D.G. Wills Books 7461 Girard Avenue, La Jolla (858) 456-1800 If you judged by San Diego's bookstores, you'd never know we had a theater scene. The corporate stores jam theater and poetry in dinky sections. …
December 28, 2000
La Jolla Stories
Best of 2000: Best Theater Section In Local Bookstores
Best of 2000: Best Small Concert Hall
Neurosciences Institute 10640 John Jay Hopkins Drive, La Jolla When Gerald Edelman created the Neurosciences Institute on Torrey Pines Mesa, he made sure that music would have a place there. The Institute's auditorium, while regularly …
December 28, 2000
Best of 2000: Best Place To Buy Used Classical Cds
The Wherehouse in La Jolla 844 Pearl Street, La Jolla (858) 551-8901 CDs cost a lot of money, something all collectors would like to save. CDs also tend to go out of print rather rapidly, …
December 28, 2000
Best of 2000: Best Vacuum-Cleaner Salesman
La Jolla Sew & Vacuum 520 Pearl Street, La Jolla (858) 459-6680 Vacuuming, if done right, is Zen. Ask any homebody with a Miele. And if you still need convincing, go see Kerry Lee at …
December 28, 2000
Best of 2000: Best Place To Rescue Torn Clothing
La Jolla Weaver 7531 Girard Avenue, La Jolla (858) 454-4847 The sight of owner An Phan's serene face will bring peace to your soul. Listen as she describes her methods: "For some material, I just …
December 28, 2000
Best of 2000: Best Hotel For An In-Town Vacation
Hotel Parisi 1111 Prospect Street, La Jolla (858) 454-1511 Although it stands across from the splashier La Valencia Hotel, and a crowd of shoppers, diners, and gallery-goers congregates out front at the granite "rolling ball" …
December 28, 2000
Best of 2000: Best Golf-Course Deal
Torrey Pines Golf Course (with city resident's card) 11480 North Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla Reservations, (619) 570-1234 Pro shop, (858) 452-3226 Let's face it: golf is full of social climbers, 18 million ambitious folk …
December 28, 2000
Best of 2000: Best Field Guide To The Underworld
The San Diego-La Jolla Underwater Park Ecological Reserve by Judith Garfield www.judith.garfield.org The sarcastic fringehead is not a member of a rock group; it's a local fish with a sour disposition, just one of the …
December 28, 2000
Best of 2000: Best Restaurant For Romance
The Sky Room La Valencia Hotel, 1132 Prospect Street, La Jolla (858) 454-0771 A restaurant is romantic if it offers privacy, a setting that's conducive to romance, and service that's attentive but unobtrusive. The Sky …
December 28, 2000
Best of 2000: Best Place To Dine In Style And Not Get Gouged By The Wine List
The Wine Bar & Grill 1271 Prospect Street, La Jolla (858) 456-4644 Proprietor Charles Adams has carved a beauty of a brasserie out of a former candy store and stocked it with interesting wines that …
December 28, 2000
Best of 2000: Best All-You-Can-Eat Seafood Buffet
Torreyana Grille Hilton La Jolla, 10950 North Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla (858) 558-1500 There are other all-you-can-eat seafood buffets offered around the city, but none can compare to Torreyana's preparation, presentations, and quality. There …
December 28, 2000
Best of 2000: Best Appetizer List
Roppongi 875 Prospect Street, La Jolla (858) 551-5252 What could be more delectable than to make a meal from small amounts of different tastes and textures that never tire your palate? Roppongi defines itself as …
December 28, 2000
Best of 2000: Best Walk For House-Gawking
Camino de la Costa, La Jolla Some neighborhoods have grander, even more expensive mansions. But what's nice about a stroll along Camino de la Costa (particularly the stretch between La Canada and Palomar Streets) is …
December 28, 2000
Best of 2000: Best Snorkeling
La Jolla Cove, La Jolla The 533-acre Ecological Reserve that runs from Scripps Institution of Oceanography south to Alligator Head is the only one of its kind hereabouts. Protection has made the sea life abundant. …
December 28, 2000
Best of 2000: Best Place For An Ocean Swim
Del Mar or La Jolla Shores Del Mar boasts no drownings in 20 years but has bigger surf. La Jolla Shores has a rocky point, Point La Jolla, that protects the beach, but not so …
The Bookseller Who Came in From the Cold
"There’s hardly anything you can think about that somebody hasn’t written a book on. They often come out of dissertation topics: books on The Diseases of Mites or The Mammalian Ear, from Cornell University Press, which we have."
September 21, 2000
Tour the La Jolla coastline by bike.
The pleasantly tepid, breezy days of late June and early July (on the coast, at least) are perfect for the following eight-mile bicycle ride from downtown La Jolla to Bird Rock and back. The looping …
June 22, 2000
Why is there a sign at the Grand/Garnet split in PB that says "La Jolla," with an arrow pointing south?
Dear Matthew Alice: There's a sign east of the intersection of Grand and Garnet in Pacific Beach that shows with an arrow that La Jolla is to the left (onto Grand) with another arrow to …
June 8, 2000
San Diego Mensa
“If this were a society of geniuses, it might be a lightly attended. There are societies like Three Sigma, Intertel, the top 1 percent, there are some with so few members they can only meet by e-mail.”
Are there "munchkin" houses built in La Jolla?
Matt: My mother-in-law swears that several years ago she went on a tour and saw a street in La Jolla (perhaps in the Mt. Soledad area), or even a block, of "Munchkin" houses. They were …
February 3, 2000