In September 2015, two local book clubs, enamored of Eduardo Santiago’s novel “Midnight Rumba,” suggested Santiago head a book tour to Cuba. “Midnight Rumba” (Cuban Heel Press, 2013) is set largely in Havana, and Santiago’s literary admirers thought it would be fun to accompany the author to his Cuban homeland and visit key places where…

The Idyllwild Master Chorale’s spring concert, under the baton of Dwight “Buzz” Holmes, features soaring melodies and heavenly harmonies by some of America’s most revered contemporary composers. It is the first choral concert at the newly opened William M. Lowman Concert Hall on the Idyllwild Arts campus — a hall specifically designed for orchestral and…