Halloween 2017 at the Idyllwild Brewpub
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Artist Colin Garth Smith talks about his work with Mike Ahern during the Saturday opening reception for his show at Honey Bunns & Joe Bakery …
60 years ago – 1956 Nearly 400 county educators, administrators and groups concerned with education held an all-day meeting on the campus of the Arts Foundation (now Idyllwild Arts). 55 years ago – 1961 Idyllwild’s reputation as a creative center got a boost from a new art factory. Idyllwild resident and artist Jon Gnagy, with…
Over the past weeks, the Classifieds section of the newspaper has run multiple help wanted ads. Layoffs occurred when the state went into lockdown. As businesses open back up, they are looking for staff to fill positions. In last week’s paper alone, there were nine help wanted postings. The week before that five companies had…
Gary Parton presented his ideas for an Idyllwild Lilac Festival to the Garden Club at its May 6 meeting. Parton is devoted to establishing Idyllwild as the lilac center of Southern California and the festival would be a celebration of lilacs. Over the past four years, he has organized the planting of more than 1,000…
For many years, the Idyllwild Arts Summer Program has been known as a gathering place for some of the country’s finest poets and writers. This year, summer faculty Amy Friedman, Samantha Dunn and Ed Skoog launched the first Writers Week, a cross-discipline conversation among poets, fiction and non-fiction writers, memoirists, essayists and screenwriters. “For years,…
The next speaker in the Idy Talks series is Au Jean Rhee, a junior in the Academy songwriting program. This year’s Idyllwild Community Center Speaker Series is called Idy Talks, noting the pairing between ICC and Idyllwild Arts Academy. Hailing from Seoul, Korea, Au Jean is a well-grounded musician and has the support of her…