Editor's Note
The San Antonio we’ve known and cherished as a quintessential small town in a burgeoning big city wrapper is increasingly going public. With a few well-placed strokes — not least among them a resuscitation of our river and creekways as verdant public corridors, a willingness to showcase the talents of our artists and creative classes, and an investment in the livability of our downtown neighborhoods — San Antonio is being introduced to herself anew through the combined efforts of dedicated and too-often unsung community champions. By way of reintroductions, the Current staff has assembled City Guide, a showcase of some of the best our community offers. It’s our way of expressing our abiding awe for this lively, sometimes raucous, town. And it comes with our encouragement: drink deep of San Antonio, you won’t be disappointed. — Greg Harman
Two Wheels Good
San Antonio working to make the city bike friendlier
Parks
Salvaged slivers of wilderness
River Walk
River Walk reaches for Mission Espada
Alt Groceries
Explore San Antonio's unique grocery stores
List of farmers markets in Saytown
Own up, SA!
Hard-luck plaza
Despite snags along the way, downtown's Main Plaza on list of great public spaces
Waste-not: Recycling 101
City Council sets goal of 60-percent recycling rate city-wide by 2020
Government
San Antonio's Mayor Julián Castro
Truth, justica, etc.: List of our city's indispensible freedom fighters
Text patrol: City enforcing new texting-while-driving ban
Medical Mecca
Top-rate hospitals continue to be one of San Antonio's fastest-growing industries
Year of the Southside
SA's Southside about to get a facelift
Re-remember the Alamo
New book turns most of the popular beliefs of the 1836 siege on their head
Spanish is the new Chinese
Essential Arts
Cultural Cachet: Support a local gallery, fill your social calendar
Ask the Experts: Reasons to pay attention to San Antonio arts in 2011
Essential Eats
Ask the Experts: What to watch on the local food scene in 2011
Pearl Brewery: In-fill's crown jewel
Late-night eats: Great tastes, drunk or sober
Essential Bars & Venues
Essential Music
Ask the Experts: Reasons to tune into SA music in 2011
Still Hogwild after all these years, and more Indie record stores
Essential Entertainment
Laugh your ass off: SA’s comedy movement rejuvenated
Where you can see Indie film screenings in San Antonio
