Topanga Beach was also the setting for early movies, most notably a 15-minute, single-reel film, Crossing the American Prairies in the Early Fifties, that was directed through a megaphone by D. W.…
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The blast from the whistle of the locomotive quickened my pulse. “Make way! Make way—I’m coming through,” it seemed to say. A huge plume of black smoke rose from the stack as…
It must have been the soft spring air that made the afternoon so magical as the warm sun streamed through the ancient oak trees at the Theatricum Botanicum on Sunday, May 12.…
Provençe’s traditional stone farmhouse architecture was the inspiration for a handcrafted Topanga home that exemplifies the Canyon’s independant and creative spirit. Longtime Topanga residents Clive and Karen Christie built their one-of-a-kind home…
Topangans know how to honor their own. They may have been weed whacking or building the new Compost Hub in the morning but when it came time for the Topanga Chamber of…
Hand-picked, sometimes hand-made designer vacation rentals can also be a world-wide art tour. In 2000, Topanga residents Veronique Lievre and Heinz Legler completed their first handmade hotel, Verana (verana.com), in Mexico. In…
Solitude allows a deepening of the present. The Dalai Lama says spend some time alone every day. Much is said of the virtues of connecting with local cultures, but in aloneness you…
The LA County Prison chain gang had been in Topanga on and off as early as 1898, when they worked on the first Canyon road. A stockade built near the beach in…
Three eclectic shops on the Boulevard in the center of town—Pebbles, Luv & Sunshine, and Moona Star Collective—embody the unique style of Topanga. PEBBLES From the road one can easily see the…
Joe Blaustein took photos out the window of the pensione’s fifth floor. “Dawn was hardly dawn. On the opposite shore I could just make out a parked yellow car and half a…