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ic flair to one of downtown’s busiest tourist attractions. The event features an array of floats dedicated to people in all branches of the U.S. Armed Forces and launches from the International Center at 203 S. St. Mary’s St. The approximately 40-minute parade will make a loop,
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returning to its starting place by noon. For those who want to scout out
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the ideal spot, a full route map is available on the River Walk website.
Comedian Mark Curry, best known for his lead role on the 1990s ABC
Those with deceased loved ones who served in the armed forces also
sitcom Hangin’ with Mr. Cooper, is hitting center stage at the Laugh
may submit their names to the Armed Forces River Parade’s Military
Out Loud Comedy Club for five performances. After starting his career
Remembrance Project via the website to have those veterans commem-
as a host of It’s Showtime at the Apollo, the funnyman landed slots on
orated on a float in the parade. Free, 11 a.m.-12 p.m., San Antonio River
series including An Evening at the Improv, Living Single, Martin, The Jamie
Walk, (210) 227-4262, thesanantonioriverwalk.com. — Macks Cook
Foxx Show and The Drew Carey Show. Most recently, Curry has starred
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in the Netflix series Family Reunion and in the Bounce TV sitcom In the Cut, about a barbershop owner and his estranged son. Last year, a video of Curry made the rounds on social media when an LA reporter interviewed him at a filling station about rising gas prices and didn’t know who he was. Social media users poked fun at her for referring to
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Curry as “this LA driver.” One local radio station joined in the ridicule, tweeting, “The news didn’t realize they were hanging with Mr. Cooper.”
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$60-$160, 7:30 p.m. and 9:45 p.m. Friday, 7 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. Saturday,
Slab Cinema’s Six of 007 outdoor movie series of James Bond flicks is
7:30 p.m. Sunday, Laugh Out Loud Comedy Club, 618 NW Loop 410, (210)
extending the iconic British agent’s exploits into July. Next up: 1995’s
541-8805, improvtx.com/sanantonio. — Kiko Martinez
GoldenEye (July 2) and 2012’s Skyfall (July 9). GoldenEye marked the first
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artist chronicles the presence of American soldiers in his hometown of Heidelberg, Germany. Rounding out the exhibitions is “The Other Side,” a group show featuring a selection of films by artists Faezeh Nikoozad, Aki Pao-Chen Chiu, Breech Asher Harani and Fumiko Kikuchi. The films were selected from Darmstadt Sezession’s 2021 prize shortlist and explore themes of change, transitions and morality. Free, 6-9 p.m., Friday July 1, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. and 2-6 p.m. Thursday-Sunday through Oct. 9, Blue Star Contemporary, 116 Blue Star, (210) 227-6960, bluestarcontemporary.org. — Ashley Allen
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ARMED FORCES RIVER PARADE As one of the largest parades presented annually along the River Walk, the Armed Forces River Parade brings a July 4-appropriate patriot-
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Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
time Pierce Brosnan played Bond in the franchise. Brosnan was the fifth actor to portray the super spy since 1962 and made four movies during his run. Directed by Martin Campbell (Edge of Darkness), the
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film follows Bond on a mission to stop a Russian crime syndicate from
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using a space-based weapons program. Sean Bean (Games of Thrones) plays Alec Trevelyan, the film’s primary villain, a spy once known as
Blue Star Contemporary is debuting three new exhibitions on First
Agent 006 who faked his death and betrays his agency. GoldenEye also
Friday that examine a diversity of themes. The work of photographers
was the first Bond film to feature an actress, Judi Dench, in the role of
and lens-based artists France Dubois, Annette Isham, Işık Kaya and
M, the head of MI6. Skyfall is the third of five movies in which Daniel
Leigh Merrill has been collected in the group show “Fake Plastic Forest,”
Craig, who followed Brosnan, portrayed Bond. Directed by Academy
which explores human interactions with nature. The artists explore
Award-winning filmmaker Sam Mendes (American Beauty), the feature
themes of artifice, theatricality, truth, fiction and healing within the
follows Bond on the heels of an ex-MI6 operative-turned-cyberterrorist
context of humans’ relationship to and impact on the environment.
named Raoul Silva, played by Academy Award-winning actor Javier
Andreas Till’s solo exhibition “De Ami,” meanwhile, explores the rela-
Bardem (No Country for Old Men). The screenings are family-friendly
tionship between Americans and Germans between the years of 1945
events, so, sorry, no shaken martinis will be served. Free, 8 p.m., Hemis-
and 2013. Utilizing found footage material from various archives, the
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fair, 434 S. Alamo St., (210) 709-4750, hemisfair.org. — KM
