Company: Help Me!! Tech Team Title: President What do you do? My team connects the dots of technology … I draw the line clearly so that people can see the big picture. Length of time at this job: 21 years. What is it that you like best about your job? Helping people...
A Decade at the Helm
For founding editor Beverly Purcell-Guerra, the 10th anniversary of SAN ANTONIO WOMAN is a deeply gratifying experience."That we are still publishing after 10 years gives me a wonderful sense of accomplishment and satisfaction," she says. "We have been able to cover...
10 Years of San Antonio Woman
Our Premier Issue NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2002 SARAH LUCERO NEWS ANCHOR, KENS TV In the 10 years since we featured her on the cover of SAN ANTONIO WOMAN’s first issue, the pretty KENS TV anchorwoman became a mother for the third time, and, she says, she’s come more into her...
Secrets of their Success
If you’ve ever wanted tolaunch your own business, it’s agood idea to talk to other successful businesswomen to learn how they got started. How can you figure out what you want to do and then do it all on your own? How does someone take a dream and make it pay? How can...
A Conductor & A Lady
interviewed for the job of assistant conductor with the San Antonio Symphony last fall, Akiko Fujimoto was asked to deliver the same lecture twice, once with an adult audience in mind and the second time as if she were speaking to children. This was important because...
Golden Wok
The dim sum tradition, ancient in China, is almost absent in San Antonio. True, potstickers seem to have propagated throughout Asian restaurants of every stripe, and spring rolls are everywhere you turn. But the full, clangorous service with steaming carts bustling...
Art In Architecture
Homeowners in Cordillera Ranch know they’ve got a little slice of heaven: rolling hills populated by massive oaks, native grasses and extraordinary views. Cecil and Linda Barcelo were taken by the area and selected a site on the golf course for their new home. They...
Mixing Technology and Wine
If Melissa Unsell had stuck to her original plan, she’d be able to identify her occupation with one word: radiologist. Instead, she took some unexpected steps and is now marketing director for an electronic discovery provider and co-owner of a boutique wine shop that...
Bubbles Are Here for Holiday Cheer
Words for clarity: Prosecco - a type of sparkling wine most commonly found in Italy Charmat – a process for making Champagne Methode Champenoise – a process for making Champagne Clouet – a family and Champagne production house Venezia Guilia – a region/territory in...
Beauty Shortcuts for makeup, hair, and more
You’re rockin’ along with your already not-so-routine life comprising work, kids, family, school, social events, sports, volunteering, church plus unforeseen activities. BAM! Suddenly (it seems to sneak up on us) it’s October, which, along with witches and pumpkins,...
Business Woman Spotlight: Delores Wheless
Company: Broadway Bank Title: Wealth strategist and director of Family Business Resource Center What do you do? As a wealth strategist, I help families develop and implement their strategic wealth plan designed to meet their needs and goals. This is not an event, but...
From Hollywood with Love
Returning to the United States from abroad a year or so ago, Elizabeth Chambers stopped in San Antonio to visit relatives and friends. While here, she had a yearning for something sweet and delicious like a really nice homemade cupcake. But there were none to be...
Creating San Antonio’s “Front Porch”
As a newly-minted urban planner, I've had the honor of serving as a volunteer for Hemisfair since June of 2011. Because it rests so deeply in my heart, I think about it daily and never tire of telling its extraordinary story. We imagine Hemisfair to be the city's...
She’s a Survivor
It takes a lot of careful planning and energy for Gloria Rivera Rodriguez to handle a full-time job with irregular hours, a separate small business and frequent public-speaking dates, but she's grateful for every crowded day. As community-relations coordinator of the...
Busting 17 Breast Cancer Myths
Between your mother, friends, TV and the Internet, there are numerous ways misinformation gets passed along. Getting a faulty cookie recipe from the grapevine is one thing, but where your health is concerned, it's better to get information from a trusted source like...
Accessible Elegance in Terrell Hills
There's something different about the houses in Terrell Hills, something elusive. These older homes along tree-lined streets have a sense of quiet wisdom. Once shiny and new, they are now graceful elder statesmen in an era of cookie-cutter homes on postage stamp lots....
Bahia Azul: Mexican coastal cuisine is catching on
In the tsunami of new restaurants in San Antonio by and for the wave of moneyed Mexicans fleeing the country's drug wars, there has been a notable number of coastal places. They don't all succeed here;Cabo, for example, went out with the tide, apparently never to...
Prima Ballerina: She’ll dance again in Dracula this fall
When strangers meet Ballet San Antonio's principal dancer, Sarah Aujon, they usually ask one of two questions, depending on their age. Kids want to know whether standing on the tips of her toes hurts her feet while adults invariably bring up the movie The Black Swan,...