PHOTOS: This week in Idyllwild: May 11, 2017


Photo by Amy Righetti


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Photo by Peter Szabadi


Billy Valentine, jazz vocalist, will perform for the first time at the Jazz in the Pines festival on Sunday afternoon, Aug. 18. Valentine has been singing for years and fans of “Boston Legal” have heard his voice from the theme song to the credits. Rhythm and blues are his favorites, but the audience in The…
This weekend, the 10th-annual Aroma Spring Jazz Festival will be a tribute to New Orleans jazz and food, according to Paul Carman, festival producer. Carman, local saxophone and bass musician, usually goes to the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival. “This year I wasn’t able to go, so I decided to bring the music here,”…
The Idyllwild Community Center organization is presenting a Valentine’s celebration from 7 to 9 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 16, at Town Hall. This fundraiser and fun-raiser will support the ICC building project. The program will include Greg Kojar singing love songs and a “Not-So-Newlywed Game” featuring local couples. Preselected entertaining contestants for the game include Elaine…
For Herb Jeffries, the long ride is over.
First workshop on Native American plant uses is Sept. 29 We “cannot learn the properties of every plant in a lifetime,” said Daniel McCarthy, archaeologist, former Tribal Relations Program manager for the San Bernardino National Forest, and director of the Cultural Resources Management Department, San Manuel Band of Mission Indians. “Native peoples passed plant knowledge…
January 11, 2010, that was the opening of the first Idyllwild International Festival of Cinema. In two months, March 5 will be the opening of the 10th IIFC. While others have had the idea, Stephen Savage took the steps to assemble a team with a common vision and organized an event that continues. Movie professionals,…