San Antonio Express-News (Sunday)
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1. Concert
The Texas rock band Toadies is celebrating the 25th anniversary of its album “Rubberneck,” which featured the menacing hit “Possum Kingdom,” a song that hasn’t left rock radio play lists since it was released in 1994. The Reverend Horton Heat opens.
Doors 7 p.m. Tuesday, Aztec Theatre, 104 N. St. Mary’s St. $27.50$39.50, theaztectheatre.com.
2. Holiday
Celebrate SA, the city’s official New Year’s Eve celebration, returns to downtown this year with music on three stages and fireworks at midnight. Entertainers will include R&B singer Andria Rose, Volcán Indie Orquesta Latina and the show band Mélange. 6 p.m.-midnight Friday, Hemisfair, La Villita and Arneson River Theatre, saparksfoundation.org.
3. Classical music
Looking for a storybook start to the New Year? Try “Cinderella,” the Metropolitan Opera’s staging of the opera by Massenet, which is in English and runs just 90 minutes, shorter than just about every movie in theaters right now. Mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard sings the title role.
Screens at 11:55 a.m. Saturday, Santikos Embassy 14, 13707 Embassy Road. $18-$25, santikos.com.
4. Home video
Even if you saw “The French Dispatch,” director Wes Anderson’s homage to Paris and literary journalism, you missed a clever detail, or 500. The movie, which stars Bill Murray, Benicio del Toro, Frances McDormand and Jeffrey Wright, absolutely merits a second or third viewing.
Blu-ray on sale Tuesday.
5. Streaming
Just when you think you might cancel your Disney+ subscription, they pull you back in with another spinoff series. The latest is “The Book of Boba Fett,” which features the bounty hunter who appeared in both the “Star Wars” movies and the Disney+ series “The Mandalorian.” Temuera Morrison and Ming-Na Wen star. Premieres Wednesday on Disney+.
6. Stage
“Nerd Court,” a pop culture treat, has returned to in-person sessions at the Overtime Theater. OT regulars debate such topics as “Star Wars” v. “Star Trek” and Ripley from the “Alien” movies v. Sarah Connor from the “Terminator” movies. The current series takes its shape from roulette, with topics drawn at random from the spin of a wheel featuring characters such as Buffy Summers, Bugs Bunny and Doc Brown from “Back to the Future.”
8 p.m. Saturday, Overtime Theater, 5409 Bandera, Suite 205. $10 at the door or in advance at theovertimetheater.org.