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La Jolla Light looks at what’s required to have a wedding at the Wedding Bowl – credited as La Jolla’s most sought after park for weddings

Things to do in La Jolla this week including art exhibits, concerts, seasonal celebrations, film screenings, phototravelers meeting and an Old Globe workshop performance

La Jolla News Nuggets: Dec. 10-17, 2015

Planning Commission makes recommendation that Zapf proposal be majorly re-worked

Christmas tree buying season is in full swing at Mr. Jingle’s La Jolla lot

ArtPower at UC San Diego will feature a variety of acclaimed dance-and-music performances in January 2016.

During its last meeting of 2015, on Dec. 3, La Jolla Community Planning Association (CPA) approved an expansion to a home on 335 Dunemere Drive

“Many La Jollans have friends and family coming to town who need a local hotel to stay in, and we’d like them to consider The Empress Hotel as an extension of their own home for their visitors,” said Joel Majors, general manager. The Empress on Fay Avenue in the Village Center of La Jolla always had a lot to offer, but now this boutique hotel has even more — owners recently completed a $2 million renovation project of the 73 spacious guest rooms. The all-new décor features a turquoise-and-beige color scheme that reflects La Jolla’s spectacular beach and Cove scene, which is all just a short, walk away.

It was the Monday of Thanksgiving week, three days before the kids and grandtots would be arriving, when my kitchen suddenly smelled like a marlin had died on the counter top. I only had one question: Does God hate me? Even I am not that bad of a housekeeper. I would have noticed a marlin. When a morning spent scrubbing the affected counters did nothing to improve the ever-worsening smell, I finally Googled “bad odor on granite.” The replies were chilling: “It’s not your counter tops. It’s the dead animal in the wall behind them.”

Quintessential beach bungalow!