RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif. The Westin Mission Hills Golf Resort & Spa introduces Murder Mystery Dinners featuring four evenings of suspense over a delectable three-course dinner prepared by the resort’s talented Executive Chef Joel Desmond. Presented by the Murder Mystery Company, the country’s most popular dinner theater company, four crime scenes are to be solved by…
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Sure, summer in the desert is sizzling. But slow? Think again! Because the Rancho Mirage Restaurant Association, the Rancho Mirage Chamber of Commerce, and the City of Rancho Mirage have joined forces to kick off the inaugural inception of “Taste of Summer Rancho Mirage,” an event whereby our home town’s participating resorts and restaurants have…
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If you’re at all like me, you know the feeling of being without a dinner partner but wanting to eat out anyway. When that’s the case, I head for my favorite restaurant’s bar rather than to its dining room and a table for one. I mean, just because I’m solo doesn’t mean I don’t want…
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It’s that time of year again! Greater Palm Springs Restaurant Week is coming to an eatery near you from June 3-12. Chefs from many desert cities will be dreaming up fantastic (and more than affordable) three-course meals priced at either $28, $38, or $48 per person. In Rancho Mirage, no less than a dozen restaurants…
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By now you’ve surely heard all about the miracle pulled off by Goldenvoice promoter and Coachella/Stagecoach founder Paul Tollett. Over the weekend of October 7-9 on the grounds the Empire Polo Club in Indio, a once-in-a-lifetime concert christened Desert Trip (www.deserttrip.com) will unite six legendary rock & roll acts for the first time ever on…
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Four first place awards is nothing to sneeze at, so please keep your tissues to yourselves when it comes to Rancho Mirage’s Agua Caliente Casino Resort Spa, recently quadruple crowned by the readers of Casino Player, America’s gaming lifestyle monthly magazine. The categories in which the AAA four diamond AC rated #1 include Best Overall…
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Hey, Macho Man. If you’re not In the Navy yet still want a rockin’ good time, don’t Go West—go east! To the Palm Springs Valley. But don’t stay at the Y.M.C.A. Instead, check in to one of Rancho Mirage’s four first class resorts—Agua Caliente Casino Resort Spa, Omni Rancho Las Palmas, The Ritz-Carlton Rancho Mirage,…
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2015 was very good to Babe’s Bar-B-Que & Brewhouse (www.babesbbqandbrewhouse.com) at The River on Rancho Mirage’s Highway 111. Its beers won a silver medal at the Los Angeles International Commercial Beer Competition, gold at the U.S. Open Beer Championship, and “Brewery of the Year” at the California State Fair. Here’s hoping 2016 is just as…
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For many years, each of us has gone not only to both weekends of the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival (www.coachella.com; this year April 15-17 and 22-24) but to the following weekend’s further festivities of Stagecoach: California’s Country Music Festival (www.stagecoachfestival.com; this year April 29 to May 1). While this makes us experts in…
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The boys are back in town, the boys are back in town! Well, not quite yet. But over the weekend of April 8 through 11, tens of thousands of them will descend upon the Palm Springs Valley from around the globe for the annual bacchanalian springtime ritual known as Jeffrey Sanker’s The White Party Palm…
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