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La Valencia Hotel, where pink is work with. Collaborating with others on prominent. The Sparkling LaV, created by NINE-TEN’s bar recipes, Fuller likes food and beverage manager Tracy Ackley, “cider-style drinks” for the holidays, and fizzes Champagne together with crème de highlights the syrup here, which is made cassis, pomegranate juice and pomegranate with star anise, scorched pear, and coriander, seeds. Ackley believes “pomegranate is very accenting the amber cocktail. winter, very holiday,” and wanted to Another variety of whiskey sour can be “showcase the spirit the hotel has” with a found at George’s California Modern on cocktail anyone can “come in and enjoy.” Prospect, where Sam Peters, bar manager, At local-driven Wheat & Water in Bird shakes and strains his Nocino Sour. “I love Rock, bar manager Shawn Marks strays from whiskey sours,” Sam stated. “I like the the traditional, submitting his Santa richness of sours, and this one is very Would Go, which stirs a cookie-infused focused on the season.” He mixes a bourbon with Wheat & Water’s own cold traditional sour but uses Nocino, a green brew, simple syrup, and chocolate and walnut liqueur, and house-made cinnamon orange bitters and is served with a syrup, adding it all to a hickory- and chocolate-dipped, orange-zested cookie. cinnamon-smoked glass and grating “What makes it holiday is the cookie,” Marks cinnamon, nutmeg and star anise on top, AllNew ProgramwithLiveOrchestra said, noting his take on drinks emphasizes noting that the “bold flavors” expressed in “fresh ingredients … a farm-to-table the drink “evoke the warmth of the season.” approach.” Anchored in holiday flavors from simple akeamagicjourney through5,000 yearsofcivilization! Travel Tucked into the Grande Colonial Hotel, and sparkling to the more adventurous and Tbacktoancient dynasties. Watchmyths and legendscomealive. the bar at NINE-TEN is shaking up the esoteric, these beverages aim to add a little traditional whiskey sour. The Spiced Pear more sparkle to the holidays. With all of Discovervibrant ethnicand folk traditions.Beinspiredbythe stunning Sour combines rye whiskey, egg whites, these libations available through December classical Chinesedance,colorfulcostuming,breathtakingbackdrops ginger bitters, and switches up the (and many sticking around through traditional lemon and sugar for a homemade February), there are plenty of opportunities and enchanting melodies. Find outwhy Shen Yunisadoredbymillions pear syrup, which bartender Katie Fuller to belly up to something belly-warming. yetbanned in China. ExperienceShenYun! counts as one of her favorite ingredients to Cheers! o Holiday Toasts “#####!Amust-see!” I “May your stuffing be tasty, may your turkey be plump; may your —BroadwayWorld potatoes and gravy have nary a lump. May your yams be delicious, and your pies take the prize, and may your Thanksgiving dinner, stay off your thighs!” — Unknown “Exquisitely beautiful. An extraordinaryexperience.” —CateBlanchett,Academy Award-winningactress I “May your neighbors respect you, trouble neglect you, the angels protect you, and heaven accept you.” — Irish blessing 1 “The 8thwonderofthe world.” —Joe Heard, former WhiteHouse photographer,attended Shen Yun7times in SanDiego I “May your pockets be heavy and your heart be light, may good luck pursue you each morning and night.” — Irish blessing 2 JAN17–22 CaliforniaCenterfor theArts, ESCONDIDO I “For flowers that bloom about our feet; for tender grass, so fresh, so sweet; for song of bird, and hum of bee; for all things fair we hear or see, JAN24–26 SANDIEGO CivicTheatre Father in heaven, we thank Thee!” — Ralph Waldo Emerson APerfect Gift.Get TicketsToday! I “Give thanks for unknown blessings already on their way.” 888.973.7469 | ShenYun.com/SD — Native American Saying