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Noel Alumit, author of “Talking to the Moon,” answers questions from the audience regarding his book at B’s Mountain of Books during another Idyllwild Authors Series presentation Sunday, July 10. Photo by Cid Castillo

Idyllwild punk rock-metal band Throw The Goat got a big present to kick off 2018. The newly resurrected Combat Records label, which went dark for 15 years before reemerging in 2016, specializes in thrash metal bands under the EMP Label Group. It announced the winners of a Band-to-Band Combat contest on Jan. 1. Throw The…
The Idyllwild Nature Center is planning its annual Wildflower and Art Festival for Memorial Day weekend. The event includes guest speakers, naturalist-led walks, native plant sales, vendors, children’s crafts, more than 100 wildflowers identified and on display, art and more. Local artist Gerry High will lead a wildflower art demonstration and children’s workshop. Bea Torrez…
Swamp King Troy Landry (right) is stepping out of the Bayou and into Soboba Casino. If you haven’t yet seen History Channel’s “Swamp People,” you are missing out on all of the tree shaking, gator catching, Louisiana goodness that is the Cajun way of life. When the show first aired in 2010, it gained the…
With the approaching turn of the seasons here in Idyllwild, as well aselsewhere, the outlook generally bodes well for the expected fineweather for the last celebratory days of summer and the added benefit oflive music events of all varieties. Additionally, with the complementarypublicity of such musical occasions in evidence in as many locations aspossible on…
On Saturday mornings, a white tent appears on North Circle as the town wakes. Almost Heaven, a pop-up bakery, isn’t a storefront yet. It’s a window. Miss it, and it’s gone. Idyllwild sees its share of weekend ventures — operations that crest the hill with the tourists and disappear by dusk. That pattern is part…...
This past Friday kicked off a weekend full of live art in Idyllwild hosted by the Art Alliance of Idyllwild. During the Friday live painting demonstration, Richard “Rich” Stergulz, owner of The Green Art House in Bonsall, shared a wealth of information with more than 40 attendees at the Grand Idyllwild Lodge. An Illinois native…