

Idyll Awhile hosts first Idyllwild Bass Summit
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The first Idyllwild Upright Bass Summit was held Sunday at Idyll Awhile. Performers included Marshall Hawkins, Bill Saitta, Ron Van der Linden, Lenny Hansell, Harry Joe Reynolds, Sam Ostgaard, Bonnie Jean Scott and Idyllwild Arts students Forrest Webb and Owen Zorn. Photo courtesy Shannah Zorn

The Nature Center on Highway 243 continues its new speaker series with Dr. Norman C. Ellstrand, University of California, Riverside, professor of genetics. Ellstrand, an expert on plant gene flow and hybridization, will present the talk, “When transgenes wander, should we worry?” Ellstrand is an international speaker, invited to contribute policy discussions on this topic…
One of the students sharing their work during Friday’s Parallax reading at Idyllwild Arts Academy.
Photo by Cheryl Basye
The longest-running, community-wide sporting event on the hill — the annual 5K/10K Run Walk — will be on Saturday, Aug. 24. The Idyllwild Race Committee moved the event from its early June date to Aug. 24 due to the limited Highway 74 pilot car hours at that time. The start times are 5K at 7:15…
The prospect for the reopening of the Lowman Hall performance space to the expecting public was quite favorable this past Sunday, with mild enough temperatures and despite brisk winds and partial cloudiness. Inside, the stage itself resembled an operating theater, with a scrupulously clean setting, with only chairs and microphones interrupting a whitened, bare and…
Nine students from high schools across the country were selected as winners of Bennington College’s 2018/2019 Young Writers Awards, including Kali Puhnaty of Idyllwild Arts Academy, who won second place in fiction for “Moon Fever.” This annual competition, which accepts entries in poetry, fiction, and nonfiction, is free to enter and open to high school…