‘Deaf Republic’ to make itself heard on April 22 The hearing-impaired poet Ilya Kaminsky’s new book, “Deaf Republic” (Graywold Press, 2019), speaks truth in order to create what The New Yorker calls “a republic of conscience.” He’ll raise his voice on behalf of truth and conscience in the Fireside Room in Nelson Dining Hall on the Idyllwild Arts campus, on April 22. Poets can…

Jazz in the Pines (JITP) has been a popular event in Idyllwild for over two decades. Until last year, many came to the mountains to enjoy the amazing world of jazz while perusing the many vendors and dancing areas that were available for all attendees on the scenic Idyllwild Arts Academy (IAA) campus.  However, after…

“Fiddler’s Journey to the Big Screen,” a new documentary about the making of the musical “Fiddler on the Roof,” will be screened at the Rustic Theater at 3 p.m. Saturday, June 18. An informal Q and A session with Fiddler cast member and longtime Idyllwilder Michèle Marsh, who played the middle of Tevye’s three marriageable…

Sweet and swinging standards from the Great American Songbook Vocalist Lauren Koval and the Paul McDonald Sextet, next at the Idyllwild Summer Concert Series, will serve up swinging and sultry jazz and pop standards from the Great American Songbook. Jazz is legacy and lineage — an illustrious line of singers, bandleaders and instrumentalists whose music…

In a city where 20-somethings are botoxed and 30-somethings routinely get “a little work done,” and whose dominant industry is peddling our youth-obsessed, airbrushed culture to the rest of the world, what is a woman of a certain age to do? Seek out like-minded people and collaborate! The Old Broads are a group of Los…