Fiesta runs from Mar. 31-Apr. 10 this year. Credit: Jaime Monzon

As San Antonio turned up the volume on its annual citywide party, neighbors around the St. Mary’s Strip looked to turn down the volume on the party in their front yards — at least for a weekend.

Yep. Two of the Current‘s most-read stories this week focused on the highlights of Fiesta San Antonio, which got underway Thursday in a big way, and on SAPD’s closure of residential streets around the Strip as part of a traffic study aimed at cutting complaints about bad behavior from revelers leaving the nightspots.

Our top story, however, involved a party of yet another kind. The Bexar County Sheriff’s Department reported that it booked two area men on multiple charges after one of them aroused suspicion by allegedly posting Instagram photos of himself posing with guns and what appeared to be illegal drugs. Cue the sad trombone.

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This article appears in Mar 23 – Apr 5, 2022.