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Coastal Cleanup Volunteers Are Rewarded with a Look at Natural Wonders

Suzanne Guldimann, September 25, 2020 0 4 min read

September is Coastal Cleanup Month, and as anyone who has ever participated in a cleanup event knows, fascinating things wash up on the local coastline among the bits of kelp, shards of glass and plastic and broken shells that...

Environment

The Solution Is Under Our Feet

Saori Wall, September 25, 2020 0 4 min read

Kiss the Ground is an organization dedicated to restoring and maintaining healthy soil and soil microbes. It is now also a documentary, narrated by and featuring Woody Harrelson, that reveals a viable solution to our climate crisis: regenerating our...

Guide, Resources

Recycling, Wishcycling

TNT Staff, September 25, 2020 1 7 min read

It’s almost impossible to live waste-free, but there are resources to recycle or safely dispose of many materials. Alas, it just isn’t as easy as putting it in a bin. Recycling is promoted as the key to saving the...

Environment, NewsBeat

September Is Coastal Clean Up Month

Suzanne Guldimann, September 25, 2020 0 6 min read

For more than 30 years, volunteers have come together for International Coastal Cleanup Day every September. The massive group cleanup events that have attracted more than six million volunteers in 90 countries are on hold this year, but the...

Feature

Resilience Force: Reinforcement For Labor Workers

Saori Wall, September 25, 2020 0 4 min read

On August 3, Netflix released Immigration Nation, a six-part series that The New York Times called a “rare look inside Trump’s immigration crackdown”. Filmmakers Shaul Schwarz and Christina Clusiau gave viewers unprecedented access into an incredibly secretive organization: ICE...

Books & Such

Hugging Trees

Jimmy P. Morgan, September 25, 2020 0 5 min read

By the time Jared Diamond published Collapse in 2005, he was ranked as one of the leading public intellectuals in the world; which is my way of saying that this is not the type of book one carries in...

ArtBeat

Sophie Kipner’s DontLookUpDontLookDown

Saori Wall, September 11, 2020 0 5 min read

Sophie Kipner is a visual artist and writer from Topanga. Her current ongoing project, #DONTLIFTUPDONTLOOKDOWN is one in which she uses blind contouring, the technique of drawing without lifting the pen or looking at the canvas while she draws...

ArtBeat, Discover

Historic Malibu Potteries Transformed Clay into Gold

Suzanne Guldimann, September 11, 2020 0 6 min read

When the first wave of California’s oil boon swept over the state in the early years of the 20th century, May Knight Rindge hoped to strike black gold beneath the sea cliffs of Rancho Topanga Malibu Sequit. Instead, she...

ArtBeat

Moises Mendoza Test Patterns

Saori Wall, September 11, 2020 0 4 min read

Multidisciplinary artist Moises Mendoza studied at the Art Center College of Design. His artwork has been a part of numerous group shows, including Topanga Canyon Studio Tour and “After the Rain” Group Show at Topanga Canyon Gallery in 2017,...

Books & Such

Go East Young Man!

Jimmy P. Morgan, September 11, 2020 0 5 min read

A quote often attributed to newspaperman Horace Greeley circa 1840, “Go West Young Man” evokes images of pioneers, wagon trains, the Oregon Trail, and the American bravado of taking on a monumental challenge and, not only overcoming it, but...

Discover

Summer of Kittens

TNT Staff, September 11, 2020 0 1 min read

Hello, kitties! National Park Service biologists have proclaimed 2020 in the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area as the Summer of Kittens. A total of 13 kittens were born to five mountain lion mothers between May and August 2020....

ArtBeat, Shop Local, Topanga Life

An Ancient Art Is Alive and Well at Topanga Art Tile

Suzanne Guldimann, September 11, 2020 0 5 min read

The art tile tradition established by factories like Malibu Potteries in the early 20th century is alive and well in Topanga, where for more than 40 years, the Doolin family have designed and crafted tile artwork. Leslie Doolin founded...

ArtBeat, Feature

#SavetheArts

TNT Staff, September 11, 2020 0 5 min read

For our Topanga New Times art issue and our upcoming TNTV art special, we invited local artists to share their current projects using the #SavetheArts hashtag. We received an amazing outpouring of creativity from our readers, who demonstrated that...

ArtBeat, Feature

State of the Art

TNT Staff, September 11, 2020 0 3 min read

The COVID-19 crisis has presented a host of unique challenges for visual artists. Galleries, museums and individual artists continue to scramble to move artwork online. The City of Malibu opened a group show just before the COVID shutdown closed...

Guide, NewsBeat

Testing, Testing 1, 2, 3

TNT Staff, September 10, 2020 0 2 min read

On Sunday, September 13, at 8 pm, TCEP—Topanga Coalition for Emergency Preparedness— will test its new, more capable Top-of-the-Hour (TOTH) report transmitter on FRS radio channel 15. When TCEP is activated during major emergencies, the organization transmits emergency status...

E-Issues

#SavetheArts, Issue 10

Suzanne Guldimann, September 10, 2020 0 4 min read

Topanga New Times, September 11, 2020 Our cover photo this issue was provided by Genevieve Pruddock, picturing her rabbit, Lavendar, checking out one of our earlier issues. We are celebrating arts and artists in this issue of Topanga New...

NewsBeat

Topanga Fire, 09/08/2020

TNT Staff, September 9, 2020 0 3 min read

September 8 was almost the day that Topanga burned. The community had a close call, when a reckless driver involved in a police pursuit reportedly started multiple fires when his trailer, which lost the wheels on one side, generated...

NewsBeat

High Heat Alert

TNT Staff, September 4, 2020 0 3 min read

Edit 9/5/2020 Topanga Library has extended their cooling center through Tuesday, September 8, 2020Hours of Operation: 12:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. 122 N. Topanga Canyon Blvd., Topanga, CA 90290The cooling center will take place in the meeting room; unfortunately...

E-Issues

TNT Website Goes Live

Suzanne Guldimann, August 28, 2020 0 3 min read

Happy Labor Day, Topanga! We’ve almost made it through the strangest summer in recent history—one without many of the activities we love the most but also with an increased sense of community, as neighbors help each other through this...

ArtBeat, Discover, Topanga Life

Jasper Baur and the Digital Art of Camera-Trapping

Saori Wall, August 28, 2020 0 6 min read

Jasper Baur, a senior at Manzanita School, was 12 years old when he began studying digital photography. The focus of his lens has always been pointed in the direction of the natural world. Growing up in the Santa Monica...

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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