MAY PEACE PREVAIL ON EARTH
The TNT crew wishes our wonderful readers, advertisers, contributors, and community all the joys of the season. Peace on Earth, goodwill to all. Cover illustration, concept and design by Urs Baur. A season of hope and light. That’s the...
Christmas in Topanga, 1942
The Coastwatchers, TNT’s original fiction series set in Malibu during WWII, concludes in this issue. Our story began in December, 1941, just after the United States entered WWII, and ends on Christmas, 1942. Coastwatchers focuses on the experiences of...
The Seasons of History
“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” ~George Santayana, 1905 In The Fourth Turning is Here: What the Seasons of History Tell Us about How and When This Crisis Will End (2023), historian, economist, and...
TCEP—Our Non-Profit for 2024
Every Holiday season, Topanga New Times chooses to honor a local non-profit for longevity, relevance and growth as a service organization. The Topanga Coalition for Emergency Preparedness (TCEP) is a 100% volunteer-run 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that has been operating...
Meet the Krampus
Meet the Krampus. This once-obscure ancient alpine Christmas spirit is growing in popularity in the United States. Santa Claus knows if you are naughty or nice. In much of Central Europe, Saint Nicholas still hands out the rewards for...
Gluten-Free Gingerbread Cookies
I love a good spicy gingerbread cookie. Crispy and sweet with the warm color, and flavor of black strap molasses. Making gingerbread cookies was a Christmas tradition in my house for years. Especially when my kids were younger. They...
THE COASTWATCHERS Chapter Twenty-Seven
The Coastwatchers debuted in TNT’s Storyland section on November 4, 2022. It was written in the spirit of an old-fashioned fiction serial, and provided a way for TNT editor and Coastwatchers author Suzanne Guldimann to share some of the...
Reader’s Corner
Letters to my kid. By Neville Agnew Hi Emma, Not a fun story but a diatribe against glitter. Love, Pa If it were gold glinting in the miner’s pan it could well start a gold rush as has happened...
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