At 7 p.m. Friday, April 22, an Earth Day film festival begins online at https://wildandscenicfilmfestival.org. The festival may be streamed on-demand through April 29. The Wild and Scenic Film Festival showcases the year’s top environmental and adventure films about nature, community activism, adventure, conservation, water, energy and climate change, wildlife, environmental justice, agriculture,and indigenous cultures….

With the potential for a white Christmas (or at least a wet Christmas) on the horizon, and a cover of gray skies for the Hillfolk, the annual presentation of Idyllwild’s Master Chorale was proving to be unpromising for both attendance and programmatic reasons.  Artistic Director Dwight Holmes’ choices seemed at first glance uninspiring for his…