Larry Garza, Public School Funding: The top 10 headlines in San Antonio this week
Jaime Monzon
Larry Garza performs at San Antonio comedy club the Blind Tiger in 2019.
San Antonio said goodbye to a pair of beloved local figures this week.
Visual artist Jesse Treviño, whose public artworks and hyperrealistic paintings of West Side life captured the city’s imagination, died Monday. And Larry Garza, a popular standup comic who continued to find humor in his lengthy battle with cancer, finally succumbed to the disease on Tuesday.
Not surprisingly, remembrances of the two men were among the Current‘s most-read stories of the week.
Other stories that attracted high readership included a piece on a top Texas Education Agency official admitting on a recorded phone call that a school voucher plan backed by Gov. Greg Abbott would cut funding for public schools and a look at the Alamo City lagging other Texas cities on a list of most-glamorous places.
Relax, folks, we may may not be glam in the 2-1-0, but we keep it real.
10. Revered San Antonio visual artist Jesse Treviño has died following battle with cancer
9. Negotiations between San Antonio officials and Moses Rose’s bar owner to begin Wednesday
8. ‘Refined Reflections’: UTSA’s Zoe Diaz Collection exhibition reflects a gift to the community
7. Fired San Antonio police officer pleads guilty to family violence to stay out of jail
5. San Antonio hotel ranked among most romantic in the nation just ahead of Valentine’s Day
4. Walking Dead cast members headed to San Antonio for Valentine’s-themed horror market
2. San Antonio stand-up comic and Comedia A Go-Go co-founder Larry Garza has died at age 41
1. San Antonio ranks low on list of most-glamorous cities, lagging behind Dallas, Austin and Houston
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