
Photo by Jenny Kirchner


Photo by Tom Kluzak


Photo by Tom Kluzak

Photo by Tom Kluzak
PHOTOS: This week in Idyllwild: April 21, 2016
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The Desert Art Center, a nonprofit cooperative art gallery, has 138 juried artists displaying numerous works of art in a spacious 2,000-square-foot gallery. Located in Palm Springs, the DAC is closed in summer but recently reopened to a redecorated gallery and a colorful new show. It’s one hour to Palm Springs from Idyllwild. From…
The Art Alliance of Idyllwild held its 13th Annual Juried Artist Members’ Show this weekend.
Idyllwild’s Rustic Theatre has a long history, but might have ceased to exist were it not for a critical development in 2012. On Monday, April 16, owner Shane Stewart shuttered the theater for four days to complete a conversion from 35-millimeter film to state-of-the-art digital projection. Stewart had previously installed Dolby Digital Surround Sound. Had…
Chris Johnston laid down his hammer to say, “This patio was part of our plan since day one, but we needed to settle into the business and let expansion happen organically. On our first anniversary, we opened the upstairs loft, increasing our gallery space to 35 artists. Building the Middle Ridge Winery Tasting Gallery patio…
By Larry BrookIdyllwild Resident “B-110” the announcer calls. “F-89” They’re calling out numbers at the Hemet, California Division of Motor Vehicles (DMV). Juanita and I are here to get our California driver’s license and Real ID. To reach the DMV in Hemet, we drove down the twisting, turning mountain road from Idyllwild to Hemet. It…
The owners of El Buen Cacao, Erik Landis and Jessica Ramirez, pride themselves on their dark chocolate made on-site from the main ingredient, cacao. The cacao beans are sourced from the jungles of Central and South America and grown by farms that practice fair labor. Keeping the chocolate healthy with no processed ingredients — including…