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Megan McArthur earned her Ph.D. in oceanography from UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla around the same time she trained to explore a much vaster frontier: space.
While the San Diego city budget has some big problems to tackle with the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on business and tourism, projects big and small in La Jolla are still getting attention.
Some of La Jolla’s businesses are taking what the state and county required of them in order to operate and carrying it forward even after the pandemic ends.
A T-Mobile cell tower in Cliffridge Park is slated to remain for 10 more years after the La Jolla Shores Permit Review Committee lent its support to a permit extension during its April 19 meeting.
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‘Sex, Lies and the Priesthood’ tells the story of the late Richard Sipe, who helped expose abuse.
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One might think that competing in field hockey, water polo, swimming and softball would be overwhelming. But not to this Bishop’s School junior.
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Now more than ever, buyers (and often sellers) want a speedy escrow closing.
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Tight inventory continues to keep prices at record highs.
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Just as movie theaters are opening again, even at reduced capacity, the owner of Pacific Theatres and ArcLight Cinemas said the upscale cinema locations will not reopen from their COVID-19 shutdowns.
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The San Diego County Health & Human Services Agency posts an updated list at 8 a.m. daily of coronavirus cases by ZIP code, including rates per 100,000 residents.
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To spruce up The Village as summer approaches and more and more people start to return, Enhance La Jolla voted April 15 to increase its weekend trash pickup.
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La Jolla Photos of the Week
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In the dark of night over the weekend, the glittering fairy statue fronting the Norma Kay store at La Jolla’s La Valencia Hotel was toppled and destroyed in an apparent act of vandalism, the owner said.
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A family’s lawsuit alleges that a 6-year-old student at the San Diego French American School in La Jolla suffered bullying and harassment at the hands of two classmates and that the private school failed to investigate or take disciplinary action.
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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. • UC San Diego presents “A Deep Look Into Earth Day 2021: The Changing Climate of Our Natural World” at noon Thursday, April 22, online.
Acting teacher Richard Robichaux plays a territorial high school counselor in ‘Big Shot.’
Mayor Todd Gloria says first library cuts in a decade are necessary to cope with a ‘structural’ budget deficit.
La Jollan Luke Cripe is celebrating the first publishing of his writing. He’s 13 years old.
“Everyone has a Butch story.” So says author Douglas Cavanaugh about surfer Butch Van Artsdalen.
If the state continues on its path to end the tier system of COVID-19-related restrictions and fully reopen June 15, La Jolla will be ready to celebrate in a big way — with the return of its beloved Fourth of July fireworks display over The Cove.
On April 7, 1922, the La Jolla Light printed its first issue, according to “La Jolla: The Story of a Community 1887-1987” by Patricia Schaelchlin.
Camarada’s previously announced audience-free April 24 livestreamed Stevie Wonder tribute concert has been moved to 7 p.m. April 16 with a limited number of in-person ticket holders.
When it comes to training in the higher-level competitive gymnastics that Victor Joulin-Batejat has reached, the hardest part isn’t developing tremendous physical strength or committing to hours of practice.
The La Jolla Light presents this continuing series of online activities to undertake on your computer or tablet during your quarantine quandary. • The UC San Diego economics department presents “Memory and Financial Decisions” at 8 a.m.
Beata Mierzwa is integrating her passion for science with her penchant for creativity and sharing that passion with younger females to encourage them to pursue their own interests.
La Jolla may have a climate that makes it possible to dine outdoors year-round, but that doesn’t mean local restaurants are turning down the opportunity to bring patrons back indoors.
Though California plans to allow indoor live events and performances to resume with capacity limitations starting Thursday, April 15, some of La Jolla’s performance venues are not ready to fling their doors open just yet.
Pulitzer Prize-winning composer and UC San Diego music professor Anthony Davis will be inducted May 19 into the American Academy of Arts and Letters, one of the nation’s most exclusive and prestigious cultural awards for sustained artistic excellence and innovation.
The Athenaeum Music & Arts Library opened its “Paula McColl: Celebrating La Jolla” show April 1, welcoming a small group of visitors to an exhibit reception for the first time since coronavirus restrictions were implemented last year.
In one of the broadest acts of local philanthropy in years, the Conrad Prebys Foundation is giving a total of nearly $78 million in grants to 121 projects across San Diego County to bolster the arts, health care, medical research and other causes.
Ira Cosmos loves La Jolla and creating art. So the Ukrainian artist, who moved to California four years ago, has turned her van into a blend of the two as she hopes to add more of her vision to The Village.
La Jolla native Jonathan Cohen is one of the artists and designers who contributed to the La Jolla Designer Showcase Home, with sale proceeds going to nonprofits of their choosing. (Includes video)
Local artist Alison Haley Paul’s face might not be a familiar fixture in La Jolla, but her paintings are.
Rishi Deka, a UC San Diego postdoctoral researcher in radiation medicine and an award-winning photojournalist, has taken to creating what he calls “psychedelic abstract photography” in response to the coronavirus pandemic.
A new mural is adding its “visual lexicon” to The Village, and its creator hopes it will offer La Jolla viewers something “playful and light.”
While the COVID-19 pandemic ushered in a new era of screen time — Zoom teleconferencing, more Netflix than anyone thought possible and FaceTime as a way to socialize — it also seems to have brought out a lot of authors and other creatives in our own backyard.
Two local women have embarked on a La Jolla-based nonprofit organization aimed at helping struggling artists turn their creativity into full-time work.
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All tickets will be refunded, then put on sale again to select groups starting next week.
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Ticket sales have been suspended and volunteers drastically cut back.
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After 15 years as manager, Scott Farr will be leaving the club April 30.
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The return to school April 12 has provided a new sense of hope.
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At last -- Play Ball!
At last -- Play Ball!
Saturday, March 20, was a special day for Rancho Santa Fe Little League players and coaches as they were finally able to play in their first games of the season at Richardson Field, Tee Ball Field and RSF Sports Field.
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With limited, family-only fans cheering them on, the Bishop’s School Knights took on the cross-town rival La Jolla Country Day School Torreys on March 20, on La Jolla High School’s field.
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The La Jolla Historical Society presented its Jewel Awards ceremony March 12 with limited attendance at the historically designated home of Ann Craig.
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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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Business Spotlight: At the La Jolla Shores-based Surf Education Academy, instructors go beyond the basics of surfing.
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Business Spotlight: La Jolla’s Alcorn & Benton Architects has been offering clients a variety of design services for years, using its community knowledge to strengthen its planning power.
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Business Spotlight: “Flowers make people happy, no matter the occasion,” Dorothy Bello says.
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The pandemic has changed all our lives since it took hold in earnest in March 2020.
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I’ve written before about some of the curious behaviors of dogs, but ours has taken up an unwelcome new one: rolling in her own poop.
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There have long been allegations that there are plenty of parking structure and other off-street spaces in downtown La Jolla if the local denizens weren’t too cheap to pay for them.
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It has not escaped my attention that all of my favorite TV shows are sponsored by antidepressants.
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It continues to amaze me that we can land the Perseverance rover on Mars but San Diego, two-plus months after the vaccine rollout, cannot sort out the horrific daily traffic jam of people trying to get to Petco Park for their first or second doses of COVID vaccine.
