Dick Halligan reflects on a life in music
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Jazz as a form is delicious, surprising, exciting and inspirational — oh yes, and fun. This year’s menu, as crafted by festival gastronomists Marshall Hawkins and John Newman, has power, praise, passion and persuasion. And this musical mélange happens on all three stages — the main stage Holmes Amphitheatre for festival headliners, Stephens Hall for…
Gov. Jerry Brown’s budget proposal for fiscal year 2017-18, which starts on July 1, is prudent. The General Fund expenditures are $122.5 billion, $240 million less than the current-year budget. In his press conference, Brown stressed the states vulnerability to gyrating income tax revenue and possible major shifts in availability of federal funds. The dark…
Idyllwild is a dancing town. The weather has been blistering hot. How fitting then that Lisa Haley and The Zydekats open the 16th season of the Idyllwild Summer Concert Series with heat lightning and thunder rumbles of joyous musical contagion. Starting at 7 p.m. Thursday, July 2, Haley and her Kats launch into their infectious…
The 13th Idyllwild International Festival of Cinema (IIFC) opens online Tuesday, March 8. The final official day for viewing the more than 80 film selections is Sunday, March 13. Again in 2022, restrictions due to the COVID pandemic have limited the festival’s presence in Idyllwild. While the awards ceremony will still be live, it also…
Organizers met Saturday at Gary Parton’s Alpen Glow Lilac Gardens to discuss the return of the University of California, Riverside’s Bag Pipe Band to Idyllwild …
