A green tsunami of weeds is rising throughout the Santa Monica Mountains this spring. This living tide of vegetation threatens to drown the native plants,…
The abundant rains this spring have been a blessing for mushroom enthusiasts in the Santa Monica Mountains. Foraging is so popular this season that it…
The record rain California received in January is a boon for the Western toad, Anaxyrus borea (California has its own subspecies, Anaxyrus borea halophilus). This…
The native ferns of the Santa Monica Mountains are a miniature marvel, and this is the perfect winter to look for them. Newcomers to our…
Our theme this year at Topanga New Times is “changemakers,” but this issue’s change maker isn’t a person or even a project, it’s an important…
All over the Santa Monica Mountains, wildlife lives parallel lives with humans. Animals cross roads, transit gardens and navigate their way over and under obstacles…
According to a recently published National Park Service (NPS) study, one of the world’s most widespread and adaptable animals, mountain lions, regularly uses and even…
Mountain lion P-22 was catapulted to fame in 2012, when Griffith Park ecologist Miguel Ordenana first captured the big cat on film with a remote…
No one sends them cards for Mother’s Day or Father’s Day or buys them flowers or ties, but there are some outstanding parents in Topanga’s…
One of America’s premier flamenco and Spanish dance companies, Flamenco Vivo Carlota Santana has dedicated 40 years of dazzling performances to honoring, invigorating, and expanding...
Sponsored by the Flamminio familyPraised as “the soul of the Spanish guitar,” worldwide sensation Pablo Sáinz-Villegas is this generation’s greatest guitarist. With his “virtuosic playing...
Would you like to walk in the Paradise Realm? You have to know it, to live it. It’s your own world, and you will write...
Malibu Library, March 25/26; Topanga Library, April 1/2: 2 pm admission FREE/library parking Topanga Actors Company presents THIRD by Wendy Wasserstein. Another (innovatively-staged) staged-reading from...
Vintage clothing, antique and Mid-C furniture, primitive tools, 1970’s technology, punk rock t-shirts, victorian brooches, Eames chairs, Danish Modern tables, automobilia, ephemera, Hollywood star autographs,...
TOPANGA VINTAGE MARKET at Pierce College, Woodland Hills, CALA's "Flea of Fleas" is back Sunday, February 26 because it's Always the 4th Sunday.Hours are 7am...
Opening Reception for the City of Malibu’s Next Public Art Exhibition in City Hall, “Behind Bars,” by Renowned Artist Pep Williams (Malibu, CA) – The...
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