

“Burlessence” woos Café Aroma audience
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Café Aroma hosted “Burlessence” Friday night, July 15. It featured several choreographed dances. Taking a final bow in a front of a very appreciative audience, from left, Angeline Priefer, Rachel Torrey, Tony White, Holly O’Farrell, Trine Bietz, Mark Taylor, John McDonough and Annika Kay. Photo: Cid Castillo

Although the lead time was too short to publish a story about Dr. Ernest Siva before his lecture, the stories he related about his time at the Idyllwild School of Music and the Arts (now Idyllwild Arts) from 1953 to the present are valuable historic information. Ernest, a Cahuilla/Serrano Indian, was a saxophone player in…
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A modest man realizes a long-held dream Idyllwild resident Michael Staff is a modest man, an everyman — a devoted husband and father, and a contributing member of his community. To all outward appearances, he is an ordinary man. But his quiet and respectful demeanor belies his sparkling intellect, artistic depth and multi-dimensional imagination. Unlike…
Carlos Reynosa performed blues with Leroy Miracle on bass and Billy Shaw on drums last Thursday at the Lumber Mill.