Live Music in San Antonio This Week: Pitbull, Cattle Decapitation, Garrett T. Capps and more

This week, the Lonesome Rose is celebrating five years of billing itself as the oldest honky tonk on the St. Mary's Strip. Fittingly, it's throwing quite the party — a bill featuring venue honcho Garrett T. Capps and his band NASA Country along with Sons of Hercules and Hickoids. If that doesn't sou

Former San Antonio professor says he was fired over newspaper op-ed

A former University of Texas at San Antonio professor has sued school officials in federal court, alleging he was fired in 2021 for publishing an Express-News op-ed critical of his department's credit requirements. UTSA disputes that claim, however, arguing in a court filing that Bruce Smith, a tenu

Lightscape holiday light display returns to San Antonio Botanical Garden for third year

The San Antonio Botanical Garden is set to glow for a third holiday season of the popular holiday walking trail Lightscape. Festive displays featuring more than a million lights will wash over the garden as visitors wander through the mile-long stretch of holiday sights and sounds.

Extraterrestrial drag queen Alaska crash lands at San Antonio's Bonham Exchange Thursday

Call her Alaska Thunderfuck, Alaska 5000 or just Alaska. Whichever you pick, she's the award-winning drag queen who allegedly crash landed on Earth in 1966 in her namesake state and was held in captivity until the '80s. As might be expected, the alien queen doesn't simply do drag — she has her own f