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Profile: (on the cover) Removing The Mask - Colleen Derk talks about keeping secrets, accepting change and celebrating Life
"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 husband, Tim, was not — an ironic twist for the couple, considering that his secret alter ego was that of one of San Antonio’s most beloved..."
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Up Front: First Response - Women play crucial roles in caring for evacuees
"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 transport, shelter, feed and generally care for that many displaced people, but our city rose to the occasion and won national recognition for it. Among the thousands of professionals and volunteers who pitched in to help, many were women. Back in September, we spent time with four of them to bring you this close-up report. All four worked very hard, and all four made a big difference in the relief..."
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Beauty & Fitness: SPAS: Not just for Mrs. Santa anymore
"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 cowboys doing by a campfire. Then, earlier this year, in a long-distance call from another Texas city the couple now calls home, he confessed he had “manscaped,” a term borrowed from television’s popular Queer Eye for the Straight Guy — used when men wax away unwanted back or chest hair. “Don’t laugh,” he warned upon his latest beauty-secret..."
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Career: Top of the Food Chain - Women who rule the restaurant roost
"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 restaurants a popular choice for anyone wanting to own a business. In fact, restaurants pump approximately $3 billion into San Antonio’s economy each..."
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Dining: LE RÊVE - Fine dining is dreamy in this intimate restaurant
"These days, Andrew Weissman claims he gets about five hours of sleep a night because he needs it, not because he really wants it. Before the opening of The Sandbar, the raw bar and seafood market Weissman and his wife, Maureen, recently created adjacent to their critically acclaimed restaurant, Le Rêve, he used to get by on even less. Driven, some might say obsessed, Weissman turned Le Rêve into one of the best restaurants in the state by virtue of total dedication to craft — and no small amount of talent. But nevertheless it would be tempting to suspect that any chef who spends his daylight hours behind the counter of a casual seafood bar and his evenings in the confines of a compact, Frenchfocused kitchen where every move must be carefully choreographed would experience burnout. Not so Weissman; the challenge, as a recent reverie at Le Rêve proved, only appears to have energized..."
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Role Model:A SMALL PACKAGE OF ENERGY - A mere 5 feet, she coaches teens taller than she is
"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 and returns air balls to show her players what she wants them to do, sometimes jumping straight up, nearly levitating to make her point. “Hurry, hurry, hurry,” she calls, as the girls switch sides of the net for another..."
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Enviroments: Taking Vintage Home - Family Lives with collectibles and lots of charm
"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 William Historic District or the vintage German architecture of Fredericksburg. As owners of one of the city’s most unusual home furnishing stores, Me & My House, located at The Strand on Heubner Road, the Chessers knew instinctively how to fill and dress their spacious two-story home with the ambiance of a bygone era. Offering their special talents in the endeavor were Cathy’s sisters, a brother-in-law and even one..."
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