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3 days ago | 
sandiegouniontribune.com | Noah Lyons
Though summer break is almost here for La Jolla’s The Children’s School and her project needs some work, Brianna Billings, a teacher at the school, says she’s optimistic her proposal to name the pedestrian walkway over Torrey Pines Road “The Children’s Bridge” will be explored again after it was met with skepticism from members of the La Jolla Shores Association last month.
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4 days ago | 
sandiegouniontribune.com | Noah Lyons
As summer starts to set in, a couple of La Jolla-area businesses are reopening after temporary closures, while others are debuting. Here’s a look at the latest local goings-on. A.R. ValentienThe Lodge at Torrey Pines’ flagship restaurant, A.R. Valentien, is open again after a seven-month revamp.
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4 days ago | 
sandiegouniontribune.com | Noah Lyons |Ashley Solomon
LeCoq offers James Beard Award countdown menuAhead of the James Beard Awards ceremony on Monday, June 16, competition finalist Tara Monsod, executive chef of LeCoq restaurant in La Jolla, is presenting a special countdown menu with a la carte dishes based on the day’s fresh catches and market runs. Monsod will cook and serve from LeCoq’s bar starting at 5 p.m. each Thursday through June 12, and she will curate the bar’s music playlist as well.
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5 days ago | 
sandiegouniontribune.com | Noah Lyons
A seventh-grader at San Diego French-American School in La Jolla took it on himself to create a more eco-friendly sunscreen, and his work already has garnered attention from the California Senate. Now he’s eyeing improvements to the ingredients. Martin Valkanov’s sunscreen ditches chemicals such as zinc oxide, titanium dioxide, oxybenzone and octinoxate, which he views as disruptive or harmful to coral reefs, fish and other aquatic organisms.
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6 days ago | 
sandiegouniontribune.com | Noah Lyons
Not every UC San Diego student can find community in a fraternity or an academic group like a math club. With one of the university’s newest clubs, third-year public health major Olivia Angulo hopes to give students another option — one they can take into their dorm rooms. At the beginning of UCSD’s spring quarter this year, Angulo launched Rooted @ UCSD to encourage her peers to embrace nature and find solace in tending to house plants.
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1 week ago | 
sandiegouniontribune.com | Noah Lyons
Elias Hanley began the 2025 season for La Jolla Country Day School’s varsity baseball squad as a relief pitcher. But after he was called into the starting rotation, he quickly established himself as one of the Coastal League-winning team’s most effective arms. By the end of the campaign, the left-hander had put together a 1.83 earned run average, one of the best on the team. Opponents mustered only a .198 batting average against him.
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1 week ago | 
sandiegouniontribune.com | Noah Lyons
Bird Rock Elementary School teacher Kristi Nelson’s first-grade class lives by the motto “Be part of this world, not just in it.”And with on a near-monthly basis, her classes have been doing that for all of her decade-plus at Bird Rock Elementary and a majority of her 25-year teaching career. Each month, unless during summer breaks or holiday periods, students engage with the local community, gather donations and show their appreciation to local groups.
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1 week ago | 
sandiegouniontribune.com | Noah Lyons
When Emel Cubukcu was 5, her mother encouraged her to learn a musical instrument. Little did she know that within seven years, she’d pick up several awards and other accolades as a violinist. “There was this piece called Mendelssohn Violin Concerto, which I really liked when I was younger and wanted to play it,” said Emel, who now attends Muirlands Middle School in La Jolla.
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1 week ago | 
sandiegouniontribune.com | Ashley Solomon |Noah Lyons
Seal Society records season’s first sea lion birth at Point La JollaThe Sierra Club Seal Society says it has observed what it believes is the first live sea lion birth of the season at Point La Jolla on May 20. Sea lion pupping season begins in mid-May, and births continue through the first week of July, according to the Seal Society. Point La Jolla, off Scripps Park near La Jolla Cove, is closed to the public year-round to keep people and sea lions apart.
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1 week ago | 
sandiegouniontribune.com | Noah Lyons
Few people experience light and color the way Concetta Antico does. But with her latest endeavor, The Alchemy Lounge, the owner of The Salon of Art Gallery in La Jolla hopes to broaden the way people view the world and indeed the universe. Antico, a painter, is tetrachromatic, meaning she can perceive more than 100 million colors due to the presence in her eyes of four types of cones, or photoreceptors. Most people have three, allowing them to see 1 million to several million colors.
