Although stinging nettle is often confused as an annoying garden weed, it is, in fact, one of the most tonifying and versatile herbs. If I played favorites this would be one of…
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Reggae on the Mountain turns 10 this year. The popular music festival has outgrown its original home at the Topanga Community Center and is moving to King Gillette Ranch, but it hasn’t…
Guest ranches have provided a means for city folks to air out their spirits since the turn of the century, but today they are multi-sport adventures, leaping generation gaps and crossing cultural…
Before the advent of summer vacation and air conditioners, the Dog Days were thought to bring all sorts of misery and suffering. According to legend, the seas boiled, food spoiled, people and…
Urs Baur has revived the Topanga Film Festival (TFF) to showcase a selection of short films and three award-winning features over three days, August 16, 17, and 18. The festival begins with…
The development of Topanga Beach happened quickly after a public campsite was created there in 1919 by two brothers, manager Miller Cooper and Deputy Sheriff Archie Cooper. Dancing was popular at Cooper’s…
Scarlet Rivera, who played those iconic violin parts on Bob Dylan’s albums, finds life, love and peace in Topanga. In Studio E of the Columbia Records Building in New York City during…
We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard,…
Ann Stalcup, a nonfiction writer and teacher, grew up in England where she intended to make either ballet or art her career. At some point she realized that neither career was practical.…
Soft adventure travel is the fastest growing segment of the travel industry. People are not content to be carted around in vans; they crave a more hands-on, intimate experience in their travels.…