With all eyes glued to a live-streaming “nest cam” — visit www.iws.org/livecams.html and select Big Bear Eagle Cam, Big Bear Lake) — viewers from all over the country watched as a bald eagle chick worked its way out of the egg at about 10 a.m. Sunday, Feb. 11. One day later, just after noon, the…

  What is it about Halloween that attracts us to the night? How, as children, did we summon up our courage to cross through unlit areas and onto the front porches of homes reputed to have ghosts or evil residents lurking within, seeking a treat and boastfully promising a trick if we did not get…

Drop into a Starbucks and there’s a pretty good chance you’ll run across something invented by Clay Alexander, who graduated from Idyllwild Arts Academy in 1994. Nearly 4,600 Starbucks stores carry the temperature-controlled Ember Ceramic Mug (named by Time magazine as one of the best inventions of 2017), and about a thousand stores carry the Ember Travel Mug.