San Antonio's BIRD Bakery donating money from cupcake sales to LA Fire Department

San Antonio-based BIRD Bakery is looking to turn lemons into lemonade by donating all proceeds from sales of its strawberry-lemonade cupcakes to the Los Angeles Fire Department. Although a San Antonio native, BIRD Bakery founder and CEO Elizabeth Chambers has lived in Los Angeles most of her adult l

Gov. Greg Abbott threatens to fire Texas A&M president over alleged DEI event

Texas Governor Greg Abbott on Monday threatened in a tweet to force out Texas A&M University President Mark Welsh III over a diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) event, saying it violated a Texas law banning DEI at state-funded schools. University emails, leaked online by a conservative activist, i

Bad Takes: Mayor Ron Nirenberg’s defense of San Antonio’s failure to aid poorest residents flunks the test

Bad Takes is a column of opinion and analysis. "What you have to understand is the public has a very short memory. But corporations — they never forget.” — Martin Scorsese as the corporate sponsor in the 1994 film Quiz Show

Texas cinema chain Alamo Drafthouse has laid off corporate and theater employees

Alamo Drafthouse, which operates two San Antonio dinner-and-a-movie theaters, has made deep staff cuts as part of a restructuring effort, the Austin Chronicle reports. The layoffs at the Austin-based chain appear to affect locations run directly by Sony Pictures Experiences, the division of Sony Pic