Uproarious laughter filled the Topanga Library community room on Oct. 27 as Topanga Actors Company brought Yasmina Resa’s God of Carnage to life. Jeanette Vigne, Kurt Fuller, Jessica Hendra, and Patrick Skelton…
Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, gave it as a gift to the world and never profited directly from it. He made his idea open sourced…anyone could…
So! What’s up with the talk of trust busting in Washington? Is it time for a Teddy Roosevelt-trust-busting-breakup of Big Tech? The Daily Beast asks, are the Tech Oligarchs “a fearsome threat…
Remember that movie, Catch Me If You Can, about Frank Abagnale, who, as a kid, ran the FBI ragged, forging checks and stealing identities? (He assumed at least eight identities during this…
Topanga Canyon, well known for embracing art, culture and individuality, set the scene for the marriage of homegrown Eleni Calisto to her best friend, Jason Stewart, of Pacific Palisades. Jason came down the…
About 12 years ago, I gave an assignment to my critical studies film class after viewing “Motorcycle Diaries,” a biopic about Che Guevara, starring dreamboat Gael Garcia Bernal. For most of my…
There are many beautiful gardens in Topanga, as varied and eccentric as the people who live here. After the killing heat we have had, determined to revive my own fried, scorched, burnt…
Folks, our government is in the process of asking private companies to regulate content on social media sites. Journalist Glenn Greenwald writes, “Silicon Valley executives, required by law and by their nature…
The ambulance pulled into the driveway. “Is she dead?” I tremulously asked as they wheeled my 96-year-old beautiful, brilliant, sweet, unconscious mom toward the house. “No,” the hospice people said and dropped…
I have such fond childhood memories of libraries. Having a library card was a ticket to worlds far beyond my young reach. Local librarians of that era grew to know kids who…