OPERA San Antonio will open its season with Engelbert Humperdinck’s fairy-tale opera Hansel and Gretel in early October. The eerie and exciting opera is based on the Brothers Grimm children’s story of the same name.
The Monarch Butterfly and Pollinator Festival will land once again in Brackenridge Park on Oct. 7. The yearly celebration acts as a farewell party for the black-and-orange winged friends as they take flight from the Texas Hill Country and make their way back to Central Mexico in time for Día de los Muertos.
Legoland Discovery Center San Antonio will host a collection of wholesome Halloween-themed Lego building activities throughout October, according to a Friday press release. The month-long list of activities include a viewing of the Lego movie The Great Monster Chase, a pumpkin patch featuring a 7.5-foot-tall pumpkin made of Lego Duplo and a monster hunt in […]
This week’s most-read Current stories were marked by controversy. Earlier in the week, P!nk’s San Antonio concert was interrupted by a man who approached stage while brandishing the message “Circumcision: Cruel and Harmful” on his phone’s screen. Unsurprisingly, the singer booted him from the concert.
Texas tech billionaire Elon Musk is being mocked on his own social media platform for wearing his cowboy hat backward during a field trip “to see what’s really going on” along the U.S.-Mexico border. Known for his political grandstanding, Musk visited Eagle Pass Thursday afternoon for an “unfiltered” look at what’s happening in the small […]
The Current’s Little Bites feature is a weekly roundup of San Antonio food-focused events and news tidbits. Shake Shack has unveiled a partnership with Favor Delivery, owned by San Antonio-based grocer H-E-B, which will allow users in Texas to order Shake Shack’s full menu on-demand through the Favor app.
Turns out YouTube food series America’s Best Restaurants was in town this week to visit more than just Lucy Cooper’s Ice House. On Thursday, a crew with the series also visited the Sofia’s Pizzeria location at 903 E. Bitters Road, Suite 301, for inclusion in the show, according to officials with the three-store San Antonio chain.
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has filed a lawsuit in San Antonio federal court against a nonprofit that provides job placement for people with disabilities. The feds allege the organization discriminated against the visually impaired. National Telecommuting Institute Inc. violated the Americans with Disabilities Act by refusing to help blind and low-vision applicants get […]
On Oct. 14, San Antonio will be in the path of totality for an annular solar eclipse, also called a “ring of fire” eclipse. The event will span a little over three hours, beginning around 10:23 a.m.
The San Antonio Zoo has won yet another award — this time for the architecture of its nature-based preschool. The Will Smith Zoo School won the prestigious Texas Society of Architects 2023 Design Award, zoo officials announced Thursday. San Antonio-based firm Lake Flato Architects designed the school, which opened in 2018. Zoo officials said the award recognizes […]