With shaker in hand, the celebrated San Antonio restaurateur talks about food and beverage trends and shakes up a couple of her favorite cocktails.

The groundbreaking Netflix series from Shonda Rhimes may be about England's Regency era, but Chicanas are fans, too. And on this episode of "Nosotros," they spill a ton of tea.

José María DeLeón Hernández, otherwise known as Little Joe, the five-time Grammy winner and leader of Little Joe y la Familia, has a lot to look back on at 83. The memories are both heartbreaking and hilarious.

In this episode, veteran political activist and San Antonio icon Rosie Castro — also known as mother to Julian and Joaquin Castro — reaches back in time to reveal moving memories of the leaders of the Chicano civil rights movement, including La Raza Unida’s Irma Mireles, voting rights leader Willie Velasquez and others who’ve never fully received the recognition they deserve. She also reveals herself as a published poet.

The popular San Antonio TV news anchor settled into to the ¡Nosotros! podcast chair to talk about her conversion to Catholicism, her long career in front of the camera and her new role in the classroom, training up the next generation of journalists at University of the Incarnate Word. Romero also dished about working with husband Phil Anaya at KENS, being a mom to three boys and how much she loves San Antonio, a "magical" city that she considers her second hometown.

In part 2 of the conversation, Jesse Borrego shares his dream of building a full-fledged film and music studio on San Antonio’s South Side. Plus his work to get young Chicanos educated and to the polls, and his involvement in the radio, TV and film program at San Antonio College, which his brother James Borrego heads up.

The San Antonio actor, director and musician may be best known for his role as Cruzito in the cult classic “Blood In, Blood Out.” It’s a movie that fans clung to on old VHS tapes and DVDs. Thanks to Hulu, this May, the Vato Locos began streaming on Hulu, and new generations of fans are seeing it for the first time. Borrego may consider himself a retired actor now, but he’s as busy as ever. The guy still has goals, and they’re big.

Fresh from winning a 2024 Pulitzer Prize for her contributions to a landmark Washington Post investigation examining the AR-15 — “a lethal weapon with a singular hold on a polarized nation” — Silvia Foster-Frau stopped by our studio to talk with Elaine Ayala about the series that included revisiting an old story: the aftermath of the 2017 mass shooting at a Sutherland Springs church, which Foster-Frau covered for the Express-News.

Tejano star Shelly Lares joins Elaine Ayala and talks about her childhood friend, Selena Quintanilla Perez, and sings a cappella.

Rebecca Flores might have retired from the state leadership of the United Farm Workers, but there's still lots of activism to do, protecting sunflowers and Brackenridge Park among them.

Close confidant and former son-in-law to César Chávez joins metro columnist Elaine Ayala to discuss the past, present and future of the farmworkers movement.

In this “Nosotros” episode, Elaine talks with Sarah Gould of the Mexican American Civil Rights Institute, an entity launched during the pandemic but closing in on its fifth anniversary with exciting news.

University Health CEO George Hernandez, who’ll retire this year, looks back to the beginning of a now-sprawling public health system.

A veteran of San Antonio peace initiatives and interfaith dialogue, the Rev. Ann Helmke sees through another blessing of the city’s peacemakers.

Author, filmmaker and the first Latinx Rhodes Scholar, John Phillip Santos is now helping UTSA build a new school of borderland studies. It’s about time.

Christopher Carmona, visiting professor of Mexican American Studies and English at Our Lady of the Lake University, explores the movement of young Chicano academics who’ve brought to light the state-sanctioned violence by Texas Rangers against Mexican American and Tejano landowners. It happened at the turn of the 20th century. That gave birth to the Refusing to Forget research project and a landmark exhibition, “Life and Death on the Border,” on view through March at the OLLU library.

Throughout its half-century, the Intercultural Development Research Association has worked to one end – making equal educational opportunity a reality. In this episode of “Nosotros,” IDRA president and CEO Celina Moreno says that fight is far from over.

Ernie Zuniga used to get up at 2:30 a.m. every morning to anchor FOX News First, a morning TV show he helped create. In May, he signed off and walked away from that show of his own accord. We catch up on the reasons for his departure and what he’s up to now on the latest episode of ¡Nosotros!.

Remember former Councilman Roberto Treviño? He has reinvented himself as executive director of the San Antonio Philharmonic. And it sounds good.

2024 Fiesta Rey Feo and retired Air Force Colonel John McFadden Sr. talks about his history as a fighter pilot, raising scholarship money as Rey Feo, and the healing journey that led him to pursue his PhD.

Elaine Ayala interviews chef, author and filmmaker Adán Medrano about his books, his film, his upbringing on the West Side of San Antonio, and the art of food.

San Antonio's first Latina councilwoman and one-time mayoral candidate joins Elaine Ayala to reflect on her long career as a politician, community advocate and mentor.

Elaine talks with film critic Kiko Martinez about how he got his start reviewing movies and his particular interest in Latinos in the entertainment industry.

Elaine talks with Natalie Gamez – the first openly gay Fiesta Queen – about her turn as Fiesta royalty, her well-known family, and her participation in the upcoming Pride parade.

The first openly gay Latina judge in Bexar County joins Elaine to discuss her history, Pride month celebrations, and the ongoing saga of the Pride flag she once displayed in her courtroom.