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During the Jr. Naturalist program on Saturday morning, kids sat down for a puppet show having to do with the many aspects of nature and learned about deer. Photo by Jenny Kirchner

It was standing room only for the final author in the second year of Eduardo Santiago’s Idyllwild Authors Series. “We were scrambling trying to find chairs,” said Santiago of the attendance at Amy Wallace’s Sunday, July 22 appearance at INK Book Gathering. Wallace, daughter of Irving Wallace, and author of “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice:…
Gates open at 10 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 11, for Idyllwild Arts’ 25th-annual Jazz in the Pines festival. This year’s event honors Marshall Hawkins, festival co-founder and director of Idyllwild Arts’ jazz program. Many alumni-turned-professional jazz musicians are returning to honor Hawkins, their mentor. As always, crafts, jewelry and artwork are for sale in the festival…
Thursday night, Aug. 18, the Idyllwild Summer Concert Series will bring Aretha Franklin and Friends featuring Gino Walker to the Butterfield Amphitheater. The music starts at 6:15 p.m. with Idyllwild’s Miles Thomas and friends Jac Jacaruso and Eric Lindgreen. The concerts are free to all, a gift to the community funded by donations from the…
Each year, Ken Dahleen and the Idyllwild Summer Concert Series board launch their annual eight-concert series without sufficient funds to meet budget. They do it on faith. The series is provided with no charge for admission and relies on the generosity of patrons who deposit dollars and fivers into the ubiquitous donation jars happily passed…
Rachel Resnick, author of “Love Junkie,” discusses her book with the audience at B’s Mountain of Books during the last session of the Idyllwild Authors Series.