Idyllwild was once the summer home of the Cahuilla people, who for at least 2,500 years camped there to escape the heat of the lower-elevation desert. Each summer and fall, they gathered acorns and ...

News you should know, including a Trump executive order regarding the childhood vaccination schedule; a lot of wildfires ...

Alice Halsey and Luke Bracey in Little House on the Prairie. After I finished the new take on Little House on the Prairie, streaming on Netflix, I started talking it up to friends, family members and ...

Spend an evening with the Rat Pack! The Slim Man Rat Pack Duo brings the music of Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Nat King Cole and other masters of the era to the Larkspur Grill, at 45400 Larkspur Lane, ...

Ari Millen in Ice Cream Man. Hit-and-miss horror director Eli Roth whiffs with his latest, Ice Cream Man, a meaningless gorefest that wastes some good practical bloody effects on a nothing story. This ...

Ted Lasso may be the best example of a sports comedy that gets the jock/jokes balance right, but it’s not the only one: Here are a few more worth a stream before the summer’s gone.

A preview of the nighttime and early morning skies in August—including a meteor shower and a near-total lunar eclipse!

Aug. 6, 2026. A couple of regular readers have commented on the atypical sending times for this newsletter over the last ...

Sometimes, all it takes is one visit. For many people who now call the Coachella Valley home, the journey didn’t begin with a job offer or retirement plan. It began with a vacation. A long weekend ...