The team behind popular and uber-colorful food truck parks El Camino and Bésame will soon open a sports bar concept near the University of San Antonio’s Northwest campus, San Antonio Magazine reports. Details so far are sparse, but Ricky Ortiz, founder of the two Grayson Street food truck parks, told the magazine his upcoming venture will […]
The Texas House of Representatives is scheduled to vote Wednesday on a bill that would decriminalize low-level marijuana possession and set up a means for people to expunge past weed arrests. House Bill 218, penned by Texas Rep. Joe Moody, D-El Paso, will now get a floor vote roughly six weeks after receiving unanimous approval […]
Countywide polling locations on Election Day would be banned in Texas under a bill approved by the Texas Senate on Thursday. Senate Bill 990, authored by Republican Sen. Bob Hall of Edgewood, passed 17-12 along party lines.
The father of Lina Khil, the San Antonio girl that disappeared more than a year ago at age 3, has agreed to take a polygraph test, as first reported by Fox 29 and News4SA on Thursday. Khil, an Afghan refugee, disappeared from a playground near Northwest San Antonio’s Villas Del Cabo apartments during the afternoon […]
It was a wild week for news, what with a culture warrior state rep being investigated for having an “inappropriate relationship,” a rocket blowing the hell up over South Texas and a member of city council getting slapped on the wrist for something many of us would have ended up in the pokey for. All […]
Chicken-on-a-stick. Turkey legs. Corn in a Cup.
If you planned to take advantage of the City of San Antonio’s free downtown parking on Tuesdays to get your Fiesta on, best think again. In what officials called a “Fiesta Siesta” in a press statement, the city is temporarily suspending its free parking promotion next Tuesday.
This week’s top Current food news story shared the details surrounding a major partnership between Austin-based Yellowbird hot sauce and mega-chain Taco Bell, followed closely by opening details for upcoming eateries Wurst Behavior and Make Ready Market. Sadly, our top stories also chronicled the alleged closure of longtime Broadway eatery Van’s Chinese Seafood Restaurant, as […]
San Antonio City Council voted unanimously Thursday to approve the city’s police department to hire 50 additional officers once it lands additional federal funding. Some $6.25 million in pending money from a Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) grant would help cover salary and benefits for those additional patrol officers for the next three years, SAPD […]
Food truck Righteous Pie has served its last slice of plant-based pizza, with the owners citing San Antonio’s road construction and inflation as their reasons for throwing in the towel. The two-year-old mobile kitchen shared the news Thursday on Instagram.