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Texas country music star Josh Abbott has partnered with fast food chain DQ for a limited-time meal deal focused on eats he grew up with. The Josh Abbott Meal features a four-piece Steak Finger Country Basket, a mini-M&M’s Milk Chocolate Blizzard Treat, an iced tea and a collectible limited-edition Josh Abbott cup, DQ officials said. The basket is available through May 26 at participating Texas locations.

Houston-based nonprofit Southern Smoke has expanded its free mental-health program for hospitality workers into six additional states. The program, called Behind You, is now available to food and beverage workers in Maine, Massachusetts, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia and Washington D.C. via new partnerships with 13 university clinical programs in those states. The expansion means the assistance program is available in a total of 10 states, including Texas.

Whether it's Mother Earth or the mom next door, creating generations is creativity. This Mother's Day weekend, indigenous nonprofit American Indians in Texas at the Spanish Colonial Missions (AIT-SCM) is highlighting some of that creativity in a fashion event and dinner that directly supports moms.

To celebrate the 25th anniversary of Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace — the fourth film in the franchise by release date — San Antonio cinema chain Santikos Entertainment is showing all nine Star Wars theatrical releases for a day-long marathon. On May 4, the lispy unofficial day to celebrate all things Star Wars and the mystical power of the Force, Santikos’ Casa Blanca theater, 11210 Alamo Ranch Parkway, will set up buyers with a $100 ticket for the fest with unlimited refills on both popcorn and drinks. There's also is a limited-edition poster for the occasion.

Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. WASHINGTON — U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar, D-Laredo, was indicted with his wife Imelda on Friday on charges of accepting almost $600,000 in bribes from an Azerbaijani energy company and a Mexican bank, the Justice Department announced. Cuellar allegedly accepted the payments after they had been laundered through fake consulting contracts to shell companies owned by Imelda Cuellar, according to the DOJ.

For a profession that has been integral to the movie industry from the very start, it’s kind of strange what little public attention stunt performers get. By design, their faces are rarely seen and despite a push by some big names in Hollywood, they have yet to get recognized in a category at the Academy Awards. If the new movie The Fall Guy has anything to say about it, that will soon change.

Photo by Tim Warner/Getty Images A YouTuber took a deep dive into the variability of each game and came to the conclusion that no lead is safe. It seems like just yesterday that when an NBA team took a 15-point lead in the fourth quarter, you knew the result was in hand. In some instances, a 20-point lead at any time of the game would essentially ice it. When a lead got large enough, coaches would pull their starters and let the bench units get some run to finish things out. And while that still may happen from time to time, coaches are less likely to do so until the final minute of the game nowadays. And even then, you never know when the improbable will happen. Just ask Nick Nurse. There’s been a drastic change in offensive philosophy over the last decade that has been the catalyst for this unpredictability. LeBron James recently explained why on his and JJ Reddick’s podcast: basically, it comes down to the three-point revolution led by Steph Curry, which has made it much easier cut into huge deficits quickly. Today, NBA games have become less and less predictable. The only thing we can really seem to predict is that whoever makes more three pointers is going to win the game. To get into this further, the YouTube account, JxmyHighroller, recently uploaded a video breaking down the numbers, which at one point, highlights an ESPN article with this Victor Wembanyama quote: “The biggest thing I’ve learned is a 20-point lead is nothing.” (And as we all know, the Spurs had a lot of trouble protecting double-digit leads this season.) If you’re curious just how unpredictable NBA games have become since the days of Michael Jordan, take a few minutes to watch the video below.

San Antonio City Council held an April 18 special session at the Henry B. González Convention Center to discuss high-level budget priorities for fiscal year 2025. Not that anyone in town would know much about it from reading the local paper or watching TV news. The only recording of the event available online is through a frustrating Facebook interface, and as of this writing, the footage still hasn't been uploaded to the COSAGOV's YouTube channel yet.

San Antonio-based burger chain Whataburger will thank educators for their work with free breakfast on National Teacher Appreciation Week, May 6-10. During National Teacher Appreciation Week, any San Antonio educator who shows their school ID badge when they visit an area Whataburger will snag a free taquito, breakfast on a bun or honey butter chicken biscuit from 5-9 a.m. during the week of the promotion. Whataburger also will award 63 teachers across its 15-state footprint $1,000 grants for their schools as part of the company's Feeding Student Success program.

The San Antonio Film Commission will screen three award-winning productions of the city’s brightest new filmmakers this Saturday evening at the historic outdoor theater Mission Marquee Plaza. The three films are winners of the #FilmSA Contest held each year by the City of San Antonio Department of Arts & Culture’s SA Film Commission and the city's World Heritage office. The young filmmakers — competing in age categories 14 through 17 and 18 through 21 — submitted film projects looking at “Beyond the Plate: Exploring San Antonio’s Food System” or “Lights, Camera, Action, SA!”

The Texas Tribune has released two lists of keynote speakers so far for its annual fall gathering. Taking place from September 5-7 in Austin, the 2024 Texas Tribune Festival will feature unforgettable conversations from today’s thought leaders and cover topics ranging from the 2024 elections, the state of democracy, border issues, and more.

The Current's annual San Antonio Flavor event will once again take over the San Antonio Museum of Art for a night showcasing bites and cocktails from more than 30 popular bars and restaurants. As with past iterations, the Thursday, May 9 event will feature an onstage culinary showdown that pits San Antonio-area chefs and their celebrity sous chefs against each other in an epic battle for the coveted title of Flavor Champion.

San Antonio filmmaker Alejandro Cabrera may have made the documentary In the Lone Star Wars State about Texas' thriving Star Wars fandom, but how big of an admirer is he of the revolutionary space epic? "On a scale of one to 10, I'm probably a 10 or 11," Cabrera told the Current during a recent interview.