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Keep Your Cool This Week!
This will be a long hot week. Keep these cool suggestions in mind:
Slow down. Reduce, eliminate or reschedule strenuous activities until the coolest...
WEALTHIEST MUSICIANS
By Haddon Libby
With temperatures firmly in the triple digits and tempers flaring over Trump tweets and trade tariffs, let’s take a break from all...
CAN I CLEAR MY CRIMINAL RECORD?
California law allows a person who has been convicted of a crime to reopen the case to have that conviction expunged. A California expungement...
FREE WILL ASTROLOGY
© Copyright 2018 Rob Brezsny
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Be extra polite and deferential. Cultivate an exaggerated respect for the status quo. Spend an inordinate...
Career Downshift
By Sunny Simon
My new client, Iris, a highly successfully professional is facing a dilemma. She currently works for a high tech firm as...
“When you’re working and your work is not feeding your soul…”
By Elizabeth Scarcella
This painful realization is what set both Aimee Mosco and myself on a long and arduous quest for self-discovery…only to conclude that...
Academy of Musical Performance Final Showcase July 21
By Tricia Witkower
The Academy of Musical Performance, AMP, is a music education program where young, budding musicians have the chance to be in a...
ARTHUR SEAY of HOBP, UNIDA & DiPW wins Best Metal Band...
By Tracy Dietlin
Arthur Seay is best known as the lead guitarist for the bands UNIDA, Apesh!t, HOBP and Death in Pretty Wrapping. He has...
ALEX SANTANA 2018 COACHELLA VALLEY MUSIC AWARD WINNER ‘BEST INDIVIDUAL INSTRUMENTAL...
By Noe Gutierrez
In a community with such superlative musical talent it can be difficult to stand out. When it comes to instrumentalists, there’s one...
50th Anniversary Screening of YOURS, MINE & OURS
The audience broke out with cheers and applause last Saturday evening at the Palm Springs Cultural Center. A special surprise guest dropped by to...
Enjoy a Superhero Movie and Splash Time at PDAC’s Dive-In Movies!...
By Talie Rosa
Palm Desert Aquatic Center (PDAC) continues its popular Dive-In Movies series on Friday, August 3rd, featuring the mega-hit movie, Marvel’s “Black Panther”...
Devour Authentic Pupusas at El Guanaquito Pupuseria
By Denise Ortuno
Lovers of Pupusas can rejoice, with the authentic flavors at El Guanaquito Pupuseria & Mexican Food in Cathedral City.
I first had a...
El Paseo Goes Pink to Support Cancer Awareness on October 13th!
Registration Now Open for Desert Cancer Foundation’s 12th Annual Paint El Paseo Pink Fun Walk!
Desert Cancer Foundation has announced online registration for the 12th Annual...
BREWTALITY REVIEWS GOLDEN ROAD MANGO CART
By Aaron Ramson
I started home brewing in January of 2012 after receiving some sweet beer making equipment for Christmas, the month before, and I...
THE BRITISH OPEN 2018 AT CARNOUSTIE
By Flint Wheeler
My top 5 picks (and 2 sleepers) to win the Open Championship at Carnoustie.
After a U.S. Open in which no one finished at...
THE ROSE GARDEN (Omnivore Recordings)
By Eleni P. Austin
If you were a kid in the late ‘60s and early ‘70s, chances are, you tuned in to “The Mary...
50 years and counting: The Artist Council Exhibition
By Angela Romeo
Art is constantly changing – that is the challenge and beauty of art. Even the institutions that are home to the arts...
Summer’s Legacy, Keep Your Dogs Inside
BY JANET McAFEE
The small Silky Terrier ran down the hot dusty road desperately trying to find water and shelter. She didn’t know why her...
Le Vin Tour de France 2018!
BY RICK RIOZZA
The Wine Tour of France 2018! is what we’re calling this piece as we mix in the current bicycling championships with a...
HI-RISE HEROICS
By Robin E. Simmons
NOW SHOWING:
SKYSCRAPER
In director Rawson Marshall Thurber’s derivative and sometimes preposterous but fun film, former FBI Hostage Rescue Team leader and disabled...
FAMILY SECRET
Book Review by Heidi Simmons
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Whisper Me This
by Kerry Anne King – Fiction
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Good mothers love, protect and nurture their children, provide guidance, encouragement and support. ...
Beat the Heat And Check That Back Seat!
By Fire Chief Sam DiGiovanna
I don’t think any of us thought it would get this hot and humid so early in the summer! And the...
The Most Expensive
By Haddon Libby
In a world where the paintings sell for hundreds of millions of dollars, sports franchises sell for more than one billion dollars...
HANG UP ON THE IRS?
They say "Forewarned is Forearmed!!!!" and "People Don't Plan to Fail, They Fail to Plan." So Plan Ahead and learn these current phone scams...
FREE WILL ASTROLOGY
© Copyright 2018 Rob Brezsny
ARIES (March 21-April 19): "Take a lover who looks at you like maybe you are magic." Whenever that quote appears...
New College Grads Should Go the Extra Mile
By Sunny Simon
While working with a millennial this week on her job search, I suggested she create a video resume. Not familiar with...
The Case of the Cannabis Aphid
BY RUTH HILL R.N.
It was early 2016 in Oregon when a Portland company issued contestant entrants with a cut of cannabis from the same...
COUNTING CROWS TO BRING THEIR DECADES OF HITS TO FANTASY SPRINGS...
By Tracy Dietlin
After more than two decades and 20 million albums sold globally, Counting Crows are celebrating 25 years of making music by hitting...
Michael Keeth: CV Music Awards Best Male Vocalist 5 years in...
Tracy Dietlin
Michael Keeth has been wowing fans since his high school days when he was in the hard rock band Phallus. That was followed...
ACQUA CALIFORNIA BISTRO AT THE RIVER CELEBRATES SUMMER WITH “MUSICAL NIGHTS”
Popular local entertainer Michael Keeth opens series on July 15
Acqua California Bistro at The River celebrates summer with a special series “Musical Nights at...
FrankEatsTheFloor
By Noe Gutierrez
There’s a rumor that the name FrankEatsTheFloor was determined with the luck of the net by a prankish ‘band name generator’ website....
the innocence mission “sun on the square” (Badman Records)
By Eleni P. Austin
The dog days of summer are upon us. As triple digits hit, venturing outside can sometimes feel like a furnace...
An Ice Cream Dream at Kreem
By Denise Ortuno
Sometimes you just crave it, the soft, sweet, creamy coolness melting in your mouth. It is what ice cream dreams are made...
Helping Mom and/or Dad Make the “Big Move”
By Bruce Cathcart
The older I get it seems the older many of my clients and their parents get! Over the past few years I...
REVIEW OF WELL’S BANANA BREAD ALE
By Aaron Ramson
When I was nine years old, my dad cooked up some chicken feet for dinner, and I wasn’t having it. I don’t...
Questions In Tinseltown…
By Flint Wheeler
The Lakers’ offseason has been a roller coaster of emotions.. That’s what happens when LeBron James changes teams. But L.A. isn’t done...
A Stage Review of ‘The Wedding Singer’
By Dee Jae Cox
In the year 2006 while Google was busy purchasing YouTube for 1.6 billion dollars and Pluto was being downgraded from a...
Keannu, A Runaway Dog Finds a Home
BY JANET McAFEE
It was the dog’s fifth day on the run in the scorching June Coachella Valley heat. The Spaniel mix dog’s throat was...
Are Things Heating Up in the Wine Game?
BY RICK RIOZZA
As I’m writing this piece, over half the country is experiencing more than 90 degree temperatures. And the summer season has barely...
A MATTER OF PERSPECTIVE
By Robin E. Simmons
NOW SHOWING:
ANT-MAN AND THE WASP
Peyton Reed’s latest superhero movie is a welcome if light-hearted addition to the Marvel Cinematic Universe featuring...
Road Trip
Book Review by Heidi Simmons
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Wonder Valley
by Ivy Pochoda – Fiction
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There are many reason people leave home. Some include: going off to college, finding a...
When Thunder Roars Head Indoors!
“We’ve seen them this week and we will continue to notice large cumulous clouds forming around southern California. This ‘monsoonal pattern’ is produced by...
CUSTOMER (DIS)SATISFACTION
By Haddon Libby
Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon once said, “It’s our job every day to make every important aspect of the customer experience...
SECRETS TO MAXIMIZING RECOVERY ON YOUR PI CASE
CALL POLICE: gather info; take cell phone pictures of car, insurance and license.
HIRE A LAWYER ASAP: so evidence does not get cold...
FREE WILL ASTROLOGY
© Copyright 2018 Rob Brezsny
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Your key theme right now is growth. Let's dig in and analyze its nuances. 1. Not...
Why You Shouldn’t Worry About Your Career
By Sunny Simon
At a recent cocktail party I was introduced to a man who upon learning I was a career coach, began discussing...
REST IS NOT ONLY FOR THE WEARY
BY BRONWYN ISON
It’s true… rest is not strictly for the weary. Rest should and needs to be a priority for everyone. I’m the first...
Eric Valentine
BY PATTE PURCELL
I am blessed to be able to interview some of the great jazz artists of our time. I consider Eric Valentine to...