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The Palisades Fire Revisited 
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The Palisades Fire: One Year Later 
Suzanne Guldimann, January 9, 2026 0  
Life changed for everyone in Pacific Palisades, Topanga and Malibu on January 7 2025. A year after the Palisades Fire those who live or work in its shadow still aren’t used to the endless roadwork, the delays, the road...
Retrospective: Pacific Palisades-Paradise Lost 
Suzanne Guldimann, December 26, 2025 0  
Originally published in the February 21, 2025 issue of Topanga New Times The Palisades fire is named for the Palisades Highlands, where the blaze erupted on the morning of January 7, 2025. The conflagration rapidly spread throughout Pacific Palisades...
Retrospective: Malibu Reeling 
Suzanne Guldimann, December 26, 2025 0  
Originally published in the March 7, 2025 issue of Topanga New Times The Malibu stretch of Pacific Coast Highway turns 100 next year. It’s strange to know its centennial will begin with a third of the houses, businesses, landmarks...
Christmas Carols 
Suzanne Guldimann, December 12, 2025 0  
Villagers all, this frosty tide, Let your doors swing open wide, Though wind may follow, and snow beside, Yet draw us in by your fire to bide; Joy shall be yours in the morning! —Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in...
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Topanga Days Game Winners 

TNT Staff, June 13, 2025 0 1 min read  
Dance Contest Winners Noble Webster, Maggie Collins Three-legged Race  Satya Finch and Emma Farkas (four years in a row) Pie-Eating Contest Ryan Pickering, returning champion Bubble Gum Blowing Contest Crystal June Storey, returning champion Limbo Winners Aristea Cottereau, Sophia Bella...
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Topanga Storyville 

Pablo Capra, May 16, 2025 0 7 min read  
Historian Pablo Capra tells a true tale from behind the scenes of the Topanga Beach Auto Court—also known as the Topanga Ranch Motel—located near the intersection of Topanga Canyon Boulevard and Pacific Coast Highway, recently destroyed in the Palisades...
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Liberty’s Torch 

Urs Baur, May 16, 2025 0 4 min read  
The Statue of Liberty, that towering green goddess of idealism, was gifted to the United States in 1886 by France—a gesture ostensibly celebrating the centennial of American independence, but more accurately, a passive-aggressive nudge to remind the U.S. to...