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More than 100 people affiliated with the Desert Sun School (later the Elliott-Pope Preparatory School) in Idyllwild from the year 1942 to the school’s closure in 1990 held a reunion last Saturday. The reunion was on the school campus, now the site of Astrocamp. Some Idyllwild notables who attended were Marshall Hawkins, who taught sports…
Reko Moreno, lead cameraman on the late Scott Foster’s Idyllwild Herd Gathering documentary, needs local collaborators to help finish the ambitious project. Moreno, a friend and professional associate of Foster, is based in Los Angeles and needs help locally to coordinate postproduction of the valentine to Idyllwild and its artists that Foster fought to complete…
Lisa Haley (right) returned to Idyllwild with her Zydekats last Thursday for the final of the Idyllwild Summer Concert Series. The foot stompin’ concert also featured David Fraser on accordion.
“I am an artist. For me to not create every day, to not make something, something is missing. I must create.” And for that voice with a name like “Mountain Mike,” certain expectations must follow. Looking the part, complete with beard, longer hair and well-worn hands that look strong enough to have wrestled a mountain…
By Jared Dillon Ireland is synonymous with beer, specifically stout. Another style Ireland is known for is the Irish Red Ale. Originating in the town of Kilkenny, it finds its history in the style of an English Pale Ale. The primary difference between the two styles is color. A roasted barley is traditionally used…
The Art Alliance of Idyllwild, one of the busiest and most visible of local nonprofits, presents a weekend of outdoor art. The Art and Treasures Weekend, envisioned as a mini Sawdust Festival (with a nod to Laguna Beach), gives AAI member artists an outdoor venue for two full days, from 10 a.m. to 5…
When Deanna Bogart saw Vic Sirkin of Idyllwild (and a jazz fest volunteer) relaxing on the grass in the front row during her performance, she literally got “down and dirty,” bringing her lively entertainment directly to him and then throughout the audience during the 21st Jazz in the Pines at Idyllwild Arts last Sunday.
Lisa Haley and her Zydekats close the 14th Idyllwild Summer Concert Series. Wildly popular with Idyllwild audiences, Haley and her trademark blue fiddle return on Thursday, Aug. 21, to raise the musical temperature, heighten the humidity and spread the contagion known as zydecosis — an infectious inability to refrain from dancing, from smiling and from…
