In an unguarded moment 10 years ago, a curmudgeonly editor at the San Antonio Express-News admitted he had exfoliated with his wife. He embodied the machismo for which men in the Lone Star State are known, and cleansing pores is hardly something you'd visualize...
Hurricane season has hit the Gulf Coast especially hard this year. In the aftermath of Katrina, hundreds of thousands of newly homeless people streamed into Texas, with some 13,000 finding refuge in San Antonio. It took enormous effort and good organization to...
One might say it took a family to give the home of Cathy and Robin Chesser and their five children the abundance of creative energy that lies within their quaint and picturesque new home — a home resembling the late 19th-century houses one finds in San Antonio's King...
Women are typically associated with feeding the family at home. But feeding people professionally as the owner of a restaurant? That's apparently a different story. San Antonio's role as a hospitality and tourism mecca — coupled with a love of eating — makes...
Art aficionados who flock to the Blue Star Arts Complex on big opening nights are always pleasantly surprised when they pass by the Marcia Dahlman Pottery. Even if they don't step inside to look at the eyecatching jars and wall pieces, they can't help being attracted...
There are around two dozen ponytails bobbing during a varsity girls' volleyball practice at TMI: The Episcopal School of Texas. One of them belongs to the team's coach, Courtney Duke, who's right in the middle of the action through most of the practice. Duke serves...
Colleen Derk's face is a familiar one to many San Antonians: She hosted a local TV home and lifestyle program and a movies and entertainment segment for a local TV network affiliate, among other projects that kept her in the public eye. While she was recognizable, her...
