
ENTERTAINMENT: Jessie Estrada (left), Christina Nordella (back), and Rachel Welch (right) entertain patrons at Idyll Awhile Wine Shoppe Bistro with a night of belly dancing last Thursday.
Photo by John Drake




PHOTOS: Last week in Idyllwild: February 19, 2015
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Jessie Estrada (left), Christina Nordella (back), and Rachel Welch (right) entertain patrons at Idyll Awhile Wine Shoppe Bistro with a night of belly dancing last Thursday.





Vocalist Diva Denise belts out a favorite melody as part of the performance by Jeff Stover’s Mixed Bag Orchestra.
Robert Hewitt, full-time Pine Cove resident with wife Janice Murasko since 2010, continues to serve Idyllwild with the same steadiness that characterized his 35 years of service with the Los Angeles County Fire Department. Hewitt is president of the Pine Cove Water District Board of Directors, sits on the County Service Area 38 board, is…
Leaving the confines of academia, Idyllwild Arts student songwriters, part of a new Music Department program this school year, will appear at Fern Valley Corner’s Creek House Restaurant. Songwriters Will Whitaker, Nicky Martin, Elias Sedlmayr, Alex Keller and Corwin Zekley, assisted by Idyllwild Arts’ award-winning jazz combo pianist Luca Jacaruso take the stage at 6…
The 15th-annual Idyllwild Home Tour sponsored by the Idyllwild Area Historical Society is Saturday, Sept. 19. Again this year, IAHS will present five unique homes on the Hill, which Charlotte Groty, the Home Tour chair, said, “… vary in age, style and setting, each open to the public for the first time. They will introduce…
In February 2009, Reva Ballreich, widely known as the Lilac Lady of Idyllwild, died, leaving the Hill a legacy of lilac hybrid varietals she created, many of them unnamed. Gary Parton, in taking over Ballreich’s mission of popularizing lilacs, has made it his personal mission to have Idyllwild become known as a lilac tourist destination….
The secret is out. Idyllwild is a major travel destination, second in a top-10 list of “must see” small cities “that should absolutely be on your travel bucket list” (www.bustle.com). Bustle, a visually flashy daily online news, entertainment and fashion community with a nod toward women readers, selected Idyllwild and the other nine destinations because…