Amid the coronavirus pandemic, Malibu residents attended the Malibu Farmers Market this weekend to purchase fresh fruit, veggies and eggs, all while staying six feet apart.
Local News

It’s been a decade-long haul for the 123 property owners on Malibu’s Broad Beach Road, as they have struggled to save their houses from the ocean. When the once broad beach (giving the street its name) dwindled to almost nothing, an emergency rock revetment, or wall, was put up in front of …
As of Tuesday afternoon, April 7, there were nine confirmed cases of COVID-19 among Malibu residents, following weeks of speculation regarding the number (or existence) of cases.
On March 12, the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District schools were operating operating as normal, but behind the scenes, staff was already preparing for changes due to COVID-19.
Longtime Malibu resident John Bell died this week, becoming the first confirmed Malibu resident to have died due to complications from COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus.
Billionaire casino magnate Sheldon Adelson, 86, just purchased his ninth property in the Malibu Colony for $17 million, according to Variety. The exclusive, gated community contains approximately 120 properties in total. His latest purchase was an off-market deal for an oceanfront property d…
Malibu Life
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Now that health officials have done an about face on covering our faces outside during the novel coronavirus pandemic, a local woman is using her sewing skills to make masks as a gift to her community.
Now that everyone is staying home around the clock except for the occasional foray to an “essential business” or to walk the dog, boredom is setting in. There are only so many hours a day anyone can spend looking at a screen or cleaning out the garage. As a result, many residents have come u…
Malibu author Kim Stanwood Terranova holds a launch and signing of her new book, “The Technology of Intention: Activating the Power of the Universe Within You,” at an event in early March at the Malibu Design Center. “It was a brilliant kick off,” Terranova wrote, and took place just weeks b…
Well, it isn’t exactly the best time to be house hunting, coronavirus and all, but according to foreign press reports, The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are USA bound.
Bicyclists from West Hollywood take a break at Malibu’s Whole Foods on Saturday; they insisted they were socially distancing for their entire ride.
Opinion
I have just met two angels here in Malibu and I want to make the rest of the community aware of them. They are Katie (Katherine) and Sam (Samantha), who are part of a group called the Mighty Underdogs. This group provides free delivery service to seniors and others most vulnerable. I learned…
The Trump administration and congressional allies have given big business every stimulus it wanted, which has ultimately been bad for business. To stimulate the economy, they passed a tax bill that returned $3 trillion in taxes to businesses, embraced the largest peacetime federal deficits i…
A few days ago, a story broke about US Navy Captain Brett Crozier, commanding officer of the Navy nuclear aircraft carrier the USS Theodore Roosevelt, who sent an email to 20-plus recipients in the Navy. He very eloquently expressed his dismay that his ship, which was in quarantine in Guam, …
Malibu got a jolt last week when L.A. County Health started breaking out the COVID-19 cases for municipalities with a population smaller than 20,000. We went to bed thinking there were no cases in Malibu and woke up to a press release announcing that we actually had five cases. No further in…
Sports
It was three weeks after the sports world shut down due to the novel coronavirus outbreak and Oaks Christian soccer player Sophia Prudholme, 16, was still kicking.
Rick Wallace has run over 900 miles across the Los Angeles area thanks to his participation in the Los Angeles Marathon every year since its inception in the early 1980s. However, during his most recent jaunt down the city’s roadways in the annual endurance race, the Malibu resident and Real…
With two sweeps under their belts, the Pepperdine Waves men’s volleyball team was riding high heading into the back half of their season.
Ani Dermenjian, longtime Malibu local and current president of Malibu Association of Realtors, celebrates successfully completing this year’s LA Marathon, held March 8, earning her finisher medal as well as this year’s Conqur LA medal, indicating her completion of the Santa Monica Classic, P…
For over three decades, Malibu Realtor Rick Wallace has spent one day each year traversing through Los Angeles—one foot in front of the other, continuously—for miles and miles.
At the start of the Pepperdine Waves men’s volleyball team’s season redshirt freshman middle blocker JT Ardell wasn’t seeing much action on the court for the Waves. Now, over a month later, he is the reigning Mountain Pacific Sports Federation/Molten Defensive Player of the Week.
Malibu Sharks surf team member Saxon Rhodes surfed her way to a first-place finish as two groups of Sharks surfers grabbed wins in the team’s last event of the season.
Blogs
You have all heard the expression “out of the frying pan into the fire.” Well, I have just jumped from the fire into the pandemic. Just when I thought I had recovered from the fire which destroyed my home, just as I thought I was returning to some sense of normalcy, I find myself hiding in m…
With so many people contemplating the end of the universe, I thought it a good time to look into its beginning, and so I opened my Bible—the Old Testament that is. I was looking through Genesis, because I am curious about how we all got here. I have to say I am especially inspired by God’s …
I’m going nuts, although my friends would say I’ve been nuts for years. This virus named after a Mexican beer and caused by the Chinese (how I love blaming everything on the Mexicans and Chinese) is pushing me right over the edge.
There seems to be a virus going around, or at least that’s what everybody, from my kids to the folks on the news, keeps telling me 24 hours a day. So what is a humor columnist supposed to do?
As we mature (a euphemistic term for getting older), we have a tendency to look in the rear view mirror to see what our proudest moments have been. I would have titled this blog/column “My Proudest Moments,” but since I only have one, I went with the singular.

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