Art & Culture

Jazz in the Pines, Art Alliance of Idyllwild, Idyllwild Arts and other arts and entertainment, theatre, live music and visual arts coverage. The most comprehensive arts and entertainment calendar covering the Idyllwild area.

Nature Center’s new ranger: Sonny Waldron

The Idyllwild Nature Center has a new ranger, Sonny Waldron. His most recent assignment was at Lake Skinner, where he served for...

Maruca brings enrichment to Idyllwild through nonprofit

Anna Maruca is the founder of Creative Connections, a local nonprofit providing enrichment classes and activities for youth and seniors. The group...

How Brian Parnell’s unique venue, AudioWild, took root

Editor’s note: This is part two of this story. Part one ran last week. TC: It was time for...

How Brian Parnell’s unique venue, AudioWild, took root

Brian Parnell has taken a circuitous journey to end up an Idyllwilder. Like so many of us, a chance taken paid off...

‘Bläckfisk,’ locally produced, premieres at film fest

Mysteries, thrillers, psychological dramas are not limited to the printed page. Early in its history, Hollywood was producing and distributing mystery films...

Bella Lewitzky film featured at Idyllwild festival

A new film biography of dancer and choreographer Bella Lewitzky, “Bella,” will be included in this year’s Idyllwild International Festival of Cinema...

Stephen Savage — film maker and Idyllwild lover

Hollywood has used Idyllwild as a movie setting for decades. For example, in 1961, Elvis Presley’s “Kid Galahad” walked Idyllwild’s streets and...

Black History Month concert this Saturday

Dr. Marshall Hawkins, founder of the Idyllwild Arts Jazz Department, and Dr. Daniel Bassin, Idyllwild Arts director of orchestras, are giving a...

Idyllwild Film Festival a month away

The Idyllwild International Festival of Cinema (IIFC) returns to town and the Rustic Theatre Tuesday, March 7, and continues for six more...

New poetry society has first event Saturday

The Idyllwild Poetry Society, a new organization “formed with the purpose of promoting poetry and the literary arts in the Idyllwild community,”...
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