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If there were a Shangri-La, the dreamed-of mystical country of James Hilton’s “Lost Horizon,” it would probably be Bhutan. Public radio reporter Lisa Napoli moved there in 2007 to help develop a national radio station to engage Bhutanese youth in the country’s transition from absolute to constitutional monarchy. Bhutan, a remote Himalayan kingdom, has only…
The Idyllwild 2014 International Festival of Cinema will open Jan. 7, 2014, and continue for four more days until the Awards Ceremony, the evening of Saturday, Jan. 11, under the festival’s founder. Steve Savage will reprise his role until a new chair is found to replace Phil Calderone whose time is focused on the Rustic…
Author Lisa Teasley, the third in this season’s Idyllwild Author Series, has been called fearless, unafraid to inhabit and explore her characters’ dark psyches and discover what each of us has in common with those whose wounds are gruesome and raw. She’ll discuss her debut novel, “Dive,” the story of a love affair between two…
Local artist John Cook’s transition to mosaic art from stain glass was serendipity. But his new talent will honor Leo Politi, renowned Los Angeles artist and children’s author. Cook’s mosaics, patterned after Politi’s sidewalk mosaics, will be placed in the Leo Politi Garden outside the Henry Madden Library at California State University, Fresno. Politi, whose…
Hamilton led some informative interpretive walks in the Idyllwild Nature Center forest during the Wildflower Festival over Memorial Day weekend …
After a well-attended successful launch of his third annual Idyllwild Author Series, Eduardo Santiago next presents Reyna Grande, author of “The Distance Between Us” (Atria Books, 2012). Grande recounts in her memoir how, when she was two, her family life was devastated by the departure of first her father, then her mother, as undocumented immigrants…
Isis Theatre Company will reprise its March production of “Love, Loss and What I Wore” …
Lucky Lisa Glynne, young resident of both La Jolla and Idyllwild, has four Monarch Butterflies checking her out …
Memorial Day, formerly known as Decoration Day, honors men and women who died while serving in the United States Armed Forces. At 11 a.m. Monday, May 27, American Legion Post 800 holds its annual honor guard ceremony, the emotional centerpiece of the Memorial Day weekend. The tradition of a solemn spring ceremony began after the…
