The Art Alliance of Idyllwild stages its first double-feature art event on the weekend of June 13 and 14. Called the Sizzling Summer Plein Air and Working Artist Gallery Tour, the event pairs events previously held on separate weekends. Visitors and residents may view artists painting outdoors from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday…

History is something we all learn in school. We read books, watch movies and we are taught about world events that occurred before our time. Then, there is our personal history — the stories that are told within our families of where we came from and what we can expect to be passed down in…

By Idyllwild Community GardenContributed This Saturday, July 24, landscape designer April Palmer will teach the class, “How to Plan Your Garden from the Ground Up.” The class will cover maximizing your site conditions, layout, grading, irrigation, soil and best planting practices.You are invited to bring photos or a basic layout of your site. The class…

Films shown at the Rustic Theater, Silver Pines Lodge and Town Hall “Vermijo,” the first film in the ninth-annual Idyllwild International Festival of Cinema, will be shown at 10 a.m. Tuesday, March 6. That evening, “Lies We Tell” starring Gabriel Byrne, Sibylla Deen and Harvey Keitel will be the official opening feature of the festival….

As promising as the weather prognostications materialized for the gradual relief of summertime heat over the holiday weekend — happily enough for the various yard sale promoters — the prospects for the annual Levy and Speltz families’ benefit for the Idyllwild Arts Foundation were even greater, due not only to a better event venue, just…