The Missoula Children’s Theatre returned to Idyllwild School last week to produce “Sleeping Beauty,” performed Friday and Saturday in the Idyllwild School gym with all of the cast except the Jester Idyllwild School students. The students auditioned Monday and performed less than a week later. Here (from left) are Andrea Rackley as “Spot,” Whitney Brennan Ward, the tour actor and director, as “Jester” Emma Righetti as “Sleeping Beauty,” Adam Smith as the “King,” Tegan White as the “Queen” and Peyton Manchee as the “Lady in Waiting.”Photo by John Drake
The Missoula Children’s Theatre returned to Idyllwild School last week to produce “Sleeping Beauty,” performed Friday and Saturday in the Idyllwild School gym with all of the cast except the Jester Idyllwild School students. The students auditioned Monday and performed less than a week later. Here (from left) are Andrea Rackley as “Spot,” Whitney Brennan Ward, the tour actor and director, as “Jester” Emma Righetti as “Sleeping Beauty,” Adam Smith as the “King,” Tegan White as the “Queen” and Peyton Manchee as the “Lady in Waiting.” Photo by John Drake

 

Timothy Verville conducts the Idyllwild Arts Academy Orchestra in Arvo Part’s “Wenn Bach Bienen gezüchtet hätte (If Bach Was a Bee Keeper)” at Sunday’s concert at the IAF Theatre on campus. The orchestra also performed Saturday night. Photo by becky Clark
Timothy Verville conducts the Idyllwild Arts Academy Orchestra in Arvo Part’s “Wenn Bach Bienen gezüchtet hätte (If Bach Was a Bee Keeper)” at Sunday’s concert at the IAF Theatre on campus. The orchestra also performed Saturday night.
Photo by becky Clark

 

Mountain Quilters of Idyllwild installed its 2016 officers at a Dec 8 holiday party at Buckhorn Camp. From left, Karen Doshier, treasurer; Carmen Curiel-Terrazas, president; Judy Lawler, secretary; and Dottie Vandiver and Sandi Copelin, co-vice presidents of programs. Not present was Penny Bottomly, vice president of membership. Photo by Diana Kurr
Mountain Quilters of Idyllwild installed its 2016 officers at a Dec 8 holiday party at Buckhorn Camp. From left, Karen Doshier, treasurer; Carmen Curiel-Terrazas, president; Judy Lawler, secretary; and Dottie Vandiver and Sandi Copelin, co-vice presidents of programs. Not present was Penny Bottomly, vice president of membership.
Photo by Diana Kurr

 

Out of about 600 entries, Kevin Browne and five others correctly guessed Dec. 11 as the first half-inch of snow in Idyllwild in the Town Crier’s annual Idyllwild Snow Guessing Contest. Browne’s name was chosen from a hat so he receives the100 Idyllwild shopping dollars to spend at any participating business: Fairway Market, Idyllwild Beauty Salon, Showtime Video, Muirs Mountain Realty, Spruce Moose, Prairie Dove, Mountain Chiropractic, Sky Island Natural Foods, Idyllwild Pharmacy, Idyllwild Massage, Candy Cupboard, Village Market and/or Idyllwild Town Crier & Visitors Center. Above, Browne, whose entry was made at Idyllwild Pharmacy, accepts the dollars from Town Crier employee Mandy Johnson.Photo by Becky Clark
Out of about 600 entries, Kevin Browne and five others correctly guessed Dec. 11 as the first half-inch of snow in Idyllwild in the Town Crier’s annual Idyllwild Snow Guessing Contest. Browne’s name was chosen from a hat so he receives the100 Idyllwild shopping dollars to spend at any participating business: Fairway Market, Idyllwild Beauty Salon, Showtime Video, Muirs Mountain Realty, Spruce Moose, Prairie Dove, Mountain Chiropractic, Sky Island Natural Foods, Idyllwild Pharmacy, Idyllwild Massage, Candy Cupboard, Village Market and/or Idyllwild Town Crier & Visitors Center. Above, Browne, whose entry was made at Idyllwild Pharmacy, accepts the dollars from Town Crier employee Mandy Johnson. Photo by Becky Clark

 

Idyllwild Arts Academy Theatre Department performed “The Importance of being Earnest” by Oscar Wilde last weekend. Working within the social conventions of late Victorian London, the comic play’s major themes are the triviality with which it treats institutions as serious as marriage, and the resulting satire of Victorian ways. Photo by Jenny Kirchner
Idyllwild Arts Academy Theatre Department performed “The Importance of being Earnest” by Oscar Wilde last weekend. Working within the social conventions of late Victorian London, the comic play’s major themes are the triviality with which it treats institutions as serious as marriage, and the resulting satire of Victorian ways.
Photo by Jenny Kirchner

 

The Idyllwild Actors Theatre performed “A Merry, Madcap Christmas” Friday and Saturday. Here, cast members pose for a portrait. From left, are Michèle Marsh, Suzanne Avalon, Howard Shangraw, Betty Anderson, Barbara Rayliss, Meg Wolf and Jacob Teel.Photo by Peter Szabadi
The Idyllwild Actors Theatre performed “A Merry, Madcap Christmas” Friday and Saturday. Here, cast members pose for a portrait. From left, are Michèle Marsh, Suzanne Avalon, Howard Shangraw, Betty Anderson, Barbara Rayliss, Meg Wolf and Jacob Teel. Photo by Peter Szabadi

 

The Art Alliance of Idyllwild opened its Pop Up Gallery in Village Lane Saturday with a joyous reception. Some of the attendees, from left, are Gary Glasheen (artist), Erin O’Neill (AAI vice president for membership), artists Patrick Barry and Julie Koppel, and Shanna Robb (AAI president). Photo by Peter Szabadi
The Art Alliance of Idyllwild opened its Pop Up Gallery in Village Lane Saturday with a joyous reception. Some of the attendees, from left, are Gary Glasheen (artist), Erin O’Neill (AAI vice president for membership), artists Patrick Barry and Julie Koppel, and Shanna Robb (AAI president).
Photo by Peter Szabadi

 

Comedian Skip Clark opens Comedy Night (Saturday, Dec. 12) at the Rustic Theatre.Photo by John Drake
Comedian Skip Clark opens Comedy Night (Saturday, Dec. 12) at the Rustic Theatre. Photo by John Drake

 

Kathy Lewis’s Little Critters Daycare participants and some of their mothers visited the Town Crier office on Tuesday to treat us all to some spirited Christmas Carols. It brightened our day. Photo by Halie Wilson
Kathy Lewis’s Little Critters Daycare participants and some of their mothers visited the Town Crier office on Tuesday to treat us all to some spirited Christmas Carols. It brightened our day.
Photo by Halie Wilson

 

While Chris Trout enjoys time in Hawaii, she said, “Ready to hit the waves in my outrigger canoe on the beach in Paia, Maui, but not without my Town Crier to show me the way.”Photo by Jay Adams
While Chris Trout enjoys time in Hawaii, she said, “Ready to hit the waves in my outrigger canoe on the beach in Paia, Maui, but not without my Town Crier to show me the way.” Photo by Jay Adams