San Antonio 21-and-up bar and restaurant Lucy Cooper’s Texas Ice House will this summer expand with a new location on the city’s Far West Side. Chef-owner Braunda Smith told the Current that she anticipates “opening for business any day now.” The new location will open at 8403 TX-151, Suite 101, about two miles west of […]
Listen up, record collectors — there’s a new vinyl shop on the scene in San Antonio. Needle Noise Record Store will make its debut in the heart of the Deco District this weekend. After selling records on the weekends at Traders Village for the past two-and-half years, Raul and Patricia Perez have decided to open […]
Free traveling wine and food tasting event Spain Fusion will swing through San Antonio next week, offering local culinary and hospitality professionals a day of panels and tastings with exporters of Spanish wine and eats. Spain Fusion bills itself as an immersive educational experience that aims to bring food, beverage and hospitality professionals an entire […]
The San Antonio Zoo has been named the best zoo in the Lone Star State by the Texas Travel Awards, the park’s second consecutive year to win the title and its fourth time in five years. The recognition is just the latest for the San Antonio Zoo. In 2022, online entertainment and attraction publication Blooloop ranked […]
The ’90s were a fertile time for rock ’n’ roll. All sorts of new genres emerged and cross-pollinated in ways still informing music today. Take Austin’s Megafauna and San Antonio’s HoneyBunny, who will perform together Saturday, May 13 at the Paper Tiger.
The 100-year old building near Alamo Heights that previously housed Beto’s Alt-Mex will be serving diners again come late summer. Mexican food will still be the focus of new restaurant tenant La Malinche Concina y Cantina, but the venture will feature a contemporary twist on the the country’s fare served in a hacienda-style setting.
Iconic beer brand Miller High Life is pandering to sweet-toothed fans with its newest collaboration: Miller High Life Bar Snack Truffles. Yep, we’re talking about beer-infused chocolates. The Molson Coors-owned brand has partnered with artisan chocolatier Phillip Ashley Rix to create the collection, which the beer company says “toasts iconic flavors and memories made in […]
Killeen’s troubled Fort Hood was renamed to Fort Cavazos Tuesday, honoring the Army’s first Hispanic four-star general. The base, located about 70 miles north of Austin, is one of nine U.S. Army installations being redesignated based on the Naming Commission’s 2022 recommendations to remove names, symbols and monuments that commemorate the Confederate States of America, […]
EL PASO — As the clock ticked down to the end of a policy used to expel migrants from the U.S. nearly 3 million times over the past three years, the lines formed again on a patch of American soil between the Rio Grande and the border wall. Hundreds of migrants — men, women and […]
In dramatic fashion, the Texas House on Thursday gave final approval to legislation that would let voters decide whether to legalize online sports betting across the state. The proposal needed 100 votes to pass and got exactly that when the roll was first called.