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The Palisades Fire Revisited 
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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...
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Miles Zaud

Miles Zaud is a writer and musician splitting his time between Topanga Canyon and New Haven, CT, where he is an undergraduate at Yale. He attended Interlochen Arts Academy for high school, where he studied classical and jazz piano. At Yale, he is a prospective English major and a member of the musical comedy group Just Add Water. He enjoys composing for musicals and short films, playing Nordic fiddle music, reading Russian literature, and writing observational pieces about daily life. You can reach him at miles@zaudhaus.com.
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Coming Full Cycle 

Miles Zaud, July 14, 2023 2 6 min read  
I don’t yet drive but I’ve been driven plenty, and my drivers often subscribe to a creed that goes something like this: The road’s too small for cars and cyclists to coexist. The car is the fastest mode of...