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The Zekley Family Band, Mickie, Corwin and Elizabeth Zekley play authentic Irish music on a number of instruments which included the bagpipes on St. Patrick’s Day at The Creek House Restaurant in Idyllwild. Corwin Zekley is a student at Idyllwild Atrs Academy in the songwriting program. Photo by Annika E.S. Kay




“Red,” an exploration of expressionist Mark Rothko, will be ISIS’ next 2013 production. John Logan’s 2010 play was a 2010 Tony Award winner for Best Play. Originally scheduled the weekends of July 26 and Aug. 2, but postponed because of the Mountain Fire, ISIS will perform “Red” Aug. 23 and 24 in Rush Hall on…
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…
I apologize to Brendan Steele and his family — including his parents, Kent and Jana Steele here in Idyllwild — and to our readers for my blunder in this week’s Town Crier. I was under the very mistaken impression that a player not only needed to score high enough on the FedExCup list to advance…
This week the Crier sat down with the new owners of Café Aroma, Eric and Adrienne Edmunds. The couple take over the storied “Café, Bistro and Social Club” from Erica and Stewart Klair, who made a lot of friends in their brief tour of duty here, and, like Aroma’s many guests, the Edmunds have only…
The first Idyllwild Upright Bass Summit was held Sunday at Idyll Awhile …
After 52 years of operation, Knotty Pine Cabins on Pine Crest Avenue closed its doors on July 16. It ends a long run of serving mountain visitors that began in 1964 when Doug and Bonnie Reed, Doug’s mother Elizabeth Wood, daughter Callie and son Ed became a family of innkeepers. Over the years, management changed…