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The quiet-loud duality of Silversun Pickups was on full display during a 105-minute set Saturday at the Aztec Theatre.

San Antonio music fans got their first serious look at The Espee this Saturday during the revamped venue’s inaugural event, the All Aboard! festival. Seattle indie-folk act The Head and The Heart headlined a bill that also included R&B singer Danielle Ponder, Latin funk outfit Grupo Fantasma and plenty more.

Sitting on more than half an acre and built in 2005, a Terrell Hills home recently listed for nearly $2.9 million features an elevated design sense that goes well beyond it basic stucco structure.

Charles Haarmann paid just $1,000 for a half-acre lot in what's now the King William Historic District. In 1893, he tapped architect Albert Beckmann to design the five-bedroom house now on the market for $2.3 million. Beckmann, who designed commercial and public buildings along with homes for San Antonio’s elite, was a key member of the design team for the original Lone Star Brewing building, which now houses the San Antonio Museum of Art. More residents of Haarmann's one-tim...

Steel Panther brought its cheeky Sunset Strip-style hair metal (and lots of Spandex) to San Antonio on Wednesday. The band had the Aztec Theatre crowd fist-pumping along to its lurid tales of sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll.

Nineteen-eighties FM radio mainstay John Mellencamp brought his heartland blend of commercial rock and Americana to San Antonio's Majestic Theatre on Sunday. Here's what we saw as the veteran singer-songwriter and his band let loose with a career-spanning set that included both hard-rocking numbers and acoustic versions of favorite tunes such as the mega-hit "Jack & Diane."

Pennsylvania-based August Burns Red hit San Antonio's Vibes Event Center Saturday night as part of its 20th anniversary tour. The veteran metalcore act brought the Devil Wears Prada and Bleed From Within along for the ride, making this one powerful package.

Saturday's annual United We Brunch marked the return of the Tito's Bloody Mary Challenge. The competition pits local bartenders against each other to determine who makes the Alamo City's best variation on the classic morning cocktail.

A midcentury Alamo Heights home recently listed for $2.1 million was once home to one of San Antonio's most-distinguished military leaders, according to its listing agent.

An 8,800-square-food Terrell Hills mansion built for AT&T Senior Executive Vice President Richard G. Lindner and his wife has hit the market with a $5.4 million price tag, according to property records.