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Mushroom Madness 
Fungi can cure or kill, nourish life, and also decompose it back into soil. Fossil evidence for fungi is limited, but the ability to analyze molecular data has led to revelations about the evolution of this extraordinary family of...
Fool’s Gold: The Myth of Tiburcio Vasquez 
“And still of a winter’s night, they say,  when the wind is in the trees, When the moon is a ghostly galleon  tossed upon cloudy seas,    When the road is a ribbon of moonlight  over the purple moor,    A...
Billions in Flight: Migratory Birds 
Autumn doesn’t officially begin until the equinox on September 22, but all across North America birds are already on the wing—billions of them. Migration times and destinations vary based on the species and variables like weather and food sources—some...
One-Room Schoolhouse 
Back to school. A hundred years ago in Topanga, it would have been on foot—and often barefoot—to the little, red, one-room schoolhouse by the creek in the bend of the dirt road.  Public education in California was still relatively...
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The Studio Tour is Back 

The Studio Tour is back after a two-year forced hiatus! This is the last of four articles in honor of the Tour’s 20th anniversary, each featuring 3 of the 38 artists participating on the tour Danielle Hutchins, a multifaceted...
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Mid90s 

Jonah Hill’s Mid90s is a unique coming-of-age film from 2018 that is as tender and sweet as it is heart-wrenching. The film follows Stevie (Sunny Suljic), a troubled 13-year-old living in Los Angeles in the 1990s who becomes enamored...
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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...