Two new parks will open this weekend, adding 425 acres of public land in South Bexar County, according to the San Antonio River Authority. The newly designated public spaces — Hendrick Arnold Nature Park and Trueheart Ranch Park — will open Saturday, Sept. 23, National Public Lands Day (NPLD).
Officials at San Antonio’s Migrant Resource Center worry the facility will be at capacity by the end of the week as a flood of new asylum seekers arrive in the city, KENS5 reports. The concerns about the facility being overwhelmed come after the mayor of Eagle Pass on Wednesday declared a state of emergency while […]
Although modest in size and amenities, San Antonio International Airport ranked among the 10 best large airports in the United States and Canada in a new J.D. Power study. San Antonio International ranked as the list’s ninth-best large airport, earning 802 points out of a possible 1,000. J.D. Power scores airports using metrics including terminal facilities, […]
A new ad from an anti-Ted Cruz political action committee is slamming Texas’ junior Republican senator for his tireless — and tiresome, some would argue — promotion of his three-times-a-week podcast. The Lose Cruz PAC’s 50-second online ad cuts together clips of the senator repeatedly inserting promotions of his Verdict With Ted Cruz podcast into […]
Formidable Austin psych group Daiistar will play a release show this Sunday at San Antonio’s Paper Tiger for GOOD TIME, its debut album released by the UK’s Fuzz Club Records and Austin’s Levitation. As headliner, the bill also includes labelmate Night Beats, an LA-based psych project that hit an intoxicating new high with its recently released […]
In the closing arguments of the impeachment trial of Attorney General Ken Paxton, Rep. Jeff Leach, a former Paxton ally who was now making the case against him, told his Senate colleagues that their next vote would be “the hardest vote, the most difficult vote, the heaviest vote” that they would ever cast. After 13 […]
With Halloween a little over a month away, a Northwest San Antonio car wash is getting into the spirit by transforming itself into a drive-through haunted house. Super Sudz Car Wash, located at 6780 Bandera Road, will trade scrubbers for spooks on weekends beginning Oct. 6, according to its website.
The San Antonio Philharmonic last Friday performed a free, standing-room-only Diez y Seis concert at the Lanier High School Auditorium. The first-of-its-kind performance at the public school followed a move by the orchestra — created last year from the ashes of the San Antonio Symphony — into a new home office at the West Side’s Avenida Guadalupe, […]
San Antonio craft brewers Alamo Beer Co. and VIVA Beer have struck a merger deal amid a wave of consolidation sweeping the industry, the Business Journal reports. “In the last few months, it became apparent it would be better to merge,” Alamo Beer CEO and founder Eugene Simor told the publication. “VIVA is now part […]
Texas’ entire Democratic congressional delegation has asked the White House to pause the state’s ongoing removal of people from the Medicaid rolls, saying a botched process has dropped children, seniors and others who should still have access to the federal program. The 13 lawmakers — including San Antonio U.S. Reps. Joaquin Castro, Greg Casar and […]