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The Crier visited El Sereno Mercantile whose motto is “Tools forliving.” It is in the North Circle building rebuilt after a tree strike.The first shop opened in Oakwood Village a few years ago and moved tothe new location in November. The Crier spoke with Juliana, owner withhusband Markus Ziegler. “I’m from Brazil, my husband from…
“Little Shop of Horrors” is the final 2013-14 production of the Idyllwild Arts Academy’s Theater Department. The musical was first performed in 1982 and has become a favorite throughout this country and internationally. For those unfamiliar with the movie, the plot is simply about a florist shop worker who raises a plant that feeds on…
Art Alliance of Idyllwild is holding its annual Community Social Potluck Dinner from 5:30 to 8 p.m. Saturday, April 11, at Town Hall. Everyone is invited to attend. There is no admission fee and you don’t have to be an AAI member to attend. “We invited anyone in the community to attend this social event…
Barbara Longbrook, Idyllwild School K-1 teacher, retired at the end of this school year after a 40-year teaching career. “I knew from the age of 5 that I wanted to be a teacher,” said Longbrook. “It was my very first day at kindergarten. When I saw what was going on, what the teacher was doing,…
The term “page turner” is generally associated with novels of suspense, intrigue and mystery. Rarely do we find it applied to a work of nonfiction. But one writer has crafted a memoir of his time as an arctic physician that well earns that accolade. The book is “On Call in the Arctic” by Thomas J….
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…