Using the LithoMosaic process Brailsford invented, small tiles are pieced together to create mosaics of the marine life found out at sea off the coast of La Jolla Shores as an educational display, and uses different shades of blue to represent the different ocean depths.
Sarah Winchester. The name may not sound familiar, but if you've ever been to the Winchester Mystery House in San Jose, you've seen her legacy — a weird, rambling mansion ostensibly built to house the spirits of the dead killed by Winchester rifles, source of the family fortune she inherited in...
Our Readers Write / Opinion / Letters to the Editor: Letters to the Editor from the Oct. 18, 2018 issue of La Jolla Light as La Jollans speak out on local issues: ——— Unlikely piano man ... While sitting with friends at Brick and Bell Cafe, enjoying a tea and discussing the world events, a man...
Attention: art-lovers! For a good time, and a great springboard to invigorating thoughts and conversations, make your way down to Balboa Park for "Beyond the Age of Reason," a new exhibition now on view at San Diego Art Institute. Thanks to curators Debby and Larry Kline, a dynamic duo of artist/educators...
After just over two years, assistant vice chancellor of finance and operations at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO) Steven Gallagher has quietly stepped down from his position and has relocated to Texas. As part of her report to the La Jolla Shores Association, UC San Diego...
A long-sought beach access at Princess Street in La Jolla got one step closer by a vote of the California Coastal Commission (CCC) during its Oct. 11 meeting at the Wyndham San Diego Bayside hotel – albeit with some conditions. The CCC was tasked with reviewing a request from 7957 Princess St....
Whether spooky or sweet, haunting or hilarious, there are events in La Jolla and across San Diego that celebrate the spirited season for children of all ages.
“Way to go, Skippy!” reads the sign, drawn in blue and pink magic marker and nailed to a tree in front of a Bird Rock house. Its 22-year-old subject is in the backyard, celebrating with 100 of his friends and relatives the highlight of his life so far. A week earlier, McCullough trounced 128 comers...
Noted retired Scripps Cardiologist Allen “Skip” Johnson is overseeing a project to build a 1915 Model T Ford Speedster with a handful of Evans School fourth and fifth graders. Most notably, his grandson Theo.
'The Light' chats with Kara Kay, the La Jolla Realtor who stars on the new season of "Survivor."
Although the game Homecoming was cut short due to rain, the damage was done in the first half that led to a Vikings victory over the University City Centurions, 17-0.
The recently installed pedestrian-activated blinking crosswalk installed across Torrey Pines Road between Pottery Park Driveway and Ardath Lane has raised a number of questions. On the one hand, employees and guests of the nearby La Jolla Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, at 2552 Torrey Pines...
The objective of the game is simply to not be squirted with a water gun. But once a student steps off campus, they are fair game unless they wear some form of floatation device as “immunity.” Students are assigned secret “targets” that they must get within a certain period of time.
Two anonymous angels, through the Foundation of La Jolla High School, saved what could have been a disruptive shake-up in student scheduling this year. On Sept. 30, it was announced the enrollment numbers were lower than projected and the San Diego Unified School District was slated to cut at least...
Bus driver accosted by parent A parent taking his child to a school bus and the bus driver got into an altercation at approximately 6:55 a.m. Oct. 5 on the 6200 block of Soledad Mountain Road, when the parent got upset by the way the driver spoke to his child. Police report the parent was asked...
La Jolla Town Council’s (LJTC) Oct. 11 meeting at the La Jolla Rec Center was studded with brass — including Northern Division captain Tina Williams and six members of her department, San Diego Fire & Rescue chief Colin Stowell and new San Diego lifeguard chief James Gartland. The meeting was dedicated...