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2025 Here We Come!

Suzanne Guldimann, December 27, 2024 0 4 min read

The TNT crew looks forward to 2025 with resolve, the audacity of hope, and the energy to create good work and serve our Santa Monica Mountain communities and the natural environment we are so fortunate to inhabit. May all...

NewsBeat

Franklin Fire Fully Contained

Elizabeth Guldimann, December 27, 2024 0 3 min read

Wind screams through Malibu Canyon as the suffocating smell of smoke dominates the air. It’s 11 P.M. on Monday, December 9, and the Franklin Fire has just broken out. The Santa Monica Mountains continue to experience high fire risk...

ArtBeat

Topanga Actors Company presents A Fantasy Christmas

TNT Staff, November 29, 2024 0 1 min read

The holiday season is traditionally storytelling season, and Topanga Actors Company is reviving that tradition for eighty minutes of readings from eminent fantasy writers. You’ll find their individual takes on Christmas to be both unexpected and a little bit surreal. ...

ArtBeat

The Topanga Symphony Announces Free Fall Concert Date

TNT Staff, October 18, 2024 0 1 min read

The Topanga Symphony, the Santa Monica Mountains’ only community orchestra, announces the fall 2024 free concert date of November 3, 2024, at 3:00 P.M. at the Topanga Community Center. Ken Aiso, violin, and Jerome Kessler, cello, will perform Concerto...

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Announcing OAK TREE Club

TNT Staff, August 23, 2024 0 1 min read

OAK TREE Club is an after-school & enrichment program on the Cali Camp & Manzanita School Campus located in the mountains of Topanga Canyon (CA). OTC is operated by a team of experienced educators, specialists, counselors & coaches. This...

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Travels on Pacific Coast Highway

Suzanne Guldimann, December 27, 2024 0 13 min read

The local stretch of Pacific Coast Highway was constantly in the news in 2024, as state and local officials, residents, commuters and other stakeholders grappled with safety on this increasingly deadly road. TNT Editor Suzanne Guldimann’s feature on the...

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Recovering the Past: Mapping Los Angeles Landscape History

Suzanne Guldimann, October 20, 2023 2 9 min read

They are called the Chumash. The name refers to a group of related languages and dialects, but it has become the de facto title for the people who spoke them and who lived along the California coast from San...

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Travels on Pacific Coast Highway

Suzanne Guldimann, December 27, 2024 0 13 min read

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Rhoda Agatha Rindge Adamson

Suzanne Guldimann, December 1, 2023 0 12 min read

The Story of the Adamson House, Malibu, California Rhoda Agatha Rindge Adamson lived life on her own terms in a time when women—even wealthy ones— rarely had the opportunity to determine their own fate. Her story is eclipsed by...

Books & Such

All Things Stephen King

Jimmy P. Morgan, December 27, 2024 1 5 min read

Stephen King may be the most prolific writer of our day. He has written dozens of full-length stand-alone novels beginning with Carrie in 1974, a lifetime of short story collections—many published before Carrie—five unique series collections, a handful of...

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Books & Such

These Truths

Jimmy P. Morgan, July 14, 2023 0 5 min read

In the introduction to her marvelous single volume political history of the United States—These Truths: A History of the United States (2018)—historian Jill Lepore shares a documented moment which illustrates the very nature of the founding of our country....

Books & Such

The Atlas Club

Jimmy P. Morgan, September 8, 2023 0 7 min read

Since reading Susan Cain’s Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking (2012) when it was first published, I have recommended this book to friends, family, and acquaintances; just about anyone who is surprised to...

Books & Such

Play Ball!

Jimmy P. Morgan, July 1, 2022 1 10 min read

I recently revisited one of the finest baseball books of all time: George Will’s Men At Work: The Craft of Baseball (1990). I offer as evidence the book’s ability to stir in me some early baseball-esque memories. When I...

Storyland

THE COASTWATCHERS Chapter Twenty-Seven

Suzanne Guldimann, December 13, 2024 0 13 min read

The Coastwatchers debuted in TNT’s Storyland section on November 4, 2022. It was written in the spirit of an old-fashioned fiction serial, and provided a way for TNT editor and Coastwatchers author Suzanne Guldimann to share some of the...

Feature

Reflections: The Franklin Fire

Suzanne Guldimann, December 27, 2024 0 7 min read

There’s nothing like the imminent threat of wildfire to make other worries recede into the background. The Franklin Fire ignited around 11 pm on the night of December 11, in Malibu Canyon and burned more than 4000 acres, destroying...

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Topanga Canyon Blvd. The Storied Life of our Main Street

Suzanne Guldimann, April 5, 2024 1 8 min read

Unstable. Two months into the extended closure of Topanga Canyon Blvd., that’s the official diagnosis for the slide. And on March 28, before the most recent wave of rainstorms, there were reports of increased movement. The Caltrans geologist reported...

Feature

A Call for Your Story About a Memorable Tree

TNT Staff, November 29, 2024 0 1 min read

Trees are an important part of what makes Topanga special, but are there specific trees here that have stories or that are witnesses to history? That was the question asked to us by a Topanga New Times reader, and...

Feature

Festivals of Fancy

Elizabeth Guldimann, March 24, 2023 0 5 min read

Looking for a fun way to ring in spring? We’re bringing you a round-up of festivals in the area to give you a break from spring cleaning and get you outdoors to enjoy the beautiful superbloom we’re expecting this...

Work/Life Balance

What to Do When You Don’t Know What to Do

Olivia Pool, December 27, 2024 0 11 min read

TNT life coach Olivia Pool’s thoughtful and practical three-part column on “what to do when you don’t know what to do” is one of TNT’s all-time most popular feature series. We’ve put all three together into one feature for...

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The Magic of Gratitude

Olivia Pool, November 18, 2022 0 2 min read

Tis the month when we are seeing the word “grateful” and “gratitude” all over the place. From grocery shopping bags to t-shirts, and to, of course, Thanksgiving dinners. In the world of personal development and spiritually inclined influencers, gratitude...

Work/Life Balance

Happy Holy Days

Olivia Pool, December 1, 2023 0 2 min read

Isn’t it interesting how the simple spelling change from Happy Holidays to Happy Holy Days seems to shift something? It lands a little differently, doesn’t it? In addition to the slight word and intonation change, we also actually have...

Work/Life Balance

What to Do When You Don’t Know What to Do – Part 2

Olivia Pool, September 6, 2024 1 4 min read

The last time I wrote an article, it was this same title. I’m adding a part 2 to this today because as soon as I had turned it in, I started thinking of so many other things I wanted...

GoodLiving

Seed & Nut Crackers

Nathalie Krull, December 27, 2024 0 3 min read

With the New Year upon us, many of us are making resolutions. Resolutions to do better, be better, eat better, exercise more, you know, all of that good stuff. One simple way you can improve, is to start making...

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Strawberry Hibiscus Agua Fresca

Nathalie Krull, September 6, 2024 0 3 min read

Hola! How are things going? Did you miss me? To be honest, I didn’t miss you, no offense. I was too busy living it up in Cancun, and Tulum Mexico. It was my first time going there, and let...

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Seed & Nut Crackers

Nathalie Krull, December 27, 2024 0 3 min read

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Pumpkin Spice Bread

Nathalie Krull, November 1, 2024 0 4 min read

With the Fall season upon us, the stores are jam packed with pumpkin flavors galore. I thought it would be appropriate to bring to you a deliciously moist, yet healthier version of pumpkin bread. This pumpkin spice bread can...

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Seasons Greening!

Claire Chapman, December 17, 2021 0 4 min read

Spending the holidays together this year may be the greatest gift of all, but that doesn’t stop most of us from joining the bustle of holiday shopping! Finding gifts that serve our loved ones as well as the environment...

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