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buddha2 — Peter Buhl, in front of his Funky Bazaar, where David Roy’s wood-carved Buddha now resides. At rest photo by John Drake

Buddha is towed up North Circle Drive from property across from the Idyllwild Community Center site on Highway 243 last week. Tow photo by Halie Wilson

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Visual arts theme show returns unmasked
ByDavid Jerome November 15, 2022December 29, 2022 Reading Time: 5 minutes

Last Friday, Nov. 11, Idyllwild Arts Academy’s Visual Arts program held an opening reception for this year’s Visual Arts Student Theme Show, “Identity.” Students submit candidate themes each year; teachers then narrow the field to three on which students vote. The works are thus conceived and completed in about two months. The show’s statement lays…

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James Bachmann, the art of dreaming
By November 14, 2018 Reading Time: 3 minutes

Fifteen-year-old Idyllwild resident James Bachmann is preparing to open his own gallery on North Circle Drive. The gallery will showcase James’ paintings, as well as the art of other young artists. And James will helm the gallery as host and proprietor during the hours it is open. Asked why he is undertaking this venture at…

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Mark Davis joins Idyllwild Arts as director of Programs: Leaves 24 year career at UCLA
By June 24, 2015January 22, 2016 Reading Time: 4 minutes

Pamela Jordan, Idyllwild Arts Foundation president, announced that Mark Davis will join the Idyllwild Arts administration in a new position, director of Programs. Davis leaves a 24-year career at University of California Los Angeles in communications and marketing, with broad-based skill sets and areas of expertise that match the growing needs of the Idyllwild Arts…

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John Newman: new Jazz in the Pines chair
By August 12, 2015February 5, 2016 Reading Time: 4 minutes

Jazz in the Pines weekend begins Friday with the delicious and entertaining Patrons Dinner. On Saturday and Sunday, Strawberry Valley is subsumed in clouds of wonderful and special music — jazz, a truly American genre. This year, the 22nd Jazz in the Pines also introduces something new, but not the performers. In 2015, Idyllwild Arts…

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Community helps Mayor Max celebrate his birthday
By January 17, 2013May 9, 2013 Reading Time: 2 minutes

Mayor Max celebrated his 12th birthday with about 100 of his closest friends, human and four-legged, on Sunday afternoon at the Nature Center. Many people brought their dogs to help Max celebrate and even the Nature Center’s bunny showed up to wish him well. Max greeted people and posed for pictures all through the festivities.

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Four Chaplains with Logan Creighton
By October 6, 2016 Reading Time: 1 minute

The Friends of the Idyllwild Library will present another in their cultural and informational monthly series at 3 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 12, in the Idyllwild Library Community Room. Logan Creighton will be performing an historical reenactment of the story of the Four Chaplains. On Feb. 3, 1943, a German submarine torpedoed the SS Dorchester, an…

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