

Locals celebrate “Kid Galahad” anniversary
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Right, with longtime resident and community leader Pat Boss in the foreground, Idyllwild residents fall silent as the movie “Kid Galahad” starts at a special showing at Town Hall organized by a group of local seniors on Saturday. Photos by Cid Castillo


Local author and United Kingdom native Sabrina Verney found paradise in 1966 on a beach in the Yucatan at the age of 19 with a dedicated group of truth seekers called The Process. The Process sought, according to Verney, to “peel away all your social training up to that point and replace it with what…
Eric Bolton remembers being given the solo in “In Idyllwild” as part of four summers with the ISOMATA music program. He sang under the direction of Robert Evans Holmes for whom the Idyllwild Arts amphitheater is named. Now as a recent full-time resident of Idyllwild, he is singing under the direction of Dwight “Buzz” Holmes,…
The Idyllwild International Festival of Cinema returns for the fifth time next month. From Jan. 7 to 11, festival participants will once again be offered a panoply of dozens of films — from features to documentaries to shorts. “We really focused on quality this year,” said Idyllwild Director Steve Savage. “Our standards are through the…
“Myth is the only way I have to self-identify,” said author Matthew Salesses. In his writing, Salesses, adopted from Korea at age 2, mingles lyricism, myth and human longing to weave compelling accounts of the human experience. Salesses reads from his critically acclaimed works and talks about his life and craft at Idyllwild Arts from…
By Stephanie YostContributed As part of its annual governance, the Idyllwild Community Center (ICC) has recently made changes to its board of directors and officers. In December, two of its long-standing board members — Idyllwild resident Wendy Read and Pine Cove resident Barry Wallace — retired from the board. ICC is grateful to them both…