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...
Headaches Ahead
Topanga is famous for rock ’n’ roll and rolling rocks. Two months after a wall of mud and rock buried the Boulevard, Caltrans still can’t begin clearing the debris until the mountainside dries out enough to be safe for...
Remembering the Lovely, Talented Marcia Berman
Pamela Nightingale and I co-founded the band J.P. Nightingale in 1973, and began performing for children and family audiences while studying Creative Dramatics in college. We met [pioneering children’s music performer] Marcia Berman in the early 1970s, when we...
THE COASTWATCHERS Chapter Nineteen
August was sunny and warm. It was nothing like summer in Illinois or any of the other places I had lived. It was dry instead of humid, the nights were cool, never hot except for that one heat spell,...
POSTPONED – Topanga Historical Society Potluck Picnic
Topanga Historical Society is offering an opportunity to visit possibly the oldest house in Topanga. This house, (1180 Old Topanga) is famous for a 1968 pot raid that busted the band Buffalo Springfield, including Eric Clapton, Stephen Stills, and...
Tea @ TNT Spring 2024: Julia Fordham
British recording artist and internationally acclaimed singer-songwriter, Julia Fordham, has been a Topanga resident for twenty years and lives here with her daughter, Marley Rose, 18. We’re thrilled and honored to feature Julia at TNT’s first Salon of 2024, Sunday,...
A Whale of a Tail
Every spring, California gray whales make a monumental pilgrimage from their winter breeding grounds in the warm lagoons of the Sea of Cortez to their summer feeding grounds in the Arctic. It’s a 12,000-mile round trip, one of the...
On the Road
It’s Tuesday March 12, 2024 and I’m three miles up a steep dirt road a bit northwest of Bisbee, Arizona in a dispersed camping area designated by the Bureau of Land Management. While on the road for about two...
Spring Equinox
Spring arrived on March 19, at 8:06 pm. It was early this year, the earliest vernal equinox since 1896, thanks to Leap Year. The equinox occurs twice a year. It marks the moment when the days and nights are...
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