Saint City Culinary Foundation, a nationally lauded nonprofit that provides mental health services to hospitality workers, has closed its doors. Joel Rivas launched San Antonio-based Saint City in 2017 to assist people in the food and beverage industry, many of whom don’t have access to traditional health insurance options. However, he told the Current he could […]
Congrats, adventurous listeners. San Antonio’s live music offerings this week skew heavily toward performers that don’t fit into neat and tidy categories.
Days before the kickoff to San Antonio’s citywide party, a federal grand jury has indicted two former former members of Fiesta royalty on charges they conspired to commit wire fraud and money laundering, according to the Justice Department. The indictment names Kenneth “Ken” Flores and his father Antonio “Tony” Flores Jr. — both former Rey […]
Max Booth III and Lori Michelle’s indie horror press Ghoulish Books is living up to its name with its frighteningly fast growth. After a successful Kickstarter, the press opened a horror bookstore and launched a new literary magazine.
Horror fans now have another — arguably tastier — reason to visit the Central Texas town of Kingsland, where the 1974 film classic The Texas Chain Saw Massacre was filmed, Eater Austin reports. Austin-based restauranteurs have turned the movie’s fictional farmhouse of terror into Hooper’s, a Southern-style eatery replete with a chainsaw-centric art installation. It […]
The San Antonio area is among the U.S. metros with the largest growth in millennial homeownership over the past five years, according to a study published Tuesday. Between 2017 and 2022, the number of millennial homeowners in the San Antonio-New Braunfels metro jumped 127.9% — the nation’s sixth-highest increase — according to an analysis by […]
The city’s premier annual literary event will draw 100 authors, both emerging and established, to the Alamo City for presentations, panel discussions, book sales and signings. The Only Good Indians author Stephen Graham Jones will be in attendance to promote his new thriller Don’t Fear the Reaper, while Rebecca Makkai, a Pulitzer Prize and National […]
Name: Alberto “Beto” Gutierrez Job: Corporate Executive Chef of LASCO Enterprises, which helms San Antonio’s Boiler House Texas Grill & Wine Garden Birthplace: Laredo, Texas Industry Experience: Gutierrez has spent years training in cuisines from Latin America and beyond. His professional resume includes leading kitchens in well-known establishments including La Posada in Laredo and The Driskill […]
The Texas House voted Tuesday to advance a bipartisan bill that would grow the state’s limited medical marijuana program by opening it to people who suffer from chronic pain. House Bill 1805 moved forward on a 121-23 vote, clearing it for a final approval Wednesday before it goes to the Texas Senate. Sponsored by State […]
The Texas Historical Commission voted unanimously Tuesday to approve building permits for changes at Brackenridge Park, clearing the way for San Antonio to cut down dozens of trees in the historic green space. The commissioners, who met at the San Antonio Botanical Garden, delayed a decision on the permits last month after residents argued that the […]