INK marks Banned Books Week with series of events


Last week the students of the Idyllwild Arts Academy’s Wylld Arts Chamber Orchestra began a collaboration with conductor Co Boi Nguyen, conductor of the University of Redlands Orchestra. The group of 11 students works together as a conductorless ensemble and is arranging the third movement of Brahms’ Second Symphony for the Music Department Showcase on…
Cultural anthropologist Melinda Niekum will give a presentation at the Idyllwild Library about the Silk Road trade route Tuesday, Oct. 27, at 5 p.m. The Silk Road was a trade route running west to east from Samarkand in present-day Uzbekistan to Turpan (formerly Turkistan) in China, then south to Delhi in India. Niekum explained to…
On Saturday mornings, a white tent appears on North Circle as the town wakes. Almost Heaven, a pop-up bakery, isn’t a storefront yet. It’s a window. Miss it, and it’s gone. Idyllwild sees its share of weekend ventures — operations that crest the hill with the tourists and disappear by dusk. That pattern is part…...
The artists formerly known as Old Tyme Radio –– now the Third Monday Players –– will present two one-act plays on February 16 at Middle Ridge Winery. Director Mick Lynch offers these notes. “Here We Are tells the story of a 1920s or 30s just-married couple, taking a train to New York City with a…
Larry Kawano will provide an overview of the science of our warming globe during a talk at Spirit Mountain Retreat on February 4. Kawano has shared his notes for the presentation with the Town Crier, allowing our readers a preview. Kawano majored in physics at Cornell University, and received a doctorate from the University of…...
Those who ventured downtown this last weekend saw quite a few visitors up and down North Circle and in local restaurants. Chris Perrault gave us some numbers form the Visitors Center and the IAHS Museum: “We had 167 visitors on Sunday at the Historical Museum and 100 visitors at the Visitor Center on Saturday. (The…