From ghoulies and ghosties, and long-leggedy beasties, and things that go bump in the night, Good Lord, deliver us! — Old Scottish prayer. Kathy Sacher-Wilson and crew are in the process of constructing and decorating their annual Halloween walk-through spook fest, set to open on Friday, Oct. 7, and run weekends though Halloween, Monday,…

With a short window to prepare as a new board, the Art Alliance of Idyllwild staged a successful public art celebration that combined two events that had previously been held separately — a plein air painting competition, with Idyllwild Arts Academy longtime visual arts faculty member David Reid-Marr as judge, and a gallery tour of…

The 2014 Idyllwild International Festival of Cinema (“Idyllwild 2014”) is barely over with visions of favorite actors and rolling scenes still fresh in movie-goers minds. But Festival Director Stephen Savage is not bathing in his most recent success. Plans for an even bigger Idyllwild 2015 are already percolating. Potential changes for 2015 start with the…

Luke Olivier, 3, darts out to get a head start on Saturday’s Community Easter Egg Hunt at the Idyllwild Community Park.