Topanga Canyon Gallery Loses Its Home
Topanga Canyon Gallery will be vacating their location at the end of February, and currently does not have a location to open elsewhere. The building...
West Basin News
At the regular meeting of the West Basin Municipal Water District Board of Directors on Monday, January 23, 2023, the board elected the following officers:...
On the Track of Malibu’s Ghost Train
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...
Community Clearing
When the canyon roads out to the world are blocked by mudslides, as occurred during the recent severe rain storms, the sense of the word...
PLACES. A Bookstore+
PLACES bookshop opened in a studio at Rosewood in Topanga this past December. There was a fine mist of rain that morning, the soft opening...
Playing with Rain and Fire
Pacific Coast Highway and Tuna Canyon were shut down for hours on January 21, while firefighters worked to contain a fastmoving brush fire in steep...
A Story of Life and Loss
One gram of moss from the forest floor, a piece about the size of a muffin, would harbor 150,000 Protozoa, 132,000 tardigrades, 3,000 springtails, 800...
Volunteer Opportunity to Support the Monarchs
California Conservation Corps Watershed Stewards program in partnership with AmeriCorps, to restore habitat for Monarch Butterflies in the Woolsey fire burn scar! The Woolsey Fire...
West Basin Water is Life Art Contest
Students in grades 3-12 called on to create “Water is Life” artwork by March 17th! The West Basin Municipal Water District (West Basin) announced the...
Recycling and Resource Management Classes and Certificates at SMC
Santa Monica College is now offering the first Collegiate Certificates in Recycling and Resource Management in the US! RRM 1: Introduction to Recycling and Resource...
Free Sustainability Courses at SMC
This Spring Santa Monica College is once again excited to offer two of their free Noncredit Sustainability certificates: Sustainability In Organics Aide and Sustainability Services....
The Pacific Palisades Democratic Club Holds
Annual Meeting
The Pacific Palisades Democratic Club will hold its Annual Meeting next Sunday, February 5, 2023. Open to the public, the meeting will feature addresses by...
On the Tracks of the Ghost Train
All over the Santa Monica Mountains, big pod ceanothus is blooming. In a good year, the clusters of small, honey-scented white flowers are so abundant...
Wednesdays with JMo
Part Three: The Flip This is the third installment of “Wednesdays with JMo”, a series of reflections, anecdotes and interviews that tell the story of...
Louis Le Prince
In 1888, French inventor Louis Le Prince used a device the world had never seen to capture the first known motion pictures: a two second...
TAC Staged Reading and Expansion to Malibu
Topanga Actor’s Company will be performing a staged reading of HEROES, a lovely, funny, very human comedy about the travails and aspirations of three unlikely...