Two-Day Workshop on Heart-Soul-Centered Communication Skills

If your New Year’s Resolution includes reducing stress, supporting immune function, creating or renewing romance, or maintaining successful personal and professional relationships, a two-day Commitment to Love workshop may be what you’re…

Connie Wright Passes

Topanga has lost a most memorable and colorful member of our community.  Long-time resident, Connie Wright passed away on Tuesday afternoon, December 17.  She suffered from difficulties with speech and organ failure…

Rodin and Women: Muses, Sirens, Lovers

Pepperdine University’s Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art will present Rodin and Women: Muses, Sirens, Lovers—Selections from the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Collections from Saturday, January 18, 2020 until Sunday, March…

Letters – December 27, 2019

Praise for Pablo  Referring to my article, 1930s Bring Changes to Topanga (Nov. 29, 2019), Pacific Palisades historian Randy Young wrote: “I just read your article and I loved it. Really, you…

Holiday Roundup

Sages Annual Holiday Dinner The annual Holiday Dinner for Topanga’s Seniors was, as usual, a beautiful festive affair. Lovingly led by Chef Lisa Villasenor, volunteers arrived early to get six turkeys in…

Propagating Toyon

Suzanne Guldimann’s wonderful article about toyon (Toyon Decorates the Canyon with Festive Red Berries, December 13, 2019) caught my attention. Two years ago, after repeatedly trying to grow toyon from seed, I…

Peter S. Traynor 1942 – 2019

Peter was born in Newton, Massachusetts, on January 20, 1942. At age twenty, he fled the cold and convention and headed to San Francisco with $300 in his pocket, determined to make…

Lisa Patt—1955-2019

Many will remember Saturday, November 16, for the dramatic fire in the afternoon, and a huge noise and vision of yellow fixed-wing water tankers soaring close overhead to start the airdrops. That…