Editor’s Note: Bad Takes is a column of opinion and analysis. The late John F. Kennedy’s nephew, Robert Kennedy Jr., announced his run for president in April and, earlier this month, enjoyed a three-hour misinformation-sucking session with a certain dietary supplement salesman based in Austin.
The Texas Ethics Commission has ordered San Antonio’s police union to pay $5,000 for misreporting financial details of its pricy campaign to defeat Proposition B during the 2021 citywide election. Prop B, rejected by voters on a narrow 2% margin, would have stripped the powerful union of its collective bargaining power. The union spent freely […]
If you thought the Texas heat dome was bad, mosquitos may have found it worse. A new study from the nonprofit group Climate Central details that mosquitos thrive in climates with humidity at or above 42 percent, when temperatures fall between 50 and 95 degrees. The more days that fall within that range per year, […]
To commemorate 45 years since the release of the seminal movie-musical, a stage production of Grease (dir. Chris Rodriguez) is hot-rodding into the recently renamed Wonder Theatre this July.
A home-improvement company asked an AI generator to envision what a “typical home” in the nation’s 30 largest cities might look like — and, according to the images produced, everyone in San Antonio must be living in a Wes Anderson movie. Although some of the images the AI produced for reno firm All-Star Home look pretty […]
Sometimes it takes a while for the pieces to come together just right. The brothers at the core of San Antonio quartet Snowbyrd — Chris and Scott Lutz — have kept eyes on the prize for 20 years.
Although it was summarily cancelled by Netflix after two seasons in late 2022, Warrior Nun can’t be kept down. This week, showrunner Simon Barry announced on Twitter that the series will be revived for a third season. The show, based on a comic by Ben Dunn — who spent much of his upbringing in San Antonio as […]
San Antonio-based Rooted Vegan Cuisine will expand its culinary repertoire with plant-based pizzas starting next Friday, July 7. The vegan outfit already sells frozen items such as lasagna, mozzarella sticks and broccoli-and-cheese soup at San Antonio specialty shops and for pickup at its airport-area storefront. Next week, it will launch a lineup of pizzas, starting […]
This week’s most-read Current food news showcased new brands, a pizzeria shoutout and a high profile temporary closure. Let’s dive in.
The rush of feel-good news coming from the Spurs drafting of superstar Victor Wembanyama couldn’t last forever. The Current’s roundup of this week’s most-read news stories shows that San Antonians quickly fell back to earth where they were subjected to the usual slate of weird, dumb and depressing events — from Gov. Greg Abbott’s latest […]