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San Antonio hot pot restaurant quietly closes and more popular stories bit.ly/4z3kfkJ

San Antonio hot pot restaurant quietly closes and more popular stories

Editor's note: The top San Antonio news of the week includes a quiet closure, a chicken chain's debut, and development plans in the works for New Braunfels. Read the most popular stories of the week...

CultureMap San Antonio · Oct 23, 2026 · 10:01 PM UTC

Chilly drama Fjord puts cultural blind spots under a cold Nordic light bit.ly/4yESLki

Chilly drama Fjord puts cultural blind spots under a cold Nordic light

In modern society, where fear of “the other” has made many people into insular creatures, it has become easy to get locked into one point of view. The new film Fjord will be a challenging one for...

CultureMap San Antonio · Oct 23, 2026 · 8:11 PM UTC

Viral Boerne pizza joint to open first San Antonio location bit.ly/4i1YA6v

Viral Boerne pizza joint to open first San Antonio location

Like any passionate collector, it seems Dark Side Brick Oven Pizza Co. owner Michael Hawes has trouble stopping with just one. The entrepreneur says he is opening a second location of his pop culture...

CultureMap San Antonio · Oct 23, 2026 · 6:41 PM UTC

Indie rock icons Interpol book San Antonio for comeback tour bit.ly/4iEMXBF

Indie rock icons Interpol book San Antonio for comeback tour

Interpol will soon turn on the bright lights in San Antonio. The indie fave — a leader of the 2000s’ post-punk revival — will bring its comeback tour to St. Paul Square venue The Espee (1174 E...

CultureMap San Antonio · Oct 23, 2026 · 4:31 PM UTC

San Antonio Spurs ink new 22-game broadcast deal with Sinclair bit.ly/4dQMCKy

San Antonio Spurs ink new 22-game broadcast deal with Sinclair

Cheering on the San Antonio Spurs this season might require a spreadsheet. On October 23, the Silver and Black signed a broadcasting deal with Sinclair Broadcast Group to air 22 regular-season games...

CultureMap San Antonio · Oct 23, 2026 · 3:36 PM UTC

San Antonio hotel celebrates Robert Johnson's legacy with 3-day bash bit.ly/4BlVPEz

San Antonio hotel celebrates Robert Johnson's legacy with 3-day bash

In November 1936, a 25-year-old Mississippi guitarist checked into San Antonio's Gunter Hotel and changed musical history. 90 years later, Robert Johnson's grandson is coming back to record in the...

CultureMap San Antonio · Oct 23, 2026 · 2:11 PM UTC

Houston Tex-Mex institution to open first San Antonio location bit.ly/4iAIoJA

Houston Tex-Mex institution to open first San Antonio location

San Antonio doesn't often look to Houston for Tex-Mex, but Gringo's Mexican Kitchen is hoping that Cibolo will make an exception. The chain is opening its first Alamo City location at 18390 I-35 in...

CultureMap San Antonio · Oct 22, 2026 · 10:02 PM UTC

Acclaimed Houston chef to open new Fredericksburg restaurant bit.ly/3WHDJgg

Acclaimed Houston chef to open new Fredericksburg restaurant

Houston chef Aaron Bludorn is coming to the Hill Country. The chef’s Bludorn Hospitality Group will open a restaurant and lead the culinary program at The Kimpton Fredericksburg, a luxury hotel...

CultureMap San Antonio · Oct 22, 2026 · 8:35 PM UTC

Clayface molds a messy origin story into schlocky body horror bit.ly/4jBRKpA

Clayface molds a messy origin story into schlocky body horror

The history of DC Comics in movies has been hit-and-miss, especially when it comes to anything not directly involving Batman or Superman. Over the years, films have been headlined by heroes like...

CultureMap San Antonio · Oct 22, 2026 · 7:15 PM UTC

Bravo reveals premiere date for bawdy Boerne reality show bit.ly/4eLbnrG

Bravo reveals premiere date for bawdy Boerne reality show

Bravo is not pitching its latest reality romp as the Real Housewives of Boerne. But minutes into the new trailer for Small Town Trouble: Texas, one of the cast warns, “Don’t talk about my husband,”...

CultureMap San Antonio · Oct 22, 2026 · 5:06 PM UTC

San Antonio chef launches new nonprofit to train cooks for management bit.ly/4A8QoaT

San Antonio chef launches new nonprofit to train cooks for management

San Antonio’s chefs might be able to julienne a carrot in a few seconds, but few have been given the management training to match their culinary skills. Longtime local chef Brian West is looking to...

CultureMap San Antonio · Oct 22, 2026 · 3:06 PM UTC

San Antonio Rodeo adds Jo Dee Messina, more to 2027 shows bit.ly/3Uam3ck

San Antonio Rodeo adds Jo Dee Messina, more to 2027 shows

Turns out the San Antonio Stock Show and Rodeo isn’t just for the boys. Jo Dee Messina, one of the most formidable women in country music, has been added to the lineup coming to the Frost Bank...

CultureMap San Antonio · Oct 22, 2026 · 1:36 PM UTC

New immersive show puts San Antonio audiences in the jury box bit.ly/4jFsNtn

New immersive show puts San Antonio audiences in the jury box

Odds are, if you've ever served jury duty in San Antonio, it was to decide the fate of a ne’er-do-well who threw rocks at a pecan tree. A new immersive production opening at the Magik Theatre on...

CultureMap San Antonio · Oct 22, 2026 · 11:01 AM UTC

Here are the top 7 things to do in San Antonio this weekend bit.ly/4ebjuhh

Here are the top 7 things to do in San Antonio this weekend

As Alamo City enters its fin de semana, it’s time for a little reflection, whether it's honoring ancestors at Muertos Fest or soaking in the lyricism of Iron & Wine. Watch your back, however, when...

CultureMap San Antonio · Oct 21, 2026 · 10:10 PM UTC

San Antonio ranks 2nd among Texas’ best large college towns bit.ly/4z1rAkC

San Antonio ranks 2nd among Texas’ best large college towns

San Antonio has entered the spotlight as the No. 2 best large college town in Texas, and it ranks in the top 25 among the largest college towns in America, a new study has proclaimed.

CultureMap San Antonio · Oct 21, 2026 · 8:05 PM UTC

Christmas Carol cocktail event haunts historic San Antonio church bit.ly/3UAexb3

Christmas Carol cocktail event haunts historic San Antonio church

A new theatrical holiday-bar experience will transport Fort Worth to Victorian London, and inside Charles Dickens' gothic, ghostly tale A Christmas Carol. But there’ll be no bah humbugs at this...

CultureMap San Antonio · Oct 21, 2026 · 6:40 PM UTC

San Antonio night owls can now catch VIA rides after midnight bit.ly/3W05mRz

San Antonio night owls can now catch VIA rides after midnight

For San Antonio's night owls, last call no longer has to end with a surge-priced Uber. VIA Metropolitan Transit has launched a pilot program offering late-night rides inside Loop 410 for the price of...

CultureMap San Antonio · Oct 21, 2026 · 5:07 PM UTC

Mike Casey, San Antonio's Mayor of Southtown, passes away at 85 bit.ly/4z1VANt

Mike Casey, San Antonio's Mayor of Southtown, passes away at 85

Mike Casey, the longtime San Antonio arts patron and "Mayor of Southtown," passed away on October 18 after a long illness, according to multiple sources. He was 85.

CultureMap San Antonio · Oct 21, 2026 · 3:21 PM UTC

Lauded Austin pizzeria heads to San Antonio for natural wine pop-up bit.ly/4zKfIn6

Lauded Austin pizzeria heads to San Antonio for natural wine pop-up

If you like toasting with a pét-nat or getting loopy on glou-glou, chances are you’ve made a pilgrimage to Austin’s Bufalina. If not, hail an Uber on November 5. The lauded pizzeria and low-interve...

CultureMap San Antonio · Oct 21, 2026 · 1:35 PM UTC

These Texas companies made Time’s list of the best inventions of 2026 bit.ly/4shz6Wc

These Texas companies made Time’s list of the best inventions of 2026

Some of this year’s most buzzworthy innovations have a Texas connection. 11 homegrown inventions — including a phone that blocks nosy neighbors, a self-driving 18-wheeler, and a lab-made egg — have...