In an effort to help entertain everyone staying home during the novel coronavirus emergency, the executive director of the Malibu Film Society, Scott Tallal, has put out the “MFS Film Lovers Survival Guide,” which he describes as “a totally incomplete, completely biased list of movies and binge-worthy shows that I happen to like.”

As I left to return home around lunchtime, I found that we had suddenly become Disneyland on a national holiday! The Malibu Pier was packed. Westbound traffic was backed up to the Civic Center and everywhere I looked there were crowds of all ages who apparently hadn’t tuned in to Governor Newsom’s excellent address on “social distancing ...

The pier is considered a state park, and Malibu City Manager Reva Feldman coordinated with California State Parks to close it, according to Matt Myerhoff, Malibu’s media information officer. The closure comes after the pier was crowded with visitors last weekend, Myerhoff said. “Crowding on beaches and trails or anywhere right now is not ...

The beach water use advisory is currently in place through Wednesday at 6 p.m. State officials on Monday closed parking lots of more than three-dozen state parks including nine in Los Angeles County: Baldwin Hills Scenic Overlook; El Matador State Beach; Leo Carrillo State Park; Malibu Creek State Park; Malibu Lagoon State Beach; Point Dume ...

Most all other businesses are now closed to the public, although restaurants are allowed to provide take-out and delivery food. In Malibu, problems raised by the shutdown are compounded by the fact that many local businesses still hadn’t fully recovered from reduced incomes after the Woolsey Fire of November 2018. In a dire prediction for the ...

This week, photographers Julie Ellerton and Devon Meyers went out to Zuma and Westward beaches to photograph Malibu at its best—whale migrations, spring flowers and families spending quiet moments together on the sand and in the sea.

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, Pasadena Half Marathon and Los Angeles Marathon.

The Malibu Optimist Club viewed the Rodin Sculpture exhibit at Pepperdine’s Weisman Museum on March 5. Museum curator Nancy Meyer gave club members an extensive tour of the sculptures on exhibit.

It’s ‘Scream’ meets ‘The Social Network.’” Just as they were getting started on the project, the Woolsey Fire burned down the Greenberg’s Malibu Park home where he’d lived for 30 years, which temporarily brought things to a halt. After some delays, the film was finally shot over 17 days in December 2019. “I’m learning every ...

It was not clear if either or both of those cases were discovered among Malibu residents; due to the way cases are reported, there is no way to confirm whether Malibu residents are among those, as Malibu’s population is below the threshold needed to appear as a line item on the growing list. Also on the list: three confirmed cases in Agoura ...