December 17, 2020  

thecoastnews.com – Del Mar Fairgrounds hosts Holidays in Your Car

Despite the state’s Stay-At-Home order, the Del Mar Fairgrounds has found a way to share a little socially distanced cheer this holiday season, hosting Holidays in Your Car, a 1.5-mile display of over 1 million holiday lights, holograms and lasers.

Visitors attending the holiday light show arrive and remain in the safety of their cars, slowly snaking through the fairgrounds to view the different lit scenes of trucks, toy lands, fairytales, and Santa’s workshop while holiday music plays through their stereos.

The show is hosted by CBF productions, the same event production company responsible for Concerts in Your Car, a series of socially distanced concerts and movies held in the Fairgrounds parking lot this fall.

Full article here: https://thecoastnews.com/del-mar-fairgrounds-hosts-holidays-in-your-car/

December 16, 2020  

thestaffingstream.com – Ensuring the “White Glove” Hiring Experience

In today’s job market, it might seem like the advantage rests squarely with employers, what with record numbers of unemployment. But that’s not necessarily true. Superstar players in your industry will always be in high demand — their standards and expectations are only increasing thanks to the impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic. To recruit the best, you need to provide the best hiring experience.

Let’s start with the basics. Of course, baseline considerations are important — salary and benefits, vacation, location, the scope of responsibility, and room for advancement. In my 25 years in executive recruitment, however, I’ve often found the intangible considerations that win the day when multiple employers are competing for the same candidate.

Full article here: http://www.thestaffingstream.com/2020/12/16/ensuring-the-white-glove-hiring-experience/

December 15, 2020  

businessinsider.com.au – What to know about platonic co-parenting — and how to make it work

“It is my mission to make this unorthodox style a more common practice among co-parenting families,” said Sabrina Shaheen Cronin, a lawyer and family coach from Michigan who works with many platonic co-parents.

Data on platonic co-parenting is hard to pin down, but sites that match single individuals interested in becoming parents have experienced an increase in traffic between 30 to 50% during the pandemic, The Guardian reported.

Full article here: https://www.businessinsider.com.au/what-is-platonic-co-parenting-and-how-does-it-work-2020-12

December 13, 2020  

gratefulweb.com – Iration Plays Final Show Of The Concerts In Your Car Series

Reggae-influenced alternative rock band Iration played a sold-out show for the final performance of the Concerts In Your Car Series at the Ventura Fairgrounds on December 4th. Since last June, when CBF Productions launched the first drive-in live music experience in California at the Ventura Fairgrounds, there has been a rebirth of live music events on the south coast. A litany of diverse acts has taken the stage at the venue, including Snoop Dogg, Cypress Hill, Fitz, The Tantrums, Los Lobos, Tower of Power and Sublime, and The Beach Boys, and 311. Iration played a three-concert mini-tour of Southern California in support of their new album “Coastin,” which debuted at #1 on the Billboard Reggae Albums Chart after its release last summer. The special “Coastin’ At The Drive-In” run played Anaheim on December 3rd, Ventura on December 4th, and Del Mar (San Diego) on December 5th.

Full article here: http://gratefulweb.com/articles/iration-plays-final-show-concerts-your-car-series

December 11, 2020  

kcet.org – Six SoCal Holiday Lights Drive-Thrus and Drive-Bys for 2020

Holidays In Your Car is a holiday lights spectacular from the producers of the summertime concert series, Concerts In Your Car, which brought live entertainment to drive-in audiences in both Ventura and San Diego this year. Now, both of those same concert locations — the Ventura County Fairgrounds in the city of Ventura and Del Mar Fairgrounds in the San Diego County city of Del Mar — are home to safe, socially-distant holiday programming that you can enjoy from the safety of your car (but no buses, limousines, RVs or sprinter vans).

Full article here: https://www.kcet.org/shows/socal-wanderer/six-socal-holiday-lights-drive-thrus-and-drive-bys-for-2020

December 11, 2020  

spectrumnews1.com – Ventura County Ballet Performs a COVID-19 Safe “Nutcracker”

VENTURA, Calif. — When the latest stay-at-home order threatened to cancel Ventura County Ballet’s annual production of the holiday classic, The Nutcracker, everyone involved was forced to think on his or her feet.

Emma Steiner, a 15-year-old dancer, has been performing in the show for as long as she can remember.

“I’ve been doing this Nutcracker since I was 5 years old,” she said. “I’m always really excited to participate.”

During this roller coaster year, she was concerned, but Steiner said she never doubted that the show would go on.

“I knew that our studio and company would definitely find a way to pull it off and bring us some holiday joy,” she said.

In reality, it came very close to not happening. The company had planned to perform a two-show day on Saturday, December 12, on the Concerts in Your Car stage at the Ventura County Fairgrounds. The show was ready to go after months of rehearsing.

“Then, we got the lockdown order,” Steiner said.

With sweeping new restrictions set to go into effect late Sunday, The Nutcracker was canceled. Kathleen Noblin, the founder and executive director of the Ventura County Ballet, was heartbroken.

Full article here: https://spectrumnews1.com/ca/la-west/human-interest/2020/12/10/ventura-county-ballet-performs-a-covid-19-safe–nutcracker-#