Christian Chalifour is bringing Too Much Fun in the Pines, a concert to benefit Spirit Mountain Retreat, to the retreat at 2 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 2, in the retreat’s garden at 25661 Oakwood Street. It will run just under two hours with a short intermission for purchasing snacks. The concert features John Walz, Los Angeles…

  Biblical scholars argue over the exact location and duration of the parting of the Red Sea. But for artist David Reid-Marr, it has taken more than three years in his studio and it is still not done. Longtime Idyllwild Arts Visual Arts faculty member, Reid-Marr’s 5-foot-by-15-foot pen-and-ink drawing of the “Parting of the Red…