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Photo by Thom Wallace

Photo by Thom Wallace

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PHOTOS: This week in photos – March 23, 2017
By Idyllwild Town Crier







A remarkable new group called Death Cafe has been meeting in Idyllwild for several months now. While the name alone may shake you up, it is anything but disturbing. Here you find a gathering of curious people from wide and far, who meet for two hours over cake and coffee to discuss the only sure thing in life.
Jazz as a form is delicious, surprising, exciting and inspirational — oh yes, and fun. This year’s menu, as crafted by festival gastronomists Marshall Hawkins and John Newman, has power, praise, passion and persuasion. And this musical mélange happens on all three stages — the main stage Holmes Amphitheatre for festival headliners, Stephens Hall for…
ISIS Theatre Company begins its 11th season Friday, March 7, with a reading of Lee Blessing’s, “Eleemosynary.”
In an effort to incorporate local businesses and the business district into the third annual Lemon Lily Festival, organizers are planning to add an in-town Bluegrass Festival for Saturday, July 21. Idyllwild had a Bluegrass Festival from 1974 to 1979, and at the time it was the only Bluegrass Festival in Southern California. In a…
The County Service Area Advisory Committee conducted business at its monthly meeting on Thursday, Oct. 27. Key agenda items included review of the public survey regarding the future of Town Hall and what agency would manage CSA 36 recreation starting in 2017. Mike Franklin, CSA project manager for the county’s Economic Development Agency, facilitated the…
The Associates of the Idyllwild Arts Foundation are presenting “Love Letters,” a play by A.R. Gurney starring Wendie Malick and Dan Lauria. This one-night-only production is a fundraiser for the Scholarship Fund of the Idyllwild Arts Academy and Summer Program. Malick and Lauria are well recognized for their portrayal of memorable characters on the stage,…