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The Palisades Fire Revisited 
January 9, 2026 0 9  
The Palisades Fire: One Year Later 
Suzanne Guldimann, January 9, 2026 0  
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 
Suzanne Guldimann, December 26, 2025 0  
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...
Retrospective: Malibu Reeling 
Suzanne Guldimann, December 26, 2025 0  
Originally published in the March 7, 2025 issue of Topanga New Times 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...
Christmas Carols 
Suzanne Guldimann, December 12, 2025 0  
Villagers all, this frosty tide, Let your doors swing open wide, Though wind may follow, and snow beside, Yet draw us in by your fire to bide; Joy shall be yours in the morning! —Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in...
14 Jan 2026
Books & Such

MAPS 

Jimmy P. Morgan, August 22, 2025 0 9 min read  
In his fascinating book, All Mapped Out (2024), King’s College London Lecturer Mike Duggan argues that maps and our varied uses of them go well beyond the simplicity found in the OED definition of map: “a drawing or other...
Editorial

Wild Wild Roses 

Suzanne Guldimann, August 8, 2025 0 5 min read  
Roses thrive in Topanga gardens, where the heirloom varieties share space with newer garden varieties in almost every color and shape, delighting the senses with beautiful blossoms and divine fragrance. The Santa Monica Mountains are also home to a...