69 Bravo Upgrades
69 Bravo, the critically important fire fighting helistop base high in the mountains above Topanga, has received some important improvements, just in time for peak…
Meet Me on the Mountain–Sophie Zeiler
Topanga New Times contributor Saori Wall socially- distanced visited with local Sophie Zeiler for a tour of her abode. There are DIY projects throughout, and…
September Is Coastal Clean Up Month
For more than 30 years, volunteers have come together for International Coastal Cleanup Day every September. The massive group cleanup events that have attracted more…
Sophie Kipner’s DontLookUpDontLookDown
Sophie Kipner is a visual artist and writer from Topanga. Her current ongoing project, #DONTLIFTUPDONTLOOKDOWN is one in which she uses blind contouring, the technique…
Jasper Baur and the Digital Art of Camera-Trapping
Jasper Baur, a senior at Manzanita School, was 12 years old when he began studying digital photography. The focus of his lens has always been…
Fire Season is Here: What to Know
Fire season traditionally used to reach its peak after Labor Day. This year, fire season arrived early. So far, the Santa Monica Mountains have been…
Journalism 101 (0101010)
Many businesses have been turned upside down by the digital revolution, but of those that have survived, few have changed as radically as the newspaper…
Our Calendar
Events have moved online during the coronavirus crisis, but it can still be as much of a challenge to keep track of this virtual reality…
Topanga New Times
The Topanga New Times is meant as a new kind of publication, launched during one of the most difficult times in living memory. We came…
