Marshall Hawkins — musician, educator, mentor … Idyllwild icon. His contributions to the lives of others are legendary. Student after student, year after year, his accolades amass. What they’ve learned from him about music, jazz, character — life in general — would fill a thousand films. The life work of a rare few is preserved…
Jo’An’s Restaurant & Bar is in phase 1 of a four-phase renovation, according to new owner Mo Jacob, and was expected to re-open the middle of this week. The restaurant closed at 5 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 4. Heading the renovation is contractor Brad Rechtfertig, owner and builder of the boutique inn The Grand Idyllwild Lodge….
The seats were filled at the Rustic Theatre. The graphics had sheen. The trophies sparkled. Presenters hit their marks. After their names were called, award recipients walked to center stage, hugged presenters, spoke briefly, thanked the people “without whom the award would not have been possible,” walked to stage right for a photo op, then…
Tuesday night kicked off the 2015 Idyllwild International Festival of Cinema. Betty Baily, center, hands her drink ticket to Mark Croudy behind the bar during the opening night party at the Creekstone Inn …
As the family story goes, when Leona Agnes Barton first met her husband to be, Joe McGaugh, in the mid-1930s, she had a .22 over one shoulder and a dead rabbit, dinner, over the other. With her death on Dec. 29, one day shy of her 95th birthday, a well and fondly remembered part of…
Philosopher Rick Barker, author of “Transcending Evolution, a Christian Guide to Understanding, Accepting and Transcending Evolution” (Amazon 2014), riffs on complex themes and evolutionary history much like a master jazz improviser. He connects the dissonances and sonorities of human societal growth to illustrate what is the most important end product of that growth — choice….
2014 was a big year for restaurant sales, changes and new openings. Alphabetically: Oscar and Gabriella Piñeiro bought Arriba Mexican Restaurant on Oct. 25 from Jose Huizar. They plan to keep the same style menu with possibly some Cuban-style dishes added occasionally. The couple also plan to open a Caribbean restaurant in Banning at some…
Idyllwild’s Rustic Theatre has a long history, but might have ceased to exist were it not for a critical development in 2012. On Monday, April 16, owner Shane Stewart shuttered the theater for four days to complete a conversion from 35-millimeter film to state-of-the-art digital projection. Stewart had previously installed Dolby Digital Surround Sound. Had…
Rebekah Louisa Smith, Ph.D., “The Film Festival Doctor,” could have used her doctorate from the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, to teach. Instead she carved a niche career as a matchmaker – marrying films to particular international film festivals. She recommended three films for screening at the sixth year of Stephen Savage’s Idyllwild International Festival of…
“Ron and Laura Take Back America” is one of the opening night films at the Idyllwild International Festival of Cinema. The film has already received a number of awards on the festival circuit. “We are honored that our ‘Ron and Laura’ was chosen as the opening film of the IIFC,” said Sue Vaccaro, the film’s…
