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Christmas in Topanga, 1942 
The Coastwatchers, TNT’s original fiction series set in Malibu during WWII, concludes in this issue. Our story began in December, 1941, just after the United States entered WWII, and ends on Christmas, 1942. Coastwatchers focuses on the experiences of...
New Books: Local Authors / Local Interest 
This is TNT’s annual holiday season round up of new books by local authors and new books on subjects of interest to our local community. For more local books published earlier this year, check out our summer reads list...
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...
Books & Such

Dam I 

In response to three years of record drought, the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California has declared a “water shortage emergency” and Governor Gavin Newsom has called upon businesses and residents to reduce water usage by 20-30%. In a...
ArtBeat, Film Reviews

Mid90s 

Jonah Hill’s Mid90s is a unique coming-of-age film from 2018 that is as tender and sweet as it is heart-wrenching. The film follows Stevie (Sunny Suljic), a troubled 13-year-old living in Los Angeles in the 1990s who becomes enamored...
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Women in Bloom 

The Well Lived Woman is blooming soon at Pine Tree Circle, the new business opens  this May. Founder Jaimi Brooks, M.A., is a licensed marriage and family therapist who is building a space where women on all spectrums of therapeutic...
Discover, Kidsbeat

School of Dirt 

Tiny hands reach eagerly into the cool soil. “A bug!” “I see a worm!” The students clamor to touch the tiny invertebrates in their soil science lesson at Calabasas Klubhouse. Instructor Calli Goldstein, a Full Circle Compost’s garden and...