“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...
Every spring, California gray whales make a monumental pilgrimage from their winter breeding grounds in the warm lagoons of the Sea of Cortez to their...
The Vanishing, or Spoorloos, is a brilliant and suspenseful Dutch thriller from 1988, directed by George Sluizer. The film is an adaptation of Tim Krabbé’s...
Imagine a net-zero community, one where every home is carbon neutral. It almost became a reality in a small master-planned community in Colorado. When Norbert...
The Bauman and Burroughs families have lost their north star. Suzanne, mom, passed peacefully in her bed in Wrightwood with my Dad, Doah, and myself...
In 2013 I was handed nutritionist and holistic wellness expert Kimberly Snyder’s book The Beauty Detox Foods, after I had mustered up the courage to...
Community Engagement of Orange County, California, has awarded Catalyst Muse Creativity & Change Consultancy a $10,000 grant to make a short, documentary film about the...
The Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy has released a new resource protection plan focused on the eastern Santa Monica Mountains, including Topanga. “The goal of this...
Journalist, novelist, and screenwriter Joan Didion died on December 23, 2021. She was 87. Her writing is vivid, indelible, and sharp. Once read, her words...
A UCLA-led study suggests that genetic isolation is impacting isolated local mountain lion populations more rapidly than previously thought. Scientists tracking two local mountain lion...
All along lower Topanga Canyon Boulevard, and in almost every garden from Malibu to Pacific Palisades, the fluorescent yellow flowers of Oxalis pes caprae bloom...
So, let’s take inventory here at Johnny-on-the-Spot corporate offices overlooking the glorious sprawling metropolis of Bakersfield CA. I have reviewed an album, a film, a...
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...
During the second half of the eighteenth century there gathered along the eastern seaboard of North America an enlightened generation of thinkers whose collective will...