

Spirit Mountain Retreat celebrates spring equinox
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Spirit Mountain Retreat and Local Color joyously celebrated the Spring Equinox at the Caine Learning Center on Sunday March 25, 2012. Enthusiastically welcoming the return of the vernal season are (from left) Esther Kennedy, Katya Williamson and Marilyn Beauchesne. Photo by Francoise Frigola

Temperatures in the morning are in the 20s. Snow whitens the ridgelines. Fireplaces send smoke swirling into the bracingly clear and star-studded night sky. The approaching winter, with an El Niño predicted to be one of the strongest ever, gently moves Idyllwild residents into the warmth of their homes and kitchens. Thanksgiving on the Hill…
The Riverside County Fair and Date Festival will be held Friday, Feb. 17 through Sunday, Feb. 26 in Indio. Although it’s a county fair, it is also a celebration of the Indio area’s history and prominence as a major international producer of dates. As part of that celebration, some of the entertainment is unique to…
As John Newman and Idyllwild Arts continue to add spice to the Jazz in the Pines menu, one of the most unusual and eclectic of first-time festival acts is Besos de Coco. Arguably the act with the most interesting name (translation from Spanish, “coconut kisses”) Besos also has perhaps the most unusual instrumentation and genre…
Steve Heller (right) joins Eduardo Santiago at the INK Book Gathering for the Idyllwild Author Series on Sunday afternoon. Heller talked about his writing and teaching life and discussed his book, “Lucky Kellerman,” which he wrote in 1987. He is currently writing a follow-up to that book, called “Return of the Ghost Killer.”
The world-renowned conductor gave final summer program performance The Festival Choir and Chamber Festival Orchestra Concert on Sunday, Aug. 4, was the culmination of the 2019 Idyllwild Arts (IA) Summer Program and the final concert for Maestro Larry Livingston. “It was a wonderful concert at the [Walt] Disney [Concert] Hall Sunday and also Saturday at the…