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“Architecture doesn’t move,” said Idyllwild residential designer David Lilieholm, “but the landscape speaks.” His home designs reflect that conversation. Lilieholm has lived on the Hill for 28 years and knows the contours and textures of the mountain well. He regularly hikes and climbs. He watches, listens, touches and feels the identity of the land through…
According to an email from Evan Mills, owner of the building in which the Courtyard Gallery is housed, the longstanding gallery co-op is in limbo pending new artist management. “Our parents, Carol and Roy Mills were part of the team that designed and built the Courtyard Building in the center of Idyllwild circa 1980,” wrote…
7-year-old heroine needs help aiding others The Idyllwild International Festival of Cinema will offer a very special opportunity on Saturday, March 10. Each year, different film stars such as Anne Archer, Will Wallace and Wolfgang Bodison visit Idyllwild during the event, usually with a film or project on which they are working. This year, Erika…
“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 — in everything. From bronze-cast sculptures to pencil drawings to anything in glass, Jan finds something that catches his eye and sparks his interest. His palette ranges from charcoal grays to brilliant…
Helen Hixon is the proprietor of Mountain Pottery. Locals may have noticed that the shop and studio moved from upper North Circle to the newly refurbished building next to Forest Lumber and Idyllwild Laundry Service in May of last year. Hixon seems happy in her new surroundings: “I loved the old space with its forest…
Friday afternoon at Idyllwild Pines Camp was a perfect day for a water slide and lots of local kids took advantage of it …