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Tahquitz occupies a distinguished place in rock-climbing history. The rock-climbing portion of the Yosemite Decimal System of grading climbing routes was developed on Tahquitz in the 1950s. The grading system spread to Canada and the rest of the Americas. Ryan Strickland, physics and math teacher at Idyllwild Arts, learned to climb on Tahquitz after arriving…
Editor’s note: This is part two of this story. Part one ran last week. TC: It was time for another stage. That is this place, AudioWild? BP: That is kind of this. I’m the last original member of Throw the Goat, since the end of 2018. There really wasn’t a whole lot of explanation over…
Few people live in Idyllwild who can say they were actually born in Idyllwild. Many live here but are born in nearby hospitals or birthing centers. However, Tammy Fogle was born in Idyllwild with the help of midwives. “We moved around a lot,” Fogle explained. “I went to 15 schools before graduating from high school.”…
Ken Luber, one of the first American Film Institute fellows, is a writer and director with a long film and television career in Los Angeles. Since relocating to the Idyllwild area in 2003, Luber has continued to write. He has penned the novel “Match to the Heart,” a book of poetry “Everybody’s Shadow” and a…
For the 2012 Jazz in the Pines, Ray Goren, jazz guitarist, returned with his own group. Yes, a 12-year-old prodigy guitarist heads up his own jazz quartet. And they love him. “When he’s playing, he’s great,” exclaimed bass Jamie Silverstein. “I don’t think of him as a 12-year-old.” In 2011, Goren played a few…
Preston Atkins, 16, a senior bassoonist at Idyllwild Arts Academy (IAA) who hails from Cedar Falls, Iowa, is preparing for a number of concerto competitions. His bassoon teacher, Martin Kuuskmann, is professor of bassoon at the University of Denver Lamont School of Music, making the trek to Idyllwild once a month to work with IAA’s…