Editor’s note: In celebration of the Associates of Idyllwild Arts Foundation’s 50th anniversary, Bob Krone, son of Idyllwild School of Music and the Arts (now Idyllwild Arts) founders Max and Bee Krone, wrote this article. Max and Bee Krone retired from ISOMATA leadership in the summer of 1967, 22 years after they created the Idyllwild…

For 11 years, Kathy Wilson’s Idyllwild Ghost Town has frightened and delighted fans of the phantasmagorical from on and off the Hill.  Now, year 12 is in doubt. Wilson’s month-long Halloween attraction, a walk through live action and animatronic spook fest, had firmly established itself as a major audience draw at the Idyllwild Community Center…

Popular R&B band City Beat, incorporating the six-member Main Street Horns section, returns to the Idyllwild Summer Concert Series determined to keep the music professional and up tempo. Leader Ed Riojas, guitar and vocals, talked about the band’s reorganization and its expanded horn section. In previous appearances, City Beat was an all law-enforcement band composed…