The annual festival, which brings millions of dollars to the city’s economy, has been postponed to early November.
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The city, which trained for a flu pandemic as recently as November, is ground zero for military medicine.
Photographer John Dyer’s iconic photos of the fallen singer are being shown for the first time.
The San Antonio outpost of a beloved Michoacán restaurant serves pork exactly like what you’ll find at the original in Mexico.
Jorge Rojo, chef-owner of Ro-Ho Pork & Bread in San Antonio, left the practice of law behind for the crusty exterior and cushion-soft interior of the birote sourdough bread typical of his hometown, Guadalajara in the Mexican state of Jalisco. The 46-year-old’s early study in baking was of the practical,…
’The Immortal Alamo’ says much about the silent film era, and how San Antonio could have been Hollywood.
I might have come in last place, but I learned a lot while walking in the woods of San Antonio during El Taco Loco.
Kate Purdy talks about rotoscoping her hometown of San Antonio for the year’s best new TV series.
The arrival of cooler temperatures and November's holiday light displays make for an ideal time to visit the Alamo City.
Bexar County leaders are grappling with rates of violence against women that exceed those in the state’s other major cities.
Artists are preparing to launch the city’s largest zine festival on October 5th.
After breaking out in comedy and film, Wells is telling stories in new ways.
He renounced his violent San Antonio childhood during 28 years behind bars. A new life and new love awaited him outside the prison gates.
If Texas biologists can prevent an outbreak of white-nose syndrome, caused by a fast-spreading fungus, they may provide a new national model for bat conservation.
An analysis of the two Texan presidential candidates’ rally songs.
Chick-fil-A won’t be hosting its 2022 convention in San Antonio and Joaquin Castro supporters won’t be eating at Bill Miller.
The city of San Antonio is doing its best to help migrants from Africa figure out what comes after their harrowing journeys.
How to spend a perfect few days eating, drinking, and playing your way through the Alamo City.
”Armed only with a mean face,” former sailor and soldier Oscar Stewart became a hero.
Following a Friday concert in San Antonio, Ma will travel to the border to celebrate the region’s culture and spark conversations about all that unifies Mexicans and Americans.
*There’s a big drop off between #1 and #2, though.
Ruby City, Adjaye’s first building in Texas, is the vision of the late Linda Pace, and will house her personal collection.
Over the years, Texas Monthly’s most celebrated voices have written about the places that shaped them, from the Panhandle to the border. We revisit some of the classics.
Because after Trump crowed about the city’s wall, Fox News announced a ”Battle for the Border” town hall—in a city 144 miles from Mexico.
The former San Antonio mayor threw his hat in the ring during a formal announcement Saturday.
The San Antonio Twitter legend mobilizes a quarter-million followers to advocate for social justice (and sell a few books).
I've struggled to keep my grandma and aunt with me since their deaths. But this year, I decided to honor their memories—and show them my life as an adult—by making my first día de los muertos altar.
The team won’t be calling San Antonio its permanent home, but they’re going to have to play somewhere next season—and it probably won’t be Oakland or Las Vegas.
Spoiler: We have no idea, but 2018 is wild.
On our latest podcast, Andy Langer talks to musician Nina Diaz of Girl in a Coma, then celebrates the late Chuck Ramirez with documentarians Angela and Mark Walley.
Genene Jones, a Texas nurse long suspected of more than a dozen child murders decades ago but convicted of only one, allegedly confessed.
A massive urban renewal project that’s reviving the plaza culture. An Alamo fight centuries in the making. Avant-garde Mexican food inspired by Maya trade routes. Three hundred years after the city’s founding, San Antonio might just be the most interesting city in America.
How San Antonio handles the Alamo Plaza redevelopment will say a lot about what kind of city it wants to become.
Artists Ana Fernandez and Cruz Ortiz on finding inspiration in their hometown.
Though the city’s Tricentennial Commission has thus far been a dismal failure, creative residents have found a way to celebrate their complex history and promising future.
The future Hall of Famer hangs with his buddy, Jason Pena, at their joint venture, BlackJack Speed Shop.
The poet Naomi Shihab Nye pays tribute to Maury Maverick, Jr., one of San Antonio's greatest sons.
Chefs Rico Torres and Diego Galicia have earned national acclaim for their newfangled takes on age-old dishes.
Kit Goldsbury made his fortune in Pace Picante sauce, and Graham Weston in the cloud computing company Rackspace. Now the billionaire philanthropists are leading ambitious urban renewal projects.
Rapper Marco Cervantes, who performs as Mexican Stepgrandfather, and Álvaro Del Norte, founder of the accordion-powered punk rock band Piñata Protest, discuss their inspirations.
How an African-American family managed to rise to prominence during the height of Jim Crow-era segregation.
Native Nicki Longoria offers up her favorites from before the city’s big culinary boom.
Former state senator Leticia Van de Putte and Representative Diego Bernal discuss the childhood experiences that shaped their priorities for San Antonio’s—and the state’s—public schools.
From Tejano to punk and hip-hop, there's so much great music coming out of San Antonio today.
San Antonio barber Rob Ferrel on the origins of his famous hair designs.
Hairdresser and local celebrity Karlos Anzoategui, known as Karlos With a K, on throwing the most memorable parties in town.
The city that gave birth to the republic continues to nourish the traits that distinguish the state’s character.
With a sandwich like the Nasty Nate and impressive barbecue, this one-man show in San Antonio has earned a loyal following.
Everyone from the novice to the aficionado can get something out of the city's festival of drink (just pace yourselves, please).
Join the dapper Mike Casey for a bicycle tour of his favorite bars, restaurants and more in the funky, charming King William neighborhood.