
Photo by John Drake
Photo: Autumn Equinox celebration
By
Michael Madrigal leads the ceremony celebrating the Autumnal Equinox in the gardens of Spirit Mountain Retreat. Among the crowd of Idyllwild locals was the featured choral local group Local Color (sitting).

The Idyllwild Cinema-Fest returns invigorated for its fourth year, with new features designed to seal its steady progress toward becoming a major U.S. showcase for independent filmmakers. New venues, more films and film categories, expanded filmmaker submission processes, an upgraded website featuring online audience film previews and voting (Viewers Choice) in addition to links to…
The Idyllwild Arts Academy jazz combo took first place for the second consecutive year at the prestigious Berklee College of Music High School Jazz Festival, now in its 44th year …
More to the mathematics of music than the beat “Musical form is close to mathematics — not perhaps to mathematics itself, but certainly to something like mathematical thinking and relationship,” observed 20th century Russian composer Igor Stravinsky. “Music is the pleasure the human soul experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting,”…
A prolific inventor, a Grammy award-winning musician, a former child star turned thoughtful memoirist, a metalworker who brings together art and science, a sought-after designer and speaker, and a writer of stylish dystopias will discuss what they have in common at the Oct. 19 to 20 Idyllwild Arts Academy Alumni/Family Weekend and Open House. What…
The debut of foreign films as a new category at Idyllwild CinemaFest 2013 is a sign of the increasing breadth of programming in the festival’s fourth year. Although the list of films selected won’t be public until Dec. 15, ICF Chairman Phil Calderone knows two particularly striking films will definitely screen — from Russia, “Siberie…