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Time to Vote! 
November 1, 2024 0 78  
Mushroom Madness 
Suzanne Guldimann, November 1, 2024 0  
Fungi can cure or kill, nourish life, and also decompose it back into soil. Fossil evidence for fungi is limited, but the ability to analyze molecular data has led to revelations about the evolution of this extraordinary family of...
Fool’s Gold: The Myth of Tiburcio Vasquez 
Suzanne Guldimann, October 18, 2024 0  
“And still of a winter’s night, they say,  when the wind is in the trees, When the moon is a ghostly galleon  tossed upon cloudy seas,    When the road is a ribbon of moonlight  over the purple moor,    A...
Billions in Flight: Migratory Birds 
Suzanne Guldimann, September 20, 2024 0  
Autumn doesn’t officially begin until the equinox on September 22, but all across North America birds are already on the wing—billions of them. Migration times and destinations vary based on the species and variables like weather and food sources—some...
One-Room Schoolhouse 
Suzanne Guldimann, September 6, 2024 0  
Back to school. A hundred years ago in Topanga, it would have been on foot—and often barefoot—to the little, red, one-room schoolhouse by the creek in the bend of the dirt road.  Public education in California was still relatively...
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Editorial

Into The Weeds 

Suzanne Guldimann, March 10, 2023 0 5 min read  
Weeds! They are everywhere this spring, but just because they may be ubiquitous or even invasive doesn’t mean that they aren’t interesting in their own right. There are stories here: history, folklore, and even beauty. Join us for a...
Books & Such

Bernie 

Jimmy P. Morgan, March 10, 2023 2 6 min read  
We have all been discouraged from judging a book by examining only its cover. While the idiom typically stands as metaphor suggesting we should not size up new acquaintances too quickly, it also contains the literal prompt to browse...
ArtBeat

THIRD by Wendy Wasserstein 

TNT Staff, March 10, 2023 0 2 min read  
From Topanga Actors Company; Four performances. Malibu Library, March 25/26; Topanga Library, April 1/2: 2 pm. FREE   Wendy Wasserstein is the author of the justly celebrated The Heidi Chronicles, but her lesser-known, final play, THIRD, will be  presented here in...