
Photo by Tom Kluzak


Photo by Thom Wallace

Photo by Tom Pierce


Photo courtesy Soboba Casino

Photo by Tom Kluzak

PHOTOS: Music, birds and spring in the air
By Idyllwild Town Crier
The Idyllwild Master Chorale presented “Nocturnes” Saturday evening, April 1, at the Idyllwild Arts’ Lowman Concert Hall. Dwight Holmes conducted the chorale, which was accompanied by Edwin Hansen. The first piece was Franz Joseph Haydn’s “Missa Brevis Sancti Joannis de Deo.” Later, they put music to poems from a variety of authors.








By Ann SmithReporter There is literally a new game in town! Longtime resident Jenny Kirchner and partner Nicole Smith-Merry will be opening Gidget’s Game Room Friday, July 2. In the past, the space housed a video store. As it happens, Kirchner is a former journalist and photographer for the Idyllwild Town Crier. She learned much…
The Town Crier asked families to share the creative projects they’d been working on while staying home. Here are some of the submissions sent in, including the short story “Snow Day.” Snow Day By Indigo Dagnall, 10 years oldContributed Ring, ring, ring, ring. Ugh, time to get up. I reached out my arm to…
Easter weekend in Idyllwild won’t be too hot and won’t be too cold. It will be just right — trees blossoming, daffodils coming up all over town and the village rolling out its gracious hospitality with perfect mountain springtime weather. Easter Sunday is the culmination of Lent and Holy Week, beginning with Palm Sunday and…
Idyllwild harpist Christian Chalifour is hosting an ongoing small orchestra rehearsal group from 10 a.m. to noon Tuesdays at Idyllwild Center for Spiritual Living on Ridgeview Drive in The Courtyard. He is seeking any string players (violin, viola, cello or bass) who perhaps haven’t played their instruments in a while, and would like to join…
‘Gods and Monsters’ a collaborative and multi-media production Three Idyllwild Arts Academy faculty members are performing a multi-disciplinary and collaborative production, “Gods and Monsters,” written by Dr. Jeannette Louise Yaryan, composer, pianist, arranger and author, that will be presented in Pasadena. Joining Yaryan are Marshall Hawkins (jazz faculty) and David Reid-Marr (visual arts chair). “It…
NOTE: Due to heavy snow last week, this event has been rescheduled for Wednesday, Feb. 29 and will still be held at the Silver Pines Lodge. Although local historian Bob Smith is an accomplished writer, in his upcoming appearance for the Idyllwild Community Recreation Council’s (ICRC) popular Speaker Series, he is trusting that pictures can…