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On Monday, Getty heir John Gilbert Getty was found dead in a San Antonio hotel room. He was only 52.

Pedro Pascal was roughly 4 years old, he and his family went to see the 1978 hit movie “Superman,” starring Christopher Reeve. Pascal’s young parents had come to live in San Antonio after fleeing their native Chile during the rise of dictator Augusto Pinochet in the mid-1970s.

Spy Kids Latino, even though he had written the script and was due to direct the film, too.Rodriguez admitted as much during a recent Comic-Con@Home panel on Thursday, via Indiewire, recalling how he had to convince the financiers that making most of the cast Latino wouldn’t adversely its impact at the box-office.“For me it was a big victory … to have the kids in Spy Kids be a Latin family, “ said Rodriguez, who was born in San Antonio to parents of Mexican descent.

Grupo Intocable, a maverick group known for a progressive approach to the music business and a forward-thinking attitude to music-making, will be the first Latin act to play a drive-in concert in the United States.On June 6, the six-man band will play a show at a field in the tiny town of Poteet, Texas, close to San Antonio.

Hollywood and theater owners received welcome news over the weekend as 3,000 moviegoers showed up at a trio of San Antonio-area theaters that have reopened early with strict social distancing measures in place. The three locations are operated by Santikos Entertainment, a mainstay of the sprawling Texan city.

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Sergio Aguero has revealed the two biggest jokers in the Manchester City dressing room during a video stream with Real Madrid's Thibaut Courtois.

Jay Rodriguez, a former vice president of corporate information West Coast for NBC, died Wednesday of congestive heart failure in Palm Desert, California. He was 92.

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By Ted Johnson

Holidaymakers on all-inclusive packages will no longer be offered unlimited booze by hotels as part of a raft of major changes.

There's cake in the green room across the street from Paper Tiger, the San Antonio rock club where post-hardcore sextet Scary Kids Scaring Kids are playing a sold-out show in a few hours. It's a gift from the show promoters, and the Gilbert, Arizona band has good reason celebrate this gig -- and this whole tour.

Alejandro Fernandez is officially kicking off 2020 with new music and a new tour. Coined as the Hecho En México (Made in Mexico) World Tour, Fernandez is ready to croon his fans in the U.S., Canada, and Europe.

The CW already had our viewing commitment in the bag when the network announced it was ordering Jared Padalecki's take on Walker, Texas Ranger to series, but apparently that wasn't enough. To ensure that our eyes will be glued to the screen when the series premieres, they've added The 100 star Lindsey Morgan into the mix.

Kobe Bryant is getting recognized by the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame for his incredible and indelible professional 20-year basketball career. It was announced by Chairman Jerry Colangelo in a statement on Monday, January 27, that the former Los Angeles Laker will be posthumously inducted along with the incoming Class of 2020 inductees. Kobe will be joining the likes former players Tim Duncan of the San Antonio Spurs and Kevin Garnett of Minnesota Timberwolves.

Kobe Bryant died less than 24 hours ago and already the iconic former NBA star is being remembered in meaningful tributes. 

With ratings in a slump so far this season, the NBA has needed someone to come off the bench and ball out. Cue the New Orleans Pelicans debut of Zion Williamson.

Two women say they were 15 and 16 respectively when Quirin had sex with them

Kelly Longoria first met Sinhue “Sin” Quirin in November 2002, when she was 15 years old. At the time, Quirin played guitar in Society 1, a small-time industrial metal band that was touring through Longoria’s hometown of San Antonio and is still currently active.

iHeartMedia today announced a “new organizational structure” and “technology transformation” as it modernizes the company, and as often happens during such moves, layoffs are taking place. According to Country Aircheck and All Access, there have been multiple layoffs in the country and other sectors of the largest radio network in the U.S., including top roles at WPOC/Baltimore, KAJA and KRPT/San Antonio, KASE and KVET Austin, WSIX/Nashville and others.