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Judy Milin stops to enjoy “Spirit of Lily Rock,” painted in acrylic, that won a second place ribbon in the representational category. Colin Garth Smith, the artist, also created the beautiful unique frame. Photo by Careena Chase









At 5 p.m. Saturday, July 19, a groundbreaking celebration will mark the official start of construction for Idyllwild Arts Foundation’s new $6.5 million concert hall. The 298-seat facility will become the centerpiece of IAF’s 200-acre, mountaintop campus and is named in honor of Idyllwild Arts’ first president, William M. Lowman. The construction process is estimated…
Saturday evening, April 12, the Art Alliance of Idyllwild is inviting the community to an old-fashioned, community event, “To greet, meet and eat,” according to Gary Kuscher, AAI president. He stressed that this is not an AAI art event or meeting, rather it is to get individuals and members of the various community groups to…
Retired arts educator Ken Young, popular with Idyllwild audiences for his portrayals of famous painters, made his last Idyllwild appearance as French pointillist Georges Seurat Thursday night at the Rainbow Inn. The Friends of the Idyllwild Library and Idyllwild Community Recreation Council co-sponsored the event.
Each year, Santa allows the Town Crier to publish local kid’s letters on their way to the North Pole. Here’s this year’s crop of Christmas correspondence: Dear Santa Claus all I Wont for christmas is a Minecraft horse Set from Angel Dear Santa, I would like a bow and arrows, belts and an…
Women’s History Month comes to Middle Ridge Winery the weekend of March22 to 24, as a team of Idyllwild’s well-known sisters in song presentthree special shows. They are calling the weekend “IDY LilithRock Fair,”combining a nod to Sarah McLachlan’s Lilith Fair with a reference toIdyllwild’s own Lily Rock, teasing the possibility of a new tradition….
Besides great jazz, Bubba Jackson, artistic consultant for the 2012 Jazz in the Pines Festival, promises a two-day immersion in a jazz seminar …