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  • Mount Soledad

    campand: Mount Soledad

  • La Jolla sunset

    sanso66: La Jolla sunset

  • A moment of relaxation at the end of the day

    sanso66: A moment of relaxation at the end of the day

  • Seals and people. Can't we all just get along?

    sanso66: Seals and people. Can't we all just get along?

  • Gulls guarding one of the shelters above La Jolla Cove.

    Mango: Gulls guarding one of the shelters above La Jolla Cove.

  • On one of the smaller beaches in La Jolla, these moss covered rocks appear to move like pinnepeds toward the water.

    Mango: On one of the smaller beaches in La Jolla, these moss covered rocks appear to move like pinnepeds toward the water.

  • Mount Soledad

    JG_Photography: Mount Soledad

  • The Children's Pool railing in B&W by Jose Gutierrez. www.jagphotog.com

    JG_Photography: The Children's Pool railing in B&W by Jose Gutierrez. www.jagphotog.com

  • crazy creatures at the Birch Aquarium.

    rachelroni: crazy creatures at the Birch Aquarium.

  • This soothing, shimmering pool is situated just outside the entrance to Scripps Memorial Hospital in La Jolla. The sight and sound of it provides a ...

    Mango: This soothing, shimmering pool is situated just outside the entrance to Scripps Memorial Hospital in La Jolla. The sight and sound of it provides a ...

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Local Fish Eat Our Sunblock, Deodorant, and Valium

Local Fish Eat Our Sunblock, Deodorant, and Valium

City Lights News | La Jolla Shores | Point Loma
Published Nov. 4, 2009

The dolphin skimmed down the face of a cresting wave mere feet from where I sat on my surfboard. Then, circling around, it joined up with three friends outside where the waves were breaking. The small ...

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Captured at Sea

Captured at Sea

La Jolla | Neighborhood News from Stringers
Published Oct. 14, 2009

According to a press release from the San Diego office of the Customs and Border Protection agency, two Mexican nationals involved in human smuggling were apprehended by CBP officers early Tuesday morning, October 13, about eight ...

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Libelous Tell-All

Libelous Tell-All

La Jolla | Theater Reviews
Published Oct. 14, 2009

Thus far, the La Jolla Playhouse’s season has been forgettable. In Terrence McNally’s slight Unusual Acts of Devotion and Claudia Shear’s not-ready-for-prime-time Restoration, the sets — for good or ill — were more memorable than the ...

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Checking in at Morrison Hotel

Checking in at Morrison Hotel

Blurt Music News | La Jolla
Published Sept. 30, 2009

High-end music photography shop Morrison Hotel Gallery shuttered its five-year-old La Jolla location at the end of August, shifting its business to a storefront at Flower Hill Promenade in Del Mar. Though both galleries ran concurrent ...

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Oxygenated Septuagenarian Robber

Oxygenated Septuagenarian Robber

La Jolla | Neighborhood News from Stringers
Published Sept. 15, 2009

A man described as being 70 to 80 years old is suspected of robbing the La Jolla branch of San Diego National Bank on Saturday, September 12. Clad in a beige-and-black-checkered blazer and wearing a black-white-and-beige-checkered ...

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Crab Bag

Crab Bag

La Jolla | Restaurant Review
Published Sept. 2, 2009

Truluck’s is a Florida-based surf-and-turf house specializing in crabs — above all, Florida stone crabs, but also Maine Jonahs, Pacific Dungeness, never-frozen (they claim) Alaskan King, and even a bit of Maine Peekytoe and blue crab ...

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Unclear Crumple Zone

Unclear Crumple Zone

La Jolla | Neighborhood News from Stringers
Published Aug. 27, 2009

A minor traffic accident with no injuries that occurred in La Jolla left a traffic police officer working on an accident report slightly confused. On Tuesday, August 25, just before 3:45 p.m., an ambulance traveling eastbound ...

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Fishlike

Fishlike

La Jolla | Neighborhood News from Stringers
Published Aug. 26, 2009

Todd Robinson of the La Jolla Swim Club set the men’s Catalina-to-California-mainland swim record on August 25, with a time of 8 hours, 5 minutes, and 44 seconds. Beginning from Catalina Twin Harbors at around 12 ...

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La Jolla Lutheran Church

La Jolla Lutheran Church

La Jolla | Sheep and Goats
Published Aug. 12, 2009

A message was pinned to the bulletin board standing in the cozy courtyard off to the side of the trim yellow church with the red-tile roof: “If your photo is not on this board, please get ...

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Top of the World, Ma!

Top of the World, Ma!

La Jolla | Restaurant Review
Published July 22, 2009

La Valencia is a sheerly gorgeous hotel. Walking through that Spanish-Moorish tiled lobby en route to the Sky Room elevator, you want to sell your shack and move right in. A small, old-timey operator-run lift, with ...

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More Signs

More Signs

La Jolla | Neighborhood News from Stringers
Published July 16, 2009

There are nearly a dozen merchants in violation of the ban on A-frame signs in Bird Rock along La Jolla Boulevard. With the recent cutbacks in code compliance officers, there is little follow-up when merchants fail ...

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In the Realm of the Senses

In the Realm of the Senses

La Jolla | Restaurant Review
Published July 15, 2009

Marine Room kicks off this summer’s unofficial series on “Rooms with a View — and Bargains, Too.” The small tradeoff that recession brings to visitors and staycationers alike is that some of San Diego’s most fabulous ...

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Pitifully Doomed

Pitifully Doomed

Bay Park | La Jolla | Midway District | Mission Beach | Neighborhood News from Stringers | Ocean Beach | Pacific Beach
Published July 12, 2009

San Diego mayor Jerry Sanders recently announced that the City has launched a new website at which people can make donations to support the fire-pit program. Despite a $259,500 donation, fire-pit funding has only been secured ...

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A Play in Pieces

A Play in Pieces

La Jolla | Theater Reviews
Published July 8, 2009

The La Jolla Playhouse’s popular Page to Stage series, which presents readings of works in progress, has an astonishing track record: Billy Crystal’s 700 Sundays was a major Broadway hit; Doug Wright’s I Am My Own ...

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Poachers Get Shellfish

Poachers Get Shellfish

La Jolla | Neighborhood News from Stringers
Published June 25, 2009

For many San Diegans, the La Jolla Underwater Park is a tranquil place to observe marine life in its natural environment. Poachers, however, seem to view the state-protected marine conservation area as their own personal source ...

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