Artist Margaret Gallagher wasn’t expecting to find nature in the heart of the city of Los Angeles when she moved here from Oregon to study art at Occidental College, but she did,…
Above, the cover of a 1911 Suffragist Pamphlet celebrating the passage of California’s Proposition 4 and showing the American West as the leader in the push for Women’s rights. Image courtesy of…
The City of Malibu is welcoming spring with an exhibit of art by local artists. The Birds and the Bees: A Celebration of Spring in Malibu features 80 works in multiple mediums,…
Hidden Creeks Park was once slated for a 188-home luxury subdivision. It’s a strange drive: down a long stretch of narrow road that winds through a post-apocalyptic landscape resembling coal country, but…
The increasingly endangered mountain lion population of the Santa Monica Mountains has experienced another major loss. P-56 is dead. He is the first radio-collared mountain lion to be killed in the Santa…
The Woolsey Fire has claimed another victim: a massive valley oak that stood for more than a century in Paramount Ranch. When this tree was a seedling, the land it grew on…
While much of the nation is still covered in snow, the mountains around Topanga are dusted with the snow-like bloom of Ceanothus flowers. Vast areas of the chaparral that is dominated by…
It won’t come as a surprise to anyone who regularly visits parks in the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area (SMMNRA), but a new report based on data collected in 2018 shows…
For as long as there have been movies, there have been women who made them. The silent film era offered women a rare opportunity to forge a career in a new industry,…
City Council Passes Fire Resistant Plant Ordinance The Malibu City Council has voted to approve a fire-resistant landscape ordinance that bans palm trees, restricts the use of other highly flammable trees, and…