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San Antonio Magazine: San Antonio’s Best New Restaurants (Where to eat in 2026)
Step inside King William Wine Co. and it feels as though you’ve made a trip to Europe and wandered into a café where wine is central to everything that comes next. Owners Jill and Juan Arreguin have created a space that combines their appreciation for hospitality, great food and curated wines to pair. The recently released spring/summer menu features more seafood, like salmon carpaccio, seasoned simply with salt and olive oil, that melts in your mouth; or cod en papillote del
Jul 14


Things to DoSan Antonio visual artist Angela N. Weddle’s latest exhibition opens Thursday at Un Grito Gallery
San Antonio’s Angela N. Weddle is a multidisciplinary visual artist on the autism spectrum and hindered by cerebral palsy — and her work presents a fascinating peek into the mind of a genuinely nonlinear thinker. Weddle’s singular blend of photography and mark-making, often intense to the point of confounding the viewer with sensory overload, offer a glimpse at a psychological landscape rarely put on public display. These images conflate the sensory and physical world into a
Jul 14


New Martín C. Rodríguez exhibition explores connections with urban environment
“San Anto, te amo: Running with History” is a performative rumination on history, place and the body in relation to its surroundings by Martín C. Rodríguez, one-half of the Un Grito Gallery team at Blue Star. The third installment in Rodríguez’s ongoing meditation on place, the exhibition opens this Thursday at Blue Star’s Upstairs Studios. In it, Rodríguez borrows heavily from the Situationist International’s notion of the derive (drift) — the practice of allowing oneself to
Jul 14


King William Wine Co. now open at San Antonio’s Blue Star Arts Complex
San Antonio welcomed its latest wine bar this weekend with the grand opening of King William Wine Co. in the Blue Star Arts Complex. The beautifully appointed space offers a full dinner menu, a liquor bar and an extensive wine list ranging from Texas and Napa standouts to bottles from Europe, South America, Australia, South Africa and beyond. Currently, the spot is only open for dinner service Thursday through Saturday. Its elevated menu offers selections such as lavender-bra
Nov 19, 2025


San Antonio poet Naomi Shihab Nye to appear Wednesday in local conversation series
Set for this Wednesday, the next round of locally curated conversation series Ed Talks, But Mostly Listens , will feature a sit down with...
Jan 9, 2025


San Antonio's FL!GHT Gallery holding first U.S. display of Lunatics in the Garden
Visual artist James W. Johnson was born in upstate New York and moved to Lubbock in 1978. Since then, he's devoted more than 90,000 hours...
Jan 3, 2025


San Antonio urban legends come alive at Blue Star haunted house and folklore exhibit
To celebrate that legacy, drag troupe House of Eternas will bring San Antonio urban legends to life with a haunted house and folklore...
Oct 23, 2024


Art Across the Border: An Interview with Hank Lee of San Angel Folk Art Gallery in San Antonio
When I visited San Antonio in February, I grabbed tea with Elyse Gonzalez, Director of Ruby City, at Halcyon, a coffee shop within the...
Apr 1, 2024


San Antonio's Powdered Wig Machine celebrates first album release with Blue Star performance
San Antonio's Powdered Wig Machine is far from a conventional rock act. Over the past year, the trio has emerged as one of the city's...
Oct 18, 2023


Slab Cinema Arthouse: San Antonio’s champion of independent film
This past week, I attended a screening of “Inland Empire,” a dizzyingly opaque three-hour psycho-thriller nightmare, at Slab Cinema...
Oct 17, 2023


Fotoseptiembre celebrates the medium of photography in and around San Antonio
This year marks the 29th Fotoseptiembre, an annual festival focused on photography-based exhibitions presented across the Alamo City and...
Sep 7, 2023


Victor Wembanyama seen enjoying San Antonio's Blue Star Arts Complex
San Antonio Spurs rookie Victor Wembanyama is getting to know the city more. The No. 1 pick in the NBA Draft was seen enjoying and...
Sep 7, 2023


20 San Antonio life hacks that you need to know
San Antonio may not be as cheap or laid back as it once was, but there's still plenty of free and fun things to do in town. We rounded up...
Sep 7, 2023


Five Southtown galleries to visit on your next art walk
Just south of downtown San Antonio, a thriving arts community has put down roots with a network of studios and galleries where art in...
Sep 7, 2023


Catch a French Film at Blue Star Today
Slab Cinema will continue its French New Wave Film series this evening with a screening of the 1962 classic Jules and Jim. Spanning...
Apr 4, 2023


Texas Artist, Anna-Sophia Lagos, to open show at Blue Star Arts Complex
Anna-Sophia Lagos a graduate of the Western Art Academy and University of North Texas will hold a show at the Blue Star Arts Complex in...
Feb 8, 2023


A Look at Four San Antonio Exhibitions
Best known for his intricately detailed glass marbles, in his current show, Milk at Fl!ght Gallery, Sean Thomas Johnston departs from...
Feb 1, 2023


Brick at Blue Star offers small businesses the opportunity to develop
Brick at Blue Star's weekly Sunday market became the Dream Market Sunday, as part of Dreamweek. The Dream Market expands the weekly...
Feb 1, 2023


Why Southtown’s Blue Star is on the National Register of Historic Places
Long before the Blue Star Arts Complex became a popular Southtown destination along the San Antonio River, it was a transportation hub....
Jan 30, 2023


Contemporary at Blue Star Receives $500,000 Grant from Kronkosky Charitable Foundation
The financial gift will help the Contemporary build on its growing momentum as a hub for discussions and community around contemporary...
Jan 12, 2023
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