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City of Dreams
Even when I lived far away, and I’ve lived as much of my life in New York City as in San Antonio, I’ve always been from Texas’s historic River City. From the first poems of my adolescence, I’ve been writing about the history, mystery, and enigma my hometown and its denizens imparted to me at my birth, like a secret compromiso, a troth with history itself.
Third Coast State of Mind
As the iconic surf film Step Into Liquid put it, surf is the manifestation, at a human scale, of one of the unifying forces of the universe: the wave. And, for most of us, it’s just a few hours south. An estimated twenty-thousand Texans from Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, Austin, and points all along Texas’s curving shoreline, live the surfer’s life.
Childhood’s End
In 1987 I left Texas to spend the summer working at Disney World, selling “taco salads” to tourists at Frontierland. I was lonely and homesick and thought things couldn’t get any worse. Then the unthinkable happened. By Erasmo Guerra
David Lee Garza on Growing Up in Poteet
Though nearby San Antonio has always loomed large in my imagination, I’ve never left Poteet, the small town that made me the man—and the musician—I am.
A Desert Feast
Melissa Guerra has spent her career breathing life into classic South Texas dishes. With these recipes from her new cookbook, so can you.
My Name Is Tonnyre Thomas Joe
And I am a woman rancher. I live on the Thomas Ranch, which is just north of the Rio Grande Valley, and it has been owned and continuously operated by the same family for more than a hundred years. Here’s what my life is like.
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