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The 7th annual La Jolla Art & Wine Festival will be Saturday, Oct. 10 and Sunday Oct. 11

La Jolla Playwright Anita Simons brings a cast of actors to give voice to domestic abuse

Three years in the making, the new, 2015 “Art of Music” exhibit at San Diego Museum of Art is the biggest show in SDMA’s recent history: a display of music-themed artworks from their permanent collection, along with loans from major museums and private collectors. On view are more than 200 paintings, sculptures, textiles, photographs, video and sound installations, and musical instruments from around the world.

Private and tranquil setting!

When you look at our idea of excitement now, it’s hard to believe that Olof and I met 50 years ago as intrepid adventure-junkie 17-year-olds spending our senior year of high school in the Amazon.
How times change. This summer, the celebrations we had for both our 20th wedding anniversary and Olof’s 68th birthday caused our younger son Henry to drily observe: “Now don’t get too crazy.”
Henry had tried to talk us into doing something special for our 20th anniversary. Maybe a trip to Europe, he said. Actually, our celebration stayed a little closer to home. We sat outside in our Adirondack chairs drinking a really nice bottle of Champagne, watching the sunset, and reviewing all those betters and worses that we so naively agreed to two decades ago. Then we had an extra-large anchovy pizza delivered to the front yard. It was the best anniversary ever.

The innovative presentations of La Jolla Playhouse’s (WoW) Festival have become a gripping community draw. As this year’s festival continues through Oct. 25 with more than 20 immersive and site-based works in and around the Playhouse Theatre District on the UC San Diego campus, “Healing Wars” is one to add to your must-see list.
Conceived, directed and choreographed by Liz Lerman, “Healing Wars” is a multisensory experience that plays witness to the physical and psychological wounds of war throughout history.
Lerman, with help from Playhouse designers, offers a stunning journey through the pains of war at a transformed Mandell Weiss Forum.
An integral facet of the show is the self-pa

When Mercedes Ruehl assumes the persona of fashion icon Diana Vreeland (Harper’s Bazaar, Vogue) in The Old Globe’s “Full Gallop,” you sit up straight and adjust your ascot. This one-woman tour-de-force is onstage through Oct. 25 in Balboa Park and arbiters of style won’t want to miss it.

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