Looking ahead, an engineering study well underway is planning for needed repairs to the Children’s Pool seawall estimated to cost $2.3 million.The study by MDEP Inc. engineering firm commissioned by La Jolla Parks and Beaches, Inc., is being paid for by leftover money from the Children’s Pool Plaza

SPOTLIGHTThere are plenty of bands in San Diego with well-known folks in them, but when it comes to star power, nobody comes close to The Shenanigans (above). Performing at Humphrey’s Backstage Live on Aug. 14, this is a fun nine-piece group that specializes in rock and roll, R&B, and other barroom

I guess that was my biggest media claim to fame — playing the Jacksons in basketball in a charity game at Santa Barbara High School. I blocked a shot at the buzzer that would have tied or won the game. My coach, Jack Trigueiro, the coach of Santa Barbara High’s boys team, told me I should have let t