
PHOTO BY JOEL FEINGOLD

PHOTO BY JOEL FEINGOLD
Around town photos
By Idyllwild Town Crier



By Art Conner Apropos of an overall, underlying theme for the second Fall Concert offering of the Idyllwild Arts Academy Orchestra Saturday night at Lowman Concert Hall, both the Orchestral Director Daniel Bassin and Music Department Chair Kai Potts-Smith presented the heading “The Healing Power of Music — Vibrations Across Generations” at the top of…
The Idyllwild Arts Festival Choir performed Robert Schumann’s “Zigeunerleben, op. 29, no.3” at the Idyllwild Arts Theatre on Saturday, Aug. 13.
In the period allotted here on the Hill as a respite from that sort of winter weather bordering on the unbearable, there are still advantages to be given and taken in return. Such an opportunity arises with the Idyllwild Arts Academy’s annual winter concert offering, as is usually scheduled prior to or during the holiday…
Mary KnabIdyllwild-area resident I am obsessed with all things written about the Middle Ages in England. I have probably read most of the novels written about the famed War of the Roses. I read both fiction and nonfiction about this time in world history. So, when a new novel appears in my Kindle recommendations, I…
After a well-attended successful launch of his third annual Idyllwild Author Series, Eduardo Santiago next presents Reyna Grande, author of “The Distance Between Us” (Atria Books, 2012). Grande recounts in her memoir how, when she was two, her family life was devastated by the departure of first her father, then her mother, as undocumented immigrants…
The Idyllwild International Festival of Cinema returns for the fifth time next month. From Jan. 7 to 11, festival participants will once again be offered a panoply of dozens of films — from features to documentaries to shorts. “We really focused on quality this year,” said Idyllwild Director Steve Savage. “Our standards are through the…