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The Palisades Fire: One Year Later 
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 
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 
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 
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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Houses of the Stars 

Then people long to go on pilgrimages, And palmers to take ship for foreign shores, And distant shrines, famous in different lands… —Chaucer, The Canterbury Tale, translation from The Riverside Chaucer, Third Edition (ed. Larry D. Benson.) In 1930,...
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E. L. Doctorow 

“History is the present. That’s why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.” —E.L. Doctorow Cultural Literacy refers to the shared basic knowledge of our society that facilitates...
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Healing From Within 

Editor’s Note: We know many who embrace Reiki, but not everyone is familiar with this practice. Reiki is a system that encourages natural healing and well being, developed in the 1920s by a Japanese student of theology named Mikao Usui....