Animal welfare group PETA shared an open letter to Spurs Managing Partner Peter J. Holt on Tuesday, asking him to change the team name to something more animal friendly. The group’s proposed alternative? The San Antonio Spores. “Ditching a name that celebrates a device designed to deliver pain in favor of fandom for fungi would […]
Public finance experts and a member of San Antonio City Council are questioning whether City Manager Erik Walsh is being transparent about what scrapped plans for a major downtown hotel may mean for how the city pays for its portion of the Spurs’ new $1.3 billion arena. Those concerns stem from this month’s cancellation of […]
San Antonio Independent School District’s Board of Trustees on Monday unanimously approved Toni Thompson to take over as the district’s interim superintendent. Previously serving as SAISD’s chief of staff, Thompson will replace outgoing Superintendent Jaimie Aquino, who announced his retirement earlier this year. “We are truly excited to have Tony serve in this capacity,” SAISD […]
Freedom! The Soundtrack of 250 Years will also bring together the San Antonio Gospel Heritage Choir and Grammy-nominated Sounds of Blackness. The post Live Music in San Antonio This WeeK: Todd Rundgren, Joe Jackson, Killswitch Engage appeared first on San Antonio Current.
San Antonio-rooted visual artist Jalen Colton Sanchez’s solo exhibition at Thrd Space Studio, “Perspectives of Otherness,” opens like a portal. Vibrant sculptures stand as if excavated from a civilization built on Indigenous folk cosmologies. Around them, collages with radial patterns and chromatic bursts evoke a mestizo psychedelia that collapses myth and imagination into a single […]
Canadian metal act Kittie thrashed it up Monday at the Aztec Theatre as part of a tour that follows a roughly ten-year hiatus. The all-woman band — which still includes sisters Morgan and Mercedes Lander from its early-2000s lineup — rocked hard, dipping into both the gothic nu-metal sound that marked its early work along with newer […]
Following the San Antonio Spurs’ heartbreaking loss to the New York Knicks in Game 5 of the NBA Finals, the city took another hit at the 2026 James Beard Awards on Monday night at the Lyric Opera Theatre in Chicago. Run by the James Beard Foundation, the annual awards ceremony recognizes the restaurants and hospitality […]
HOUSTON — To some extent, Mohamed Hussein knew he was preparing to enter the lion’s den. But he made the decision to attend the Republican Party of Texas Convention to confirm for himself that he had a place in the GOP, even as members of the party have railed for months about the urgency of […]
Twang’s packaged-goods operations, including its beer salts, are still in the hands of the founding family and remain headquartered in the Alamo City. The post San Antonio beer salt company Twang sells off its foodservice supply business appeared first on San Antonio Current.
Texas now hosts more Fortune 500 company headquarters than any other state, according to a new list from Fortune magazine ranking U.S. corporations by revenue. The Lone Star State is home to 57 Fortune 500 companies, narrowly surpassing California’s 56 and claiming the top spot after closing the gap in recent years. Texas-based Fortune 500 […]