The Natural History Museum's Butterfly Pavilion closes August 23 before 300 spiders take over the tent for a three-month run.

Hundreds packed La Jolla Shores as the sun lined up perfectly with Scripps Pier's back pillars, a twice-yearly quirk of Earth's tilt.

Six outages since mid-July have hit homes, businesses and medical equipment users in the Central Coast town — and the birds keep multiplying.