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Many supporters of Mountain Quilter of Idyllwild and Anza Quilter took photos of some of their favorite work at the Annual Quilt Show at Buckhorn Camp. Dozens of quilts were on display, as well as activities for all ages. Photo by Jenny Kirchner







The always popular Yve Evans returns to Idyllwild next week, Thursday, July 18. She and her group will perform at the Idyllwild Summer Concert Series staged at the Idyllwild Community Center site. Evans’ singing, playing and humor are often seen at Jazz in the Pines and will now be on display for her Idyllwild followers….
Modern dance legend Bella Lewitzky, 1996 National Medal of Arts recipient, built a career that eschewed then-prevailing standards. She crafted a dance career based in Southern California rather than in New York, the dance citadel of the period. She cofounded Dance Theatre in Los Angeles in 1946 as an interracial school and company that artistically…
Betty Ginsberg Anderson came to Idyllwild when daughter Gemini started in the Idyllwild Arts theater program. “We thought we’d stay for two years while Gemini finished school,” said Betty. “I’m a beach person and wasn’t sure I’d like the mountains. We came up from San Diego and rented a house. But then I started meeting…
The winner of this year’s Town Crier Snow Guessing Contest is Maggie Kieffer of Indio. Kieffer entered her son’s birthday, Nov. 27, at Merkaba Tea Co., one of this year’s store participants. Hers was among 15 entries that got the date correct and was picked from a hat by Town Crier employee Katy Kirkpatrick….
Idyllwild Actors Theatre presents Ernest Thompson’s “On Golden Pond,” the 1979 play made into an Academy Award-winning 1981 film starring Henry Fonda and Katherine Hepburn. The IAT, one of the Hill’s longest-running theatrical companies, presents its main-stage production at the end of this month, from Friday, July 29, through Sunday, July 31, outdoors on the…
A circle of women gathered, dancing to the heartbeat of the Mother, on Saturday at Spirit Mountain Retreat to celebrate in sacred ceremony the Autumn Equinox and International Peace Day. Esther Kennedy, director of the center, leading the Sacred Circle Dance for Peace in the Mideastern dance “Misirlou.”