Graduation is upon us and we want to make sure we graduate with our class safely this year reminds Fire Chief Sam DiGiovanna.
Let’s start with the first class: Underage drinking can result in tragedy so let’s keep those critical lines of communication open when it comes to talking about the dangers of underage drinking, driving and graduation parties and events.
Next, who’s...
By Sunny Simon
As a career counselor, I do a considerable amount of coaching on facing fear. Recently I accepted a new, rather complex project causing me to practice some heavy-duty self-coaching. I am not immune to driving myself a bit nuts over looming deadlines, key presentations and most importantly, the overall thought of screwing-up and failing. There is a...
This year’s 2017 CV Music Awards promises to be bigger and better than ever! In our 5th year, and the 4th year at the Riviera Resort in Palm Springs, we have many surprises in store for everyone. For this week’s issue I wanted to highlight the photographers that go out to the music events and catch the bands and...
By Tracy Dietlin
The CV Music Awards have grown and now we must spread the event between two nights and two venues. We started with just a few categories five years ago and kept growing: in 2015 we had 28 categories and last year 32. This year we have 37 categories in all genres that the valley got to vote...
By Gilbert Ward Kane
All Souls is a new guitar heavy, melodic rock band from L.A. with heavy ties to the desert. They feature an all-star lineup featuring Erik Trammell of Black Elk on guitar, Tony Aguilar and Meg Castellanos of Totimoshi singing and playing bass respectively, and Tony Tornay of desert rock godfathers Fatso Jetson playing drums. They are...
By Eleni P. Austin
Aimee Mann first burst on the scene in the mid ‘80s as the front-woman for the New Wave band, ‘til Tuesday. The Boston band paid their dues in the thriving club scene before signing with Columbia Records. Their debut Voices Carry, arrived in 1985 and immediately went into heavy rotation on MTV.
In a sea of candy-coated...
By Gilbert Ward Kane
Le Butcherettes are a punk band formed in Mexico in 2007. They are fronted by the most high energy front woman in the industry, Teri Gender Bender. She is the only consistent member. The revolving lineup has included many talented members such as drummer Gabe Serbian of Cattle Decapitation fame and Omar Rodriguez-Lopez of At The...
The World's Hottest Gay Weekend of Non-Stop Dance Parties
Jeffrey Sanker's White Party Palm Springs brings heats up the desert valley May 5-8, 2017 bringing revelers innovative new parties waiting to be experienced, including totally redesigned Day Club Pool Parties at the Renaissance Palm Springs Hotel.
Join tens of thousands of the hottest men from all over the world as they...
By Avery Wood
The Mary Pickford Theater in Cathedral City, which came under new ownership less than a year ago, has recently made a series of changes to set itself apart from the other movie theaters in the valley, according to owner Damon Rubio. “We’ve instituted a whole ray of changes like the recliner seating; we’ve brought in our D-Box...
By Morgan James
It was another great week at the CV Open Mic Competition 2017 at The Block Sports Bar & Grill in Cathedral City! Week #10 packed the house once again as new faces graced the stage and gained support from a thrilled crowd. Only 2 chances remain in the coming weeks for our contestants to qualify for the...
By Patte Purcell
The lovely Ruth Ruiz celebrated her birthday with friends at the new Bernie's Supper Club in Palm Springs. Ruth is one of the deserts booking agents for musicians and has a large group of friends who came out to celebrate her special day. Kristi King and her band played a great music mix. The crowd packed the...
June Hill’s Table at Trilogy® at The Polo Club Offers a Mother’s Day Celebration Buffet With Bottomless Mimosa
June Hill’s Table, the east valley’s new favorite restaurant, is serving a Special Mother’s Day Buffet on Sunday, May 14 from 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
Executive Chef Kevin Land, known for his locally sourced classic dishes with a contemporary twist, has created...
City of Indio Partners to Help Small Business Owners
The City of Indio, in partnership with the State of California Board of Equalization, is reaching out to help small business owners better understand tax and employment requirements. A free business seminar will be held at the Indio Performing Arts Center in Downtown Indio on Friday, May 5, 2017. Anyone who...
By Thomas Novak
There are a lot of great characters in fiction for fans to rally behind. Some enjoy heroes like DC’s Batman and Marvel’s Captain America, while others enjoy villains like DC’s Joker and Marvel’s Kingpin. But once in a while, fans are treated to the character who struggles to function on either side completely, and walks the line...
Rebecca Fine Art Gallery will host a very exciting Artists Reception this Sat., May 6, 5-8PM. Featured will be new works by sculptor Christopher Georgesco and painter Mandy Main - two very different perspectives on Modernism & Minimalism. The current Exhibit, "This.Is.Now" runs through June 30, 2017 and features paintings, sculptures, & photographic art by several renowned artists.
Christopher Georgesco...
By Angela Romeo
As the dust settles from the Coachella and Stagecoach Music Festivals and Highway 111 returns to its normal pace, it might seem that summer ennui is setting in. But not everyone gears down for the summer!
The Coachella Valley continues to see tourist all year round. As the temperatures rise, tourists and locals look for things to do...
By Janet McAfee
The tiny Terrier was wedged against the back of the kennel wall at our local county shelter, frozen with fear and shaking. Meredith Greenwood spotted the dog during her volunteer shift at the Coachella Valley Animal Campus. She took a closer look at the little pup, scanning the information on her kennel card, learning that she came...
By Denise Ortuno-Neil
It was love at first bite for me. As an avid sushi lover, I pretty much knew that it would be. With high grade ingredients and creativity, Pokehana in La Quinta offers ultra-fresh Poke, in a fast, friendly, efficient fashion, making it the ultimate in healthy fast food.
Poke has been become all the rage, and for good...
By Rick Riozza
Alright folks—all aboard for the last train to Clarksburg; and, we’ll meet you at the red wine station for yet another last moment take on some red quaffs for the table before this desert pursues their vino varieties with rosé colored glasses.
(By the way, Clarksburg wine country, 20 minutes south of Sacramento, known as “the Gem of...
By Robin E. Simmons
THE GLORY GUYS (1965)
Hollywood’s resident maverick and madman wrote this under seen and gorgeously shot Cavalry riff on Custer’s last stand featuring a literal Who’s Who of movie and western favorites.
This hugely entertaining US Cavalry-Indian conflict, sparked by an opportunistic army general who sacrifices dedicated soldiers to his dark and dubious ambition is satisfying on so...
By Dee Jae Cox
Playwright Luigi Pirandello wrote a play in 1921 titled “Six Characters in search of an Author.” For some reason that title has stuck with me through the years and never seemed to reveal the depth of its meaning until seeing A.R. Gurney’s dramedy, “Later Life,” currently in production at CV Repertory Theatre in Rancho Mirage. Later...
By Heidi Simmons
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Doctorow: Collected Stories
By E. L. Doctorow
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Oh to be in the hands of a great storyteller!
Readers may be most familiar with the award winning novelist’s bestsellers that include, among many others, Ragtime and Billy Bathgate. Author E. L. Doctorow revisits and revises his favorite narratives in a personally curated short story collection written between the 1960s and the...
By Haddon Libby
Non-partisan non-profit Good Jobs First promotes corporate accountability via its Corporate Research Project. Their research shows that 100 companies have paid anywhere from $250 million to a staggering $56.7 billion in fines over the last six years for bad behavior. Eight of the top ten bad corporate actors are in the financial services industry.
Overall, the financial services...
By Dale Gribow
You need not attend Stagecoach to be "HELD UP". Why do I say Held Up? Because your life may be put on hold for a number of reasons.
You may have gotten caught with an illegal substance while at stagecoach. Last week 2 separate guys called within 20 minutes of each other. Both were from New York and...
It’s also along the freeways, in open fields and vacant lots in your neighborhood. That lush green vegetation and pretty wildflowers from recent winter storms is now turning golden in color and soon to become dark brown, brittle and extremely dry. “Fire season is already here and getting extremely dangerous quickly. We’ve already seen quite a few fast moving...
By Flint Wheeler
The 2017 NFL Draft has concluded, and I wanted to go through some picks of the team I’ll be following this year, as well as some of the best and worst picks.
Let’s start with some notable picks from the entire draft.
BEST PICK:
DL Jonathan Allen, Alabama
He might not be the best player in the draft, but for where...
Week of May 4
© Copyright 2017 Rob Brezsny
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Beware of feeling sorry for sharks that yell for help. Beware of trusting coyotes that act like sheep and sheep that act like coyotes. Beware of nibbling food from jars whose contents are different from what their labels suggest. But wait! "Beware" is not my only message...
By Bronwyn Ison
If you practice Yoga there is a good chance you have heard of Ayurveda. Living an Ayurvedic lifestyle is a healthy one to adopt. It enables a person to encompass optimal physical, mental, and spiritual well-being. In the ancient language, Sanskrit, Ayurveda means, “Knowledge of Life.” The resurgence of this 5,000-year-old system has three fundamental energies. The...
By Sunny Simon
Words have immense power. I suppose that’s why I favor writing over speaking. As my fingers fly over the keyboard I can add, delete, edit and re-edit selecting the ideal words to convey my exact meaning. But when it comes to opening my mouth, sometimes the wrong words tumble out. Once that happens, there is no way...
Dr. Kadile, I do a lot of work with my hands and fingers. I’ve noticed my finger joints hurt almost every day and some of the joints are getting bigger. What’s going on? - Jacob, Rancho Mirage
Jacob, you may have osteoarthritis of the hands. Arthritis is a general term which means inflammation of the joints. I generally refer to osteoarthritis...
By Ruth Hill R.N.
You can’t pick up a newspaper today without seeing an article on marijuana use. The Desert Sun last week reported a study using marijuana for treating autism. Where is the study being done? In Israel of course, where Dr. Raphael Mechoulam, the father of marijuana research, has been studying the plant for over forty years. While...
By Lisa Morgan
Chris Stapleton pulled huge crowds last year at both Coachella and Stagecoach. Who was he? A songwriter who finally got his day to be a headliner. Once again, those sporting their Stagecoach wristbands will be entertained by arena favorites, timeless icons and yes, songwriters…songwriters who have seriously taken it in the proverbial shorts in this era of...
And Big Rock Pub Country Brunch, Sunday April 30th
By Lisa Morgan
Honey County are arguably carving the path for the rapidly growing California country genre, but it didn’t come easy. The ensemble’s founder, Dani Rose, had to take a lot of big chances, and say a lot of ‘hard yeses’ before getting to the ‘easy yeses.’ There was the, “Yes,...
By Lisa Morgan
Steve Moakler, a dreamer among an ocean of Nashville dreamers, rose among his peers with a song that brings him to this year’s 2017 Stagecoach and so much more. That song was “Riser,” chosen by Dierks Bentley as a single and the title song to a Grammy nominated album. With renewed vigor following ten long years of...
Thursday, April 27th 7 pm
By Lisa Morgan
All country roads lead to Stagecoach this weekend and since they are conveniently on the way to the music festival, Big Rock Pub is throwing a big rockin pre-Stagecoach country party. Along with a live remote featuring The Bull’s radio personality, Tommy Cee, giving away passes to the festival, Nashville bound band, Aubrey...
By Laura Hunt Little
The last of the stop-n-go traffic headed west on I-10 just cleared up and the sun is setting on a production crew rather than a hundred thousand music fans. The intensity of Coachella 2017 is just starting to fade into memories to be pulled out and rehashed with friends over the next weeks on back porches...
Children’s Discovery Museum of the Desert’s 2nd Annual Family Game Night on Thursday, April 27 from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. is your chance to win a par of passes to Stagecoach: California’s Country Music Festival.
The event will feature a variety of games that can be enjoyed together as a family. Guests will be able to play lawn games and...
By Noe Gutierrez
House of Broken Promises are unfiltered and symbolize all that is right in the heavy music world. If you’ve never seen them live you’ve never laid eyes on the time-honored tradition that is Arthur Seay’s tongue wagging, his obligatory “FUCK YOU!” or the ultimate lesson in shredding. You’ve never bore witness to the intricate yet powerful pounding...
By Eleni Austin
Gird your loins kids, this Saturday, April 29th, Dali’s Llama is headlining a show at the Hood to celebrate the release of their Blossom EP. Joining them will be a few Desert Rock favorites; The Hellions, Blasting Echo and Sleazy Cortez.
Of course, Dali’s Llama is the brain child of Zach Huskey. Along with Mario Lalli, Herb Lineau...
By Morgan James
It's the one year Coachella-versary for Will Sturgeon's band, brightener, in which they showcased keen musical talent and a mod soundscape to an audience of tens of thousands from all over the world. Between playing the internationally acclaimed Coachella Festival and brightener's win at the Tachevah music festival just before, Will's career was skyrocketing at record pace....
By Noe Gutierrez
Drop Mob is composed of Gabe Perez on vocals, Dave Burk (DRB) on lead guitar, Steven Zepeda on bass, John Camacho on drums and Curtis Hendricks on guitar. Their sound is defined as aggressive rap metal, but you can hear a Red Hot Chili Peppers vibe and ‘nu metal’ influences. Drop Mob will be performing at Desert...
By Eleni P. Austin
If you came of age in the late ‘80s and preferred Punk over Top 40, the only place to find new music was on MTV’s “120 Minutes” program. For two hours every Sunday night the music television channel corralled all the outlier artists that, apparently, seemed too exotic for regular airplay.
It was kind of a form...
By Morgan James
Week #9 of the CV Open Mic Competition 2017 at The Block Sports Bar & Grill in Cathedral City was a thrilling show as new audience members discovered the fun and the performers showed up in full force. What an exciting show it was! T-shirts from The Block Sports Bar & Grill were given away to several...
By Patte Purcell
About a month or so ago we attended the Zelda's Night Club 40th Anniversary Party and we had a blast! The great dance tunes from the 70's and 80's and our age group attending brought back so many memories.
Mike McCormick from Zelda's was inundated with people wanting to have him do another one so we teamed up...
By Angela Romeo
Hard Edge is a term coined by the art critic Jules Langster to describe work that is characterized by simplified, geometric forms drawn with precise contours and broad strokes of monochromatic color. A path of sharp crisp lines is rarely the path to becoming an artist. Case in point - artist Marcy Gregory.
With a background in art...
By Dee Jae Cox
Playwright Thornton Wilder said, “I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.”
In any small town or big city across the country you will find a theater. Whether it’s a...
By Robin E. Simmons
NOW PLAYING:
THE LOST CITY OF Z
Methodical and deliberate in it’s structure and pacing with a welcome emphasis on the overwhelming splendors (both sights and sounds) of its jungle location makes this epic adventure as intellectually provocative as it is a treat for the eyes. Charlie Hunnam does justice to the complex protagonist of Lt. Col. Percy...
By Heidi Simmons
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Culture as Weapon
by Nato Thompson
Nonfiction
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Everyday, Americans participate in creating culture. Whether its getting coffee at Starbucks, Going Red for Women or simply retweeting a message, culture is shaping how American’s think and feel. Culture as Weapon: The Art of Influence in Everyday Life by Nato Thompson (Melville House, 288 pages) sets out to explain the role we...
By Denise Ortuno-Neil
Picture it, a refreshing tangy ice cold Margarita blissfully floating in your mouth, the slight tinge of salt grazing your lips (or not if you like to go salt-less). There is nothing quite like it on a warm weekend afternoon, and Fresh Agave in Palm Desert has one of the best Margaritas in the Coachella Valley. Coupled...
By Rick Riozza
I told you this was going to happen. In the desert here, springtime has always sprung into a quick summertime heater. Even though we received our great share of rain and wonderful snow on our mountains, we have the example of day-one of the BNP Paribas Tennis Open that spiked to 90 degrees, and, now the usual...
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