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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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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.
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Recent La Jolla transplant Jim Owens doesn’t like the word “exercise” — he prefers the word “movement.”
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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.
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Mays co-wrote and will play all the roles in the filmed adaptation of the Charles Dickens holiday classic.
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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.
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For La Jollans Doreen Schonbrun and Phyllis Epstein, advocating for the arts in education isn’t a job, it’s a passion.
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The median price for January represents a 9.4 percent increase in a year.
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With Women’s History Month coming in March, the La Jolla Light interviewed several local female science teachers about their efforts to close the gender gap in science and why that’s important.
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La Jolla couple creating documentary about little-known WWII tragedy — the sinking of the SS Athenia
La Jolla couple creating documentary about little-known WWII tragedy — the sinking of the SS Athenia
La Jolla residents Tom and Kay Sanger are on a mission to tell the most incredible World War II story you’ve probably never heard.
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The Phase 1 clinical trial involves a type of gene therapy that will be used for the first time in humans.
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Several dozen groups and community leaders — including a school music organization, county Supervisor Nathan Fletcher and the Black Student Union Coalition — will help choose the San Diego Unified School District’s next superintendent.
“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.
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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.
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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.
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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. • The San Diego Model Railroad Museum presents the next part in its virtual “Modeler Citizens” series at 6 p.m.
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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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At the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, a lot of us dusted off our cookbooks and started experimenting in the kitchen.
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With the intent of a sustained opening, the La Jolla Historical Society will reopen Thursday, Oct. 15, with new coronavirus-related restrictions.
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Most of the new shows will feature local artists of color.
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Watching the unveiling of the Women’s Rights Pioneers Monument in New York’s Central Park from a small screen almost 3,000 miles away may not have been what La Jolla residents Myriam Miedzian and Gary Ferdman had in mind seven years ago when they set out to get a statue built recognizing women in history.
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This Month in History is a recurring feature in the La Jolla Light highlighting local happenings from yesteryear.
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To bring the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego’s fundraising art auction into the digital world, La Jollan and virtual tour provider Sam Simmons used a tool typically reserved for real estate or planning and design: a Matterport Pro 2 camera.
