PHOTOS: Idyllwild’s hometown July 4th parade
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Photo by J.P. Crumrine
On Saturday, Aug. 11, members of the Valley Wide Kayak Club will paddle their kayaks across Lake Hemet to raise money for Camp Ronald McDonald for Good Times’ camp in Garner Valley. The paddlers will also be celebrating the club’s 13th year in existence. During this time members have raised more than $105,000 to support…
Last Saturday, the Art Alliance of Idyllwild held its annual Eye of the Artist event at the Rainbow Inn. John Simpson provides the inn for the event. “The attendance and participation by local artists and the public exceeded our most hopeful expectations and broke, by far, all our previous records in both attendance, donations and…
Michael Jaime-Becerra (right) was the featured author on Sunday afternoon at the INK Bookstore’s 2nd Annual Author Series. Becerra talked about his book of short stories, “Every Night Is Ladies’ Night” and his novel, “This Time Tomorrow.” Eduardo Santiago (left), who also grew up in El Monte, Calif., organizes the series and asks the first questions.
If there were a Shangri-La, the dreamed-of mystical country of James Hilton’s “Lost Horizon,” it would probably be Bhutan. Public radio reporter Lisa Napoli moved there in 2007 to help develop a national radio station to engage Bhutanese youth in the country’s transition from absolute to constitutional monarchy. Bhutan, a remote Himalayan kingdom, has only…
Wanting to be a positive force in the community, Peter Buhl is inaugurating a new concept to enable folks interested in art, music and literature to come together …