PhotosThe Mitchell Caverns: California's sacred caves
Explore these ancient limestone caverns a 4.5-hour drive north in the Mojave.
James Michael Dorsey 8:56 p.m., April 22
Leorah Gavidor
Articles by Leorah Gavidor
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 ...
Scripps plagued by vehicular vandalism
Heavy '70s Chevy hit-and-run the latest incident on La Jolla Shores Blvd.
The impact from a hit-and-run collision was so strong that it pushed a 1970s Chevelle, parked on La Jolla Shores Boulevard, onto the sidewalk. Owner Jeff Sevadjian said the incident occurred between 7:05 a.m. and ...
A sea hare, a gulper eel, and a colony of sea pork
Ocean oddities coming out of nowhere
A sea hare, a gulper eel, and a colony of what looks like sea pork have all turned up recently on the San Diego coast, keeping local scientists busy. In early October, a beachgoer at ...
Watch and hear dolphins talk to each other
Speculative Dolphin Theater at UCSD
“The thrill of the chase.” That might be what a dolphin is expressing as she swims swiftly in the slipstream of her male companion, as imagined by Lisa Korpos, artist behind Speculative Dolphin Theater at ...
La Jolla earthquake on wheels
Big Shaker simulator lets people try out a magnitude 7.2
On September 27th, Marty Nelson, safety and environmental compliance officer at Southwest Fisheries in La Jolla, gathered his staff, along with faculty from adjacent Scripps Institution of Oceanography, to try out a magnitude 7.2 in ...
City grabs Park and Rec funds
“They basically just told us this is how it is now."
After more than 30 years of operating within the communities they serve, city recreation-center councils will no longer have the ability to decide how to spend the funds they collect. City attorney Mara Elliott’s office ...
