


Photo by Peter Szabadi

Photo by Peter Szabadi





Photo courtesy the Sinnegens

Photo courtesy Charlene Chindlund
PHOTOS: This Week in Idyllwild: October 20, 2016
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Ken’s Big Band Staff returns to Idyllwild Thursday, Aug. 15. Led by Ken Dahleen, the creator and producer of the Idyllwild Summer Concert Series, the Big Band Staff will sweep you off your feet with luxurious harmonies and rhythms beyond 3/4. The heyday of big bands was the 1930s and 1940s. But they are neither…
This Thursday’s Idyllwild Arts Academy (IAA) Songwriting Concert, from 7:30 to 9 p.m., presents an excuse to mention an appointment that may have flown under the radar last fall: Kasaan Hammon’s promotion to assistant chair of IAA’s Music Department. Hammon has brought “exceptional efficiency and problem-solving skills” as well as “warmth and humor” to her…
Thornton Wilder’s “Our Town” was a sold out event at the Caine Learning Center for the three nights it played this weekend. Below, Chris Maxson, right, guides two visitors, Cathy Vasilev, left, from Los Angeles and Idyllwild resident Patty Kaplan, center, on a personal tour of her studio as part of the Art Alliance of Idyllwild Member Studio Tour.
The Hub and Siren Bicycles co-owner Mary Metcalf-Collier leads a basic bike maintenance workshop and demonstration at the shop Sunday during a ladies’ brunch, attended by about 20 local bike-loving women.
With “Chapatti,” Idyllwild Actors Theatre (IAT) brings a heartwarming Irish tale of older animal lovers finding each other to the Rustic Theatre. The title refers not to the delicious Indian flat bread, but to a man’s best friend, an adopted stray dog. The play, set in Dublin, has been described as a “deft mix of…