Parrots in Paradise
Almost every spring for the last eight years, mitered parakeets have nested in the old windbreak of eucalyptus trees that borders our garden. By the...
La Costa Beach
La Costa Beach is almost entirely hidden behind the houses that locals have nicknamed “the Great Wall of Malibu.” Also hidden here, among the homes...
What’s Bugging You?
Synanthropic Insects Are at Home in Our Homes It has fifteen pairs of improbably long legs, faceted eyes that can see the ultraviolet spectrum, and...
The Nature Observer
Suzanne Guldimann is the editor of the Topanga New Times, and also TNT’s resident naturalist. She was recently asked to give a talk on being...
The Bear Truth
We have a new neighbor in the Santa Monica Mountains. On April 23, National Park Service biologists captured and radio-collared a 210-pound black bear in...
The House Topanga Built
A Brief History of the Topanga Community Center In 1964, Lee Kelly was a single mom who had recently moved to Topanga. She met her...
From Dogtown to Worldwide: The Story of L.A.’s Skateboard Scene
During Los Angeles’ record-breaking droughts of the mid-1970s, a group of teens from Santa Monica and Venice took their skateboards to the area’s empty pools,...
Diana Mathur in Latvia
Novelist Diana Mathur is midway through a material gathering tour and writing binge in Latvia, a small Baltic country bordering Lithuania, Belarus, Russia and Estonia....
The Malibu Railway War
From the moment the first transcontinental railroad steamed across the county in 1869, the nation had train mania. In California, that mania reached a fevered...
The Ongoing Prevalence of Pesticides and Rodenticides in Our Communities—Legislative Update
The battle against toxic pesticides in California is heating up, with a pair of important bills making their way through the legislative process, and some...
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