“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 West Basin Municipal Water District announced its latest drought outreach campaign, calling on its 17 cities and portions of unincorporated Los Angeles County –...
Froggy’s Topanga is a longstanding, favored, fish cuisine hotspot for destination restaurant-goers along with Topanga locals who have been wanting the restaurant to reopen its...
Direct from its sold-out run in London, Lightscape will head to the West Coast to transform the 127-acre Los Angeles County Arboretum and Botanic Garden...
What’s Being Planned? The California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) District 7 intends to prepare an Environmental Impact Report/Environmental Assessment (EIR/EA) for a State Route-27 (SR-27)...
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California legislators are taking action to stop the “silent killer” of extreme heat waves intensified by climate change with a plan to rank heat waves....
An important piece of undeveloped land at the Chatsworth end of Topanga Canyon Blvd. is expected to soon become parkland. The Chevron Corporation is negotiating...
On the morning of November 9, 2018, the Woolsey Fire swept through the Santa Monica Mountains leaving devastation behind. Topanga was spared; neighboring communities were...
Guest artists from the Canyon and nearby share the stage with Gallery Artists in creating imaginative pieces designed to please every recipient. Small enough to...
During the past two decades, acclaimed British espionage historian Ben Macintyre has helped us see the major global conflicts of the twentieth century through a...
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...