On a foggy evening, with the side of the William B. Lowman Concert Hall lit by a giant spotlight, a standing-room-only audience listened to some of the best jazz many said they had ever heard. The evening was a tribute to Marshall Hawkins, who for more than 30 years, has been Idyllwild Arts’ director of…

Idyllwild resident author Joy Sikorski, writing with co-author Michael Silversher, changes the fare for this fourth season of Eduardo Santiago’s Idyllwild Authors Series when she and Silversher present their biblical historical novel, “Tamar of the Terebinths” (Whispering Voices Publications, 2013). It is the first time the series has featured an historical biblical novel. Sikorski calls…