
Letters to Santa
By Idyllwild Town Crier

Following a successful Western music night, the Idyllwild Summer Concert Series features the second big band of this season’s well-attended run. Ken Dahleen’s Big Band Staff remembers the music of Stan Kenton, last and one of the most revolutionary band leaders to come out of the big band era. Dahleen features an all-Kenton concert on…
The tables were turned on Eduardo Santiago, Idyllwild resident and author of “Tomorrow They Will Kiss,” Sunday when actress Karen Black interviewed him in the last of this year’s Idyllwild Authors Series.
From 12:30 to 4 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 3, a Day of the Dead Community Altar honoring all those whom we love and who have died will be created in the great stone circle at Spirit Mountain Retreat. The tradition of building altars remembering the deceased, using photos, flowers, candles, skulls, marigolds, favorite foods as gifts…
Idyllwild’s Steven Leigh Morris, former LA Weekly critic and founding editor of Stage Raw, wrote a play, “Red Ink,” on stage now at the Atwater Village Theatre in Los Angeles. In a press release, Morris writes “Red Ink looks at the corrosive pressures of click-bait journalism and cut-throat competition on an imploding newspaper recently purchased…
Budding comedy writer and late-night host next at Idy Talks Granted, Idyllwild Arts senior Josh Thomas is only 17. But he has had the same dream since he was 8, and piece by piece his dream is coming together. “I’ve just wanted to be a ‘Saturday Night Live’ cast member and a late-night television host,” he…
Brendan Steele finished in a tie for 30th place last week at the Rocket Mortgage Classic in Detroit, posting an 11-under par 69-69-67-72 — 277. The Idyllwild native’s drives averaged over 320 yards while finding 66% of the fairways, and he hit a sparkling 87.5% of the greens in regulation, but his putter cost him…