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When she creates her spirituality- and nature-inspired pieces of art, La Jolla High School graduate and muralist Melanie Atesalp likes to draw from the immediate environment.
With the pandemic keeping many of us home for coronavirus-restricted holidays, some of the signature special events in the La Jolla area have migrated online, outdoors or to other adaptations to provide ways to celebrate the season.
A new program designed to connect San Diego innovation with resources aimed at solving ocean challenges is gearing up to take applications in the spring.
An armed man robbed a 7-Eleven convenience store in La Jolla early Nov. 26, authorities said.
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A La Jolla resident is hoping her cookbook, a collection of recipes and advice culled from her experiences and those of friends, will help people create their own comfort food while being confined to home during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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The La Jolla Traffic & Transportation Board cycled through discussions of improvements to bikeways in two neighborhoods at its meeting Nov. 18, with both issues being forwarded to the La Jolla Community Planning Association.
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The La Jolla Development Permit Review Committee dedicated more than an hour and a half of its Nov. 17 meeting to a discussion of building heights, spurred by a recent development project that put focus on just how confusing the current code can be to some.
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Though COVID-19 has dominated health- and science-related news this year, the Nov. 17 Insights Series webinar by La Jolla’s Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute focused on work toward understanding diabetes and new ways of treating it.
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To help make self-driving cars safer in challenging weather, engineers at UC San Diego are developing new technologies and fusing them with existing ones to improve how the vehicles “see” other cars.
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UC San Diego says it detected traces of the COVID-19 coronavirus in five areas of the campus last weekend after it greatly expanded its search for the pathogen in wastewater samples drawn from dozens of buildings.
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Philadelphia 76ers forward Tobias Harris buys a blufftop La Jolla property and pulls off an elaborate surprise proposal to his girlfriend.
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Thursday, Nov. 26 - Thanksgiving Sunday, Nov. 29 • La Jolla Open Aire Market, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., Girard Avenue at Genter Street. (858) 454-1699. lajollamarket.com Tuesday, Dec. 1 • Rotary Club of La Jolla meets, noon online.
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About two weeks after Philip Tajanko moved into his UC San Diego dorm room, he tested positive for the COVID-19 coronavirus.
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Police blotter Oct. 25 Vandalism: 1100 block Prospect Street, noon Oct. 30 Residential burglary: 7400 block Fairway Road, 7 a.m.
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District officials say they want more positive interactions between students and school police.
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The La Jolla Light presents this continuing series of online activities to undertake on your computer or tablet during your quarantine quandary.
Kelly Dodd, life enrichment director at La Jolla retirement community Casa de Mañana, said her job means enlivening routines for the 200 residents there — “a lot of the fun stuff.”
Making time to reconnect with loved ones is a wish topping many lists this holiday season, so set aside the chaos this year and commit to doing more — more of what you truly enjoy, that is.
UC San Diego Athletic Director and La Jolla Rotary Club member Earl Edwards recognizes that conversations about race can be uncomfortable.
The La Jolla Light presents this continuing series of online activities to undertake on your computer or tablet during your quarantine quandary.
With Thanksgiving just around the corner, a series of 10 laminated paper turkeys will be hidden in La Jolla in the latest scavenger hunt organized by the Village Merchants Association.
Proceeds from sales of ‘Dining In’ will help fund child abuse prevention services.
Bill Robbins is known by a lot of nicknames. “Mayor Bill.” “Bill from The Cove.”
‘Kentucky’ Gallahue and his dog, Derby, are featured in Amazon’s globe-trotting reality series, ‘The Pack.’
La Jolla resident Peggy Hinaekian has written “The Girl from Cairo,” in which she details her memories from several decades lived on three continents, including significant decisions made “on a whim.”
Thousands of San Diegans raised flags and laid flowers on graves to honor America’s living and departed military service members for Veterans Day this week.
Those who watched the Nov. 10 episode of ABC’s “The Bachelorette” may have seen a familiar face, or perhaps noticed the name of their beloved town flash across the screen.
People in Your Neighborhood: La Jolla Girl Scout launches multicultural cooking classes for children
People in Your Neighborhood: La Jolla Girl Scout launches multicultural cooking classes for children
Because gathering around a table to break bread — or conchas or naan or a crumpet — is one of the more enjoyable ways to learn about a new culture, La Jolla High School senior Lauren Nitahara has launched a series of videos for her Girl Scout Gold Award project to teach children how to cook using recipes from around the world.
Recent La Jolla transplant Jim Owens doesn’t like the word “exercise” — he prefers the word “movement.”
The stage at the La Jolla Music Society’s Conrad Prebys Performing Arts Center will transform Saturday, Nov. 7, with the livestream-only world-premiere performance of “Metamorphosis” from Grammy Award-winning group Third Coast Percussion and Movement Art Is.
Mays co-wrote and will play all the roles in the filmed adaptation of the Charles Dickens holiday classic.
Business Spotlight: La Jolla resident Andrew Melone thinks he has a recipe for a home-cooked meal that can’t be topped: fresh ingredients artfully assembled and ready to go from American Pizza Mfg., the “family-focused pizza and pasta concept” he opened in July at 7402 La Jolla Blvd.
For La Jollans Doreen Schonbrun and Phyllis Epstein, advocating for the arts in education isn’t a job, it’s a passion.
“It’s been a good life,” La Jolla Shores resident Linda Olson said of the one she’s built with the help of her husband after surviving an accident 41 years ago that left her a triple amputee.
The San Diego Center for Jewish Culture, a division of the Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center, began its 2020-21 “Arts & Ideas” season this month in an entirely virtual format designed to provide high-quality viewing experiences.
As restaurants have taken their tables and chairs outside during the coronavirus pandemic, La Jolla artist Paula McColl has taken to her canvases and brushes to paint them, and showed three such La Jolla works at a one-night exhibition Oct. 13 at Bistro du Marché on Girard Avenue.
The La Jolla Light presents this continuing series of online activities to undertake on your computer or tablet during your quarantine quandary.
Business Spotlight: To kick off a season that will likely be one for the history books, the San Diego Opera will present a production that has stood the test of time.
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Seventeen La Jolla student-athletes participated in the reconfigured National Signing Day on Nov. 11, committing to colleges as close as UC San Diego and as far away as Harvard University.
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Three local high school students are game to share their love of tennis with others, providing mentoring to students through Youth Tennis San Diego, a nonprofit designed to bring tennis to children in underserved areas through an after-school program.
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Every morning before school starts online, a dozen or so Muirlands Middle School and Torrey Pines Elementary School students run laps around the block on a quiet cul-de-sac in a La Jolla neighborhood near UC San Diego.
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After 13 frustrating years, San Diego seems poised to adopt short-term vacation rental regulations.
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Letters to the editor: La Jolla is ever-changing — and that’s a good thing In reading last week’s La Jolla Light, I was intrigued that the published letters all seemed to be part of a larger theme: opinions about what kind of future we should have in La Jolla.
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Crowds of Black Lives Matter supporters gathered at La Jolla Cove and proceeded to march to Windansea in a mass demonstration June 12.
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La Jolla’s spectacular scenery and village atmosphere provide a lot of opportunities for great photos.
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We asked you to show us your masks now that we’re all supposed to wear them in public places because of the coronavirus.
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La Jolla’s spectacular scenery and village atmosphere provide a lot of opportunities for great photos.
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Shelter to Soldier honors its Red Star corporate sponsors at a recent reception. The nonprofit organization adopts dogs from local shelters and trains them to become psychiatric service dogs for post-9/11 combat veterans.
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La Jolla Newcomers Club members continued its regular meetups and activities by visiting Balboa Park, touring the Park’s Natural History Museum, holding an educational history hike of Bird Rock, and gathering for a “Paint and Sip” happy hour.
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Business Spotlight: Nancy and Spiro Chaconas have brought their nearly quarter-century tradition of Greek comfort food to La Jolla, opening a location of their restaurant Spiro’s Mediterranean Cuisine at 909 Prospect St. in The Village.
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Business Spotlight: Ooh La La Dance Academy, with locations in La Jolla and Pacific Beach, is getting through the coronavirus pandemic the only way it knows how: through the art of dance, offering several new programs and continuing to make adaptations to ensure students have an outlet for their creative expression.
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Jackson Design & Remodeling, a San Diego-based team of award-winning architects and designers, is responding to current health and safety considerations by offering people interested in a remodeling project private tours of Jackson Design’s newly remodeled showroom.
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Given the national despair over election ugliness and the ever-worsening pandemic, I’ve tried to steer clear of both topics recently.
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A few months ago, I wrote two columns regaling my readers with stories about how my older son, Rory, managed to terrorize me repeatedly by re-enacting scenes from horror movies he’d been allowed to watch at his father’s.
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What is it with men, anyway? No, don’t even try to answer that.
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If it’s fall in La Jolla, there are spider webs everywhere.
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It’s been my observation over 11 years and nearly 400 columns that I always get the most response when I write about dogs or my husband, Olof.
