After an almost three-decade absence, meerkats have returned to the San Antonio Zoo with the birth of four adorable pups. The birth of the meerkats, also known as Suricata suricatta, coincides with the reopening of a special habitat for the animals inside Kronkosky’s Tiny Tot Nature Spot, zoo officials said.
It has been almost a week since the Texas Senate voted to acquit Attorney General Ken Paxton in his impeachment trial — and the recriminations are still flying among Republicans. Critics of the verdict, including House Speaker Dade Phelan, are continuing to accuse Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick of rigging the trial, while Patrick is fiercely […]
Local officials are urging residents to prepare for downtown traffic and parking woes as P!nk and Guns N’ Roses play the Alamodome on consecutive nights early next week. P!nk’s Monday performance and GNR’s show on Tuesday are expected to draw around 35,000 people each.
The Roadrunners aren’t just performing well on the football field. The University of Texas at San Antonio jumped 92 spots in this year’s U.S. News and World Report college rankings. The magazine named UTSA the No. 280 college in the nation and also the country’s 151st-best public university.
I still remember stumbling in late to a press screening of Stop Making Sense, arriving right when David Byrne was stumbling around the stage his damn self. It was 1999, and the beloved Talking Heads concert film, directed by Oscar winner Jonathan Demme, was getting a 15th-anniversary re-release.
Although many folks take on a more liberal outlook once they’re exposed to university life, the Lone Star State is still home to some of the nation’s most conservative campuses, according to college ranking site Niche. Niche — which ranks schools based on student reviews and data from the U.S. Dept. of Education — found […]
The San Antonio Independent School District will host the first of nearly two dozen community meetings regarding the district’s proposed closure of 19 schools this Saturday. SAISD’s first meeting will take place at Lowell Middle School, which is set to close next school year and merge with Kelly Elementary School.
Texans tend to be nuts about sports, from their cities’ major franchises to those bright Friday night lights. Little surprise then that it has more streets named after sports heroes than any other U.S. state, according to a new study by sports betting website Betting.com. At least 206 Lone Star State streets and roads are […]
Current readers are clearly concerned about the state of Texas’ prisons, which entered a lockdown earlier this month amid soaring temperatures. Advocates warn that containing people 24/7 in un-air conditioned cells is inhumane and inviting trouble. Meanwhile, the prisoners themselves used contraband cell phones to share online complaints about they shitty food they’re being fed […]
This week’s most-read Current food story centered on the closure of Maddy McMurphy’s Irish Sports Bar, a downtown spot owned by the operator of nearby Mad Dogs British Pub. Also making top food news was the announcement of this year’s Texas Kosher BBQ Championship — which will be dedicated to late journalist Chuck Blount — […]