The Art Alliance of Idyllwild Board of Directors elected Donna Elliot president last week, not long after President Rob Padilla assumed leadership from Shanna Robb on April 22. The AAI announced on May 26 that Elliot had joined the board as vice president and as being in charge of membership. Padilla now resumes his position…

Fourteen years ago, big band leader, clarinetist and Idyllwild resident Ken Dahleen saw a need for a summer concert series and persevered until he launched the first in 2000. Idyllwild is unincorporated, and in 2000 there were no civic budgets to provide summer concerts in the park. But Dahleen thought there should be free outdoor…

As he did last year, plein air artist Rich Stergulz concludes the Idyllwild Community Recreation Council’s popular speaker series. Plein air, for the uninitiated, is a movement in fine art that gained prominence in the late 19th Century when painting outdoors in natural light became a signature of French impressionist painters Claude Monet, Camille Picaroon…