As federal lawmakers debate changes to the annual farm bill, the top official at hunger-fighting coalition Feeding Texas is calling on them to make it easier, not harder, to access food aid. The request by Feeding Texas — a network of 21 food banks and 60 hunger-fighting organizations — comes as Republican lawmakers vie to […]
After hard-fought victories at the end of last month, the XFL’s improbable South Division champion Arlington Renegades and dominant North Division Champion D.C. Defenders are heading to San Antonio for the football league’s first-ever championship game. The Renegades, who boasted a regular season record below .500, served a major upset to the favorited Houston Roughnecks […]
The Nest Cafe will host its grand opening this weekend, offering Alamo City boba fanatics another spot to enjoy tapioca pearls. The new spot, located at 6903 Blanco Road, has been serving in a soft-opening capacity since April.
Best known for his hit truTV comedy series Adam Ruins Everything, Adam Conover is coming to San Antonio for a five-show stand as part of his summer stand-up tour. Following the cancellation of his series, which featured him explaining the truth about common historical misconceptions — such as how Christopher Columbus was a genocidal lunatic […]
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, has acquired three works of art by San Antonio-based artist César A. Martínez, a major figure of the Chicano Art Movement of the 1970s and 1980s. San Antonio’s Ruiz-Healy Art announced the acquisition on Friday. According to the gallery, MoMA purchased three pieces from Martínez’s Serape series as […]
Nearby Boerne will soon gain a “wretched hive of scum and villainy” in Darkside Brick Oven Pizza Co., an eatery decked out with an impressive collection of ’80s memorabilia, News4 San Antonio reports. OK, we doubt Obi-Wan Kenobi would describe the upcoming eatery as he did Mos Eisley in the original Star Wars movie, but we couldn’t […]
Following this weekend’s mall shooting in suburban Dallas that left eight people dead, Texas’ GOP politicians offered the familiar bromides. In addition to calls for thoughts and prayers, Gov. Greg Abbott and Texas Republicans repeated the mantra that mental health, not guns, are to blame. During a Fox News appearance, the governor even pushed back […]
The 12-piece Tedeschi Trucks Band rolled through San Antonio Saturday night, treating the crowd to an uplifting set of blues, rock and soul that highlighted its individual members within a larger sonic tapestry. With two drummers, bass, keys, horns and backup singers, the ensemble could, at first glance, seem to embody the kitchen sink approach […]
Waving a copy of the Ten Commandments and a 17th-century textbook, amateur historian David Barton recently argued that Christianity has always formed the basis of American morality and thus is essential to Texas classrooms. “This is traditional, historical stuff,” he told a Texas Senate Education Committee last month. “It’s hard to say that anything is […]
It seems like Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 was made to be the final installment of this cosmic-superhero trilogy — even if Marvel Studios doesn’t want to wrap up this section of the Marvel Cinematic Universe just yet.