Inside Job
Interior Designer Amy Pigliacampo on Redesigning her Family’s Forever Topanga Home However large or small our living space, we want it to reflect our style and taste. For most of us with a limited budget, a cushion and a...
Let’s Do Something!
By Jill Cotu in conversation with Peter Walzer Peter Walzer and Jill Cotu, Viewridge buddies and Topanga New Times contributors, find themselves in conversation about the election year, the upcoming season of giving, and good old fashioned neighborliness. Peter:...
The Topanga Symphony Announces Free Fall Concert Date
The Topanga Symphony, the Santa Monica Mountains’ only community orchestra, announces the fall 2024 free concert date of November 3, 2024, at 3:00 P.M. at the Topanga Community Center. Ken Aiso, violin, and Jerome Kessler, cello, will perform Concerto...
Bonnie Wright Rounds Out LA Climate Week in Topanga
The beginning of September ushered in a heat wave of epic proportion. It was the kind of heat that inspired imagery. As the poet Hilda Doolittle wrote, “Fruit cannot drop through this thick air—fruit cannot fall into heat that...
The Art of Leslie Adkins
Portrait of Leslie Dubois Adkins. Photo by Molly Haas @molly_haas Painting Hive Mind 38” x 38” Acrylic on canvas, 2024. Photo courtesy of Leslie Adkins Quick Little Week With Doves 36” x 36” Acrylic on canvas, 2024. Photo courtesy...
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...
The Fantasy of Sylvia Park
The coin is a little bigger than a quarter. It isn’t decorative, but it has a nice weight to it, and the words stamped on it remain clearly legible, even though this token was struck a hundred years ago....
Life on the Edge: Endangered Species
The least Bell’s vireo, a small songbird most Angelinos have never seen or even heard of, has been in the news lately. This federally listed endangered species has found a refuge in a recently restored stretch of the LA...
Topanga Symphony Performs June 23
The Topanga Symphony, the Santa Monica Mountains’ only community orchestra, announces the Summer 2024 free concert date of June 23, 2024, at 3:00 P.M. at the Topanga Community Center. Music Director Jerome Kessler will conduct Concerto Grosso After Handel...
Building Pacific Coast Highway
Bands played, flags waves, dignitaries gave speeches from a bunting-festooned platform, and hundreds of motorists lined up at Sycamore Cove at the western edge of the Topanga Malibu Sequit Rancho for the grand opening of Theodore Roosevelt Highway. It...
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