PhotosMutual Friend – a neighborhood ice cream shop
How homemade ice cream relates to coffee
Ian Anderson 10:14 p.m., Oct. 17
Leorah Gavidor
Articles by Leorah Gavidor
Golden Hill gentrification continues
19 townhomes at 32nd and C
The largest undeveloped parcel in Golden Hill, once considered by the Greater Golden Hill Planning Committee as a top choice for a neighborhood park, is now set to become 19 new townhomes. CityMark development acquired ...
Animation and Adolf Eichmann
A Goy from Golden Hill's retelling of a Nazi spy thriller
“Goy” is the Yiddish term for non-Jew. Like “gringo,” which means “American,” it’s not derogatory. But when Joyce Axelrod, mother of the Jewish Short Film Festival, told me about Randall Christopher’s movie on the Holocaust, ...
What was that smell near Scripps?
The underwater canyon burps
On Wednesday August 1, I caught a whiff of rotten eggs. Facilities workers at Scripps and Birch Aquarium checked gas lines to verify that it wasn’t methane. After about half an hour, Scripps employees spread ...
Coastal creatures captured
Citizen scientists help Snapshot Cal Coast
For the Snapshot Cal Coast, June 13-20, San Diego, a small contingent hit the beach at Scripps Coastal Reserve and another group scoured Sunset Cliffs on a bioblitz. Isabelle Kay of UC San Diego Natural ...
UCSD human submarine off to England
Students will try Vaquita in La Jolla Shores before leaving
For the first time in UC San Diego history, the school’s human-powered submarine team has been invited to participate in the European International Sub Race. In July 2018, the team of engineering undergrads will fly ...
Scripps pedestrians in a hurry avoid the bridge
Crosswalk beefed up
When a Scripps Institution of Oceanography affiliate was hit and injured while crossing La Jolla Shores Drive at Downwind Way in October 2017, staff, faculty, and students had been voicing the need for improvements to ...
Highly acidic bird poop
Whale wash at Birch Aquarium
The 39-foot-tall whale statue that greets visitors at Birch Aquarium just got a mini-makeover. Sea air, sun, chlorine, and “especially bird poop” have taken a toll on the bronze Legacy, a life-size breaching gray whale, ...
Community garden to grow in National City
Residents seek more access to healthy food amid fast-food landscape
Old Town National City will build a community garden after more than a decade of collaboration between the city, residents, and the Environmental Health Coalition. Mundo Gardens, a “National City–grown” nonprofit, will operate the Paradise ...
Grinchy city grabs rec-center funds
Council vote diminishes community control of activities budgets
Back in October the city attorney’s office delivered a legal opinion that supported the city's decision to immediately appropriate recreation council funds, raised locally by each individual recreation center, and deposit the monies into the ...
