Cesarina Group to open Corallino restaurant in Point Loma

Cesarina Group, the family-owned restaurant business behind Cesarina in Point Loma and Elvira in Ocean Beach, will open its third Italian restaurant, Corallino, in the spring at the former site of Pummarò restaurant in Point Loma.

Corallino (“coral” in Italian) will be led by chef Cesarina Mezzoni at 1101 Scott St.

The Admiral at NTC in the works at Liberty Station

Restaurateur Ryan Thorson, who owns Mister A’s in Bankers Hill, is transforming five vacant properties built from the 1920s to 1942, when Point Loma’s Liberty Station was the Naval Training Center, into The Admiral at NTC.

The former homes of Navy officers and a former guardhouse stretching across seven acres along Rosecrans Street will be revamped into an event space, extensive gardens and four restaurant and bar projects.

All of them are scheduled to break ground early this year and be completed by year’s end. Find out more at theadmiralntc.com.

Commissioned playwright to have public reading of new work at Cygnet Theatre

Cygnet Theatre, based at the Joan and Irwin Jacobs Performing Arts Center at Liberty Station, will host playwright Christopher Lysik, recipient of the theater’s 2026 Dee Silver Commission, for a free public reading of his new work, “Songs for the Anthropocene,” at 7 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 17, at Cygnet’s Dottie Studio Theater, 2880 Roosevelt Road, Point Loma.

The commission, in partnership with the Iowa Playwrights Workshop, is offered to a master of fine arts fellow to help develop a new theatrical piece.

Lysik, a 2024 graduate of the Iowa Playwrights Workshop MFA program, was chosen to refine a play he first developed during a postgraduate fellowship and received a staged reading at the University of Iowa. “Songs for the Anthropocene” is a part play and part concert that follows a small group of singers confronting the emotional toll of a changing planet.

The next phase of the commission brings Lysik to San Diego for a three-day workshop culminating in the public reading. A reception will follow. For reservations, visit cygnettheatre.org, call 619-337-1525 or email boxoffice@cygnettheatre.org.

Write Out Loud presents story concert in Point Loma

Write Out Loud will present “Wonder Women,” the next story concert in its 19th season, at 7 p.m. Monday, Jan. 19, in the Dottie Studio Theater at the Joan and Irwin Jacobs Performing Arts Center at Liberty Station, 2880 Roosevelt Road, Point Loma.

Write Out Loud story concerts are rehearsed readings by professional actors, exploring specific themes through stories, poems and sometimes music.

Tickets are $25, or $22 for military members and senior citizens. For more information, visit writeoutloudsd.com/story-concerts.

San Diego Watercolor Society presents juried exhibit through January

The San Diego Watercolor Society presents “Classical Inspiration,” a juried exhibition curated by artist Keiko Tanabe, through Saturday, Jan. 31, at the Watercolor Society’s gallery in Building 202 at Arts District Liberty Station, 2825 Dewey Road, Point Loma.

The show features more than 95 original works in water-based media.

The gallery is open from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Wednesdays through Sundays. Admission is free. For more information, visit sdws.org.

Several local schools receive Honor Roll recognition

Educational Results Partnership’s 2025 Honor Roll includes seven Point Loma-Ocean Beach area schools.

Sunset View Elementary made the cut in the “scholar” category, while Point Loma High, Dewey Elementary, Ocean Beach Elementary, Correia Middle, Dana Middle and High Tech High all were named “star” performers.

The annual list recognizes schools that performed “comprehensively higher” on the California Assessment of Student Performance and Progress, or CAASPP, in English language arts and math and/or helped boost “historically underserved student populations.” It’s part of a larger national Campaign for Business and Education Excellence.

Overall, 1,834 California schools were recognized, dozens of them in the San Diego Unified School District.

View the full list of honorees at honorrollschools.com/lists.

— The San Diego Union-Tribune contributed to this report.