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Idyllwild Actors Theatre serves up a festive mix of heartwarming, hilarious and touching Christmas stories in readers’ theater format by some of America’s most noted authors. “A Merry, Madcap Christmas” features IAT’s core company of actors — Jeri Greene, Michèle Marsh, Howard Shangraw, Jacob Teel, Meg Wolf, Betty Anderson and Suzanne Avalon. With a cappella…
Don Raridon solves problems. With a keen analytic and intuitive nature, he notices small openings that lead into larger clearings. Once through the opening and into the clearing he assesses and appreciates what is there. It is in the noticing that his particular gift for analysis, structure and composition produces elegant results. As is characteristic…
Whether you like the early or Sgt. Pepper Beatles, mop top haircuts or psychedelic shags, all will make appearances on Friday, Dec. 4, when the Silver Beatles Tribute Band plays the Rustic Theatre. “It’s a way to bring the community together and find out what they like,” said promoter and presenter Mike Vladika. Vladika promises…
Santa Claus talks about Christmas with the many children who attended Idyllwild’s Tree Lighting Ceremony, “An Olde Fashioned Christmas.”
In many cultures, coming of age begins at 12. For Luann Hanf Carman, it was when she found her personal purpose and passion, the piano. “My parents divorced [when I was age] 12,” she remembered. “The piano was my way to shut the door. No one was making me play. I just loved it.” For…
Idyllwild artists join forces to create a week-long Winter Lane Pop-Up Gallery from Saturday, Dec. 12, to Sunday Dec. 20, at the cozy and historic Village Lane arcade at 54200 N. Circle Drive. The holiday event is hosted by the Art Alliance of Idyllwild. The Winter Lane Pop-Up Gallery will be set up temporarily in…
Dr. Dick Goldberg, Mountain Disaster Preparedness’ medical director, has long sought an Idyllwild facility in which post-disaster medical treatment could be conducted. Goldberg noted the Idyllwild Fire Department would likely be overwhelmed as an incident command center and the two local medical clinics, if open, would also be swamped with walk-ins. Goldberg is a retired…
By Paul Netter Southern California Edison Keep an eye on what you fry … or grill … or broil. And never leave stovetop cooking unattended. This is true all year, but especially on Thanksgiving Day, which has three times more home fires than any other day largely because of unattended stovetop cooking, according to the…
On this Thanksgiving, former Marine and American Legion Post 800 Commander Danny Richardson will remember a Thanksgiving many years ago in Orrick, Missouri. Richardson, then a fresh-faced Marine, and his high school cheerleader sister answered a frantic knock at the door several days before Thanksgiving. There, in the cold, stood his sister-in-law with her two…
