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COMEDY

TOM SEGURA

Successful with the podcast Your Mom’s House, which he co-hosts with his wife Christina P., Tom Segura was a regional fi nalist on Last Comic Standing 2. He has hosted four specials for Netfl ix, the most recent of which, Ball Hog, premiered in March of 2020. As an actor, he appeared in the 2018 fi lm Instant Family with Mark Wahlberg and Rose Byrne. Like all of us, Segura has had personal struggles. However, it’s safe to say his are diff erent, given that he fell into a coma at age 18 following an overdose of the depressant GHB. $79, 7 p.m. and 9:30 p.m., Majestic Theatre, 224 E. Houston St., (210) 226-3333, majesticempire.com. — Mike McMahan

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FRI | 01.28

SPORTS

SPURS VS. BULLS

After refi ning his game over three seasons in San Antonio, former Spur DeMar DeRozan continues to fl ourish in Chicago, providing leadership and crunch time heroics for the reinvigorated Bulls. Earlier this month, DeRozan became the fi rst player in league history to hit game-winning buzzer-beaters on consecutive days, and early returns in NBA All-Star fan voting have DeRozan leading all guards in the Eastern Conference. The Bulls have been the surprise team in the East, if not the league, and look to return to the postseason for the fi rst time since 2017. San Antonio is still recovering from a brutal 1-6 road trip to start the new year, a jaunt during which multiple players were placed in health and safety protocols. The NBA schedule off ers no respite for the Spurs, though, with contests against the Suns in Phoenix and Golden State at home in the coming week. As protocols have proven, the margin of error is slight for a Spurs squad that has struggled to consistently protect home court this season. $21-$1,500, 7:30 p.m., AT&T Center, One AT&T Center, (210) 444-5000, a center.com, Bally Sports Southwest. — M. Solis

FRI | 01.28 SUN| 01.30

COMEDY

MIKE EPPS

There’s no denying comedian Mike Epps can bring the laughs, but if you haven’t seen his dramatic work too, you’re missing out. Best known for fi lms including Next Friday and The Hangover as well as TV series such as The Upshaws, Epps has done his fi nest acting work on dramatic projects that mix in comedic elements, among them Talk to Me, The Last Black Man in San Francisco and Dolemite Is My Name. For the last few years, Epps’ name was a ached to playing the role of comedic legend Richard Pryor in a feature fi lm. While those plans never came to fruition, Epps was able to portray Pryor in the less-than-impressive 2016 fi lm Nina about late musician Nina Simone. Epps will also play Pryor this year in a TV miniseries about the NBA juggernaut Los Angeles Lakers called Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty. Until then, fi nd Epps at a comedy club near you. During an interview on Jimmy Kimmel Live, he described doing stand-up comedy as “scary fun” because of the ongoing pandemic. “You wanna get back out and you wanna make people laugh, but you’re still thinking about [how] you can get sick,” Epps said. “I’m loving it [and], so far I’ve go en away with it.” $100-$400, 7:30 p.m. and 9:45 p.m. Friday and Sunday, 7 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. Saturday (Sold Out), Laugh Out Loud Comedy Club, 618 Northwest Loop 410, (210) 5418805, improvtx.com/sanantonio. — Kiko Martinez

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SAT | 01.29

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SPECIAL EVENT

2022 AFRICAN MARKET FESTIVAL

Produced by Òlàjú Art Group, the sixth-ever African Market Festival will showcase talents from the African continent and diaspora in a celebration of Pan-African culture. Check out the main stage for a series of performances and speakers, browse the marketplace and art gallery, enjoy authentic African cuisines, or take in the festival’s signature runway fashion show. Community members of all backgrounds are welcome to the one-day event for an experience of curated cultural programming. Founded in Nigeria and established in Texas, Òlàjú Art Group established the market as a space to present works both for Africans and by Africans. The event is at the tail end of San Antonio’s 10th annual DreamWeek, a 16-day summit aimed to inspire civic engagement among local and global communities. $10, 5 p.m.-midnight, Brick at Blue Star, 108 Blue Star, african-market.olajuartgroup.org. — Dana Nichols

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SUN | 01.30

SPECIAL EVENT

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC LIVE: NATURE ROARS BACK

As part of the National Geographic Live series, Emmy Award-winning cinematographer Bob Poole is headed to the Tobin Center to discuss his extensive work in the fi eld of wildlife cinematography and conservation as well as his upcoming six-part PBS docuseries Gorongosa Park: Rebirth of Paradise. The TV show documents a conservation project in one of Africa’s greatest natural parks and features incredible HD footage of creatures big and small. Poole works with a variety of rangers and scientists including his sister, renowned elephant researcher Joyce Poole, to bring hope to the environments and animals of Gorongosa Park. If you’re even a minor fan of nature documentaries, you’re probably familiar with Poole’s extensive list of cinematography credits across networks including PBS, National Geographic and the Discovery Channel. His Tobin Center show promises a behind-the-scenes look at decades of documentary fi lmmaking. $20-$45, 4 p.m., Tobin Center for the Performing Arts, 100 Auditorium Circle, (210) 223-8624, tobincenter. org. — Mackenzie Cook

Gina Poole

MON | 01.31

CLASSICAL MUSIC

SOLI CHAMBER ENSEMBLE: SPECTRA

SOLI Chamber Ensemble opens 2022 with a concert celebrating the spectrum of musical expression across the North American continent. To that end, the program features works by Carlos Simon (America), Jocelyn Morlock (Canada), Arturo Márquez (Mexico), Malcolm Forsyth (Canada) and Gabriela Ortiz (Mexico), as well as the world premiere

of San Antonio composer Brian Bondari’s Planetscape. SOLI continues to perform from the San Antonio Botanical Garden, where concert a endees can enjoy the evening’s music in an open-air se ing. A endees seated on the lawn are welcome to bring a low chair or blanket to sit on. $15, 7 p.m., San Antonio Botanical Garden, 555 Funston Place, (210) 536-1400, solichamberensemble.com. — Kelly Nelson

Josh Huskin

FRI | 02.04

SPORTS

SPURS VS. ROCKETS

After the Spurs’ recent 124-128 loss to the Houston Rockets at home, head coach Gregg Popovich assessed his team’s lackluster start. “We have to be more purposeful, we have to execute be er, we have to have be er decisions, but we can’t start out following people around and being soft in the fi rst quarters, and that really put us in the hole,” Popovich told reporters. Spurs captain Dejounte Murray was stellar in defeat, scoring a career high 32 points and notching his seventh triple-double of the season. Murray’s elite playmaking has served as a silver lining in an uneven season that recently yielded overtime losses to the Detroit Pistons and Brooklyn Nets. Friday night’s rematch against the Rockets off ers Pop and his charges one more opportunity to fi ne tune prior to the team’s eight-game Rodeo Road Trip. This season’s annual chemistry builder includes matchups against the Chicago Bulls, Miami Heat and Memphis Grizzlies, who have all been playing winning basketball as of late. $10-$1,535, 7:30 p.m., AT&T Center, One AT&T Center, (210) 444-5000, a center.com, Bally Sports Southwest. — M. Solis

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FRI | 02.04 - SUN | 02.06

COMEDY

JAMIE KENNEDY

Sure, everyone knows him as Randy Meeks, the rules guy from the fi rst few Scream fl icks, but Jamie Kennedy has also done plenty of other stuff , including stand-up comedy. It takes a certain level of determination to impersonate a manager, but Kennedy did it as “Marty Power” to book his early acting gigs (apparently “John Barron” was taken). The ruse led to a role in the TV show VR Rangers, followed a couple of years later by an appearance in Romeo and Juliet, alongside Leo DiCaprio and Claire Danes. By 2002, he was successful enough to headline The Jamie Kennedy Experiment on the WB network. Kennedy has also been the subject of jokes and ridicule through the years, particularly for his fi lm Son

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THU | 02.03

FILM

IN THE HEIGHTS

Oscar-winning director Steven Spielberg’s cinematic version of West SideStory might be getting all the headlines this awards season, but another Latinx-led, Hollywood musical that debuted last summer was just as entertaining. In fact, the Current included In the Heights in its Top 10 Films of 2021 list at No. 5 and called it “a joyful celebration of culture and family that’s creative, spirited and sincere.” Our review also underscored the performances of the entire cast, specifi cally Anthony Ramos and Olga Merediz. Directed by Jon M. Chu (Crazy Rich Asians) and written by playwright Quiara Alegría Hudes, the fi lm is adapted from the stage musical of the same name by Hudes and Broadway superstar Lin-Manuel Miranda. The story follows a group of Washington Heights residents living their lives in Upper Manhattan. Ramos plays Usnavi de la Vega, the owner of a bodega who dreams of one day moving to the Dominican Republic. Merediz plays the matriarch of the community, whose performance of the song “Paciencia y Fe” (“Patience and Faith”) is one of cinema’s most memorable musical moments of 2021. In the Heights may not have done well at the box o ce — it was released on HBO Max simultaneously and, you know, there’s a pandemic — but don’t let this one go unseen. Free, 6:30 p.m., McNay Art Museum, 6000 N. New Braunfels Ave., (210) 824-5368, mcnayart.org. — KM

of the Mask. But he also produced and starred in the 2007 documentary Heckler, which examined those folks who feel the need to interrupt stand-up comics. Kennedy resurfaced on social media recently via a comedic video he completed years ago with the recently departed Bob Saget. $60-$160, 7:30 p.m. and 9:45 p.m. Friday, 7 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. Saturday, 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Laugh Out Loud Comedy Club, 618 Northwest Loop 410, (210) 541-8805, improvtx.com/sanantonio. — MM

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SAT | 02.05

CLASSICAL MUSIC

AGARITA + GARCIA ART GLASS

Agarita continues its season of collaborative concerts with a performance inspired by the artistic practice of glass-blower Gini Garcia, founder and creative director of Garcia Art Glass. Glass-blowing is perhaps a discipline well-suited to musical interpretation — its practice requires both careful planning as well as the ability to improvise in the moment when the heat is on. The quartet — comprised of Sarah Silver Manzke, violin; Marisa Bushman, viola; Ignacio Gallego, cello; and Daniel Anastasio on piano — presents a series of free concerts across San Antonio in both traditional performance spaces and surprising venues, including its Humble Hall, a mobile concert venue that allows the ensemble to bring music directly to the community. For this performance, Agarita will be joined by fl utist Jessica Petrasek and percussionist Joseph Petrasek. Free, 7 p.m., The Warehouse on Burleson, 221 Burleson St., agarita.org. — KN

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