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New York City Ballet streams “The Nutcracker”
— SEE PAGE 4
DISCOVER! MAGAZINE
DECEMBER 19, 2020
VISIONS OF
Sugar Plums
Holiday Movies
on the
Big Screen
Milford Pioneer Theatre offers free holiday matinees on weekends — SEE PAGE 7
Music‘til
MIDNIGHT
Little Swan Lake Winery hosts New Year’s Eve celebration
— SEE PAGE 5
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Contents
IN THIS ISSUE
4
Playbill:
The New York City Ballet
streams “The Nutcracker.”
Screen
6
Event:
new to watch at home
4
Little Swan Lake Winery
hosts New Year’s Eve celebration.
Little Swan Lake Winery is set to
host an fun evening of entertainment
this New Year’s Eve.
7
Event:
This week we will continue to show you the movies that are available for streaming as well as
for rent at your local video store or Redbox.
Tenet
The Informer
PG-13
150 min.
★★★★★
R
113 min.
★★★★★
Milford Pioneer Theatre
hosts free holiday movie matinees.
Armed with only one word and fighting for the
survival of the world, the Protagonist journeys
through a world of espionage on a mission that
will unfold in something beyond real time.
Recruited by the FBI, ex-con and former special
operations soldier Pete Koslow uses his covert
skills to try and take down the General — the
most powerful crime boss in New York.
Side Trip:
Our annual Christmas with Michael W.
Smith and friends looked a little different
this year.
My husband and I have a connection
with MWS holiday music that goes back
to before we were
married. The Christmastime
album came
out in early December
and Jeff and I listened
to it on repeat as we
drove to Minneapolis
and back that year.
The snow was falling
picture-perfect, and
we felt like we were
living inside a snow
globe.
Over the years we’ve
also attended MWS
MYRNA
WAGNER
holiday concerts in Sioux Falls, St. Paul,
Omaha and Des Moines. Amy Grant is a
regular, as is the local symphony, and there
have been a host of other talented musicians.
Are the concerts predictable? Probably.
Do we love them? Absolutely.
I like my holidays a bit on the predictable
side.
This year we set the DVR to record the
hourlong special, and it felt a bit like being
a kid and being excited to watch the Christmas
specials airing that year. Some were
always the same — like “Frosty,” “Rudolph”
or even “A Charlie Brown Christmas” — but
others were new each year.
The MWS special that aired this year
didn’t include Amy Grant, or a symphony,
but it featured the classic harmonies of
Point of Grace, the amazing voices of
Jordan Smith and Marc Martel, and the
Katinas, a group we have seen on tour with
MWS several times. It wasn’t as good as
attending a concert in person, but we’ve
already been able to enjoy the show more
than once — and the ticket price can’t be
beat.
But I’m already looking forward to a seat
in the auditorium next year.
Infidel
Fatman
PG-13
112 min.
★★★★★
R
108 min.
★★★★★
This thriller is about an American journalist who
gets into trouble in the Middle East.
To save his declining business, Chris Cringle, is
forced into a partnership with the U.S. military.
Chris is in a deadly battle of wits against a highly
skilled assassin.
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Monster Hunter
PG-13 | 105 min. | ★★★★★
Behind our world, there is another — a world of dangerous monsters that
rule their domain. When Lt. Artemis and her soldiers are transported from
our world to the new one, they receive a shock. In a desperate battle for
survival against enormous enemies, Artemis teams up with a mysterious
hunter who has found a way to fight back.
Sound of
Metal
R
120 min.
★★★★★
A drummer’s life gets turned upside down when
he suddenly loses his hearing.
what you can rent or stream
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Going on Now!
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At a Glance:
WHAT: “George Balanchine’s The
Nutcracker”
WHERE: Anywhere
WHEN: Streaming Dec. 11-Jan. 3
COST: $25
ONLINE: https://www.nycballet.
com/season-and-tickets/georgebalanchines-the-nutcrackerstreaming-2020
KATE HARLOW | STAFF WRITER
VISIONS OF
sugar plums
New York City Ballet streams “The Nutcracker” this holiday season
I
have visions of sugar plum fairies
dancing in my head.
You can too.
The New York City Ballet has
teamed up with Marquee TV to bring
the holiday classic “The Nutcracker”
to the world of streaming.
George Balanchine’s “The Nutcracker”
will be available for streaming
through Jan. 3, with the purchase
of a $25 ticket.
The show was “filmed during the
company’s 2019 season at the David
H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center,
the broadcast features NYCB Principal
Dancers Maria Kowroski as the
Sugarplum Fairy, Tyler Angle as Her
Cavalier, Megan Fairchild as Dewdrop,
and more than 50 New York
City Ballet dancers,” according to the
description. “The production also
features the 62-piece New York City
Ballet Orchestra under the direction
of NYCB Music Director Andrew Litton
and more than 60 children from
the School of American Ballet, the
official school of NYCB.”
The performance runs just over an
hour and a half including intermission
and the final curtain.
When I was a little girl, my mother
would take my sister and I to go see
The New York City Ballet is offering
up “George Balanchine’s The
Nutcracker” for people to stream
in their homes this holiday season.
PHOTO SUBMITTED
“The Nutcracker” almost every Christmas.
It was always magical.
I haven’t seen the ballet for a number
of years, but I still listen faithfully
to the score by Tchaikovsky at least
once every holiday season.
I have never been lucky enough to
see a performance by the New York
City Ballet, and I couldn’t resist purchasing
a ticket to watch one of my
all-time favorite ballets performed
by arguably the best company in the
world.
Just as when I was little, it was still
magical.
The excitement builds all through
Act One, as the family and their
friends dance and celebrate with a
holiday party and a special magic
show for the children. Clara is gifted
a nutcracker, but it is subsequently
broken by her hyperactive little
brother.
In her dreams, Clara is swept away
into another realm, and that’s when
the real excitement begins. A fight
between toy soldiers and mice leads
to the Nutcracker coming to life to
slay the dreaded Mouse King.
The Nutcracker and Clara are then
thanked by the Sugar Plum Fairy and
her court with a party and variety of
performances.
One of my favorite movements is
“The Waltz of the Snowflakes,” and
the New York City Ballet’s version
took my breath away. The dancers
performed the entire section with
snow swirling around the stage as if
they were really snowflakes dancing
in the middle of a blizzard. It was
marvelous. Thanks to streaming, I
was able to re-watch that section over
and over again.
While it didn’t carry the same level
of excitement as a live performance,
it was still wonderful.
As I laid down my head on my pillow,
visions of snowflakes, flowers
and sugar plum fairies danced in my
head. F
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Music
‘TIL MIDNIGHT
Little Swan Lake Winery hosts
New Year’s Eve celebration
Good music, good food,
good times.
That’s the plan for New
Year’s Eve at Little Swan Lake
Winery in rural Estherville.
There will certainly be plenty of
each for everyone to enjoy as they
ring in the new year.
The New Year’s Eve Musical Extravaganza
is set to begin at 8 p.m.
Thursday, Dec. 31, with three
musical acts taking their turns on
the stage.
Seats are $40 per person, which
includes the meal of bison prime
rib with accompanying side
dishes.
Turning up the volume for the
night, in no particular order, will
be Storm Rising, Boon & Lambert
as well as Adam and Jacob, who
will all combine their efforts to truly
make it a musical extravaganza.
“We’ve done this with combined
groups a couple times before
and it’s always just a ball. We
started calling it that a few years
ago and it just fit,” said Scott Benjamin,
co-owner
of the winery.
“New Year’s Eve
is a lot of fun
because people
are there to really relax and enjoy
the evening. And there’s always
wine, which is part of it, too.”
Each of the musical acts will
be recognizable to regulars of the
winery and many venues in the
overall Iowa Great Lakes region.
“Boon & Lambert, we really
enjoy working with them. When
they play here it’s always a lot
of fun,” Benjamin said.
Adam and Jacob play a little
more new stuff perhaps than
the others, according to Benjamin,
but still do a lot of classic
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“They’re both talented musicians
and it’s been fun to watch
them grow over the few years
we’ve been having them here,”
Benjamin said.
He particularly enjoys the harmonies
brought forth by Storm
Rising.
“Their harmonies work so
well together. It’s just awesome,
At a Glance:
WHAT: New Year’s Eve Musical Extravaganza
WHERE: Little Swan Lake Winery, 1350 320th Ave., Estherville, IA
WHEN: 8 p.m.-midnight, Thursday, Dec. 31
COST: $40
CONTACT: 712-858-4592 or 712-380-0001
ONLINE: www.lslwinery.com
COVID-19:
Of course the New Year won’t be rung in without a few protocols
in place due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.
That means that at Little Swan Lake Winery they’ll only be seating
half capacity with the tables properly spaced out.
Employees will be wearing masks and guests will be required
to do so until seated at their tables.
beautiful stuff,” Benjamin said.
“All three groups are different in
what they do with their sound
and all that, but all these groups
we just really enjoy having here.”
Winery guests are sure to enjoy
them as well as they welcome in
a new year. F
Their harmonies work so well together. It’s just awesome, beautiful
stuff. All three groups are different in what they do with their sound
and all that, but all these groups we just really enjoy having here.
Scott Benjamin
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Everyone has a favorite Christmas movie.
And if you are lucky, you just might be
able to see them on the big screen.
During the holiday season each year, the
Milford Pioneer Theatre offers free matinees of
holiday movies on weekends.
The event is sponsored by area businesses in
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spend time together.
“We have been doing the Merchant Matinees
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It’s a tradition that has changed over time.
“It was originally set up to give parents
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At a Glance:
WHAT: Milford Merchant
Matinees
WHERE: Milford Pioneer
Theatre, 905 Okoboji Ave.,
Milford, IA
WHEN: Weekends through
Christmas
COST: Free
CONTACT: 515-207-2306
ONLINE: https://www.milfordpioneertheatre.com/
free-merchant-matinees.
html
KATE HARLOW | STAFF WRITER
Holiday movies on
the big screen
Milford Pioneer Theatre offers
free matinees on weekends
Express.” And on Christmas from Dec. 23-25,
they’ll be showing “A Christmas Story.”
Show times are posted about a week before
each movie starts its run and people can reserve
their spots at that time.
“Reservations are kind of a new thing for us
since we put in recliner seats, which reduced
our theatre from 250 seats to 72. We implemented
reservations last year, and this year it
makes even more sense,” Mayer said. “It helps
us ensure social distancing and we can track
who is in the theatre and we even have their
contact information.”
They are requiring that all attendees wear
face masks while attending a movie and they
have hand sanitizer and, in general, have strict
COVID-19 safety protocols.
Even though the event looks a little different
this year, Mayer is excited that they were able
to carry on the tradition this year for Free Merchant
Matinees.
“For me, growing up in Milford, it is something
I remember doing from when I was little,”
Mayer said. “Having those childhood memories
for youngsters and parents is important.
And it’s a nice way to find some entertainment
for a few hours on a Saturday or Sunday.” F
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