List of Articles

• 1895-03-19 Los Angeles Times - "Trampers Get Wet"
• 1911-01-15 Los Angeles Times - "Polished Idol Proves Mystery"
• 1911-02-05 Los Angeles Times - "Will They Be Interpreted?"
• 1924-07-04 Los Angeles Times - "Bull Fight on for Today"
• 1924-09-16 Santa Monica Outlook - "Mrs. Van Skike Makes Record Swim from Venice to Topanga"
• 1925-08-17 Los Angeles Times - "Officers Fall in Liquor Net"
• 1928-02-23 Los Angeles Times - "Kidnapping Laid to Liquor Gang"
• 1930 Parks, Playgrounds and Beaches for the Los Angeles Region - "Recommendations for Public Beaches"
• 1948-02-17 Los Angeles Times - "Actor to Take Rap for Cat in Drunk Driving"
• 1952 (2014-02-11) Lower Topanga Archive - "Reminiscence" by J. Murf
• 1961-05-28 Los Angeles Times Home Magazine - "A Small House by the Sea" by Sue Foster
• 1964-10-01 Surf Guide - “Woody the King” by Bill Cleary
• 1965-04-09 California Apparel News - "The Girls of Topanga Beach" by Bob Garcia
• 1965-08-04 Austin American Statesman - “California Skateboard Team Due to Put On Exhibition at Ward’s”
• 1965-10-01 Skateboarder Magazine - “Four-Foot Seven-Inch Skateboard Giant” by Bill Cleary
• 1967-06-24 TV Guide - “Her Skirts Cover Her Knees” by Leslie Raddatz
• 1967-07-07 LIFE - "Stoned Kids Think They Can Handle It" by Albert Rosenfeld
• 1967-10-01 Open City - “The Tiny Surfer Turn-Ons” by Bob Garcia
• 1969-01-27 Santa Monica Outlook - “Deputies Save 12 Isolated by Flood” by Noel Swann
• 1969-01-28 Santa Monica Outlook - “Disaster: Only Laughter Left” by Noel Swann
• 1969-02-02 LA Herald-Examiner - “No Help for Residents of Rodeo Grounds”
• 1969-02-12 Santa Monica Outlook - "Flooded Topangans Wade in Red Tape" by Noel Swann
• 1969-04-01 TV Radio Mirror - “‘Virginian’ Star Sara Lane Saved from Death in the Floods!” by Jan Dean
• 1970-03-01 The Western Horseman - “Television’s Cowgirl” by Peg Pivirotto
• 1971-12-01 Surfing Magazine - "Topanga Beach: Topanga Is a State of Mind" by Jim Fitzpatrick
• 1975-06-25 Independent - “Supervisors Ban Beach Nudity”
• 1977 (2005) The Brandt Island Chief and a Hok'wat - "The Flood of '77" by G. Shontah B. (Gary Bertram)
• 1977-07-28 Malibu Surfside News - "Blue Juice Flowed at the Inn" by Jim Erickson
• 1977-09-29 Messenger - “Hang Gliding: Fly Like an Eagle” by Bill Hess
• 1977-11-11 The Malibu Times - “The Nickel-Plated Spanish 38” by Randall “Ted” Berkeley
• 1977-12-02 The Malibu Times - “The Little Mexican Washington Palm in a Rusty One-Gallon Can” by Randall “Ted” Berkeley
• 1978-01-20 The Malibu Times - "Brew One O Two" by Randall “Ted” Berkeley
• 1978-10-19 Messenger - "Aloha Aldo Vidali" by Jeanne Christoferson
• 1979-01-18 Messenger - “Topanga Beach: Did Anyone Win?” by Donna Dunwoody
• 1979-03-01 H2O Magazine - "Last Tango in Topanga" by Anthony Friedkin
• 1980-06-01 H2O Magazine - "I'm Curious-Green" by Mary Jo Johnson
• 1982-01-28 Los Angeles Times - "Lifeguard Wrestles Shark, Gets Sore Nose" by Boris Yaro
• 1982-12-19 Los Angeles Times - "Shanty Village at Topanga Creek Awaits Doom—Development" by Robert W. Stewart
• 1990-03-08 Messenger - “Baptism by Fire and Flood” by Ann Stalcup
• 1990-05-23 Santa Monica Outlook - "Their Lease on Life" by Kathleen Lund-Seeden
• 1993-11-11 Los Angeles Times - "Going for Broke to Battle Blaze" by Ron Russell
• 1994-03-02 Santa Monica Outlook - "In the Path of Destruction" by Nick Madigan
• 1994-05-05 The Malibu Times - "Flashback" by Pam Linn
• 1998-09-01 The Surfer's Journal - "The End of the Innocence: Malibu in the '70s" by Mike Perry
• 2002-03-07 Messenger - "Photographing Topanga from the Rodeo Grounds Up" by Carole Merritt
• 2002-11-28 Messenger - "'Idlers,' a Portrait of Lower Topanga" by Dan Mazur
• 2002-11-28 The Malibu Times - "Idlers of the Bamboo Grove" by Cathy Neiman
• 2002-12-01 Los Angeles Times - "Hope for a Community in a Few Lines of Verse" by Scott Timberg
• 2002-12-05 The Malibu Times - "Catherine Holliss: Idlers' Thoughts" by Cathy Nieman
• 2002-12-12 Messenger - "Venice Reading Celebrates Lower Topanga" by Dan Mazur
• 2003-01-30 Palisadian-Post - "Topanga Poets' Visions of Art, Love, Abandonment" by Libby Motika
• 2003-02-27 The Malibu Times - "The Lower Topanga Life" by Cathy Neiman
• 2003-03-13 Messenger - "Idlers Poetry Reading and Photo Exhibit at Howell-Green" by Pablo Capra
• 2003-04-10 Messenger - "Blattel Exhibit 'Lower Topanga: Before the Bulldozers' Opens at Howell-Green" by Pablo Capra
• 2003-04-17 Los Angeles Times - "Glum Stares Amid Bulldozers' Roar" by Martha Groves
• 2003-05-22 Messenger - "The Old Folks: A Rustic Life that Time Forgot"
• 2003-10-17 LA Weekly - "Best Bait Shop: Wylie’s" by Marc Cooper
• 2003-10-23 Messenger - "Idlers' Reading at Beyond Baroque, Nov. 9" by Pablo Capra
• 2003-11-06 Messenger - "James Mathers' Bohemian Rhapsody" by Pablo Capra
• 2004-02-05 The Malibu Times - "Flowers from Topanga" by Baretta
• 2004-03-01 HopeDance - "Topanga Canyon: A Legendary Artists Community's Struggle to Survive" by Amy Landau
• 2004-03-25 The Malibu Times - "Lower Topanga Art Scene" by Baretta
• 2004-04-22 Messenger - "The Passing of Princess" by Pablo Capra
• 2004-07-29 Messenger - "Topanga Ranch Motel Residents Get 30-Day Notice" by Pablo Capra
• 2004-12-01 The Malibu Times - "The Artist's Dream" by Austen Tate
• 2004-12-02 Messenger - "The State Will Smash Itself" by James Mathers
• 2005-06-16 LA Weekly - "Semi-Naked Defiance" by Dani Katz
• 2005-07-14 Messenger - "Man v. Rat In Lower Topanga Tales" by Pablo Capra
• 2005-08-01 Malibu Magazine - "The Disappearing Bamboo Grove" by Sonja Magdevski
• 2005-08-04 The Malibu Times - "The Struggle of Survival Told in 'Rat Tales'" by Austen Tate
• 2005-11-17 Messenger - "Thais Sykes: A Lower Topanga Girlhood" by Susan Chasen and Pablo Capra
• 2005-12-15 Messenger - "Toilet and Log's Rodeo Grounds Art Scene" by Dani Katz
• 2006-02-01 LA Weekly - "The Last Rodeo" by Dani Katz
• 2006-02-09 Messenger - "Crap Poetry of the Rodeo Grounds" by Pablo Capra
• 2006-02-09 Messenger - “The Last Party: A Wake for the Rodeo Grounds” by Dani Katz
• 2006-02-23 Messenger - "The End" by Pablo Capra
• 2006-03-21 Diagonale (Austrian Film Festival, Graz) - "Malibu Song"
• 2006-03-26 Austrian Newspaper - "California Dreamin'" by Michael Freund
• 2006-09-24 eBLIPS - "ToyLit Issues TimeShip Medusa Tome" by Twist
• 2006-10-19 Messenger - "Lower Topanga Life Forms Framework for Two Newly Released Graphic Books" by Pablo Capra
• 2006-11-16 The Malibu Times - "Party On, Dudes!" by Kim Devore
• 2006-12-01 The Santa Monica Mountains: Range on the Edge - "One of the Last Vestiges of Topanga Bohemia" by Matthew Jaffe and Tom Gamache
• 2006-12-21 The Malibu Times - "Stuff Your Stocking with Rad Beach Literature" by James Mathers
• 2007-03-01 High Tech High School - "Lower Topanga Video Game" by Senior students
• 2008-02-28 Messenger - "Topanga Nostalgia Letter" by John Peacock
• 2008-05-20 Malibu Arts Journal - "From Lower Topanga, Tool's Snake Pit" by Josh Hastings
• 2008-10-09 Messenger - "Howell & Green Gallery Back by Popular Demand at Pine Tree Circle" by Ken Fermoyle
• 2008-10-23 Messenger - "Malibu Song Premiere" by Pablo Capra
• 2008-10-30 Goethe Institute Los Angeles - "Malibu Song Premiere"
• 2008-11-10 Cinema without Borders - "Malibu Song: Made in Austria: Building Futures – Past and Present" by Melissa Lavabre
• 2009-02-12 Messenger - "Three Short Films about Topanga" by Pablo Capra
• 2009-04-01 Malibu Magazine - "Miki Dora: Topanga Days" by David Rensin
• 2009-04-09 Messenger - "Lower Topanga Redux ca. 1970" by Dennis J. Carlile
• 2010-2011 Heal the Bay Annual Beach Report Card - "The Top 10 Beach Bummers"
• 2011-02-11 surfwriter.net - "Thanks for the Memories" by Robert R. Feigel
• 2011-2012 Heal the Bay Annual Beach Report Card - "The Top 10 Beach Bummers"
• 2012-05-16 The Malibu Times - "Sixth Grade Reading List Raises Eyebrows" by Melonie Magruder
• 2012-07-11 LA Weekly - "8-Foot-Tall Lego Man Washes Up on Topanga Beach; No One Gives a Damn" by Simone Wilson
• 2012-09-13 Malibu Surfside News - "Surf Scrap" by Suzanne Guldimann
• 2013-01-02 zev.lacounty.gov - "Solving the whodunit of Topanga Beach" by Zev Yaroslavsky
• 2013-02-21 The Malibu Times - "Reel Inn Malibu" by Homaira Shifa
• 2014-07-21 mobilemojoman.wordpress.com - "Book Review: Topanga Beach Experience by Paul Lovas" by mobilemojoman
• 2016-09-01 The Surfer's Journal - "Back Story" by Steve Pezman
• 2017-04-01 Bohemia in Southern California - "Idlers of the Bamboo Grove" by Pablo Capra
• 2017-07-14 Messenger Mountain News - “The Topanga Historical Society Presents: Living on the Edge of America” by Rebecca Catterall
• 2017-09-22 Messenger Mountain News - "Memory of Place" by Suzanne Guldimann
• 2017-10-06 Messenger Mountain News - "Tales from the Beach, Part 2"
• 2018-02-09 Messenger Mountain News - “Topanga Style”
• 2018-12-28 Messenger Mountain News - “Native Americans of Topanga Beach” by Pablo Capra
• 2019-02-08 Messenger Mountain News - "Topanga Historical Society Presents: Native Americans of Topanga Beach" by Joe Sloan
• 2019-02-08 Messenger Mountain News - “W. W. Coolbaugh and Jack Rabbit Lodge” by Pablo Capra
• 2019-02-13 Topanga Historical Society - "Presentation Video: Native Americans of Topanga Beach" by Pablo Capra and Chester King
• 2019-03-03 Lower Topanga Archive - "Rancho Boca de Santa Monica" by Pablo Capra
• 2019-04-05 Messenger Mountain News - “They Tramped to Topango” by Pablo Capra
• 2019-05-03 Messenger Mountain News - “The Topanga Chain Gang” by Pablo Capra
• 2019-05-31 Messenger Mountain News - "Elkhorn Camp" by Pablo Capra
• 2019-05-31 Messenger Mountain News - "Police Parties" by Pablo Capra
• 2019-05-31 Messenger Mountain News - “Silents in the Canyon” by Pablo Capra
• 2019-07-26 Messenger Mountain News - "The New Bridge Rodeo" by Pablo Capra
• 2019-07-26 Messenger Mountain News - "The Sheriff Traeger Rodeo" by Pablo Capra
• 2019-07-26 Messenger Mountain News - “Helen Gibson and The Rodeo Grounds” by Pablo Capra
• 2019-08-23 Messenger Mountain News - "The Elks Rodeo" by Pablo Capra
• 2019-08-23 Messenger Mountain News - "The Moose Rodeo" by Pablo Capra
• 2019-08-23 Messenger Mountain News - “A Bullfight Shuts Down The Rodeo Grounds” by Pablo Capra
• 2019-10-04 Messenger Mountain News - "The End of Cooper's Camp" by Pablo Capra
• 2019-10-04 Messenger Mountain News - "The Fire Rodeo" by Pablo Capra
• 2019-10-04 Messenger Mountain News - "The Tom Mix Rodeo" by Pablo Capra
• 2019-10-04 Messenger Mountain News - “Athletic Club, Hearst Want Topanga Yacht Harbor” by Pablo Capra
• 2019-11-01 Messenger Mountain News - “The Great Eleven Cult in Topanga” by Pablo Capra
• 2019-11-29 Messenger Mountain News - “Bootleggers Shoot It Out” by Pablo Capra
• 2019-12-27 Messenger Mountain News - “Marmont Studio” by Pablo Capra
• 2020-01-24 Messenger Mountain News - "Spence's Cabins" by Pablo Capra
• 2020-03-06 Messenger Mountain News - "Early Businesses" by Pablo Capra
• 2020-04-03 Messenger Mountain News - "Early Surfers" by Pablo Capra
• 2020-05-01 Lower Topanga Archive - “Topanga Beach: 1940s and ‘50s” by Sam Franklin
• 2020-05-28 Lower Topanga Archive - “Ted and Sylvia Berkeley” edited from interviews by Pablo Capra
• 2020-06-26 The Canyon Chronicle - “Book Review: Topanga Beach: A History by Pablo Capra” by Linda Ballou
• 2020-07-10 The Canyon Chronicle - “Cooper’s Camp” by Pablo Capra
• 2020-11-27 The Canyon Chronicle - “Book Review: From the Heart of a Horsewoman” by Pablo Capra
• 2021-08-05 The Malibu Times - "The Topanga Yacht Club" by Pablo Capra
• 2021-09-02 The Malibu Times - “The Shipwreck of the Ameco” by Pablo Capra
• 2021-10-14 The Malibu Times - "Sister Aimee Hides Out at Las Tunas Beach" by Pablo Capra
• 2021-10-28 The Malibu Times - "Maniac Strikes Terror at Elkhorn Camp" by Pablo Capra
• 2021-12-02 The Malibu Times - “Merrily We Go to Hell” by Pablo Capra
• 2022-01-21 The Canyon Chronicle - “Thais Rust Sykes (1925-2021)” by Pablo Capra
• 2022-01-27 The Malibu Times - "A Bridge to the Past" by Pablo Capra
• 2022-04-07 The Malibu Times - "Potter's Topanga Trading Post" by Pablo Capra
• 2022-04-15 The Canyon Chronicle - "Bill and Pablo Return to Brookside" by Pablo Capra
• 2022-06-23 The Malibu Times - "Trials by Water and Fire" by Pablo Capra
• 2022-09-01 The Malibu Times - "World War II Passes Through" by Pablo Capra
• 2022-10-01 The Surfer’s Journal - “All Roads Lead West” by Peter Maguire
• 2022-11-01 Malibu Times Magazine - "Junior Malibu" by Pablo Capra
• 2023-01-05 The Malibu Times - "Beach Houses Have More Fun" by Pablo Capra
• 2023-02-02 The Malibu Times - “The Surfer's Palm Tree” by Pablo Capra
• 2023-03-23 The Malibu Times - “Michael deNicola's Long Ride” by Pablo Capra
• 2023-09-14 KCRW - "Topangry" by Zeke Reed and Steve Chiotakis
• 2023-11-30 The Malibu Times - "Las Tunas Isle Motel" by Pablo Capra
• 2024-10-03 The Malibu Times - "Malibu's Greek Fishermen" by Pablo Capra