The first San Antonio location of Houston’s Mambo Seafood chain will begin serving Monday, Aug. 14, according to details shared by the company. Mambo specializes in Latin America seafood, including grilled, fried or sautéed fish along with fresh oysters and shrimp cocktails. Its bar offers aguas frescas, margaritas and other south of the border favorites.
In celebration of the 30th anniversary of the 1993 film Blood In Blood Out, actors Damian Chapa and Victor Rivers will make a stop at Traders Village in San Antonio on Aug. 12-13 to meet fans and sign autographs and memorabilia. In the film, Chapa plays the role of Miklo Velka, a half-Mexican, half-Anglo teen […]
Users of X, the social media platform previously know as Twitter, are ridiculing a British news outlet for calling Texas A&M a “military school in the Lone Star hinterlands.” Newspaper The Guardian used the description in its review of Untold: Johnny Football, a Netflix documentary that traces the dramatic rise and fall of Johnny Manziel, […]
U.S. Rep. Colin Allred of Dallas and state Sen. Roland Gutierrez of San Antonio both think they have the platform needed to unseat U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, the conservative powerhouse who is seeking reelection next year. Each brings a different profile to the race.
Assclown Alert is a column of opinion, analysis and snark. Impeached Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has racked up a career of dick moves, but last week’s appeal of a court decision regarding Texas’ abortion law may be his most dickish yet.
The Guadalupe Dance Company — one of the few Alamo City venues to consistently feature the flamenco art form — is presenting a one-night-only performance of Espíritu Flamenco, part of the Celebrando Tradiciones performance series celebrating both Mexican and Spanish cultural traditions. The company is celebrating 32 years of musical performances, which have often included collaborations with […]
Juno Birch, extraterrestrial drag queen, crash-landed to Earth in 1962 and decided to disguise her alien identity by dressing as a housewife of the day, complete with a beehive hairdo and cat-eye sunglasses clashing against her Squidward-toned skin. At least, that’s how the story goes for the British-Martian queen, who’s bringing her brand of whimsy […]
Fans of Latin music taken in adventurous directions have a couple of reasons to mark their calendars. Jenny and the Mexicats — a group that mixes jazz, rockabilly and reggae with cumbias, flamenco and more — will perform at Sam’s Burger Joint Thursday.
EAGLE PASS — After a fact-finding visit to Gov. Greg Abbott’s buoys blocking the Rio Grande, a congressional delegation led by U.S. Rep. Joaquin Castro blasted the anti-immigrant barrier as an absurd and dangerous political stunt. At a meeting with reporters, Castro — a San Antonio Democrat — called on the Biden White House to […]
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