

Brent Michael Davids teaches composition
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Award-winning Mohican composer Brent Michael Davids (wearing the top hat), taught four local native American youth how to compose a string quartet, which was played by a 12-piece ensemble Friday at Idyllwild Arts. With Davids are young composers Nesune Madrigal, Augustine Estrada and Juliana Glover. Not shown is Noel Madrigal. Photo: Sally Hedberg

Idyllwild’s 23rd Annual Earth Fair will be Saturday, May 19 from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., at its traditional venue — Town Hall. This year the theme is “Sustain this!” The logo depicts a flower with five petals. Each petal suggesting how or where we might conserve our resources. The ocean and water is on…
Since 2002, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has a special website called SciJinks just for students to learn about weather, satellite meteorology and Earth science. The site includes articles, games and videos targeted toward middle- and high-school-aged students and their educators. It features articles that answer important questions about weather, games about weather…
The Inland Theatre League judged two Stratford Players’ productions during 2014 and recently awarded Excellence in Acting certificates for actors in both “Night of the Iguana” (Kathleen Walker as Hannah Jelkes) and “Vanya and Sonia and Marsha and Spike” (Barbara Rayliss as Cassandra, Debbie Overman as Sonia and Jeri Greene as Masha). In addition, Christopher…
A week of master classes in Miami and chance to become Presidential Scholar Idyllwild Arts Academy senior music student Ben Champion is one of 171 finalists, out of a pool of 8,000 applicants nationwide, chosen in the 2018 National YoungArts Foundation’s annual search for top emerging young artists. Winners are chosen through a blind adjudication…
A Sunday, Nov. 20 late matinee showing of “The Blind Side,” part of a free film series at the Rustic called “Seeing Diversity,” drew 82 attendees, including children. Sponsored by A Community Together (ACT), the six-film series is intended to offer windows into the lives of others — often others who are separated out and…
By Ann SmithReporter There is literally a new game in town! Longtime resident Jenny Kirchner and partner Nicole Smith-Merry will be opening Gidget’s Game Room Friday, July 2. In the past, the space housed a video store. As it happens, Kirchner is a former journalist and photographer for the Idyllwild Town Crier. She learned much…