

Photo by Jenny Kirchner

Howard Cheng (right) gives Chelsea Sik a spin during the Idyllwild Arts’ Spring Fashion Show Friday night at Rush Hall on campus.
Photo by Jenny Kirchne
PHOTOS: Last week at Idyllwild Arts
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Idyllwild Arts Academy bassoonist Preston Atkins, who was featured in last week’s Town Crier, is a semifinalist in The Music Center’s 34th annual Spotlight program, a free performing arts competition, scholarship and artistic development program for teens. The Los Angeles program recognizes and rewards all participants throughout the competition with a range of benefits such…
Ephemera, a “vintage pop culture wonderland” on the second floor of the Fort, will host an event with live music from 3 p.m. Saturday, July 9. The theme is “Get Lit with Ephemera,” and at sundown, its new “authentic Vegas-style neon sign” on the side of the building will be lit.Los Angeles experimental artist and…
Nicole Picchiottino returns to her K-6 alma mater Nicole (Hoffman) Picchiottino, along with other first- and second-grade students at Idyllwild School, used to slide her lunchbox down the long hall from the cafeteria to the kindergarten classroom to see whose could go farther. “I’m sure I won occasionally,” said Picchiottino. “I’m very competitive.” The game…
The 2015 Jazz in Pines festival is still five months away, but planning, preparations and work have already begun. This year, the major change is behind the scenes as the Idyllwild Arts Academy assumes management of the Festival production from the Associates of the Idyllwild Arts Foundation. “There will be a lot of familiar faces…
The information tables were set up and ready to go at the MDP Shake Out! drill on Saturday morning …
Asked to summarize attendance and ticket sales for Idyllwild CinemaFest 2013, festival Chairman Phil Calderone cited stronger local sales but chilled off-Hill attendance and sales, largely due to weather. He noted the result was comparable attendance and sales figures from last year to this year. For each year but this, the festival has had less…