Playwright Amalia Ortiz’s Miraculous Mixes of DJ Santa Cecilia opens this week in San Antonio

The play is a quixotic tale of 1990s U.S. rave culture that follows a mute, queer migrant who transforms into a shamanic DJ. The post Playwright Amalia Ortiz’s Miraculous Mixes of DJ Santa Cecilia opens this week in San Antonio appeared first on San Antonio Current.

Study: San Antonio is Texas’ worst-positioned large metro for future prosperity

San Antonio is the large Texas metro least prepared to thrive in the decades ahead, according to the Geography of Prosperity Index, a new study unveiled at Austin’s SXSW festival that measures how U.S. population centers are poised to adapt to the future. The study authors — demographic futurist Bra

Southtown fixture The Filling Station tapping out after 14 years in business

The owners of the neighborhood beer bar reportedly opted not to renew their lease. The post Southtown fixture The Filling Station tapping out after 14 years in business appeared first on San Antonio Current.

Calls grow to rename San Antonio’s César Chávez Boulevard over sexual-abuse accusations

As sexual abuse allegations continue to pile up against late labor leader César Chávez, some voices online are calling on San Antonio rename the major downtown thoroughfare that bears his name. On Wednesday, National Farm Workers Association (later United Farm Workers) co-founder Dolores Huerta rele