The New Normal
This past month has been anything but normal. As the city of San Antonio continues to shelter in place in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, we all fi...
San Antonio Storybook
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Like chapters of a book, each episode of the “San Antonio Storybook” will tell a different tale about the city we call home. The stories likely are ones you haven’t heard before – narratives about the lives of the people behind the headlines, the sounds you hear, and the places you see as you drive around San Antonio.
Chapter 7: The Flying Schoolgirl
On the south side of San Antonio sits Stinson Municipal Airport. You may have heard of it, but you probably haven’t heard the story of Katherine Stins...
Chapter 6: Designing for the Pope
On September 13, 1987, Pope John Paul II visited San Antonio. While he was here, the supreme pontiff celebrated an open-air Mass with 350,000 people i...
Chapter 5: The Secret Life of Mascots, Part 2
In a previous episode, we talked about the race that occurs at every San Antonio Missions home game between a kid and Henry the Puffy Taco. The implic...
Bonus Episode: Remembering Barney Smith
Barney Smith was both a preacher and a plumber, but he was best known as the creator of the Toilet Seat Art Museum. It wasn’t the legacy he set out t...
Chapter 5: The Secret Life of Mascots, Part 1
Attending a baseball game at Wolff Municipal Stadium is a memorable event. Each player on the Missions’ roster has a story, but in this chapter of the...
Chapter 4: The Kiddie Park
Earlier this year a local children's amusement park announced it would be relocating to the San Antonio Zoo. The Kiddie Park has been the site of coun...
Chapter 3: Inside the Rink
This month the Rollercade celebrates its 60th birthday. The skating rink is a local institution and generations of San Antonians have skated across it...
Chapter 2: Confluence Theatre
A large group of politicians recently descended on an empty lot in downtown San Antonio to break ground on a new federal courthouse. Of course, San An...
Chapter 1: Morning Boom
San Antonio can be pretty quiet before it wakes up and before its streets fill with traffic. That’s what makes it so jarring when the silence of the m...