The American Legion Post 800 in Idyllwild hosts its annual “Welcome Home Vietnam Veterans Day” with food, boom-box music of the era and happy-hour drink prices. Intended to honor the more than three million Americans who served in one of the longest conflicts in America’s war history, Vietnam Veterans Day was created by proclamation of…

Harold Wherry and his Blue Breeze Band serve Motown and blues at the Idyllwild Summer Concert Series. They take the stage at 7 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 8. Guitarist Wherry has more than 30 years experience working in the Motown, R&B, funk, jazz and blues styles. As a teenager he backed soul R&B singer Bobby Day…

  It was standing room only for the final author in the second year of Eduardo Santiago’s Idyllwild Authors Series. “We were scrambling trying to find chairs,” said Santiago of the attendance at Amy Wallace’s Sunday, July 22 appearance at INK Book Gathering.   Wallace, daughter of Irving Wallace, and author of “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice:…