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The sea was eerily calm on Friday, Sept. 6, 2019 as Jeff Koch paddleboarded up to the cave that’s been in the news for requiring emergency repair work, for shutting down Coast Boulevard, and for posing the risk of a catastrophic cave-in.
“At the Homework Help table, one must be prepared for anything,” opines La Jolla Library volunteer Marty Ries.
Uber announced Sept. 12 that it’s pulling nearly all of its Jump branded e-bikes and scooters out of San Diego, based on frustrations over the City’s new regulations governing dockless mobility devices.
After voting to OK a shortlist of dockless- scooter corral locations earlier this summer, the La Jolla Community Planning Association (LJCPA) is taking a step back, announcing its support for a full-stop moratorium on dockless scooters and accompanying corrals.
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Blood Drives This Week Donors must present a photo ID, be age 17 or older, weigh at least 114 pounds, and be in good health. -
This year’s La Jolla Cove 10-mile relay swim (pending approval from the San Diego Department of Park & Recreation) will be held at La Jolla Shores in an 11th hour move.
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Second suspect charged in June post-party shooting in La Jolla A second man has been arrested and was charged Friday, Sept. 13 in the June drive-by shooting that left a young woman dead and three males wounded at a La Jolla house party, June 23.
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With all the projects coming down the pike at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO), the appointment of new assistant vice chancellor of finance and operations Patrick Callaghan could not have come at a better time.
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If you think La Jolla is a place people spend their pickleball years, then what’s happening in a street-level suite in the Merrill Lynch Building will surprise you.
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Three projects were approved — including two preliminary reviews that were fast-tracked — at the Sept. 10 La Jolla Development Permit Review (DPR) Committee meeting. 5550 La Jolla Hermosa Ave.
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The majority of the Sept. 11 La Jolla Village Merchant Association meeting was dedicated to a forum of candidates for its six open board seats.
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How do you protect a core sample of seafloor that’s just helped you make a revolutionary scientific discovery about plastic contamination in the oceans?
Readers rate favorite La Jolla businesses and service providers.
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The San Diego Museum of Art in Balboa Park is exhibiting two special collections this fall — “Black Life: Images of Resistance and Resilience in Southern California” and “Abstract Revolution.” ——— Photographers Harry Adams (1918-1988), Charles Williams (1908-1986) and Guy Crowder (1940-2011) were prominent members of the African-American community in Southern California.
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In the wake of the Great Depression and World War II, America was in a place for architectural revival.
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To keep their contributions to the seventh annual “Fresh Paint” exhibit at La Jolla Library, well, fresh, artists like Toni Williams try to change their perspective and paint from a new point of view.
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Comedians die on stage all the time.
Although those in attendance at the new Safe, Healthy Neighborhoods Initiative (SHNI) meeting Sept. 4 in the La Jolla Library were seeking local solutions to the homelessness they’ve observed in their neighborhoods, they were met instead with broader City- and County-wide resources that address the varied facets of this very complex issue.
Sitting at the Brick & Bell coffee shop in La Jolla Shores on Sept. 4 with local residents Sandra Munson and Tim Johnson as they catch up over iced teas, one would never know that just three weeks prior, the two were undergoing surgery so Munson could donate a kidney to Johnson.
Some may argue that The Village has its fair share of health, wellness and fitness facilities, but the new ones coming into town insist they have unique offerings that will help them stand out.
Vikings from the La Jolla High School’s Class of 1979 gathered at La Jolla Country Club for their 40-year reunion on Saturday, Sept. 7, 2019.
BUSINESS SPOTLIGHT: Client gift-giving is of growing importance in every industry: corporate, education, real estate and non-profits.
The 24th annual Symphony at Salk gala, Aug. 24, 2019 was an unforgettable night of music featuring Broadway hits performed by Tony Award-winner Laura Benanti, accompanied by the San Diego Symphony under the direction of guest conductor Michael Krajewski.
In preparing for his installation as the 12th person to helm The Bishop’s School in La Jolla, educator and history buff Ron Kim said he researched the life of the school’s benefactress, Ellen Browning Scripps, and found an unlikely connection in her life with that of former U.S.
The 26th annual “Surfing for a Cure” Luau & Legends of Surfing Invitational took place Aug. 18, 2019 near Scripps Pier to raise research funds for the Moores Cancer Center at UC San Diego Health.
PHOTOS OF THE WEEK: People flocked to San Diego’s beaches, including La Jolla Shores , during Labor Day weekend as temperatures soared in the region.
Just over a year after the Bandera Street view access was reopened for public use, the City is proposing a six-foot fence along the bluff edge for safety.
If Timken Museum of Art executive director Megan Pogue proves anything, it’s that the path to leadership is far from a straight line.
Dinner Theater Enter the mysterious and mind-bending world of “The Twilight Zone” when La Jolla High School presents its dinner theater, 6 p.m.
KITCHEN SHRINK: The other day when I opened my patio door, I heard the susurrus of wings that startled me.
Hearing Johnny Mathis speak for the first time comes with surprises.
Since 2011, La Jolla Playhouse has been wowing audiences with their biennial Without Walls (WOW) Festival, a grand-scale event that has featured performances in cars, bars, basements and the great outdoors — anywhere but inside their usual theater spaces.
KITCHEN SHRINK: The other day at the market, a fellow shopper pointed to a deep orangey pink-fleshed fish resting on a bed of crushed ice, and asked the fishmonger for one pound.
KITCHEN SHRINK: For almost 18 years, I’ve delighted in helping readers and “fans” with their assorted culinary crises — everything from how to feed ornery in-laws, migraine sufferers, and those with gluten sensitivities to entertaining on a shoestring, preparing heart-healthy indulgences for the holidays, and warding off assorted viruses.
• Warwick’s books hosts Academy Award-winning actor Sean Penn discussing his new novel, “Bob Honey Sings Jimmy Crack Corn,” 7:30 p.m.
The La Jolla High School Theater Booster Club had its “opening night” at a private home in La Jolla on Aug. 25 to celebrate its formal launch.
THEATER REVIEW: Quick, think of famous surnames from Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet.”
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The inaugural La Jolla Cove Swim drew 483 swimmers into the water on Sunday, Sept. 8 for a mile-long lap to La Jolla Shores and back.
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The La Jolla High School Vikings football defense was strong during its opening home game against The Bishop’s School Knights, Aug. 23, slowing plays big and small.
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This year’s high school football season begins with the local favorite match-up “Battle for Pearl Street,” when the La Jolla High School Vikings take on The Bishop’s School Knights, 7 p.m.
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Opinion / Letters to the Editor / Our Readers Write: The following are Letters to the Editor from recent issues of La Jolla Light as La Jollans speak out on local issues.
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Opinion / Guest Commentary / Our Readers Write: There will be a public workshop, 4-7 p.m.
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Opinion / Letters to the Editor / Our Readers Write: The following are Letters to the Editor from recent issues of La Jolla Light as La Jollans speak out on local issues.
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Friends and family members gathered at the La Jolla estate of Elizabeth Davidson on Aug. 15, 2019 to sing “Happy Birthday” to entertainer Wayne Foster, who was marking his 85th year.
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For the first time in its history, the La Jolla Music Society was able to host its annual SummerFest Gala in its own “home” — the new $82 million Conrad Prebys Performing Arts Center at 7600 Fay Ave., la Jolla.
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At a picnic along the Thames in 1862, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (better known by the pseudonym Lewis Carroll) began telling a story to entertain young Lorina, Edith and Alice — the three daughters of his friend, an Oxford dean.
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La Jolla Community Center celebrated its members at an appreciation party July 31, 2019.
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The 73rd annual Las Patronas Jewel Ball, “Wonderland,” took place Aug. 3, 2019 at the La Jolla Beach & Tennis Club.
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The Kiwanis Club of La Jolla held its 55th Annual Pancake Breakfast on Saturday, July 20, 2019.
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BUSINESS SPOTLIGHT: The La Jolla office of Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage will partner with The Animal Pad, a non-profit and all-breed dog rescue that focuses on saving dogs from high-kill shelters and the streets of Mexico, to host a pet adoption event, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 28, 2019 at its office, 930 Prospect St., La Jolla.
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BUSINESS SPOTLIGHT: As the sun rose on an early June morning, dedicated real estate agents from Pacific Sotheby’s International Realty boarded vans heading to the back hills and dirt roads of Tijuana, Baja California.
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BUSINESS SPOTLIGHT: North County now has a one-stop healthcare shop.
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Tucked away somewhere in the UC San Diego campus, historic revolutionary space Ché Café has withstood the passing of time — and several threats to its existance from the university’s governance — for the last 50 years.
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The “Infinity Cube” of bioluminescence exhibit opens Friday, April 7 at Birch Aquarium, 2300 Expedition Way in La Jolla and will stay up through Dec. 31.
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During harbor seal pupping season (Dec. 15 to May 15), mothers and pups enjoy the sandy Children’s Pool (aka Casa Beach) to themselves.
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LET INGA TELL YOU: Astonishingly, I am approaching the 10th anniversary of writing Let Inga Tell You, a gig I thought might last three months.
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FRONTLINE CANCER: Oncology is going through an immense transformation, like the Internet in the early 1990s, and academia-industry partnerships are playing an increasingly critical role in this revolution.
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LET INGA TELL YOU: While I feel that my engineer husband, Olof, and I are hugely compatible, the Venn diagram of our marriage often doesn’t have a lot of overlapping travel circles.
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KITCHEN SHRINK: A week or two of family faves can be prepared ahead of time so dinner is served pronto from fridge (or freezer) to table without last-minute meal cramming.
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LET INGA TELL YOU: Last week, I wrote about helping my neighbors rescue a young cat that had planted itself outside their sliding glass doors and meowed piteously for two days.
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