‘Tis the season for tamales, and our top food story of the week — which shared details about the fourth annual Tamales Festival — tells us that San Antonio is ready. Our other most-read food stories touched on expansions of Babe’s Old Fashioned Food and Dave’s Hot Chicken, as well as local bars and restaurants […]
A federal judge on Wednesday ruled that Border Patrol agents may continue cutting razor wire Texas strung up along the Rio Grande to thwart illegal migration, the Texas Tribune reports. At the same time, U.S. District Judge Alia Moses of Del Rio questioned why the Biden administration doesn’t make it easier for migrants to claim asylum at […]
American Symphony Directed by Matthew Heineman. Streaming on Netflix beginning November 29.
Performances by Grammy Award-winning musician and songwriter Chip Davis and Mannheim Steamroller have become such a holiday tradition that it’s almost hard to imagine that the group once was credited for revolutionizing Christmas music. For its current tour, the ensemble will perform Mannheim Steamroller Christmas, the classic holiday album that’s reverberated for nearly 40 years […]
The San Antonio Spurs are heating things up with the release of a limited-time signature hot sauce, Por Vida. The sauce is a local collaboration with San Antonio food producers Humble House, who specialize in artisan hot sauces. “We are so honored to work with such an iconic brand like the Spurs,” founder of Humble […]
Editor’s note: A previous version of this story included the incorrect number of older Texans who pay more than 30% of their income on housing costs. There are 765,921 cost-burdened older Texans, not 1.1 million. Harvard University’s Joint Center of Housing Studies provided the incorrect figure and said it discovered the error after this story […]
Editor’s Note: Cityscrapes is a column of opinion and analysis. Ron Nirenberg is in his fourth, and last, term as mayor of San Antonio.
Longtime rock journalist and author David A. Ensminger will celebrate the release of his new book Roots Punk: A Visual and Oral History with appropriately raucous musical accompaniment this Sunday at San Antonio’s Flagship Records. In the book, Ensminger — an instructor at Lee College in Baytown — explains how punk merged with roots music […]
Honchos with the XFL and United States Football League (USFL) said Thursday that federal antitrust officials have completed a review of the two semipro football leagues’ merger, clearing the way for a “combined season” this spring. Although details about which franchises will compete in the newly formed United Football League aren’t yet available — league […]
Assclown Alert is a column of opinion, analysis and snark. In his latest foray into performative politics, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton last week announced that his office is investigating watchdog group Media Matters for “potentially fraudulent activity.”