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The 2026 BirdStock Music Festival drew an estimated 12,000 to 15,000 people to La Jolla Boulevard and raised roughly $40,000, more than double last year's total, though some Bird Rock residents say the event has outgrown its neighborhood roots.
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The 18th annual La Jolla Art & Wine Festival takes over Girard Avenue on Oct. 10-11 with 170-plus juried artists and free admission, but Hurricane Rachel's projected path toward San Diego could affect the outdoor event's second day.
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Birch Aquarium at Scripps earned a Significant Achievement in the Association of Zoos and Aquariums' 2026 Marketing Excellence Award for its Living Seas Gallery campaign, which helped drive a record 603,670 visitors during the 2025-2026 fiscal year.
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Kathryn Hastie, who spent nearly a decade solving the Lassa virus glycoprotein structure, has been named a research assistant professor at La Jolla Institute for Immunology, where her new lab will pursue broad-spectrum antibodies against deadly New World arenaviruses that currently have no FDA-approved treatments.
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A packed memorial at The Bishop's School in La Jolla on Sunday, Oct. 4, honored Dr. Edith Eger, the 98-year-old Holocaust survivor, psychologist and author, with Oprah Winfrey delivering the eulogy.
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Grammy-winning Mexican American artist Lila Downs performs a Día de Muertos concert at the Balboa Theatre on Thursday, Oct. 29, presented by the La Jolla Music Society as part of its record 77-performance season.
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Knockaround founder Adam Moyer, who started the sunglasses brand in his UCSD graduate studio in La Jolla in 2005, designed a limited-edition Triton collaboration for the university's Nov. 5–8 Homecoming celebrating the new alumni center.
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La Jolla startup Aynak Inc., incubated at UC San Diego's Qualcomm Institute, is recruiting San Diego County volunteers to test about 35 pairs of AI-powered hearing-aid glasses through local optical stores this fall, with a second round in January 2027.
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The La Jolla Village Merchants Association's October First Friday Art Walk on Friday, Oct. 2, features a new gallery opening for Lisa Flowers Contemporary Asia on Ivanhoe Avenue, a Jewels of the Cove exhibition at Brockton Villa and a live floral art experience at Krista Schumacher Art Gallery.
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Andrew Williams, a postdoctoral fellow at Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, has won the American Geophysical Union's 2026 James R. Holton Award for early-career climate dynamics research.
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The third annual San Diego Tijuana International Jazz Festival runs Oct. 1–4 across San Diego, Escondido and Tijuana, organized by Daniel Atkinson, who launched the Athenaeum Jazz series in La Jolla 30 years ago.
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Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego announced six new faculty members for the 2026-27 academic year, including harmful algal bloom researcher Clarissa Anderson and MacArthur fellow Park Williams, as the institution tracks a strong El Niño developing off the California coast.