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Features

Features Cont.

Here We Go Again! Season 2015-16 Starts Now: September and October inaugurate a year of great performances

Madama Butterfly To Open Opera Season

The Tobin At One: Tobin Center for the 20 Performing Arts Celebrates First Anniversary Enchiladas: Aztec to Tex-Mex: The Quintessential Enchilada Cookbook by Cappy Lawton and Chris Waters Dunn

San Antonio Botanical Garden Begins 66 Seven-Acre Expansion Joan Miró at McNay Art Museum 70 Looking Back to Move Forward: Glamorous 76 History Fuels Rebirth of a Texas Jewel

Departments Events Calendar

Book Talk: Miles Arceneaux, Novelist

Making the Wall: Notables and Everyday 50 Folks Share Space at San Antonio’s Palm Restaurant

Artistic Destination: Celebrating the Arts In The Stunning Scenery of Sedona

Yanaguana Indian Arts Market: A Texas 62 Tradition at Briscoe Western Art Museum

Out & About With Greg Harrison

Southerleigh: Channeling Comfort Foods 48 From the Texas Coast and Beyond

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HERE WE GO AGAIN! SEA

September and -October inaugura By Sara Selango

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ASON 2015-16 STARTS NOW.

ate a year of great performances.

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ithout question, this is my favorite time of the year. It is now that I can see the entire published seasons of so many great per forming ar ts organizations in San Antonio and the surrounding area. With this knowledge in hand, I’m kind of like a kid in a candy store with so many choices to make. It always comes down to time and resources, but thank goodness I have such a great selection of events from which to choose and outstanding venues in which to enjoy them. It is not possible to discuss the entire per formance year, so I want to center on September and October and organize things by venue, star ting with the venerable Majestic. The San Antonio Symphony gets thing rolling Sep 11-12 with its presentation of E.T. The ExtraTerrestrial on the big screen as the orchestra plays John William’s Academy Award®-winning score. Other September highlights include Peter Setera Sep. 17 and Disney ’s The Little Mermaid Sep 22-27. October is full-tilt at the big house on Houston Street with comedian Mike Epps

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Oct. 2, National Acrobats and Circus of China Oct. 6, The Beach Boys Oct. 8, two per formances of C.S. Lewis:The Screwtape Letters Oct. 10 and Pepe Aguilar Oct. 11. The Oct. 13-15 calendar features Masters of Illusion, Styx and So You Think You Can Dance respectively. Following these per formances, Disney ’s Beauty and The Beast has a five -show run Oct. 16-18. The rest of the month offers Jackson Browne, Lyle Lovett & John Hiatt, Alvin and The Chipmunks: Live on Stage and Paul Rodriguez and the Latin Kings of Comedy. The symphony also presents The Music of Queen Oct. 23 and The Music of Led Zeppelin Oct. 24 at the Majestic. The neighboring Empire welcomes Ar ts San Antonio’s presentation of the ballet Don Quixote Sept. 13 followed by Cash Cab’s Ben Bailey Sep. 19. A few blocks away, the Tobin Center for the Per forming Ar ts begins its second season after an absolutely great first year. First up is The Price is Right Live for a split run Sep. 8 & 13 at the Tobin’s H-E-B Per formance Hall. Also at this large venue are Jon Secada Sep. 12, Ballet Folklorico

de Mexico Sep. 14, the San Antonio Symphony ’s opening weekend featuring Beethoven’s 9th Sep 18-20 and Opera San Antonio’s Madama Butter fly Oct. 1 & 3. Billy Idol comes to town Oct. 5 and Ballet San Antonio’s Swan Lake will be danced Oct. 9-11 at the big hall. October continues with The Midtown Men Oct. 14 and Yo-Yo Ma two days later Oct. 16.

4. Soli Chamber Ensemble plays the first of two per formances of Texas Roadshow there Oct. 5 with the second being at Ruth Taylor Recital Hall at Trinity Oct. 6. Dixie’s Tupper ware Par ty takes over for five shows at this venue Oct. 8-10 and An Evening with Howard Jones concludes the offerings Oct. 18.

Mixfest 2015 featuring Austin Mahone is next Oct. 17 followed by Bella Plays Barber from Youth Orchestras of San Antonio Oct. 18, Flashdance The Musical Oct. 20, UB40 Oct. 21 and the 2015 Tobin Center Benefit Concer t by Lionel Richie Oct. 22. Meat Loaf, The Tenors and the symphony pops per formances of I Love a Piano finish out the month at the H.E.B.

Hairspray, as a par t of the free H-E-B Cinema on the Plaza Series is projected for the evening of Sep. 11 at River Walk Plaza followed by Back to the Future Oct. 9.

The Lila Cockrell Theatre offers Three Dog Night Sep. 25, then Gloria Trevi Oct. 10 and Ballet Hispanico Oct. 22 while Laurie Auditorium on the Trinity University campus showcases At the Tobin’s smaller venue, The Carlos Alvarez comedian Bill Burr Sep. 25 and Buena Vista Studio Theatre, One Man Breaking Bad star ts Social Club for their Adios Tour Oct. 17. Jo Long things off Sep.12. The Chamber Orchestra of Theatre at the Car ver features Opera Piccola of San Antonio per forms a program titled The San Antonio’s Bon Appetit / Gallantry Sep 12-13 Forbidden Composers at the Alvarez Oct. 3 and Urban Bush Women Oct. 17. San Antonio’s followed by Gallagher ’s Joke’s On You Tour Oct. other opulent 1920s theatre, The Aztec, offers

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eight events in September and October, star ting Photo Credits with Motorhead and ending with Who’s Bad – Pages 8-9 The Ultimate Michael Jackson Band. The AT&T Center has been remodeled and sports tons of professional basketball games with the 5-Time NBA Champion Spurs versus the league, but it is also home to blockbuster shows like Stevie Wonder Oct. 31. Next door at the Freeman Coliseum, see Ricky Martin Oct. 3. Meanwhile back at the Alamodome, Motley Crue: The Final Tour promises to rock the place Sep. 6 and Luke Bryan brings his Kick The Dust Up Tour to the dome Oct. 22. As you can see, September and October are loaded with great evenings (and in some cases matinees) of wonder ful per formances and I haven’t even mentioned musical per formances outside of the venues above, community theatre or area oppor tunities. Truly, there is so much to see and enjoy! Get some tickets and go!

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Flashdance The Musical Cour tesy The Tobin Center Pages 10-11: (L-R) Sebastian Lang-Lessing Cour tesy San Antonio Symphony Disney’s The Little Mermaid Dour tesy Music Theatre of Wichita Yo Yo Ma Cour tesy San Antonio Symphony Page 12: (L-R) Akiko Fujimoto Cour tesy San Antonio Symphony Ballet Folklorico de Mexico Cour tesy The Tobin Center

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Mel Weingart

Madama Butterfly to open opera season

By Jasmina Wellinghoff Photo of Mel Weingart by Greg Harrison / Production photos courtesy Glimmerglass Festival

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o compensate for the absence of beloved opera classics in its inaugural season, Opera San Antonio (OSA) is launching its second one in grand style with Puccini’s sumptuous and ever popular Madama Butterfly. Set for Oct. 1 and 3 at the Tobin Center for the Performing Arts, the show will star soprano Maria Kanyova as the vulnerable young geisha Cio-Cio San (Butterfly), and tenor Adam Diegel as the nonchalant U.S. Navy officer B.F. Pinkerton, who marries her with no intention of honoring the marriage contract. The production is a collaborative effort between OSA and the San Antonio Symphony, which will be conducted by music director Sebastian Lang-Lessing. Both Diegel and Kanyova have garnered critical praise for their respective portrayals of these iconic roles. The Tulsa World reviewer reported that Kanyova “enchants … as Madama Butterfly,” while the Denver Post critic said, “She possesses a pure forceful voice with a pleasing soft edge, and she knows how to use it.” Both reviewers also praised her moving dramatic interpretation. Diegel, too, is a rising star who made his Metropolitan Opera debut in 2010. Opera News reviewer Stephanie Adrian described his voice as “penetrating” and “riveting to hear.” While the singers have been hired specifically for the San Antonio show, the rest of the production -- sets, costumes, staging and technical staff -- comes from the Glimmerglass Festival, a summers-only opera presenter that has established an excellent reputation for producing nearly all-new productions of classics as well as contemporary works. Its version of Butterfly premiered last year. For OSA, importing a high-caliber existing production was more practical than creating a brand-new one from scratch.

Tobias Picker; Richard Strauss’ Salome, and a double bill of Il Segreto di Susanna, a modern Italian comic opera, and Poulenc’s serious work La Voix Humaine. “The first season was artistically incredibly successful,” said Weingart, himself a Juilliard-trained singer and opera lover. “With Mr. Fox we wanted to send a message that we are family friendly. We sold out all four performances and had 500 families watch the outdoor simulcast. We chose Salomé because the symphony was doing the Strauss festival. This was our first production in the big venue (H-E-B Hall), and we needed an opera that did not require a chorus and change of scenery because we didn’t know how such changes would work in the space. So that’s why we picked Salomé. Also, (soprano) Patricia Racette wanted to do it. The production was very expensive. The two other productions were in the small Alvarez Theater, which doesn’t generate enough revenue to cover the cost of a new production.” As a consequence, finances ended up strained but the company was able to deal with the “financial results,” Weingart said. Still, the combination of original productions’ high costs and an awareness that a lot of people want to see the grand operas of Verdi, Puccini, Mozart and other iconic composers caused OSA to make different selections this year. For Weingart, creating and building OSA has become his life. He has been working on it since 2009 when the Tobin Center was in the planning stage. As president and CEO of the Tobin Theater Arts Fund (another legacy of the late Robert Tobin, separate from the Tobin Endowment), he was approached by leaders and philanthropists who were involved in the transformation of the Municipal Auditorium into the Tobin Center for the Performing Arts. The new facility was envisioned as the performing home of the San Antonio Symphony and Ballet San Antonio, but it also needed a professional opera company. The then-existing San Antonio Opera was not doing well, and it eventually closed altogether. Weingart agreed to explore the possibility of creating a new opera company.

“If we were not going to create our own new production, I had to find a quality production that would fit on the Tobin stage,” said OSA’s co-founder and board chairman Mel Weingart, who also is effectively acting as artistic and general director. “I am knowledgeable about what’s going on in opera around the country. I found what I “In San Antonio, it’s imperative for performing arts was looking for at the Glimmerglass Festival. This is a organizations to partner with one another so that system I would like to use for next three years or so.” the end result would be positive for the San Antonio community,” Weingart said. Thus, he embarked on a Renting existing productions is a change from the series of meetings with prospective partners, supporters inaugural season which featured not one but three and advisers, broke a few barriers, employed a variety of original creations: the family opera Fantastic Mr. Fox by tactics, wrote letters, had a feasibility study done by the

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same firm that did it for the Tobin, and finally reached the point of forming an actual board. The most important partnership was, of course, with the symphony. Musicians benefit from additional engagements, and the opera gets a top-notch orchestra. OSA was officially incorporated in January 2011. With nationally known composer Tobias Picker as artistic director, the company eventually introduced itself to the community with a gala concert at the Majestic Theater in May 2013, featuring stars like Patricia Racette, Dolora Zajick, Eric Owens, Jay Hunter Morris and others. This was followed by a semi-staged version of Dvorák’s Rusalka, also at the Majestic. Both shows received glowing reviews. A friend of Weingart’s, Picker oversaw the company’s formative stage as well as the move to the Tobin and the productions of its two fully staged operas, but left last January when his contract expired. In addition to Butterfly, the 2015-16 season will include a concert version of another treasured work, Verdi’s Il Trovatore, with Juliana Di Giacomo, Dolora Zajick, Issachah Savage and Lester Lynch as protagonists (March 31 and April 2). Both performances are part of the San Antonio Symphony 2015-16 subscription series. Looking to the future beyond the current season, Weingart’s focus will be on audiences. “This is San Antonio, not New York or San Francisco. It is imperative that we grow the audience,” he said. “Many people don’t have much knowledge of opera. We want to introduce this magnificent art form to them. We want them to sit in amazement over what they had seen. So the best thing will be to have a mixed repertoire of classical big-stage opera and contemporary works. We need to satisfy (the fans of grand opera). Others say, ‘I am bored with Butterfly and Tosca,’ so we will give them the opportunity to see new things, but all operas have to have wide appeal.” Years from now, he would like to see OSA become one of the leading companies in the United States, he said. “We are committed to make this happen, not just for the current generation but for future ones as well.” ----------------------------------------------------------------------Madama Butterfly tickets are available at operasa.org or by calling Tobin’s box office at 210 223-8624. 16 On The Town | September/October 2015

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THE TOBIN AT ONE: Tobin Center for the Performing Arts celebrates first anniversary By Julie Catalano

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J. Bruce Bugg, Jr. and Mike Fresher

n Sept. 4, 2015, the Tobin Center for the Per forming Ar ts turns 1 year old. But with its over flowing, nonstop schedule of blockbuster shows, glowing accolades, and the way it has seamlessly become an integral par t of the ar ts fabric in San Antonio, doesn’t it seem like it ’s been here forever?

w e h a v e h e l d t r u e t o t h a t i n o u r f i r s t y e a r.”

That they did. The center ’s diverse first-year offerings ranged from concer t pianist Lang Lang to singer/songwriter Boz Scaggs to standup comic Lisa Lampanelli, plus two dozen sold-out shows including the Piano Guys, Ringo Starr, Lyle Lovett, Alton Brown, Itzhak Perlman, John That ’s because, in a way, it has. The well- Mellencamp, Ar t Gar funkel, Susan Boyle, Chris known facade of the city ’s cherished Municipal Tucker and Meghan Trainor. Auditorium — home to countless concer ts, touring companies and community events — And one more, which Mike Fresher, president is still there, looking much the same way it did and CEO of the Tobin Center for the Per forming when it opened in 1926. But now, a sleek, star t- Ar ts, described as a major highlight of year one: of-the -ar t facility lies behind that familiar face, “ There, in our 1,750-seat hall, Paul McCar tney welcoming old friends and new generations of played his smallest venue since Liverpool.” The ar ts lovers to a magnificent venue open to all. benefit concer t was actually the final event in a runup to the grand opening in 2014. “ We “ O n e o f o u r g o a l s w a s t o m a k e s u r e t h a t presented 35 events in a row,” Fresher said, t h e r e’s s o m e t h i n g f o r e v e r y o n e a t t h e To b i n “ending with McCar tney. It got our name out in C e n t e r,” s a i d J . B r u c e B u g g J r. , To b i n C e n t e r the community and in the industr y as a player in c h a i r m a n o f t h e b o a r d , a n d c h a i r m a n o f t h e the per forming ar ts world.” b o a r d o f B e x a r C o u n t y Pe r f o r m i n g A r t s C e n t e r Fo u n d a t i o n , a p r i v a t e , n o n p r o f i t 5 0 1 ( c ) 3 That world has taken notice. In first quar ter o r g a n i z a t i o n c r e a t e d t o o w n , o p e r a t e a n d 2015, Pollstar, the only trade publication that u n d e r t a k e t h e r e n o v a t i o n o f t h e M u n i c i p a l covers the worldwide concer t industr y, ranked A u d i t o r i u m t o b u i l d t h e To b i n C e n t e r. “ I t h i n k the Tobin as No. 29 in the world, No. 19 in the September/October 2015 | On The Town 21

United States and No. 1 in Texas for theaters of companies,” Fresher said. “ They’ve seen a nice all sizes. For theaters under 2,000 seats, it ’s No. 4 uptick in their support and ticket sales.” worldwide and No. 3 in the United States. Another design requirement was to Much of the buzz centered on the acoustics in i n c o r p o r a t e t h e S a n A n t o n i o R i v e r Wa l k i n t o the H-E-B Per formance Hall. It was, Bugg said, a t h e r e n o v a t i o n . M i s s i o n a c c o m p l i s h e d w i t h nonnegotiable for the design team. “ The main t h e p e r f o r m i n g a r t s o u t d o o r p l a z a , w h e r e orchestra hall had to have absolutely world-class p e o p l e c a n e n j o y f r e e m o v i e s o n a n 1 8 - b y - 3 2 acoustics. There was no compromise on that.” foot video wall. It also ser ves as an over flow for selected shows where audiences can T h e r e s u l t , Fr e s h e r s a i d , i s t h a t “ t h e m u s i c w a t c h t h e o u t d o o r s i m u l c a s t f o r f r e e , l i k e t h e i s s o c r i s p a n d c l e a r t h a t p r o b a b l y f o r t h e r e c e n t s o l d - o u t Fi f t h H a r m o n y c o n c e r t . first time ever you can actually hear the S a n A n t o n i o S y m p h o n y. W h a t a u d i e n c e s a r e The first year also racked up some pretty e x p e r i e n c i n g i s e x a c t l y w h a t y o u’d e x p e c t impressive statistics: From Sept. 4, 2014, to June f r o m a w o r l d - c l a s s s y m p h o n y.” 30, 2015, there were 222,925 paid attendees, and a total of 586 uses in 300 days at the $205 million, The symphony is one of 10 resident performing LEED-cer tified center. More than 590 volunteers arts companies that are enjoying a new life under have gone through training, volunteering for the Tobin’s wing. The others are Ballet San Antonio, at least one event and donating their time for Opera San Antonio, Attic Rep, Youth Orchestra San 7,800 shifts equaling more than 36,000 hours of Antonio, Children’s Fine Art Series, the Children’s ser vice. In addition, the Tobin soon will begin Chorus of San Antonio, Chamber Orchestra of San construction on its parking garage. Antonio, SOLI Chamber Ensemble and the San Antonio Chamber Choir. “It has been heartening Year t wo is even m ore am b it io u s w i t h t h e to see the community’s response to our resident int rod uc t ion of t wo new ser ie s : t h e da n ce 22 On The Town | September/October 2015

ser i es an d t h e ad u l ts- o n l y Edge ser ies, t he lat te r c re ate d to “f i l l a ma r ket n i ch e,” Fresher sa i d. “ Th at ’s k in d o f w h at we’re h ere for, to figure o u t w h at are th e cu l tu ra l o f fer i ngs t hat the c i t y l ac k s an d h ow ca n we h el p fill t hat voi d.” E x p e c t m o re to co me, h e sa i d, “ We’re loo k i n g at ro l l in g o u t a co u pl e mo re new ser i es fo r t h e 2016-17 sea so n , so peo p le c an loo k at t h e To b i n Center a s th e pl a ce to b e for the per fo r m in g ar ts i n S a n Anto n i o.”

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Because the Tobin Center has had such an incredible first year, it’s easy to forget that things might have taken a different turn. Bugg recalled the summer Page 21: of 2007, when all of the planning began and when Sebastian Lang-Lessing conducts nothing was a sure thing. Still, optimism prevailed. the San Antonio Symphony “Bexar County Judge Nelson Wolff formed a Cour tesy San Antonio Symphony citizens’ advisor y committee,” Bugg said. “He appointed 48 people in the community to ask Page 22: (L-R) the question: Would the community suppor t building a new per forming ar ts center in San The Nutcracker Antonio? The over whelming response to that was Cour tesy Ballet San Antonio yes. I think that ’s what ’s being played out now. If you’re going to take on something like this, Paul McCar tney you’ve got to believe in the ar t of the possible.” Photo by Mar y McCar tney September/October 2015 | On The Town 23

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September/October 2015 Events Calendar Music Notes Sirius XM Presents Motorhead 9/2, Wed @ 7pm Aztec Theatre The Damn Quails 9/4, Fri @ 8pm Gruene Hall Wagon Aces 9/4, Fri @ 8pm Luckenbach Dancehall JB and the Moonshine Band 9/4, Fri@ 9pm John T. Floore Country Store Tribute to George Strait & Company 9/5-6, Sat @ 2pm & 7:30pm Sun @ 2pm Fredericksburg Theater Company Steve W. Shepherd Theater Fredericksburg Blues Bros. Tribute Show 9/5-6, Sat @ 4:30pm & 8pm Sun @ 3pm Rockbox Theater Fredericksburg Shenadoah 9/5, Sat @ 7pm Blue Bonnet Place

Big Sean featuring Torey Lorenz and Carlton Zues 9/5, Sat @ 7pm Whitewater Amphitheater New Braunfels Max Stalling 9/5, Sat @ 8pm Luckenbach Dancehall Charlie Robison 9/5-6, Sat @ 9pm Sun @ 8pm Gruene Hall Simplemente Lara 9/6, Sun @ 3pm Jo Long Theatre at The Carver Echale! Latino Music Estyles 9/6, Sun @ 6pm Pearl Amphitheater

Marty Stuart and his Fabulous Superlatives 9/11, Fri @ 7:30pm Kathleen C. Cailloux Theater Kerrville San Antonio Symphony E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial in Concert 9/11-12, Fri @ 8pm Sat @ 7:30pm Majestic Theatre The Georges 9/11, Fri @ 9pm John T. Floore Country Story Jam To The Hilt 9/12, Sat @ 7pm Little Carver Theatre

Motley Crue: The Final Tour 9/6, Sun @ 7pm Alamodome

Marty Stuart and his Fabulous Superlatives 9/12, Sat @ 7:30pm Brauntex Performing Arts Theatre New Braunfels

Randy Rogers Band 9/6, Sun @ 7:30pm Whitewater Amphitheater New Braunfels

Jon Secada 9/12, Sat @ 8pm H-E-B Performance Hall at The Tobin

Mario Flores 9/9, 9/23 & 10/21 Wed @ 7pm County Line BBQ – IH10

Robert Earl Keene 9/12, Sat @ 8pm John T. Floore Country Store

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Bobby Jordan & Ridgecreek 9/12, Sat @ 8pm Kendalia Halle Curtis Grimes 9/12, Sat @ 9pm Gruene Hall Camerata San Antonio All Quartets 9/11, Fri @ 7:30pm First United Methodist Boerne 9/13, Sun @ 3pm Concert Hall at University of the Incarnate Word 9/26, Sat @ 3pm First Presbyterian Kerrville Mid-Texas Symphony Revel: Classical Band 9/13, Sun @ 4pm Jackson Auditorium Seguin Peter Cetera 9/17, Thu @ 8pm Majestic Theatre Josh Turner 9/18, Fri @ 7pm Cowboy Dancehall San Antonio Symphony Beethoven’s 9th Sebastian Lang-Lessing, conductor 9/18-20, Fri-Sat @ 8pm Sun @ 2pm H-E-B Performance Hall at the Tobin Center

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The Merles 9/18, Fri @ 8pm Luckenbach Dancehall Two Tons of Steel 9/18, Fri @ 9pm John T. Floore Country Store TwoTen Empire Series: Buttercup 9/18, Fri @ 9pm Charline McCombs Empire Theatre Moe Bandy 9/19, Sat @ TBA Texas Theatre Seguin The Spazmatics 9/19, Sat @ 7pm Blue Bonnet Palace Johnny Bush and The Bandoleros 9/18, Sat @ 9pm John T. Floore Country Store Micky & The Motorcars 9/19, Sat @ 9pm Gruene Hall Thomas Michael Riley 9/19, Sat @ 9pm Luckenbach Hall Fredericksburg Music Club Sean Chen, piano 9/20, Sun @ 3pm Fredericksburg United Methodist Olmos Ensemble Vive la France 9/21, Mon @ 7:30pm First Unitarian Universalist

Zoso: The Ultimate Led Zeppelin Experience 9/24, Thu @ 7pm Aztec Theatre Little River Band 9/24, Thu @ 7:30pm Brauntex Performing Arts Theatre New Braunfels Billy Currington 9/25, Fri @ 7pm Cowboys Dancehall The 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing Band 9/25, Fri @ 7:30pm Evans Auditorium Texas State University San Marcos 9/27, Sun @ 10:30am Alamo 9/28, Mon @ 8pm Jackson Auditorium Texas Lutheran University Seguin 9/29, Tue @ 7:30pm Bates Recital Hall University of Texas Austin Gary Allan and Wade Bowen 9/25, Fri @ 7:30pm Whitewater Amphitheater New Braunfels Three Dog Night 9/25, Fri @ 8pm Lila Cockrell Theatre

Leon Russell 9/26, Sat @ 9pm Gruene Hall

Wagon Aces 10/3, Sat @ 8pm Luckenbach Dancehall

San Antonio Symphony Baroque Series: Stories Told by Telemann Akiko Fujimoto, conductor 9/27, Sun @ 7pm San Fernando Cathedral

Musical Bridges Around The World Czech Me Out! 10/4, Sun @ 6:30pm San Fernando Cathedral

Arts San Antonio Henry Brun and the Latin Playerz Orchestra 9/27, Sun @ 7:30pm Alamo Beer

Billy Idol: Kings & Queens of the Underground Tour 10/5, Mon @ 7:30pm H-E-B Performance Hall at the Tobin Center

Olmos Ensemble September Winds 9/28, Mon @ 7:30pm First Unitarian Universalist The Departed 10/2, Fri @ 9pm Luckenbach Dancehall Fort Sam Houston Jazz Larry Carlton and Althea Rene 10/3, Sat @ 7pm Fort Sam Houston Theater Already Gone: Tribute to the Eagles 10/3, Sat @ 7:30pm Brauntex Performing Arts Theatre New Braunfels

Almost Patsy Cline Band 9/25, Fri @ 8pm Luckenbach Dancehall

Chamber Orchestra of San Antonio The Forbidden Composers 10/3, Sat @ 8pm Carlos Alvarez Studio Theater at the Tobin Center

The Mavericks 9/25, Fri @ 8:30pm John T. Floore Country Store

Ricky Martin One World Tour 2015 10/3, Sat @ 8pm Freeman Coliseum

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SOLI Chamber Ensemble Texas Roadshow 10/5-6, Mon @ 7:30pm Carlos Alvarez Studio Theatre at the Tobin Center Tue @ 7:30pm Ruth Taylor Recital Hall Trinity University Andy Mineo: The Uncomfortable Tour 10/8, Thu @ 6pm Aztec Theatre Symphony of the Hills Heroes: Real and Imagined 10/8, Thu @ 7:30pm Kathleen C. Cailloux Theater Kerrville The Beach Boys 10/8, Thu @ 8pm Majestic Theatre 29th Annual Gruene Music & Wine Festival 10/9-10, Fri / 5:30pm8:30pm Sat / 12pm-6pm Gruene Hall

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Citizen Cope (with full band) 10/9, Fri @ 7pm Aztec Theatre Donny Edwards: The Ultimate Tribute to the King 10/9, Fri @ 7:30pm Brauntex Performing Arts Theatre New Braunfels Cody Joe Hodges 10/9, Fri @ 8pm Luckenbach Dancehall Gary P. Nunn 10/10, Sat @ 8:30pm Kendalia Halle Pepe Aguilar 10/11, Sun @ 7:30pm Majestic Theatre Ghost 10/14, Wed @ 8pm Aztec Theatre Styx 10/14, Wed @ 8pm Majestic Theatre Chris Young 10/16, Fri @ 7pm Cowboys Dancehall Bonnie Lang 10/16, Fri @ 7pm County Line BBQ – IH10 San Antonio Symphony Yo Yo Ma 10/16, Fri @ 8pm H-E-B Performance Hall at the Tobin Center Drive-By Truckers 10/16, Fri @ 8pm Gruene Hall

The Merles 10/16, Fri @ 8pm Luckenbach Dancehall Mixfest 2015 featuring Austin Mahone 10/17, Fri @ 7:30pm H-E-B Performance Hall at the Tobin Center Seether 10/17, Sat @ 7:30pm Aztec Theatre Arts San Antonio Orquesta Buena Vista Social Club 10/17, Sat @ 7:30pm Laurie Auditorium Trinity University An Intimate Evening with Mel Tillis 10/17, Sat @ 7:30pm Brauntex Performing Arts Theatre New Braunfels Boz Skaggs 10/17, Sat @ 9pm Gruene Hall

Mid-Texas Symphony Concert 2 Michael Gast, horn 10/18, Sun @ 4pm Performing Arts Center Canyon HS - New Braunfels Howard Jones 10/18, Sun @ 7pm Carlos Alvarez Studio Theatre at the Tobin Center Youth Orchestras of San Antonio Bella Plays Barber 10/18, Sun @ 7pm H-E-B Performance Hall at the Tobin Center Jackson Browne 10/20, Tue @ 7:30pm Majestic Theatre UB40 with Ali Campbell, Astro and Mickey Virtue 10/21, Wed @ 7:30pm H-E-B Performance Hall at the Tobin Center

Thomas Michael Riley 10/17, Sat @ 9pm Luckenbach Dancehall

Lionel Richie - 2015 Tobin Center Benefit Concert 10/22, Thu @ 8pm H-E-B Performance Hall at the Tobin Center

Fredericksburg Music Club Cassatt String Quartet 10/18, Sun @ 3pm Fredericksburg United Methodist

Luke Bryan: Kick Up The Dust Tour 10/22, Thu @ 7:30pm Alamodome

San Antonio Chamber Choir 10/18, Sun @ 3pm Motherhouse Chapel at University of the Incarnate Word 10/18, Sun @ 7:30pm Carlos Alvarez Studio Theatre at the Tobin Center

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Almost Patsy Cline Band 10/23, Fri @ 8pm Luckenbach Dancehall San Antonio Symphony Special Concert: The Music of Queen 10/23, Fri @ 8pm Majestic Theatre Maze featuring Frankie Beverly 10/24, Sat @ 7:30pm Illusions Theater at the Alamodome San Antonio Symphony Special Concert: The Music of Led Zeppelin 10/24, Sat @ 8pm Majestic Theatre An Acoustic Evening with Lyle Lovett and John Hiatt 10/25, Sun @ 7:30pm Majestic Theatre Meatloaf 10/26, Mon @ 7:30pm H-E-B Performance Hall at the Tobin Center The Tenors: Under One Sky Tour 10/27, Tue @ 8pm H-E-B Performance Hall at the Tobin Center

Chase Rice 10/23, Fri @ 7pm Cowboys Dancehall

Who’s Bad – The Ultimate Michael Jackson Tribute Band 10/29, Thu @ 8pm Aztec Theatre

Hotel California: Best of the Eagles Tribute 10/23, Fri @ 7:30pm Kathleen C. Cailloux Theater Kerrville

San Antonio Symphony Pops I Love a Piano 10/30-31, Fri-Sat @ 8pm H-E-B Performance Hall at the Tobin Center

L&M Kings 10/30, Fri @ 8pm Luckenbach Dancehall Sirius XM Outlaw Country Presents Jamey Johnson 10/31, Sat @ 7pm Aztec Theatre Larry Joe Taylor 10/31, Sat @ 8pm Luckenbach Dancehall

Live Theater Shakespeare in the Village: The Winterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Tale By The Magik Theatre 9/3-6, Thu-Sun, times tba Arneson River Theatre in La Villita

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) by The Company Theatre 9/3-6, Thu-Sun @ 6pm (dinner) 7:30pm (show) Little Italy Restaurant Boeing-Boeing 9/3-13, Thu @ 7:30pm Sat @ 8pm Sun @ 2:30pm (no shows Fridays ) Sheldon Vexler Theatre West Side Story 9/4-6, Fri-Sat @ 7:30pm Sun @ 3pm Woodlawn Theatre

Epic Proportions 9/4-6, Fri-Sun @ 8:30pm 9/10-19, Thu-Sat @ 8:30pm Smith-Ritch Point Theatre Ingram Cabaret 9/4-20, Fri-Sat @ 8pm Sun @ 4:30pm Cameo Theatre How to Play the Game 9/4-5, Fri-Sat @ 8pm 9/6, Sun @ 2:30pm 9/10-12, Thu-Sat @ 8pm 9/18-19, Fri-Sat @ 8pm 9/20, Sun @ 7pm 9/24-26, Thu-Sat @ 8pm Overtime Theater

Blithe Spirit 9/11-26, Thu@ 7pm Fri-Sat @ 8pm Sun @ 2:30pm Boerne Community Theatre Master Class 9/11-10/4, Fri-Sat @ 8pm Sun @ 3pm The Classic Theatre of San Antonio The 39 Steps By The Wimberley Players 9/11-10/4, Fri-Sat @ 7:30pm Sun @ 2:30pm Wimberley Playhouse

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Boys of Broadway 9/11-10/10, Thu-Sat @ 6:15 (dinner), 8pm (show) Harlequin Dinner Theatre Family Reservations 9/11-19, Fri-Sat @ 8pm 9/20, Sun @ 2:30pm 9/24-26, Thu-Sat @ 8pm 10/2-4, Fri-Sat @ 8pm Sun @ 7pm 10/8-10, Thu-Sat @ 8pm The Overtime Theater Tobin Center Edge Series One Man Breaking Bad (touring) 9/12, Sat @ 4pm & 8pm Carlos Alvarez Studio Theatre at the Tobin Center Stories on Stage Playhouse 2000 9/12, Sat @ 8:30pm Kathleen C. Cailloux Theater Kerrville

Of Mice and Men 9/18-10/11, Fri-Sat @ 8pm Sun @ 3pm Cellar Theatre at The Playhouse San Antonio North Park Lexus Majestic Broadway Series The Little Mermaid (touring) 9/22-27, Tue-Thu @ 7:30 Fri @ 8pm Sat @ 2pm & 8pm Sun @ 2pm & 7:30pm Majestic Theatre B:mo Holy Productions Presents “In-God-We-Tru$t” 9/26-27, Sat @ 7:30pm Sun @ 4:30pm Jo Long Theatre at The Carver

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Rocky Horror Show Live! 9/26-10/17, Sat @ 10:30pm 10/24, Sat @ 7:30pm 10/31-11/7, Sat @ 10:30pm Cameo Theatre Death by Design 10/1-18, Thu-Sat @ 6:30pm (dinner) 8pm (show) Sun @ 1pm (lunch) 2:30pm (show) S.T.A.G.E Bulverde Evil Dead-The Musical 10/2, 9, 16, 23 & 30, Fri @ 8pm 10/3, 10 & 17, Sat @ 7:30pm 10/24 & 31, Sat @ 10:30pm Cameo Theatre Green Day’s American Idiot 10/2-11/1, Fri-Sat @ 7:30pm Sun @ 3pm Woodlawn Theatre

The Music Man 10/2-11/1, Fri-Sat @ 8pm Sun @ 3pm Russell Rogers Theater The Playhouse San Antonio Tobin Edge Series Dixie’s Tupperwear Party (touring) 10/8-11, Thu @ 7:30pm Fri @ 8pm Sat @ 5pm & 8pm Sun @ 2pm Carlos Alvarez Studio Theatre at the Tobin Center The Beauty Queen of Leenane 10/9-11, Fri-Sat @ 7:30pm Sun @ 2pm 10/15-24, Fri-Sun @ 7:30p Elizabeth Huth Coates Indoor Theatre -Ingram

Bride of Cthulhu 10/9-17, Fri-Sat @ 8pm 10/18, Sun @ 2:30pm 10/22-24, Thu-Sat @ 8pm 10/30-31, Fri-Sat @ 8pm 11/1, Sun @ 7pm 11/5-7, Thu-Fri @ 8pm Overtime Theater C.S. Lewis: The Screwtape Letters (touring) 10/10, Sat @ 5pm & 8pm Majestic Theatre Tobin Signature Series The Midtown Men (touring) 10/14, Wed @ 7:30pm H-E-B Performance Hall at the Tobin Center

North Park Lexus Majestic Broadway Series Beauty and the Beast (touring) 10/16-18, Fri @ 7:30pm Sat @ 2pm & 8pm Sun @ 2pm & 7:30pm Majestic Theatre Our Town 10/16-11/1, Frii-Sat @ 7:30pm Sun @ 2pm Fredericksburg Theater Company Steve W. Shepherd Theater Fredericksburg Bad Jews 10/17-11/14, Thu @ 7:30pm Sat @ 8pm, Sun @ 2:30pm (no shows on Friday) Shelden Vexler Theatre

Tobin Center Signature Series Flashdance (touring) 10/20, Tue @ 7:30pm H-E-B Performance Hall at the Tobin Center The Mystery of Irma Vamp by The Company Theatre 10/29-30, Thu-Fri @ 6pm (dinner) 7:30pm (show) Little Italy Restaurant A (one-man) War or the Worlds Radio Play by The Company Theatre 10/31, Sat @ 6pm (dinner) 7:30pm (show) Little Italy Restaurant

Opera Opera Piccola San Antonio Bon Appetit! and Gallantry 9/12-13, Sat @ 8pm Sun @ 2:30pm Jo Long Theatre at the Carver Opera San Antonio Madama Butterfly 10/1 & 3, Thu @ 7:30pm Sat @ 7:30pm H-E-B Performance Hall at the Tobin Center

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Dance Arts San Antonio Don Quixote by Sahrdaya Foundation 9/13, Sun @ 7:30pm Charline McCombs Empire Theatre Tobin Center Dance Series Ballet Folklorico de Mexico 9/14, Mon @ 7:30pm H-E-B Performance Hall at the Tobin Center Ballet San Antonio Swan Lake 10/9-11, Fri-Sat @ 7:30pm Sun @ 2pm H-E-B Performance Hall at the Tobin Center

Jay LaFarr 9/2-6, Wed-Thu @ 8:30pm Fri-Sun @ 8:30pm & 10:30pm Rivercenter Comedy Club Aaron Aryanpur 9/9-13, Wed-Thu @ Sun @ 8:30pm Fri-Sat @ 8:30pm & 10:30pm Rivercenter Comedy Club Godfrey 9/11-13, Fri-Sat @ 8pm & 10:15pm Sun @ 8pm Laugh Out Loud Comedy Club Tom Green 9/14, Mon @ 7pm Rivercenter Comedy Club

So You Think You Can Dance 10/15, Thu @ 8pm Majestic Theatre

Justin Leon 9/16, Wed @ 8pm Laugh Out Loud Comedy Club

Carver Community Cultural Center Presents Urban Bush Women 10/17, Sat @ 8pm Jo Long Theatre at the Carver

Bret Ernst 9/17-20, Thu & Sun @ 8pm Fri-Sat @ 8pm & 10:15pm Laugh Out Loud Comedy Club

Arts San Antonio Ballet Hispanico: Carmen.Maquia 10/22, Thu @ 7:30pm Lila Cockrell Theatre

Lil Duval 9/17-20, Thu @ 8:30pm Fri-Sat @ 8pm & 10:30pm Sun @ 8pm Rivercenter Comedy Club

Comedy Mark Viera 9/2-6, Wed-Thu & Sun @ 8pm Fri-Sat @ 8pm & 10:15pm Laugh Out Loud Comedy Club

Matt Golightly 9/23, Wed @ 8pm Laugh Out Loud Comedy Club Spanky 9/23-27, Wed-Thu & Sun @ 8:30pm Fri-Sat @ 8:30pm & 10:30pm Rivercenter Comedy Club Rick Gutierrez 9/24-27, Thu & Sun @ 8pm Fri-Sat @ 8pm & 10:15pm Laugh Out Loud Comedy Club Bill Burr 9/25, Fri @ 7pm Laurie Auditorium Trinity University Michael Blackson 9/29, Tue @ 7pm Rivercenter Comedy Club Slade Ham 9/30, Wed @ 8pm Laugh Out Loud Comedy Club Cleto Rodriguez 9/30-10/4, Wed-Thu & Sun @ 8:30pm Fri-Sat @ 8:30pm & 10:30pm Rivercenter Comedy Club

Teo Gonzalez 9/18, Fri @ 9pm Majestic Theatre

Shawn Wayans 10/1-4, Thu & Sun @ 8pm Fri-Sat @ 8pm & 10:15pm Laugh Out Loud Comedy Club

Ben Bailey 9/19, Sat @ 8pm Charline McCombs Empire Theatre

Mike Epps: The Real Deal Tour 10/2, Fri @ 8pm Majestic Theatre

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Gallagher’s Joke’s on You Tour 10/4, Sun @ 7pm Carlos Alvarez Studio Theatre at the Tobin Center Cash Levy 10/7-11, Wed-Thu & Sun @ 8:30pm Fri-Sat @ 8:30pm & 10:30pm Rivercenter Comedy Club Steve McGrew Wed-Thu & Sun @ 8pm Fri-Sat @ 8pm & 10:15pm Laugh Out Loud Comedy Club Helen Hong 10/16-18, Fri-Sat @ 8:30pm & 10:30pm Sun @ 8:30pm Rivercenter Comedy Club Tom Segura 10/20, Tue @ 7pm Laugh Out Loud Comedy Club Justin Worsham 10/21, Wed @ 8pm Laugh Out Loud Comedy Club Rachael Feinstein 10/22-25 Thu & Sun @ 8pm Fri-Sat @ 8pm & 10:15pm Laugh Out Loud Comedy Club Gary Owen 10/22-25, Thu @ 8pm Fri @ 8pm & 10:30pm Sat @ 7pm, 9:15pm & 11:30pm Rivercenter Comedy Club

Big Ed Blake 10/28-11/1 Wed-Thu @ 8:30pm Fri-Sat @ 8:30pm & 10:30pm Sun @8pm Rivercenter Comedy Club Hypnotist Gary Conrad 10/28-11/1, Wed-Thu & Sun @ 8pm Fri-Sat @ 8pm & 10:15pm Laugh Out Loud Comedy Club Latin Kings of Comedy 10/30, Fri @ 8pm Majestic Theatre

Childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s The Musical Adventures of Flat Stanley 9/2-5, Wed @ 10:30am Fri @ 10:30am & 7pm Sat @ 2pm 9/8-26, Tue-Thu @ 9:45am & 11:30am Fri @ 9:45, 11:30am & 7pm Sat @ 2pm Magic Theatre Red Riding Hood 10/9-11/8, Wed @ 10:30am Fri @ 10:30am & 7pm Sat @ 2pm 9/8-26, Tue-Thu @ 9:45am & 11:30am Fri @ 9:45, 11:30am & 7pm Sat @ 2pm Magic Theatre Alvin and the Chipmunks: Live on Stage! 10/22, Thu @ 6:30pm Majestic Theatre

Exhibions ARTPACE Summer 2015 Artists in Residence Fatma Bucak Wafaa Bilal Gabriel Martinez Ian Alden Russell, Curator Now thru 9/13 Hudson Showroom Luz Maria Sanchez 9/10-1/3/16 Window Works Cruz Ortiz 9/10-1/3/16 BLUE STAR CONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUM Territory Featuring Jeffrey Brosk 9/3-11/8 Narrative Axis 9/3-11/8 BIHL HAUS ARTS Golden Journeys 2015: Recent Works By Golden Artists and Writers of the Bihl Haus Go! Arts Program Now thru 9/26 Ten: Bihl Haus Arts 10th Anniversary Celebration 10/16-12/19 September/October 2015 | On The Town 35

BRISCOE WESTERN ART MUSEUM

Texas Czechs Now thru 9/18

The Cowboy Returns: Photographs by Bank and John Langmore 9/12-11/29

Faces of Survival Now thru 11/15

Briscoe Book Club “Manana Means Heaven” by Tim Z. Hernandez 9/1, Tue @ Time 5:30pm Voices of the West: Briscoe Western Art Museum’s Distinguished Lecture Series Ron Tyler - Richard Avedon’s “In the American West”: The Real West? 9/15, Tue @ 6:30pm 2015 Yanaguana Indian Market 10/3-4, Sat – Sun / 10am4pm Briscoe Book Club “The Harness Maker’s Dream by Nick Kotz 10/6, Tue @ Time 5:30pm Voices of the West: Briscoe Western Art Museum’s Distinguished Lecture Series Nick Kotz – “American Family Histories: Lost, Forgotten, Found” 10/13, Tue @ 6:30pm INSTITUTE OF TEXAN CULTURES Los Tejanos Now on view

Sikhs: Legacy of the Punjab Now thru 1/3/16 Our Part of Victory 9/2-12/7 LINDA PACE FOUNDATION It Takes A Village: New Works by Alejandro Diaz Now thru 9/12 SPACE:The Linda Pace Foundation Gallery Immersed: An exhibition of works from the Linda Pace Foundation Collection Organized by Anette DiMeo Carlozzi 10/3-2/27/16 Adam (Public Artwork) By Arturo Herrera 25’ h x 98’ w, Frost Bank Garage Commerce at Main Now thru 12/2016 McNAY ART MUSEUM Merida’s Mexico Now thru 9/6 Robyn O’Neil: We, The Masses Now thru 9/6 Lesley Dill: Performance as Art Now thru 9/6

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Richard Duardo: Maestro of Pop Now thru 9/6 Recycled, Repurposed, Reborn Now thru 9/6 Stephan Westfall: The Holy Forest Now thru 7/31/16 Martin Gutierrez: Transcending Rhythm 9/8-1/10/16 Studio to Stage: Dega’s Little Dancer / Seurat’s Sunday Afternoon 9/23-1/31/16 Art History Goes to the Theatre: Research Secrets of Great Designers 9/23-1/31/16

MUSEO GUADALUPE Cursive Wanderings Now thru 10/2 Getting The Big Picture: Mel Casas and the Politics of the 1960s and 1970s Now thru 10/24 SAN ANTONIO BOTANICAL GARDEN Rainforest Adventure Now thru 9/20 One Way Trail-Art in the Garden 2015 (In conjunction with Blue Star Contemporary Art Center) Now thru 1/31/16 Wings of the City 9/9-2/14/16 SAN ANTONIO MUSEUM OF ART

American Modern Works from the Collection of Alice C. Simkins 9/30-12/6

Miguel Covarrubias: Culture and Caricature Now thru 10/18

Miro: The Experience of Seeing 9/30-1/10/16

SOUTHWEST SCHOOL OF ART

Picasso, Braque, and the Cubist Legacy: Prints and Drawings from the Collection 10/21-1/24/16 The Extraordinary Ordinary: Three Installations 10/21-4/10/16

28 Chinese 9/5-1/3/16

Jayne Lawrence: Contact 9/10-11/8 Stephanie Liner: Momentos of a Doomed Construct 9/10-11/8 Harvey Wang: From Darkroom To Daylight 9/10-11/8

Anthony Francis: Real Lyric 9/10-11/8 TEXAS A&M EDUCATIONAL AND CULTURAL ART CENTER Mel Casas: The Southwestern Cliches, 1982-1989 Now thru 9/27 WITTE MUSEUM Discover the Ice Age Now thru 9/7 Bodies Revealed 10/3-1/31/16

Miscellaneous Spy: The Exhibit Now thru 5/31/16 Rivercenter FOTO Septiembre 9/1-30 Galleries, Museums and Art Centers Citywide

College Football UIW vs. Texas A&M Kingsville 9/5, Sat @ 2pm Gayle & Tom Benson Stadium at University of the Incarnate Word Laborfest San Antonio 9/5-6, Sat-Sun / 4pm-11pm Sunken Garden Theatre

Labor Day Arts & Crafts Show 9/4-7, Fri-Mon / 11am-8pm River Walk

WNBA Basketball San Antonio Stars vs. Phoenix Mercury 9/5, Sun @ 7pm Freeman Coliseum

WNBA Basketball San Antonio Stars vs. Connecticut Sun 9/4, Sat @ 7pm Freeman Coliseum

NASL Soccer San Antonio Scorpions FC vs. Ottawa Fury 9/5, Sat @ 7:30pm Toyota Field

Bud Light â&#x20AC;&#x201C; The Taste 9/8-10, Tue-Thu 6pm-8:30pm River Walk & Houston St. The Price Is Right 9/8, Tue @ 8pm 9/13, Sun @ 3pm & 7pm H-E-B Performance Hall at the Tobin Center NASL Soccer San Antonio Scorpions FC vs. Carolina Railhawks 9/9, Wed @ 7:30pm Toyota Field Shrine Circus 9/10-13, Thu @ 7:15pm Fri @ 10am, 4:30pm & 8:15pm Sat @ 11am, 3pm & 8:15pm Sun @ 3pm & 7:15pm Freeman Coliseum

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Free Cinema on the Plaza Hairspray 9/11, Fri @ 8pm Tobin Center Avenida Guadalupe 34th Annual Parade & Festival 9/12, Sat @ 9am Guadalupe Street at Brazos College Football UTSA vs. Kansas State 9/12, Sat @ 11am Alamodome

Musclemania Texas Presents MM Alamo 9/19, Sat @ 12pm & 5pm Jo Long Theatre at The Carver College Football UIW vs. Nicholls 9/5, Sat @ 2pm Gayle & Tom Benson Stadium at University of the Incarnate Word

2015 International Accordion Festival 9/12, Sat / 12pm-11pm La Villita Historic Arts Village

Una Noche en la Gloria (One Night of Glory) 9/12, Sat @ 5:30pm Guadalupe Street at Brazos

College Football Texas State vs. Prairie View A&M 9/12, Sat @ 6pm Bobcat Stadium San Marcos

College Football Trinity vs. Willamette College 9/12, Sat @ 6pm Trinity Sadium College Football Texas Lutheran vs. Hardin Simmons 9/12, Sat @ 6pm Bulldog Stadium Seguin

JazzSAlive 9/19-20, Sat / 11:30am11pm Sun / 12pm-10pm Travis Park College Football Trinity vs. Sul Ross State 9/19, St @ 6pm Trinity Stadium

NASL Soccer San Antonio Scorpions FC vs. Indy Eleven 9/12, Sat @ 7:30pm Toyota Field

Magicians Agency 61st Chapter 9/12-26, Sat-Sun @ 7pm Magik Theatre

Unbranded (The Film): 3000 Miles. 16 Mustangs. Mexico to Canada 9/15, Tue @ 6pm (event start) 7:45pm (film start) River Walk Plaza at the Tobin Center

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Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo Classic Movie Presented by The Admiral Nimitz Foundation and Fredericksburg Theater Company 9/18, Fri @ 7:30pm Steve W. Shepherd Theater Fredericksburg Dia de los Ninos 9/19, Sat @ 9am Plaza Juarez La Villita Historic Arts Village Musclemania Texas Presents MM Alamo 9/19, Sat @ 12pm & 5pm Jo Long Theatre at The Carver College Football Texas Lutheran vs. Louisiana College 9/19, Sat @ 6pm Bulldog Stadium Seguin College Football Texas State vs. University of Southern Mississippi 9/19, Sat @ 6pm Bobcat Stadium San Marcos WWE Presents NXT Live! 9/19, Sat @ 7:30pm Aztec Theatre Brown Distinguished Lecture Series: John Quinones 9/24, Thu @ 7:30pm Jackson Auditorium at Texas Lutheran University Seguin

College Football UTSA vs. Colorado State 9/26, Sat @ 6pm Alamodome College Football Texas Lutheran vs. Southwestern Assemblies of God 9/26, Sat @ 6pm Bulldog Stadium Seguin NASL Soccer San Antonio Scorpions FC vs. Atlanta Silverbacks 9/26, Sat @ 7:30pm Toyota Field College Football Trinity vs. HardinSimmons 10/3, Sat @ 1pm Trinity Stadium College Football Texas Lutheran vs. Howard Payne 10/3, Sat @ 6pm Bulldog Stadium Seguin NASL Soccer San Antonio Scorpions FC vs. Fort Lauderdale Strikers 10/3, Sat @ 7:30pm Toyota Field Arts San Antonio National Acrobats and Circus of China 10/6, Tue @ 7:30pm Majestic Theatre Free Cinema on the Plaza Back to the Future 10/9, Fri @ 8pm Tobin Center

Fall Arts & Crafts Show 10/10-12, Sat-Mon 11am-8pm River Walk College Football UTSA vs. Louisiana Tech 10/10, Sat @ 6pm Alamodome Masters of Illusion: Believe the Impossible 10/13, Tue @ 8pm Majestic Theatre College Football Trinity vs. Austin College 10/17, Sat @ 1pm Trinity Stadium

2015 San Antonio Beer Festival 10/17, Sat / 1:30pm6:30pm Maverick Park

35th Annual Tejano Music Awards 10/24, Sat @ 7pm H-E-B Performance Hall at the Tobin Center

Brown Distinguished Lecture Series: Garrison Keillor 10/21, 7:30pm Jackson Auditorium Seguin

NASL Soccer San Antonio Scorpions FC vs. New York Cosmos 10/24, Sat @ 7:30pm Toyota Field

Luminaria: Arts Come to Light 10/23-24, Fri-Sat / 7pm12am Downtown-River North Area

Brown Distinguished Lecture Series: Liz Murray 10/27, Tue @ 7:30pm Jackson Auditorium Seguin

San Antonio Spurs vs. Brooklyn Nets 10/30, Fri @ 7:30pm AT&T Center

College Football Trinity vs. Texas Lutheran 10/31, Sat @ 1pm Trinity Stadium

Bud Light Halloween Fest 10/31, Sat / 7pm-11pm River Walk

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Culinary Arts

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Chris Waters Dunn and Cappy Lawton

Enchiladas: Aztec to Tex-Mex The quintessential enchilada cookbook by Cappy Lawton and Chris Waters Dunn By Claudia Alacr贸n

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fter a long and extremely successful career conceiving, designing and developing 29 restaurants throughout Texas, San Antonio restaurateur Cappy Lawton set out to write a cookbook for his eponymous restaurant, Cappy’s on Broadway in Alamo Heights. Enlisting help from his friend, San Antonio Express-News writer Chris Waters Dunn, Lawton started the process of writing the cookbook in 2012.

avocado trees in the garden. By 1997, the couple had decided to buy and refurbish the historic La Fonda on Main, revamping the strictly Tex-Mex menu and adding favorite regional recipes from their travels throughout the country. Talking to Lawton, it is obvious that he has a great love and respect for Mexico, its people and cuisine, and working on the book was truly a labor of love. The team set out to do some serious research for over two and a half years to gather enchilada recipes from various regions. “Enchiladas are a good touchstone for all aspects of authentic Mexican cuisine,” Dunn said. “But the book evolved into something deeper, including techniques, chiles, nixtamal, rice. I was amazed at how much diversity there is in interior Mexican cuisine. We finally had to stop.”

“But it wasn’t fun,” Lawton said. “I wanted it to be fun. In conversation with Chris, the idea of a book about enchiladas came up. We did the research, and found that there wasn’t any book on just enchiladas available anywhere. So we got to work.” The result is “Enchiladas: Aztec to Tex-Mex,” a gorgeous and complete cookbook distributed by Trinity University Press, which Lawton admits “has a more universal Lawton and Dunn had another secret weapon in their appeal than a book about a restaurant.” arsenal. Renowned chef Iliana de la Vega, former Culinary Institute of America instructor and owner of El Naranjo Mexican cuisine is not new to Lawton, who started Restaurant in Austin, met Dunn at the CIA and agreed to traveling to Mexico in his 20s and has continued to come on board as a consultant. traverse the country regularly with his wife, Suzy. A visit to their Alamo Heights home reveals the couple’s love “Chris and I became friends, and often talked about for our southern neighbor: folk art on the walls, hand- Mexican food,” said de la Vega, who formerly lived in painted dinnerware on the shelves, hoja santa plants and Oaxaca, Mexico. “One day he invited me to lunch at La 44 On The Town | September/October 2015

Fonda on Main to meet Cappy and talk about their for all cooks to understand and follow the recipes, whether project. They were very passionate and honest about they are experts or novices. “Chris is very meticulous their approach, so I agreed.” and detail-oriented,” de la Vega said. “Everything was researched, tested and written very carefully. The recipes De la Vega’s role was to keep the book authentic. are factual and are completely doable.” She spent hours researching recipes and history, and shared her knowledge of ingredients, preparations and Thanks to its strong historical component, previous techniques. “Things like how we cook chicken in Mexico, knowledge of Mexican cuisine is not necessary, but careful how we roast chiles, the spices we use,” said the chef, who reading is recommended. Dunn sees it as a miniature was involved with the project for about eight months. history of Mexico, from pre-Colonial and Colonial times “We started getting together every Wednesday for taste to the French influence of the late 19th century and into testing. I gave my honest opinion, and they were very today. receptive. Things like, this is a very tasty dish, but it’s not enchiladas suizas. Call it something else.” Part 1 is all about ingredients, describing in detail origins, varieties and preparations for some of the most Lawton said the process was a collaborative one. “We ubiquitous necessities of Mexican cooking. Part 2 is used pretty much every recipe as a special at Fonda. dedicated to techniques. Here readers will learn how to We were lucky to have lots of cooks from Mexico who make tortillas, how to handle and prepare different chiles, helped cook, taste and improve the recipes.” Both Gabriel how to cook meats for fillings, and more. Part 3 dives into Ibarra, executive chef at Cappy’s, and Victor Maldonado, the recipes, starting with accompaniments like salsas executive chef at La Fonda on Main, had a lot to do with and toppings before delving into the actual enchiladas, recipe-testing and development, contributing their own which are divided into pork, beef, poultry, seafood and recipes to the repertoire. vegetable fillings, with a short chapter dedicated to Tex-Mex classics. Rounding out the project are full-color “Enchiladas: Aztec to Tex-Mex” is organized to make it easy photographs by Sunni Hammer and Mark Menjivar, September/October 2015 | On The Town 45

which make the book visually stunning and every recipe even more mouthwatering.

Page 43: Chris Waters Dunn and Cappy Lawton Photo by Greg Harrison

“It was a lovely experience, getting to know them and building a friendship,” de la Vega said. “They were very Page 44: (L-R) conscientious about respecting traditions.” Enchiladas de Camaron Photo by Chris Waters Dunn Dunn said, with a smile, “We wrote the book out of great respect for the people of Mexico.” Chiles Photo by Sunni Hammer Enchiladas: Aztec to Tex-Mex can be pre-ordered now on amazon.com. Pre-ordering will also be available at Page 45: (L-R) lafondaonmain.com and cappysrestaurant.com starting Enchiladas de Camote September 15. Copies of the book will be available Photo by Sunni Hammer as well at La Fonda on Main, Cappy’s Restaurant and Cappyccino’s starting on October 1. Colored Tortillas Photo by Sunni Hammer

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Page 45: (L-R) Enchiladas Nortenas Photo by Mark Monjivar Masa Ingredients Photo by Mark Monjivar

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f you have yet to visit Southerleigh Fine Food and Brewery, and if Southern comfort food is your thing, the menu that chef Jeff Balfour and his team unveiled with the much-anticipated opening in March of Southerleigh should make your taste buds eager to trek over to the Pearl.

Saturday -- we asked Balfour what measures he is using to absorb the influx of additional patrons while maintaining the level of quality and service desired. His reply came with a mixture of laughter and determination. “It’s never easy, Balfour said. “We just put our head down, and we don’t settle on something being not right.”

Here are some of the surf-’n-turf items dear to Texans of all ages to consider trying: Whole Crispy Gulf Flounder With Parsley and Drawn Butter; Fried Gulf Red Snapper Sticks; Shrimp and Pork Jowl Soubise; Long-cooked Texas Lamb Shanks; and Braised Oxtail Pie With Whipped Tarragon Potato and Crumbled Blue Cheese. Are you salivating yet?

And then there are the beers. Under the direction of head brewer Les Locke, who started home brewing about 15 years ago and who further honed his skills at locally based Branchline Brewing Co., Southerleigh offers several types of beers brewed on premises.

“With summer winding down, we are offering a German About his food-purchasing philosophy, chef/owner Rye, an American Pale Ale and what I like to call an IPL Jeff Balfour recently said: “We change our menu daily, (Indian Pale Lager),” Locke said. buying only from local farms and using only Gulf fish. This pushes us to get creative and to use only what’s in Southerleigh will hold an Oktober Fest in early October, with season or available that day. We try to utilize bi-catch as beers geared to celebrate the time of year and the harvest much as possible to help contribute to a sustainable Gulf. season. Locke said the brewery will receive some “wet hops,” Sheepshead and Gafftop are some examples of this. Our which are freshly bagged, sealed and shipped, then received beef comes from 44 farms out of Cameron, Texas, and we within 24 hours from the time they were picked. use local lamb, pork and produce farmers.” “This produces some extraordinary aromatic flavors Asked about any recent new favorite menu items of when they’re not processed, with strong melon and his, Balfour said, “I have been very proud of the cracker- lemongrass flavors,” he said. crusted Gulf snapper lately. The snapper is super fresh, Locke also said it is an honor to be brewing in a historic and we top it with a jumbo blue crab.” building that used to be a brewery. Balfour said the company has had a remarkable Since opening five months ago, the operation’s hours experience. “We are truly proud of the space and all already have been greatly expanded to include lunch. aspects of the restaurant.” More ambitious schedule expansions are expected. Balfour said Southerleigh will be adding brunch service Southerleigh Fine Food and Brewery: 136 E. Grayson around Sept. 1. St., Suite 120, 210-455-5701. Open Monday through Thursday 2 p.m. to midnight; Friday and Saturday 2 p.m. With reservations soaring -- over 300 patrons on a recent to 1 a.m.; closed Sunday. September/October 2015 | On The Town 49

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Jon Edwards

‘Making the Wall’: Notables and Everyday Folks Share Space at San Antonio’s Palm Restaurant By Julie Catalano Photography Greg Harrison

f you don’t have a smile on your face before walking into the Palm restaurant on Houston Street in downtown San Antonio, you soon will. Diners are surrounded by hundreds of happy celebrity caricatures, whimsical scenes, and some very famous cartoon characters overlooking the main dining room and bar from their place on the walls. And if you don’t know the story of how they all got there, you’ll soon hear that, too.

York City. The San Antonio Palm is 15 years old and one of 28 Palms in the United States, including Houston, Las Vegas, East Hampton, Miami, Chicago and the new flagship in Beverly Hills.

San Antonio Palm general manager Jon Edwards loves to tell the history of the Palm, a big part of which is the eye-catching artwork featured at each Palm restaurant, a tradition that started with the original location in New

It’s the quintessential American success story: John Ganzi and Pio Bozzi were two immigrants from northern Italy who decided to open an Italian restaurant in New York at 837 Second Ave., in 1926. When they went to

But this is no ordinary chain. “The Palm is the oldest continuously operated, family-owned, white tablecloth restaurant in the country,” Edwards said.

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register the name of their new business, they meant to call it “Parma” after their hometown, but because of their accents, it was misunderstood as “Palm.” The name stuck, and a restaurant legend was born. Today, the company is run by Wally Ganzi and Bruce Bozzi, grandsons of the original owners. The wall art was another happy accident. As luck would have it, the original Palm was located near the New York newspaper hub of the 1920s and ’30s, catering to journalistic clientele from King Features, United Press International, Hearst Corp., the New York Daily Mirror and more. Some of these were cartoonists who “sang for their supper,” or in this case drew, in exchange for a plate of spaghetti. The artists were well fed, and the Palm’s owners got Matt Weill’s Popeye, Mort Walker’s Beetle Bailey, Walt Kelly’s Pogo, Chris Brown’s Hagar the Horrible and other beloved cartoons drawn by their legendary creators directly on the walls of the original location where they stand to this day. Newer techniques for the Palms that followed include sending a photo to the artist who creates a caricature with self-adhesive backing for application to the walls or ceilings. “The cartoonists would have a lot of fun with the wall. They’d draw the regulars, the owners, each other,” Edwards said. The tiny place was so popular that by 1973 a second location was opened across Second Avenue called Palm Too. There are now four locations in New York City. On the wall — as in the Palm’s real-life dining rooms — notables in entertainment, business, sports and politics mix and mingle with everyday people. “The caricatures you see means that the person has been in one of the Palms somewhere,” Edwards said. “If there’s a signature on it, it means that person has been in that particular Palm.” Palm art is not always about celebrity. One particularly touching story involves an oil support company that relocated to San Antonio from New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. “They moved next door and practically lived here,” Edwards said. “So we did [caricatures of ] the whole company.” Like all general managers at each Palm, Edwards exercises sole discretion over who “makes the wall” in San Antonio. “There’s no committee or vote. I can decide that it’s good business, or they’re good friends or good customers,” he said. “We put up about 10 new caricatures a year.” The Palm’s enduring success — the company celebrates 52 On The Town | September/October 2015

its 90th birthday in 2016 — is primarily due to its “oldschool” style of décor and simple, unfussy, comfort food, Edwards said. Known for prime steaks, Nova Scotia lobsters, and the original Italian specialties, over the decades the Palm has gained a fan following — intensely loyal customers who visit the Palm at home and on the road. Whether it’s the food, the atmosphere, or some indefinable quality, the Palm elicits strong allegiances even in the intensely competitive world of fine dining. Edwards calls them “Palm people,” and they become almost like family. “The regulars are very supportive, and they want to see you succeed. I’ve worked for other companies and they have their regulars, but they weren’t as invested as Palm people.”

Photo Credits: Page 50: Jon Edwards General Manager The Palm San Antonio Page 51: Baker’s Corner which Includes Pogo by Walt Kelly Page 52: (Above) Popeye Wall

(Below) In addition to dedicated regulars, local and visiting Pillar with Matt Damon, celebrities, politicians, and movers and shakers, Davy Crockett and more sometimes passers-by stop in just to see the latest Page 53: additions to the ranks of caricatures. So anybody can (Above) come in to look and not dine? “Sure,” Edwards said. “We’ll Mae Escobar get families coming through with excited kids, saying, ‘Grandpa’s on the wall!’ We love that.” (Below) Ricardo Antonio Chavera For more information, visit www.thepalm.com. of Desparate Housewives September/October 2015 | On The Town 53

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Book Talk:

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John T. Davis and James R. Dennis

MILES ARCENEAUX, NOVELIST Story and Photography by Jasmina Wellinghoff

may as well let the cat out of the bag right away. Miles Arceneaux is the pseudonym for a trio of writing partners, John T. Davis, James R. Dennis and Brent Douglass, who love to hang out on the Texas coast and love to write about it. Together they have written three crime-and-action novels set in the coastal region that have been enthusiastically received by Texas reviewers. Of the three, only Davis wrote for a living, as a music/ culture journalist in Austin, before they formed their unusual partnership. Dennis is a Dominican friar and a lawyer in San Antonio, and Douglass is an international businessman with KBC Networks, a company that manufactures data transmission equipment for customers worldwide. As a boy, Douglass accompanied his shrimper grandfather on fishing outings in the Gulf, and it was his memories and his family’s experiences that sparked the idea of capturing the coastal way of life through fiction.

JW: How did the three of you meet? JOHN: I’ve known Brent since junior high school, and Brent met James at the University of Texas, so I met James through him in college, and we’ve been friends ever since. JW: How did you decide to go into the writing business together?

JAMES: We have had a standing engagement that no matter what happens we would be together on Labor Day, either on the Texas coast or in a camp that John’s family has in the mountains of New Mexico. We had been doing this for several years when someone brought up this idea of doing a communal novel. We had had way too many cocktails that evening, so we said, sure, we can do that. It can’t be that hard. (Laughs) I thought that by the time we got home good common sense would take over, and we would forget the notion but about a month Published by Stephen F. Austin State University Press, their later Brent sent the first chapter (of the would-be novel.) books feature folksy characters, vivid language, classic We found out the answer to the question “How hard can bad guys, aspects of mystery and history, understated it be?” It took us 25 years to complete the manuscript. humor and coastal lore galore. JW: Why that long? The most recent book, “Ransom Island,” is set in 1953 and revolves around the fishing camp/beer joint/ JOHN: We didn’t really think that we were working on a dancehall that Rupert Sweetwater and his brothers run real novel. Basically what we were trying to do is make on the otherwise nearly deserted isle connected to the each other laugh and put whoever was writing the next mainland by a single bridge. It’s a rather sleepy place but chapter in an impossible situation. So it was a lark by and when Duke Ellington and his band show up to play for large. But Brent established a connection with someone an integrated audience, and the Klan, the law and the at the Texas A&M University Press, which oversees other Galveston mafia types get involved, things get pretty university presses in Texas, including the Stephen F. lively. What makes the novel stand out, however, is not so Austin Press (the book’s publisher), and we suddenly much the plot as the writers’ almost cinematic ability to realized that maybe we could have a chance to turn this bring to life the time period and to make the reader “see” hobby of ours into something tangible. So we got serious and “hear” the people and locales they are describing. about it, and my wife lit the fire under us to get it finished. It was finally published in 2012. We talked with Davis and Dennis in the latter’s office in San Antonio recently. Their camaraderie and sense of JAMES: Largely with the help of a dear friend of ours, humor were in evidence throughout the interview. (journalist/novelist) Stephen Harrigan. Stephen lives

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across the street from Brent so we took this Frankenstein monster of a manuscript – like 180,000 words – and left it on his doorstep, rang the bell and ran away. Stephen suggested significant rewrites because it needed to lose some weight. Steve was very good to us and generous with his time, and we ended up with a published novel.

this is no way to write a book. (We all laugh.)

JW: Could you describe how you worked?

JOHN: We also learned the value of outlines, just like our English teachers used to tell us.

JOHN: At first we typed the chapters and sent them to each other by mail. Then the fax machine came along, and we started faxing. Then, thank God, someone invented email. What we would do is circulate the chapters among the three of us and churn the manuscript over and over. We took turns writing and as the process evolved, we learned that some of us had a feeling for certain characters or certain locations, so each person started taking charge of his corner of the manuscript, but we were still churning it back and forth between us because we needed the narrator to have a single voice. We never really analyzed the process; it just sort of evolved … We tell everyone, 58 On The Town | September/October 2015

JAMES: So, the second book took only 18 months, and the third one took about the same amount of time. Now we have an organized madness as opposed to the first time which was simply madness.

JW: What’s the most challenging aspect of creating a novel with two other people? JAMES: When you are co-writing with other people who have ideas just as powerful as yours, styles just as powerful as yours, it is essential that you check your ego at the door and realize this not my book, it’s our book. There were times when one person felt strongly that a story line should go in a certain direction and another felt just as strongly about a different direction, so the third one had to be the decider. That’s what’s good

about having three, rather than four people. Also the fascinating story. editing process becomes even more important than usual. It can be brutal. JW: Your books would probably translate well to the big screen. Has anyone ever approached you about that? JW: How did you complement each other? JOHN: People often ask us who our ideal reader is, and JAMES: Almost all our books are sort of murder mysteries, we tell them, “Oprah Winfrey and Steven Spielberg…” so my experience with the law comes in handy. John has But to answer your question, to connect with Hollywood a strong history in the music business and that’s reflected we would need an agent, and we are not working with an in the books as well. agent at present but if Tom Hanks wants our stories, we are available. JOHN: We have a recurring character in the book who is a Texas Ranger, and James had the opportunity to JAMES: It’s not our top priority right now. Our top priority work with one of the most famous Texas rangers in the is to write good books. history of the organization. And, then, Brent’s family and he personally have the experience of living down on the JW: So what is the next book about? coast, shrimping and being in the maritime environment. So, all our areas of expertise come into play. JOHN: It’s going to be called “North Beach.” It’s set in 1962, and it’s sort of a coming-of-age story of Charlie JAMES: I’ve done a search of the literature, and ours is Sweetwater (who is a young boy in “Ransom Island”). It the only series of novels in which the hero is a shrimper. will focus on a life-changing situation when he graduates (That would be Charlie Sweetwater, Rupert’s nephew, from boy to man. He is 15 and living kind of an idyllic life who is the lead character in the first two books.) on the beach but events happen that thrust him into the bigger world. And there’s a murder mystery background JW: Tell us about Ransom Island. Is it a real place? as well. JOHN: Yes, but it’s almost entirely washed away by erosion now. But way back, Brent’s grandfather actually ran a business on the island, and Brent’s dad spent time there as a child. Old-timers say there was a dancehall and beer joint on the island; some say there was also a house of ill repute. But the only living creatures left today are rattlesnakes. The bridge is gone, too, washed away by hurricanes.

JAMES: There was a period in Texas history when it was a capital offense to steal a man’s horse but not a capital offense to kill somebody. People asked the then-governor why that was, and he responded, “We have some people in Texas who need killing but we don’t have any horses that need stealing.” The assumption of our books is that there are some characters who need killing, and that’s what happens in all our books (chuckles).

JW: You certainly brought that island to life in your novel

JW: Any final thoughts?

JOHN: One of the things we try to do in the books is to portray the environment as another character in the story. The Texas coast has not been written about a great deal in fiction. And it’s got its own character and personality. So we kind of have it all to ourselves. Still today, you can find islands where you can experience the coast the way it used to be. The Texas coast is still raw. It’s not a Condé Nast destination, that’s for sure.

JOHN: We are very grateful to the San Antonio Book Festival that has featured us several times, and we have fans in San Antonio that we are very appreciative of. The San Antonio community has been really great to us. JAMES: We consider ourselves very fortunate to live in this part of the world.

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Yanaguana Indian Arts Market: A Texas Tradition Continues at Briscoe Western Art Museum on Saturday, October 3 and Sunday, October 4 By Jennifer Chowning Photography courtesy Briscoe Western Art Museum

here are a handful of significant Indian ar ts markets in the United States, most notably the annual markets held in Santa Fe, Los Angeles (Autr y National Center), 62 On The Town | September/October 2015

Indianapolis (Eiteljorg Museum), Phoenix (Heard Museum), and Washington, DC, and New York (National Museum of the American Indian). These markets ser ve as venues for ar tists to

sell their work , promote tourism, educate the p ut in m ot ion by t wo for m er st aff me mb e r s o f public, and sustain ar tistic traditions that have t he Br iscoe M useum, Steven K ar r a n d Pa me l a endured for generations. Hannah, who c am e to S an Anto n i o fro m t h e Aut r y Nat ional Center in Los An g e l e s. Wi t h In 2014, the Briscoe Western Ar t Museum in year s of wor k ing alongsid e t he N at i ve a r t s downtown San Antonio joined this prestigious communit y, t hey had a vision for re p l i c at i n g a cultural circuit with its inaugural Yanaguana high- q ualit y m ar ket in cent ral Texa s. Fo r ma ny Indian Ar ts Market, named in honor of the San ar t ist s, it was a gam b le to com e to a b ra n dAntonio River ’s earliest known name, given by new museum and a new venue, b u t K a r r a n d the Payaya people who inhabited the region. Hannah’s rep ut at ion among Nat i ve a r t i s t s Located along San Antonio’s iconic River Walk, assured t hem t he r isk was wor t h i t. the Briscoe Museum opened to the public in October 2013 with a mission to preser ve the ar t T h e Ya n a g u a n a M a r k e t i s r e l a t i v e l y s m a l l and culture of the American West. Suppor t for o n a n a t i o n a l s c a l e — o t h e r m a r k e t s h o s t Native ar tists, their livelihood, and the integrity h u n d r e d s o f a r t i s t s — a n d p a r t i c i p a t i o n of their ar tistic process is ver y much a par t of i s b y i n v i t a t i o n o n l y. T h e B r i s c o e M u s e u m the Briscoe Museum’s institutional mission. works with an ar tist selection committee to identify ar tists for inclusion based on quality Th e i de a fo r h o s ti n g a n I n di a n M a r ket was a n d d i v e r s i t y. September/October 2015 | On The Town 63

This year ’s Yanaguana Market, held Oct. 3 and 4, will feature more than 40 of the most respected Native American ar tists from across the countr y, including weaver and Arizona Living Treasure Nanabah Aragon (Navajo); Jody, Susan and Kaa Folwell (Santa Clara Pueblo), leaders in contemporar y Native American potter y ; and Veronica Poblano (Zuni), an award-winning car ver and jeweler. Par ticipating ar tists represent more than 20 federally recognized tribes from various par ts of the countr y. Basketr y, car vings, painting, beadwork, jewelr y and potter y will be available for sale directly from the ar tists. The market is held in accordance with the Indian Ar ts and Crafts Act, a critical piece of legislation that protects Native ar tists and consumers. Market attendees can take comfor t in knowing that what they purchase is authentic and that the materials used are of the highest quality. The weekend’s schedule is filled with dancing, musical per formances, ar tist demonstrations and Native American-inspired food. The American Indians in Texas at the Spanish Colonial Missions will be on site with their delicious fr y bread offerings, bison burgers, and prickly pear agua frescas. Per formance highlights will include Grammy Award- winner Ty Defoe, who will facilitate an interactive session on Native American stor ytelling, and the United San Antonio Pow Wow Inc., which will showcase drumming and native dancing. A new feature of this year ’s market will include an indigenous jam session, facilitated by Juan Tejeda, co-founder of the Tejano Conjunto Music Festival. Museum tours, highlighting work by contemporar y Native American ar tists, and interactive ar t-making activities will round out the offerings. Yanaguana Market admission is free. For a complete list of par ticipating ar tists and more information, go to www.BriscoeMuseum. org or call 210-299-4499.

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San Antonio Botanical Garden Begins Seven–Acre Expansion By Angela Rabke Photography Greg Harrison

he San Antonio Botanical Gardens—our city’s well-loved urban haven for plant and nature lovers of all ages—has some big plans for growth, and is the latest local institution to bloom where it’s planted along the vibrant Broadway Corridor.

land use consultancy based in Washington, is working with Ten Eyck on the design of the 2.5-acre Family Adventure Garden. The 2012 City Bond dedicated $1.2 million to the expansion, with the balance of the project being covered through donations from foundations and private donors.

Bob Brackman, Executive Director for the Gardens, refers to this period as the most transformative time in the Garden’s history, which began when it was opened in 1980 as a transformation of an old limestone quarry. “We have been on this path for quite some time, since the completion of the Master Plan in 2010,” Brackman shares. A world-class professional team has been assembled to design and execute the 7-acre expansion, beginning with Ten Eycke Landscape Architects, the firm that is responsible for the playful, lush landscaping at the new Doseum, which is located just down the street on Broadway, as well as the green spaces around the new Hotel Emma in the Pearl Development. Ten Eyck Architects will be working with Weddle Gilmore Architects of Scottsdale, a firm known for environmentally sensitive building designs found at a range of nature preserves, trailheads, zoos and museums. Terra Design Studios, a

Construction is slated to begin in September, and visitors can expect to enjoy the expansion a little over a year from now, in the spring of 2017. It is a welcome addition to the undeveloped area adjacent to Fort Sam, and the expansion will offer something for everyone, with a brand new entrance and reception area that will better accommodate visitors and provide easier accessibility for those with limited mobility. A Discovery Center, with new classrooms, will quadruple the teaching space for school and community learning programs at the Garden. Two ‘dirty’ classrooms will allow students to get their hands dirty in a classroom setting. An Exploration Station will showcase what’s in bloom, the importance of plants, the region’s water story, home environmental stewardship techniques and engaging nature play activities. The Discovery Center also features outdoor teaching areas including outdoor amphitheaters and September/October 2015 | On The Town 67

An outdoor professional kitchen and culinary garden combination will encourage first hand farm-to-table experiences. Rounding out the expansion is a family adventure garden, which is dedicated to outdoor play with a focus on children. “Our intent is for visitors to really experience and fall in love with nature,” says Brackman. Youngsters will be able to run freely and experience nature directly in a safe environment. There is only one entrance/exit for the Adventure Garden, so parents can feel at ease loosening the reins on their kids while they experience water, get lost in a maze, enjoy the secret garden, and frolic in either of the two free play areas, which will include performance areas. An acequia and other water features will encourage thoughtful water play, with an overarching lesson in water and resource management and conservation threading throughout each area. There will be three areas utilized to communicate this lesson: a San Antonio neighborhood, the South Texas Plains, and the Hill Country. “We want it to be genuine and expansive and engaging,” says Brackman, who notes the importance of water conservation in this region. The garden will primarily use native plants, although not exclusively, and will provide a delightful learning experience to visitors young and old. During construction, the main gardens will be 68 On The Town | September/October 2015

minimally impacted and business will go on as usual. Visitors will still be able to enjoy all of the current features of the Garden such as a fascinating succulent display, the rose gardens, ducks on the pond, brunch at the Carriage House, and the many wonders of the Lucile Halsell Conservatory. Beloved events such as the children’s Halloween party will continue without interruption. “We couldn’t be more proud to be a part of the Broadway reach partnership,” says Brackman, referring to the collection of San Antonio institutions such as the Witte, Pearl, and the Doseum that have participated in the transformation of the area. “All of us see the excitement up and down Broadway as wonderful for each of us. We are all compliments to each other, with different missions that all engage the community. All boats rise together, and it’s a great time for us to be rolling this out.” Already a draw for visitors of every age, the Botanical Garden continues to use broad strokes in this remarkable transformation to draw our entire community into nature. For more information about the Botanical Garden’s current exhibits and schedule of events, visit sabot. org or check out their facebook page for daily updates on happenings.

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Joan Miró at McNay Art Museum By Dan R. Goddard

uring long walks in his later years, SpanishCatalan artist Joan Miró (1893-1983) ” collected all sorts of found objects -- wood scraps, household items, garden tools, engine parts – that he transformed into whimsical cast-bronze sculptures reflecting his early surrealist explorations of the 1920s as well as the sculptural inventions of his contemporary, Pablo Picasso. Drawn entirely from the collection of Spain’s Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia in Madrid and co-organized by the Seattle Art Museum, “Miró: The Experience of Seeing” features the found-object sculptures along with a large selection of his bold, colorful paintings and expressive drawings created from the early 1960s until the end of his life.

it is always … a man, a bird, or something else.” Guided by the surrealist concept of “psychic automatism,” Miró found inspiration in stains and doodles, and his influences ranged from ancient cave paintings to the art of the insane and children. In perhaps his most provocative remark, Miró asserted his goal was to “assassinate painting.” However, much of his work has a playful, childlike quality.

“Kids especially enjoyed the show when I saw it at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University,” Chiego said. “The paintings are fun and full of color, but one big landscape is made with only a white line and dots. The sculpture is built out of all kinds of crazy materials. Much of the work is figural and gives you the feeling of looking at another person. One figure resembled E.T. Opening Sept. 30 at the McNay Art Museum, this is from the Steven Spielberg movie and kids really got a the first major retrospective of Joan Miró (pronounced kick out of that.” “Jwan Mi-RO” in Catalan) to visit the United States in decades, and San Antonio is the last stop on the Miró is not well represented in Texas collections. The national tour. The show runs through Jan. 10. McNay has only a few prints and costume designs Miró created for Les Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo’s “Jeux “In the last two decades of his life, Miró was at his d’Enfants (Children’s Games)” in 1932. freest and most expressive in both painting and sculpture,” said McNay director William J. Chiego. “The “One of the attractions is that he is not an artist heavily show is about half painting and half sculpture, and it’s represented in our collections, but he’s one of the 20th interesting to see how they relate to each other as Miró century’s most important artists,” Chiego said. “He played with ideas and went both and forth exploring was a pretty daring artist, and the work is amazingly the same forms and motifs. It’s fascinating because spontaneous. Miró had a lot of influence on American Miró is considered a classical surrealist, but in this late painting after World War II.” work he was paring down his forms and becoming more abstract.” Along with Salvador Dali, Miró led the Spanish surrealistic movement. Born in Barcelona, he joined However, Miró’s work never became purely abstract the Parisian avant-garde in the 1920s, becoming because he never quite let go of the figural and natural world famous in the 1930s. The Spanish Civil War and forms. In his biomorphic abstractions, Miró emphasized World War II forced Miró to remain an exile from his the flatness of the picture plane, reducing everything homeland, but he returned after the war to Mallorca, to clear outlines and bright hues, evoking an idyllic where in 1956 he finally was able to bring together all Mediterranean world teeming with strange life-forms. of his work at Son Abrines, a workshop/home built by Miró said, “For me, a form is never something abstract; his friend, architect Josep Lluis Sert. September/October 2015 | On The Town 71

This exhibit follows Miró’s late-in-life reassessment of his work after he had the opportunity to experience a public review of his career with a 1959 show at New York’s Museum of Modern Art and his first large retrospective presented by Musee National d’Art Moderne in Paris in 1962. In their curators’ statement in the handsome catalog, Carmen Fernández Aparicio and Belén Galán Martín note Miró’s later works represent a more personal language where painting and sculpture are equally valued. “Miró, who had been at the very center of the evolution of the modern art connected to the Parisian avantgarde since the 1920s, began a process of introspection, through which he arrived at the utmost simplification of his universe,” the curators note. “The starting point for his work at this time was an accidental or fortuitous motif – something as simple as a smudge, a drop of paint, a fingerprint, a found object or something from nature – which became the initial push toward re-creating a common subject in his work: the representation of nature and the human figure.” For more information, visit www.mcnayart.org.

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Looking back to move forward: Glamorous history fuels rebirth of a Texas jewel By Dawn Robinette Photography courtesy Starwood Hotels and Resorts

hey say if you don’t know history, you’re doomed to repeat it. In the case of the St. Anthony, a Luxury Collection Hotel, that would be quite a tale to relive.

from Hollywood royalty to true royalty, as well as the wonderfully fun royalty of Fiesta. Presidents, governors, newsmakers and celebrities have walked its halls and enjoyed its fine dining. The idea behind Southwest Airlines was sketched Built on what was irrigated farmland for the on one of its cocktail napkins, and much of Alamo, it was the first hotel in the world to be San Antonio’s HemisFair ‘68 was planned in its fully air conditioned and has hosted everyone popular St. Anthony Club. John Wayne was such 76 On The Town | September/October 2015

a frequent guest that a suite is named after him, and famous faces such as Babe Ruth, Princess Grace of Monaco, Cary Grant, Yogi Berra, Ginger Rogers and George Clooney all have enjoyed the hotel’s legendary hospitality.

main lobby and in some cases restores some of the hotel’s previous architec ture and décor elements, many of which were lost over the years in numerous renovations and updates.

The renovation unearthed original tile floors in While the St. Anthony cer tainly has a the St. Anthony Club, and returns both the stairs distinguished past, thanks to a painstak ing off the lobby and the registration desk to their restoration and renovation soon to be original locations. In a nod to the hotel’s past, unveiled, the best is yet to come. The hotel’s the St. Anthony’s front doors are from a revolving polished future is the result of its ownership’s door that once graced the hotel, and some of the commitment to sharing and celebrating the chandeliers feature original glass from 1909 in St. Anthony ’s rich histor y — and restoring newly designed fixtures. the hotel to its previous glor y. Reviving the 106-year- old hotel and maintaining the The hotel’s new décor also is inspired by its past, National H istoric Landmark ’s ex traordinar y featuring furniture that has been restored and architec ture has guided the ex tensive multi- updated, alongside pieces designed to reflect the million- dollar restoration, which maintains hotel’s history. Artwork and sculptures purchased the hotel’s original 1909 architec ture in the for the hotel in the 1930s and ’40s once again September/October 2015 | On The Town 77

are displayed, and the famed Peacock Alley is the place to see and be seen again. With its sparkling antique chandeliers and beloved, custom-made 1924 Steinway returned to its rightful spot thanks to the dedication of the hotel’s new owners, Peacock Alley is ready to welcome San Antonio back in a glamourous fashion.

The new dining and cocktail options are perfect spots to enjoy San Antonio’s bustling theater district. The St. Anthony is the official hotel of the Tobin Center for the Performing Arts, hosting the parade of stars entertaining at the venue, which is a short walk away, and only two blocks from the Majestic and Empire theaters. Dinner and drinks at the St. Anthony before a show, or dessert and drinks Featuring redesigned guestrooms and suites as after, are a terrific way to add more glamour to a well, the renovation also includes the rebirth night out. Or make a full night of it: Enjoy breakfast of the historic St. Anthony Club, open now for the next morning after a night at the theater and a everyone to enjoy, and a new rooftop lounge wonderful night’s stay at the hotel. on the hotel’s 10th floor that will open later this fall. The hotel also is home to Rebelle, a new Entertainment is definitely woven into the restaurant concept opening in September from hotel’s history. With Travis Park as the hotel’s restauranteur Andrew Goodman with acclaimed front yard, the St. Anthony was instrumental in chef Stefan Bowers, and Haunt, a new cocktail bar creating Jazz’SAlive, celebrating its 32nd year thi offering classic cocktails inspired by the haunting s September. Bringing some of the nation’s top legends of the St. Anthony. jazz entertainers, along with regional and local 78 On The Town | September/October 2015

talent, to dazzle the crowd in Travis Park, the annual fundraising event for the San Antonio Parks Foundation is a must for jazz lovers. The hotel helps underwrite the talent and hosts free jam sessions with the musicians after the Jazz’SAlive concerts each night.

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To get in the mood for this year ’s event, the St. Anthony Club will host special Thursday jazz happy hours on Sept. 3, 10 and 17, and the hotel is offering a special Jazz’SAlive package. The package includes a room at the hotel, reserved seating for the concerts in Travis Park, VIP tickets to the after-show jam sessions, breakfast for two the next morning and two Jazz’SAlive T-shirts.

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For more information, visit www.thestanthonyhotel.com.

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Celebrating the Arts in the Stunning Scenery of Sedona Sedona’s Art History Established in Centuries Past Enriches its Modern-Day City Culture Courtesy Sedona Chamber of Commerce & Tourism Bureau

ne of the oldest pillars of society that captivates the spirit and personality of Sedona is its vibrant ar ts community. No matter the aesthetic or medium, ar t finds itself in ever y realm of the nor thern Arizona city.

when Egyptian sculptor Nassan Gobran and fellow ar tists established Canyon Kiva, which today is the Sedona Ar ts Center. This transformed into the community center of local ar tists and visionaries relishing the area’s culture.

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city. Joe Beeler, George Phippen, Charlie Dye and friends gathered around a local saloon to form the original Cowboy Ar tists of America. The institution was established as a way to perpetuate the memor y of the Old West and authentically represent lives in the region, which they uphold today. Although the rich and diverse ar ts community may be considered fairly new in terms of age, the ancient Native American cliff dwellers who called the area home created some of the most beautiful ruins and petroglyphs dating back thousands of years. The petroglyphs can be seen in some of Sedona’s most scenic hikes, through the Palatki, Honanki and V-Bar-V Heritage sites. Native American traditions have been kept alive with a strong surrounding presence of Hopi, Navajo, Yavapai and Apache tribes. Today, the vibrant ar ts and culture scene boasts more than 200 local ar tists who create one -of-a-kind, handcrafted pieces. Visitors can enjoy creations from local and national ar tists, spanning jewelr y adorned in turquoise and onyx, hand-woven rugs, bronze sculptures, still-life paintings and much more. Today, ar ts and culture permeate ever y aspect of life. Visitors and guests can explore the more than 80 galleries of traditional and contemporar y ar t, visit the Sedona Galler y Association’s popular First Friday Ar t Walk to enjoy receptions and openings, and even frequent one of the city ’s many seasonal annual ar t events. This fall, three events will delight and inspire visitors and residents seeking ar ts and culture in Sedona. 42N D AN N UAL FIESTA D E TL AQU EPAQU E The annual Fiesta de Tlaquepaque is a celebration of Mexican Independence Day on Sept 12. Continuing a long tradition of food, music, dancing and enter tainment for all, this year ’s festival promises ar ts and crafts exhibits that give insight into the traditional and present ar tistr y of Mexico.

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SED ON A ARTS FESTIVAL The Sedona Ar ts Festival will be held Oct. 10-11 on the campus of Sedona Red Rock High School. A favorite in the Southwest, the festival showcases nearly 130 juried ar tists, an international guest ar tist, a “gourmet galler y,” and plenty of activities

for family members of all ages. The festival is the primar y fundraiser for ar ts education in Sedona and to date has raised more than $300,000 in scholarship and education funding. SE D O N A P LE I N A I R FE S T I VA L Award-winning ar tists are invited to Sedona Oct. 18-25 to par ticipate in the 10th annual Sedona Plein Air Festival. Plein air ar tists paint outdoors, standing the tests of Mother Nature and physical stamina to capture the ever-changing landscapes of the areas around them. With Sedona as the per fect backdrop, guests and ar tists will have an endless array of activities, including exhibitions, galleries and events. To learn more, go to www.visitsedona.com/ar tsand-culture/.

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