Still growing, Savage says The ninth Idyllwild International Festival of Cinema will be March 6 to 11. The IIFC has moved from its original timing in early January to March. This will be a permanent switch, according to festival founder Stephen Savage. Several reasons contributed to the change in timing, according to Savage. Weather was…
A week of master classes in Miami and chance to become Presidential Scholar Idyllwild Arts Academy senior music student Ben Champion is one of 171 finalists, out of a pool of 8,000 applicants nationwide, chosen in the 2018 National YoungArts Foundation’s annual search for top emerging young artists. Winners are chosen through a blind adjudication…
Dear Santa, I have been as good as a two-year-old can be. For Christmas I would like chicken nuggets. From, Jameson Jones (age 2) Dear Santa, I’ve been extra good at school. I would like an Ariel Princess Pad for Christmas and a pink sparkly sweater. I love you, Santa. From, Emily Jones (age 4)…
The Art Alliance of Idyllwild held a “Winter Solstice” Art Show last Saturday with judged, themed art and 150 pieces of artwork by 48 artists. A winter wonderland gallery was set up in the Town Hall all within a matter of a few hours. Christine Dodd, judge for the event, commented “I had a hard…
For Pine Cove resident Diane Burt, music is and has always been a family business. Daughter of Alfred Shaddick Burt, whose Christmas carols are famous worldwide, Diane’s entry into show business would have come as no surprise to her parents. Her mother, Anne Shortt Burt, was a singer and her father was a composer. Her…
Southern Californians dream of a white Christmas as they move about in a palm-tree-studded holiday landscape. The decorations are there — giant snowflakes, Santa in a sleigh, Christmas trees on street corner lots, but the temperatures are warm and snow is out of the question. But in Idyllwild, in most years, a Currier and Ives…
At the end of a phenomenally successful year with several headliner events, the Art Alliance of Idyllwild will hold a ‘Winter Solstice Art Show’ December 16 at Town Hall from noon to 8 pm. Christine Dodd, publisher of two magazines — Palm Springs Art and Laguna Beach Art — will judge the new, one-day show-and-sale. …
The Art Alliance of Idyllwild is offering a free portfolio consultation service to all local students who want to make their visual portfolio professionally competitive when entering competitions, applying to Idyllwild Arts or other schools, and/or for job applications. For those applying for scholarships to Idyllwild Arts, the deadline is Jan. 17, 2018. Applicants must…
“Following Breadcrumbs, Tales of a Rock and Roll Girl Child” Jamie Johnston, born into old Hollywood society, daughter of 40s and 50s era singer/movie actor Johnny Johnston and socialite real estate mother Shirley, could have become another spoiled child of privilege, content to coast. Instead she fiercely and courageously fought to create a strong and…
