On the other side of the tracks from the strip-joint business, La Jolla–based influence-peddler Matt Peterson continues to pull down heavy money from ex-GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney and his wife Anne, hard at work …
November 13, 2013
La Jolla Stories
Development is good, except when it isn’t
Best of Beer Week: November 10
Iron Fist Brunch: Every year, Churchill’s Pub & Grille closes out Beer Week the same way, by inviting Iron Fist Brewing Company brewmaster Brandon Sieminski and his beers over for brunch, which is available a …
November 8, 2013
UCSD's Southwest Fisheries Science Center faces facelift
Preparation has begun for the demolition of several buildings that once housed the Southwest Fisheries Science Center on the UC San Diego campus, employees were recently informed. Over the past several years, contractors working for …
October 24, 2013
Speeding Prius crashes cars in La Jolla
According to the SDPD 's Officer Townsend, at the scene of the accident, at about 11:30 a.m. on October 23, a Prius traveling west on La Jolla Village Drive at a high rate of speed …
October 23, 2013
The Tallest Tree in the Forest at La Jolla Playhouse
When I see the name Moises Kaufman linked to a project I circle the date at once. He’s been involved with some of the most thorough, serious, and moving pieces in recent years: The Laramie …
October 21, 2013
Take a spin in David Copley's former yacht
Pssst! Wanna ride in the late David Copley's yacht, once christened Happy Days? It will only cost you $250,000 a week. The yacht has been refurbished ("refitted," in yachting circles) and has been put out …
October 18, 2013
Gorging in the court
Tuesday evening. La Jolla. Swanning along Prospect. Glimpses of the pearly Pacific flashing up from between buildings. That beautiful old pink monster La Valencia Hotel looks like it’s been through quite a makeover. Huh. Bet …
From La Jolla's Bottom Scratchers to today's scuba divers
San Diego spear fishermen of today come from a lineage that began in the ’30s, with the Bottom Scratchers of La Jolla. Today there are less fish but the equipment is superior. Nevertheless, it’s easy to drown when a big sea bass takes you for a ride through a kelp ball.
October 9, 2013
A view back into geologic time at La Jolla Shores
Encounter several natural habitats and an Indian acorn-grinding area on this short trail.
October 9, 2013
Without Walls Festival: Cornerstone and The Myth Project: Altar
Cornerstone We’ve been hired to work at the world’s most important power plant, in the center of civilization. We will be responsible not just for providing energy to the masses but also for the air …
October 4, 2013
Without Walls Festival: Seafoam Sleepwalk and Hedda-ing
Seafoam Sleepwalk. The Scripps Institute of Oceanography has catalogued countless species of marine life. But they have never - and will never again after this coming Sunday - witnessed who emerges from the whitewater at …
October 4, 2013
Seal threateningly follows man at La Jolla Cove
A seal decided to join human beach activity when it swam ashore at La Jolla Cove at 3 p.m. on September 28. No one could believe that the seal would come so close to people …
October 1, 2013
“Let’s invent where theater happens!”
When he was a “little kid, maybe five or six,” Christopher Ashley watched a man on ice skates at Rockefeller Center. As he skated, the man recited a poem and the blades clacked out the …
September 27, 2013
Without Walls Festival: Counterweight at La Jolla Playhouse
A preview of coming attractions at the La Jolla Playhouse’s Without Walls Festival (October 3-6). You could almost say the festival stages plays anywhere but in a theater. The plays are one-acts. Most run less …
September 24, 2013
La Jolla shooting spree recalls Fletcher family murder tragedy
Borrego ranch killings by drunken scion two decades ago marked wealthy San Diego bankers and landholders as star-crossed.
September 19, 2013
Top 10 on tap
Earlier this year, I shared the local brewing projects I was most highly anticipating. Most of them (Pizza Port Bressi Ranch, Stone Brewing World Bistro & Gardens – Liberty Station, Benchmark Brewing Company, Hess Brewing …
September 19, 2013
Tokyo Quartet
When the sole remaining founder of the Tokyo String Quartet, Kazuhide Isomura, announced his intention to retire along with second violinist, Kikuei Ikeda, the two remaining players began to accept auditions to fill those spots. …
September 16, 2013
Mitt Romney's La Jolla mansion not a done deal
An appeal before the California Coastal Commission meeting on September 11 in Eureka against the planned larger home by Mitt and Ann Romney has been postponed. Architect and longtime La Jolla resident Anthony A. Ciani …
September 9, 2013
La Fenice
Current Owner: Terravista Partners, Ltd. Listing Price: $9,875,000 to $12,900,000 Beds: 6 Baths: 8 House Size: 10,000 square feet “La Fenice,” named after a famed 18th-century Italian theater, is one of the oldest and most …
September 4, 2013
La Jolla Playhouse presents Detained in the Desert
It’s always a relief when license plates with Saguaro cacti exodus east this time of year. Our roads thin out, like arteries purged of cholesterol. But Teatro Mascara Magica’s staging a play all Zonies should …
September 4, 2013