Why trick-or-treat for candy when you can trick-or-treat for chocolate cake? Aaron Cordero, a 6-year-old San Antonian, dressed up as Gabriel Iglesias for Halloween and his costume is seriously spot on. With a Hawaiian shirt, jean shorts, tennis shoes and a chocolate cake in hand, Aaron is serving up the perfect get-up to pass as…
In the past six months, a Bexar County grand jury has issued five separate indictments to former nurse Genene Jones for the alleged murders of five children nearly 40 years ago. On Tuesday afternoon, Bexar County District Attorney Nico LaHood announced the latest indictment against Jones, the 66-year-old woman dubbed the “Angel of Death” for…
Usually reserved for promotions, anniversaries or when you’re feeling bougie af, lobster isn’t a go-to choice for a casual dinner. But chef Jason Dady (Shuck Shack, Two Bros. BBQ Market, Range, Bin Tapas Bar, Iron Chef Gauntlet) is trying to make this crustacean happen with the return of Lobster Week. Through November 4, guests can…
Queso is serious business, y’all. And this November yours could be crowned numero uno. Christian Assistance Ministry is hosting a fundraiser on November 11 from 2:30 to 5 p.m. that will ask queso makers — both restaurant and homecooks alike — if their cheese-dip can take the heat. Contestants willing to put their queso creation…
***This article was originally published in print and online as “Conjunto Soul” and not “Chicano Soul.” We’ve corrected it online and the Current regrets the error*** To the outsider, and even the undiscerning local, San Antonio doesn’t scream R&B and soul mecca. Since the advent of tejano in the 1970s (which flourished into the ’90s…
A Converse couple was arrested Monday for allegedly violently abusing two children in their care. According to Bexar County arrest warrants, the two adults had forced the children (girls, ages 5 and 10) to brush their teeth with cat poop and wear a dog shock collar — and riddled their bodies with bruises and cuts.…
If you’ve ever seen a magician perform a magic trick and asked yourself, “How the hell did he do that?” you ain’t seen nothing until you’ve seen what Richard Turner can do. Turner, 63, is a San Antonio resident and considered one of the best “card mechanics” and sleight-of-hand illusionists in the world. He was…
Ahhhh, Halloween in San Antonio. The weather is crisp, kids are trick-or-treating, parents indulge in a drink on the stoop and there may or may not be an eyeless creature with see-through skin lurking in the Edwards Aquifer. “Stranger things” are upon us, indeed. Scientists at University of Texas Austin are on the hunt this…
Gov. Greg Abbott has finally acknowledged that the underlying cause of the Civil War may have been slavery. On Friday, Abbott met with Democratic state Rep. Eric Johnson to discuss removing a plaque from the hallways of the Texas Capitol praising the ancestors of Confederate soldiers. Installed during the rise of the the Civil Rights…
Name: Künstler Brewing (pronounced COON-stler BROO-ing). Background: After two previous names (the OK Brewery & Eishaus, San Antonio Brewing Company) and as many potential locations (the old Boneshaker’s space by the Hays Street Bridge, the old OK Bar & Grocery in Yanaguana Garden), Vera Deckard’s craft-beer-and-German-grub concept has opened for business in the Lone Star…
With October coming to an end, it’s a bittersweet feeling knowing that November is just around the corner. But along with Thanksgiving and the lighting of the Riverwalk, November is filled with plenty of events that will get you excited to take your Halloween costumes off and prepare for what’s coming up next. Ticket Release…
Evidenced by multiple recent events themed after iconic Mexican illustrator José Guadalupe Posada’s beloved character la Calavera Catrina, many San Antonians couldn’t wait for Día de los Muertos to get dolled up as the grande dame of death. Expect to see plenty more Catrinas roaming around as venues and organizations across the city observe All…
Bottling Department isn’t playing around, which San Antonians know now that the Pearl spot is not offering one, but two happy hours beginning Monday, November 6. Mondays will no longer be drab with all-day happy hour specials on food and drink. Yas! Half-priced drinks will be available from The Bar at the Bottling Department with…
A federal judge has temporarily blocked parts of President Donald Trump’s transgender military ban while a lawsuit against the ban plays out in court. On Monday, U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly in Washington, D.C. temporarily blocked the ban from going into effect, ruling that the military will instead comply with the 2016 policy in place…
Vegans, rejoice! A pop-up market is popping up just for you, with all things vegan on display and ready to purchase at Brick this Wednesday. Vendors will sell food, jewelry, art and more at the pop-up, the first of its kind. On the Facebook page for the event, organizers said they are excited to see…
After two inmates in the Bexar County Jail committed suicide in October, Sheriff Javier Salazar announced a new unit within the department Monday to prevent more from happening. The Detention Mental Evaluation Team, or D-MET for short, is comprised of four veteran detention officers, who will begin “high-speed” mental health training to be able to…
On Oct. 16, the owner of the Columbus Crew — Columbus, Ohio’s Major League Soccer team — announced he’d move the team to Austin if the city didn’t build his team a new stadium. This declaration came as a shock to Bexar County Judge Nelson Wolff, who’d been encouraged by MLS officials to purchase the…
This Election Day, VIA Metropolitan Transit is offering free rides for San Antonio residents with a valid voter registration card. As part of the ongoing “Ride VIA to Vote” initiative, VIA is waiving fees on its regular bus line and its disabled riders service, VIAtrans, on Nov. 7. VIA is no stranger to helping the…
While most pre-schoolers go the basic superhero or Disney princess route for Halloween, one San Antonio kid chose to fit the mood of the season and show how up-to-date he is with pop culture. Yep, he dressed up as Pennywise the Clown aka “It.” Emmett Negrete, who is four years old, saw a glimpse of…
Texas Agricultural Commissioner Sid Miller has — yet again — used his wildly-popular Facebook page to share wildly-offensive content. On Sunday, Miller shared a “Joke of the Day” with his faithful followers that managed to both poke fun at suicide and perpetuate a racist stereotype. “My friend was so depressed last night thinking about the…
You’ll have to find another brunch buffet to cure your hangover with, San Antonians — Tacos N Tequila has closed. The massive restaurant, which opened in late 2014, with a menu of tacos, street food and yep, tequila, cleared out its location off Broadway and Josephine this Sunday. Though the locations in Austin and Dallas…
As Halloween looms, it’s hard not to think about how Thanksgiving and winter holidays are quickly approaching making us ask, “Where has this year gone?” I guess we’ve just been too busy turning up at concerts like Metallica and Janet Jackson. Or shows at Paper Tiger like Big Freedia, and House of Kenzo’s Snack Ball.…
The popular chicken eatery is closed — again. The restaurant posted a sign in Spanish that it would be closed for remodeling, but it turns out the closure was court-ordered to address smoke problems coming from the grill. The sign indicates the restaurant would be closed from September 29 to October 29, though there hasn’t been…
The owner of the Houston Texans, Robert McNair, has come under fire for likening football players protesting during the national anthem to prisoners. “We can’t have inmates running the prison,” McNair reportedly said during a meeting with NFL team owners and executives where they discussed what to do about players protesting during the national anthem,…
Sound the alarm, San Antonio. A metal band from the past is coming to town and it’s none other than “Breaking The Law” boys Judas Priest. On May 1, 2018 the Firepower 2018 Tour will make it’s final stop at the Freeman Coliseum in support of an album Firepower, which is due in early 2018.…
If you flicked on ABC at any point in the last 50 years, you’d likely find Ted Koppel sitting behind the news desk. Koppel, who joined ABC in mid-60s, has been around for nearly every major news story since. He was one of the first to interview Lyndon Johnson after the JFK assassination, covered the…
San Antonians wait all year long for Fiesta, well … for many reasons. The culture, the arts, the booze, oh, and the food. Arguably one of the most popular food booths, chicken on a stick is an unofficial rite of passage during the two-week long festivities. Now, San Antonians can enjoy the deep fried goodness…
In the 1890s, a group of San Antonio women raised money through quilting bees and bake sales to erect a towering monument to the Confederacy in Travis Park. Beneath it, they buried a time capsule holding a folded Confederate flag and a Confederate soldier’s Old Testament bible (along with other similar memorabilia). More than a…
San Antonio Police Chief William McManus has called for an external investigation into SAPD’s Special Victims Unit after an internal audit found more than 130 cases had “not been properly investigated.” SVU specifically handles cases involving human trafficking, domestic violence, rape, sexual assault, and other sex crimes. It’s unknown exactly how officers mishandled these cases.…
Adam Levine is bringing his “Moves Like Jagger” booty over to the Alamo City. Well so is the rest of The Adam Levine Band Maroon 5, but tbh who even acknowledges those guys? All jokes aside, the band behind hits like Don’t Wanna Know, Sugar and the throwback that is This Love is anticipating the…
On Tuesday, 10-year-old Rosa Maria Hernandez was in an ambulance headed from Laredo to Corpus Christi, rushing to have emergency gallbladder surgery. But by Wednesday evening, instead of recovering back home in Laredo with her family, federal immigration agents took Rosa Maria, who has cerebral palsy, to a shelter for undocumented immigrant children in San…
Earlier this week, Google Fiber tweeted a GIF of cowboy boots line dancing on a wooden floor with the slightly ominous phrase: “Google Fiber is coming.” It came with a link and the text: “Alamo City! Get ready for faster 🚀, fairer 😀 , kinder ❤️ Internet. We’re almost there. #GoogleFiber” But Google Fiber wouldn’t give…
Tim Duncan is notorious for being a man of few words, but San Antonians have been surprised to hear the basketball legend be so vocal in his efforts on behalf of the U.S. Virgin Islands following the worst hurricane season ever. In a video posted to his 21 USVI Duncan Relief website, Duncan opened up more…
San Antonians love tamales, and this year one of its biggest tamal-making parties is moving to a new location. Founded in 2008 by the Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center and hosted by Dr. Carmen Tafolla and Dr. Ellen Riojas Clark until 2016 when they added the Cortez family to the masa, La Gran Tamalada has served as…
It’s no secret that Barbaco Apparel understands what it means for something to be #PuroSanAntonio. But the city’s “officially unofficial T-shirt company” is coming through with some new and cute AF items in honor of the event. Take a look at a few of the items you’ll be able to find at Muertos Fest. Sky…
The final week of Bill Miller Bar-B-Q’s Stranger Things Have Happened promotion is here, and we’re lowkey sad. We’ve had fun throwing it back with treats like the cherry cobbler, fruit salad and the pickle spears that accompanied the turkey sandwich on a wheat bun. And while we’re excited that season two of Netflix’s Stranger…
Texas Education Agency staff have finally recovered the tens of thousands of dollars in property stolen by the former board president of a shuttered San Antonio charter school network. The items originally disappeared from San Antonio School for Inquiry and Creativity storage on August 3 — three days after the state closed the charter school…
Five-term Texas House Speaker Joe Straus will not be running for re-election in 2018. “A confident leader knows when it’s time to give it back,” Straus said during a Wednesday morning press conference. “It’s the first time in decades that the speaker has been able to leave this office, you know, on his own terms.”…
The San Antonio Zoo has a new 2-year-old hippo — and he’s a big boy. The 1,200 pound, “curious, very adventurous” youngster made his debut at the zoo’s Africa Live! exhibit this morning. He arrived last month, and doesn’t have a name yet. The toddler moved to San Antonio from the ABQ BioPark Zoo in…
The South Side has made it clear that if you love someone, you don’t put a ring on it, you dedicate a huge mural to them instead (ex. this Selena mural at Beatrice Avenue and South Flores Street). Now, it’s Spurs superstar Kawhi Leonard that is getting his face drawn on the side of a…
The 17-year-old undocumented immigrant living in federal custody in Texas has finally had the legal abortion she requested over a month ago. After a legal tug-of-war with the federal government, attorneys with the American Civil Liberties Union representing the undocumented teenage girl claimed victory Monday — announcing that the girl (dubbed “Jane Doe”) had undergone…
Actress and comedian Noël Wells, 30, has never been the type of person to wait for something to fall into her lap. Instead, she’d rather create her own material and make something happen for herself. After gaining an online following by developing her own sketch and parody videos for her YouTube channel and performing with…
In June 2016, the city installed a shiny new toilet in downtown San Antonio and the public promptly lost their shit. That’s because the standalone public restroom came with a $97,000 price tag — a number that sounded a little too high, even for a modern, crime-fighting, and surprisingly sanitary loo made in Portland, OR. The…
Q: In a frank exchange early in our courtship, I told my girlfriend that I have no kinks. As a faithful reader of Savage Love, I’m obviously not opposed to kinks — but I’ve never had any inclinations in that direction and am probably a typical hetero vanilla. As a result, I’m damn near clueless…
Before you roll your eyes about this symphony inspired by a video game, take a moment to consider why The Legend of Zelda: Symphony of the Goddesses even exists. Based on Japanese game designer Shigeru Miyamoto’s childhood adventures in the Kyoto countryside, the franchise (which boils down to green-tunicked hero Link saving Princess Zelda and…
ARIES (March 21-April 19): I share Vincent Van Gogh’s belief that “the best way to know life is to love many things.” But I also think that the next twelve months will be an inspiring time for you to be focused and single-minded in your involvement with love. That’s why I encourage you to take…
Wed 10/25 Bruno Mars When Bruno Mars showed up on my radar with “Locked Out Of Heaven” back in 2012, I thought to myself, “Yeah, I guess it’s been awhile since The Police broke up, so this makes sense.” And don’t get me wrong, I like The Police and there really wasn’t anyone that sounded…
From 1943’s monstrous melee in Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man to 1962’s classic Japanese clash with King Kong vs. Godzilla to horror icons Freddy Krueger and Jason Voorhees making mincemeat out of each other in 2003’s Freddy vs. Jason, pitting movie monsters against one another has been an entertaining cinematic pastime for decades. While some of…
