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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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Ida T. 

Jimmy P. Morgan, July 17, 2020 0 5 min read  
Trailblazing journalist Ida Tarbell was one of a small group of citizen reporters at McClure’s monthly magazine who helped forge the role of the free press in the twentieth century. Citizen Reporters: S.S. McClure, Ida Tarbell, and the Magazine...
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Recent Books by Local Authors 

TNT Staff, July 17, 2020 0 2 min read  
Fiction Lee Goldberg: Lost Hills.This 2020 New York Times bestselling police procedural revolves around a brutal murder in the author’s Calabasas neighborhood. Gary Johnson: Zipper. This 2016 thriller is set almost entirely in Topanga. Kate Milliken: Kept Animals. Milliken...
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Humboldt Lilies 

July 7, 2020 0 1007  
Humboldt lilies are one of the most spectacular wildflowers that grow in the Santa Monica Mountains. Early summer is the time to look for this increasingly rare wild lily. It usually only thrives in deep canyons along the sides...
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Our Calendar 

TNT Staff, July 7, 2020 0 1 min read  
Events have moved online during the coronavirus crisis, but it can still be as much of a challenge to keep track of this virtual reality as it was to find events pre-coronavirus. Making sure Topanga residents have up-to-date access...