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Pacific Coast Shorebirds 
Across the lonely beach we flit,  One little sandpiper and I,  And fast I gather, bit by bit,  The scattered drift-wood, bleached and dry.  The wild waves reach their hands for it,  The wild wind raves, the tide runs...
Travels on Pacific Coast Highway 
The local stretch of Pacific Coast Highway was constantly in the news in 2024, as state and local officials, residents, commuters and other stakeholders grappled with safety on this increasingly deadly road. TNT Editor Suzanne Guldimann’s feature on the...
Christmas in Topanga, 1942 
The Coastwatchers, TNT’s original fiction series set in Malibu during WWII, concludes in this issue. Our story began in December, 1941, just after the United States entered WWII, and ends on Christmas, 1942. Coastwatchers focuses on the experiences of...
New Books: Local Authors / Local Interest 
This is TNT’s annual holiday season round up of new books by local authors and new books on subjects of interest to our local community. For more local books published earlier this year, check out our summer reads list...
Books & Such

Behaving Badly II 

After penning biographies of four individual Supreme Court Justices—Sandra Day O’Connor, Antonin Scalia, Sonia Sotomayor, and John Roberts—CNN’s Senior Supreme Court Analyst Joan Biskupic has now produced a scathing indictment of the current Court and its 6-3 conservative majority;...
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By Any Other Name 

A new sign was recently installed by the side of Kanan Dume Road. It reads: “Sheila James Kuehl Nature Preserve at Ladyface Mountain.” It’s not the most imaginative or descriptive name for this rugged and beautiful mountainside, but this...
NewsBeat

Canyon Sages June Update 

Sages leaders recently met with Sophia Soudani, Field Deputy for County Supervisor Lindsey Horvath, to discuss the needs of Topanga seniors, including the limited access to transportation for seniors and disabled in Topanga. Sophia has now informed us that...
ArtBeat

Art on the Green 

The Allied Artists of the Santa Monica Mountains and Seashore whose motto is “Painting and Preserving the Santa Monica Mountains” will once again be having their Art on the Green art show supporting the Palisades Village Green, and local...