

Photo by Cheryl Basye
PHOTOS: Last week in Idyllwild …
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One of the students sharing their work during Friday’s Parallax reading at Idyllwild Arts Academy. Photo by Cheryl Basye


Yve Evans, locally popular jazz chanteuse, returns to the Hill “just for the locals.”
Idyllwild Librarian Shannon Ng handed out solar eclipse viewing glasses at the library Monday morning for locals to come enjoy watching the eclipse safely. People were thrilled, some seeing a solar eclipse for the first, and maybe last, time in their lives …
Last Saturday was a warm day but with some cool music and great art The Art Alliance of Idyllwild’s (AAI) “Eye of the Artist” and the “Call of the Wyld” were combined to the enjoyment of those attending. Starting at Noon, people drifted in and out of the Town Hall until 7 p.m.. The event…
Spring in Idyllwild has been especially fruitful this year, bringing not only the familiar trumpet-shaped daffodils reaching for the Sun, and May’s customary light dusting of snow, but also a Daisy and Brownie Girl Scout Troop–the first on the Hill in several years. The youngsters in Kindergarten through 4th grade met for the first time…
The Idyllwild Nature Center will be hosting the annual Butterfly DazeSaturday August 17, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Entry is free. The event is byorganized by Riverside County Parks and the Friends of the San JacintoMountain County Parks. There will be a live butterfly tent with monarchsand painted ladies. There will be a lecture at…
The opening night film for the Idyllwild International Festival of Cinema is Director Will Wallace’s “Red Wing.” Wallace also is the festival’s co-director. “Red Wing” is loosely based on Gearge Sand’s French novella, “The Country Waif.” Rather than the green and pastoral French countryside, “Red Wing” is set in a small Texas cattle ranching town….