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Friday Café Aroma hosted a night of “The Dating Game,” based on the former ABC television series from the 1960s to1980s. The bachelor (left) asks the four bachelorettes questions in order to decide whom to ask on a date.

California’s Official Outdoor Play opens its 92nd season on April 18. This year, Stephen Savage of Idyllwild has rewritten the historic play, “Ramona.” Savage admits that some people are uncomfortable with any changes to the historic play, however he discovered during his research that the original script has been revised multiple times since its first…
From the HHN website: Chris Rockwell, Helping the Homeless Now founder and executive director, owns a household appliance sales and repair business in Idyllwild. Late in 2009, Rockwell abruptly did something he’d been waiting for someone else to do for a long time: He bought a homeless man a meal. He asked the man where…
Tod Goldberg is a much-lauded novelist with a wicked sense of humor. He returns to wrap up Eduardo Santiago’s fifth-annual Idyllwild Authors Series on Sunday, June 28. If you can’t decide whether to laugh or cry at life’s absurdities and enjoy a well-crafted piece of fiction — dark, zany and touching — Goldberg’s discussion of…
The Idyllwild Haunted Ghost Town Halloween event has been going on for over 16 years and is a great family activity. For participants, it is a wonderful opportunity for adults to mentor and teach younger ones basic theatrical techniques, special effects makeup, audio and lighting, costuming, set design, animatronics, and special effects. The themes of…
Idyllwild Arts Academy (IAA) held a 24-hour fundraiser over the weekend called “One World. One Idyllwild.” The virtual fundraiser brought students, faculty, staff and visitors back together after having to leave campus in March as the COVID-19 pandemic swept the globe. The fundraiser was successful, raising over $250,000 from noon on Saturday to noon on…
Howard Shangraw and Susan Hegarty were the sole performers in “The Red Priest” presented by The Isis Theatre Company Friday night at the Caine Learning Center.