Family Secrets Will Out in Other Desert Cities. It’s no wonder Jon Robin Baitz’s family drama, Other Desert Cities was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2012 and picked up other…
Arts & Entertainment
Busy staging and shooting his third Classics in Miniature live-action puppet film, The Legend of Joan of Arc, Steven Ritz-Barr says puppets are as popular as ever, even with blockbuster filmmakers. “Children…
Botanicum Seedlings, a development series for playwrights augments the Theatricum Botanicum summer season with free readings of two new plays. Stop-Motion by Liz Kerin (Sunday, Aug. 20, 11 a.m.) and The Orange Garden by Joanna Garner…
The Topanga Peace Alliance (TPA) presents its 148th consecutive First Friday Film Night with a screening of Now is the Time / Healthcare for Everybody, on Friday, August 4, at the Topanga Library. We’ve…
Topanga artist Melanie Rothschild has 75 paintings— yes, 75— in an exhibition at FP Contemporary Gallery in Culver City. Out of those, 65 are from a series of 100 tiny paintings she…
Ever wonder about the local folklore concerning the cabins on Topanga Beach that were demolished in 1978? Or stories before the bulldozing of the Rodeo grounds in 2003? And how did it…
The Topanga Authors Group (TAG) features Marsha de la O, author of two award-winning books and the recipient of the 2015 Isabella Gardner Poetry Award, in the “Loose Lips” poetry series on…
Filmmaker Bruce Royer drove through Topanga Canyon in 1988 and instantly fell in love with the place. “I knew—with absolute clarity and passion—that I was going to move to Los Angeles and…
The journey of the Messenger Mountain News is an ongoing discovery of the artistic riches that our mountains nurture. This is the second poetry offering in the short time we’ve been publishing.…
Karen Sherwood is a striking woman with a bright welcoming smile, gentle composure and incredible strength. Most canyonites know her for her continual service to the unfortunate through her work with the…