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Choreographer Jean Isaacs, artistic director of San Diego Dance Theater since 1997, started Trolley Dances 17 years ago as a clever alternative to pricey performance venues. For two weekends every year, audiences board a trolley, and at each stop, are …

The teens scraped and painted the gazebo, and pulled 10 garbage bags worth of dead plants

De la Huerta and Arciniega’s concert “Tardeada Musical,” will be 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 6

La Jolla Town Council will host a forum featuring the three candidates running for the San Diego City Council District 1 seat being vacated next year by Sherri Lightner. The forum will begin at 6 p.m. following the Town Council’s 5 p.m. meeting Thursday, Oct. 8 at the La Jolla Recreation Center, 615 Prospect St.
Candidates Barbara Bry, Ray Ellis and Joe LaCava have agreed to participate in the forum, which is co-sponsored by the San Diego Police Officer’s Association, La Jolla Town Council and La Jolla Light. The Primary Election is June 7, 2016. The General Election is Nov. 8, 2016.
Residents may submit questions for the candidates at talkback@lajollalight.com by Tuesday, Oct. 6 at 5 p.m.

The far-reaching international crime of human trafficking also touches San Diego. As a community service the women of La Jolla United Methodist Church will host a panel of experts on the topic, 10 a.m. Thursday, Oct. 8 in the church sanctuary, 6063 La …

WoW — the acronym stands for Without Walls, La Jolla Playhouse’s adventurous program that brings theater beyond the confines of buildings and into the wide world outside. It started in 2011 with “Susurrus,” an iPod play with music that was also a stroll through San Diego Botanic Garden. Each year brought new site-specific experiences — “The Car Plays” in the Playhouse parking lot; a Greenwich Village nightclub act in Hillcrest; a play-along street theater/walking tour of Little Italy; and in 2013 (the first WoW Festival), four days of special events staged by local, national and international artists that turned the Playhouse Theatre District into Festival Village.

Living Coast Discovery center brought some visitors from tidepools to La Jolla’s Library

On Sept. 17 La Jolla High received phoned-in threats of a suspicious device or shooter on campus

Where are the harbor seals? Has La Jolla Light written about this turn of events? If not, here is a photo I took at La Jolla Children’s Pool, 11:37 a.m. Monday, Sept. 21.
Sage Tellew

La Jolla’s first Interfaith Concert & Barbecue drew about 200 people to La Jolla Presbyterian — and Prince Chapel By the Sea African Methodist Episcopal — churches Saturday, Sept. 19 to begin what may become a dialogue series on race. Event tickets at $25 raised $2,500 for Prince Chapel’s youth mentoring program and heating/AC repairs.
Activities got underway at 3 p.m. in the Presbyterian Church Fellowship Hall and despite the heat and high humidity, the “concert” by Angela Petty and the Remembrance Quartet was a cool icebreaker.