Rebekah Louisa Smith, Ph.D., “The Film Festival Doctor,” could have used her doctorate from the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, to teach. Instead she carved a niche career as a matchmaker – marrying films to particular international film festivals. She recommended three films for screening at the sixth year of Stephen Savage’s Idyllwild International Festival of…

When Max Krone, a University of Southern California professor, dreamed of an Idyllwild campus to educate artists, it was a vision inspired by Idyllwild itself — its mountains, meadows, creeks and creatures. As Pamela Jordan, Idyllwild Arts Foundation president, looks forward to a yearlong celebration of the realization of Krone’s dream, what was true for…