The U.S. Justice Department has struck a tentative $144.5 million settlement with victims and relatives of people slain in the 2017 mass shooting at a Baptist church in Sutherland Springs, just southeast of San Antonio. The DOJ and an attorney for the victims’ families announced the tentative deal Wednesday in separate statements. Justice […]
Arizona-based Asian restaurant chain P.F. Chang’s will open its third San Antonio-area location this Wednesday. Located in New Braunfels at 2982 Cold Springs Drive, the new store boasts a fresh look for the company. It’s the first in Texas to be built to the specifications of a brand-wide refresh called P.F. Chang’s Bistro, which includes an updated ambiance and […]
The XFL’s Brahmas will return home for a battle for the Lone Star State as they take on the Houston Roughnecks. The San Antonio team has struggled in its inaugural season, racking up a lackluster 2-5 record so far.
Amy Cutler is known for her surreal paintings, prints and drawings of women engaged in mysterious and magical tasks. However, this exhibition from the New York artist centers on a piece that serves as a three-dimensional representation of what she usually conveys through paper — a multimedia installation of a room with patterned wallpaper, with […]
Social justice organizer Ananda Tomas is accusing San Antonio Mayor Ron Nirenberg of hypocrisy after he publicly came out against Proposition A during a Tuesday night interview on KSAT-TV. The interview amounts to Nirenberg’s first public statement about whether he supports the ballot measure, sometimes called the San Antonio Justice Charter. Prop A, which voters […]
Glorium emerged from San Antonio’s underground rock scene in 1991, almost immediately grabbing attention with a fractured brand of post-punk that paired surrealistic lyrics and slashing guitars with nimble rhythmic interplay. After a relocation to Austin, the band appeared on bills with acts as varied as At the Drive-In, Spoon and Man or Astroman and […]
After two months of trying to evict roosting egrets from Brackenridge Park, San Antonio city officials have declared their efforts to relocate the migratory birds a success. “In partnership with [the U.S. Department of Agriculture], wildlife management efforts have been successful,” San Antonio Parks and Recreation spokesperson Connie Swan told the Current last week via […]
Last week, Senate Bill 8, a proposal that would let Lone Star State families use taxpayer money to send their kids to private school, made it out of the Texas Senate’s Education Committee, clearing it for a vote by the full body. Meanwhile, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has crisscrossed the state in recent weeks isell […]
During the summer after my college graduation, I ate my first wild fruit. It was a blackberry found on a narrow two-lane farm road along the sweltering Southern Oregon border.
“Diversity” is the word of the week for Alamo City music fans. We’ve got locally based practitioners of blues-rock, indie-rock and darkwave taking to San Antonio stages.