All Wheels Welcome: Inside San Antonio’s Slow Sunday Motor Club
Between the church bells and train horns of a Sunday morning in downtown San Antonio, there is another sound echoing down E. Houston Street, for those who know to listen for it. From far and wide, every week, cars of this decade and ones long past hum their way to Estate Coffee. Settled evenly between […]
What Would San Antonio Be Without Public Art?
If San Antonio Lost Its Color Presented in partnership with the City of San Antonio’s Department of Arts and Culture San Antonio would feel emotionally unrecognizable without color. Imagine driving into downtown beneath gray concrete overpasses stripped of their painted murals. Imagine Southtown without walls layered in color and storytelling. Imagine the River Walk without […]
Texas Fashion Week 2026: The Looks, Designers, and Ideas Shaping San Antonio’s Creative Future
From The Monarch and Frost Tower to the Historic Westside, Texas Fashion Week showcased the creativity, community, and cultural momentum driving a new era of fashion in San Antonio and across Texas. Texas Fashion Week 2026 showcased a new generation of designers turning ambitious ideas into reality. Across the week’s presentations, collections ranged from bold […]
I Could Live Anywhere: Chef Danny Parada, Director of Restaurants at Pullman Market
There’s a certain warmth to San Antonio that reveals itself slowly. It lives in long dinners that stretch late into the evening. In the way food becomes the ultimate unifier. In the feeling that the best gatherings are multi-generational, where extra chairs get pulled up so everyone can sit at the table together. After years […]
Where San Antonio Is Watching the Spurs Right Now
As the Urban Nerd, I normally spend most of my time talking about downtown, walkability, urban districts, and the city core. But I wanted to break from that a little for this article because one of the things I love most about the Spurs is that they are one of the rare things in San […]
Curation Through the Years: Celebrating René Paul Barilleaux’s Legacy at the McNay
Contemporary art takes on movement, texture, color, and form inside the McNay’s “Untitled: 20 Years of Collecting Contemporary Art.” Featuring more than 100 works from the museum’s collection, the exhibition celebrates the legacy of former Head of Curatorial Affairs René Paul Barilleaux and the vision that shaped the McNay’s contemporary holdings over two decades. Rather […]
The Alamo 190 Salute Honors a Sacred Legacy and Lights the Way Forward
Surrounded by the beauty of the historic Alamo Gardens, an unforgettable evening commemorated the 190th anniversary of the Battle of the Alamo and raised more than $1.5 million to preserve this sacred site for generations to come. Lantern light fell across limestone walls that have stood for nearly two centuries as San Antonio gathered in […]
The World According to Don Nicó
San Antonio designer Nico Pérez isn’t just building a fashion brand. He’s giving flowers to the women history forgot. The heart of Nico’s work is telling the stories of those who didn’t get the chance to pursue their dreams. Born and raised in South Texas, Nico Pérez grew up shaped by landscape and by women. […]
The Tables We Set Together
The Kappa Kappa Gamma Alumnae Association of San Antonio welcomed designer India Hicks to the San Antonio Country Club for its Twenty-Ninth Annual Tablescapes Luncheon, benefitting the Children’s Bereavement Center while celebrating creativity, community, and the causes that connect us all. The San Antonio alumnae association of Kappa Kappa Gamma hosted its 29th annual Tablescapes […]
The Quiet Giant: The Unlikely Path to Venture Capital
Part One of a four-part Urban Nerd series exploring how an unlikely path, an overlooked city, and long-term conviction gave rise to Active Capital — one of Texas’s quiet venture successes. I’ve known Pat for a long time. Truth be told, when I worked at Rackspace, and I spent close to a decade there, I […]