June 29, 2018

Lady Liberty has replaced her lamp with fence cutters to light the way.

Researchers Discover Litter of Four Mountain Lion Kittens

National Park Service researchers recently discovered a litter of four mountain lion kittens in the Simi Hills, a small area of habitat wedged between the larger Santa Monica and Santa Susana mountain…

Butterflies

Dear editor (and fledgling backyard butterfly farmer), I loved seeing the pictures of your yellow Cloudless Sulphur butterfly in the recent issue of the Messenger Mountain News! We are in the height…

Jamaican Legends Headline Reggae on the Mountain

For the last nine years, Reggae on the Mountain (ROTM), founded and produced by Topanga locals Amit Gilad and Brooks Ellis, who collectively run Label27.com, has again collaborated with the Topanga Community…

June 15, 2018

Planting Pride—June is Gay Pride month and cover artist Calamity Cole adapted the iconic WW II Iwo Jima photo by Joe Rosenthal (1945) to acknowledge victories in the struggle of the LGBTQ+…

Science Projects Culminate in Butterfly Day

On Sunday, May 5, Topanga Elementary Charter School (TECS) Science Committee partnered with Bill Buerge, owner of the Mountain Mermaid, to host Butterfly Day, a community event to raise awareness about the…

Topanga Students to Perform in Westside Ballet

Zoe Mack and Sidney Brody will perform with Westside Ballet of Santa Monica in their 2018 Spring Showcase at The Broad Stage, Sunday, May 27, for two limited performances. Mack, a seventh-grader…

X to Headline at Topanga Days

X is the band that started it all. They were a sound that mixed Exene Cervenka and John Doe’s fluid lyrical vocals with Billy Zoom’s Rockabilly guitar and DJ Bonebrake’s hard edge…

May 18, 2018

Calamity Cole puts her rainbow spin on Topanga Days with tiedyed raccoons in her illustration “Topanga Days Camouflage.”