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CMR LIVING IN THE MIDDLE OF A LEGEND SAN ANTONIO, TX Everyone has heard about Mardi Gras and how it has been scaled back since Katrina wiped out New Orleans, but fewer have heard of Fiesta, San Antonio’s own version of citywide revelry . . NIOSA, a Spanish-sounding acronym for “Night in Old San Antonioâ€, is the lynchpin event within the 10 days of Fiesta. Held each year n La Villeta, a multi-acre art colony in the center of Riverwalk activity. The site was once the billeting quarters of General Santa Anna’s troops while they were fighting the battle of The Alamo against the Texans. How close to history is that? LaVillita, is, not surprisingly across the way from the famous Texas shrine. European immigrants, lured to Texas by Stephen Austin and others, settled on the spot and became the city movers and shakers once Texas won independence from Mexico. The Guenther family, for example, opened a flour mill on the San Antonio River which it owns to this day, and which still manufactures its product, sold in stores all over the United States. When La Villita fell on hard times after World War I, Mayor Maury Maverick energized the city fathers into restoring the community. Realizing that the location should be promoted and used as prime space for public enjoyment, they imported historical buildings to replace neglected, falling-down slums and assembled it into the art colony that stands on the site today. It has been the host of Conservation Society of San Antonio’s NIOSA since 1948. The city fathers guessed right, because NIOSA has the reputation as the largest fund raiser of its kind in the United States. With the variety of shops ranging from glass blowers to a banzai tree shop, to quaint stores selling jewelry designed by local artists strewn among the works of artists of every kind and description, the outstanding restaurants for which the area is a drawing card sprinkled throughout the multi-acre development, La Villita offers a perfect place to take a walk on a balmy evening after a great meal. But during Fiesta, the balmy comfort is crowded out by more than 240 temporary booths and fifteen strolling Mariachi bands which are there to feed and entertain more than 100,000 visitors in four days. It is impossible to see the permanent shops through the temporary shelters which house delectable collections of viands of every kind, and booths stocked with huge kegs of beer every few feet. Families wait all year to bring the next generations in to work the space for four magic days, where huge crowds come to glut and guzzle, passing down secret recipes like menudo, tacos, tamales, and gallons of beer, for public consumption. Many of these aren’t in the restaurant business, but never miss a year. Spaces have to be inherited, the old joke goes. In fact, so packed are the grounds with enthusiastic crowds that rows and rows of upright bodies stand shoulder to shoulder as they squirm as one giant body on their way to the NIOSA gates, where uniformed guards swap merrymakers one for one, in and out. Hispanic families are in the majority in San Antonio de Valero de Bexar, and comprise 70% of the population. Fiesta is an annual reliving of the rich heritage contributions of the pre-Texas days, when the non-Spanish speaking settlers were foreigners and the Texians (Texas-Mexican) were natives. With few exceptions, every event associated with Fiesta is ingrained with the colorful Hispanic viewpoint so that ever-popular vivid reds, blues and yellows, magentas and greens, wrapped around braids of dancers who swirl around in full skirts and trim gentlemen in huge sombreros snap their heels as they spin around their partners while Spanish love songs float on the air. The mellowness of the guitar-strumming tenors invite romantic listeners to snuggle and dream. Fireworks are a popular sight on April evenings when the Riverwalk parades are underway. But, every venue in San Antonio comes alive with a single-mindedness that few American cities can match. Even our neighbors to the southeast, New Orleans, not to be forgotten, puts on its own food fest in the Sunken Gardens in Brackenridge Park. Otherwise and outdoor theater, the site is easily converted during Fiesta, just for a little change of pace. It is then, when visitors have a chance to compare aromas as each draws them into line, there is a difference between Cajun, Creole and Mexican cuisine. This is probably the only place where you can eat out of a reinforced paper plate with plastic utensils, and call this special culinary art, “cuisine.†Cascarones, or armadillo eggs, are the symbol of Fiesta. Sold individually or in egg crates, all over San Antonio the celebration isn't complete until you have had a brightly painted, sucked out egg shell, filled with confetti, cracked over your noggin. When you undress at night, the confetti gets into everything and takes days to get rid of. That's not a bad thing, though, because it brings a smile and a memory that is the charm of San Antonio.