Daniel Zeller 1937 – 2024
Daniel Wolfgang Zeller passed away peacefully in the evening of January 16, 2024, at the age of 86, attended by his wife Nancy and sons Jacob and Joseph. Dan was born June 9, 1937 in Berlin, Germany to Max...
Topanga Actors Company Presents: Farm Hall
An inspired staged reading of an exciting new play by Katherine Moar based on real events—the provocative engrossing drama of what happened at England’s Farm Hall in 1945. Six top nuclear German scientists are cut off from the outside...
Radiant Beauty
Radioactive glassware is a hot commodity—literally and figuratively. Uranium glass, colored with the radioactive element, was manufactured throughout much of the nineteenth and early twentieth century. Pieces like this hand-blown art glass vase are popular collectables today, prized for...
THE COASTWATCHERS Chapter Seventeen
The war continued to escalate all summer in Europe and the Pacific, but the sun shone every day in Malibu, California. Jessie and I spent whole days at the beach. I learned to swim and to surf. A friend...
Beachcomber’s Diary
Every winter brings king tides to the California coast—some of the highest and lowest tides of the year. King tide isn’t a scientific term, but it has become a popular way to refer to the astronomical high tides that...
A Lone Voice
John Marshall served as Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court from 1801-1835 and is largely seen as giving life and meaning to the third branch of our nation’s government. In 1833, a boy was born in Kentucky...
King Tides
Winter King Tides make the headlines at this time of the year for their potential to cause coastal flooding, and as a grim warning of what sea level rise may look like on the West Coast in the future....
Leanne Hirsh, Perfumera
Emmy-award-winning make-up artist and perfumera Leanne Hirsh landed in Topanga seven years ago. “I’ve been a make-up artist for forty years, since my teens,” said Leanne, who just won an Emmy for applying Jada Pinkett Smith’s make-up for her...
The Art of Jealousy
“I can’t believe she’s wearing that!” “I wish I had the money he has.” “I want my life to be more like hers.” Jealousy can have a variety of different faces. From a psychological perspective, when we feel jealousy...
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