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Two Dolls in Westside Nutcracker

SoCal’s longest running production of The Nutcracker returns for its 47th magical Holiday Season. This year, Westside Ballet of Santa Monica’s talented pre-professional dancers share the world class Broad Stage with seven…

100 Drawdown Solutions

Paul Hawken’s book, Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming (amazon.com), inspired Cecilie Stuart, founder of Move the World, a youth activist dance troupe, to hold free Drawdown…

A Marketing Misstep Clutters the Canyon

Driving my son and his friends in the carpool to Pali High the morning of November 4, I noticed something incongruous as I reached the “S” curves—a sign planted in the dirt…

Alarming Death Rate Among LA County Homeless

Homeless Mortality Prevention Initiative Launched The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health released a mortality study that provides new and alarming data on deaths among people experiencing homelessness in LA County.…

Hearts for the Holidays

Thanksgiving has always been a time for family and friends to come together and give thanks. The push to turn the holiday’s focus from gratitude into a shopping frenzy is generating a…

Wild at Hart One Night Only, November 16

Kamakshi Hart’s one-woman show, Wild at Hart, will be performed at Santa Monica Playhouse on Saturday, November, 16, at 8 p.m. The entire proceeds will benefit the 60-year old Santa Monica Playhouse…

Honor Our Veterans on November 9

November 11 is Veterans Day. Last year, the Veterans National Entertainment Workshop (VNEW) Veterans Concert was scheduled to appear at Will Geer’s Theatricum Botanicum, when the Woolsey Fire took center stage instead.…

Letters – November 1, 2019

To whoever smashed my car window… …and took my bag of knitting while I was hiking Los Liones Trail in Topanga State Park (Friday, October 18, evening). I would suggest you unravel…

In Defense of Oak Trees…

We have arrived at the one-year anniversary of the devastating Woolsey fire. There is a lot of talk about vegetation management going forward. The Mountains Restoration and Conservation Authority (MRCA) has put…

New Maker Club and Butterflies

MAKER MAGIC IS STARTING This month we begin an exciting new enrichment at Topanga Elementary called Maker Club! Inspired by a visit this summer to the new Octavia Lab makerspace/audiovisual studio at…