Butterfly Day Takes Flight

As a fitting celebration of a glorious spring full of wildflowers and wildlife, Topanga Elementary School Science Committee and the Topanga Town Council are partnering with Bill Buerge to host the Second…

Topanga CERT Training

Topanga CERT—Community Emergency Response Team—will be sponsoring a CERT training class taught by Los Angeles County Firefighter Mitch McKnight, on June 1 and June 8, from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. at…

Community Compost Hub Build

Volunteers gathered at the Topanga Community Center on May 4 to build Topanga’s new kitchen waste compost hub with the guidance of LA Compost, the non-profit organization collaborating on the project. The…

Preserving the History of LA’s Urban Wilderness

Are you a Champion of the Santa Monica Mountains, Coast, and Environs? This is a call to those, who during the last 50 years, have battled to protect, preserve, and expand the…

Sustainability Certificate Classes

The Santa Monica College Earth Science Department is pleased to announce the availability of three new noncredit and free Sustainability Systems & Technology (SST) certificates. The Organics Aide certificate includes three classes: Fundamentals…

More Backyard Wildlife

Great horned owls   Butterfly   Hummingbird   Baby blue jays  

What it Takes to be a Dad

Father’s Day is June 16, and we would like to celebrate Dads and invite them to tell us what it takes for them to be a Dad in 500 words or less.…

Head for the Hills! Theatricum’s Summer Season is Upon Us!

Songs of love, laughter, and enchantment once again Reign in Theatricum’s magical outdoor setting. Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night opens Will Geer’s Theatricum Botanicum summer repertory season on Saturday June 1, followed on Sunday,…

The Magic Flute Enchants at SMC

The Santa Monica College Music Department presents SMC Opera Theatre in a performance of The Magic Flute (Die Zauberflöte), one of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s most popular operas. The production features the SMC…

May 4, 2018

April’s Pink Moon rising over a smoggy/hazy Los Angeles taken by Eric Fitzgerald from Saddle Peak. The ridge in the foreground is the Overlook Trail in Topanga State Park.