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Mushroom Madness 
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 
“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 
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 
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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Holiday Quarantine 

“This is important!” Mrs. Shibuya, my flustered biology teacher’s words echo these times.  Sitting in our high school science lab, she was particularly enthused about new discoveries in RNA sequencing. Monoclonal antibodies, single cell composition, Ro or ‘R naught’...
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Topanga Love Project 

On Tuesday, September 29, Topanga New Times contributor Saori Wall socially-distanced met with volunteers at Pine Tree Circle as grocery boxes of non-perishable food items were distributed. The boxes are made possible by Los Angeles County Third District Supervisor...
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#SavetheArts 

For our Topanga New Times art issue and our upcoming TNTV art special, we invited local artists to share their current projects using the #SavetheArts hashtag. We received an amazing outpouring of creativity from our readers, who demonstrated that...
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State of the Art 

The COVID-19 crisis has presented a host of unique challenges for visual artists. Galleries, museums and individual artists continue to scramble to move artwork online. The City of Malibu opened a group show just before the COVID shutdown closed...
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New L.A. County Resources 

The State of California and the County of Los Angeles continue to add new resources as part of the Coronavirus reponse.  For up-to-date accurate information on the coronavirus pandemic in Los Angeles County, including current case numbers, go to...