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.
The Idyllwild Area Historical Society, a rich repository of Hill history, holds its annual ice cream social on the IAHS grounds from noon to 2 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 3. Although one visits the IAHS to sample things old, longtime IAHS volunteer Bob Smith assures the public the ice cream will be deliciously new. “It’s a…
Continuing its commitment to the classics, the Stratford Players presents “Will in the Woods IV,” a full immersion in some sonorous Shakespeare snippets — sonnets, and scenes from some of the bard’s most memorable, merry and moving masterpieces — “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” “Taming of the Shrew,” “Macbeth” or, for the superstitious actor, “The Scottish…
Chef Tanya Petrovna, founder of completely plant-based Native Foods Café in Palm Springs, will be in Idyllwild next Monday night for a demonstration at Sky Island Natural Foods’ weekly “Meatless Monday.” Petrovna’s back-to-basics approach to cooking began with her love for animals and European gourmet upbringing. She has produced a culinary adventure that raised the…
Musica! students and teachers are heading into a fifth year of string instruction and concertizing, thanks to the support of generous grants and donors, especially from those in our own neck of the woods. The Community Foundation Serving Riverside and San Bernardino Counties awarded Musica! a $9,500 capacity-building grant for the 2015-16 year, allowing it…
Gray, possibly rain-filled clouds covered the Hill Sunday, but they could not quench the desire for great and beautiful jazz from the dedicated fans of the Jazz in the Pines festival at Idyllwild Arts. The 23rd festival was another success, bringing thousands of visitors to the Hill and hundreds of musicians. On both days, the…
Lindsay Crater started third grade at Idyllwild School, finished eighth grade and, like many, went on to Hemet High. This August, she returned to her alma mater to teach fourth grade. “I grew up here,” said Crater. “It’s still the same magical place, as open and beautiful as it was when I was a child.”…
Each year, Ken Dahleen and the Idyllwild Summer Concert Series board launch their annual eight-concert series without sufficient funds to meet budget. They do it on faith. The series is provided with no charge for admission and relies on the generosity of patrons who deposit dollars and fivers into the ubiquitous donation jars happily passed…
The Soboba Band of Luiseno Indians invites the community and public to the 20th-annual Payomkawichum Soboba Inter-Tribal Pow Wow set to take place from Friday to Sunday, Sept. 16 to 19, at the Soboba Event Center next to Soboba Casino. This will be a family friendly event with free admission and parking. Everyone is welcome….
On Aug. 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina made landfall on the Louisiana coast with a direct hit on New Orleans. Idyllwild resident Karla Leopold led a team of art therapists to an evacuation center just north of Baton Rouge to help Katrina survivors, many of them children, to express and externalize the trauma they had experienced…
Diana Kirkham, new Idyllwild School kindergarten and first-grade combo teacher, has taught for 32 years, 12 of those years in special education. She spent 14 years teaching at Hemet Unified’s Little Lake Elementary, hired by current IS Principal Matt Kraemer. She and her teacher-husband Pete moved to the Hill in February. Pete commutes to Hemet…
