San Antonio Spurs star Victor Wembanyama is the face for Louis Vuitton’s newly unveiled Spring-Summer 2027 Men’s Collection. The collection was designed by American musician and songwriter Pharrell Williams, who’s also the Men’s Creative Director of the luxury brand. Images Louis Vuitton released Tuesday show the collection as styled on Wemby, the brand’s House Ambassador […]
Mayor Gina Ortiz Jones conceded during a Tuesday afternoon news conference that she lacks the City Council votes required to cancel a July 4 Alamodome performance by polarizing hip-hop star Ye, formerly Kanye West. “At this point, the only way to cancel this concert is to have a public vote, and we don’t have the […]
Mayor Gina Ortiz Jones is looking for fat to trim as the city deals with a $158 million budget deficit — and she’s starting with the award-winning San Antonio Botanical Garden. During a presentation last week on the city’s trial budget, Jones expressed alarm that San Antonio spends so much money subsidizing revenue-generating nonprofits. At that […]
How extreme is the Texas Republican Party’s new list of legislative priorities when it comes to abortion? Extreme enough, apparently, that one anti-abortion group worries it will do the movement irreparable damage. Anti-abortion group Texas Alliance for Life is livid after the Texas GOP voted during its annual convention to include language in its legislative […]
More than 220 troops at San Antonio’s Lackland AFB have contracted influenza, and lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are assigning blame for the outbreak to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. The upsurge in flu cases at the Alamo City site — the nation’s biggest military base by population at 67,000 service members — comes […]
When the Knicks clinched their NBA Finals win, independent music promoter Cristina Mauri — better known as moonbby — was standing in the middle of Times Square. “I was so sad, seeing [Victor Wembanyama’s] post-game interview, he seemed so defeated and the city seemed so sad,” said Mauri, who attended college in both San Antonio […]
Work by some of San Antonio’s best-known musicians has been found in datasets being used to train generative AI models to create music, according to an online database offered by The Atlantic magazine. The Atlantic uncovered four large datasets used for AI development — one with 12 million tracks, one with 9 million and two […]
Last year, Texas became the first state to require warning labels on thousands of food and beverages containing common 44 dyes or additives, cleared the way for ivermectin to be sold without a prescription and approved a $3 billion fund for dementia research. All three were headline-making in their own right. But nine months later, […]
With a thrilling 2026 NBA Finals run in the rearview mirror, San Antonio Spurs officials revealed Monday that the franchise’s Silver Dancers will return next season following a seven-year hiatus. The all-women dance group will join the coed Spurs Hype Squad as part of a plan to elevate the game-day experience for fans, according to […]
Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick took the stage at the Texas GOP convention last week and declared that Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico is “going to Hell” because of his interpretation of Christianity. Patrick also called Talarico’s views “blasphemy” and accused him of campaigning against the almighty himself. That’s rich coming from a politician whose party […]