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Amusement Piers 
A pier is a folly, a highway to nowhere. Whether lined with fishermen or filled with the cries and clattering of a roller coaster, whether thick with the aromas of hotdogs and fries or freshly gutted fish, they are...
California Mustard: Beauty or Bane 
A beautiful but unwelcome tide of golden blossom is sweeping over the Santa Monica Mountains this year. The late—and light—rainy season has resulted in few native wildflowers but an abundance of mustard, an opportunistic invasive that thrives even in...
TREES IN BLOOM 
This isn’t one of those springs when the hills are covered in a vivid profusion of wildflowers. The Santa Monica Mountains have received just a fraction of the average rainfall for the season. Hot weather is already arriving, drying...
SAVING THE COAST 
The Trump Administration is taking aim at the California Coastal Commission, and according to a recent New York Times article, the President may have an ally in California Governor Gavin Newsom. The Times headline states “Trump and Newsom Find...
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Strife Comes to the Theatricum 

Rarely produced ‘Strife’ by John Galsworthy explores human cost of ideological battles at Theatricum Botanicum theatricum.com What compromise is possible when human dignity and health are on the line, along with a business’s survival and the economy it supports?...
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Topanga Days Game Winners 

Dance Contest Winners Noble Webster, Maggie Collins Three-legged Race  Satya Finch and Emma Farkas (four years in a row) Pie-Eating Contest Ryan Pickering, returning champion Bubble Gum Blowing Contest Crystal June Storey, returning champion Limbo Winners Aristea Cottereau, Sophia Bella...