Bill Baird

The Where I Live series aims to showcase our diverse city and region by spotlighting its many vibrant neighborhoods. Each week a local resident invites us over and lets us in on what makes their neighborhood special. Have we been to your neighborhood yet? Get in touch to share your story. If your story is selected and published, you will receive a $250 stipend.

Cosmic Music: The Life, Art, and Transcendence of Alice Coltrane is a deeply researched book about the life of musical innovator whose work was often overshadowed by her husband’s. Writer Andy Beta, a San Antonio native now based in New York, threads the needle between underground musical rabbit-hole dives and broader cultural context in his work for outlets including Pitchfork, the New York Times and Rolling Stone.

Joe “King” Carrasco poses during a stop on his tour of war-torn Ukraine. Joe “King” Carrasco, known for a sound that fused party-ready Tex-Mex with garage rock and new wave, has ridden a wild 50-year career. The Texas-bred singer-songwriter leveraged a recording with San Antonio musical legends at the city’s now-defunct Zaz Studios into rock ’n’ roll cult status, becoming a hot touring commodity and singing a duet with Michael Jackson.