While many longtime San Antonio residents walk past the Alamo’s ancient walls without a second thought, looks like the 300-year-old structure remains a draw with visitors. This week, national newspaper USA Today nominated downtown’s famous Spanish Mission as one of the Best Free Attractions in America in its annual 10Best Readers’ Choice Awards.
More than a dozen environmental groups are suing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for not revising its water pollution-control standards, which regulate the amount of harmful chemicals that can be dumped into rivers, lakes and streams. The groups claim the current standards haven’t been updated in decades, which violates the Clean Water Act. Oil refineries, […]
Created by San Antonio Sports, the annual Fiesta FitFest celebrates fitness, fun and, obviously, Fiesta. Held the weekend before the kickoff to San Antonio’s annual citywide party, the event lets participants engage in fitness-related training and activities ranging from line-dancing classes to Orangetheory workouts.
As the one-year anniversary of the Uvalde mass shooting approaches, parents of surviving students from Robb Elementary School’s Room 112 have launched a GoFundMe to get their families out of town for a visit to DisneyWorld. Abigale Veloz, whose daughter Miah Cerrillo survived the mass shooting, is organizing the online fundraiser. Cerrillo, then 11 years old, […]
One of Broadway’s longest-running musicals, Chicago tells the story of two rival vaudeville performers, starlet Velma Kelly and chorus girl Roxie Hart. When Velma and Roxie are each arrested for murdering their romantic partners, they must trade in their shimmery leotards and hotel rooms for prison uniforms and neighboring cells at the Cook County Jail.
R&B singer-songwriter SZA will perform at San Antonio’s AT&T Center this fall as part of her recently expanded SOS Tour. Tickets for SZA’s Sunday, Oct. 15 show in San Antonio go on sale at noon this Friday via Ticketmaster. However, fans can sign-up for the AT&T Center’s All Access Newsletter to find out how to […]
Say it ain’t so, stoners! San Antonio is among the least weed-friendly big U.S. cities, according to a new study that analyzes the legal availability of cannabis, its prices, dispensary availability and doctors who write prescriptions in the nation’s 50 largest urban areas. The report, released Tuesday, ranks San Antonio as the tenth-worst place for cannabis, […]
Veteran weekend and noon sports anchor Larry Ramirez will take over as KSAT 12’s new sports director, according to officials at the TV station. Ramirez moves into the slot vacated by longtime sports anchor Greg Simmons, who resigned after a January DWI charge that grabbed local headlines. Ramirez has worked at KSAT since October 2004, according […]
The Poteet Strawberry festival is back for its 76th year, drawing visitors to the small town south of San Antonio for carnival rides, live music and a smorgasbord of strawberry products. The festival is a celebration of Poteet’s home-grown strawberries, a crop endangered by recent drought conditions across the state.
The Wonder Theatre, formerly known as the Woodlawn Theatre, has given an update regarding its planned move this year. In July of 2022, the Wonder Theatre announced its name change and move to the Wonderland of the Americas, to occupy the former space of the Santikos Bijou Cinema Bistro. The move was originally set to […]