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Tarantula vs Tarantula Hawk: The Miniature Monster Movie in Our Backyard

Suzanne Guldimann, August 19, 2021 0 3 min read

The tarantula hawk has a fairy-like beauty—metallic blue-body, brilliant orange wings. Males are peaceful, they spend their short lives as an adult sipping nectar from milkweed flowers and seeking a mate. Female tarantula hawks are ferocious warriors, armed with...

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We Cool You Off!

TNT Staff, August 17, 2021 0 1 min read

From our advertiser, HVAC Consulting Solutions, Inc. Our mission at HVAC Consulting Solutions is to be “your neighborhood HVAC company for all things comfort”. The company, founded by Topanga local Craig Scher in the 80s, strives to promote his...

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TNT Staff, August 14, 2021 0 1 min read

Live Music is Back!(Live Music is Back?) The irrepressible energy of artists is bursting out into the open across the country and in our mountain communities there is no exception. Starved of their audiences, musicians, singers, actors and artists...

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Local Baker Patrice Winter

TNT Staff, August 14, 2021 0 1 min read

Truly the “Angel in Your Kitchen”, Patrice Winter is the proprietor of the Canyon Bakery located at the Theatricum Botanicum. A local treasure renowned for her home fermented grains she mills herself and baker par excellence has been discovered...

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Watersheds: Every River (and Creek) Flows to the Sea

Suzanne Guldimann, August 13, 2021 0 6 min read

The Hyperion sewage spill disaster highlights the immediate impact pollutants can have on the Santa Monica Bay, but water quality in the Santa Monica Mountains and along the coast is a complex issue, and pollution sources are not always...

Books & Such

Judge Peter

Jimmy P. Morgan, August 13, 2021 0 5 min read

I met Judge Peter Ney late in his life; shortly after he had completed his autobiography: Getting Here: From a Seat on a Train to a Seat on the Bench. Peter’s son Rick and I have been friends for...

E-Issues

Madame Gandhi

Suzanne Guldimann, August 13, 2021 0 4 min read

Wildfires are out of control in other parts of California and COVID-19 numbers are skyrocketing again, but it’s been a picture-perfect August in Topanga so far: No fire scares so far this month, fog at the coast, hot summer...

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Sewage Spill and Beach Water Quality

Suzanne Guldimann, August 13, 2021 0 3 min read

Peak beach season is here, but many beachgoers continue to have questions and concerns about water in the aftermath of a major sewage spill at the Hyperion water treatment plant in Los Angeles. The disaster—debacle may be the better...

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Madame Gandhi: Sunflower in the Canyon

Saori Wall, August 13, 2021 0 8 min read

Madame Gandhi is fixing me a matcha tea before our meditation. “Would you like to add some elixirs to your cup?” she asks. She is incandescent, “yes”, I say without hesitation. Anything to radiate as she does. “Every cup...

Work/Life Balance

The Three Minds

Olivia Pool, August 13, 2021 0 5 min read

In the yogic tradition of Kundalini Yoga, they teach about three different minds that we all have. They are the negative mind, the positive mind, and the neutral mind, and they aren’t minds at all. ☺ They are ways...

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Let Us Introduce Eliza

Eliza Rhodes, August 13, 2021 0 4 min read

Greetings, people of the canyon! I’m here to introduce a new addition to the paper. Topanga New Times reached out to me asking if they might share with their readers excerpts from a book I wrote (suffice it to...

Music

Something Happy for Topanga

TNT Staff, August 5, 2021 0 1 min read

From Our Neighbor Cecilia Noël

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When Calabasas Was the Wild West

Suzanne Guldimann, July 30, 2021 2 10 min read

It’s hard to imagine it now, but Topanga’s peaceful, upscale neighbor Calabasas was once a lawless Wild West stagecoach town, with cattle rustlers, gunfighters and brutal frontier justice. In the mid 19th century, this small agricultural outpost became part...

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The‌ ‌Answer‌ ‌is‌ ‌Always‌ ‌in‌ ‌the‌ ‌Surrender‌

Olivia Pool, July 30, 2021 0 1 min read

The most important thing to remember Is the answer is always in the surrender. Our little egos fight so hard To maintain the illusion of control Always grasping tightly Because the ego fears the Divine Unknown Surrender transcends fear. By its...

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Virtual Evacuation Drill

TNT Staff, July 30, 2021 1 1 min read

All Topanga Canyon and Sunset Mesa residents are encouraged to take part in a Virtual Evacuation Drill on Thursday, August 12 at 6 p.m. “The recent Palisades Fire highlights the importance of being ready. We will provide information on...

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Flying Fish 911

Jimmy P. Morgan, July 30, 2021 0 5 min read

The Anthropocene Epoch is an unofficial unit of geologic time, used to describe the most recent period in Earth’s history when human activity started to have a significant impact on the planet’s climate and ecosystems.* Mankind has transformed the...

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Fire in the Mountains

Suzanne Guldimann, July 30, 2021 0 4 min read

Topanga and Malibu had close calls with fire last week. The Flores Fire on July 19, named for Little Las Flores Canyon, was the second fire in the Tuna Canyon area this month, and this time, it burned perilously...

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Saddle Up! Or Learn How to at Topanga Canyon’s Westside Riding School

Diana Mathur, July 30, 2021 0 4 min read

Horses have heart. They are sensitive and challenging, and considered by many to be the best therapists. Quirky individuals with a herd mentality, horses are powerful animals with the softest of muzzles. Majestic and silly, we can’t stop watching...

ArtBeat

Impressions

Sierra Friday, July 30, 2021 2 3 min read

After what feels like the longest intermission ever, live theatre is back at Will Geer’s Theatricum Botanicum! Since its founding in 1973, the theatre has provided entertainment, arts activism and educational opportunities to the greater Los Angeles area. While...

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A Celebration of Life—Sooki Raphael

TNT Staff, July 30, 2021 0 2 min read

Susan Joan “Sooki” Raphael of Topanga, CA passed peacefully on April 25th surrounded by friends, family, color, light, joy, and love. Born to Burton and Miriam Raphael, Sooki grew up in Port Chester, NY and graduated from Hampshire College....

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...

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