up in the last few weeks, promising “tropical […]
Throwback-themed bar Be Kind & Rewind will ring in its first anniversary with an immersive, spooky experience dubbed, “The Horror Section,” Oct. 27-31. The bar’s ‘80s, ‘90s and ‘00s vibes will take a spooky turn via themed seating areas, Halloween- and horror-inspired photo opportunities, immersive decor and roaming monsters, owner Alex Amaro told the Current via […]
Ten San Antonio chefs will test their burger mettle next month for Burger Showdown 4.0, the fourth annual installment of the local cooking competition. The event will take place Friday, Oct. 13 at east-of-downtown beer haven Alamo Beer Co., 202 Lamar St., pitting ten culinary pros against each other for a cash prize. As in […]
Those attending Friday’s UTSA vs. Army football game may want to consider taking public transportation to avoid a traffic nightmare, according to San Antonio officials. The gridiron showdown will begin at 6 p.m., and the large attendance combined with rush hour traffic is likely to create bumper-to-bumper traffic, not to mention parking woes. As a […]
The San Antonio Stock Show & Rodeo on Thursday unveiled five new additions to its 2024 entertainment lineup, including Country Music Hall of Fame duo Brooks & Dunn. The new additions and their performance dates are:
After lengthy and sometimes contentious debate over a proposed fund for women’s reproductive health, all members of San Antonio City Council — except one — signed off on the city’s $3.7 billion fiscal 2024 budget. Here’s everything you need to know about the budget council approved Thursday. Reproductive Health Fund Although the newly created fund […]
Centro San Antonio is offering a $100,000 honorarium to a local artist who can create a towering downtown mural that reflects the city’s love for the Spurs. Centro — a nonprofit that promotes living and working downtown — this week issued an open call for a local artist, or team of artists, to paint a […]
The wife of a man convicted of entering the U.S. Capitol during the Jan. 6 insurrection and who has also labeled school board members “child molesters” has been appointed to a North East Independent School District sex-ed committee, KSAT reports. Crystal Keen, a registered nurse, was appointed to NEISD’s School Health Advisory Council (SHAC), last month, […]
Although now dead for nearly 50 years — she expired in 1976 at age 85 — Agatha Christie remains as mysteriously ubiquitous as ever. Rivaled in sales only by William Shakespeare — and let’s acknowledge that he received a 330-year head start — Christie has conservatively moved more than 2 billion books since The Mysterious […]
In a bid to keep San Antonio’s lights on as the state’s power grid looks increasingly unreliable, Councilwoman Melissa Cabello Havrda this week filed a request to lower the amount of revenue the city takes monthly from CPS Energy. The District 6 councilwoman’s proposal would allow the city-owned utility to keep 2-3% more of its […]