News

Sen. John Cornyn of Texas tries to turn attack on Nancy Pelosi’s husband into slam on Biden

Cornyn joined a ghoulish chorus of Republican officials who have joked about the attack or tried to politicize it.

by Sanford Nowlin November 2, 2022June 22, 2025

Music

‘Bad Blood’ emerges online as Taylor Swift tour leaves ‘Blank Space’ for San Antonio

Swift’s The Eras tour will make stops in Arlington and Houston, but she won’t be playing SA or Austin.

by Michael Karlis November 1, 2022October 28, 2024

Arts

XFL reveals San Antonio team name and logo to mixed reviews on social media

The league announced that the new team will be called the Brahmas, and that the ‘vast plains of San Antonio’ give the bulls their strength.

by Michael Karlis October 31, 2022August 3, 2025

News

Texas Sen. Ted Cruz retweets personal info of transgender preschool teacher

Social media users hounded the Texas senator for potentially putting the teacher at risk.

by Michael Karlis October 21, 2022June 17, 2024

News

Assclown Alert: Praising Kanye’s antisemitism with former Texas Rep. Jonathan Stickland

The former Republican Texas House member gleefully thanked Ye for a tweet broadly condemned as antisemitic.

by Sanford Nowlin October 19, 2022June 20, 2025

News

San Antonio Rep. Castro, others ask social media to curb Spanish-language election disinformation

‘I’ve been disappointed to see [social media companies] tolerate lies in Spanish that would never be tolerated in English,’ Castro said.

by Sanford Nowlin October 14, 2022August 17, 2023

News

San Antonio has some of the nation’s worst drivers, according to new report

Other Texas cities including Houston, El Paso and Dallas also made the top 10.

by Michael Karlis October 13, 2022April 28, 2025

News

Kanye West spins conspiracy theory that The Gap had prior knowledge of Uvalde shooting

The rapper’s social media accounts were restricted over the weekend after he made a string of anti-Semitic remarks.

by Michael Karlis October 10, 2022June 30, 2024

News

Twitter rains shit on Texas tech bro Elon Musk after he says Ukraine should cede Crimea to Russia

One of Ukraine’s ambassadors invited the Tesla founder to ‘f—k off’ over his suggestion to placate the Russian aggressors.

by Sanford Nowlin October 4, 2022December 23, 2024

News

Indicted Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton mocked for running away from subpoena server

In a tweet, Paxton claimed he feared for his family’s safety, yet his wife went outside to start the getaway vehicle.

by Sanford Nowlin September 27, 2022December 12, 2024

News

Clip of gun brandished during reported dispute between Texas landlord and tenant goes viral

‘What are you going to do? Shoot me?’ the reported tenant asks in the video as the armed man towers over him on a stairwell.

by Michael Karlis September 22, 2022April 12, 2025

News

Ted Cruz takes credit during TV appearance for Texas highway project he voted against

In a succinctly worded reality check, the White House reshared Cruz’s clip on Twitter with a five-word response: ‘Senator Cruz voted against this.’

by Sanford Nowlin September 22, 2022October 19, 2024

News

San Antonio’s mural of Ted Cruz snuggling knocked-up Greg Abbott has already been painted over

The artwork depicting a pregnant Gov. Greg Abbott with his belly being fondled by U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz has been obscured behind a coat of fresh purple paint.

by Sanford Nowlin September 8, 2022May 11, 2024

News

San Antonio mural shows Ted Cruz squeezing Gov. Abbott’s baby bump — and Twitter goes wild

The wall-sized sticker was slapped onto a building in Southtown and resembles a similar large-scale image posted last year showing Cruz in bondage gear.

by Michael Karlis September 7, 2022May 16, 2024

News

Texas woman arrested on charges that she hit, threatened group of people for having Indian accents

The woman, who identified herself as Mexican American, told the targets of her rage that her situation is different because she was born in the U.S.

by Michael Karlis August 25, 2022June 10, 2025

Food & Drink

Bill Miller, Black Bear Diner: San Antonio’s biggest food stories of the week

More new eateries are set to open in coming weeks, and a longtime San Antonio chain added a new employee perk.

by San Antonio Current Staff July 28, 2022July 2, 2024

News

San Antonio user’s cult-like Tinder profile goes viral on Twitter

The man who claims to be running an escort service out of a local church says that he’s ‘accepting new girls.’

by Michael Karlis July 27, 2022April 8, 2025

Food & Drink

San Antonio-based Bill Miller launches new policy to pay employees at end of their shifts

The new policy applies to all restaurant and plant employees.

by Nina Rangel July 26, 2022July 25, 2025

News

Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas ridiculed after claiming his gender pronoun is ‘kiss my ass’

Twitter users called out Cruz for his apparently insatiable appetite for kissing Donald Trump’s ass.

by Sanford Nowlin July 24, 2022April 2, 2025

News

Bad Takes: An open letter to Jordan Peterson following his dismissal from Twitter

One hopes, perhaps in vain, that this is where your trans-bashing bigotry at long last jumps the shark, and all except the most demented of your followers shake their heads regretfully and take their business elsewhere.