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Caravan

Jimmy P. Morgan, May 7, 2021 0 5 min read

In Central America’s Forgotten History: Revolution, Violence. And the Roots of Migration (2021), Latin America historian Aviva Chomsky makes the clear case that immigration problems on the United States’ southern border are a direct consequence of an aggressive foreign...

NewsBeat

Firewise Training and Landscaping

TNT Staff, May 7, 2021 0 2 min read

Topanga residents have two opportunities in May to learn about critical wildfire safety measures like home hardening and fire-safe gardening. The Resource Conservation District of the Santa Monica Mountains (RCDSMM) and TriunfoWater & Sanitation District are sponsoring a free...

Feature, Topanga Life

Little Free Libraries

Diana Mathur, May 7, 2021 0 6 min read

What small wooden box builds community,inspires readers and expands access to books? Book exchanges are popping up in neighborhoods all over the world, charming passersby with a sense of chivalry and a strange wistfulness usually evoked by used bookstores. If...

NewsBeat

Topanga and Agoura Hills Libraries to Re-open

TNT Staff, May 7, 2021 0 1 min read

Los Angeles County has announced the reopening of several designated libraries to provide select in-person service. Topanga Library will open May 10. Agoura Hills Library opens May 11. Sidewalk Service will continue to be offered with the following services available...

NewsBeat

Los Angeles County Approaches Yellow Tier

TNT Staff, May 7, 2021 0 2 min read

As TNT goes to press, Los Angeles County is poised to enter the least restrictive yellow tier of the state’s coronavirus reopening plan. Just a month and a half ago, Los Angeles County was in the most restrictive purple...

ArtBeat

Changing Winds—A Man of Melody

Saori Wall, May 7, 2021 0 5 min read

When Preston Smith was just shy of 13, he started playing drums in bands and set on a path towards songwriting by way of poetry. He likens himself to a sponge, surrounding himself with musicians, all older than him,...

NewsBeat

Leaf Blower Ban Bill

TNT Staff, May 7, 2021 0 1 min read

One of the world’s greatest minor annoyances, the gasoline-powered leaf blower that wakes entire neighborhoods up at 7 a.m. with a sound like a jet plane taking off, may soon be a thing of the past in California. The...

ArtBeat

Mothers Day MOMentum Returns to Theatricum

TNT Staff, May 7, 2021 0 1 min read

MOMentum Place MOMentum Place is back for a Mother’s Day spectacular like no other! Join host Lexi Pearl for this long-running Topanga tradition. It’s an uplifting, high flying, astounding aerial performance is a celebration of moms everywhere. Prior to...

NewsBeat

Making History in Topanga Real Estate

TNT Staff, May 6, 2021 0 1 min read

A 16-acre mountain top estate that overlooks Topanga State Park just sold for $11 million. It’s the biggest real estate sale in Topanga history. The palatial, 12,000-square-foot home is equipped with eight bedrooms, 11 bathrooms, and every imaginable luxury,...

Environment, Feature

Food for Thought

Claire Chapman, April 23, 2021 0 8 min read

Waste /wAYst/ n. any unwanted material or substance that results from a human activity or process. Damaged, defective, or superfluous material Resource /ˈrēˌsôrs,rəˈsôrs/ n. a source of supply, support, or aid, especially one that can be readily drawn upon...

Books & Such

Bob Lee

Jimmy P. Morgan, April 23, 2021 0 6 min read

In Robert E. Lee and Me: A Southerner’s Reckoning with the Myth of the Lost Cause, historian Ty Seidule knocks Confederate General Robert E. Lee off his high horse. Seidule is a retired US Army Brigadier General and current...

Discover

Angels and Aliens: Encounters with Zooplankton

Suzanne Guldimann, April 23, 2021 0 7 min read

I was bending down to pick up what I thought was a scrap of clear plastic, the kind that cigarette boxes are wrapped in, when I realized that what I had taken for a bit of litter was looking...

NewsBeat

Paul Grzymkowski, 1949 – 2021

TNT Staff, April 23, 2021 0 4 min read

Topanga resident and philanthropist Paul M. Grzymkowski died suddenly on April 1. His wife Joanna Gunst Grzymkowski wrote this tribute to a man many in Topanga loved as a friend, a neighbor and a passionate supporter of local causes....

E-Issues

Aliens & Angels

Suzanne Guldimann, April 23, 2021 0 4 min read

Meet Phronima, a rarely seen deep ocean resident that recently turned up on a local beach. How rarely seen? The citizen science site iNaturalist lists just nine other sightings of this genus for the entire West Coast of North...

ArtBeat

The Topanga Actors Company Presents The Children

TNT Staff, April 23, 2021 0 1 min read

The Topanga Actors Company presents The Children by Lucy Kirkwood. The Los Angeles Times called his Twilight Zone-eque drama, “Sly, gripping, darkly funny…This is sci-fi kitted out with real people, real dilemmas, real scope. It’s really good.” The play...

NewsBeat

Animal Undercrossing Update

TNT Staff, April 23, 2021 0 4 min read

Vehicle strikes take a terrible toll on local wildlife, but a joint Caltrans and National Park Service project is helping improve wildlife safety and connectivity on a 12-mile stretch of the 118 freeway, west of the north end of...

ArtBeat

Theatricum Classes Are Back

TNT Staff, April 23, 2021 0 2 min read

The Theatricum Botanicum is offering its first in-person classes since the coronavirus shutdown last March. The summer programs feature options for adults and children. All in person classes will be held outdoors at Theatricum’s extensive, shady grounds, and will...

NewsBeat

A Message From the West Basin Municipal Water District

TNT Staff, April 23, 2021 0 2 min read

For area residents looking for ways to reduce their cost of living and increase their quality of life during these challenging times, sustainable home improvement projects can save water and money. One useful resource for budget-friendly and eco-friendlier ways...

ArtBeat

Museum Reopenings

TNT Staff, April 23, 2021 0 3 min read

Museums all over the Southland continue to reopen, offering treasures and treats for all ages and every interest. All visitors must comply with state and county COVID-19 safety measures that include advance registration, submitting to an online health screening...

NewsBeat

SAMO Fund Sign Program

TNT Staff, April 23, 2021 0 1 min read

The Santa Monica Mountains Fund is giving away Break the Poison Chain garden signs free of charge to anyone who requests them. The signs are part of SAMO Fund’s Break the Poison Chain campaign, established in partnership with the...

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...