
Photo by Tom Kluzak

Photo by Tom Kluzak

Photos: This week in Idyllwild: April 7, 2016
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Joanne Bischof and Kara Swanson, local Idyllwild writers, received major awards at the March 27 through 31 Mount Hermon Christian Writers Conference. Top award, Writer of the Year, went to Bischof for her body of work, and high school student Kara received Most Promising Teen Writer Award, for her debut fantasy novel, “Pearl of Merlydia”…
Temecula attorney Kevin P. Nett recently closed escrow on purchasing the Rustic Theatre. He is an enthusiastic film buff, historian and collector of fine-quality movie and concert posters. Of the many changes he is planning, the first is to turn the Rustic Theatre lobby into a gallery and shop, open during the day, to display…
Adam Schomer is the featured filmmaker for the 2015 Idyllwild International Festival of Cinema. Schomer is being recognized for his documentaries that both excite and reveal. An adventurous documentarian is who Schomer is now, but that’s not where he starts nor finishes. After graduating from Cornell in 1997, Schomer’s adventuring and risk-taking began to evolve. …
California native and long-time Idyllwild local Conor O’Farrell will share the highs, lows and misadventures from his years in the field of acting from 6 to 8 p.m. Tuesday, June 11, at the Idyllwild Library. O’Farrell has appeared in numerous TV series including “Matlock,” “CSI,” “NCIS” and “Shooter”; the miniseries “Pacific,” plus the movies “Stir…
The Palm Springs Aerial Tramway will close for its annual maintenance beginning Monday, Sept. 14 with a tentative reopening date of 8 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 26. “This year’s shutdown will provide an opportunity to rebuild the main gearbox, change two large counterweight sheave bearings at the Mountain Station, shorten the upper haul rope and construct…
Steven Reigns, poet and next presenter at Eduardo Santiago’s Idyllwild Author Series, is from St. Louis. And although place of birth does not necessarily define one, it can inform one’s choices and determine how one navigates the world. Reigns’ poetry has been called plainspoken. In fact his poems, though difficult of subject matter, are sparse,…