Practicing attorney and mother of two, Natashia Deon pleaded with her publishers not to release her first novel, “Grace,” this summer. “Are you kidding?” she said. “Nobody’s going to notice ‘Grace’ if you release it in competition with all those two-million-dollar books.” But people have noticed. “Grace” received extraordinarily glowing reviews from the New York…

After two years, Earth Fair is preparing to emerge from “hibernation,” according to head Holly Owens. The Idyllwild Earth Fair Committee has been talking with various individuals and groups in town in an effort to gauge interest and recruit volunteers to help in this effort. It now has a number of committed and knowledgeable people…