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Photos by Doris Jean Lombard

A rare bird, the Wilson’s Warbler, is a yellow flash against the green cedars. Its small size is evident when compared to the Manzanita berry in the water.

Early signs of fall were present as the leaves were already turning in August.

Above and below: Flashes of yellow and orange contrast against green foliage where several Western Tanagers visit Mountain Center for water.

One month after the devastating Mountain Fire, California Coffeeberry burnt stumps are already sprouting new growth.

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Festival film shot in Idyllwild
ByDavid Jerome March 15, 2022June 7, 2022 Reading Time: 5 minutes

Filmmaker Jennifer Kramer’s entry in this year’s Idyllwild International Festival of Cinema (IIFC) has a connection to Idyllwild, having been filmed here. Nominated in eight categories, the film showcases Kramer’s versatility as auteur: writing, directing, acting, composing and performing the score. Although passed over by this year’s judges, Kramer said, “just being nominated in eight…

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Harry Pickens interviews Marshall Hawkins
By March 10, 2016April 29, 2016 Reading Time: 4 minutes

Marshall Hawkins has played with some of the greatest names in jazz. He has taught at Idyllwild Arts for 30 years. He tells the story of jazz by loving its place in world music as a distinctly American art form, born in the black community. He tells the story of jazz by loving the individuality…

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Something of value for teens and 20-somethings to offer
By March 25, 2015December 4, 2015 Reading Time: 3 minutes

Kathy Sacher Wilson has a vision born of experience. With five children of her own, four of whom are now young adults, Wilson has long been connected to what she sees as an endemic Idyllwild problem — that many of Idyllwild’s youth and young adults don’t have a road map for their future or their…

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Reflections on 40 years at the Courtyard Gallery
ByIdyllwild Town Crier June 23, 2020June 30, 2020 Reading Time: 3 minutes

By Evan and Robin MillsContributed The pandemic has wrought hard times for the arts in the world at-large and in a beautiful little corner of it known as Idyllwild, our famous art town. Idyllwild’s Courtyard Gallery has been continuously operated since its founding in 1980 by artist Carol Mills, making it the longest-standing gallery…

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Idyllwild Arts presents ‘House of Bernarda Alba’
By October 11, 2017 Reading Time: 3 minutes

Federico Garcia Lorca’s final play explored taboo themes Idyllwild Arts Academy Theatre Department, in association with the World Languages Department, presents Spanish playwright Federico Garcia Lorca’s final play. In English, it is called “The House of Bernarda Alba,” and, inasmuch as the IAA production is bilingual, interspersing English and Spanish, it is advertised as “La…

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Fashion HELPs
By May 13, 2015January 15, 2016 Reading Time: 1 minute

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