Our Annual Books Issue
One of the joys of the holiday season here at TNT is preparing the annual list of new books by local authors and books that will be of special interest to our readers. This year’s collection has mystery, history,...
A Season of Gratitude at the Topanga Farmers Market
As we move deeper into the holiday season, one feeling continues to guide us: gratitude. Gratitude for our customers, who brighten each Friday with warm smiles and reusable bags in hand. Gratitude for the farmers, bakers, makers, and growers...
Topanga Actors Company Live Reading
Topanga Actors Company live reading of David Sedaris’ essay “SantaLand Diaries” at Topanga Library on December 14th at 2pm. “….outgoing, fun loving people of all shapes and sizes who want more than a holiday job! Working as an elf...
Local Film Double Feature
Paul Doolin and Ollie Sheldon will be screening two unreleased, partially fictional films at theTopanga Library on Saturday, December 6. Kaleidoscopic features the Topanga time tunnel, andincludes present day Topanga and unseen super 8 footage from the 1980s of...
Announcing OAK TREE Club
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...
Local Authors/Local Interest
Every fall TNT showcases some of the newest books that are written by local authors, or of local interest. This year presented challenges for everyone in our community. Authors everywhere have been hit hard by rising costs, declines in...
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Pacific Palisades: Paradise Lost
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 and then into Malibu and unincorporated Los Angeles County, including Sunset Mesa,...
OVERBOARD! Yacht Harbor Mania
“Believe me my young friend, there is nothing—absolutely nothing – half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.” —Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows Grahame’s endearing Water Rat wasn’t the only one enamored with boats...
Orb Weavers: Artists & Architects of the Insect World
“What’s miraculous about a spider’s web?” said Mrs. Arable. “I don’t see why you say a web is a miracle—it’s just a web.” “Ever try to spin one?” asked Dr. Dorian. ― E.B. White, Charlotte’s Web The webs appear...
The Gift of Reading VI
Here is a sampling of some of the books and authors I discovered this year that might make for an ideal gift during this holiday season. After ten novels featuring LAPD Homicide Detective Harry Bosch, prolific and acclaimed author...
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Henrietta Lacks
Good history illuminates the past, informs the present, and inspires reflection. Case in point: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (2010) by Rebecca Skloot. In 1988, high school science student Rebecca Skloot learned that Henrietta Lacks, a poor African...
Behaving Badly
In The Shadow Docket: How the Supreme Court Uses Stealth Rulings to Amass Power and Undermine the Republic (2023), constitutional scholar Stephen Vladek argues that since the mid-2010s, the Supreme Court of the United States has been deploying their...
We’ve Been Here Before
During the first half of the twentieth century, the United States participated in two world wars. In each case, the slaughter began long before America intervened and the country was starkly divided about what to do. Today, we tend...
Maddie Ellis & the Malibu Movie Colony: Chapter Nine
Maddie Ellis and the Malibu Movie Colony is an old-fashioned mystery serial set during the end of the silent movie era. In chapter 9, our heroine and her colleague, director Milo Devlin, have rescued a young woman off the...
Karen Moran: Facing the Panther
Karen Moran is a long-time Topanga resident who has a Ph.D in Archetypal Psychology. This article was written after interviewing Karen and reading her book, Forever Tourmaline, which mixes her life story with metaphors she uses to face trauma....
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Material Matters
The fashion industry is responsible for about ten percent of our global carbon emissions with other impacts coming from the sourcing of materials, sweatshop labor, chemical processes, fossil fuel-based fibers, and vast quantities of water waste. Once we bring...
Ratatouille
It’s amazing how much our taste buds change. I remember being served ( yes served, I never would have put it on my own plate) this mushy vegetable mix as a child. It was definitely a challenge to get...
Rock the Canyon – Topanga’s Classic Rock Era
Los Angeles cultural historian Emmeline Summerton. Lost Canyons LA explores the evocative siren call that has been bringing newcomers to the Santa Monica Mountain region for more than a century and shares the stories of people seeking adventure, creativity,...
2026 Business Planning Before the Holidays!
This is the time to start thinking about your business in the upcoming year. While everyone else is about to start getting busy with buying groceries and making family plans, this would be a great moment to dedicate some...
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Are You a Writer Who Doesn’t Write?
“Are you a writer who doesn’t write, a painter who doesn’t paint, an entrepreneur who never starts a venture? Then you know what resistance is.” This is one of my favorite quotes from The War of Art by Steven...
Spiritual Psychology 101: Outer Experience and Inner Reality
During the years that I was getting my master’s degree in Spiritual Psychology at the University of Santa Monica, my life was constantly changing—at an even higher speed than normal. I’m sharing this story here as I think it...
Why You Should Master Boring
It’s a Sunday afternoon as I write this. It’s gray and cold outside. I ate breakfast, watered some plants, did some laundry, cleaned up the house, folded the laundry, did some prep work for the upcoming week, and soon...
Butternut Squash and Fennel Tian
This humble combination of vegetables arranged in a playful way, is an absolute showstopper. I think most people have tried their hand at roasting vegetables before, but by arranging them in a beautiful design beforehand, you can create a...
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The Julia Child Rose
Nathalie Krull is taking a well-deserved holiday, so we are taking this opportunity to combine her cooking column with our Discover feature on roses to showcase Julia Child. This is one of TNT Publisher Bonnie Morgan’s favorite roses—the one...
Chicken Liver Pate
Okay, I might lose some of you here. I know, I love a good plant-based recipe, too. Most of my recipes will be vegetarian or even vegan, but this one is quite the opposite: chicken liver pate. It may...
Cherry Almond Crumble
I decided to whip up a sweet treat. I told my daughter what the flavor combo was, and she said that it sounded like some old lady flavor…Haha. That kid has no idea…Well that’s not true, now she does....
Seasons Greening!
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...
