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This Halloween, La Jolla Shores Hotel is going full paws to the wall with a "Howl-O-Ween" Happy Hour and pet costume party at The Shores Restaurant on Friday, October 31 from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Guests are invited to bring their pups and dine in the restaurant’s outdoor areas for a chance to win a one-night stay seaside vacation at the La Jolla Shores Hotel. To enter, enjoy lunch or dinner at the restaurant, snap a photo of your costumed four-legged friend at the doggy photo station, and tag @ljshoreshotel on social media. Select entries will be featured online. Pups can order from the restaurant's Canine menu, featuring favorites like the Hot Diggity Dog, Half Hound Hamburger and Good Dog New York Strip Steak, while pet parents enjoy oceanfront dining and drinks with Happy Hour pricing. The first furry friends to arrive will receive a complimentary wag bag loaded with goodies from local pet brands including Real Dog, Dexter’s Deli, Scoops La Jolla, Pooches Kitchen, and more, while supplies last. Visit: https://www.ljshoreshotel.com/upcoming-happenings/ La Jolla Shores Hotel & Restaurant on Instagram and Facebook

Broadcast: Dec. 14, 2025 at 6 p.m. (*updated) on KPBS Radio (first day of Hanukkah). This NPR favorite returns with some of our favorite stories from the archives. We’ll hear “A Gift of Light" by Dvora Zipkin, “Hanukkah Gelt, Hanukkah Money” by Sholem Aleichem, “Gifts of the Jewish Magi” by Allegra Goodman, How to Spell the Name of God” by Ellen Orleans and “Geek Week by Rebecca O’Connell.

4 Hong Kong movies will be shown: - "Fallen Angels" (directed by Wong Kar Wai, starring Takeshi Kaneshiro, Leon Lai, Michelle Reis) - "Paws Land" (documentary on efforts to rescue stray dogs) - "Eastern Condors" (directed by and starring Sammo Hung) - "Peg O' My Heart" (starring Nick Cheung and Fala Chen) All movies are in Cantonese with English subtitles Visit: https://thehongkongerclub.org/3rd-sdhkff-2025

Matt Wilson’s Christmas Tree-O | Athenaeum Jazz Athenaeum Music & Arts Library 1008 Wall Street, La Jolla, CA 92037 Friday, December 5 7:30 p.m. *AT THE ATHENAEUM MUSIC & ARTS LIBRARY* The fall series concludes on Friday, December 5, with "Matt Wilson’s Christmas Tree-O." Described as “An ambassador of good feeling” (New York Times), drummer Matt Wilson is one of the most in-demand musicians in jazz. He presents this joyous trio project celebrating the holiday season with his own characteristically humorous and at times eccentric sendups of holiday classics. The band, now in its 25th year, features sax virtuoso Jeff Lederer and bassist Paul Sikivie. Wilson’s greatest gift is his knack for invention and the unbridled sense of fun he brings to the bandstand—a perfect combination for the holiday season. As The New York Times remarked, “Wonder and innocence, gaudiness and cheer: can it be any surprise that the jazz drummer Matt Wilson thrives around the holidays?” Wilson’s last Athenaeum appearance was in 2020 with his Honey & Salt quintet celebrating the work of American poet Carl Sandburg, a project for which he received the Jazz Journalists Association’s designation as Jazz Artist of the Year. JazzTimes wrote, “There are a few more emphatically dazzling drummers working today, but almost nobody in Wilson’s peer group with a broader grasp of jazz or a more natural sense of time, or a stronger signature as a bandleader, or more goodwill among his fellow players.” Athenaeum Music & Arts Library on Facebook / Instagram

The Coronado Public Library and Historical Association invites you to a virtual event on Wednesday, December 3rd, 2025 as Marc Leepson, the author of the best-selling book, "The Unlikely War Hero: A Vietnam War POW's Story of Courage and Resilience in the Hanoi Hilton", discusses the amazing Vietnam War story of Doug Hegdahl, the youngest and lowest-ranking POW captured in North Vietnam and held in Hanoi. This event will take place via zoom. Register through the "Register" button above to receive the Zoom link for this event. “What a strange, fascinating, and ultimately powerful account of one man's endurance of life as a POW during the American war in Vietnam. . . . This book, I believe, will stand the test of time as one of the finest nonfiction narratives to emerge from the Vietnam War.” —Tim O'Brien, author of The Things They Carried Visit: https://coronadohistory.org/calendar/event/save-the-date-virtual-lecture-doug-hegdahls-amazing-vietnam-war-story/ Marc Leepson on Facebook

Calling all ghouls, ghosts, and good boys and girls! This Halloween, we’re raising spirits (and tails) at Monkeybar with a night of howl-iday havoc. Grab your furry little boo and join us for a night of spooky cocktail flight specials, pup-approved Yappy Hour treats from our dog menu, astrology & tarot card readings, and a costume contest with fang-tastic prizes. A portion of all the night’s sales will benefit Helen Woodward Animal Center. Space is limited, so each human will need to sign up to book their free ticket! As always, parking is free.

Composer and sound artist Sam Dunscombe surrounds audiences in an acousmonium–an immersive “loudspeaker orchestra” of more than two dozen custom-positioned speakers. First developed in the 1970s by the Groupe de Recherches Musicales in Paris, the acousmonium was designed to project electroacoustic music in space—treating each speaker as an individual voice in a vast sonic field. Dunscombe’s hand-built system transforms the room into a living architecture of sound, where tones move, swirl, and morph depending on where you stand. The program features spectral soundscapes and textural explorations that invite audiences to walk, turn, and listen from multiple perspectives, making each seat a unique vantage point. It’s a rare opportunity to experience sound not just as music, but as a three-dimensional environment you can inhabit. Visit: https://www.projectblanksd.org/salty-series-2026 Sam Dunscombe on Instagram

A new film, adapted from Maggie O'Farrell's 2020 novel, posits that the death of Shakespeare's 11-year-old son may have inspired one of the greatest fictional tragedies ever written.

Celebrate Howl-o-Week with us at Monkeybar with a nightly scary movie under the stars! Get ready to scream, snack, and sip under the stars! Join us on the lower lawn at Monkeybar for a frightfully fun time as we celebrate Howl-O-Week with a new spooky movie series. VIP seating includes one popcorn and one potion (NA potion available upon request). General Admission seating still requires a ticket but is first come, first serve seating. From $20.00 / VIP Fire Pit Seating MOVIE LINEUP: 10/28: "Poltergeist" (1982) 10/29: "The Others" (2001) 10/30: "Insidious" (2010) 10/31: "The Ring (2002"

This two-part program brings together music, poetry, and performance for an evening of boundary-crossing storytelling. In Act One, improviser Wilfrido Terrazas and poet Ronnie Yates explore the liminal space where their disciplines meet—Terrazas’s music shaped by the Mexico City poetry scene, Yates’s poetry by Houston’s improvised music world. The duo’s first-ever live collaboration promises an adventurous dialogue of words and sound. Act Two presents "The Mexican Husband" (2019) by Fabiola Carranza, a bilingual reimagining of Bertolt Brecht’s "The Jewish Wife" set in contemporary Los Angeles. The play follows a couple’s final night together before the husband flees across the border to avoid deportation—an unflinching, poetic meditation on immigration, separation, and resilience in the face of systemic injustice. Visit: https://www.projectblanksd.org/salty-series-2026 Project [BLANK] on Facebook / Instagram