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Mayor Max celebrated his 12th birthday with about 100 of his closest friends, human and four-legged, on Sunday afternoon at the Nature Center. Many people brought their dogs to help Max celebrate and even the Nature Center’s bunny showed up to wish him well. Max greeted people and posed for pictures all through the festivities.




Ken Dahleen’s Idyllwild Summer Concert Series arrives with heat at 7 p.m. Thursday, July 2. The diminutive Lisa Haley bows the first electric notes on her blue violin, lightning flashes, humidity intensifies and zydecosis spreads throughout the crowd. Zydecosis is a highly contagious condition prompted by Haley and her Zydekats’ foot-stompin’ joyous Cajun music. Symptoms…
All eyes are on a live Southern Pacific Rattlesnake …
The Idyllwild International Festival of Cinema (IIFC) returns to town and the Rustic Theatre Tuesday, March 7, and continues for six more days, until the evening of Sunday, March 12. And once again, more than 100 films from a dozen countries will be available for viewing. The 14th IIFC returns with live film screenings after…
The Idyllwild Area Historical Society’s annual membership meeting is at 4 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 6, in the Idyllwild Library Meeting Room 2. Afterwards, members and guests are invited back to the museum for refreshments and a tour of the Archive Building … Adults are invited to the Presidential Book Club’s fourth meeting about U.S. presidents…
Continuing its commitment to the classics, the Stratford Players presents “Will in the Woods IV,” a full immersion in some sonorous Shakespeare snippets — sonnets, and scenes from some of the bard’s most memorable, merry and moving masterpieces — “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” “Taming of the Shrew,” “Macbeth” or, for the superstitious actor, “The Scottish…