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The Inter Arts Department at Idyllwild Arts Academy welcomes photographer, artist and curator Eve Fowler on Thursday, Oct. 25. Fowler will present a lecture on both her practice and her recent posters based on Gertrude Stein’s Tender Buttons. Her current project continues her exploration of language used in nonconventional ways to explore different interpretations of…
Dr. Peter Bryant, research professor, School of Biological Sciences, University of California, Irvine, is the next guest speaker in the Idyllwild Community Center’s Speaker Series, and he is fond of and a great admirer of spiders, both for their building skills and their usefulness within terrestrial food webs. He noted that spiders are efficient controllers…
In hopes of having blooming Lemon Lilies on display during this year’s festival, organizers moved it a weekend earlier than it has traditionally been held. It will be held Saturday and Sunday, June 24 and 25, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. This local beleaguered flower, poached to near extinction in the early 20th century,…
Principal Matt Kraemer will be retiring at the end of June and handing over the job to current Idyllwild School sixth grade teacher Nicole Picchiottino. The newspaper ran a front-page story on her last week. Kraemer was with the Hemet Unified School District for 24 years. He was a teacher in Yuma, Arizona for 15…
Christmas on this mountain has a character unique in Southern California. It is different because of Idyllwild’s tiny town ambience, its charming inns, homespun shops and restaurants, its village architecture preserved from an older time, and snow-covered roofs with chimneys lofting the smell of burning pine and cedar. And bracing alpine cold, yes, the kind…