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50th Anniversary Gala at the Theatricum

TNT Staff, July 28, 2023 0 1 min read

Theatricum celebrates its 50th anniversary with ‘Echoes in the Forest’ gala on August 5th. Wendie Malick and Pamela Adlon are set to host ‘Echoes in the Forest,’ a gala fundraising event for Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum in celebration of...

Editorial

Cool Breeze

Suzanne Guldimann, July 28, 2023 0 6 min read

August heat may bake the valleys and turn the local mountains to dusty gold, but out at the coast the marine layer ensures that mornings are cool, afternoons are sunny and warm, and that the evenings cool things back...

E-Issues

Cool Breeze

TNT Staff, July 28, 2023 0 1 min read

NewsBeat

PPDC Garden Party

TNT Staff, July 28, 2023 0 1 min read

The Pacific Palisades Democratic Club, whose board and membership include many Topanga residents, is hosting its annual Garden Party on Sunday, August 6 at 2 PM at a home in the Palisades Riviera. The idea behind the event is...

NewsBeat

Not Just Another Trafic Fatality

TNT Staff, July 28, 2023 0 2 min read

BB-12, a black bear that National Park Service (NPS) scientists had been tracking for the last three months, was struck and killed by a vehicle on the 101 Freeway at the top of the Conejo Grade between Newbury Park...

Discover

The Naked Truth

Suzanne Guldimann, July 14, 2023 1 11 min read

Pirates Cove in Malibu is small and isolated—a crescent of white sand surrounded by forbiddingly steep cliffs. It faces the open ocean. This storied stretch of coast is said to have been named not for the “avast ye me...

NewsBeat

Wildlife Crossing Tours

TNT Staff, July 14, 2023 0 1 min read

The National Wildlife Federation has announce the release of additional summer ticketing for the highly anticipated docent-led tours of the Wallis Annenberg Wildlife Crossing, brought to you by the National Wildlife Federation’s #SaveLACougars campaign and partners at the Cougar...

NewsBeat

Canyon Sages July Update

TNT Staff, July 14, 2023 0 3 min read

Sages is back in full swing, post Covid drama. There will be regular classes for physical well-being (Balance, Yoga, Tango); for spiritual well-being (Meditation); and musical well-being (Ukulele, and a new monthly Song Circle). A talk by Sarah Priest...

NewsBeat

Domoic Acid Continues to Poison Marine Mammals

TNT Staff, July 14, 2023 0 3 min read

Domoic acid continues to take a terrible toll on local marine mammals. The toxin, a byproduct of the rapid growth of harmful algae along parts of the Southern California Coast, has already killed dozens of dolphins and sea lions,...

Feature

Warner Brothers: 100 Years of Film, Television, and More

Elizabeth Guldimann, July 14, 2023 0 5 min read

The warm spotlight hits you, and with your face illuminated in its yellow glow you’re ready for your action moment. “Cut!” the director yells and the world shifts around you: production assistants jump into action, moving set pieces and...

Feature

Coming Full Cycle

Miles Zaud, July 14, 2023 2 6 min read

I don’t yet drive but I’ve been driven plenty, and my drivers often subscribe to a creed that goes something like this: The road’s too small for cars and cyclists to coexist. The car is the fastest mode of...

Editorial

Clothing Optional

TNT Staff, July 14, 2023 0 6 min read

COVER: Why was nudism such a big thing in the 1970s? Was it a reaction to repressive American mid-century modern conformity? A rejection of Puritanical prudery? Part of the new health and fitness phenomenon? Or just the latest fad?...

Books & Such

These Truths

Jimmy P. Morgan, July 14, 2023 0 5 min read

In the introduction to her marvelous single volume political history of the United States—These Truths: A History of the United States (2018)—historian Jill Lepore shares a documented moment which illustrates the very nature of the founding of our country....

E-Issues

Clothing Optional

TNT Staff, July 14, 2023 0 1 min read

Work/Life Balance

Finding Freedom in Discipline

Olivia Pool, July 14, 2023 0 3 min read

One of my very first spiritual teachers would often use this phrase in his teachings: “There is freedom in discipline.” I was in my early twenties, and every time he would say it, I could feel this childish disgruntled...

Discover

What’s Bugging You?

Suzanne Guldimann, June 30, 2023 0 11 min read

Synanthropic Insects Are at Home in Our Homes It has fifteen pairs of improbably long legs, faceted eyes that can see the ultraviolet spectrum, and it’s a voracious hunter, pouncing upon its prey with amazing speed and subduing it...

Work/Life Balance

Reprogramming Into Joy

Olivia Pool, June 30, 2023 0 4 min read

I laugh a lot these days. It’s not because my life is easy. I’m here fumbling around in this human body trying to make sense of it all, just like everybody else. There’s nothing special about me, and yet...

Feature

Birkenstock It to Me

Elizabeth Guldimann, June 30, 2023 0 6 min read

“Crunchy Topanga hippies wearing their Birkenstocks,” conjures an image of a Topangan, anywhere from 1966 through the present day, enjoying life in comfortable shoes. I’m sitting here next to the editor of TNT as I write this introduction. I’m...

Feature

SOLE MATES

Suzanne Guldimann, June 30, 2023 0 6 min read

Who’s that walkin’ round here? Mercy, sounds like baby patter Baby elephant patter, that’s what I calls it Say, up in Harlem at a table for two There were four of us: me, your big feet, and you From...

Editorial

Fourth of July

Suzanne Guldimann, June 30, 2023 0 5 min read

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these...

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...