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Hanging in the Chrysalis

Olivia Pool, April 22, 2021 0 3 min read

I’ve yet to meet a person that doesn’t love butterflies. It’s easy to love the butterfly. She’s colorful and elegant, gliding gracefully from plant to plant, bringing smiles to all our faces. However, I’d like to focus on the...

Feature

Carolyn Day Building Homes for the Homeless

Saori Wall, April 22, 2021 0 7 min read

Carolyn Day was in Malibu two years ago when she crossed paths with an 82-year-old man, who seemed to be suffering from dementia. The man shared he had no family nearby, perhaps no family at all, and through the...

Feature

Revisiting Silent Spring

Suzanne Guldimann, April 9, 2021 0 9 min read

Rachel Carson’s groundbreaking environmental wake-up call Silent Spring officially turns 60 next year, but the work was completed in 1961 and optioned by The New Yorker, which ran it as a series of essays before it was published as a...

Environment, Feature, Shop Local

Changing the World. Period.

Claire Chapman, April 9, 2021 0 4 min read

As a community of people living so close to nature in the Wildland Urban Interface (WUI), we have all seen some pretty clear signs of our impact on the environment. The fires California has suffered from over the last...

Environment, Feature

It’s Overdue

TNT Staff, April 9, 2021 0 3 min read

The inspiration to act often stems from concern for a loved one. Maxwell Suwaki was walking with his rescue pup Leon, when they stumbled upon a dangerous piece of litter — a syringe needle. Leon’s close encounter with this...

E-Issues

Earth is Home

Suzanne Guldimann, April 9, 2021 0 5 min read

April is Earth Month. While the Biden Administration and national environmental organizations continue the monumental effort to undo the damage the Trump Administration did to the laws and agencies that protect clean air, water, endangered species, migratory birds, national...

Books & Such

On Poverty in America

Jimmy P. Morgan, April 9, 2021 0 5 min read

America’s social welfare programs are geared to providing a safety net for those who fall on hard times. What if we directed our efforts to prevent falling into the net in the first place? I think of this now...

NewsBeat

Palidems Earth Day Celebration

TNT Staff, April 9, 2021 0 2 min read

The Palisades Democratic Club is celebrating Earth Day with Resilient Palisades with a special Zoom event on Tuesday, April 20, beginning at 6:30 p.m. The evening will feature information and inspiration on green gardening, growing native plants, gas-free gardening,...

Feature

Envisioning a Poison Free Life

Suzanne Guldimann, April 9, 2021 0 3 min read

Anticoagulant rodenticide has been described as the new DDT, indiscriminately killing animals throughout the food chain in an unsuccessful effort to control rodents, in the same way that DDT poisoned the environment with little effect ultimately on the target...

Feature

Creating a Sacred Space

Jill Cotu, April 9, 2021 0 6 min read

What is the meaning of sacred? The dictionary tells us sacred means connected with God or pertaining to religion. However, in the parlance of our times, the definition is further reaching. It includes the secular and spiritual, and truly...

Work/Life Balance

Are You Ever Going to Get a Real Job?

Olivia Pool, April 9, 2021 0 5 min read

Our definitions of success are changing. Check out this funny dialogue between two people who have very different definitions of what it means to be successful in life. Person 1 is rooted in old, traditional behavior patterns. Person 2...

NewsBeat

COVID-19 Vaccine Update

TNT Staff, April 9, 2021 0 2 min read

All Los Angeles County residents 50+ are now eligible to receive COVID-19 vaccine and the age limit drops to 16+ on April 15, but there’s a major catch: there is still not enough vaccine to meet demand. L.A. County...

Discover

Wildflowers Bloom Despite Drought

Suzanne Guldimann, April 9, 2021 0 3 min read

Topanga has received just 5.54 inches of rain so far this season. The rainfall totals for the rest of the Santa Monica Mountains range from just under six inches at the top of Decker Canyon to a measly 3.61...

NewsBeat

Small Business Recovery Fund

TNT Staff, April 9, 2021 0 1 min read

The Topanga Chamber of Commerce encourages local businesses to apply for the Department of Consumer and Business Affairs LA Regional COVID-19 Recovery Fund’s Keep Our Shops on the Block Grant. A total of 470 grants of $10,000 will be...

ArtBeat

Museums, Zoos and Aquariums are reopening in Los Angeles County

TNT Staff, April 9, 2021 0 3 min read

With the transition from the Red Tier to the Orange Tier indoor spaces will soon be able to accommodate 50 percent occupancy, provided all COVID-19 safety requirements are met. Those include: Timed ticket entry—even museums that offer free admission...

Discover

Meet the Neighbors: Topanga’s Wild Rabbits

Suzanne Guldimann, March 26, 2021 0 6 min read

We are blessed to live alongside a wide variety of wildlife in the Santa Monica Mountains. The sight of a coyote or a bobcat, a raccoon or a skunk is a truly wild moment, but an encounter with one...

Books & Such

A Science Lesson

Jimmy P. Morgan, March 26, 2021 0 5 min read

In Nature’s Mutiny: How the Little Ice Age of the Long Seventeenth Century Transformed the West and Shaped the Present (2017), best-selling historian Philipp Blom documents the effects of climate change on the development of Western civilization. As recently...

E-Issues

Spring

Suzanne Guldimann, March 26, 2021 0 3 min read

Spring is officially here, and so is the first anniversary of life in COVID-19 quarantine. Soap, toilet paper, flour, and yeast are back on store shelves. N-95 masks are not. We’ve grown accustomed to Zoom meetings that have expanded...

Feature

Spring Delight

Saori Wall, March 26, 2021 0 4 min read

We may once again be observing spring holidays without family and friends but we can still celebrate the season. In this spring-themed culinary adventure, TNT contributors Saori Wall and Amanda Weir experiment with the vibrant Mediterranean-inspired flavors of Israeli...

ArtBeat

“TREE: A 14-Year Love Affair”

TNT Staff, March 26, 2021 0 2 min read

Photographer Don Holtz’s new solo show at the Topanga Canyon Gallery is an homage to one of Topanga Canyon’s ancient and storied oaks. “I have a love affair with this tree,” he writes. “It sits about a hundred yards...

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...