Word’s the Word
It’s no secret that we love books here at Topanga New Times, and that’s true of many of our friends, neighbors and readers. We are blessed to live in a community not only of readers but of writers, and...
Time to Vote!
We all know how important the November 5 election is—the news cycle is unrelenting and more full of doom than a post-apocalyptic dystopian thriller—but the end of that script has not been written, and there is one thing we...
The Revolution Will Be Improvised
Ready for the Topanga Film Festival? The prestigious, creative and innovative festival is celebrating its nineteenth year. It’s become one of Topanga’s most eagerly anticipated arts events, and has made a name for itself in the international film festival...
Topanga Open Studio
Get ready for the 2024 Topanga Open Studio Tour, October 5-6! This is a unique opportunity to meet local artists, explore their studios, and experience the creative spirit of the canyon first hand. TNT has all the details on...
IN PURSUIT OF THE ENDLESS SUMMER
The Pacific Flyway passes right overhead and fall migration is already underway, a river of birds traveling south. Billions of birds are migrating this month, many of them at night, guided by the stars. Here in the Santa Monica...
Back to School
The Topanga Times News’ office is located exactly where these school children sat in neat rows at their desks in 1951, learning reading, writing, and arithmetic. The parents of some of these children attended school in the canyon’s original...
Day Trippin’
As summer begins to wind down and cooler autumn weather is almost in reach some of us begin to hear the desert calling. The deserts of the American West are vast—they cover more than 500,000 square miles of the...
NIGHTBIRDS
We’ve all heard them in the still hours after sunset and before sunrise, but who are the birds that call to each other in the darkness of a Topanga August night? Owls? Certainly! But not all night owls in...
A Wee Bit Coin
Bitcoin? Real estate tokenization? Nope. This real estate token predates the current craze for blockchain assets by a hundred years. This coin was struck by the promoters of the Sylvia Park Development Company in 1924, and it offered the...
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