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MAY PEACE PREVAIL ON EARTH 
December 13, 2024 0 51  
Christmas in Topanga, 1942 
Suzanne Guldimann, December 13, 2024 0  
The Coastwatchers, TNT’s original fiction series set in Malibu during WWII, concludes in this issue. Our story began in December, 1941, just after the United States entered WWII, and ends on Christmas, 1942. Coastwatchers focuses on the experiences of...
New Books: Local Authors / Local Interest 
Suzanne Guldimann, November 29, 2024 0  
This is TNT’s annual holiday season round up of new books by local authors and new books on subjects of interest to our local community. For more local books published earlier this year, check out our summer reads list...
Mushroom Madness 
Suzanne Guldimann, November 1, 2024 0  
Fungi can cure or kill, nourish life, and also decompose it back into soil. Fossil evidence for fungi is limited, but the ability to analyze molecular data has led to revelations about the evolution of this extraordinary family of...
Fool’s Gold: The Myth of Tiburcio Vasquez 
Suzanne Guldimann, October 18, 2024 0  
“And still of a winter’s night, they say,  when the wind is in the trees, When the moon is a ghostly galleon  tossed upon cloudy seas,    When the road is a ribbon of moonlight  over the purple moor,    A...
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Books & Such

A Podcast Primer 

Jimmy P. Morgan, November 18, 2022 0 9 min read  
Liberal MSNBC commentator Rachel Maddow has stepped back from her long-running eponymous primetime show (TRMS), but just inked a $30 million per year contract with NBCUniversal, MSNBC’s parent company. While citing a number of health problems related to potential...
Food

Perfection Salad 

Bonnie Morgan, November 18, 2022 1 3 min read  
Letter to the Editor – December 2021 Regarding Suzanne Guldimann’s article on Gelatin I always enjoy Suzanne’s articles, well-written, researched and interesting. However, in reading her “Festive History of Jell-O” (Topanga New Times, Vol. 2, Issue 23 topanganewtimes.com/2021/11/19/breaking-the-mold-a-festive-history-of-jell-o/ )...
ArtBeat

A Christmas Memory 

TNT Staff, November 4, 2022 0 2 min read  
Topanga Library, December 18. 2 p.m. A staged-reading with music: FREE. Stories become classics for a reason. Topanga Actors Company is so excited to announce a special engagement performance of Truman Capote’s lyrical and touching classic “A Christmas Memory.”...
Books & Such

Bobby 

Jimmy P. Morgan, November 4, 2022 0 8 min read  
There is a great deal of chatter out there about our divided dysfunctional political system which now includes a growing incidence of references to impending civil war. While the folks who study these things see it as unlikely that...
Discover

Hotel California 

Suzanne Guldimann, November 4, 2022 4 12 min read  
Short term rentals have become a source of income for some property owners in the Santa Monica Mountains and a source of aggravation for others, leaving local governments scrambling to regulate this burgeoning new industry. Most short-term rentals are...
ArtBeat

Lightscape in LA 

TNT Staff, November 4, 2022 0 1 min read  
Following its inaugural run in Los Angeles, internationally acclaimed Lightscape returns to the 127-acre Los Angeles County Arboretum and Botanic Garden from November 11, 2022 through January 8, 2023! The enchanting, after-dark, illuminated trail will span one mile and...
E-Issues

Explore Our E-Issue 

TNT Staff, November 4, 2022 0 1 min read  
ON THE COVER:Vote! Elections put direct democracy in the hands of the people.Together, we have the ability to bend the arc of the moral universe alittle closer to justice, but only if we vote, and thanks to mail-in ballots,early...
ArtBeat

Film Festival Wrap Up 

Urs Baur, October 21, 2022 0 1 min read  
The 17th Annual Topanga Film Festival–Now Streaming on Video on Demand Over the course of six days Topanga transformed into a hub of film and ideas, bringing out an enthusiastic crowd that connected over movies, ideas, compelling roundtable discussions,...