
2022 in Review
By Idyllwild Town Crier

Idyllwild Arts Academy’s 2020 Student Showcase is happening on March 4 at Rancho Mirage Library, catering to the Idyllwild Arts family of supporters and their friends in the desert cities. The art school’s fashion-themed, hour-long event will showcase the works of more than 40 students across all seven of the school’s disciplines. Susan Stein, creative…
Idyllwild Arts Academy (IAA) debuts its spring 2024 off-site studentexhibition with a reception Friday, May 3. Students will show their workonce again to the desert audience in a reception from 4 to 7 p.m. thatday at Melissa Morgan Fine Art Gallery, 73-660 El Paseo, Palm Desert. At6 p.m., IAA songwriting students will perform their originalcompositions at a free…
Gina Genis signs Volume 2 of “Everybody and Their Mother,” environmental portraits of Idyllwild people, at Cafe Aroma Saturday afternoon.
The Idyllwild Area Historical Society, a rich repository of Hill history, holds its annual ice cream social on the IAHS grounds from noon to 2 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 3. Although one visits the IAHS to sample things old, longtime IAHS volunteer Bob Smith assures the public the ice cream will be deliciously new. “It’s a…
The Idyllwild Lemon Lily Festival, July 13 and 14, enters its fourth year faced with germination challenges. Propagating the lily from native seeds is a time-consuming and difficult job that takes years to consummate. Growing the festival itself is no less difficult. Both take a core of dedicated volunteers that expands as the festival grows…
Called a “sublime state of hilarity” by New York Magazine, “Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike,” a Tony Award-winning comedy by Christopher Durang, opens at 7 p.m. Friday, July 25, at the Caine Learning Center, 54835 Pine Crest Ave. It continues at 7 p.m. Saturday July 26, Friday, Aug. 1, Saturday, Aug. 2 and…