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Year of the Horse 
All over the world, people will be celebrating the Lunar New Year on February 17, and welcoming the Year of the Fire Horse. One of the twelve Asian zodiac animals, the horse is a powerful presence that is said...
Deadly Mushrooms 
Foraging for mushrooms? Don’t die.  That’s the message from California Poison Control this winter. Thirty-five people have gotten sick so far this season after consuming death cap mushrooms they mistook for edible varieties. Three of the victims needed liver...
The Palisades Fire: One Year Later 
Life changed for everyone in Pacific Palisades, Topanga and Malibu on January 7 2025. A year after the Palisades Fire those who live or work in its shadow still aren’t used to the endless roadwork, the delays, the road...
Retrospective: Pacific Palisades-Paradise Lost 
Originally published in the February 21, 2025 issue of Topanga New Times The Palisades fire is named for the Palisades Highlands, where the blaze erupted on the morning of January 7, 2025. The conflagration rapidly spread throughout Pacific Palisades...
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Earth Day 2022 

April 22 is Earth Day. This year marks the 52nd anniversary of the birth of the modern environmental movement in 1970. It’s a movement that was in part ignited by one of California’s worst ecological disasters: the catastrophic Union...
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MOMentum Place, Sunday, May 8th! 

Every year on Mother’s Day, “MOMentum Place” creates a fantastical world of aerial and circus performers, dancers and musicians in the rustic outdoor amphitheater at Will Geer’s Theatricum Botanicum. Bring your mother to honor the MOMentum in her life—always...