President Donald Trump praised Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in a Wednesday social media post and contradicted his own administration by calling for the agency’s traffic stops to continue, despite its agents being involved in recent slayings in Houston and Maine. “The men and women of ICE are doing a GREAT job, one that has […]
Debuting at Sundance in the experimental “NEXT” category, TheyDream is an autobiographical film that combines mixed media animation and cinéma vérité. In the feature, which screens for free this Friday in San Antonio, filmmaker William D. Caballero uses familial storytelling to illustrate how art can act as a potent means of catharsis. After the death […]
The National Weather Service (NWS) issued a flash flood emergency warning around noon Wednesday for Boerne and Kendall County, where footage posted online shows road closures, rivers breaching their banks and emergency crews launching rescue boats. “THIS IS A PARTICULARLY DANGEROUS SITUATION!” the NWS said in a tweet. “Move to high ground if you are […]
A sweet new addition is debuting this month at La Cantera. Jeni’s Splendid Ice Creams is opening its first-ever San Antonio location at 15900 La Cantera Parkway, Suite 7751, on Thursday, July 23. The Columbus, Ohio-based chain’s grand opening celebrations will feature free scoops for patrons, and gifts of Jeni’s merchandise for the first 50 […]
Social media users roasted Gov. Greg Abbott on the 42nd anniversary of the accident that left him paralyzed from the waist down — not to mock his disability but for his actions that made it harder for other injured Texans to file lawsuits. On Monday, Abbott, who’s locked in a reelection battle against Democratic State Rep. […]
For months, Attorney General Ken Paxton and Sen. John Cornyn battered each other in a nasty and expensive race for the Republican U.S. Senate nomination in Texas. Now that Paxton has emerged victorious, GOP leaders from Texas to Washington are urging intraparty peace and unity, warning that a divided GOP could lose the seat. But […]
The National Weather Service (NWS) confirmed a tornado touched down at around 8 a.m. Wednesday near the intersection of I-10 and Loop 1604, damaging shops at The Rim shopping center, including the Santikos Palladium cinema. In a statement, the City of San Antonio said the fire department is also on the scene at an apartment […]
Outdoor dance party SoundCream, recognizable by its disco ball-equipped Airstream trailer, has shifted from its residencies at the Pearl and Hemisfair and will debut a new series called Disco Al Fresco at Sunken Garden Theater. Sunken Garden, an open-air amphitheater carved into a limestone quarry near Brackenridge Park during the 1930s, once hosted the San […]
WASHINGTON — Immigration and Customs Enforcement will suspend the use of most vehicle stops in the wake of deadly shootings of immigrants in vehicles in both Texas and Maine in the past week, according to media reports. Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a 52-year old Houston man and Mexican national, was killed by an ICE agent last […]
After last year tumbling from Travel + Leisure’s annual list of the top 10 U.S. cities most worth visiting — a space it had held since 2020 — San Antonio slid even further in the latest version of the magazine’s reader-driven rankings. This year, the Alamo City found itself in the No. 14 spot. This time around, […]