Idyllwild International Festival of Cinema begins
![Idyllwild 2014, the International Festival of Cinema, began this week. Tuesday morning Phil Calderone, owner of the festival premiere venue, the Rustic Theatre, and Steve Savage, Idyllwild 2014 director, prepare for a week of film watching.Photo by J.P. Crumrine](https://idyllwildtowncrier.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/IIFC.jpg)
![Kirk Brown, of Idyllwild, right, buys his pass to Idyllwild 2014 at the Town Crier Tuesday morning. The Idyllwild International Festival of Cinema goes through Saturday, Jan. 11.](https://idyllwildtowncrier.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/film-2.jpg)
![Idyllwild 2014 volunteers congregate outside the Rustic Theatre Tuesday morning, preparing to manage the week’s film festival. Movie venues include Silver Pines Inn and Astrocamp as well as the Rustic.](https://idyllwildtowncrier.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/film1.jpg)
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“You Can’t Escape Your Nightmares” reads the headline on the Idyllwild Ghost Town’s website, warning any who attend Kat Wilson’s 11th iteration of her month-long fright and fear festival that they will not leave unaffected. Rather, after walking through her haunted house of the unforgiving and undead, visitors may leave injected with recurring nightmare images…
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.
Diana Wagman, the next author at Eduardo Santiago’s Idyllwild Author Series, explores how an unexpected event in an ordinary day can alter a city’s landscape and the course of a woman’s life. In her fourth novel, “The Care and Feeding of Exotic Pets,” Wagman’s central character, Winnie, is a 38-year-old woman who, after a divorce,…
The Idyllwild Arts Academy held its Winter Fashion Show at Rush Hall on campus Friday night. Three shows in total were presented Friday night, all bringing in a full house.
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…