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Christmas in Topanga, 1942 
The Coastwatchers, TNT’s original fiction series set in Malibu during WWII, concludes in this issue. Our story began in December, 1941, just after the United States entered WWII, and ends on Christmas, 1942. Coastwatchers focuses on the experiences of...
New Books: Local Authors / Local Interest 
This is TNT’s annual holiday season round up of new books by local authors and new books on subjects of interest to our local community. For more local books published earlier this year, check out our summer reads list...
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...
Editorial

Ancient Secrets 

ON THE COVER:“Nature’s first green is gold/Her hardest hue to hold…” writes poet Robert Frost. That is certainly true of the aptly named goldback fern, Pentagramma triangularis, which hides an ephemeral golden treasure of spores behind each triangular frond....
Editorial

H20HHH! 

An almost unimaginable amount of rain has fallen on parts of California and that atmospheric river keeps flowing. Parts of the Santa Monica Mountains have received more than 10 inches of rain just since the start of the New...