
Local Hollywood star Elsie Fisher, right, 10-year-old voice over in “Despicable Me,” signs posters in the lobby of the Rustic Theatre as part of a fundraiser for Idyllwild Volunteer Fire Company 621 last Thursday night.
Photo by Careena Chase
Elsie Fisher at the Rustic
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Local Hollywood star Elsie Fisher, right, 10-year-old voice over in “Despicable Me,” signs posters in the lobby of the Rustic Theatre as part of a fundraiser for Idyllwild Volunteer Fire Company 621 last Thursday night.
Photo by Careena Chase
With trumpeter Stan Watkins and vocalist Sherry Williams, the Keith Droste Quintet wowed the capacity crowd at its Thursday, Aug. 4 performance as part of Idyllwild Summer Concert Series. Keith Droste, on keyboard, along with Luther Hughes on bass and Sinclair Lott on drums played a medley of Broadway show tunes, old standards and jazz and pop selections.
Recently, the Town Crier ran a photo of Pine Cove resident Jon Bechtel receiving honors for having donated blood 1,000 times over a 50-year period. Bechtel and his wife, Joan, married 54 years, relocated from Arizona to California, where he served for 16 years on the sheriff’s search and rescue team in Big Bear. They…
Tom Lynch of Norwalk, is the new general manager for Idyllwild Water District.
Beyond language: indigenous art and expression The remaining Idyllwild Arts Academy Native American Festival week events continue to look at how the many layers of language and artistic expression result in rare and unique connections not easily translated across cultures. • Noon to 1 p.m. Thursday, June 28: Kabotie Lecture Series will feature pre-eminent filmmaker Randy Redroad’s “Through…
(Editor’s note: The following is from a press release from the Idyllwild Forest Health Project.) On Wednesday, Oct. 10, the Idyllwild Forest Health Project will host “From Ashes: Lessons from the Cranston Fire,” a fire ecology learning event at Idyllwild Arts Academy. The event will begin with a tour of the burned area at the…
Larry and Janet Everitt, artist owners of Idyllwild’s Everitt’s Minerals and Gallery on North Circle, met by chance and formed a relationship based on a shared fascination with rocks, stones and fossils. “We met in D.C. I walked into Larry’s gallery in Georgetown,” said Janet. “He had these antique Japanese woodblock prints. One of our…