Nightbirds
Have you ever sat in the garden on a summer night and heard the somber oboe duet of the great horned owls performed in stereo from the tops of the tallest trees? Have you ever seen the pale, ghostlike...
Local Democrats Open a New Get-Out-the-VoteCenter in Santa Monica
With the 2024 elections less than 100 days away, local organizations are coming together in a big way to turn out and sway voters. One of Topanga’s own, the Progressive Democrats of the Santa Monica Mountains, is part of...
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....
Chapparal Yucca
We saw the white fire of the yucca, Lighting the mountains— And still along the trail Spring’s flowers lingered for summer. —Madeleine Ruthven, “Yerba Buena,” Londelius Came to the Mountains, 1934 In late spring and early summer, thousands of...
Public Invited to Participate in Malibu CreekCommunity Science Program
The Malibu Creek Ecosystem Restoration Project (MCERP) announces a new community science program to help monitor the restoration of the Malibu Creek watershed, and the public is invited to participate! The program is in conjunction with MCERP’s current pre-construction,...
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...
Topanga Favorite: Froggy’s Return
“I was very cheeky, I got into trouble a lot.” Adriana Lemus, owner of La Chingona Tacos, doesn’t mince words when describing her young adulthood. “I was sent to my grandmother’s house as a punishment, and there I was...
Environmental Partners Xerces Society & National Wildlife Federation at Butterfly Day
The 5th Annual Butterfly Day on May 5 will be hosting two internationally acclaimed environmental organizations: the Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation and the National Wildlife Federation. The Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation, founded in 1971, is a non-profit...
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