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.

Smokey Bear plans birthday party in Idyllwild

Smokey Bear celebrates his 70th birthday Saturday, Aug. 9, in Idyllwild. “Our Wildfire Prevention campaign has helped children and adults throughout the country understand their...

Noted anthropologist featured speaker at Historical Society

Dr. William “Pete” Lee’s resume, rather than being a dry recital of credits and plaudits, reads like an adventure story — so many universities...

Jazz fest showcases Idyllwild Arts alums

Just back from Cordova, Alaska, Marshall Hawkins, the music director for the 21st-annual Jazz in Pines, is relaxed and ready. While he played some...

PHOTO: O’Neill’s photography at Idyll Awhile

Erin O’Neill and fellow photographer Francoise Frigola enjoy a well-attended opening of O’Neill’s photography exhibit Sunday at Idyll Awhile Wine Shoppe & Bistro.

Fisher to life

Historical lecturer and Hemet resident Penelope Engard engages the crowd at the Idyllwild Library with stories of late food author MFK Fisher. Fisher once owned 90 acres of land in Hemet with her second husband and authored such books as “How to Cook a Wolf” and “The Art of Eating.”

New Sensations family dance band next at Summer Concerts

“Music for every era” is how New Sensations leader Don Hoeber describes pop music genres his family band will be playing when it makes...

Patrons Dinner mixes informality, barbecue

The 21st Jazz in the Pines performances begin Saturday, Aug. 16, but the traditional Patrons Dinner sounds the opening notes Friday evening, Aug. 15. This year, the Friday soiree will return to the French Quarter where it has been before, said Anne Erikson, one of three co-chairs of the jazz fest.

Vanya and Sonia … opens

Stratford Players Debbie Overman and Preston Sparks in a scene from the 2013 Tony Award-winning play “Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike.” The play runs weekends to Aug. 10.

‘Burro Bill and Me,’ book by Edna Price, comes full circle

With the new E-publication of “Burro Bill and Me,” a charming and funny memoir by former Idyllwild resident Edna Price, two circles have been linked and one degree of separation has been bridged.

PHOTO: Learning culmination

Students in the Idyllwild Arts Summer Program Youth Dance Culmination performed at Fischer Dance Studio on campus Saturday morning, demonstrating the skills they learned while attending the Summer Program.
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