The sixth-annual Lemon Lily Festival begins Thursday, July 9, with the increasingly popular and favorite Lemon Lily Launch and the Taste of Idyllwild. Then the weekend, Saturday and Sunday, July 11 and 12, is filled with special events for children and adults. The festival was started to honor a once very common native flower in…
For newcomers to the Hill, American Independence Day, the Fourth of July, is Idyllwild’s most iconic holiday. Beginning with the 14th-annual Idyllwild Rotary Club-sponsored parade that starts at 10 a.m., the Fourth in Idyllwild is quintessentially small-town America at its best — 75 parade entries, the American Legion Post 800 Color Guard, Smokey Bear, Santa…
Artist Linda Lauderbaugh does it all – commercial displays, murals, fine art, sculptures, garden art and her current favorite, art using recycled glass. She and husband Rene Eram recently opened their gallery, “Over the Rainbow,” on North Circle Drive, featuring a spectrummed mosaic of Lauderbaugh’s art. A San Jose native, Lauderbaugh studied painting and communication…
Soroptimist club honors local women, gets new member
The Idyllwild Community Fund Advisory Committee is throwing a party and everyone is invited. Enjoy a fine wine bar, craft beer by local brewer Don Put, appetizers, desserts and music, from classical to jazz, including Idyllwild’s dean of jazz Marshall Hawkins, with Jac and Luca Jacaruso and Two t’ Suite, featuring Juliana Buffum Holmes and…
By Sally Hedberg Special to the Town Crier Beginning with an opening live painting demonstration at 6:30 p.m., Sunday, June 28 and culminating with an entertaining Native American Foods Chef Cook Off and the Mt. Cahuilla Bird Singers at 7:00 p.m., Friday, July 3, the week-long festival has daily lectures centering on traditional and…
Circumstances have changed since Eduardo Santiago, founder of the Idyllwild Authors Series, announced this season, the fifth, would be the last. Local bibliophiles can now rejoice. Santiago is considering subsequent seasons for a number of reasons. “I was a part timer when that decision was announced,” he said. “Now, with Mark’s [Mark Davis, Santiago’s husband]…
The Art Alliance of Idyllwild’s 2012 Artist of the Year, Kathy Harmon-Luber, is exhibiting her photography “Dress: Whispers” at Artspresso Art Gallery. Opening reception is from 4 to 8 p.m. Saturday, June 27. The exhibit runs though August. Of her work, Kathy said, “‘Dress: Whispers’ is all about a rare and fleeting moment of beauty,…
Idyllwild is a dancing town. The weather has been blistering hot. How fitting then that Lisa Haley and The Zydekats open the 16th season of the Idyllwild Summer Concert Series with heat lightning and thunder rumbles of joyous musical contagion. Starting at 7 p.m. Thursday, July 2, Haley and her Kats launch into their infectious…
Pamela Jordan, Idyllwild Arts Foundation president, announced that Mark Davis will join the Idyllwild Arts administration in a new position, director of Programs. Davis leaves a 24-year career at University of California Los Angeles in communications and marketing, with broad-based skill sets and areas of expertise that match the growing needs of the Idyllwild Arts…
