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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...
Mission Impossible U.S. Army Corps of Engineers 
If it’s dangerous, difficult, or downright impossible and it involves American infrastructure, disaster recovery, or water resources, there’s a good chance the US Army Corps of Engineers will be the ones called in to deal with it, sometimes with...
Malibu Reeling 
The Malibu stretch of Pacific Coast Highway turns 100 next year. It’s strange to know its centennial will begin with a third of the houses, businesses, landmarks that have built up along this road over the past century almost...
Books & Such

A Science Lesson 

In Nature’s Mutiny: How the Little Ice Age of the Long Seventeenth Century Transformed the West and Shaped the Present (2017), best-selling historian Philipp Blom documents the effects of climate change on the development of Western civilization.  As recently...
E-Issues

Spring 

Spring is officially here, and so is the first anniversary of life in COVID-19 quarantine. Soap, toilet paper, flour, and yeast are back on store shelves. N-95 masks are not. We’ve grown accustomed to Zoom meetings that have expanded...
Feature

Spring Delight 

We may once again be observing spring holidays without family and friends but we can still celebrate the season. In this spring-themed culinary adventure, TNT contributors Saori Wall and Amanda Weir experiment with the vibrant Mediterranean-inspired flavors of Israeli...
ArtBeat

LACMA Set to Reopen 

The Los Angeles County Museum of Art will reopen all its existing galleries to the general public on April 1, 2021. Tickets went on sale this week. Several buildings on the museum’s Miracle Mile campus were demolished last year...
Shop Local

South of Somewhere 

South of Somewhere Vintage is simply known as “the bus”. It was quite fortuitous that partners Brittney Raymond and J.D. Stroud launched their mobile shop just before the pandemic began. Today, it is much harder to find a school...