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Cartoon by Big Sam · November 5, 2026 edition Tap or click the cartoon to enlarge. Enjoy our weekly cartoons? Become a Town Crier member and help support independent local journalism.
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Before Michael Brown owned a record shop, he knew how it felt to be welcome in one.
As a teenager in Janesville, Wisconsin, he frequented a small independent store specializing in punk and new wave. Friends and MTV had helped introduce him to the music. The shop gave him somewhere to find it, and somewhere to stay a while
Cartoon by Big Sam from the October 29, 2026 edition of the Idyllwild Town Crier.
Cartoon by Big Sam from the October 22, 2026 edition of the Idyllwild Town Crier.
Last week the students of the Idyllwild Arts Academy’s Wylld Arts Chamber Orchestra began a collaboration with conductor Co Boi Nguyen, conductor of the University of Redlands Orchestra. The group of 11 students works together as a conductorless ensemble and is arranging the third movement of Brahms’ Second Symphony for the Music Department Showcase on…