Husband and wife architect and lighting design duo Geoff Sheldon and Roxane Berger opened their state-of-the-art mountaintop home and studio for the Topanga Chamber of Commerce’s July mixer. The focus of the…
How much will low-cost lodging intrude into California’s pristine and protected public lands along the coastline and the Santa Monica Mountains and how long will affordable accommodations remain affordable before becoming a…
Stinging and biting insects, including mosquitos, black flies, and wasps, are an inevitable part of summer in the Santa Monica Mountains, especially following a wet winter. There are a bewildering number of…
There are just two major cities on earth where big cats and humans are known to coexist, one of them is Mumbai, India, where leopards still thrive, the other is Los Angeles,…
“WE ARE PRESIDENT TRUMPS WORST NIGHTMARE,” SAYS STATE SENATOR KEVIN DE LEÓN, CALIFORNIA’S FIRST HISPANIC PRESIDENT PRO TEM, ON A RECENT VISIT TO TOPANGA. California State Senator Kevin de León, President pro…
Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke’s recent recommendation to review the status of 27 national monuments, “shrink” the size of California’s Bears Ears National Monument, and “privatize” other national parks has generated ferocious…
Calabasas City officials continue to approve inappropriate development that encroaches into ecologically and culturally sensitive areas, this time at the mouth of Malibu Canyon at Las Virgenes Road where a three-story hotel…
Despite decades of environmental degradation, the Ballona Wetlands isn’t a bleak industrial wasteland. When Topanga resident Richard Brody goes to work each morning, he isn’t headed for an office. Instead, he spends…
Jonathan White grew up in Malibu. He learned to surf on a ten-foot longboard at Surfrider Beach, and to swim, fish, dive and sail along the local coast. That early love of…
State Senator Henry Stern is currently the youngest member of the California state Senate, and he brings a millennial’s perspective to the often hidebound legislative body that he serves. Stern represents District…