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With the changing of ownership of the Christmas tree property — now Idypark — to Dave and Loie Butterfield, and the resignation of Phyllis Mueller from organizing the annual Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony, this year’s event also brings changes. Chris Perrault, owner of Silver Pines Lodge and Creekstone Inn, is organizing the event this year…
The Associates of the Idyllwild Arts Foundation will present the theatrical performance of “The Guys,” a play by Anne Nelson. “The Guys” stars Wendie Malick and Dan Lauria, both leading actors of television, stage and film. The play tells the story of a NYFD fire captain who lost eight men in the collapse of the…
The year 2018 marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of a substantial and somewhat controversial force in American cultural life, that of Leonard Bernstein. As a powerful advocate for classical and popular forms of music, particularly those produced in the United States, and as an equally important spokesperson for a variety of activist causes…
Stratford Players, Idyllwild’s classical company dedicated to keeping Shakespeare front and center, presents “Will in the Woods” season six, “Lovers and Scoundrels.” On the bill are scenes from Shakespearean classics “Julius Caesar,” “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” “Othello,” “Much Ado About Nothing” and “Richard III,” and scenes featuring two major Shakespeare characters, Falstaff and Mistress Quickly….
First workshop on Native American plant uses is Sept. 29 We “cannot learn the properties of every plant in a lifetime,” said Daniel McCarthy, archaeologist, former Tribal Relations Program manager for the San Bernardino National Forest, and director of the Cultural Resources Management Department, San Manuel Band of Mission Indians. “Native peoples passed plant knowledge…
“Everyone loves the dead girl,” writes Alice Bolin in her new collection, “Dead Girls: Essays on Surviving an American Obsession” (William Morrow/HarperCollins). It’s a provocative claim that leaves Bolin, a University of Memphis visiting assistant professor of English, with some ’splaining to do — perhaps during her appearance on the Idyllwild Arts campus at 7:30…
The Soboba Band of Luiseno Indians invites the community and public to the 22nd-annual Soboba Inter-Tribal Pow Wow set for Friday to Sunday, Sept. 14, to 16, at the Soboba Event Center next to Soboba Casino in San Jacinto. This will be a family friendly event with free admission and parking, and everyone is welcome….
Idyllwild Arts’ future is her destination “I still feel new. Every day I’m learning,” said Pam Jordan, beginning her fifth year as president and head of school of the Idyllwild Arts Foundation. “I feel very much in service to this school and town, and looking at it through that lens. I can only lead the…
College counseling at Idyllwild Arts Academy is the subject of the next Spotlight on Leadership talk on Sept. 10. Molly Newman, director of college counseling, will discuss the many facets of IAA’s finely tuned program. And of the subjects and arts disciplines featured in the Spotlight series, this one might be of highest interest to…
Rob Crisell’s one-man show makes Shakespeare delicious, not daunting “It’s a prequel to “Will in the Woods,” said Stratford Players founder and artistic director Marsha Kennedy of the company’s next production, Rob Crisell’s one-man Shakespeare exposition “Red, White and Bard,” — a delightful romp designed to make the bard’s words and wit a bonny banquet,…
