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La Jolla Playhouse's "Here There Are Blueberries" heads to Broadway in November as the theater's 38th New York transfer, while the Museum of History and Culture La Jolla prepares its fourth annual Modernism and Architecture Week starting Oct. 2.
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San Diego is mailing flood-preparedness flyers to more than 7,000 properties and offering free sandbags and a 15% FEMA flood insurance discount as the city ramps up stormwater channel maintenance ahead of a potentially severe El Niño winter.
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David and Claire Guggenheim, La Jolla Playhouse patrons since 1984, have donated $2 million to establish a named gallery within UC San Diego's new Strauss Family Gallery at the Triton Center, set to open in spring 2027.
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Birch Aquarium at Scripps reopens rare public access to the Ellen Browning Scripps Memorial Pier for 90-minute guided sunset walks starting Sept. 19, with Tidepooling Adventures launching Nov. 7; advance registration is required and sessions typically sell out.
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Bishop's School senior Grayson Blatt, who has juvenile arthritis, was one of nine students chosen from 400+ applicants for the Salk Institute's summer scholars program, where he interned in tech transfer rather than a lab.
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UC San Diego Chancellor Pradeep K. Khosla told California lawmakers on Aug. 4 that the university has returned 713 Native American ancestors and 53% of cultural items since 2021, while expanding compliance with new staff, 40 lab inspections, and the UC system's first NAGPRA training module.
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Composer Steven Banks premiered his Nina Simone-inspired cantata "to be free" at La Jolla SummerFest's 40th anniversary concert on Aug. 21, earning praise from critics; the festival's final two shows run through Saturday, Aug. 29.
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Tenor saxophonist Brian Levy, a La Jolla native and SDSU jazz studies director, performs a John Coltrane centennial tribute at the La Jolla Community Center's Fourth Friday Jazz Concert Series on Friday, Aug. 28.
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The "Art in the Heart of La Jolla" program, which commissions local artists to paint Village trash receptacles, has returned after a years-long hiatus with Enhance La Jolla now managing the effort and a goal of 20 painted cans by year's end.
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Scripps Institution of Oceanography named astrophysicist France Córdova, former NSF director and NASA chief scientist, as the 2026 Nierenberg Prize recipient; she will deliver a free public lecture on satellite constellations' threat to dark skies on Oct. 22 at the Scripps campus in La Jolla.
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Birch Aquarium's fall Perspectives Lecture Series opens Sept. 14 with CMBC founder Nancy Knowlton, marking 25 years of the ocean biodiversity center at Scripps, with two more talks in October and November.
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A coalition including La Jolla's Birch Aquarium released more than 3,000 endangered mountain yellow-legged frogs into Southern California mountains in 2026, continuing a 20-year program that has now reintroduced over 10,000 animals to combat a 98% population decline.