Sustainable Front Yard Retrofits

TreePeople has partnered with the Resource Conservation District of the Santa Monica Mountains (RCDSMM ) to offer sustainable front yard retrofits. The new landscapes will save water, cut water bills, and reduce…

Echinopsis or Golden Torch. Photo by Eric Fitzgerald

Watching Things Grow

One of the benefits of living in the Santa Monica Mountains is that most of us have some room to plant a garden and watch things grow. Casual horticulture has been a…

Canyon Sages Summer Schedule

The Canyon Sages doesn’t fold up for the summer and a number of options for the health and well-being of Topanga’s older generation continue. The Topanga Christian Fellowship has generously opened its…

Blessed Are the Children

On Saturday, July 14, from 12 to 12.30 p.m., Coco Blignaut (bookofseraph@me.com) is organizing a group of Topangans to sing Spanish lullabies outside the building of Nuevo Amanecer Latino Children’s Services (NALCS)…

July 13, 2018

“One Love Band” by Calamity Cole. In celebration of the Reggae on the Mountain Festival this weekend, the “Jah” Lion, important to Rasta Culture, carries a trio of young musicians on its…

topanga farmers market

Save Our Farmers Market

Our sweet boutique Topanga Farmer’s Market is suffering. The community turnout has dropped significantly with a 30-40 percent decrease in sales in the last year. Naturally, vendors are bailing. If we do not…

watching video games

Esports: The Upcoming Sports Revolution

On October 19, 1972, five students gathered to play a video game called “Spacewar!” in the computer lab at Stanford. In this tournament, the stakes were low. The contestants were competing for the grand…

Barry Goldberg is Back In The Groove

The first Barry Goldberg solo album in almost two decades was released June 15 from Sunset Blvd. Records and will celebrate at The Write Off Room on July 11, 8 p.m. (21+…

Harold Vincent Helsley—1936-2018

A stalwart oak of a man in both stature and principle, Harold “Hal” Vincent Helsley died April 11, 2018, of leukemia, three days before his and wife Nancy’s 56th wedding anniversary. He…