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100 Years of the Hollywood Sign

Emmeline Summerton, January 13, 2023 0 4 min read

This year marks the 100-year anniversary of LA’s famed Hollywood Sign. From a real estate advertisement to a global icon. 1923: With the movie industry booming, the small neighborhood known as Hollywood was fast becoming its own industry, attracting...

Books & Such

The More Things Change…

Jimmy P. Morgan, January 13, 2023 0 11 min read

After reading American Midnight: The Great War, A Violent Peace, and Democracy’s Forgotten Crisis (2022) by historian Adam Hochschild, it occurs to me that our nation’s current social, cultural, and political problems are not so much a product of...

ArtBeat

Topanga Actors Company Presents

TNT Staff, January 13, 2023 0 2 min read

Staged-reading of HEROES by Gerald Sibleyras and Tom Stoppard, at the Topanga Library at 2 pm, January 28 and 29. Free admission. Topanga Actors Company presents a staged-reading of HEROES, by the French playwright Gerald Sibleyras. HEROES (Wind in...

NewsBeat

New Laws 2023

TNT Staff, January 13, 2023 0 3 min read

California Governor Gavin Newsom signed nearly a thousand bills into law in 2022. Some will be phased in over time, others went into effect on January 1. Some provide minor fixes to earlier legislation, others impose sweeping changes. Here...

NewsBeat

Cornerstone Acquisition

TNT Staff, January 13, 2023 0 1 min read

Just in time for the New Year, the Mountains Recreation and Conservation Authority (MRCA) announced that escrow has closed on the acquisition of the regionally significant 8.2-acre Cornerstone property on the southeast corner of Agoura Road and Cornell Road,...

Storyland

THE COASTWATCHERS: Chapter Three

Suzanne Guldimann, January 13, 2023 0 15 min read

Aunt Maddie showed me around the ranch after breakfast. I hadn’t really been able to see it when we drove up the night before. All I could see then was a long dark shape among tall dark trees. The...

E-Issues

H20HHH!

TNT Staff, January 13, 2023 0 1 min read

Changemakers

A Window on the Universe: The James Webb Space Telescope

Suzanne Guldimann, December 30, 2022 0 8 min read

Our theme for 2022 at Topanga New Times was “Changemakers,” and there was no greater changemaker than the Webb Space Telescope. In just a few months the Webb has already delivered everything promised and more. It is illuminating and...

Books & Such

For the Future

Jimmy P. Morgan, December 30, 2022 0 7 min read

The climate on our planet is changing; and reversing the inevitable seems as if it will require a bit more cooperation than humanity has yet been unable to muster. The alarm bell has been ringing for so long that...

Books & Such

The Axe Handle

Jimmy P. Morgan, December 30, 2022 0 6 min read

In 1974 I found myself traveling through Arkansas on my way to California. Since I wasn’t old enough to drive, I hitched a ride with a man driving a large truck. He had in his possession an axe handle...

Editorial

Best of 2022

Suzanne Guldimann, December 30, 2022 1 5 min read

How are we already at the end of the year? 2022 was a strange roller-coaster ride, but it wasn’t all bad. In our last issue of 2022 we look back on some of our favorite, most hopeful and most...

Feature

Rewilding the Planet

Claire Chapman, December 30, 2022 0 7 min read

“Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity; and that mountain parks and reservations are useful not only as fountains of timber and...

Feature

Ad Astra

Suzanne Guldimann, December 30, 2022 0 10 min read

The fence we walked between the years Did balance us serene; It was a place half in the sky where In the green of leaf and promising of peach We’d reach our hands to touch and almost touch the...

Storyland

Topanga’s Rocket Women

Peter M. Walzer, December 30, 2022 0 8 min read

You don’t need to be Elon Musk to build a rocket. There is a group of Topangans who made one. You can see it from the Santa Maria Canyon View Ridge Trail. Look north east about a mile as...

E-Issues

Best of 2022

TNT Staff, December 30, 2022 0 1 min read

ArtBeat

Conversations with Nature and Reflections on Our Future

TNT Staff, December 30, 2022 0 2 min read

Topanga Canyon Gallery Starts the New Year with Two New Solo Shows Topanga Canyon Gallery is pleased to present the first two solo exhibitions of 2023; Where Have All The Flowers Gone, by Kate Browning, and La Tierra by...

Feature

Christmas on the Homestead

Suzanne Guldimann, December 16, 2022 0 9 min read

The earliest written account of Christmas in the Santa Monica Mountains appears to be one published by Frederick Hastings Rindge in his 1895 book, Happy Days in Southern California. Rindge describes his ranch house in Malibu festively decorated with...

Editorial

LOVE

Suzanne Guldimann, December 16, 2022 0 5 min read

Urs Baur created this whimsical cover to deliver Topanga New Times’ good wishes to our readers everywhere. Happy holidays to all, with love from all of us at TNT! American songwriter Irving Berlin was dreaming of a White Christmas...

Feature

Local Authors II, TNT Annual Review for 2022

Suzanne Guldimann, December 16, 2022 0 6 min read

This is part two of TNT’s annual local authors/local interest book list. If you are looking for the perfect gift or the perfect winter vacation read, this might just be the place to find it. Part One appeared in...

Storyland

Wednesdays with JMo

Jimmy P. Morgan, December 16, 2022 0 8 min read

Read Part One Part Two: To Chanda No one was surprised to learn in early 2022 that our friend, John Morris, a person with quadriplegia, was going to become a father. It was a bit of a shock, however,...

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...