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Local Authors/Local Interest 
Every fall TNT showcases some of the newest books that are written by local authors, or of local interest. This year presented challenges for everyone in our community. Authors everywhere have been hit hard by rising costs, declines in...
Family Photos 
Almost every secondhand shop has a box of old photos for sale. Ladies and gentlemen in their Sunday best; laborers pausing at their work; children, stiff and unnatural in a studio portrait, or candid and full of life on...
Halloween History 
For many years, the Malibu Feed Bin heralded the arrival of Halloween with a display of pumpkins for sale. This year, the corner of Topanga Canyon Boulevard and Pacific Coast Highway hosts only a utilitarian assortment of trailers used...
Spanish Style: Hidden History in Plain Sight 
It’s everywhere: historic hilltop mansions from the 1920s and 30s with red-tile roofs and wrought iron fixtures and entire housing tracts from the eighties and nineties that echo those elements in mass production. Real Estate offers are replete with...
ArtBeat

Impressions 

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 provided entertainment, arts activism and educational opportunities to the greater Los Angeles area. While...
NewsBeat

Leaf Blower Ban Bill 

One of the world’s greatest minor annoyances, the gasoline-powered leaf blower that wakes entire neighborhoods up at 7 a.m. with a sound like a jet plane taking off, may soon be a thing of the past in California.  The...
Environment, Feature

Food for Thought 

Waste /wAYst/  n.  any unwanted material or substance that results from a human activity or process. Damaged, defective, or superfluous material Resource  /ˈrēˌsôrs,rəˈsôrs/ n.  a source of supply, support, or aid, especially one that can be readily drawn upon...