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Last week the students of the Idyllwild Arts Academy’s Wylld Arts Chamber Orchestra began a collaboration with conductor Co Boi Nguyen, conductor of the University of Redlands Orchestra. The group of 11 students works together as a conductorless ensemble and is arranging the third movement of Brahms’ Second Symphony for the Music Department Showcase on…
Cultural anthropologist Melinda Niekum will give a presentation at the Idyllwild Library about the Silk Road trade route Tuesday, Oct. 27, at 5 p.m. The Silk Road was a trade route running west to east from Samarkand in present-day Uzbekistan to Turpan (formerly Turkistan) in China, then south to Delhi in India. Niekum explained to…
On Saturday mornings, a white tent appears on North Circle as the town wakes. Almost Heaven, a pop-up bakery, isn’t a storefront yet. It’s a window. Miss it, and it’s gone. Idyllwild sees its share of weekend ventures — operations that crest the hill with the tourists and disappear by dusk. That pattern is part…...
The artists formerly known as Old Tyme Radio –– now the Third Monday Players –– will present two one-act plays on February 16 at Middle Ridge Winery. Director Mick Lynch offers these notes. “Here We Are tells the story of a 1920s or 30s just-married couple, taking a train to New York City with a…
Larry Kawano will provide an overview of the science of our warming globe during a talk at Spirit Mountain Retreat on February 4. Kawano has shared his notes for the presentation with the Town Crier, allowing our readers a preview. Kawano majored in physics at Cornell University, and received a doctorate from the University of…...
Those who ventured downtown this last weekend saw quite a few visitors up and down North Circle and in local restaurants. Chris Perrault gave us some numbers form the Visitors Center and the IAHS Museum: “We had 167 visitors on Sunday at the Historical Museum and 100 visitors at the Visitor Center on Saturday. (The…
The Town Crier recently visited Garner Ranch to meet Ted Johnson, who along with wife Meg stewards the longest operating cattle ranch in the San Jacinto Mountains. To provide some background for that interview, the Town Crier has taken a dive into our own archives and sources at the Idyllwild Area Historical Society to bring…...
The Art Alliance of Idyllwild held their first event of the new year on Saturday January 17 at Town Hall. Ther was a show of member work, with prizes in several categories, snacks and beverages, and music by Monica Sierras with her uke. Jolene Paige, Alliance board member explained that these art works were the…...
The Town Crier sat down with Chris Bayer, proprietor of Black Mountain Coffee Roasters, at his new location in the basement of the Owl Pine shop. Bayer opened his first location, in Oakwood Village, now known as Forest Haven, in 2017. The Owl Pine’s basement seems an unlikely spot for a coffee house, but Bayer…...
Idyllwild’s free Sumer Concert Series continues tonight, July 17 with End of the Innocence and openers The Auroras. End of the Innocence is presently on a national tour titled “Eagle Wings and More.” Their Manager, Penny Green, told us that their show includes material from their tribute to the music of songwriters Don Henly and…
