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April 28, 2024

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The proposed transformation of La Jolla Recreation Center (middle) is shown in an artist's rendering, with Prospect Street in the front. La Jolla Presbyterian Church is located across from the Rec Center on Draper Avenue, with the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego located across the Rec Center on Prospect Street.

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Backers of La Jolla Recreation Center renovation seek architectural award

An AIA Unbuilt Project Award would gain exposure for potential funding for the $40M plan.
Estancia La Jolla's expanded and reconfigured lobby features the new Trading Post Cafe & Bar.

Business News

Estancia La Jolla Hotel unveils $26 million renovation

April 27, 2024
A message reading "Slow down" has been written repeatedly on La Jolla Boulevard and other streets.

News

Suspect arrested in ‘Slow down’ street painting, but messages persist in chalk

April 26, 2024
Eric Banatao is the new principal of Bird Rock Elementary School.

Education

New Bird Rock Elementary School principal is ‘ready to support, guide and lead’

April 26, 2024

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Food & Drink

Jack Ford of TAJ Farms welcomes guests to the 21st annual Celebrate the Craft food festival at The Lodge at Torrey Pines.

Area chefs get together in La Jolla to Celebrate the Craft

Members of the La Jolla Country Day School-based Food Effect Club prep meals to serve

‘Food can be so powerful’: La Jolla Country Day club produces magazine on nutritional eating

Salmon burger

Spring into April with lighter, greener, healthier food options

A long-vacant restaurant space on La Jolla Boulevard in Bird Rock is planned to undergo an exterior remodel.

Proponents of planned Bird Rock cafe renovation say infrastructure concerns ‘did not fall on deaf ears’

Onion rings

If an onion rings, answer it — the tearjerker of the culinary world

Cameron Ingle is executive chef at Marisi restaurant in La Jolla.

Chef at La Jolla’s Marisi takes ‘the next step’ in hosting Friends of James Beard dinner

Bartenders work to create The Whaling Bar's signature cocktails.

La Jolla’s Whaling Bar is back where it began

A long-vacant restaurant space on La Jolla Boulevard in Bird Rock is planned to undergo an exterior remodel.

Plans for sidewalk cafe in long-vacant Bird Rock restaurant space get mixed response from La Jolla boards

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Education

Keith Keiper, Stephanie Hasselbrink, Jeff Luna and Eric Banatao

New Bird Rock Elementary principal makes debut with La Jolla schools group

Daniel Guo (center) took first place in the F1D model airplane world championships last month.

Bishop’s School student is crowned world champion in model airplane contest

Area students, including several from The Bishop's School in La Jolla, help tutor people in China in English skills.

Bishop’s School teens embark on online tutoring mission to teach English in China

Grace Yao, Sophie Zeng and Bishop's School Social Innovation Challenge coach Jacqueline Gomez

Bishop’s School students win Social Innovation Challenge with AI algorithm that identifies invasive plants

Torrey Pines Elementary is one of five La Jolla cluster schools preparing to begin the new school year online Aug. 31.

Materials for Molotov cocktails found at Torrey Pines Elementary School; three suspects detained

A mother seal and a day-old pup rest at the Children's Pool beach in La Jolla.

UC San Diego students go on ‘Pup Patrol’ with La Jolla harbor seals

Real Estate

The La Jolla Shores Permit Review Committee considered home redevelopment projects at these three addresses April 18.

La Jolla Shores committee gives OK to two home projects, asks a third to return

Architect Mark House presents an accessory dwelling unit proposed for Camino de la Costa.

Proposal for new accessory dwelling unit gets approval from La Jolla reviewers

Health & Science

David Brenner will assume his new roles of president and chief executive of La Jolla's Sanford Burnham Prebys, Sept. 15.

Guest Commentary: Mistakes and misconduct in science are not synonymous; there are remedies for both

Sea urchins from the Hamdoun Lab at Scripps Oceanography. The Scripps Center for Oceans and Human Health will be a multidisciplinary program to advance understanding of marine contaminants and nutrients.

Revived UCSD center to study ocean and human health

A baby seadragon, as photographed in December 2023.

Five seadragons hatched at La Jolla’s Birch Aquarium go on public view

2023 Nierenberg Prize recipient is Katalin Karikó in a Pennsylvania lab.

Scripps Oceanography’s Nierenberg Prize goes to scientist for role in COVID-19 vaccine development

La Jolla Institute for Immunology director and 2024 Cool Woman Suzie Alarcón.

La Jolla scientist is named one of San Diego’s ‘Cool Women’

SAN DIEGO, CA 10/4/2018: The first dose of the UC San Diego and La Jolla Institute developed personalized cancer vaccine before it was injected into cancer patient, Tamara Strauss. Photo by Howard Lipin/San Diego Union-Tribune/Mandatory Credit: HOWARD LIPIN SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE/ZUMA PRESS

La Jolla Institute for Immunology reports promising results in development of cancer vaccines

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Personalities

'How She Did It: The Creativity of Georgeanna Lipe' was authored by La Jolla native Patricia Daly-Lipe.

A ‘legend in La Jolla’: Book about artist Georgeanna Lipe is set for June release

Alon Leichman, who graduated from UC San Diego in 2016, is assistant pitching coach for the Cincinnati Reds.

Former UCSD pitcher makes a milestone mark in the big leagues

Grace Evans Cherashore, left, and her mother Anne Evans have led the Evans Hotels company for decades.

La Jolla’s Anne Evans is inducted into San Diego County Women’s Hall of Fame

Drummer Antonio Sánchez will perform at UCSD on April 18.

Drummer Antonio Sánchez brings ‘Birdman’ tour to La Jolla

La Jolla High School baseball coach Gary Frank and his father, Howard

Padres honor La Jolla High’s Gary Frank as Coach of the Week

La Jolla High School graduates David Green and Tom Pastore during the 2024 Alcan 5000 Rally.

When every second counts: La Jolla High School grads make a film about their 5,000-mile drive to Alaska

Ayana Boyd King from Scripps Memorial Hospital in La Jolla is one of this year's Women of Impact.

‘Hidden gems’: La Jollans collect honors in Women’s History Month and beyond

Volunteers celebrate the completion of a 'man cave' for a 12-year-old La Jolla Shores resident through the Make-A-Wish Foundation.

Make-A-Wish Foundation builds ‘man cave’ for La Jolla Shores boy

Events

Alexandra Sirek, Kev Hashas, Laura Paulson, Courtney Freeman

VIP party gets the La Jolla Concours show on the road at Scripps Park

Twelfth Night Ensemble.

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Community Calendar: La Jolla meetings and more, April 25-May 3

1932 Chrysler CP8 convertible sedan

La Jolla Concours d’Elegance puts classic cars on the coast

Del Mar, CA - June 08: Attendees walk through the main area of the San Diego County Fair Del Mar, CA on Wednesday, June 8, 2022. (Adriana Heldiz / The San Diego Union-Tribune)

Board unveils San Diego County Fair themes for 2025-26

Jewish hip hop singer Nissim Black.

Jewish Arts Festival set to return with five shows in La Jolla

The $82 million, 49,200-square-foot Conrad Prebys Performing Arts Center opens in April 2019 on Fay Avenue in the Village of La Jolla as a special-events facility and new home for La Jolla Music Society. It also received an Orchid Award that honors the best in San Diego architecture.

Student artworks to get showcase in open house at The Conrad

San Diego Master Chorale will perform Sunday, April 28, at St. James by-the-Sea Episcopal Church in La Jolla.

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Community Calendar: La Jolla meetings and more, April 18-26

Pianist Hiromi will perform with the PubliQuartet on Sunday, April 21, at the Baker-Baum Concert Hall in La Jolla.

Best Bets: A quick guide to La Jolla entertainment and experiences

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