Now in its second year, the Sawtooth Valley Gathering is the latest music festival incarnation to be hosted in the town of Stanley, Idaho. With 25 bands and artists, as well as craft and food vendors, the all-weekend festival promises fun for all. Located in Stanley’s Pioneer Park, the joys […]
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A Blockbuster 2016 Sun Valley Summer Symphony Line-Up by Sabina Dana Plasse
This summer, the Sun Valley Summer Symphony presents centuries of some of the world’s best music in just a few short weeks. As a prelude to the Symphony’s Orchestra Festival, the In Focus Series, July 24-28, is themed “The Chamber Orchestra: Good Things, Small Packages” and will trace the evolution […]
Emmylou Harris with Ian Janco by Hayden Seder
Our parents’ music is the soundtrack of our formative years, shaping our memories and cultivating our tastes until we begin to develop passions of our own. In my parents’ household, the folksy singing of artists like Joni Mitchell, Carole King, and, of course, Emmylou Harris, was a constant presence. Without […]
Spirits of Another Sort by Laurel Holland
SUN VALLEY, ID. Dust off those folding lawn chairs and pull out the family picnic blanket: Summer Symphony Season is here! And with another star-studded lineup on tap, this year’s Orchestra Festival is slated for a larger-than-life opening act. On Monday, August 1, the highly anticipated production of Stravinsky’s The […]
35th Annual Wine Auction
It’s hard to imagine a Wood River Valley without the awesome purveyor of arts and culture, Sun Valley Center for the Arts. But The Center wasn’t always a major presence in our Valley, it was born 34 years ago when Glenn Janss and a few close friends decided that our […]
We Read Here! Sun Valley Writers’ Conference and The Community Library Share the Literary Wealth by Kim Frank
For four days every summer since 1995, Sun Valley is host to a collection of some of the most glittering jewels in the literary universe. What began as a small group of notable and aspiring writers and readers eager to learn from one another on the Community School campus has […]
The Shook Twins by Hayden Seder
A golden egg. Harry and the other Tri-wizard Tournament participants were each given one, about the size of a dragon’s egg, and told to solve the clue inside. I’m referencing, of course, the fourth book in the Harry Potter series, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. The golden eggs […]
8th Annual Sun Valley Road Rally by Kim Frank, photography by Steve Dondero and David Concannon
July in the mountains: trickling streams, a riot of wildflowers, the smell of damp pine, and the single roar of a Bugatti Veyron tearing down an open road at over 250mph. Dust off those classics and tune up your engines as the Sun Valley Road Rally is just around the […]