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During the Jr. Naturalist program on Saturday morning, kids sat down for a puppet show having to do with the many aspects of nature and learned about deer. Photo by Jenny Kirchner

Editor’s note: This is taken from a press release. Stratford Players, now in its 10th year entertaining Idyllwild, kicks off the holiday season with mystery and merriment. The theater troupe will perform “The Game’s Afoot or Holmes for the Holidays,” winner of the Mystery Writers of America’s Edgar Award for Best Play. After a long…
If there were a Shangri-La, the dreamed-of mystical country of James Hilton’s “Lost Horizon,” it would probably be Bhutan. Public radio reporter Lisa Napoli moved there in 2007 to help develop a national radio station to engage Bhutanese youth in the country’s transition from absolute to constitutional monarchy. Bhutan, a remote Himalayan kingdom, has only…
Han Xiao “Helen” Lai, an 11th-grade classical music student at the Idyllwild Arts Academy, is one of 111 semifinalists in the Los Angeles Music Center’s 2016 Spotlight Awards. More than 1,100 performing arts students from Southern California auditioned. This year’s semifinalists come from Los Angeles, Orange and Riverside counties. The Music Center program, now in…
ISIS Theatre Company continues its 11th season Friday, May 2, with a reading of “Late: A Cowboy Song” by Sarah Ruhl. While “Late” is one of Ruhl’s earliest plays, this is not the first Ruhl work ISIS has performed. In April 2011, ISIS, the cast and its director Howard Shangraw were honored at the Inland…
Idyllwild residents fall silent as the movie “Kid Galahad” starts at a special showing at Town Hall organized by a group of local seniors on Saturday.
Saturday, Aug. 31, was move-in day at Idyllwild Arts Academy. Our record-breaking 322 students from over 30 different countries also had Sunday and Monday that week to make new friends and reunite with old friends before classes began on Tuesday, Sept. 3. Many of the weekend events began with recitation of the Idyllwild Arts Land…