President Obama Returns to Sunnylands
Having first-time guests fall in love with the Palm Springs Valley only to return for a second helping less than a year later is nothing new. It happens all the…
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Rancho Mirage Library Hosts Virginia Waring Pianist
During the desert’s high season, there’s so much happening throughout the Palm Springs Valley that it’s inevitable that some healthy crossover will occur. Such will be the case on Tuesday,…
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Playing Poker at Agua Caliente
Truth be told, playing poker has never been one of my passions. But watching people play poker, that’s a whole different story… Betting has rarely held my sway for me,…
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Script2Stage2Screen at Rancho Mirage
When Shakespeare declaimed that “all the world’s a stage,” he must have been (forward) thinking about the Palm Springs Valley. It seems everywhere you turn, there’s a troupe trudging across…
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Rancho Mirage High School’s Musical Theater University
The school year is well underway at the Palm Springs Valley’s newest high school in Rancho Mirage, and one of its signature programs—the Performing Arts Career Pathway—is humming along at…
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The Rammy Awards
February is the middle of awards season in Hollywood. The Palm Springs International Film Festival Awards Gala, the Screen Actors Guild Awards, the Golden Globes—they’re all just warm-up for the…
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Rancho Mirage Welcomes “Dhat Island”
With all the great food and beverage establishments we have in the Palm Springs Valley, I seldom need to leave my hometown of Rancho Mirage to find somewhere special to…
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Eisenhower Medical Center Nurses
Some of my treasured regular readers may remember my writing last summer about my pal Heather from Houston, she who sold her mini-manse and relocated to Rancho Mirage full-time. One…
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Obama Returns to Sunnylands
I have to say, I was more than pleasantly surprised by the news that the President of the United States is returning to the Sunnylands estate in Rancho Mirage this…
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It’s Time for Modernism Week 2014!
One of the Palm Springs Valley’s most interesting annual events is upon us, and I couldn’t be more excited about it all! Modernism Week 2014 takes place from February 13…
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