Jim Kiest

1 week ago | star-telegram.com | Jim Kiest

It's a party weekend. Again. La Semana Alegre, the Fiesta music festival that was revived last year, is returning May 1 and 2 to Civic Park at Hemisfair, and this time it's going to be free. Susan Thompson, president and executive director of the Hemisfair Conservancy, called the festival "our gift to the city" in a statement released Thursday. La Semana Alegre, which began in the early '70s, returned last year under new leadership after an absence of almost three decades.

3 weeks ago | sanantoniomag.com | Jim Kiest

With the NCAA Men’s Final Four taking up all the oxygen early in April and Easter falling late in the month, Fiesta organizers decided to push the start of the city’s biggest party to April 24. That means that for perhaps the first time in its history, the citywide celebration will run into May — and almost bump into Cinco de Mayo. Mas Fiesta! Here’s when several of Fiesta’s signature events will be happening:April 25-26 at St. Mary’s UniversityEnjoy oysters every which way you can imagine.

3 weeks ago | star-telegram.com | Jim Kiest

Never mind the grown-up boy bands and the country singers with facial tattoos, the Sex Pistols are returning to Texas. The notorious British punk band, minus lead singer Johnny Rotten (aka John Lydon), will tour the U.S. this fall for the first time in almost 30 years, following a reunion tour with Lydon in 1996. MORE CONCERTS: Chevelle kicking off tour in S.A.The band will kick off the tour Sept.

4 weeks ago | star-telegram.com | Jim Kiest

Midwestern rockers Chevelle will kick off their summer tour Aug. 7 with a concert at the Boeing Center at Tech Port. The San Antonio tour launch follows a couple of Texas festival dates for the band: BuzzFest on May 24 at the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion in the Woodlands with Marilyn Manson, Blue October and more; and KEGL's BFD, another radio station-sponsored event with a similar lineup, on May 25 at the Dos Equis Pavilion in Dallas.

1 month ago | sanantoniomag.com | Jim Kiest

March“Michael Tracy: The Elegy of Distance”: Artist Michael Tracy, who died in July at his home in the border town of San Ygnacio, had his first big museum exhibit in 1971 at the McNay. His bold, often controversial work, which touched on borders, violence, Catholic iconography, Mexican culture and the environment, would find a national audience in later years. In a full-circle turn, Tracy chose many of the works for this two-decade survey before his death.