San Antonio Express-News (Sunday)
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Musician Aubrey Logan is a double-threat: She’s a jazz trombone player and a peppy vocalist who once earned a golden ticket on “American Idol.” She’s also an eclectic artist who has vamped up Taylor Swift’s “Bad Blood” with Scott Bradlee’s Postmodern Jukebox, dropped an aria from “Carmen” onto her debut album and recorded an instrumental version of Fleetwood Mac’s “Dreams” for her upcoming “Standard.”
7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Jazz, TX, 312 Pearl Parkway, Suite 6001. $25 (sold in blocks of two), jazztx.com.
The Tejano Conjunto Festival returns next weekend in a virtual format. The fest starts with “Conjunto Blues,” a recording of Nicolás Valdez’s play weaving together family stories with the history of conjunto music; Valdez also will lead a workshop about the research he did for the play. The heart of the festival is a livestreamed concert, which will spotlight Flaco Jimenez, Eva Ybarra and other musicians. “Conjunto Blues”: 7 p.m. Friday. Workshop: 1 p.m. Saturday. Concert: 7 p.m. Saturday. $15 for all three events, guadalupeculturalarts.org. Ticket buyers will receive a link to the streams.
“Adventure Time: Distant Lands — Together Again” is the third of four hourlong specials that continue the strange and amazing animated saga created by San Antonio native Pendleton Ward. More important, this reportedly will be the final adventure for the series’ stars, Finn the Human and Jake the Dog. It’s going to be mathematical.
Available Thursday on HBO Max.
Anthony Hopkins winning best actor for “The Father” was the big surprise of this year’s lackluster Academy Awards. The late Chadwick Boseman was the sentimental favorite, though Hopkins’ performance as a man living with dementia was almost universally acclaimed.
Blu-ray on sale Tuesday.
Lucinda Williams did Tom Petty. Now Pretenders frontwoman Chrissie Hynde is releasing her quarantine project “Standing in the Doorway,” a collection of Bob Dylan covers. It’s not hard to imagine that titles like “You’re a Big Girl Now,” from “Blood on the Tracks,” and “Don’t Fall Apart on Me Tonight,” from “Infidels,” were Pretenders songs all along. Available Friday on digital music services.
Magik Theatre is opening an inperson production of “Charlotte’s Web,” the kid classic about a wise spider trying to save the life of a pig named Wilbur. The opening performance include games and food outside the theater.
Opens 2 p.m. Saturday. Regular performances 7 p.m. Fridays, 2 and 7 p.m. Saturdays and 2 p.m. Sundays through July 3, Magik Theatre, 420 S. Alamo. $25, magiktheatre. org.