New craft brewing operation Thirsty Pups Brewery & Bottle Shop will make its debut this fall in Castle Hills, online news site What Now San Antonio reports. Co-owner Erik Ureta — a former brewer at Alamo Beer Co. and Second Pitch Beer Co., both based in San Antonio — told WNSA that the venture will take […]
Married business partners Gem and Glenn Hotvet are arguably best known locally as the mad scientists behind K23 — the psychedelically inclined DIY music venue they launched in 2014. Named after a mystical scent Tom Robbins conjured in his 1984 novel Jitterbug Perfume, that project extended beyond the confines of their compact midtown space to […]
San Antonio education and small business-development programs operated by City Year San Antonio and LiftFund Inc. have landed $2.8 million in federal funding. The money is part of a $13 million total that AmeriCorps — the federal agency for national service and volunteerism — funneled into Texas programs last month, according to U.S. Reps. Joaquin Castro, […]
Gov. Greg Abbott signed into law Friday a bill that bars transgender kids from getting puberty blockers and hormone therapies, though the new law could face legal challenges before it takes effect on Sept. 1. Senate Bill 14’s passage brings to the finish line a legislative priority for the Republican Party of Texas, which opposes any […]
A TikTok account that purports to chronicle haunted locations across the country claims in a now-viral video that the building housing downtown San Antonio’s Rainforest Cafe once served as a crematorium. The video posted by @unrefined_paranormal has garnered nearly 130,000 likes. In many of the clip’s 1,000 comments, posters say they’ve never heard the story […]
Gov. Greg Abbott indicated Friday that one special session may not be enough to decide how to divvy up $12.3 billion in property tax breaks already appropriated by the Legislature. The governor also confirmed that he will call a future special session to deal with “school choice,” giving no time frame beyond saying it will take […]
Helotes-based Mexican restaurant El Chaparral has thrown open the doors on a new location, this one located on six sprawling acres in Boerne. The 50-year-old eatery’s new outpost is now serving street tacos, fajitas and enchiladas at 36 Old San Antonio Road, MySA reports. It opened a second location in San Antonio in 2008.
San Antonio’s Künstler Brewing will open its second location Sunday, pouring its easier-drinking brews from Hemisfair’s historic Pereida House, the Express-News reports. Künstler owners Vera and Brent Deckard have been working with Hemisfair since 2021 to repurpose the historic home, which dates to the mid-1880s. The new craft beer haven, Künstler Tap Haus, features a stylish wooden […]
A San Antonio stripper has launched a campaign to amend the city’s exotic dancing laws, which she depicts as archaic and out-of-touch. As first reported by the Express-News, an exotic dancer who goes by the name Sunny has launched the website Support SA Dancers to help change the Alamo City’s adult entertainment laws. The site features […]
The intoxication manslaughter trial of Lauren Batchelor, the daughter of San Antonio car dealer Ken Batchelor, continues to hold readers’ interest. Prior stories documenting Batchelor’s trial and how she was handled by Boerne authorities during a prior car collision ended up among the Current’s most-read articles of their respective weeks. Now the story about her […]