By CV | May 22, 2013 at 2:05 pm | No comments
Getting the Spotlight They Deserve Headlining at the AMFM Festival June 14
By Lisa Morgan
If you have yet to hear the creatively rich, innovative, unique, genre coalition of musical integrity that is Gram Rabbit, then drop what you’re doing and make amends immediately. ...
Posted in: Columns, Feature Stories
By CV | May 22, 2013 at 1:59 pm | No comments
By Lisa Morgan
What do you get when you combine two stand-up comedians who are also film makers who also “know people” in the industry and want to make oodles of money, or as they say, “Disney” money? NO! Not an online traffic school!!! You get Comedy Film Nerds -...
Posted in: AMFM Fest, Columns, Feature Stories
By CV | May 22, 2013 at 1:54 pm | No comments
By Lisa Morgan
There is one genre that costs its player almost everything in order to be able to deliver it with the integrity and simple, stripped down honesty that it was created for; this one brand of music demands that you live through it to legitimately deliver it. BB...
Posted in: Columns, Feature Stories, Publisher’s Pick
By CV | May 22, 2013 at 1:53 pm | No comments
by Eleni P. Austin
Mention the name Tom Jones, and people usually equate him with louche lounge singers like Wayne Newton and Englebert Humperdinck. While those singers seem content to trade on past glories and hit singles from 40 or 50 years ago, Jones is more of a musical...
Posted in: Columns, Consider This, Feature Stories
By CV | May 22, 2013 at 1:47 pm | No comments
I guess you could say I grew up in the "technology era", every year a new console or game came out. When I was 5, I would steal my older sisters Gameboy, and play Mario Bros. under my bed until my sister caught me. After enough games of hide and hope the batteries aren't dead...
Posted in: Columns, Feature Stories, Gamer Girl
By CV | May 22, 2013 at 1:45 pm | No comments
by David Wayne
I came to the realization while dining at Trio restaurant in Palm Springs that not only do I love to eat, but I also love the whole dining experience. Trio has one of the most unique menus in the Coachella Valley, from Crawfish Pot Pie to Lamb Shank; and it has...
Posted in: Columns, Feature Stories, The Pampered Palate
By CV | May 22, 2013 at 1:40 pm | No comments
By Noe Gutierrez
Chris Thomas is committed to his community and helping younger generations learn about team work, ethics and basketball skills through his Indio Warriors Youth Basketball program. In a way, Thomas is the mild-mannered philanthropist Bruce Wayne. While the...
Posted in: Columns, Feature Stories, Local Music Spotlight
By CV | May 15, 2013 at 10:53 am | No comments
@ The Date Shed Saturday, May 18th @ 9pm, 18+older
By Lisa Morgan
The Date Shed is once again exploiting the fact that any excuses for not joining them on a Saturday night are simply invalid. In what has become standard protocol for the place, the Date Shed is bringing...
Posted in: Columns, Feature Stories
By CV | May 15, 2013 at 10:51 am | No comments
Scott Christopher - Photographer, Artist, Poet, Pro Athlete and Dream Catcher
Appearing at the AMFM Festival
By Lisa Morgan
There are those “once in a lifetime” moments that, with a little luck and presence of mind, can be captured forever through photography. There...
Posted in: AMFM Fest, Columns, Feature Stories
By CV | May 15, 2013 at 10:46 am | No comments
By Lisa Morgan
Even if this band wasn’t wonderfully unique, even if their lyrics weren’t catchy while still maintaining depth and integrity, and even if their songs weren’t musically crafted and produced with an ear that has the potential to rival T Bone Burnett or Mutt...
Posted in: AMFM Fest, Columns, Feature Stories, Publisher’s Pick