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MOMentum Place at the Theatricum May 12

TNT Staff, April 19, 2024 0 1 min read

Every year on Mother’s Day, “MOMentum Place” creates a fantastical world of aerial and circus performers, dancers and musicians in the rustic outdoor amphitheater at the Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum. Bring your mother to honor the MOMentum in her...

NewsBeat

Butterfly Day at the Mermaid Includes Raptors and Reptiles

TNT Staff, April 19, 2024 0 2 min read

Butterfly Day is an all-day environmental festival featuring live music, a live butterfly house, a live beehive, environmental and community partners, as well as local jewelry, tile, art and native plants for sale, face-painting, children’s crafts, and food and...

GoodLiving

Zucchini Quiche

Nathalie Krull, April 19, 2024 0 4 min read

We had a loss in our family this past weekend. Our dear cat, Mibs, fell suddenly ill, and had to be put to sleep. He was a very special friend to our whole family, including our pet conure. He...

ArtBeat

Theatricum’s “Under theOaks” Series Kicks Off May 16

TNT Staff, April 19, 2024 0 1 min read

Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum’s Under the Oaks salon series kicks off the summer season with three evenings of classical music under the stars. “Hills Like White Elephants” is an interdisciplinary adaptation of the short story by Ernest Hemingway featuring...

Kidsbeat

TECS Variety Show a Success

TNT Staff, April 19, 2024 0 2 min read

Topanga Elementary Charter School (TECS) students shone brightly under the enchanting oaks of the Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum in the school’s third annual Variety Show. The talent and creativity of the school’s young stars were showcased at the event...

E-Issues

California’s Other Lions

TNT Staff, April 19, 2024 0 1 min read

Discover

OVERBOARD! Yacht Harbor Mania

Suzanne Guldimann, April 5, 2024 0 14 min read

“Believe me my young friend, there is nothing—absolutely nothing – half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.” —Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows Grahame’s endearing Water Rat wasn’t the only one enamored with boats...

Feature

Topanga Canyon Blvd. The Storied Life of our Main Street

Suzanne Guldimann, April 5, 2024 1 8 min read

Unstable. Two months into the extended closure of Topanga Canyon Blvd., that’s the official diagnosis for the slide. And on March 28, before the most recent wave of rainstorms, there were reports of increased movement. The Caltrans geologist reported...

Books & Such

George Washington

Jimmy P. Morgan, April 5, 2024 0 8 min read

During the second half of the eighteenth century there gathered along the eastern seaboard of North America an enlightened generation of thinkers whose collective will birthed the United States of America and fashioned this extraordinary nation upon a foundation...

Feature, GoodLiving

Chicken Liver Pate

Nathalie Krull, April 5, 2024 0 5 min read

Okay, I might lose some of you here. I know, I love a good plant-based recipe, too. Most of my recipes will be vegetarian or even vegan, but this one is quite the opposite: chicken liver pate. It may...

Editorial

Headaches Ahead

Suzanne Guldimann, April 5, 2024 1 5 min read

Topanga is famous for rock ’n’ roll and rolling rocks. Two months after a wall of mud and rock buried the Boulevard, Caltrans still can’t begin clearing the debris until the mountainside dries out enough to be safe for...

ArtBeat, Feature

Remembering the Lovely, Talented Marcia Berman

John Wood, April 5, 2024 0 3 min read

Pamela Nightingale and I co-founded the band J.P. Nightingale in 1973, and began performing for children and family audiences while studying Creative Dramatics in college. We met [pioneering children’s music performer] Marcia Berman in the early 1970s, when we...

Storyland

THE COASTWATCHERS Chapter Nineteen

Suzanne Guldimann, April 5, 2024 0 9 min read

August was sunny and warm. It was nothing like summer in Illinois or any of the other places I had lived. It was dry instead of humid, the nights were cool, never hot except for that one heat spell,...

NewsBeat

POSTPONED – Topanga Historical Society Potluck Picnic

TNT Staff, April 5, 2024 3 1 min read

Topanga Historical Society is offering an opportunity to visit possibly the oldest house in Topanga. This house, (1180 Old Topanga) is famous for a 1968 pot raid that busted the band Buffalo Springfield, including Eric Clapton, Stephen Stills, and...

NewsBeat

Tea @ TNT Spring 2024: Julia Fordham

TNT Staff, April 5, 2024 0 1 min read

British recording artist and internationally acclaimed singer-songwriter, Julia Fordham, has been a Topanga resident for twenty years and lives here with her daughter, Marley Rose, 18. We’re thrilled and honored to feature Julia at TNT’s first Salon of 2024, Sunday,...

E-Issues

Headaches Ahead

TNT Staff, April 5, 2024 0 1 min read

Discover

A Whale of a Tail

Suzanne Guldimann, March 22, 2024 0 9 min read

Every spring, California gray whales make a monumental pilgrimage from their winter breeding grounds in the warm lagoons of the Sea of Cortez to their summer feeding grounds in the Arctic. It’s a 12,000-mile round trip, one of the...

Books & Such

On the Road

Jimmy P. Morgan, March 22, 2024 0 7 min read

It’s Tuesday March 12, 2024 and I’m three miles up a steep dirt road a bit northwest of Bisbee, Arizona in a dispersed camping area designated by the Bureau of Land Management. While on the road for about two...

Editorial

Spring Equinox

Suzanne Guldimann, March 22, 2024 0 6 min read

Spring arrived on March 19, at 8:06  pm. It was early this year, the earliest vernal equinox since 1896, thanks to Leap Year. The equinox occurs twice a year. It marks the moment when the days and nights are...

Work/Life Balance

The Secret to Feeling Worthy

Olivia Pool, March 22, 2024 2 4 min read

March 17, 2024 I sat down to write you an article on worthiness and a really simple way to be more aware of our inherent worth. I looked to see if I had written about it before, and sure...

TCEP—Our Non-Profit for 2024

TNT Staff, December 13, 2024 0

Every Holiday season, Topanga New Times chooses to honor a local non-profit for longevity, relevance and growth as a service organization. The Topanga Coalition for Emergency Preparedness (TCEP) is a 100% volunteer-run 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that has been operating...

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