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…

The big-band era that had its heyday from the early 1930s to the 1950s helped to lift the spirits of a country recovering from a Great Depression and facing a devastating war on two fronts. Ken Dahleen and his Big Band Staff, next up at the Idyllwild Summer Concert Series, plan to lift the spirits…