Over the past five years, winter visitors to 25 ski resorts in California and two in Nevada have plunged from a peak of 8 million in the 2010-2011 season — a big snow year — to 5.2 million last season, which was the third year of drought, according to the California Ski Industry Association. This year may end up slightly better because the wet December and a smaller storm in mid-February provided enough snow to attract big crowds at Christmas and President’s Day ski week. But record warm temperatures in January and February and little snow forced Homewood Ski Resort to close early, for the second year in a row, and Squaw Valley canceled the World Cup ski and snowboarding races last week to focus its snow-making operations on runs for ticket-buying visitors. The Sierra snowpack on Friday was 17 percent of the historic average.
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Opera San Jose was Dalis’ “baby,” not only her pride and joy but the city’s as well. Patterned after the small European houses that launched her singing career, Opera San Jose is the only resident program of its kind in the United States. Dozens of aspiring singers have had the luxury of honing their art while taking on leading roles in works by the genre’s greatest composers. Dalis was famously strict, yet nurturing in her guidance. As exacting as she was in every aspect of running the company–keeping it in the black until fairly recently was a special point of satisfaction–the impresario did not shy away from constructive criticism.
The jousting with knights on horseback is one of the most popular parts of the event, but this year Miernik expects it will get competition from the debut of Battle of the Nations, “It’s a group of individuals, both males and females, who swordfight medieval MMA style,” she says, “It’s not choreographed, It’s full armor with real swords and rtbu mariah burlesque strap mary janes fetish ballet pump stiletto pearl red shields, and they go to hard-core battle in the field, “Of course some weapons are blunted, but there are 28 countries from around the world represented in this showcase.”..
The much-discussed gay moment occurs at the end of the movie between that character (who is, at that point, wearing men’s clothing once again) and Le Fou. The men are among a large group dancing at a ball. During the dance, when one half of each couple rotates around a circle, Le Fou and the man end up partnered up and both seem delighted. That’s it. It lasts no more than a second. As Watson rightly claimed, it’s incredibly subtle and, if Condon hadn’t said anything at all, it surely wouldn’t have generated a fraction of the controversy it has.