Cardboard Gold: San Antonio collectors fuel a booming sports card market

Inside a packed San Antonio Shrine Auditorium during the last weekend of June, a multi-generational crowd of collectors gathered for the San Antonio Collectors Expo with a mission: to buy, sell and showcase their prized cardboard investments.  People of all ages swarmed the floor. Young kids dressed

Houston protesters call on feds to release more information, and witnesses, to Tuesday’s ICE killing

HOUSTON — Hundreds gathered at Houston City Hall’s steps Saturday evening, holding umbrellas in one hand and signs in the other, reiterating demands many have been making for days: answers on what led to the fatal shooting of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, and to release from immigration detention the thre

San Antonio’s SMART Project Space resurrects Political Art Month

After a 10-year absence, Political Art Month is back. A return of what was once an annual exhibition known to many San Antonio art enthusiasts as “PAM,” the resurrected celebration and show brings together the work 17 local artists inside the SMART Project Space at the 1906 Studio. The exhibition op

Fatal Houston ICE shooting follows agency’s increased focus on street arrests

Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Texas and across the country have increasingly targeted people who are not already in law enforcement custody, according to a Texas Tribune analysis of federal data. In Houston, where the killing of an immigrant by an ICE agent has garnered national atte