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Friday Café Aroma hosted a night of “The Dating Game,” based on the former ABC television series from the 1960s to1980s. The bachelor (left) asks the four bachelorettes questions in order to decide whom to ask on a date.

The longest-running, community-wide sporting event on the hill — the annual 5K/10K Run Walk — will be on Saturday, Aug. 24. The Idyllwild Race Committee moved the event from its early June date to Aug. 24 due to the limited Highway 74 pilot car hours at that time. The start times are 5K at 7:15…
The Idyllwild Arts Alumni Show opened Friday at the Parks Exhibition Center. The exhibit runs through March 2 …
Idyllwild Arts Academy held its annual Black History Month Concert Saturday night in the William M. Lowman Concert Hall on campus. The hall was filled to capacity with jazz fans, as well as students, faculty and staff. “Afro-American Symphony” by William Grant Still and special performances by Seahawk MoJO (Modern Jazz Orchestra) featuring music from Duke Ellington, Thelonious Sphere Monk and Daniel Jackson rounded out the evening. At left: Black History Month Concert Founder, Conductor, Arranger and Composer Marshall Hawkins (right) watches with the orchestra as the percussionists and traditional dancing take to the stage before intermission. Above: Idyllwild Arts Academy music major Sumi Onoe performed as the piano soloist with the Idyllwild Arts Orchestra, opening the Black History Month Concert with “Rhapsody in Blue” by George Gershwin. Sumi and the orchestra received a standing ovation for the performance.
This Thursday, Aug. 25, the Marines are coming to Idyllwild. A tradition in Idyllwild dating back even before the present Summer Concert Series (ISCS), the 1st Division Marine Corps Band will perform a concert of patriotic and American wind ensemble music for the audience at the Butterfield Amphitheater. The concerts are free to all, supported…
When the occasion of the Idyllwild Public Library’s centennial celebration was fast approaching, the people of the Mountain Quilters of Idyllwild (MQI) decided on symbolic celebratory mementos of the event. Their efforts created not one, but two beautiful examples of their specific craftwork to honor both the children and adult readers of the community. Both…
Celtic sessions, informal gatherings of musicans playing together, are becoming a tradition at the Creek House. The next session will be Jan 25., and all musicians are welcome to sit in.