

Dick Halligan reflects on a life in music
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Dick Halligan, founding member of “Blood, Sweat and Tears,” Grammy Award winner, composer of music for film and television performed on Sunday night at Idyllwild Arts. The Idyllwild Master Chorale sponsored the event. Photo by Jenny Kirchner

Friday night’s “Eye of the Artist” show and party of the Art Alliance of Idyllwild resulted in many ribbon winners at Town Hall. The judge for the show was Christy Scott, Idyllwild Arts’ Parks Exhibition manager. • Best of Show: “Trapped in a Sea of Blue” (oil on canvas) by Paul Colacicco • Best Theme:…
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Dr. Peter Bryant, research professor, School of Biological Sciences, University of California, Irvine, is the next guest speaker in the Idyllwild Community Center’s Speaker Series, and he is fond of and a great admirer of spiders, both for their building skills and their usefulness within terrestrial food webs. He noted that spiders are efficient controllers…