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Idyllwild’s Pookie, of the Deesing family, is caught in the hair and makeup department prior to shooting a TV commercial last Monday Aug. 6 in Los Angeles. Pookie is no stranger to television; several years ago, she was also on “America’s Funniest Home Videos” in a clip shot while visiting Paris. Photo by Lea Deesing

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Modern dance legend Bella Lewitzky, 1996 National Medal of Arts recipient, built a career that eschewed then-prevailing standards. She crafted a dance career based in Southern California rather than in New York, the dance citadel of the period. She cofounded Dance Theatre in Los Angeles in 1946 as an interracial school and company that artistically…
In less than a month, the 10th-annual Idyllwild International Festival of Cinema opens its door for another week of exciting and new motion pictures, from full-length and shorts to documentaries and animation. More than 800 films from all over the world were submitted for inclusion in the 2019 IIFC. “There are more than 15 foreign…
Idyllwild School has a new reading intervention teacher. This is Inh Chomthanath’s first year as a reading teacher, but she has 13 years experience as a classroom teacher. This is also Chomthanath’s first year with the Hemet Unified School District (HUSD). She moved to California from North Carolina to be closer to her husband’s mother,…
The Town Crier, the Idyllwild Library and the Idyllwild Area Historical Society have partnered to provide vintage issues of the town newspaper online and free at the Idyllwild Library. Started in November 1946 by Ernie and Betty Maxwell, the Town Crier is one of Idyllwild’s oldest ongoing businesses. Shannon Ng, Idyllwild Library librarian, cited the…