Days before the Sept. 5 start of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s impeachment trial, an Associated Press investigation alleges the Republican official raked in pricy perks of his position including $91,000 in foreign trips funded by taxpayers. During his nearly 10 years in office, Paxton benefitted from a lavish lifestyle that “raised eyebrows among employees […]
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Global music superstar Karol G’s Thursday performance at the Alamodome is likely to draw 35,000 attendees, according to the venue. That also means it’s likely to cause bumper-to-bumper traffic and plenty of parking problems, so city officials are urging fans to arrive early or use VIA Metropolitan Transit’s Park & Ride service to avoid being […]
Despite COVID-19 cases rising in Bexar County and across Texas, a new state law banning municipal pandemic-related health and safety measures is set to go into effect Sept. 1. Starting Friday, local governments in Texas will be prohibited from implementing mask mandates, requiring employees to be vaccinated and from forcing private businesses to shut down […]
Only one San Antonio public high school ranked among the nation’s 100 best in U.S. News & World Report’s newest rankings, which dropped Tuesday. The magazine’s 2023-2024 report named BASIS San Antonio – Shavano Campus, a North Side public charter institution, the No. 81 public high school in the nation, down from No. 77 last year. The campus […]
Texas’ so-called “Death Star Bill,” a sweeping new law that would override municipalities’ power to make their own business regulations, has been ruled unconstitutional by a district judge in Austin. On Wednesday, State District Judge Maya Guerra Gamble ruled that HB 2171 — a centerpiece of Republicans’ agenda during the last session of the Texas Legislature […]
Your downtown commute’s not about to get any easier. Starting next week, a stretch of Broadway just north of downtown will undergo reconstruction, causing two sections of the road to be closed until December, according to San Antonio city officials.
Husband-and-wife team Francisco Estrada and Lizzeth Martinez will expand their Naco Mexican Eatery brand in October with a new location near San Antonio’s Pearl complex. The new brick-and-mortar eatery, Naco Grayson, will open on — you guessed it — West Grayson, near Go Fish Wine Bar and Velvet Taco.
Spooky coffee trailer Gravves this weekend will bring its caffeinated concoctions to a brick and mortar shop near San Antonio College. The coffee spot will open Saturday, Sept. 2, at 2106 McCullough Ave., just a few blocks from its previous post on the St. Mary’s Strip, a Tuesday Instagram post notes. Gravves will sling its […]
One of Stephen Sondheim’s most revered musical theater masterpieces, Into The Woods, merges beloved bedtime stories with bloodshed. The show uproots fairytale protagonists Cinderella, Rapunzel, Little Red Riding Hood and Jack — he of the beanstalk fame — from their peaceful homelands and thrusts them into a dark forest haunted by a vengeful witch’s curse.