Art & Culture

Jazz in the Pines, Art Alliance of Idyllwild, Idyllwild Arts and other arts and entertainment, theatre, live music and visual arts coverage. The most comprehensive arts and entertainment calendar covering the Idyllwild area.

Michael Dante brings Hollywood to Idyllwild

By Sally Hedberg Special to the Town Crier     If you are a movie buff, a TV watcher, reader of books or just an Elvis...

Red Hot Rhythm Rustlers bring cowboy swing

The Red Hot Rhythm Rustlers, Arizona imports, are award-winning practitioners of Western music — the music of the American West, composed by and about...

PHOTOS: Lemon Lily Festival Fun

Photos from the Lemon Lily Festival.

One summer becomes a lifetime: Bill Lowman concludes Throwback Summer Lecture Series

In 1965, 16-year-old Bill Lowman came to Idyllwild to sing in Robert Holmes’ celebrated choir as part of the Idyllwild School of Music and...

Junior Naturalists have four new programs

By Sally Hedberg Special to the Town Crier This Saturday at the Nature Center, the Junior Naturalists will be learning “What’s Beneath the Earth.” This program...

Idyllwild Arts Summer Program launches Writers Week

For many years, the Idyllwild Arts Summer Program has been known as a gathering place for some of the country’s finest poets and writers....

Theater artist Suzanne Avalon produces results

Theater artist Suzanne Avalon is no neophyte. She knows her stuff, has studied with New York theater royalty, has paid her dues and makes...

A trip to the ‘40s with Bill Tole and the Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra

What could be better than an outdoor summer concert with the big band hits of the Dorsey Brothers and vocals made famous by the...

Jan Jaspers-Fayer paints, draws, sculpts, designs, builds and invents

“My problem is I’m too diversified,” smiled Dutch native Jan Jaspers-Fayer. Eighty-six years young, Jaspers-Fayer still creates, still exhibits and is still interested —...
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