Holiday News Roundup, Plus
As you may expect, not that much is going on this week/weekend as people are focusing on celebrating the holidays in private, with their nearest and dearest.
But a few things are coming up, and, please remember that most San Antonio museums will be open the day after Christmas, and later in the week. It’s a great time to take the family and out-of-town visitors to one or two of our outstanding museums:
San Antonio Museum of Art (200 W. Jones Ave.; www.samuseum.org),
Witte Museum (3801 Broadway; www.wittemuseum.org)
McNay Art Museum (6000 N. New Braunfels; www.mcnayart.org)
Ruby City (150 Camp St.; www.rubycity.org)
Briscoe Western Art Museum (210 W. Market St.; www.briscoemuseum.org)
Edward Steeves Homestead Museum (1509 King William St.; www.saconservation.org)
And here’s what’s coming up:
Cirque Musica Holiday Spectacular will be at the Tobin Center Dec. 29. It’s a big spectacle of a show with holiday songs. It will be followed by Little Joe & La Familia on New Year’s Eve. Considered one of the pioneers of Tejano music, Little Joe and the Hernandez brothers, Rocky and Gilbert, will entertain in their Grammy-winning style, infusing Tejano with jazz, classical, and other influences. (Cirque Musica, Dec, 29 at 7:30 p.m.; $44.50-89.50/ Little Joe & La Familia, Dec. 31 at 9 p.m., doors open at 8 p.m., Tobin Center, 100 Auditorium Circle; 210-223-8624, tickets@tobincenter.org)
And you might have heard that the very popular Broadway musical “Hamilton” will breeze into the Majestic Theater Jan 5. A limited number of tickets will be available for every performance for $10 each. To get one of those, you have to enter a lottery, which is currently open and scheduled to close Dec. 30. You have to use the official “Hamilton” app to enter: https://hamiltonmusical.com/app. Non-lottery tickets are currently on sale as well, starting at $49+ (Jan. 5-9; Majestic Theater, 224 E. Houston; box office 210-226-3333; www.majesticempire.com)
A few local performers are also taking to the stage in the upcoming days. Ruben Vela, a great blues guitarist will play at Sam’s Burger Joint Dec 26. (9 p.m.; $12; 330 E. Grayson; 210-223-2830, www.samsburgerjoint.com)
The Woodlawn Theater will be closing its run of “Elf the Musical” with a performance on Dec. 23. (Woodlawn Theater, 1920 Fredericksburg Rd.; 210-267-8388, www.woodlawntheatre.org)
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AND NOW… We are going to put you in a holiday mood with some funny quotes we collected for the occasion. Let the merriment begin!
“A Christmas miracle is when your family doesn’t get into a single argument all day”
Melanie White
“There are a lot of things money can’t buy. Not one of them is on my son’s list.”
Milton Berle
“It’s that special time of year when your whole family gathers together in one place to look at their cell phones.”
Jimmy Kimmel
“Thank you, stockings, for being a long flammable piece of fabric people like to hang over a roaring fire.”
Jimmy Fallon
“People really act weird at Christmas! What other time of year do you sit in front of a dead tree in the living room and eat nuts and sweets out of your socks.”
Unknown
“Mail your packages early, so the post office can lose them in time for Christmas”
Johnny Carson
“The Supreme Court has ruled that they cannot have a Nativity scene in Washington, D.C. This wasn’t for any religious reasons. They couldn’t find three wise men and a virgin.”
“Do you know why some people love Jesus? Without Jesus, no Christmas!”
Melanie White
“Even before Christmas has said ‘Hello,’ it’s saying ‘Buy,Buy’”
Robert Paul
“Let me see if I’ve got this Santa business straight. You say he wears a beard, has no discernible source of income and flies to cities all around the world under the cover of darkness. You sure this guy isn’t laundering illegal drug money?”
Tom Armstrong
MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL OUR READERS
Great roundup, great quotes – Happy Holidays to Arts Alive SA and thanks for always keeping us informed.