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The Elephant in the Canyon

Keegan Gibbs, September 22, 2023 1 8 min read

A fire through Topanga could surpass the death toll from the Camp Fire in Paradise and the Lahaina Fire in Hawaii, combined. And potentially, several times over. Does that get your attention? If it doesn’t, I understand. I grew...

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IMAGINE A WORLD…WITHOUT SMMNRA

Suzanne Guldimann, September 8, 2023 2 25 min read

The Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area is turning 45 on November 10, 2023. Almost all of the big western national parks were created from huge areas of undeveloped wilderness, but this living crazy-quilt of a park—spread across 153,250...

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Parrots in Paradise

Suzanne Guldimann, August 25, 2023 0 8 min read

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 end of August, the young parrots and their parents have rejoined the local parrot...

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La Costa Beach

Suzanne Guldimann, August 11, 2023 1 12 min read

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 that line the coast and cover the hillsides, is a colorful chapter of local...

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What’s Bugging You?

Suzanne Guldimann, June 30, 2023 0 11 min read

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 it’s a voracious hunter, pouncing upon its prey with amazing speed and subduing it...

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The Nature Observer

Suzanne Guldimann, June 2, 2023 0 9 min read

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 a naturalist for the Topanga and Malibu Creek State Park docents. This article grew...

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The Bear Truth

Suzanne Guldimann, May 19, 2023 3 11 min read

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 western Santa Monica Mountains, south of the 101 Freeway. The bear, a young...

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The House Topanga Built

Bonnie Morgan, May 19, 2023 0 9 min read

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 new neighbors who told her there was a yearly Children’s Christmas party at the...

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From Dogtown to Worldwide: The Story of L.A.’s Skateboard Scene

Emmeline Summerton, May 5, 2023 0 7 min read

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, reservoirs, and drainage ditches and created not only a new sport but a cultural...

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Diana Mathur in Latvia

TNT Staff, May 5, 2023 0 2 min read

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. Diana is working on the fourth novel in her historical fiction series, The Linden...

TNT’s critically acclaimed political podcast, featuring Jimmy P. Morgan and Brian Chapman discussing the Constitution, returns in a new, streamlined form we’re calling Framed: Now.

The goal? Providing a concise discussion of the constant stream of constitutional crisis that threatens to upend our American system of democracy. Framed: Now offers an opportunity to discuss the implications of what has become a constant barrage of attacks on the Constitution and the rule of law. Please join us—it’s essential listening! In this episode our hosts discuss why the official government website for the Library of Congress was found to have deleted important sections of Article 1.

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