“Some people think lilacs are just an Eastern thing,” said Gary Parton, Idyllwild’s lilac patron. But even though most longstanding lilac festivals are in the Eastern and Midwestern U.S., Parton and his new committee want to establish Idyllwild as a nationally known lilac town. This year, beginning at 10:30 a.m. Saturday, May 2, the Idyllwild…

Receives award on U.S.S. Midway Jazzercise founder and CEO Judi Sheppard Missett experienced two major career moments in one week in early October. Sheppard Missett, part-time Pine Cove resident, joined 1,180 Jazzercise instructors and customers from as far away as Japan on the flight deck of the U.S.S. Midway in San Diego on Saturday, Oct….

Federico Garcia Lorca’s final play explored taboo themes Idyllwild Arts Academy Theatre Department, in association with the World Languages Department, presents Spanish playwright Federico Garcia Lorca’s final play. In English, it is called “The House of Bernarda Alba,” and, inasmuch as the IAA production is bilingual, interspersing English and Spanish, it is advertised as “La…