The open ocean is a strange place, always shifting, always changing. It begins where coastal waters end, and it covers most of the planet—300 million...
It loomed above the beach like Count Dracula’s beach residence: stark, turreted, treeless, and not exactly inviting, but Dracula wasn’t written yet when the imposing...
“Believe me my young friend, there is nothing—absolutely nothing – half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.” —Kenneth Grahame, The Wind...
It’s hard to imagine it now, but Topanga’s peaceful, upscale neighbor Calabasas was once a lawless Wild West stagecoach town, with cattle rustlers, gunfighters and...
The Anthropocene Epoch is an unofficial unit of geologic time, used to describe the most recent period in Earth’s history when human activity started to...
Horses have heart. They are sensitive and challenging, and considered by many to be the best therapists. Quirky individuals with a herd mentality, horses are...
After what feels like the longest intermission ever, live theatre is back at Will Geer’s Theatricum Botanicum! Since its founding in 1973, the theatre has...
Susan Joan “Sooki” Raphael of Topanga, CA passed peacefully on April 25th surrounded by friends, family, color, light, joy, and love. Born to Burton and...
Memorial Day Weekend 2024 is almost here—and that means so is Topanga Days! The three-day family-friendly music festival and fundraiser for the Topanga Community Center...
Victory gardens are gaining popularity again, this time in response to the war against COVID-19. Industrialist millionaire Charles Lathrop Pack is credited with creating the...
In Blood and Thunder: The Epic Story of Kit Carson and the Conquest of the American West (2006), renowned narrative historian Hampton Sides introduces us...