As temperatures begin to creep up toward springtime norms, the snow melts and visiting skiers gradually vacate, many organizations and businesses in the Wood River Valley start to refocus their agendas on the summer months.
“Idaho is a sanctuary,” said Pioneer Award-winner Aaron Paul, top left, during his Coffee Talk last Friday. Massive crowds echoed this sentiment as they congregated for the Sun Valley Film Festival, celebrating another year of expert filmmaking. Fisher Stevens, top right, and Meg Ryan, botto…
As March—and hopefully winter—winds to a close, the Argyros is fixing to usher in spring with a vibrant burst of color, music and movement.
Deep in Canada’s Yukon territory, along the 64th parallel, a mere two latitudinal degrees shy of the Arctic Circle, stands Dawson City. With a population now half that of Ketchum, the former gold-mining community was built atop a layer of permafrost, and routinely experiences winter temperat…
Over the past several months, Sawtooth Productions has mounted a number of free live play readings at the Argyros in Ketchum. These events offer a sneak peek into the actors’ creative process.
Last year, Irish Johnston came to Ketchum with a script. This week, she’ll come back with a finished film.
As the Sun Valley Center for the Arts asks us to reimagine American colonialism, The Community Library’s Regional History Museum asks, “Who writes history?”
This year for the first time, the Sun Valley Summer Symphony offered a seasonally antithetical program, the Winter Festival. For two nights only, on Feb. 22 and 23, the symphony reassembled in the Argyros Performing Arts center for its first in-door performances.
Though the month is less than half done, the Argyros has already had a busy March, packing in Dan Hoyle’s one man show “Border People,” a performance by valley favorites Time for Three and a special visit by Cuban jazz duo Alfredo Rodriguez and Pedrito Martinez, all before hosting screenings…
The Gallery Walk of March 8 saw the grand opening of a new Big Idea project at the Sun Valley Center for the Arts. The exhibition is titled “Unravelling: Reimagining the Colonization of the Americas.”
Calling all area bards, storytellers, wordsmiths, memoirists, oracles, anecdotalists and spinners of yarns: The sixth annual Humming Bull Storytelling Contest is just around the corner.
The Sun Valley Film Festival looms mere days away. From Wednesday, March 13, until Sunday, March 17, festival pass-holders will have the opportunity to attend dozens of films.
The Idaho Conservation League and The Community Library in Ketchum will host a Wood River Valley Conservation Symposium on Wednesday, March 13, and Thursday, March 14, addressing salmon and steelhead recovery.
From 5-8 p.m. on Friday, March 8, art galleries around Ketchum will open their doors for free exhibitions. Stop by, have a glass of wine and see what they have on display. Take a look below at what some of the galleries will be offering.
Between 1921 and 1925, Osage County, Okla., became home to a series of brutal murders. An uncertain number—some estimates exceed 60—of Osage tribal members met their untimely fates during that period, all because of the rich oil deposits beneath their feet.
The inaugural “Argyros Presents…” series has brought a slew of musical performances to the Wood River Valley. From legendary guitarists Martin Taylor and Laurence Juber to Broadway star Kristin Chenoweth to the unique song-and-dance performance of Isabella Boylston and Rozzi, these evenings …
Tuesday, March 12, will see the conclusion of Sun Valley Opera’s 2018-19 winter festival. The fourth and final operatic performance in the series will feature mezzo-soprano Emily Fons.
For more than 15 years, amateur photographer Carl Oelerich surreptitiously sneaked into then-embargoed Cuba, documenting the day-to-day life of that nation’s campesinos.
In the opening moments of “Pippin,” the Leading Player, soon to be embodied by Savina Barini at The Spot, jokingly invites the audience through song to “come and waste an hour or two.”
Ketchum is set to become a jazzier place at the beginning of March as the Argyros readies to host two Grammy-nominated Cuban aficionados, pianist Alfredo Rodríguez and percussionist Pedrito Martinez, presented by the Sun Valley Center for the Arts.
As part of the Wood River Valley’s participation in the Big Read, a project coordinated by the National Endowment for the Arts in partnership with Arts Midwest, The Community Library in Ketchum will host an exclusive keynote lecture by Luis Alberto Urrea, author of the valley’s Big Read book…
The Dallas-based Quebe Sisters will bring their progressive Western swing style of music and song to The Mint in Hailey on Wednesday, March 6, at 7 p.m. Doors open at 6:30 p.m.
The 2019 Sun Valley Film Festival has announced its film lineup, four of its honorees and additional information on the Film Lab and Screenwriters Lab, all taking place March 13-17. Now in its eighth year, the festival offers five days of films, panels, parties and more, including three worl…
The 12th annual Family of Woman film festival is just around the corner, beginning Monday, Feb. 25.
Two 2018 National Book Award honorees will give a talk together at The Community Library in Ketchum on Thursday, Feb. 21.
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