

“Colors of France” opens at Artspresso
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Kathy Harmon-Luber, center, enjoys socializing with the many supporters and friends who came out to her “Colors of France” photography art reception Saturday afternoon at Artspresso. Photo by Jenny Kirchner

Idyllwild Actors Theatre (now in its 20th year) announces its upcoming annual Christmas show “Ho! Ho! Ho! Our annual Christmas Show! From heartwarming to hilarious!” The event offers all new stories, poetry and music with stories from John Cheever, David Sedaris, John Updike and others. Music Director Brian Parnell (Throw the Goat) is putting together…
Surprisingly, Idyllwild is placed in an assembly district that is aligned north to south, rather that to the east or west of the mountain.
Piano man and arranger Keith Droste and jazz chanteuse Sherry Williams wrap the Idyllwild Summer Concert Series’ 13th edition with some sounds sweet, stirring and swinging. Chicago native Droste, Berklee School of Music graduate and Oscar Peterson student, covers all the musical bases from jazz to Dixieland to Broadway. With Williams fronting the group,…
“Ron and Laura Take Back America” is one of the opening night films at the Idyllwild International Festival of Cinema. The film has already received a number of awards on the festival circuit. “We are honored that our ‘Ron and Laura’ was chosen as the opening film of the IIFC,” said Sue Vaccaro, the film’s…
Last Saturday, the Art Alliance of Idyllwild held its annual Eye of the Artist event at the Rainbow Inn. John Simpson provides the inn for the event. “The attendance and participation by local artists and the public exceeded our most hopeful expectations and broke, by far, all our previous records in both attendance, donations and…
Violin virtuoso and recent Mountain Center resident Farhoud Moshfegh admits, “I collect beautiful instruments in an almost obsessive way. The history of the instruments and their players are etched in their veneer and tell a compelling story of each instrument’s journey. These represent stories I cherish.” Moshfegh’s intriguing journey began in the walled Jewish ghetto…