“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…
September is Coastal Cleanup Month, and we are celebrating with a special focus on sustainability in this issue of the Topanga New Times. Look for…
Living in a WUI (Wildland Urban Interface) appears to accelerate a heightened consciousness and connection to the planet; or is it that the consequences of…
There is a new art show at Topanga Canyon Gallery that can be enjoyed in person on Saturdays and Sundays from 12-5 p.m., or from…
September is Coastal Cleanup Month, and as anyone who has ever participated in a cleanup event knows, fascinating things wash up on the local coastline…
Kiss the Ground is an organization dedicated to restoring and maintaining healthy soil and soil microbes. It is now also a documentary, narrated by and…
It’s almost impossible to live waste-free, but there are resources to recycle or safely dispose of many materials. Alas, it just isn’t as easy as…
For more than 30 years, volunteers have come together for International Coastal Cleanup Day every September. The massive group cleanup events that have attracted more…
On August 3, Netflix released Immigration Nation, a six-part series that The New York Times called a “rare look inside Trump’s immigration crackdown”. Filmmakers Shaul…
By the time Jared Diamond published Collapse in 2005, he was ranked as one of the leading public intellectuals in the world; which is my…
Sophie Kipner is a visual artist and writer from Topanga. Her current ongoing project, #DONTLIFTUPDONTLOOKDOWN is one in which she uses blind contouring, the technique…
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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