FALLING APART SINCE 1929
The coast highway isn’t just a disaster waiting to happen, it’s a series of disasters that repeat over and over again. The people who built the local stretch of the coast route in the 1920s were in a hurry...
Building Pacific Coast Highway
Bands played, flags waves, dignitaries gave speeches from a bunting-festooned platform, and hundreds of motorists lined up at Sycamore Cove at the western edge of the Topanga Malibu Sequit Rancho for the grand opening of Theodore Roosevelt Highway. It...
James and Huckleberry
Historians use documents and artifacts to determine human motivations and intentions. For instance, when Abigail Adams reminded her husband John that he should “remember the ladies” while creating a new nation dedicated to equality, understanding the meaning of her...
Topanga Favorite: Froggy’s Return
“I was very cheeky, I got into trouble a lot.” Adriana Lemus, owner of La Chingona Tacos, doesn’t mince words when describing her young adulthood. “I was sent to my grandmother’s house as a punishment, and there I was...
THE COASTWATCHERS Chapter Twenty-One
School brought changes. I missed Kitty terribly. We had made so many plans together about what we would do and what classes we would take when we were junior high school students, and here I was without her. Kitty...
Walnut Milk
Have you ever tried nut milk? Creamy, delicious, and unadulterated nut milk? The homemade kind, not the kind from the grocery store that has all the extra additives to keep it shelf stable. As people are becoming more aware...
Hurry, Little Tortoise, Time for School
When did you first get the memo that a turtle swims in the water and a tortoise lives on land and just drinks the water. I think I was fifty… that’s really not important to my book review of...
A Book Launch with Jane Marla Robbins
Book launch, a reading and signing for MYASTHENIA GRAVIS: THE MUSICAL! My Medical, Hysterical, Poetical, Comical, 25-Month Memoir by Topanga Author/Performer Jane Marla Robbins. “Glorious. Funny. Completely spectacular,” Topanga’s Celeste Fremon, Witness LA. “Wild, intense, wacky, irreverent,” Jim Burroughs, Academy...
Topanga Actors Company Presents!
Topanga Actors Company offers Love, Loss and What I Wore by two witty writers Nora Ephron and Delia Ephron (sadly, Nora is no longer with us) and based on the bestselling book written and illustrated by Ilene Beckerman. A...
RCD on YouTube
The RCD’s Community Resilience team, with a grant from CalFire, created a series of videos to help our communities become more wildfire resilient. The videos cover wildfire preparedness, fire ecology and how-tos for home hardening & defensible space. RCD...
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