

PHOTOS: Last week in Idyllwild April 30, 2015
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For newcomers to the Hill, American Independence Day, the Fourth of July, is Idyllwild’s most iconic holiday. Beginning with the 14th-annual Idyllwild Rotary Club-sponsored parade that starts at 10 a.m., the Fourth in Idyllwild is quintessentially small-town America at its best — 75 parade entries, the American Legion Post 800 Color Guard, Smokey Bear, Santa…
The Idyllwild Master Chorale (IMC) season began rehearsals this month from 7 to 9 p.m. Tuesday nights in the music room at Idyllwild School. Singers interested in auditioning and joining the master chorale should contact Dwight Holmes, artistic director and conductor, at (951) 659-2650 or can email from IMC’s website at www.idyllwildmasterchorale.com. The Idyllwild Master…
Built in 1921, the Historic Hemet Theatre is one of the oldest surviving movie houses in the country, according to CEO Susan Carrier. The first movie house in Hemet was built in 1913 across the street from the current theater where the Strawberry Bike Shop building stands. The theater was a vibrant cultural center of…
A year-long program of celebratory events The Idyllwild Library celebrates its centenary on July 27, 2020. The library staff are planning a year-long schedule of celebratory events to mark the 100-year anniversary. The current library in Strawberry Plaza is the sixth iteration of Idyllwild’s public reading center. The first was in Claudius Emerson’s historic Idyllwild…
By Art Alliance of IdyllwildContributed Zurich has its cows. Berlin has its bears. Santa Fe has its painted ponies. Cincinnati has its pigs and Idyllwild has its … deer — soon to be lots more of them. In 2013, the Art Alliance of Idyllwild (AAI) launched a project to install 22 painted deer in 12…
The headliners will be Gordon Goodwin’s Big Phat Band on Saturday and Brian Bromberg on Sunday …