Father’s Day
Happy Father’s Day to all of our fathers: the ones who tell us stories when we are small, the ones whose stories we miss when they are gone. This is a day to celebrate not only biological fathers, but...
FALLING APART SINCE 1929
The coast highway isn’t just a disaster waiting to happen, it’s a series of disasters that repeat over and over again. The people who built the local stretch of the coast route in the 1920s were in a hurry...
Hello Topanga Days 2024!
Get ready for the 49th Topanga Days Festival—three amazing days of music, food, artisans and activities, this Memorial Day weekend, May 25, 26 and 27, 10 am-7 pm, at the Topanga Community Center. We have all the details on...
I Love You Mom
Happy Mother’s Day! May is the month to celebrate the mothers, grandmothers, aunts, older sisters, mother figures, and female mentors who have been a positive influence on our lives. Thank you for everything you do—we wouldn’t be the people...
California’s Other Lions
When things are good, the California sea lion lives the ultimate beach lifestyle of surf, sun, and sushi, but sometimes this gregarious, vociferous, and intelligent marine mammal needs a helping hand from the humans who cause most of this...
Headaches Ahead
Topanga is famous for rock ’n’ roll and rolling rocks. Two months after a wall of mud and rock buried the Boulevard, Caltrans still can’t begin clearing the debris until the mountainside dries out enough to be safe for...
Spring Equinox
Spring arrived on March 19, at 8:06 pm. It was early this year, the earliest vernal equinox since 1896, thanks to Leap Year. The equinox occurs twice a year. It marks the moment when the days and nights are...
Living like a Movie Star
The Malibu Colony was the hot place to be in the late 1920s when the original row of bungalows was first built on the beach in Malibu. This is a story full of silent era film stars, flappers, rum...
Of Blue Birds and Good Fortune
Feeling blue? Blue-colored birds are traditional symbols of heaven and good fortune in many cultures around the world. At this time of year in the Santa Monica Mountains, one need look no further than our own backyard to find...
Radiant Beauty
Radioactive glassware is a hot commodity—literally and figuratively. Uranium glass, colored with the radioactive element, was manufactured throughout much of the nineteenth and early twentieth century. Pieces like this hand-blown art glass vase are popular collectables today, prized for...
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