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Court rules Native American remains be returned to La Jolla burial site.

Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego show features service members’ work in La Jolla.

La Jolla Cove memories from a former lifeguard: was 1946, the first my three years as a seasonal lifeguard. I stepped out of the dressing room anticipating another great day guarding at the La Jolla Cove. Next, I checked out the conditions. Surf was up, breaking over the reef. Only a few people swimming close to shore. Probably big sets breaking at “Boomer Beach,” 100 yards south of The Cove. “After work I’ll go body surfin’ there,” I thought.

One of the first green museums in California, The New Children’s Museum in downtown San Diego has presented some terrific exhibitions over the years, but their most ambitious and wonder-filled to date is “The Wonder Sound,” which opened to the public this summer.

Steampunkers were out in force at the July 9, 2016 Patrons of the Prado Masterpiece Gala, called “Full Steam Ahead” and held at the Organ Pavilion in Balboa Park, San Diego. The annual event raises funds for the cultural institutions in Balboa Park. patronsoftheprado.org

Four projects are coming forward in the next few months to spruce up little pockets of La Jolla with cosmetic changes

Although La Jolla Parks & Beaches advisory group voted at its July 25 meeting to support a yet-unnamed jazz festival in Scripps Park, it was a tough decision marked by hesitation as new details emerged about the event’s organizer, David Payne.

Those who attended the LJSA July 13 meeting and/or the LJTC July 14 meeting were briefly introduced to Steven Gallagher, the new assistant vice chancellor of marine sciences at Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO).

In less than a year, Stella Maris Academy will mark 70 years of Catholic education in La Jolla. The school on Herschel Avenue, which teaches students from TK (Transitional Kindergarten) level to eighth grade, opened on St. Patrick’s Day in 1947. Stella Maris is the parochial school for adjacent Mary, Star of the Sea Catholic Church, which opened in 1906 and has been at its present Girard Avenue location since the 1930s. The academy’s current enrollment runs between 170 and 180 students, not just from La Jolla, but from as far away as Chula Vista to the south and Carlsbad to the north.

Things to do in La Jolla this week and across San Diego, including concerts, children’s events, art events, film screenings and more