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From left, Will Whitaker, piano and Paulina Kurtz, vocals closeout the Songwriting Concert at Idyllwild Arts with “But I Always Look Back” written by Whitaker. Photo by Jenny Kirchner

By Mary Zimmerman, chair of the Idyllwild Reads Committee of the Friends of the Idyllwild Library Centennial CommitteeContributed What a response! The library received more than 175 ballots for this year’s Idyllwild Reads. Thank you to all who participated! Throughout 2020, the library plans to focus on and provide programs related to many of the…
Annual lilac festival and Victorian Tea will not continue Idyllwild became a lilac tourism destination during the years that the late lilac hybridizer Reva Ballreich dedicated her energy and her family’s property to planting, hybridizing, cultivating and eventually displaying more than 887 lilac varietals. Each spring, Ballreich opened her garden to the public — her…
Casey Abrams, school alum, returns Set aside the weekend of Aug. 10, 11 and 12 for the 25th-annual Jazz in Pines festival. This summer marks a quarter century of homage to, as Marshall Hawkins, Idyllwild Arts jazz founder, says, the musical genre unique to America — jazz. From a warm and secluded Saturday afternoon in…
The Town Crier sat down with Chris Bayer, proprietor of Black Mountain Coffee Roasters, at his new location in the basement of the Owl Pine shop. Bayer opened his first location, in Oakwood Village, now known as Forest Haven, in 2017. The Owl Pine’s basement seems an unlikely spot for a coffee house, but Bayer…...
Bill Sheppard was there. Right in the center of West Coast rock and roll. Right when it was all happening. And not many know how big his career was. It turns out, Bill is so modest even his wife and sons did not know how close to the sun he flew with the groups with…
The playoff games for the College League will start at 5 p.m., Monday and Thursday nights, March 5 and 8.