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PHOTOS: Last Week in Idyllwild
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The Ephemera vintage store that opened mid-August in the upstairs corner of The Fort and overlooks Idypark stems from passion, a vision and a bit of travel in between. Its owners, Samuel Markus and Jennifer Thorington, have been dreaming of opening their own vintage store for half a decade. They’ve finally made it a reality….
By Mary KnabIdyllwild-area resident Editor’s note: This column, to run occasionally, is writtten by new resident Mary Knab, a bibliophile. This book was offered free on my Kindle app, and it sounded like it was in my fiction wheelhouse, so I gave it a try. A pregnant woman 40,000 years ago, Rebaa is left alone…
“If you’re expecting ‘long hair’ music, nothing could be further from truth,” said Christian Chalifour, Desert Chamber Orchestra director. The orchestra with two soloists, Vanessa Sheldon, harpist, and Lawrence Spector, guitar, will be the next guests at the Idyllwild Summer Concert Series on Thursday, Aug. 1, at the Idyllwild Community Center site. Demonstrating Chalifour’s musical…
The Associates of Idyllwild Arts Foundation have raised scholarship money for Summer Program students and, later, Academy students from 1968 until the present. From then until now, they have raised just under $2.2 million. In 1993, three organizers — Barbara Wood, Lin Carlson and Marshall Hawkins — conceived the biggest project yet to raise scholarship…
The Associates of Idyllwild Arts Foundation’s next Spotlight on Leadership presentation is at 10 a.m. Monday, Jan. 8, at Rush Hall on campus. Assistant Head of School Dr. Jeanette Louise Yaryan, and a longtime member of the piano music faculty, will speak. Yaryan began performing and studying the piano at age 3, winning numerous awards,…
Modern dance legend Bella Lewitzky, 1996 National Medal of Arts recipient, built a career that eschewed then-prevailing standards. She crafted a dance career based in Southern California rather than in New York, the dance citadel of the period. She cofounded Dance Theatre in Los Angeles in 1946 as an interracial school and company that artistically…