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Idyllwild Arts dance recital
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Retired Riverside County Sheriff’s Department Commander John Metroka Jr. has always been a writer. As a child, he and his older sister Martha created fantasy stories. Later, even while serving in RCSD, he wrote short stories for his own pleasure. And professionally, he wrote many training documents and protocols for the sheriff’s department and for…
Artist Richelle Gribble spent her childhood in Idyllwild. She attended Idyllwild School from kindergarten through eighth grade, then went to Idyllwild Arts Academy for high school. The arts have paved her way through her career so far, expanding her understanding of how she can share it with the masses. Gribble attended University of Southern California…
“Love Junkie” (Bloomsbury USA, 2008) may sound like a Motown pop song from the 60s. It’s not. It’s a hard-hitting, personally revealing memoir by Rachel Resnick. Reviewers characterize it as disturbing and even terrifying. Resnick appears with Idyllwild Authors Series founder and facilitator Eduardo Santiago at 2 p.m. Sunday, July 17, at B’s Mountain of…
Hamilton led some informative interpretive walks in the Idyllwild Nature Center forest during the Wildflower Festival over Memorial Day weekend …
Town Jazz, the three-day in town event serves up a bountiful menu of jazz designed to add additional hours of pleasure and entertainment to its venerable progenitor, Jazz in the Pines. Jazz luminaries from all over Southern California have answered the call of Idyllwild jazz icon Marshall Hawkins to play at Town Jazz. The Idyllwild…
By the Associates of the Idyllwild Arts FoundationContributed The Associates of the Idyllwild Arts Foundation’s Spotlight on Leadership presentation is at 10 a.m. Monday, Nov. 11. In the Idyllwild Arts campus’ Fireside Room in the Nelson Dining Hall — a comfortable setting — Marianne Kent-Stoll, vice president of educational programs, Heather Companiott, director of the…