La Jolla Light
Enlightening La Jolla Since 1913
Vol. 100, Issue 32 • August 9, 2012
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SummerFest 2012 Underway
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Lost rare cat is found safe and sound, A3
Research Institute opens auditorium for bookings, A4
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t doesn’t get much better than this: a free chamber music concert at sunset in Scripps Park. The La Jolla Music Society presented the Under the Stars concert Tuesday, July 31 as a community gift and a kick-off to its festival that runs through Aug. 24 with 15 world-class performances in Sherwood Auditorium at the Museum of Contemporary Art. More on B9 and B12 Greg Wiest
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Bird flu found in seals: La Jolla seal colony not affected By Lynne Friedmann Last fall, 162 dead harbor seal pups washed up on the shores of New England. A team of researchers immediately went to work seeking a cause. In the process they identified a new strain of influenza that has “jumped” from birds to the marine mammals with the ability to spread from seal to seal. The findings appear in the July/August issue of the journal mBio (http://bit.ly/M9Bqb6). The discovery begs the question: Is there an immediate risk to harbor seals in the La Jolla Children’s pool and, subsequently, to the public? The short answer is: No. To date, influenza has not been detected in the La Jolla seals. This according to SeaWorld San Diego, which regularly screens ill, injured, or stranded harbor seals rescued SEE SEALS, A7
La Jolla exceeds its ‘15 minutes’ of Andy Warhol fame Season gets going for local youth football players, A16
Teens explore the world of architecture, B1
n A long-lost Warhol surf documentary shot in town, resurfaces for its La Jolla debut.
By Pat Sherman In 1968, the same year the late pop artist Andy Warhol so presciently proclaimed, “in the future, everyone will be worldfamous for 15 minutes,” the artist-provocateur traveled to La Jolla with his colorful cast of characters to film a movie about surfing culture, titled “San Diego Surf.” Though upon his return to New York City Warhol was shot in a foiled murder attempt and never completed the film, La Jollans will get a chance to see it in the near future, at the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego (MCASD)
on Prospect Street. Representatives with MCASD and the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburg have confirmed that they are in discussions to screen the film in MCASD’s Sherwood Auditorium, possibly during the San Diego Film Festival (Sept. 26-30). The 90-minute film, which was completed in 1995 from a rough cut by longtime Warhol collaborator, Paul Morrissey, has been languishing in the vaults for more than a decade, for reasons the Warhol Museum’s Assistant Curator of Film and Video, Greg Pierce, was hesitant to divulge. The movie, shot using color, 16-millimeter
SEE WARHOL, A8
Above: La Jolla surfboard shaper Tim Bessell displays the 47,000th surfboard he shaped, which he marked with 47,000 pencil lines. Left: Closeup of a Warhol surfboard.
GREG NOONAN
PHOTOS BY Pat Sherman
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