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PHOTOS: Idyllwild Arts visual art show opening
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Harold Wherry returns to the Idyllwild Summer Concert Series with his Motown, R&B and soul band Blue Breeze. A favorite of ISCS audiences, especially the dancing contingent, Blue Breeze sends up a high-energy mix of horn-infused, percussion-driven dance music. If your ’60s and ’70s songbook includes hits of Stevie Wonder, Earth Wind and Fire, Al…
What is it that causes your eye to go to one person on stage rather that a host of others? Why do you want to watch that person instead of all the rest? Although the recent Idyllwild’s Got Talent spectacular delighted many, there was one person who everyone talked about afterward. Was this person an…
After suffering a debilitating stroke in 2014, retired registered nurse Dorothy Brooks had to choose. Unable to walk and severely challenged with balance issues, visual distortions, memory loss and speech impairment, Brooks decided she had to find her own way out of her disabilities. She chose adult coloring books. “I went home to color,” she…
Beginning this week, Idyllwild Arts is reviving the oral tradition of sharing and learning history. For each of the next four weeks, a different speaker will tell a story about the early years of the school and the creation of the Academy. The idea originated with Pamela Jordan, President, Idyllwild Arts Foundation, who arrived on…
Janie Oliver recently purchased Town Baker Cafe and renamed it The Sunflower. All of the employees remained on staff and Oliver is adding to the menu and expanding the lunch hour. I interviewed Oliver on her birthday at the restaurant. One of the menu additions is the vegan baking treats of local Callie Squires of…
Marshall Hawkins has had, by all accounts, a very eventful life, including touring with well-known entertainers and teaching students who would succeed in many aspects of life. The wisdom and grace he radiates certainly qualifies him to be Idyllwild’s ambassador-at-large. Therefore, when he says that his experience travelling to Tanzania with the Karimu Foundation was…