WHO Classified Gaming Disorder for First Time, But Experts Say to Beware of Misdiagnosing Gamers
Waking up groggy on Monday morning after a late night of video gaming doesn’t make you an addict. Or does it? The World Health Organization (WHO) recently released the latest update of its International Classification of Diseases, for the first time identifying gaming disorder as an addictive behavior disorder. It’s the first time a major health…
Savage Love: Lopsiders
Q: Longtime Savage Love fanboy with a bit of a conundrum – and it’s your fault! I’m a bi man in my 30s. To use Charles M. Blow’s word, my bisexuality is “lopsided.” This means that I fall in love with women exclusively, but I love to have sex with men occasionally. My current girlfriend…
Dallas Woman Apologizes After Her Live-tweeting Two Strangers Meeting On Plane Called Invasion of Privacy
A Texas-based actress apologized Tuesday after receiving backlash for live-tweeting two strangers seemingly flirting in front of her on a flight to Dallas. Rosey Blair posted updates on the event last week as she and boyfriend Houston Hardaway chatted with online friends about the possible romance budding before their watchful eyes and tweeting fingers. Her live-tweeting…
Manhattan-based Poke Shop Is Expanding to San Antonio
More poke is on the way to the Alamo City, this time via New York. Pokeworks, which opened in December of 2015 in Manhattan, is aggressively expanding its healthy fast casual concept across the country. Though no address is listed for the San Antonio location on their website, a location in San Antonio is listed…
Leave The Limes at Home For National Tequila Day at Market Square
On thirsty Thursday, July 19 from 6 to 10 p.m., you can pay your respects to National Tequila Day by attending a block party at Market Square. Leave the lime and salt at home, grab some friends and try your best to forget those more unfortunate Jose Cuervo-fueled nights from college. The event will be…
Converse Police Searching for Suspects Accused of Shooting at Teens in Viral Facebook Video
Converse police are searching for three suspects accused of shooting at a group of teenagers returning home in the wee hours of Sunday morning. The incident took place at a Converse residence in the 6800 block of Jaybrook Drive around 4 a.m. after a woman found two men hiding near the home’s privacy fence. The…
Following Subtle Name Change, Former Robert E. Lee High School Auctioning Memorabilia
The NEISD institution formerly branded by the name of a certain Confederate general, now known as LEE High School (Legacy of Educational Excellence), announced Monday that it will auction off memorabilia from the school. The controversial name change followed a student-signed petition drafted and reviewed by the North East school board after a pro-Confederate, Neo-Nazi…
Selena Gomez Was Asked About the Spurs Drama and Her Response Was Kind Of Awkward
While promoting her new film Hotel Transylvania 3, Selena Gomez was asked about the San Antonio Spurs, and it seems like she has no idea what’s going on. Gomez and co-star Andy Samberg sat down with Moviefone’s Drew Taylor to promote the kid movie, but struck up a conversation about the Spurs since Taylor wore…
While Migrant Families Seek Shelter from Violence, Trump Administration Narrows Path to Asylum
This story was originally published by the Texas Tribune. For nearly all of its history, the United States has welcomed the world’s most vulnerable: men, women and children fleeing violence, persecution and death in their home countries. But under President Donald Trump, immigration lawyers and historians say, the legal path to safety in this country…
Anti-Trump Truck Owner Arrested, Wife Starts GoFundMe to Pay His Bond
The Texas couple with the pickup truck with the “F– TRUMP” decal that made headlines last year is in the spotlight once again. Karen Fonseca has taken to GoFundMe to raise money for her husband’s jail bond after he was arrested while driving the truck. Miguel Fonseca was pulled over in Sugar Land on Sunday.…
Parkland Survivors and Others Roll into San Antonio on Road to Change Bus Tour
Yesterday, the March For Our Lives: Road To Change tour stopped in San Antonio to give dozens of students, parents and activists a pep talk on community involvement. Student activists from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., are touring U.S. cities this summer to register young voters and push them to step up their political…
VIA Welcomes Residents to Influence the Future Of San Antonio’s Public Transportation
In light of VIA’s 2016 adoption of its Vision 2040 Plan, a long term project aimed at improving public transportation in the area, the company is calling for community feedback to help shape their proposed public transit lanes across town. The survey, open through July 18, is thirteen questions in total with a text box…
Sutherland Springs Reports Nearly $3 Million in Donations Since Mass Shooting
The First Baptist Church of Sutherland Springs announced Sunday that they’ve received nearly $3 million in donations since the November 5 mass shooting which left 26 of their congregation dead. The San Antonio Express-News reports that victims’ family members have questioned how the church has been handling its newfound $2.91 million since April, with many…
UPDATED: S.A.’s City Government is Inefficient, a New Report Says, but Does the Data Really Back That Up?
San Antonio may be a fun place to live, an inexpensive place to live and a culturally fulfilling place to live. But that doesn’t mean it’s one of the nation’s most efficiently run cities, at least according to a new research report. Personal-finance site WalletHub compared 150 of the largest U.S. cities to rank their…
Sadly, Whatabeer Isn’t Real
You may have seen this (obviously Photoshopped) image circulating both in Whataburger-loving and crafter beer-focused social media groups this weekend. Turns out you’ll have to wait a while longer for this dream to become reality. The post, though it uses the classic Whataburger colors and Shiner fonts, is actually fake news. The image first posted…
Nationally-recognized Papa’s Burgers Announces Second Location
A month after being named the fourth best burger spot in the entire country, Papa’s Burgers has announced plans for a second location. With the original location on the West Side, the second location will be in the SeaWorld area and is expected to open this fall. The Facebook post doesn’t list a specific address,…
San Antonio Zoo Campaign to Acquire Geoffrey the Giraffe from Toys“R”Us Off to Slow Start
It’s been a few weeks since Toys“R”Us closed its last stores, and it looks like the company’s spokesman Geoffrey the Giraffe still hasn’t found a new home. On June 29, when the final Toys“R”Us stores closed, this super sad photo of Geoffrey leaving an empty store got all ’90s babies in their feelings. Toys 'R Us has closed down…
New San Antonio Snack Shop Celebrates Frida with Smoothie Bowls, Rusas and More
Bandera Road has a new shack joint as of Sunday, July 1 and it’s bringing a little bit of Mexico along with it. Frida’s Corner, owned by husband and wife Alfredo Cruz and Paola Flores, serves up smoothies, smoothie bowls, ice cream and popsicles, and fruit-infused drinks alongside a few spicy concoctions. Ice cream is…
San Antonio Sculptor Will Shine a Little Light on El Paso International Airport
A local art icon is shutting down traffic in El Paso. Bill FitzGibbons, the renown San Antonio sculptor who’s illuminated both the Alamo and San Fernandro Cathedral, is installing El Paso Passage, a $205,000 LED installation on an underpass near El Paso International Airport. As a result, the city warns, the northbound lanes on Airway…
Finland’s Wintersun to Shine on Alamo City Music Hall in September
Finnish metal band Wintersun will blaze through San Antonio this fall on its first North American tour in five years. The group, led by multi-instrumentalist Jari Mäenpää, has built a solid following via epic-sounding releases that merge folk melodies, technical musicianship and menacing black metal interludes into a surprisingly cohesive whole. The most recent of those, The Forest…
Shake Shack Watch: An Update on San Antonio’s Second Location
Those of you who haven’t driven down Broadway or Mulberry in the last two weeks may not have noticed the demolition of the building at that intersection, which often worked as parking for Kiddie Park. Sure enough, as many readers have pointed out and emailed about, the building at the corner of Mulberry and Broadway…
Bilingual Newspaper La Prensa Re-Launches as La Prensa Texas
After shutting down earlier this summer, bilingual newspaper La Prensa has emerged in a new form — and led by the son of longtime publisher Tino Duran. La Prensa Texas launched last month as a 12-page newspaper with plans to expand as it racks up more ad sales. A website will launch later this summer, and…
Lick’s Cones for a Cause Campaign Benefitting Ronald McDonald House All Month Long
As if you needed more reason to indulge, this month Lick Honest Ice Creams will be serving up their delicious scoops to hospitalized children and their families staying at Ronald McDonald Houses in Austin and San Antonio. On July 15, or as they call it in the business, National Ice Cream Day, the company will…
Tony Parker Is Officially Leaving the San Antonio Spurs
Tony Parker has signed with the Charlotte Hornets, leaving the San Antonio Spurs after 17 seasons. League sources confirmed Friday that Parker, 36, is moving on to Charlotte after securing a two-year, $10 million deal. Source: Parker called Gregg Popovich in the last hour to inform him of decision to accept Charlotte offer. Spurs wanted…
Enjoy Some Psychedelic Tunes: Texas Boys Holy Wave Playing Paper Tiger
Originating in El Paso, but relocated some time ago to Austin (because, of course), Holy Wave is a psychedelic garage-rock quintet with an uncommon sense of nuance, melodic invention/progression and ambience. The mood is the message and the meandering massage of the reverb is the moon-moaning messenger, dressed in paisley robes and exhausted from walking…
Head to the Bijou for Screening of Cuban Classic Memories of Underdevelopment
At once sharp and dreamlike, Tomás Gutiérrez Alea’s Cuban feature Memories of Underdevelopment is one of the great films of the 1960s, and that’s saying something. Sergio (Sergio Corrieri), a well-to-do young man, has elected to remain in Cuba while most members of his family and class have fled to Florida. As he drifts through…
Santikos Bijou Screening The Beatles’ Film Yellow Submarine for 50th Anniversary
One of the true gems in the history of films about music or made by musicians, Yellow Submarine, starring and inspired by the music of The Beatles, was written by Lee Minoff, directed by George Dunning and boasts wonderfully trippy animation created by a host of stoned animators on both sides of the pond. The…
Paper Tiger Brings Variety of Punk from Across the Country for Your Monday Blues
If indie punk, pop-punk, post-punk, and emo happen to be your bag, this early-week show at Paper Tiger is gonna be lit. At the top of the bill, Michigan act Citizen makes somber rock with moody melodicism and occasional vestiges of punk rock propulsion. Head on over to citizenmi.bandcamp.com to check out the band’s music.…
ESPN Reporter Calls Kawhi Leonard ‘Obnoxious Diva’ for His ‘Spoiled Hissy Fit’
ESPN’s Michelle Beadle ripped into Kawhi Leonard during a Friday morning segment of Get Up! The conversation began like most Leonard/Spurs talk does as of late: is this relationship damaged beyond repair? But then came the latest: Leonard reportedly wants to be traded to the Los Angeles Clippers now that LeBron James has signed with the…
5 Acts You’ll Want to Check Out at the Last Vans Warped Tour on Saturday
Since 1995 the Vans Warped Tour has has been traveling around the country uniting scene kids, punk rockers and all those looking to let out all their angst in a circle pit with an afternoon of punk, ska, metal and hip-hop. Over the years, the tour has hosted artists like Eminem back in 1999 and…
El Ojo, Latest St. Mary’s Strip Bar, Opens Tonight
You may want to have your grandma rub you with an egg before you head out tonight — it’s soft opening time for El Ojo, San Antonio’s latest club, which also happens to be produced by one of its most prolific bar owners. Danny Delgado and co. of Hi-Tones, Faust, Phantom Room, Lowcountry and Squeezebox…
Trump Administration Announces Nearly $5 Billion for Texas Flood Control Projects
This story was originally published by the Texas Tribune. Almost a year after Hurricane Harvey dumped historic rains on Texas, the state will receive more than $5 billion for a range of flood control projects, repairs and studies, the Trump administration announced Thursday. The bulk of the funding — nearly $4 billion — will go…
Erika Prosper Shares Adorable Love Letter to Ron Nirenberg In Honor of Anniversary
Erika Prosper Nirenberg shared a love letter to hubby Mayor Ron Nirenberg on Instagram, and just try telling us they’re not #RelationshipGoals after reading it. In honor of the couple’s 17th wedding anniversary, Erika uploaded a throwback photo of herself and Ron with the most adorable love letter. First of all … she starts off by…
San Antonio Man Arrested for Snatching ‘Make America Great Again’ Hat from Teen
In addition to being fired from his part-time job at local bar Rumble, the “Make America Great Again” hat snatcher has been arrested for the alleged attack on July 4. Kino Jimenez, 30, was arrested Thursday night following the internet outing him as the man who took a MAGA hat off of 16-year-old Hunter Richard…
Second Vegan Truck Opens in San Antonio
Vegan fare is hitting the road again. This time, husband and wife team Akeem and Tara Best, are opening Go Vegan San Antonio food truck. The couple and their five children converted to a vegan lifestyle after watching the 2017 documentary What the Health. They launched Go Vegan in San Antonio last November to help make vegan…
San Antonio Man Fired After Completely Owning Teen Wearing MAGA Hat
A 19-second expletive-filled video, a Make America Great Again hat, and a Whataburger location off Nacogdoches and Thousand Oaks are making the rounds today as part of a video that purports to show an unprovoked attack made on the hat’s wearer. The video was posted by 16-year-old Hunter Richard yesterday and has since been removed,…
Lloyd Doggett Demands that ICE Explain Policy Keeping Parents Separated from Children
Rep. Lloyd Doggett has made an official inquiry to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement asking it to explain what appears to be a policy prolonging separation of asylum-seeking immigrants. Such a policy would seem to defy the order of a federal judge which said children separated from their parents under President Donald Trump’s “zero-tolerance” policy must be…
Food Stamp Cuts Could Hurt Thousands of Service Members
Military service members are among the millions of Americans who would be affected by proposed budget cuts to federal food stamps, also known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). In February, President Donald Trump released a fiscal-year 2019 budget proposal that included a new approach to the program that “combines traditional SNAP benefits with…
Texas Roads Are Mighty Friendly… to Speeders, a New Report Shows
As hard as it may be to believe if you’ve been radar-gunned in Olmos Park or Castle Hills, Texas is the most lenient state when it comes to dealing with speeders and reckless drivers, according to new research. Personal-finance website WalletHub ranked the 50 states and the District of Columbia on 12 factors, ranging from…
Ted Cruz Suggests Mexico’s Election of “Far-left Socialist” Andrés Manuel López Obrador Means U.S. Needs a Border Wall
This story was originally published by The Texas Tribune. U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, said Tuesday that the election of a “far-left socialist” to the Mexican presidency underscores the need for President Donald Trump’s administration to secure the border and build a wall between the United States and its southern neighbor. Cruz said Mexican President-elect…
Krishna Temple of San Antonio Hosting Traditional Hindu Celebration at Woodlawn Lake Park
File this one under wholesome, healthy, maybe even spiritually uplifting events you can attend for free on a summer’s afternoon. Ratha Yatra (or the Festival of Chariots) is a huge deal for Hindus in east India. This massive celebration of a group of deities, representations of which are hoisted and paraded on wooden chariots, draws…
Blue Bell Announces Return of Well-loved Fudge Bars
Just in time for the absolute hottest time of the year, Blue Bell announced that it is bringing back its well-loved fudge bars. Beginning Thursday, the Texas-based company’s chocolaty bars can be found in the freezer section at supermarkets where Blue Bell is sold. The solid chocolate fudge on a stick is both creamy and…
South Texas Native Raúl Castillo Featured in Three Award-winning Films at CineFestival
Rising Hollywood star and McAllen native Raúl Castillo (HBO’s Looking) is no stranger to CineFestival. “I’ve been going to CineFestival for years,” Castillo said during an interview last month. “It’s really special for me to be coming back. San Antonio is a second home to me in many ways.” In years past, Castillo was seen…
Report: Teams Eyeing Free Agent Tony Parker, Who’s Open to Not Finishing Career with Spurs
A few months ago, we reported that Spurs favorite Tony Parker is open to not finishing his career in San Antonio. Now, Parker’s agents are shopping for deals to see if any other teams want to snatch up the veteran point guard. According to a report from ESPN (which has been a large source of…
All Aboard: Here’s Your Chance to “Drift & Dine” Down the San Antonio River
Sure, you’ve done the whole River Walk thing plenty of times. Heck, you’ve probably even hopped on a riverboat when your Alamo-curious friends came to town. But chances are you have not floated lazily down the San Antonio River while exploring the culinary offerings of seven different establishments. The three-day event, Drift & Dine, will…
Spurs’ Lonnie Walker IV Criticized for Now-Deleted 4th of July Tweet
The Spurs’ newest member, Lonnie Walker IV, is under fire for his less-than-patriotic tweet on July 4. Rather than the standard “Happy 4th of July!” tweet, complete with the fireworks emoji, Walker went a very different route. In a now-deleted tweet, Walker said, “Will never celebrate 4th of July. Know your history!! and stay woke.”…
San Antonio-born Performance Artist and Activist Advocates for Outcasts as ‘Mother Pigeon’
In the sparse greenery of New York City, a flock of pigeons and their creator can be found nestled among chess hustlers and cheap paintings for sale. Typically, a handmade sign that reads, “Do Not Feed the Pigeons, They’re Already Stuffed” is set up next to a battered suitcase filled with well-earned tips. Upon closer…
Ram’s Revenge?: Lawsuit Accuses Viva Tacoland Operator of Mismanagement
Viva Tacoland has seen better days. We don’t just mean the original place’s heyday, before the famously chaotic Ramiro “Ram” Ayala was shot and killed in 2005 after he said “fuck you” to a pair of armed robbers demanding cash from his register. You wouldn’t know it by looking at the place – which is…
Who? Mike Jones Playing San Antonio for a True Throwback
If you haven’t smoked a blunt to “Still Tippin’” by Mike Jones, have you really lived? The Houston-based rapper helped propel the already established Houston rap sound into the mid-2000s with several hits on his album Who is Mike Jones? As you may remember, Jones used to rock that shirt with his own phone number…
The Darjeeling Limited Screening at Hays Street Bridge for City-wide Wes Fest
Slab Cinema’s worthy ode to the work of Wes Anderson rolls on this summer with a showing of the director’s 2007 film The Darjeeling Limited, arguably his most emotionally immediate and raw outing. The movie, Anderson’s fifth feature, follows three brothers, played by Jason Schwartzman, Adrien Brody and Owen Wilson, as they meet up in…
The Big Spoon: On Drinking
Editor’s Note: The following is The Big Spoon, an opinion column on San Antonio’s food and drink scene. Wine, spirits, booze, hooch. If you’re like any Texan trying to cool off, much like pink geckos that only dash out at night, it might be easy to reach for a frosty beer or an even colder…
Despite the City’s Cheerleading, San Antonio’s New Football League is a Hail Mary Effort
When it comes to football, San Antonio has a history of magical thinking, from playing host to at least a dozen failed leagues to building the $186-million Alamodome with the notion that it’d somehow enable us to reel in an NFL team. Now we’re about to see if the Alliance of American Football is just…
The Last Vans Warped Tour Rolls Into San Antonio and We’re Not Crying, You Are
Since 1995, the Vans Warped Tour has traveled the country uniting scene kids, punk rockers and all those looking to let out their angst in a circle pit with an afternoon of punk, ska, metal and hip-hop. Over the years, the tour has hosted artists like Eminem (1999) and Katy Perry (2008) before they catapulted…
Mamma Mia! Opens at Public Theater of San Antonio This Weekend for Month-long Run
When it premiered on Broadway back in 2001 — just five weeks after 9/11 — British playwright Catherine Johnson’s Mamma Mia! got New Yorkers clapping along to disco mainstays and even dancing in the aisles. Referencing its spirit-lifting powers, critic Ben Brantley likened the jukebox musical to “the theatrical equivalent of comfort food.” Cleverly weaving…
What to Expect at This Month’s First Friday (And Thursday Preview)
Devilish beauties, embellished underwear and artificial limbs are but a few of the curiosities to be found in Southtown on what’s destined to be one of the hottest First Fridays of the year. If you missed the June openings of Blue Star Contemporary’s summer exhibitions — including Gary Sweeney’s homey photographic installation “A Manhattan Beach…
Be Ready to Be Slayed: Boy George and Culture Club are Descending Upon San Antonio This Weekend
Do you really want to hurt me? Do you really want to make me cry? If you don’t want to do those things, better buy me some Boy George and Culture Club tickets because they’re coming to San Antonio. That’s right, BBs, Grammy Award-winning legends Boy George and Culture Club announced earlier this year their…
Councilman’s Appraisal of BCAD Chief: ‘Smug’ – Pelaez Wins Support for City Examination of Chief Appraiser’s Office
Editor’s Note: The following is Their Town, a column of opinion and analysis. Councilman Manny Pelaez doesn’t put much effort into hiding his feelings, and he has a strong one about Michael Amezquita, head of the Bexar County Appraisal District. “It’s annoying how smug this guy is,” Pelaez said. “Every time you raise a concern,…
Savage Love: It Got Better
In a recent column, you said you never hear from married couples whose sex life got better and more frequent over the years. Well, now you have. My wife and I were married 24 years ago, and we are currently having more sex and better sex than we did in the first years of our…
Free Will Astrology (7/4/18-7/10/18)
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Twentieth-century French novelist Marcel Proust described nineteenth-century novelist Gustave Flaubert as a *trottoire roulant*, or “rolling sidewalk”: plodding, toneless, droning. Meanwhile, critic Roger Shattuck compared Proust’s writing to an “electric generator” from which flows a “powerful current always ready to shock not only our morality but our very sense of humanity.”…
Multi-instrumentalist Daniel Thomas Phipps Ready to Rock The Rustic
Hailing from the shaded river town of New Braunfels, multi-instrumentalist Daniel Thomas Phipps actually sounds like he’s written his own music. Let me explain. Too often we get these Brooklyn or Oakland “folk” artists who write songs that sound like they grew up like Dolly Parton – without electricity in the Smokey Mountains or some…
San Antonio’s LEGO-inspired Event Highlights the Creative Side of STEM
From humble beginnings in the early 20th-century workshop of Danish woodworker Ole Kirk Christiansen, LEGO has established itself as one of the most celebrated toy manufacturers in the world. A fusion of the Dutch words “leg” and “godt” (which together translate to “play well” in English and “I put together” in Latin), LEGO released its…
Hi-Tones Bringing Free, Eclectic Lineup for Your Post-Holiday Slump
This free, live music bonanza should prove to be the perfect cure for your post-Fourth of July hangover. For starters, the Lost Project, one of the best live acts in the local music milieu, brings its melting-pot sound, drawing on pop, punk, ska, reggae, progressive rock and alternative rock. We are also, as always, excited…
Comedian Tom Rhodes Sets Up Camp at Laugh Out Loud Club This Weekend
Funny enough, Mr. Rhodes, the NBC sitcom bearing his name, is probably one of the low points of stand-up Tom Rhodes’ three-decade career. Running for a total of 19 episodes in the mid-’90s, the show featured Rhodes — the first breakout star from still-new Comedy Central — as a cool, longhaired teacher and has-been novelist…
Third Coast Stories: CineFestival Returns to Its Texas Roots for Milestone Anniversary
In past years, CineFestival, the longest-running Latino film festival in the nation, has featured countless films from around the world. This year, for the fest’s 40th anniversary edition, Hecho en Tejas (July 5-8), the Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center (GCAC) wanted to take the festival back to its Texas roots by celebrating the work of Latino…
9 Feature Films to Add to Your CineFestival Schedule
From punk-rock garage bands in South Texas to the untimely death of a beloved San Antonio artist, here are nine feature narratives and documentaries to catch at the 40th annual CineFestival. For a complete schedule of the films screening at this year’s fest, visit guadalupeculturalarts.org/cinefestival. We the Animals A coming-of-age story that follows three young…
Cocktail of the Week: Seersucker’s Frozen Cherry Limeade
Let’s face it — there’s no escaping the overwhelming summer heat in Texas. But a few activities can at least alleviate it, like tubing the river, swimming in inflatable pools and sipping on a Seersucker Frozen Cherry Limeade. The frozen limeade is a new summer addition to Seersucker Distillery’s drink lineup. It features Southern Style…
