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 …
La Jolla Stories
Best of 2000: Best Place For An Ocean Swim
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
Tsunao Saito files libel charges in La Jolla death of her husband
The widow of murdered UCSD researcher Tsunao Saito has filed another round of libel suits against Japanese publications she says defamed her by running false reports suggesting she might have had a role in her …
November 11, 1999
Perfect Match employee's car explodes on La Jolla Scenic Dr.
Raymond Chandler never had it so good. His town, La Jolla, is becoming notorious for bizarre murders that don't get solved. And somehow people are always killed in their cars. The case of world-renowned neuroscientist …
January 28, 1999
Mysterious slaying of Tsunao Saito and daughter in La Jolla
San Diego police have yet to crack the May 1996 slaying of scientist Tsunao Saito and his 13-year-old daughter Loullie in front of their posh La Jolla home. The mystery and rumors surrounding the killings …
October 8, 1998
Walk the curvy hillside streets of La Jolla and emerge atop Soledad Mountain.
For a unique look at La Jolla -- bottom to top -- climaxed by the conventionally famous yet still fabulous view of the city from Soledad Park, try this unconventional six-mile (round trip) walking or …
July 30, 1998
The demise of privilege at La Jolla High
There's a lot riding on Dana Shelburne's shoulders. He's principal of La Jolla High School, the only public high school in one of San Diego's most prestigious communities. Nestled in the shadows of the La …
September 25, 1997
Watching the Bishop School's response to Cunanan media has been like watching a tortoise retract into its shell
'What do you make of the whole Cunanan story?" I asked. The bartender at the Whaling Bar in the big pink La Valencia Hotel leaned toward me. "I'm glad he's dead. That way, we won't …
July 31, 1997
I wanted to get as far as I could from my father in La Jolla
On the hot, breathless, soft, fragrant afternoon of my graduation from Princeton it seemed that everything good was note merely latant but unavoidable, folded and in the bag. I’d worked like a Turk those past …
May 9, 1996
Rita Bronowski recalls her life in the sun.
The English-Speaking Union, Physicians for Social Responsibility, and Planned Parenthood are among other groups that Rita has helped out. “I even had a big Clinton party here. I think he let us all down, don’t you?”
March 14, 1996
A wayward daughter's La Jolla summers
At Sanderson’s on Girard, a women’s clothing store, I applied for a job as a model. Mr. Sanderson, a distinguished, middle-aged man, said he liked my style. He gave me a job — starting the next day.
September 16, 1993
Surreal Mormon architecture comes to La Jolla
The La Jolla facility will be the third Mormon temple in California and the first to be built in the state in more than 20 years. (Los Angeles’s temple was built in 1956, Oakland’s in 1964.)
November 25, 1992
Broderick vs. Broderick – the divorce trial before the murder
The stakes in last week’s divorce trial were much higher. Betty Broderick is seeking more than $250,000 in annual alimony/child support payments from her husband, whom she has said earns upward of $1 million a year.
January 12, 1989
Clairemont and Madison High students are the P.B. locals.
On most summer mornings, Sandi is up by ten thirty. She watches Three’s Company and her soaps. While she watches, she sits in the family room and eats. Usually she puts some frozen French fries in the oven.
August 28, 1986
Pacific Beach steals the nightlife from La Jolla
La Jollans, to paraphrase an old Kingston Trio song, may well be wondering, “Where have all the people gone?” The office vacancy rate is fifty percent, local realtors say, and recently completed office buildings along …
March 28, 1985
William Kellogg defends his property in front of La Jolla Beach and Tennis Club
William C. Kellogg doesn’t tolerate uninvited guests at the La Jolla Beach and Tennis Club. As managing trustee of the Kellogg family estate, Kellogg oversees the 20-acre, oceanfront resort with ninety-seven rooms, a par-three golf …
August 12, 1982