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Walk with our larger-than-life dinosaur herd with your friends and family as Jurassic Quest roars through San Diego Jan. 19-21, 2024 Tickets can be purchased at www.jurassicquest.com/. Follow on social media! Facebook + Instagram

Pumpkin patches are cool, but have you ever seen one that floats? Yes, you read it correctly. On Friday, October 28th from 6:30 to 9 PM, we'll have hundreds of floating pumpkins in our perfectly heated 82-degree pool during our inaugural Pumpkin Plunge and Glow Swim! After you take the plunge and swim to find the perfect pumpkin in our floating pumpkin patch the event will include: A pumpkin decorating station SPOOKEasy featuring halloween and fall craft boos 👻 Glow-in-the-dark deck games Open swim and access to the giant floating obstacle course Live DJ Hit the Candy Patch on the way out for treats to go! and much, much, more!!! Family (4) Ticket: Includes two medium pumpkins, access to the decorating station and glow swim. (Limited QTY available) Early Bird: $50 (Through September 30th at 11:59pm) Presale: $60 (Until 7pm October 27th) At the Door: $70 (pumpkins may be limited) Family (2) Ticket: Includes one medium pumpkin, access to the decorating station and glow swim. (Limited QTY available) Early Bird: $25 (Through 9/30 at 11:59pm) Presale: $30 (Until 7pm October 27th) At the Door: $35 (pumpkins may be limited) We can't wait to see you there!!! Add-on additional family members from the same household at the door for just $10 per person. Follow on social media! Facebook + Instagram

Exterminator Nick Castro found the massive stash of acorns after being called to a home with a worm problem. "Bird was a bit of a hoarder," he joked on social media.

A quilt from more than 50 years ago tells the story of a historic Detroit neighborhood.

Clay Open Studio is an opportunity for students to practice the clay skills they have already learned in our clay classes. Students have the chance to work in our studio using either hand building techniques or working on a pottery wheel. This is not an instructional class. There will be no instructor. By signing up for Clay Open Studio, you will receive 1/2 a bag of clay, 1 bisque fire, 1 glaze fire, and use of our glazes. We work with midfire clay. No outside clay is allowed (because disastrous things can happen, and we like our kilns!) Since there is no instruction in Open Studio, some clay experience is necessary. You must have taken one of our clay courses to participate, or have clay experience from elsewhere. Follow on social media! Facebook + Instagram

Canceled Ages 6-8 Welcome! Guest instructors teach this month-long series full of hands-on, engaging crafts using STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, Math) to teach hand skills to children using safe materials. Each project teaches craftsmanship, dexterity and material exploration. Projects range from woodworking, sewing, ceramics, paper crafts, textiles to fusing glass. Young students will make beautiful pieces to take home over the course of the series. All materials included. Projects are switched up constantly, so repeats are welcome! October focus: Textiles November focus: Reduce-Reuse December focus: Giving Back Follow on social media! Facebook + Instagram

Join I Love A Clean San Diego and Think Blue San Diego for a litter cleanup in Loma Portal! We will divert litter from the San Diego River Watershed and keep it from traveling to the Pacific Ocean. This event requires a signed release-of-liability waiver for all volunteers, and anyone under 18 needs a waiver signed by a guardian Follow on social media! Facebook + Instagram

The FBI has arrested a member of the Massachusetts Air National Guard, Jack Teixeira, as a suspect in the leak of classified intelligence documents.

Writing the Micro Memoir — Life in a Flash Within the fast-growing atmosphere of hybrid forms of literature and somewhere between the six-word memoir and the book-length memoir stands the Micro Memoir. Often called Flash Memoir, these tiny, beautiful stories aren’t life squeezed down to fit into few pages (or less), but a captured moment in a life that opens into deeper, meaningful insights into the human experience. In this workshop, we’ll read published examples of micro–memoirs — from those complete within a single sentence to those made up of a few hundred words — and try our hand at writing our own. Participants will leave the workshop with at least one micro–memoir, and seeds enough for a lifetime. Follow on social media! Facebook + Instagram

Band leader and beloved piano player for many years in San Diego, Sue is known as the Queen of Boogie Woogie and always manages to entertain with fun and flair. She has won many San Diego Music Awards, with various bands, and toured the world with the late blues artist Candye Kane, for 8 years. In 2008 her album "Sophisticated Ladies" won the International Blues Challenge in Memphis for Best (unsigned) CD. The City of San Diego named a day after her, also in 2008. Vocalist Liz Ajuzie is a jazz and blues singer and is a big fan of 40s jazz. A first generation American, her Nigerian parents introduced her to the music of Nat King Cole, as well as her African roots, and now she is exploring the early R&B music of the 50s and 60s with enthusiasm. Liz draws inspiration from many artists, including Sarah Vaughan, Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Judy Garland, Dinah Washington, Mae West, Lavern Baker, and Ruth Brown. Free concerts at noon every Monday from fall through spring . . . no wonder the Mini-Concerts are the longest-running and one of the most popular classical music series at the library! This series was founded by Glenna Hazleton in 1970 at the Athenaeum, and has been going strong ever since. The concerts feature both local and touring musicians, prize-winning students, university music faculty members, local chamber ensembles. . . and the repertoire also includes jazz, folk and world music. There are no reservations, no tickets . . . just line up at the side door of the Athenaeum before noon. (Donations are always welcome!) Mini-Concerts take place every Monday at noon and last about an hour. The concerts will be in person at the Athenaeum Music & Arts Library. There are no physical tickets for these events. Doors open at 11:50 a.m. Seating is first-come; first-served. These events will be presented in compliance with State of California and County of San Diego health regulations as applicable at the time of each concert. Masks optional. If you have a fever, cough, or flu-like symptoms, please stay home. Follow on social media! Sue Palmer: Facebook + Twitter Liz Ajuzie: Facebook + Instagram Athenaeum: Facebook + Instagram