Helen Yoon 1975 – 2023 There’s a Light…
There’s a light. Her name is Helen Yoon. In her passing, after privately battling cancer, a fracture was felt in the center of our little town, Topanga. She held that center together in many ways—that is not hyperbole. I...
Women of the Board
Surfing was big in the 1920s. The sport, recently exported from Hawaii, attracted some unexpected enthusiasts. George Bernard Shaw gave it a try. So did “It Girl” Clara Bow. Dame Agatha Christie mastered surfing on a wooden longboard in...
Deacon King Kong Brooklyn
While teaching eighth graders about the American Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s, I tended toward emphasizing the larger picture of social and cultural change because this is what the state curriculum standards mandated; and for good...
Agatha Christie’s Surfing Safari
[Surfing] is one of the most perfect physical pleasures that I have known. —Agatha Christie, An Autobiography In 1922, at the age of 31, British crime novelist Agatha Christie learned to surf. She was not yet the “Queen of Crime,”...
Janek Dombrowa, Architect
Award-winning architect Janek Dombrowa’s journey to Topanga began in pre-Solidarity Poland in 1969. He remembers vividly being an eight-year-old boy on a boat heading for America across the Atlantic ocean staring at 30-foot waves. He recalls it being extremely...
Topanga Actors Company Presents FARM HALL
Staged readings at Topanga Library February 17 & 18, 2 pm; Malibu Library February 24 & 25, 2 pm It is 1945. Six top German nuclear scientists are interned in an English country house owned by the British Secret...
THE COASTWATCHERS Chapter Sixteen
The Coastwatchers chronicles the adventures of James Ellis Anderson, a young boy from Illinois sent to live with his eccentric aunt in Malibu during WWII. In the tradition of fiction from that period, TNT is presenting this original story...
A Kickstarter Campaign for “Make Love Grow”
Tired of the ceaseless bad news? Get behind this Kickstarter and get into some important new music for 2024. Longtime Topanga resident and Community Advocate JG Crawford is set to release his Album “From The Mountain Top” in May....
Recent Comments
Dr. Dolittle in Topanga Canyon