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 opened. That’s because both theatre companies that call our fair city home scored multiple nods for their comedies, dramas, and musicals in such categories as…
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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 my favorite dealership in the Palm Springs Valley, indiGO Auto Group’s Desert European Motorcars in Rancho Mirage. Sitting inside one of their beautiful showrooms, with…
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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 wonderland. If you’re in the area this summer (specifically Friday through Sunday, August 14 – 16), be sure to head on up to Idyllwild, where…
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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 lions in Zimbabwe. But nothing prepared me for the adrenaline rush of riding with a certified racecar driver at the BMW Performance Center at The…
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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 Palm Springs Valley, Rancho Mirage’s Babe’s Bar-B-Que & Brewhouse was recently crowned Brewery of the Year in the California State Fair Commercial Craft Beer Competition.…
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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 Springs. It all happens from April 24 to 27, and although Mr. Sanker hasn’t yet unveiled who will headline at the Saturday night extravaganza at…
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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 50 countries in 90-minute specially thematically programmed packages over seven days in late spring. Comedies, thrillers, films noir, dramas, romances, animated shorts, and docs will…
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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 were enjoying a cocktail and one of the best burgers in town at Fleming’s Prime Steakhouse & Wine Bar at The River (www.flemingssteakhouse.com). We were…
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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 “Stagecoach” (as in Stagecoach: California’s Country Music Festival). Both are brought to you by L.A.-based promoter/producer Goldenvoice, and take place in Indio at the Empire…
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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 not only the Coachella Valley Arts & Music Festival (whose twin weekends will soon bask under our swaying, sunny palms on April 10 to 12,…
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