Thursday, April 15 • Free admission to Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego every third Thursday, 5-7 p.m., 700 Prospect St., (858) 454-3541 • La Jolla Town Council happy hour, 5-7 p.m., business owners and residents welcome, Mr. Taco, 7918 Ivanhoe Ave., 454-1444 • Cooking and nutrition class with chef and clinical nutritionist Elizabeth Kaplan, 6:30 p.m., Whole Foods, 8825 Villa La Jolla Drive, 642-6700, free • Calder Quartet performs “Tentacle Sessions: Performances that grab you and won’t let go!” 7 p.m. doors open, The Loft, UCSD Price Center East, 2nd floor, 534-8497, theloft.ucsd.edu, $16 • Author Anne Lamott will discuss her new book “Imperfect Birds,” 7:30 p.m., Warwick’s Books, 7812 Girard Ave., 454-0347 • Art history lecture on European masterpieces from the Baroque era by Dr. James Grebl, 7:30 p.m., also April 22, La Jolla Athenaeum, 1008 Wall St., 454-5872, $12/$17 individual, $40/$60 series Friday, April 16 • “How to Effectively Reach the U.S. Hispanic Consumer,” dinner and lecture with Meneses Research & Associates, 5:30-9 p.m., Miami Grille UTC, 4353 La Jolla Village Drive, RSVP at socalmra.com or (619) 299-5883 • Calder Quartet performs mix of traditional and modern music, 7 p.m., UCSD Price Center East, 2nd floor, 534-8497, artpower.ucsd.edu, $46 • “Alice: Re-imagining Wonderland through Music, Dance and Spoken Word,” 8 p.m., MCASD La Jolla, 700 Prospect St., (619) 692-2081, artofelan.com, $15-$50 • Grunion run with Birch Aquarium, film and trip to beach, 9:30-11:30 p.m., RSVP at 534-7336, $12 Saturday, April 17 • La Jolla Athenaeum members’ library tour, 11 a.m., 1008 Wall St., 454-5872 • “Grunion Groupies,” Birch naturalists explain grunion behavior, 11:30 a.m., 12:30 p.m. and 1:30 p.m., every Saturday and Sunday through June 6, Birch Aquarium, 2300 Expedition Way, 534-3474, $8.50-$12 admission • B’nai B’rith Couples Club meets for “Broadway Extravaganza” performance and dinner, 8 p.m., Jewish Community Center, 4126 Executive Drive, 546-0773, $22 Sunday, April 18 • “Getting Ahead by Giving Back” lecture by Joon S. Han at luncheon with the National Association of Women Business Owners, 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m., Sheraton La Jolla, 3299 Holiday Court, RSVP at nawbo-sd.org, $35/$45 • “Alice: Re-imagining Wonderland through Music, Dance and Spoken Word,” 2 p.m., MCASD La Jolla, 700 Prospect St., (619) 692-2081, artofelan.com, $15-$50 • “Sunset Jazz at the Cove,” 5:30-9:30 p.m., fundraiser for San Diego School of Creative and Performing Arts, La Jolla Cove Suites, 1155 Coast Blvd., RSVP at (619) 470-0555 ext. 210. Monday, April 19 • Free mini-concert, noon, every other Monday, La Jolla Athenaeum, 1008 Wall St., 454-5872, ljathenaeum.org • Author and decorated Vietnam-era Marine Karl Marlantes will discuss “Matterhorn,” a book about a young man fighting in Vietnam, 7:30 p.m., Warwick’s Books, 7812 Girard Ave., 454-0347, warwicks.com • Music lecture on Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, 7:30 p.m., La Jolla Athenaeum, 1008 Wall St., 454-5872, $12/$17 Tuesday, April 20 • La Jolla Shores Advisory Board meets, 9 a.m., recreation center, 615 Prospect St. • La Jolla Garden Club discusses geraniums, 1 p.m., La Jolla Lutheran Church, 7117 La Jolla Blvd., 456-5275 • La Jolla Development Permit Review Committee meets, 4 p.m., recreation center, 615 Prospect St., 456-7900 • “The Murmuring Deep: Reflections on the Biblical Unconsciousness,” a look at religion and psychoanalysis in bible stories, 7:30 p.m., Jewish Community Center, 4126 Executive Drive, 362-1348, lfjcc.org, $12-$14 Wednesday, April 21 • Bird Rock Elementary open house and registration, 1:30-3:30 p.m., 488-0537 • Children’s story time, 3 p.m., La Jolla Athenaeum, 1008 Wall St., 454-5872, free • “In Darwin’s Footsteps,” lecture about rapid evolution with Kyoto-prize winning evolutionary biologists, 3:30 p.m., UCSD Price Center Ballroom, (619) 235-4542, kyotoprize.org, free • Israeli ensemble performs, 7:30 p.m., Jewish Community Center, 4126 Executive Drive, 362-1348, sdcjc.org, $15-$30 • Physicist, cosmologist, and astrobiologist, Paul Davies, discusses book “The Eerie Silence: Renewing Our Search For Alien Intelligence,” 7:30 p.m., Warwick’s Books, 7812 Girard Ave., 454-0347 Thursday, April 22 • La Jolla Traffic & Transportation board meets, 4 p.m., recreation center, 615 Prospect St., 456-7900 • Author Elif Batuman discusses her book “The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them,” 7 p.m., D.G. Wills Books, 7461 Girard Ave., 456-1800 • Art history lecture on European masterpieces from the Baroque era by Dr. James Grebl, 7:30 p.m., La Jolla Athenaeum, 1008 Wall St., 454-5872, $12/$17 individual, $40/$60 series