

Photo courtesy Idyllwild library


Photo by John Drake

Photo by Tom Pierce


Photo by John Drake
Spring and green welcomed over weekend
By Idyllwild Town Crier







Eduardo Santiago presents an exciting and varied lineup of authors for the third year of his popular Idyllwild Author Series. This May through July, the series will be held at Café Aroma, a change of venue from the previous two years. PEN Center has increased its funding to the series to include advertising and a…
Billed as Idyllwild’s largest art party, the Eye of the Artist event last Saturday did not disappoint. Town Hall was filled with art, artists, live music and art lovers. More than 60 artists donated their artwork either to the judged art show or the silent auction to offer art lovers more than 75 pieces of…
With the prospects of a glorious mountain sunset, unfazed by the smoke of distant fires tempered by light breezes, the yearly ritual of the inaugural concert of the newly formed Idyllwild Arts Academy Orchestra began with the usual necessities. The introduction of the proceedings by Music Department Chair Dr. Jeanette Louise Yaryan and of the…
The Crier sat down with Julia Graham at her new teaching studio, HilltopMusic Lab, in the Collective. Graham moved into the space just a fewweeks ago, but tells us that already, 45 students are taking lessons andlearning about music at Hilltop. Graham spent about a year giving lessons out of her home in Idyllwild,and taught…
This Monday, the new owners of Silver Pines Lodge held a ribbon cutting with the help of Idyllwild Rotary and a special appearance by former owner Chris Perault. Anjali and Rajiv Panchal, or “Raj and Anji” as Idyllwilders have come to know them, created a festive atmosphere combining traditional fall colors with hints of Diwali,…
Adam Schomer is the featured filmmaker for the 2015 Idyllwild International Festival of Cinema. Schomer is being recognized for his documentaries that both excite and reveal. An adventurous documentarian is who Schomer is now, but that’s not where he starts nor finishes. After graduating from Cornell in 1997, Schomer’s adventuring and risk-taking began to evolve. …