Suzanne Guldimann

TNT Editor Suzanne Guldimann is an author, artist, and musician who lives in Malibu and loves the Santa Monica Mountains. She has worked as a journalist reporting on local news and issues for almost two decades, and is the author of 13 books, including two local histories and a novel. She can be reached at suzanne@topanganewtimes.com

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Maddie Ellis & the Malibu Movie Colony

Suzanne Guldimann, October 17, 2025 0 11 min read

Chapter 8 Maddie Ellis and the Malibu Movie Colony is an old-fashioned mystery serial set during the end of the silent movie era. In chapter 8, our heroine and her colleague, director Milo Devlin, visit the reclusive actor cast...

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Spanish Style: Hidden History in Plain Sight

Suzanne Guldimann, October 3, 2025 1 13 min read

It’s everywhere: historic hilltop mansions from the 1920s and 30s with red-tile roofs and wrought iron fixtures and entire housing tracts from the eighties and nineties that echo those elements in mass production. Real Estate offers are replete with...

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A Topanga Story

Suzanne Guldimann, October 3, 2025 0 5 min read

Serena and Jimmy Wiley are Topanga originals who embody the authentic spirit of the Canyon. Join TNT contributor Ivan Kashinsky as he sits down with the Wileys for a heartfelt conversation about growing up and falling in love in...

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50 Years of Inn of the Seventh Ray

Suzanne Guldimann, September 19, 2025 0 5 min read

Lucile Yaney and her husband Dr Ralph Yaney established the Inn of the Seventh Ray in 1975. Celebrated for its beautiful, magical Topanga creekside setting and a menu that is sublime but also organic and healthy, the Inn is...

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Migrating Insects

Suzanne Guldimann, September 19, 2025 0 10 min read

Fly, white butterflies, out to sea, Frail pale wings for the winds to try, Small white wings that we scarce can see Fly. Some fly light as a laugh of glee, Some fly soft as a low long sigh:...

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Maddie Ellis & the Malibu Movie Colony

Suzanne Guldimann, September 19, 2025 0 12 min read

Chapter Seven Maddie Ellis and the Malibu Movie Colony is an old-fashioned mystery serial set during the end of the silent movie era. In chapter 7, screenwriter Maddie Ellis meets more of her neighbors at a star-studded beach party,...

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Topanga Canyon Trip of Varied Beauty Covers Ocean Road, Mountain and Valley

Suzanne Guldimann, September 5, 2025 2 5 min read

Features like this one, from a 1913 issue of the Los Angeles Morning Tribune, encouraged readers to visit Topanga and quite literally put Topanga on the map. The route along the coast and up the canyon rapidly became popular...

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Maikura, A Village by the Sea

Suzanne Guldimann, September 5, 2025 0 14 min read

It was called “Maikura,” and it was home to as many as 500 people. It had a marketplace, shops, an inn, restaurants, a church, and even a Japanese garden with a bridge and a pool and a miniature forest...

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GROWING HOPE & MAKING WAVES

Suzanne Guldimann, August 22, 2025 0 5 min read

Topanga New Times contributor Claire Fordham writes that Carolyn Day’s story has it all: triumph over adversity, true grit, deathdefying danger, romance, and a twist in the tale, and that’s not an exaggeration. Join us for the amazing life...

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Maddie Ellis & the Malibu Movie Colony

Suzanne Guldimann, August 22, 2025 0 9 min read

Chapter Six Maddie Ellis and the Malibu Movie Colony is an old-fashioned mystery serial set during the end of the silent movie era. In chapter 6, writer Maddie Ellis puts the unsettling events of the previous night’s break-in behind...

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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