Inside Job
Interior Designer Amy Pigliacampo on Redesigning her Family’s Forever Topanga Home However large or small our living space, we want it to reflect our style and taste. For most of us with a limited budget, a cushion and a...
Fantastic Film Festival
Claire Fordham reviews the 19th Topanga Film Festival If the Topanga Film Festival teaches us one thing, it’s that we don’t need blockbusters, car crashes, explosions or big budgets. Screening 70 excellent films from around the world, this festival...
To Lift or Not to Lift?
When I moved to Los Angeles from London 25 years ago, I quickly saw up close that there is good cosmetic surgery and bloody awful. Thanks to some good genes on my mother’s side, I wasn’t in desperate need...
THE REVOLUTION WILL BE IMPROVISED!
The 19th Annual Topanga Film Festival Oct 17-20 Yes we Cannes! With the 19th Topanga Film Festival (TFF) program being finalized and set to be announced on October 7, some 300 filmmakers are nervously waiting to find out if...
Ekaterina Sky, Artist
Ekaterina Sky, 30, describes herself as an “impact artist.” “I paint to raise awareness about vanishing ecosystems of our planet and to shine a light onto areas in the world that need help,” she says about her work. Born...
Jane Hoover, Home Grown
English-born Jane Hoover, 63, has been selling gifts and clothes at Topanga Home Grown for 24 years. Jane’s story is one of perseverance, positivity, an interesting (sometimes weird) childhood, and finding true love. Jane says she was lucky to...
Gregoire Thiry, Educator
Born in Belgium, raised in Luxembourg, Gregoire Thiry, 32, describes himself as an educator. There’s much more to him than that. Greg (as he is known) is also a musician with a terrific singing voice, as well as a...
Leanne Hirsh, Perfumera
Emmy-award-winning make-up artist and perfumera Leanne Hirsh landed in Topanga seven years ago. “I’ve been a make-up artist for forty years, since my teens,” said Leanne, who just won an Emmy for applying Jada Pinkett Smith’s make-up for her...
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...
Ela Roth Capone
TRANSPLANTS: A series on Becoming Topangan Artist and filmmaker Ela Roth Capone, 42, is the driving force behind Topanga-based TheoFilms. This production company is celebrating three of its projects being chosen by the prestigious Ethos Film Awards for their...
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