ARTS San Antonio has two special treats for San Antonians this holiday season – a big Mexican folkloric extravaganza called “Fiesta Navidad,” and a beautiful “Nutcracker” produced by the Mejia Ballet International from the Dallas-Fort Worth area. The first up on Dec....

In this season of Thanksgiving here’s a show to be thankful for – “Songs of Freedom – a Tribute to Joni Mitchell, Abbey Lincoln and Nina Simone,” which will have only one performance Saturday at the Carver Community Cultural Center. All three of these artists are...

“THE NUTCRACKER” CONTINUES THIS WEEKEND If you want to get into the holiday mood, head down to the Tobin Center for the Performing Arts this weekend to see Ballet San Antonio’s spirited production of “The Nutcracker.” The music, the dancing, the growing Christmas...

THE HOLIDAY SEASON STARTS WITH “THE NUTCRACKER” Like every year in recent memory, Ballet San Antonio is the first theatrical company to officially herald the start of the holiday season by presenting the most Christmas-y of all Christmas productions – the beloved...

That a play written almost 140 years ago still resonates with today’s audiences is a tremendous credit to the playwright. That its current staging at the Classic Theater kept my attention as well as it did despite my knowing the plot and the resolution, was an...

To celebrate its 10th anniversary, the moving arts festival with the beautiful name of Luminaria has returned to the Hemisfair Park where it started as a one-night showcase for local artists dreamed up by former mayor Phil Hardberger. The fest has grown quite a bit...

CHUCK RAMIREZ RETROSPECTIVE AT THE McNAY Last time I saw Chuck Ramirez, we stood in front of his large photograph of an empty heart-shaped chocolate box at the former Ruiz-Healy Art gallery in Olmos Park. We hadn’t seen each other in a long while so we spent some time...

Some years ago, I devoted one of my ArtBeat articles In San Antonio Woman magazine to Eva Ybarra, one of the very few women accordionists in conjunto music, a recipient of multiple awards and the inductee into several conjunto halls of fame, here in San Antonio and...

From the land of ice and snow comes one of the hottest contemporary dance companies in the world – TU Dance, which is based in St. Paul, Minnesota. Since its beginning in 2004, the troupe has won the heart of audiences, praise from critics – including yours truly –...

Most of us can only dimly understand the theories of astrophysics and quantum mechanics but some of these theories postulate the existence of parallel universes and alternative realities that would have been considered science fiction not that long ago. English...