Daphne Huffman

Daphne Huffman is a senior in high school and an aspiring writer. Her heart belongs to the sights and sounds of Topanga Canyon, where she lives with her parents and cats.

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Bobby Weir: The Music Never Stopped

Daphne Huffman, February 6, 2026 0 5 min read

“Bob, with a distant look in his eyes, tuned up his guitar,” wrote Phil Lesh about 17-year-old Bob Weir at their first rehearsal together in the earliest days of the band that would become The Grateful Dead. As a...

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Window Shopping in Topanga

Daphne Huffman, December 12, 2025 0 8 min read

Editors Note: Topangans are familiar with the shops in and around Pine Tree Circle and Town Center, but a few minutes off the beaten track that runs through the center of Topanga Town the adventure-inclined shopper will discover a...

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Spotlight on Addie Costain: Rising Singer-Songwriter

Daphne Huffman, October 17, 2025 0 3 min read

For Addie Costain, songwriting is not simply an artistic activity, it’s a second language. Growing up in a musical family in Pacific Palisades and Topanga, the creative environment of the Santa Monica Mountains has transformed her guitar into an...

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Topanga Elementary Enters its Next Chapter

Daphne Huffman, September 5, 2025 0 3 min read

The Spirit Shack. The muraled mountain leading to the upper yard. The garden boxes, profuse with herbs, veggies, and adoration. The auditorium, home of meals, assemblies, book fairs, and school plays. The handball courts, tetherball poles, and tree-blanketed havens....

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All the World’s a Stage

Daphne Huffman, August 8, 2025 0 4 min read

The Theatricum Botanicum lives not only as a cultural center of Topanga Canyon but also as a beloved haven for people throughout the city, attracting audiences from around Los Angeles who are drawn to its outdoor spaces and artistic...

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Spotlight on Trillium: Music of the Mountains

Daphne Huffman, May 30, 2025 0 4 min read

An essential thread of Topanga’s legacy lies in the constant songs woven through the canyon. In a community whose culture is practically synonymous with music, becoming a Topanga musician flavors the youth scene like a rite of passage, and...

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Topanga Days: A Labor of Love for TCC

Daphne Huffman, May 16, 2025 1 4 min read

Nestled in the mountains, blanketed with acorns and oak leaves, lives the Topanga Community Center, the maypole around which every local canyon dweller revolves. From its brick inner chambers, the tunes of square dance stomping and clapping pervade the...

TNT’s critically acclaimed political podcast, featuring Jimmy P. Morgan and Brian Chapman discussing the Constitution, returns in a new, streamlined form we’re calling Framed: Now.

The goal? Providing a concise discussion of the constant stream of constitutional crisis that threatens to upend our American system of democracy. Framed: Now offers an opportunity to discuss the implications of what has become a constant barrage of attacks on the Constitution and the rule of law. Please join us—it’s essential listening! In this episode our hosts discuss why the official government website for the Library of Congress was found to have deleted important sections of Article 1.

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