Big band blasts Fourth
Ken Dahleen and the Big Band Staff open this year’s Summer Concert Series on July 4 …
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PHOTOS: Throw the Goat sells out the Rustic
Throw the Goat brought in a sold-out crowd to the Rustic Theatre on Friday night …
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Soroptimists revive beehive
The Soroptimist International of Idyllwild’s current fundraiser is Beehive Hairstyle on the Hill. The contest will be held during the Lemon Lily Festival, July 13 and 14. All contestants will be introduced at the bluegrass stage during the festival. “We are searching for the most outrageous, outstanding, elaborate, extraordinary, elegant, extravagant, exaggerated, fanciful, flamboyant, grandiose,…
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Lemon Lily Festival forges ahead
The Lemon Lily Steering Committee met Wednesday, June 5, as plans for the fourth Lemon Lily Festival firm up. The festival will be the weekend of July 13 and 14 at the Nature Center. In Dave Stith’s absence, Sue Nash gave an update on the Lemon Lily plants, which should be blooming during the festival….
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Lecturer to discuss women authors
Penelope Engard, history buff and educator, will give a free lecture on American women authors of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries at 2 p.m. Saturday, June 22, in the Idyllwild Library Community Room. The authors include Louisa May Alcott, Maya Angelou, Pearl Buck, Emily Dickinson, Edna Ferber, Helen Hunt Jackson, Harper Lee, Toni Morrison, Harriet…
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A June weekend of New Orleans sounds
This weekend, the 10th-annual Aroma Spring Jazz Festival will be a tribute to New Orleans jazz and food, according to Paul Carman, festival producer. Carman, local saxophone and bass musician, usually goes to the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival. “This year I wasn’t able to go, so I decided to bring the music here,”…
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Diana Wagman next at authors series
Diana Wagman, the next author at Eduardo Santiago’s Idyllwild Author Series, explores how an unexpected event in an ordinary day can alter a city’s landscape and the course of a woman’s life. In her fourth novel, “The Care and Feeding of Exotic Pets,” Wagman’s central character, Winnie, is a 38-year-old woman who, after a divorce,…
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Dixieland combo swings Fourth with first summer concert
Ken Dahleen opens season 14 of the Idyllwild Summer Concert series with a Dixieland combo in the Fourth of July Parade and his Big Band Staff on the concert stage that night at the Idyllwild Community Center. “It’s the first time we’ve opened the series on the Fourth of July,” said Dahleen. His Dixieland six,…
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Throw the Goat performs locally, PIE served first
This week, two local groups — Throw the Goat and PIE — and a third, CPA, a Hemet band led by Idyllwild native Paul Teel, will perform at the Rustic Theatre …
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