When the Desert Theatre League (www.deserttheatreleague.org) revealed its Desert Star Awards nominations for the 2014-2015 season, the City of Rancho Mirage emerged as victor long before a single envelope was…
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While window shopping for a new car—which, frankly, I don’t really need, but a guy still loves to look!—I happened upon a fun sneak preview of a fab automobile at…
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Taking a short drive—barely an hour from my home in Rancho Mirage—through the San Jacinto Mountains transports me from my beloved Palm Springs Valley desert into a cool Alpine mountain…
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I’m not a new kid on the block when it comes to adventure, or to cars. I’ve ziplined in Costa Rica, penguin-watched on Antarctica, skydived in New Zealand, and camera-hunted…
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I just love being the bearer of good news—especially when it’s all about beer! And the good news is that, thankfully for the people who live in and visit the…
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It’s become a signature springtime ritual in the desert, hasn’t it? The coming together of tens of thousands of international gay males for mega-promoter Jeffrey Sanker’s annual White Party Palm…
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“Sun. Screen.” That’s the quite clever slogan for the 2015 Palm Springs International ShortFest Short Film Festival & Film Market, which will showcase more than 300 short films from over…
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A funny thing happened on the way to the bar, um, last week. I was with a dear old friend of mine, Todd—visiting from San Diego for the weekend—and we…
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April in our lusciously lush Palm Springs Valley means many things, two of the most exciting of which are “Coachella” (as in the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival) and…
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One of the great masterminds of music who most moves me has to be one Paul Tollett, president and CEO of mega promoter-producer Goldenvoice, and the man who gave us…
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