


Photo by Gallagher Goodland

Photo by Gallagher Goodland
PHOTOS: Last week in Idyllwild May 21, 2015
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Photos of events and goings on last week.




Award-winning Mohican composer Brent Michael Davids (wearing the top hat), taught four local native American youth how to compose a string quartet, which was played by a 12-piece ensemble Friday at Idyllwild Arts.
American Legion Post 800 in Idyllwild observes Veterans Day on Tuesday, Nov. 11. Originally called Armistice Day, it celebrated the end of hostilities at 11 a.m., Nov. 11, in “The Great War” or “The War to End All Wars.” The optimism generated in 1918 by the signing of an armistice proved short lived. Twenty-one years…
Ken Dahleen has inked Fritz Coleman to do stand-up on the deck of Uncle B’s Smokin’ Bar-b-que. Coleman’s Saturday, July 9, appearance kicks off a comedy series Dahleen plans to hold throughout the summer. Coleman appears in two shows, one at 7 p.m. and one at 9 p.m. Coleman previously regaled Idyllwild audiences emceeing a…
Rebekah Louisa Smith, Ph.D., “The Film Festival Doctor,” could have used her doctorate from the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, to teach. Instead she carved a niche career as a matchmaker – marrying films to particular international film festivals. She recommended three films for screening at the sixth year of Stephen Savage’s Idyllwild International Festival of…
On Sunday, Roger Bates and Barbara Rayliss perform the night’s theme song “Let Me Entertain You” to start off Stratford Players Black Tie Bash, which thanked supporters and patrons of the theater company at the Caine Center.
Idyllwild Arts Academy bassoonist Preston Atkins, who was featured in last week’s Town Crier, is a semifinalist in The Music Center’s 34th annual Spotlight program, a free performing arts competition, scholarship and artistic development program for teens. The Los Angeles program recognizes and rewards all participants throughout the competition with a range of benefits such…