Looks like Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has pulled on his galoshes and waded into another high-profile pissing contest. Late Tuesday afternoon, the three-term Republican officeholder fired off a tweet demanding that Texas House Speaker Dade Phelan resign for being drunk on the job. The evidence proffered by the state’s top law-enforcement official?
In observance of May as Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month, the University of Texas at San Antonio is hosting its annual UTSA Asian Festival for the first time since the onset of the pandemic. Formerly held at the Institute of Texan Cultures, the festival has moved to UTSA’s Downtown Campus this year.
San Antonio’s live music offerings this week range from the familiar and comforting to the truly odd and outside. If you’re after the former, Austin blues rock outfit Rochelle & The Sidewinders keep things enticingly traditional, while Pearl & The Oysters deal in soothing low-key synth sounds. But if a stiff shot of the weird is […]
Joe Jones, the online prankster who disguises himself as a leafy potted plant to scare passersby, has taken his hijinks to the San Antonio River Walk again. Jones, also known as the Texas Bushman, has performed his gags for roughly three years and documented the best reactions for his YouTube Channel.
Gun-control advocates joined State Sen. Roland Gutierrez, D-San Antonio, at the Texas Capitol to condemn lawmakers’ inaction on a bill that would have raised the minimum age required to purchase a semi-automatic rifle to 21. Gutierrez, whose district includes Uvalde, championed the proposal and a raft of other gun reforms.
San Antonio’s ultra-fancy Hotel Emma was named the nation’s No. 1 luxury hotel in the latest Tripadvisor Travelers’ Choice Best of the Best Awards. And if that wasn’t enough, the eight-year-old destination property was also honored as the nation’s overall No. 2 hotel in the same awards. Best of the Best winners are among the top […]
The annual “Go Topless Day” Jeep event once again brought rowdy crowds to Galveston County over the weekend, resulting in more than 200 arrests, news station KSAT reports. The Galveston County Sheriff’s Office told the station that it made 233 arrests at the gathering, which brings thousands of Jeep owners to the Bolivar Peninsula every spring. Local officials […]
Cannabis use among the U.S. workforce reached a “historically elevated level” last year, according to newly released data from lab company Quest Diagnostics. For the more than 6 million workplace urine tests the Secaucus, N.J.-based firm collected in 2022, 4.3% came up positive for weed — an increase from the 3.9% tallied the prior year, officialssaid.
It’s almost summer in San Antonio, meaning cold beer will be ubiquitous. It fills ice chests at backyard barbecues, it’s the beverage of choice at outdoor events and we pop one when finish mowing the lawn.
The stage of Tech Port Center will tremble on Friday, Aug. 11 when early-2000s metalcore band Underoath stops in San Antonio as a part of its summer tour. The show will be Underoath’s first in San Antonio without longtime guitarist James Smith, who left the band this year. The Los Angeles-based metalcore band The Ghost […]