THE COASTWATCHERS: Chapter Three
Aunt Maddie showed me around the ranch after breakfast. I hadn’t really been able to see it when we drove up the night before. All I could see then was a long dark shape among tall dark trees. The...
A Window on the Universe: The James Webb Space Telescope
Our theme for 2022 at Topanga New Times was “Changemakers,” and there was no greater changemaker than the Webb Space Telescope. In just a few months the Webb has already delivered everything promised and more. It is illuminating and...
Best of 2022
How are we already at the end of the year? 2022 was a strange roller-coaster ride, but it wasn’t all bad. In our last issue of 2022 we look back on some of our favorite, most hopeful and most...
Christmas on the Homestead
The earliest written account of Christmas in the Santa Monica Mountains appears to be one published by Frederick Hastings Rindge in his 1895 book, Happy Days in Southern California. Rindge describes his ranch house in Malibu festively decorated with...
Local Authors II, TNT Annual Review for 2022
This is part two of TNT’s annual local authors/local interest book list. If you are looking for the perfect gift or the perfect winter vacation read, this might just be the place to find it. Part One appeared in...
The Hole Story: The Piddock Clam is a Born Architect
Sea stones with holes in them have long been regarded as magical talismans, carried for protection, or safe passage. There’s a grain of truth in that belief, because these “holy stones”, also known as “witch stones” and “hag stones,’...
NATURE BOYS
It may not always feel like it in the bustle and noise of the holiday season, but midwinter is a season that celebrates hope and renewal. And from the dawn of human history, the celebrations at this time of...
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