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CONCERT HALL GROUNDBREAKING: Bruce Ryan, Building and Grounds Committee chair; Bill Lowman, past Idyllwild Arts president; Faith Raiguel, immediate past board chair; Pamela Jordan, Idyllwild Arts president; Lillian Lovelace, Board of Governors and Buzz Holmes, campaign co-chair, pose for a photo and sing some songs Saturday during the Groundbreaking Celebration of the William M. Lowman Concert Hall. Photo by Jenny Kirchner

Dr. Peter Bryant, research professor, School of Biological Sciences, University of California, Irvine, is the next guest speaker in the Idyllwild Community Center’s Speaker Series, and he is fond of and a great admirer of spiders, both for their building skills and their usefulness within terrestrial food webs. He noted that spiders are efficient controllers…
The culmination of Idyllwild Arts’ annual week-long Native American Arts Festival will be, for the first time, a Native American Fashion Show at 7 p.m. Friday, July 5, in the Idyllwild Arts Foundation Theatre. The show’s producer, Dr. Jessica Metcalfe, assembled 10 of the top Native American designers for the show. A Turtle Mountain Chippewa,…
By Idyllwild Arts AcademyContributed The success of last summer’s One World. One Idyllwild. (https://www.idyllwildarts.org/oneworldoneidyllwild/) global showcase of the citizen artists of Idyllwild Arts has inspired a new podcast series. Hosted by Idyllwild Arts Foundation President Pamela Jordan, the series will feature interviews with thought- leaders, creatives, influencers and changemakers from around the world.Jordan’s guest on…
The Art Alliance of Idyllwild continues its mission of keeping art vitally alive in Idyllwild with its annual judged art show from Friday, May 20, to Sunday, May 22. Appropriately titled “Front and Center,” the show features adjudicated art in four categories — 2D, Wearable Art, Photography and Digital Art, and 3D. Judging the show…
“The Adventures of Tom Sawyer,” in Spanish, was what started Eduardo Santiago on his career path. “I was confined in bed for two months with hepatitis when I was 7,” said Santiago remembering his boyhood in Cuba. “It felt like two years.” The gift of the book from his uncle not only helped Santiago through…
Stuart Eberhardt and his fiancé Alicia Barry, along with friend and partner David Brown and friend Chef Brandy Iniguez, are “working our hearts out,” said Eberhardt, toward the opening of Golden Nugget Bar & Grill in the near future. The friend team have a unified vision for the Golden Nugget, which is being set up…