The open ocean is a strange place, always shifting, always changing. It begins where coastal waters end, and it covers most of the planet—300 million...
It loomed above the beach like Count Dracula’s beach residence: stark, turreted, treeless, and not exactly inviting, but Dracula wasn’t written yet when the imposing...
“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...
The first line of The Johnstown Flood: the Incredible Story behind One of the Most Devastating Disasters America Has Ever Known (1968) reads: “Again that...
Topanga Film Festival is looking for kids and teens from all over the globe to submit their short film. Think scripted movie, stop-motion animation, narrated video,...
At the Topanga Library September 24 & September 25 2 p.m. Free, open seating. Topanga Actors Company returns to live performances at the Topanga Library...
It’s the first National Park Service land acquisition in the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area in years. The NPS recently announced that it has...
Earn a Sustainability in Organics Aide Noncredit Certificate of Completion* with these Fully Online Classes Available to take this Fall Semester! Program begins August 29,...
It was described as an ecological disaster. It became the flashpoint for a new grassroots movement. Now, the former site of a proposed 217,000-square-foot development...
Memorial Day Weekend 2024 is almost here—and that means so is Topanga Days! The three-day family-friendly music festival and fundraiser for the Topanga Community Center...
Victory gardens are gaining popularity again, this time in response to the war against COVID-19. Industrialist millionaire Charles Lathrop Pack is credited with creating the...
In Blood and Thunder: The Epic Story of Kit Carson and the Conquest of the American West (2006), renowned narrative historian Hampton Sides introduces us...