Last Friday, Nov. 11, Idyllwild Arts Academy’s Visual Arts program held an opening reception for this year’s Visual Arts Student Theme Show, “Identity.” Students submit candidate themes each year; teachers then narrow the field to three on which students vote. The works are thus conceived and completed in about two months. The show’s statement lays…
Editor’s note: The correspondent has worked with David Pelham for many years, first as guitar teacher and then helping him with his compositions for the guitar, and has been to Paracho, Mexico, with him. At 2 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 13, Idyllwild’s “Art of the Guitar” concert series will resume. This year’s concert will feature Alberto…
Ultra endurance runners from across the country gathered in Idyllwild Saturday, Oct. 29, for the second-annual San Jacinto 50k trail race. The course covered 34 miles of rugged terrain including (with intervening descents) over 10,000 feet of elevation gain. The race was again organized by desert physician and running enthusiast Alex Charmoz and his wife…
This Monday, the new owners of Silver Pines Lodge held a ribbon cutting with the help of Idyllwild Rotary and a special appearance by former owner Chris Perault. Anjali and Rajiv Panchal, or “Raj and Anji” as Idyllwilders have come to know them, created a festive atmosphere combining traditional fall colors with hints of Diwali,…
The votes have been tallied and the recipient of the 2022 Ernie Maxwell Community Spirit Award is biologist Jon King. The award is given to recognize those who have demonstrated a tangible, perhaps physical, effect on the community. The honor is given to an individual or group who represents EMax’s spirit of community and volunteerism….
San Diego mother of three Vera Nakova Ortiz had an eventful Labor Day weekend. Her long weekend in the San Jacinto Mountains with her children nearly turned to tragedy when her son Alex was bitten by a rattlesnake outside the house where they were staying. The boy is fine now, and Vera was so impressed…
Spirit Mountain Retreat will host a free event from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, that the organizers, headed by Christina Nordella and her Mother Earth Healing Center (MEHC), are calling Idyllstock. The intent is to bridge the generations between Woodstock and what is called “Gen C.” Gen C has picked up two definitions, the…
From 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 8, the public is invited to the fourth of six “mental hygiene” workshops to be conducted at Town Hall. This week’s facilitator is Kent Weishaus, licensed social worker. Weishaus’s program is titled “Feel Like You Need a Referee for the Committee in Your Head? Inner Conflicts and…
Dominique Valenzuela is co-owner, with her fiáncé Kevin Hernandez, of Wild Rides, also known as Idy Wild Rides. They have a small office downtown just north of Harmony Monument where they rent electric bicycles and have been doing a lot of that in the few weeks they have been operating. TC: “When did you open?”…
From 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 1, the Idyllwild Community Mental Hygiene Workshop Series continues at Town Hall with Cara Wilkerson, a licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT). Her workshop is titled “Depression and Anxiety in Childhood, Adolescence and Adulthood: Effects on Relationships with Self, Others and Community.”The series is a project of…
