• Old Globe managing director to retire after nearly five decades in theater,Jennifer Vigil • Times of San Diego

    Old Globe managing director to retire after nearly five decades in theater

    Timothy J. Shields. (Photo courtesy of the Old Globe Theatre) Old Globe Theatre Managing Director Timothy J. Shields will retire next year, after a 47-year career in nonprofit regional theater. A national search for his successor will be launched, led by the Old Globe’s board, the Balboa Park theate

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  • Music review: Weilerstein and Barnatan thrill with Brahms sonata at SummerFest,Paul Bodine • Special for Times of San Diego

    Music review: Weilerstein and Barnatan thrill with Brahms sonata at SummerFest

    Cellist Alisa Weilerstein and SummerFest music director Inon Barnatan. (Photo by Ken Jacques/La Jolla Music Society) The 2025 version of SummerFest, La Jolla Music Society’s ambitious and sprawling summer festival, is taking interesting interdisciplinary chances: “Tasting Notes,” an edible mashup of

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  • Worth The Wait: The Last Wexler, $6.6M,Philip Ferrato

    Worth The Wait: The Last Wexler, $6.6M

    In over six decades of architectural practice—Donald Wexler (FAIA, 1926-2015)—had a profound influence on what we now admire as Desert Modernism. Starting with a brief stint at Richard Neutra’s office in L.A., Wexler moved to Palm Springs to embark on a career that would encompass public commissions

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