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There were no cars in the parking lot of Florist in the Forest in Mile High Plaza as hundreds of residents and visitors flooded the streets of Idyllwild.












It worked and it worked very well, according to attending patrons and filmmakers …
Holly Bratten stunned the judges at the Southern California Fair at the Perris Fairgrounds with her recipes and submissions in the food and baked goods categories. Bratten, who has submitted every year since 1992 at the SoCal Fair (previously the Farmer’s Fair), took home Best of Show for her pickled onions, 25 1st place awards,…
Now that the successful Lemon Lily Festival is over, the Nature Center will resume the Junior Naturalist Program …
The Stratford Players, Idyllwild’s Shakespeare-focused theater troupe, regularly frolics in other fields of fancy. For their Christmas production, “Christmas On-Air,” they will return to the great days of radio comedy, with four holiday-themed radio romps. “It’s classic radio comedy at its heartwarming finest,” notes Artistic Director Marsha Kennedy. “It’s music, it’s laughter, it’s Christmas in…
As he did last year, plein air artist Rich Stergulz concludes the Idyllwild Community Recreation Council’s popular speaker series. Plein air, for the uninitiated, is a movement in fine art that gained prominence in the late 19th Century when painting outdoors in natural light became a signature of French impressionist painters Claude Monet, Camille Picaroon…
The photographic image of the man standing in bright orange robes with a shoulder tattoo, sandals and shaved head holding a cigarette is not your average monk …