
Photo by John Drake


Photo by John Drake

Photo by Gallagher Goodland
PHOTOS: Last week in Idyllwild …
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Idyllwild resident Darien Martus, independent recording artist and member of the Recording Academy and American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, is under consideration for two Grammy awards — one for best pop vocal album, “Side Trip,” and a second for best pop duo performance, “Something Comes Along,” a gospel pop piece with collaboration from…
Bert Upson is a lucky man. He recounts how instinct and fortune saved him on multiple occasions on 9/11 in his book “On a Clear Day” (Thunderbird Press 2012). He escaped the South Tower of the World Trade Center in the last express elevator to the ground floor minutes after the first plane hit the…
See fourth graders dancing Flash Dance and the Limbo; hear Autumn Detzel sing “Over the Rainbow,” and listen to talented middle school instrumentalists …
David JeromeCorrespondent The Idyllwild Arts Academy Film Department has until now held its annual showcase of student work in the spring, at the end of the academic year. Students have watched as their colleagues in music, dance, theater and visual arts present their works, and had to wait their turn. With the pandemic, even that…
The Associates of the Idyllwild Arts Foundation (IAF) celebrated its 55th anniversary by hosting the annual Holiday Dinner Party Saturday evening, Dec. 16, at Nelson Dining Hall on campus. The Associates have been supporting arts education and Idyllwild Arts since 1968. This event continued that tradition when Associates President Michael Slocum presented IAF President Pamela…
The 10th-annual Idyllwild International Festival of Cinema will present its sixth-annual Children’s Film Festival. The CFF is the brainchild of Andrea Charles, IIFC filmmaker liaison. “This year’s films are amazing. We have four animated films and all are so well done,” she said. “There’s also a short film that is a spoof of ‘Superman.’” In…