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Around Town:
Holiday Light Shows
If one man hadn't had friends in high
places, San Antonio's annual holiday
light shows wouldn't even exist.
The first Christmas tree covered with
electric lights was in the home of
Edward Johnson, a lucky friend of
Thomas Edison, in 1882. Specially created
for Johnson by Edison as a publicity
stunt for the Edison Electric Light
Company, the 80 red, white and blue
light bulbs were each the size of walnuts.
Newspapers began to spread the
word, and in less than 20 years...
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Performing Arts:
Mark The Dates
Talk about a calendar loaded with
great performances! Have you
checked out what’s coming to San
Antonio and the surrounding area in the
next three months?
Let me hit some high spots and do a little
name-dropping. Sinbad, Stomp, The
Great American Trailer Park Musical,
Chanticleer, JoAnn Falletta, The Police, Las
Nuevas Tamaleras, The Ten Tenors and
Mariachi Vargas are yours for the taking.
Then there’s Blue Man Group, Handel’s
Messiah, Trans-Siberian...
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Performing Arts:
Symphony Awakens Tradition With Holiday Performances
Ahh — the holidays! A time of
spiced apple scents, jingling
bells and eloquent harmony. From
November through mid-January, we will
fill our plates with good food, our souls
with spiritual celebration and our ears
with jubilant refrains.
The San Antonio Symphony will present
several special performances
throughout December and January to
help fill us with the spirit of the holidays...
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Performing Arts:
Musical Bridges Celebrates 10th Season
Founded in 1997 by Russian-born
pianist Anya Grokhovski and a small
group of music enthusiasts, Musical Bridges
Around the World (MBAW) is currently celebrating
its 10th season of bringing together
accomplished local and international
musicians to perform in the Alamo City.
“It’s almost a miracle that we have
made it through 10 years,” says
Grokhovski, who serves as the organization’s
artistic director. “It’s not easy to run
a...
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Around Town:
Hard Hats, Scaffolds and Cranes - Symbols of progress in downtown San Antonio
Can a construction site be beautiful?
Yes, if it’s in downtown San
Antonio! At this moment, hard hats, scaffolds
and cranes dot the central business
district and serve as symbols of progress,
long-awaited progress.
For someone like me,who remembers
the glory days of downtown, every project
is a welcome sight. The center city is getting its hustle and bustle back...
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Performing Arts:
Welcome To This Side Of The Tracks - The Great American Trailer Park Musical opens at the Cameo
It’s time to pull up a lawn chair and join the rollicking fun at
the Great American Trailer Park Musical, the latest off-
Broadway comedy to grace the stage at San Antonio’s Cameo
Theatre. The show, which made its New York debut in 2005,
began touring the United States in September. The San Antonio
show...
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Visual Arts:
Go "Under The Skin" At The Witte Museum
Embark on a once-in-a-lifetime
opportunity to unravel the mystery
of the human body. Making its South
Texas debut at the Witte Museum, Our
Body: The Universe Within allows visitors a
firsthand look at the human body as it has
been seen by doctors and scientists.
Literally go “under the skin” to learn
the complexity of the human body with
an up-close, three-dimensional look at
your inner makeup. Explore each of the...
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Dining:
Decadent Desserts, Celebrated Chefs and Amazing Auctions - 14th Annual Nutcracker Sweets Benefiting Women and Children's Shelter of Bexar County
An all-pastry event ... the uniqueness
of that alone makes it
stand out,” said one of the celebrated
chefs at last year’s Nutcracker Sweets,
the signature benefit event for the
Battered Women and Children’s Shelter
of Bexar County, a program of the Family
Violence Prevention Services, Inc. (FVPS).
“Not...
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Dining:
Cookbook Round-up - Celebrating the Cuisines of
San Antonio and South Texas
If your family is anything like mine,
planning the Thanksgiving and
other holiday menus begins some time
in September.
My mom and I sit down at the dining
table with towers of cookbooks, slippery
piles of magazines and loose recipe
pages. We review menus of the past —
the non-negotiable classics (turkey on
the grill), the forgotten favorites...
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