LA JOLLA LIGHT
Enlightening La Jolla Since 1913
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■ Splash Bash set for
Oct. 16 at Coggan A4
Vol. 99 Issue 40 • October 6, 2011
‘A brain can look like a cloud if you manipulate it in the right way.’
hit local waters A5
2011 HEDI SLIMANE
presents season 43 B1
‘Brain/Cloud (with Seascape and Palm Tree)’ graces the side of building at 1250 Prospect St.
— John Baldessari, Artist
BY KATHY DAY kday@lajollalight.com John Baldessari has made another indelible mark on La Jolla with the newest installation of the La Jolla Community Foundation’s murals program. This time the world-renowned artist’s work — also featured in UCSD’s Stuart Collection — can be
seen on the back wall of the building at 1250 Prospect St. Called “Brain/Cloud (with Seascape and Palm Tree),” the creation measures 36 feet, 8 inches by 40 feet. The artist explained the newest addition to the La Jolla art scene this way: “A brain can look like a cloud if you manipulate it in the right way. We see things in clouds.
It looks like it’s hovering almost from outer space. I like banal images and I can’t think of anything more banal than a palm tree and an ocean.” The mural was unfurled on Sept. 29 and the final touches of stretching it and attaching it continued
SEE MURAL, A13
Next: Turning Coast walkway ideas into a design
■ LJHS tennis
team has high expectations A18
BY DAVE SCHWAB daves@lajollalight.com Architect Jim Neri’s next project will be a challenge: Synthesize the ideas suggested at a workshop on beautifying the area above the Children’s Pool into a design plan for review by La Jolla Parks & Beaches Inc. There’s little disagreement there is great need — and much to do — to improve the Coast Boulevard walkway. But how it could and should be changed is something all 36 participants at Saturday’s workshop had a different take on. “It’s not parkland — it’s a city street,” said Neri, who
led the gathering in the Friendship Room at 939 Coast Blvd. And, he added, there is at least one constraint being imposed on redoing the walkway. “The city is requiring us to provide a guard rail in the plaza on the seawall overlooking the Casa Beach as a safety measure,” he said, adding that whatever aesthetic improvements are added near the lifeguard tower would be privately funded and likely cost $100,000 or more.
SEE WALKWAY, A17
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Beutler wins Nobel Prize for medicine
It’s a Baldessari ... and it’s mural No. 4 in La Jolla
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BY KATHY DAY kday@lajollalight.com Bruce A. Beutler, an award-winning geneticist who is soon to leave The Scripps Research Institute, will share the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2011 with Jules A. Hoffmann “for their discoveries concerning the activation of innate immunity” and Ralph M. Steinman for his discovery of the dendritic cell and its role in adaptive immunity,” the Karolinska Institutet in Sweden Bruce A. Beutler announced Monday. Beutler is a UCSD graduate; three other TSRI faculty members have won Nobel Prizes. He is winding down his work as chairman of the Department of Genetics Center at TSRI to become the founding director for the SEE NOBEL, A13
Herschel building seals the deal for Malarkey venture BY KATHY DAY kday@lajollalight.com If Brian Malarkey and James Brennan hadn’t found just the right building, their new restaurant Herringbone might not be coming to La Jolla, the Top Chef finalist and owner of two other area restaurants, said recently. “That beautiful building became available” and that was it, Malarkey said of the 1930’s Brian era structure at 7837 Malarkey Herschel Ave. “It has a story. For 25 years it’s been unoccupied.” SEE RESTAURANT, A10
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