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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Six Months After the End of the World

Suzanne Guldimann, July 11, 2025 0 7 min read

For many, the devastation created by the Palisades Fire felt like the end of the world. Six months later, most of the fire debris has been removed, but stark reminders of the damage remain, as residents and local governments...

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The Fire Followers

Suzanne Guldimann, July 11, 2025 0 4 min read

As communities struggle to rebuild and recover from the devastation of the Palisades fire, nature is also in the process of regenerating. When Topanga Canyon Boulevard reopened at the end of May, drivers were met not with bare hillsides...

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No Kings

Suzanne Guldimann, June 27, 2025 0 6 min read

Nothing can stop the power of a committed and determined people to make a difference in our society. Why? Because human beings are the most dynamic link to the divine on this planet.”—John Lewis, Across That Bridge: Life Lessons...

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Maddie Ellis & the Malibu Movie Colony Chapter 4

Suzanne Guldimann, June 27, 2025 0 9 min read

Maddie Ellis and the Malibu Movie Colony is an old-fashioned mystery serial set during the end of the silent movie era. In chapter 4, writer Maddie Ellis takes a look at the troubled film project that has brought her...

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Nuestra Señora Reina de los Ángeles

Suzanne Guldimann, June 13, 2025 0 5 min read

Nuestra Señora Reina de los Ángeles has watched over Los Angeles for nearly 250 years. The Spanish Pueblo that became our City of the Angels was founded—and named—in 1781, the year that the Founding Fathers of the United States,...

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Amusement Piers

Suzanne Guldimann, June 13, 2025 0 14 min read

A pier is a folly, a highway to nowhere. Whether lined with fishermen or filled with the cries and clattering of a roller coaster, whether thick with the aromas of hotdogs and fries or freshly gutted fish, they are...

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Topanga Bears

Suzanne Guldimann, June 13, 2025 3 4 min read

A black bear and her two cubs have been spotted in the Saddle Peak and Old Topanga areas. We haven’t received confirmation yet on whether this bear is BEAR #2291 (a.k.a. BB14), the young female who made several visits...

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FOOL’S GOLD

Suzanne Guldimann, May 30, 2025 0 5 min read

Mustard is beautiful, bitter, spicy, invasive, quick to grow and almost impossible to uproot once it becomes established. This plant’s brilliant golden flowers are synonymous with spring in the Santa Monica Mountains and all over coastal California, even though...

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California Mustard: Beauty or Bane

Suzanne Guldimann, May 30, 2025 0 8 min read

A beautiful but unwelcome tide of golden blossom is sweeping over the Santa Monica Mountains this year. The late—and light—rainy season has resulted in few native wildflowers but an abundance of mustard, an opportunistic invasive that thrives even in...

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Maddie Ellis & the Malibu Movie Colony Chapter Three

Suzanne Guldimann, May 30, 2025 0 13 min read

Maddie Ellis and the Malibu Movie Colony is an old-fashioned mystery serial set during the end of the silent movie era. In chapter 3, Writer Maddie Ellis, our protagonist, has just arrived at the Malibu Colony beach house that...

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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