Rock and Roll Hall of Famer and longtime Ramones dummer Marky Ramone is returning to San Antonio this weekend for a Blitzkrieg Bop of events and appearances. The punk pioneer’s first stop will be Friday at the Corn Pound and Flagship Records, 6336 Montgomery Drive. He’ll be present for a photo exhibit of previously unseen […]
This week’s top Current story covered a recent survey, which named San Antonio’s Alamo Heights as the eighth “most envied” suburban neighborhood in the United States. Alamo Heights was ranked along with several other Texas suburbs, including Sugar Land and Plano. Also among this week’s most-read news was Ron Nirenberg’s announcement that San Antonio might […]
The San Antonio Zoo is flapping its wings, celebrating a monumental achievement. On Friday, the zoo announced the hatching of a secretary bird chick — the first birth of this endangered species at the San Antonio Zoo in over 15 years. The zoo is one of twelve facilities in the U.S. that house secretary birds.
Between Two Worlds Directed by Emmanuel Carrère. Written by Emmanuel Carrère and Hélène Devynck, based on a book by Florence Aubenas. Opens in select cities August 25.
Despite a rapid rise in COVID-19 cases, Republican Gov. Greg Abbott on Thursday tweeted “there will be no mask mandates in Texas” — a statement that met with mixed fanfare. Abbott’s post on X, formerly known as Twitter, comes as some institutions nationwide reinstate COVID-era mask mandates due to a summer surge. Hollywood studio Lionsgate […]
Now that we’ve had our fill this summer of Barbie and Oppenheimer — and, of course, Barbenheimer’s pink cloud of nuclear fallout — it’s time to look forward to the fall’s cinematic offerings. Although it’s unclear when the Hollywood strike will come to an end, the industry still has a slate of films headed to theaters, […]
Gallup estimated that 5.6% of Americans identified as lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender in 2020. But according to the U.S. census from the same year, four Texas counties had no same-sex households and 93% had fewer than the national average. Official surveys like the census undercount the size of the LGBTQ+ population, in part due […]
Given San Antonio photographer Al Rendon’s high profile and decades-long career of capturing breathtaking images, it seems odd that he’s only now having his first retrospective show. Nonetheless, the Witte Museum is billing its show that opens Saturday, Sept. 2 as the first-ever retrospective for Rendon’s work.
A trip to SeaWorld San Antonio became an unpleasant situation for one man after it appears from a video clip that thieves took all four of his vehicle’s tires and left it on bricks outside the theme park. In a now-viral TikTok video, user @gucciboom5959 approaches his white SUV in what’s purportedly the SeaWorld parking lot, only […]
Denver-based haircare chain Floyd’s 99 Barbershop will open eight San Antonio locations as part of an ongoing expansion. Each of the Alamo City locations will employ 25-40 people, according to company officials.