
Photo by Peter Szabadi


Photo by Tom Kluzak

Photo by Tom Kluzak

Photo by Jack Clark




PHOTOS: This week in Idyllwild: August 4, 2016
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Memorial Day at Lake Hemet Campgrounds will be big. For the first time, swimming will be permitted at the lake. And not only swimming, but a water park for families featuring 11 floating play structures, three of them dedicated to very young children. Kelly Lam, marketing director for the California Parks Company that operates the…
The Idyllwild International Festival of Cinema enters year eight strong and healthy with 11 days and two weekends in which to see all films. IIFC opens on Thursday, Jan. 5 and runs through Sunday, Jan. 15. Stephen Savage’s idea for an independent film festival began as a valentine to Idyllwild — a way to bring…
On Thursday and Friday, July 13 and 14, the Idyllwild Arts Summer Program’s Native American Arts Festival paid tribute to Soto, a much honored principal dancer of the New York City Ballet. On Thursday the festival screened “Water Flowing Together,” a PBS/Independent Lens documentary. Gwendolen Cates directed the film that follows Soto as he…
Band performs Aug. 31 at Butterfield Amphitheater “This is our passion,” said John King of the band Change Required as he opened his interview with the Town Crier. The local band formed in Idyllwild 18 years ago and is renting out the Butterfield Amphitheater for a two-hour, non-stop performance from 6-8 p.m. on Aug. 31….
Drop into a Starbucks and there’s a pretty good chance you’ll run across something invented by Clay Alexander, who graduated from Idyllwild Arts Academy in 1994. Nearly 4,600 Starbucks stores carry the temperature-controlled Ember Ceramic Mug (named by Time magazine as one of the best inventions of 2017), and about a thousand stores carry the Ember Travel Mug.