April 16, 2021

April 16, 2021

View the April 16, 2021 issue (Vol. 2, No. 7) in PDF format.

View the April 16, 2021 issue (Vol. 2, No. 7) in online format.

Thinking Out Loud

Earth Day

Topanga celebrates Earth Day year-round, donâ€™t we! It is nice, and likely necessary that we get a jolt once a year to take stock of how weâ€™re doing. The earth is in seriou ...(Read More)

Flavia Potenza

By Flavia Potenza

Letters

Rides

Thanks so much for publishing my Covid-19 letter in the current issue of The Canyon Chronicle. I greatly appreciate the follow-up you and your staff put together on the nex ...(Read More)

How to Tell a Gopher Snake from a Rattlesnake

Thank you, Miles Sieling of Monte Nido for posting this on Nextdoor, April 6. It is Spring and that means a lot more animals and critters roaming around and ...(Read More)

Why We Do What We Do

Topangaâ€™s Trash Warriors as Adjunct Mail Carriers

"Itâ€™s Raining Men!â€ Remember that â€™80s disco song from days of yore? No? Well, probably not a huge cultural or musical loss to you. Look it up though, because itâ€™s kin ...(Read More)

News

COVID-19: Itâ€™s Not Over Until Itâ€™s Over

According to an April 8 report from AARP health and medicine writer, Rachel Nania, â€œAfter weeks of steady decline, COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations are creeping back up. ...(Read More)

The Canyon Chronicle

By The Canyon Chronicle

Catalytic Converter Theft Prevention event

On Tuesday, April 27, the Los Angeles County Sheriffâ€™s Departmentâ€™s Malibu/Lost Hills Station will be hosting a catalytic converter theft prevention event w ...(Read More)

The Canyon Chronicle

By The Canyon Chronicle

Lifestyle

Backup Batteries for Blackouts

Home batteries donâ€™t need solarâ€¦but it helps! The recent winter storms in Texas brought home the serious problems created when the power is down for days, even weeks. T ...(Read More)

Calendar

Theodore Payne Native Plant Garden Tour

APRIL 16-18, 2021) A Journey Through Place and Time The Theodore Payne Foundation presents its annual Native Plant Garden Tour, a virtual, interactive at-home experience o ...(Read More)

The Canyon Chronicle

By The Canyon Chronicle

Surprise! Itâ€™s the Bardâ€™s Birthday Party

Hear Ye, Hear Ye! Queen Elizabeth I is hosting a surprise party for her favorite playwright, William Shakespeare. Join us on Zoom to celebrate With games ...(Read More)

The Canyon Chronicle

By The Canyon Chronicle

Arts

Selected Poems 2021, Topanga, California, Part 2, April 16

Under the Capsized Boat We Fly New & Selected Poems by Gail Wronsky | In conversation with Flavia Potenza Forty years is a milestone for Topanga poet Gail Wronsky, who say ...(Read More)

Flavia Potenza

By Flavia Potenza

Gallery Opens with Cautious Optimism

Following Don Holtzâ€™ successful show, â€œLove Affair with a Tree,â€ mark your calendars for the Topanga Canyon Galleryâ€™s limited exhibits now through the summer with hope ...(Read More)

The Canyon Chronicle

By The Canyon Chronicle

My Corner of the Canyon

Nothing Like the Sun

It has come to my mind to converse with a crow. Suddenly I am desirous of some interspecies communication. Yes, to some, crows and their corvus cousin, the raven, have a d ...(Read More)

Kathie Gibboney

By Kathie Gibboney

Rude Interruptions

The First Amendmentâ€™s Fair-Weather Friends

Despite what weâ€™d all like to believe, free speech and free expression have never been broadly popular with the general public. â€œWhat a heavy oar the pen is, and what a ...(Read More)

Joel Bellman

By Joel Bellman

Poetry Series

A Time of Elves

We may like to think that the worldâ€™s elves are busy at the North Pole making lots of toys for children to enjoy during holiday season. But there is a new group of â€œElvesâ ...(Read More)

Paula Labrot

By Paula Labrot

COVID Diary

Dear Reader,

The Spring equinox arrived on March 20. The Druids, whose belief system is based on the four solstices and the four equinoxes, call this period, â€œAlban Eilir, The Light of t ...(Read More)

Thinking Out Loud

Why We Do What We Do

My Corner of the Canyon

Rude Interruptions

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