Photos: This week in Idyllwild: January 21, 2016
![Idyllwild Arts models and designers line up at the end of the Winter Fashion Show Saturday night in Parks Exhibition Center on the Idyllwild Arts campus. Photo by Jenny Kirchner](https://idyllwildtowncrier.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/fashion-520x347.jpg)
Photo by Jenny Kirchner
![Idyllwild Arts held a first-time Intermester orchestra concert Saturday afternoon on campus. The students had four days to prepare and learn the three concert pieces, which they performed with grandeur.Photo by Jenny Kirchner](https://idyllwildtowncrier.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/orchestra-520x402.jpg)
![From the Netherlands, playing American folk music, Magali Michaut (left) with singing partner Brett Perkins, entertain diners at Café Aroma on Friday. They toured California with 10 shows in nine days. Photo by John Drake](https://idyllwildtowncrier.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/michaut-520x378.jpg)
![Mary Lehman speaks at the Idyllwild Library last Saturday about her experiences in Greece helping with the arriving Syrian refugees. Lehman used her prior medical training as an EMT to treat and help organize the efforts to save people arriving from Turkey to the Greek island of Lesbos.Photo by John Drake](https://idyllwildtowncrier.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/lehman-520x378.jpg)
![Susan Foster’s dog Dharma woke her up the night of Jan. 6 to go out to play. She loves the snow, as is evidenced by the what she did to it.Photo by Susan Foster](https://idyllwildtowncrier.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/dharma.jpg)
![Nearly a week after the snowstorm, Tahquitz Rock remains prominently dressed in white above Idyllwild.Photo by JP Crumrine](https://idyllwildtowncrier.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/snow.jpg)
In observance of the Independence Day holiday, the Palm Springs Aerial Tramway will open early on Thursday, July 4. The first tram car up on the holiday will be 8 a.m., the last tram car up will be 8 p.m. and the last tram car down will leave the Mountain Station at 9:45 p.m. Also,…
Kent and Jana Steele, parents of professional golfer Brendan Steele, were hosts to the New York Times on two days recently. Writer Karen Crouse met the Steeles in Maui during the Hyundai Tournament of Champions. She became intrigued by the notion of a PGA touring pro who grew up in a town with no golf…
The founding member of “Blood, Sweat and Tears,” Grammy Award winner, composer of music for film and television performed on Sunday night at Idyllwild Arts …
Brendan Steele posted a 6-under-par 70-71-72-69 — 282 at the Fortinet Championship in Truckee, California, on the PGA Tour last week to finish tied for 42nd place. The Idyllwild native posted 15 birdies against seven bogeys and a double while belting drives averaging 313 yards into 44% of the fairways. He hit 72% of the…
“I’ve committed my life to creating a delicious vegan culinary experience,” states Kelly Johnston-Gibson, founder of Plant Food Supper Club. “Before moving to Idyllwild, I was orchestrating organic, vegan, gourmet, multi-course, pop-up, ticketed dinners in LA and Orange County,” said Johnston-Gibson. Having no intention of relocating anywhere that did not host a natural-foods offering, Johnston-Gibson…
A prolific inventor, a Grammy award-winning musician, a former child star turned thoughtful memoirist, a metalworker who brings together art and science, a sought-after designer and speaker, and a writer of stylish dystopias will discuss what they have in common at the Oct. 19 to 20 Idyllwild Arts Academy Alumni/Family Weekend and Open House. What…