This is the last August over the next several years where Banning can take advantage of five Thursdays to host the 67th Annual Evenings in the Park Summer Concert Series, a city signature event presented by the Playhouse Bowl Association.

BY JULIE FARREN

BY BEVERLY RASHIDD

It takes more than one day to experience all of the sights and sounds of the Cherry Festival in Beaumont each year.

The 101st Cherry Festival will be rockin’ Beaumont with the sounds of actor Dennis Quaid and the Sharks and Ambrosia and adding a little bit of country with the music of Wynonna in Stewart Park Thursday May 30 through Sunday June 2.

The young students of Toti's Art Studio will exhibit their nature inspired collages at

The Mt. San Jacinto College Art Gallery is excited to announce the new exhibition “Brace Yourself,” which launches March 4 and runs through April 18 on the San Jacinto Campus.

Catch A Star Theatrical (CAST) Players, next production, Murder at the Howard Johnson’s by Ron Clark and Sam Bobrick, will open on Friday, March 8, 2019 at 7 p.m. at the Beaumont Women’s Club Community Center, 306 E. 6th Street (corner of Euclid and 6th) in Beaumont.

Beaumont High School Theatre Arts Dept. will present Little Shop of Horrors, a production based on the film by Roger Corman, with screenplay written by Charles Griffith, at the Beaumont High School Performing Arts Theater.

Displaying photos of some of the animals that are looking for a permanent home are Pass Actor Theater (PAT) cast members Brad Lewis and Gloria McCafferty.

The Center for Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies (CIMES) at Cal State San Bernardino will host a screening of “The Tiger Hunter,” a comedy starring Danny Pudi and written, produced and directed by Lena Khan, on Tuesday, Feb. 19.

The Cultural Alliance of the Pass will feature awarding winning Tysen Knight at its Black History Celebration Luncheon titled “Make a Joyful Noise,” the last Saturday in February.

Rain or wind, cold or not, you’ll find free family fun and much more community warmth inside Dorothy Ramon Learning Center on Saturday, Feb. 9, at the Native Voices Poetry Festival.

The Cultural Alliance of the Pass will feature awarding winning Tysen Knight at its Black History Celebration Luncheon titled “Make a Joyful Noise,” the last Saturday in February.

Dragons were onsite at the Friends of the Edward-Dean Museum’s Annual January, 2019 meeting - but it turns out that members and guests were not alarmed. That’s because the friendly dragons were presented by guest lecturer, Brenda Buller Focht, who is the curator at the Riverside Metropolitan…

He’s performed in Carnegie Hall in New York City, in the heart of Paris, around the world, and now … downtown Banning.

Since the early 1900s when French artist Emile Cohl is credited with having created the first animated film, traditional animation movies — and cartoons — have delighted and enamored.

Mike Wolfe, Frank Fritz, and their team are excited to return to California. They plan to film episodes of the hit series American Pickers throughout the region in March 2019

The MSJC Art Gallery is pleased to present “Life Meets Life! The Collision of Art and Biology,” curated by Michael Plotkin (Biological Sciences chairman) and John Knuth (Art chairman and gallery curator).