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By Idyllwild Town Crier

By Middle Ridge Winery Tasting GalleryContributed Middle Ridge Winery Tasting Gallery, located in the heart of the mountain arts community of Idyllwild, is once again introducing a new art exhibit in its 4,000-square-foot gallery. Appropriately titled “The Idyllwild Collection: Pursuit of Happy,” the exhibit provides an opportunity for the artists to share through their chosen…
Each year, Santa allows the Town Crier to publish local kid’s letters on their way to the North Pole. Here’s this year’s crop of Christmas correspondence: Dear Santa Claus all I Wont for christmas is a Minecraft horse Set from Angel Dear Santa, I would like a bow and arrows, belts and an…
Hollywood has used Idyllwild as a movie setting for decades. For example, in 1961, Elvis Presley’s “Kid Galahad” walked Idyllwild’s streets and rode around Garner Valley’s ranches. Before expanding to “50” or more in the 21st century, “Shades of Gray” was shot here in 1997. Throughout the first two decades of this century, the Hill…
“Everyone loves the dead girl,” writes Alice Bolin in her new collection, “Dead Girls: Essays on Surviving an American Obsession” (William Morrow/HarperCollins). It’s a provocative claim that leaves Bolin, a University of Memphis visiting assistant professor of English, with some ’splaining to do — perhaps during her appearance on the Idyllwild Arts campus at 7:30…