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The Christmas spirit is effusive throughout the Hill. Above, a house on Middleridge Drive is very colorful with multiple lights and decorations in a array of colors. Photo by Jenny Kirchner






Although the stats out on the green may show one winning team, the real winners on April 1 were the many charities who benefited from the Charity Golf Tournament for the Soboba Foundation live auction event. After a well-played game of golf, the event raised more than $100,000 in donations for several charities, including EEK…
The Idyllwild Summer Concert Series continues this Thursday night, July 28, with a tribute to the Grateful Dead from the Coachella Valley’s Ghost Notes. Sandii Castleberry will open the evening at 6:15 p.m. The concert is free to all and takes place at the Butterfield Amphitheater. As always, professional sound and light production is courtesy…
The owners of El Buen Cacao, Erik Landis and Jessica Ramirez, pride themselves on their dark chocolate made on-site from the main ingredient, cacao. The cacao beans are sourced from the jungles of Central and South America and grown by farms that practice fair labor. Keeping the chocolate healthy with no processed ingredients — including…
By Art ConnorMusic Reviewer In recalling the past few months of both fateful and less world-shaking events, it comes as almost a relieving reprieve for this reviewer to reflect on the missing opportunities for live music in a community so favored and well-respected for those causes. So at a particularly salient moment, here at the…
‘Deaf Republic’ to make itself heard on April 22 The hearing-impaired poet Ilya Kaminsky’s new book, “Deaf Republic” (Graywold Press, 2019), speaks truth in order to create what The New Yorker calls “a republic of conscience.” He’ll raise his voice on behalf of truth and conscience in the Fireside Room in Nelson Dining Hall on the Idyllwild Arts campus, on April 22. Poets can…
Conor O’Farrell, the Town Crier’s award-winning columnist, also is an actor. Currently, he is a regular on the new series “Game of Silence” Thursdays on NBC. While it is not his first television series, he said, “It is the first time I’ve been a series regular. That’s a different thing for me.” Most of the…