On January 10, Rancho Mirage Mayor Ted Weill’s bi-monthly Mayor’s Message touted all the best of Rancho Mirage for 2016. As Mayor Weill put it, “Our city experienced some tremendous milestones and accomplishments.” First and foremost, on December 7, ground was broken on the Coachella Valley’s first observatory, located at the Rancho Mirage Public Library,…
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Here’s more fun in Rancho Mirage! Now through April, local bands are performing Saturdays at The River in Rancho Mirage. Produced by Jimi “Fitz” Fitzgerald, the 2017 Music Showcase will feature local bands from the Palm Springs Valley and throughout Southern California. Each concert will begin at 6:00 p.m. at The River’s amphitheater, and will…
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10th Annual DESERT WOMAN’S SHOW – January 14 & 15 The Desert Woman’s Show is happening this weekend at Agua Caliente Casino, Resort & Spa and promises to be bigger & better than ever. Every attendee will have the opportunity to win a 1.00 ct round diamond from El Paseo Jewelers! Guests must enter to…
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The New Year started out with a big celebrity bang in the Palm Springs Valley. Just a diamond’s throw from Rancho Mirage, the newly branded Palm Springs Film Awards—part of the 28th Annual Palm Springs International Film Festival—unspooled in high Hollywood fashion at the Palm Springs Convention Center. Mary Hart was again the “hostess with…
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For more than 10 years, the Rancho Mirage Speaker Series committee has invited provocative presenters to the desert for a one-night-only appearance at the Helen Galen Auditorium of the Annenberg Center (located on the campus of Eisenhower Medical Center at 39-000 Bob Hope Drive in Rancho Mirage). Known for an eclectic mix of guests that…
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Let’s face it. People come to the Palm Springs Valley in the winter months to luxuriate in the warm desert days and enjoy the crisp evenings. They don’t necessarily want to see snow, other than to appreciate our frequently snowcapped mountains…from afar. But some—visitors and locals alike—look to those peaks and dream about a playful…
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Well, the announcements keep coming—and the excitement keeps mounting! So far, we know that such A-lister performers as Tom Hanks, Nicole Kidman, Natalie Portman, Ruth Negga, Casey Affleck, Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, Kevin Costner, Jim Parsons, Emma Stone, Ryan Gosling, and Amy Adams will be recognized at the 28th Annual Palm Springs Film Festival’s…
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Let’s face it, dear readers. Living in—or visiting—Rancho Mirage is like waking up each morning with an abundance of beautifully wrapped presents under the tree. This no more so than at the holidays. But in addition to shopping in our great retail stores at The River (www.theriveratranchomirage.com) or Rancho Las Palmas Shopping Center…on top of…
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Thanks to a spectacular concert venue at The Show at Agua Caliente Resort, Rancho Mirage is the place to be for musicians and music lovers. In fact, Sting just announced that he’s stopping by the resort with his 57th and 9th Tour on February 11, 2017. Other concerts scheduled for this winter include Huey Lewis…
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First, the Palm Springs International Film Festival announced that Casey Affleck (“Manchester By the Sea”), Ruth Negga (“Loving”), and Tom Hanks (“Scully”) are the first three of a dozen or more movie stars to be fêted at its annual Awards Gala on January 2, 2017. www.psfilmfest.org Then event promoter Goldenvoice declared that the headliners for…
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