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The Palisades Fire Revisited 
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The Palisades Fire: One Year Later 
Suzanne Guldimann, January 9, 2026 0  
Life changed for everyone in Pacific Palisades, Topanga and Malibu on January 7 2025. A year after the Palisades Fire those who live or work in its shadow still aren’t used to the endless roadwork, the delays, the road...
Retrospective: Pacific Palisades-Paradise Lost 
Suzanne Guldimann, December 26, 2025 0  
Originally published in the February 21, 2025 issue of Topanga New Times The Palisades fire is named for the Palisades Highlands, where the blaze erupted on the morning of January 7, 2025. The conflagration rapidly spread throughout Pacific Palisades...
Retrospective: Malibu Reeling 
Suzanne Guldimann, December 26, 2025 0  
Originally published in the March 7, 2025 issue of Topanga New Times The Malibu stretch of Pacific Coast Highway turns 100 next year. It’s strange to know its centennial will begin with a third of the houses, businesses, landmarks...
Christmas Carols 
Suzanne Guldimann, December 12, 2025 0  
Villagers all, this frosty tide, Let your doors swing open wide, Though wind may follow, and snow beside, Yet draw us in by your fire to bide; Joy shall be yours in the morning! —Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in...
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Local Film Double Feature 

TNT Staff, November 29, 2025 0 1 min read  
Paul Doolin and Ollie Sheldon will be screening two unreleased, partially fictional films at theTopanga Library on Saturday, December 6. Kaleidoscopic features the Topanga time tunnel, andincludes present day Topanga and unseen super 8 footage from the 1980s of...
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ARSON 

Suzanne Guldimann, October 31, 2025 1 8 min read  
The man arrested on suspicion of starting the blaze that resulted in Palisades Fire is facing two new felony charges. Jonathan Rinderknecht, 29, has been in federal custody since October 8, charged with one count of destruction of property...