![]() Sublime ale house full#Point Loma Seafood is a tourist destination, full of Arizona weekenders and salty sport fisherman alike, but still quality and worth the wait. Sun bleached blonde hair and sunglass strap tanlines are a rite of passage in some parts of San Diego, and Point Loma harbor is the Mecca. Walk off the “-itis” a block away on the beach, then head back over the bridge to Liberty Station. Come alone or with 1 fellow traveler, because big groups don’t work here- it’s tight and hot, and saddling up on a vinyl stool and getting pancakes, hash, and very respectable diner coffee is the name of the game. If you’re only doing breakfast, you better do it well, and Night & Day is a legend. Night & Day Café scratches that short order diner itch, albeit with, dare I say, a much better pancake service than NYers would come to expect for our local diners. Home to the legendary Hotel Del Coronado and the US Navy Pacific Fleet, it’s also a tourist hot bed with millionaire homes and gorgeous family-oriented beaches. Get started early with this institution located on beautiful Coronado Island (technically a man-made peninsula sitting in the middle of San Diego bay). The omni-present drive-thru handles the late night food needs in SoCal, so diners morph into the “coffee shop” style- open for breakfast and lunch, then usually hanging the “closed” sign around 4ish. For a New Yorker abroad, the eternal search for a reliable diner is a tough journey in San Diego. They’ll trade roles with others as the run proceeds.I can’t stress this enough people: base layer, base layer, base layer. Other standouts were Lizzie Tripp and Ransom Wilkes-Davis as Arabian Dolls Itzel Hernandez as the Shepherdess Parker Brasser-Vos, Harold Cueto and Benjamin Simoens as the Jacks and Annia Hidalgo’s joyous, spinning Snow Queen. Rising stars Barry Molina and Alana Griffith were fiery, funny and virtuosic in turn. As always, his partner, Marize Fumero, executed every impossible balance, lift and leg extension with profound composure, as if she were the movement. In any case, Drosselmeyer was present and alive in this performance as never before, holding the show in his hands like a true magician.ĭavit Hovhannisyan, the other longtime company dancer who, like Howell, has given audiences so much pleasure for many years, was at his most graceful, buoyant and musically sensitive. Perhaps also contributing was the fact that Patrick Howell, who danced Drosselmeyer so beautifully in this year’s opening, is a new first-time father. Maybe the fact that Pink himself played the toymaker, Drosselmeyer, for one performance last year re-inspired his choreographic imagination. Every moment led to the next as in an actual dream. Certainly the fact that conductor Pasquale Laurino has made this greatest of all ballet scores part of his DNA-as evidenced by the sublime performances of the Milwaukee Ballet Orchestra and the Milwaukee Children’s Choir-helped make this year’s opening matinee the most moving, for me, of the many iterations of Michael Pink’s holiday masterpiece that I’ve been honored to review. Certainly the freedom given to long-standing company members to make every use of the knowledge they’ve acquired through years of performing characters and choreography they’ve helped to define was another reason. Maybe the energy of an unusually large number of first-time performers and the excitement of newer company members in bigger roles helped. ![]() Maybe Milwaukee Ballet’s 50th anniversary and the company’s move to its new landmark home in the Third Ward brought fresh focus to The Nutcracker this year. ![]()
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