“The past is a foreign country,” author L.P. Hartley famously wrote in his book The Go-Between. Perhaps that’s why we hold on to the postcards…
I see him every day: busy hunting bugs among the potted plants on the patio, sunning himself on the warm bricks, regally perch atop a…
Pacific Palisades is celebrating its centennial this year. However, when the first Founders Day was celebrated on January 14, 1922, this area already had a…
The mourning doves are nesting in the rain gutter outside the kitchen window this year. I hear the whistling sound their wings make every time…
Happy Labor Day, Topanga! We’ve almost made it through the strangest summer in recent history—one without many of the activities we love the most but…
Jasper Baur, a senior at Manzanita School, was 12 years old when he began studying digital photography. The focus of his lens has always been…
Fire season traditionally used to reach its peak after Labor Day. This year, fire season arrived early. So far, the Santa Monica Mountains have been…
Many businesses have been turned upside down by the digital revolution, but of those that have survived, few have changed as radically as the newspaper…
And how many people were with you? That’s what the 2020 U. S. Census wants to know. The audacious project, to count everybody in the…
For anyone who has ever been aggravated while attempting to ID an aggregating anemone, puzzled by a penstemon, or left wondering if a willet is…
Beasties Spotlight! Although many residents have never seen one, scorpions are common in the Santa Monica Mountains and there are several native species in the…
For our DIGITAL ISSUE we interviewed two local educators in their respected fields, the arts and sciences, and gave them the opportunity to share insight…
One of my earliest experiences with the internet was a demonstration made by a colleague named Archie, who giggled like a child as he watched…
“I was picking up my bread order from the Canyon Bakery and by happenstance got to see Billie Eilish on the Theatricum stage filming her…
You must be vaccinated to attendMasks required when not at your table, or anytime entering inside the TCCDinner is at the Topanga Community Center, 1440...
By Ernest Thompson Directed by Mary Jo DuPrey June 25 - October 1 Forty-one years after its premiere at the Ahmanson Theatre, Academy Award winning...
Our Sunday walks are easy, informative, and fun. No birdwatching expertise is required. Binoculars are (almost) a must -- loaners are available if you contact...
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