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‘Squirrley’ auction raises funds for Idyllwild Arts
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By Art Alliance of IdyllwildContributed The Art Alliance of Idyllwild (AAI) has successfully staged 22 annual Art Walk & Wine Tasting events. This event is key to raising funds for the AAI as well as bringing over a thousand visitors to town, thus benefitting local inns, restaurants and shops. Like many other local events, this…
Retired Riverside County Sheriff’s Department Commander John Metroka Jr. has always been a writer. As a child, he and his older sister Martha created fantasy stories. Later, even while serving in RCSD, he wrote short stories for his own pleasure. And professionally, he wrote many training documents and protocols for the sheriff’s department and for…
Fire log The Idyllwild Fire Station responded to the following calls, Tuesday, July 8, through Monday, July 14. Idyllwild • July 8 — Four medical aids. • July 9 — Four medical aids. • July 10 — Medical aid. • July 11 — Two medical aids. • July 12 — Two medical aids. •…
More to the mathematics of music than the beat “Musical form is close to mathematics — not perhaps to mathematics itself, but certainly to something like mathematical thinking and relationship,” observed 20th century Russian composer Igor Stravinsky. “Music is the pleasure the human soul experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting,”…
Memories — fond, good, great and loving — are all that remain of the 22nd-annual Jazz in the Pines. Once again, the Hill has been graced with rhythm, mirth, blues and improvisation of beautiful jazz music. The festival’s popularity continues to attract thousands to Idyllwild for the two special days and to depend on the…