SA filmmaker and Star Wars fan Alejandro Cabrera discusses franchise for May the Fourth

San Antonio filmmaker Alejandro Cabrera may have made the documentary In the Lone Star Wars State about Texas' thriving Star Wars fandom, but how big of an admirer is he of the revolutionary space epic? "On a scale of one to 10, I'm probably a 10 or 11," Cabrera told the Current during a recent inte

San Antonio Korean restaurant Cypress Cafe displaced by H-E-B

Cypress Cafe, the Korean restaurant that's operated from the basement of near-downtown office building Cypress Tower for 22 years, has been asked to move out by the structure's main tenant, San Antonio-based H-E-B, news site MySA reports. "Yes, unfortunately we were notified yesterday and [are] in t

San Antonio man tied to 'incel' ideology gets 5 years in prison for online threat

A San Antonio man with reported links to the extremist "incel" movement was sentenced to five years in federal prison Thursday for making an online threat against people attending a right-wing political convention. Alejandro Richard Velasquez Gomez, 20, warned on social media that he planned to unle

Bad Takes: Texas Republicans' war on DEI is a war on public institutions

Editor's Note: Bad Takes is a column of opinion and analysis. Early last month, the University of Texas at Austin sent pink slips to roughly 50 staff employees who formerly worked for diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives at the campus.