By Heidi Simmons
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The Voyeur's Motel
by Gay Talese
Nonfiction
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People are fascinating to observe. Just look at the growing popularity of reality television programs. Perhaps there is a voyeur lurking in all of us. But most of what we spy is in a public forum. In The Voyeur's Motel (Grove Press, 233 pages) by Gay Talese, one man looks in on the...
By Haddon Libby
By now, everyone should have heard about Samsung Note 7 cellphones catching fire. The problem is due to the type of battery used - a Lithium-ion battery. This type of battery consists of two materials that combust if not separated by a thin film. MIT professor, Don Sadoway, believes that Samsung tried to cram too much battery...
By Dale Gribow
1. You should not buy insurance coverage for the market value of your home. Instead buy coverage based on a home's cost to reconstruct (materials and labor and not for the land).
2. Red cars do not cost more to insure but they do get pulled over more often because the red color attracts an officer’s eye to...
But make sure you’re driving safe in it while you’re singing… The National Weather Service is calling for a good chance of rain in much of California this week. We certainly need it.
But with our first chance of real precipitation, it will be dangerous as last week with only light and spotty showers traffic accidents went on the rise...
By Flint Wheeler
Cursed by a Billy Goat, bedeviled by Bartman and crushed by decades of disappointment, the Chicago Cubs are at long last headed back to the World Series.
Kyle Hendricks outpitched Clayton Kershaw; Anthony Rizzo and Willson Contreras homered early; and the Cubs won their first pennant since 1945, beating the Los Angeles Dodgers, 5-0, Saturday night in Game...
Week of October 27
© Copyright 2016 Rob Brezsny
ARIES (March 21-April 19): I invite you to fantasize about what your four great-grandmothers and four great-grandfathers may have been doing on November 1, 1930. What? You have no idea how to begin? You don't even know their names? If that's the case, I hope you'll remedy your ignorance. Your ability to...
By Bronwyn Ison
One of the most important values your parents could teach you as a child is integrity. You would think most people would have a great sense of this value. Unfortunately, time and time again I have either experienced or witnessed a lack of this important attribute. Integrity is doing the right thing, at all times, when nobody...
By Dr. Peter Kadile
The stuff that “people say” or “my mother would always tell me”…
Cold weather causes colds.
This is something my mother is still convinced is true. The reality is that colds are caused by a virus that you get from being infected from other people, not from cold weather. Colds may occur more commonly during cooler times of...
By Sunny Simon
It happened again yesterday. While doing some volunteer work at a conference, I met Coach Valerie Alexander selling her book, “Happiness …as a Second Language.” One glance at the cover and I was hooked. As I rummaged through my purse for cash, Valerie presented me with a bright lemon-yellow motivational wristband declaring, “Speak Happiness.” I offered up...
By Denise Ortuno Neil
It’s that special creepy time of year when thoughts of witches, vampires and ghosts fill the imagination and ghouls come out to play. And if you live in the Coachella Valley, it’s also when the most anticipated party of the year takes place, BB Ingle’s Annual Halloween Bash!
BB’s parties are legendary, and have been entertaining desert...
Friday, October 21st at The Hood Bar & Pizza
By Lisa Morgan
The Hood Bar and Pizza is offering plenty of selections this season, and I’m not just talking about their killer bar menu. They are using both indoor and outdoor staging areas to provide a wide (and I mean W I D E) variety of offerings to appease all music...
By Lisa Morgan
It was October 12, Wednesday night. My phone started buzzing with texts and voicemails. Not an unusual occurrence for me; I keep myself a little busy with a full time Job at a busy Palm Desert marketing company, my coverage of local music as CV Weekly’s Head Music Writer, and my own small business (booking and promoting...
By Tracy Dietlin
It's been such a "Trip" the last 2 weekends, both attending Weekend 1, and hearing all my friends share their experiences and even more, watching everyone's' video posts from Weekend 2. I love the way that some of the bands made sure to hold some hits for Weekend 2, like The Rolling Stones doing “Angie” and “Paint...
Saturday, October 22nd from 12 to 8pm
By Morgan James
The city of Desert Hot Springs is an artistic mecca comprising of brilliant visual artists and a number of cultivated musical and performance artists to boot. While the city has held a certain stigma for being less than its neighboring communities, Desert Hot Springs boasts the coolest weather in all of...
By Noe Gutierrez
The Desert Trip shows seemed like bookends to an amazing Lisa Fischer & Grand Baton show at the Renaissance Indian Wells Resort & Spa last Thursday. Coachella Valley Weekly was invited by the desert's premiere promoter Jimi FITZ Fitzgerald of CV 104.3 to witness the amazing voice of Fischer who had sung as back-up vocalist for The...
By Morgan James
With the ambition of an entrepreneur and the passion of an artist, Moe Cheez has succeeded in carving out a piece of the music industry to call his own. Cheez often tells the artists he develops, “The industry is 10 percent music and 90 percent business.” While running the Brutal Bee Music Group and Grind Hard Clothing,...
By Morgan James
This week I caught up with Scott E Stone, lead vocalist and harmonica player for the esteemed blues band The Mighty Delta-Tones. Those familiar with blues music understand that one of the essential elements is the ability to convey raw emotion sincerely to its audience. The genre may lack the complexity of jazz or the prepense of...
By Eleni P. Austin
One of the biggest mysteries of Rock N’ Roll is: why wasn’t Alex Chilton a bigger star? A preternaturally gifted musician, he had a #1 hit song at age 16, as lead singer for the Box Tops. A few years later he and Chris Bell fronted the seminal ‘70s Power Pop band, Big Star. But ultimately,...
By Patte Purcell
Who's that chill bass player? That's Andrew Ford who plays with some of the top acts in the world! He toured with Chaka Khan including a performance at the White House. He toured with Gladys Knight. He toured with David Crosby and Graham Nash. These are just a few of the top artists he performed with: Al...
By Morgan James
What a crowd! What talent! Each week boasts a slew of patrons fired up and ready to join in on the action of the CV Open Mic Competition 2016 at The Block Sports Bar & Grill in Cathedral City. Each performer pushes to outstanding lengths to engage the audience in energetic, heartfelt performances. Live streams buzz through...
By Craig Michaels
For some, a trip to the Palm Springs Aerial Tramway means riding up the mountain to the top Tram station for some amazing views. While others, venture there to test their endurance by running, jogging, or walking up the Tramway road. The 31st Annual Tram Road Challenge takes place this Saturday October 22nd. This 6K run/walk begins...
By Janet McAfee
Your heart aches when a beloved pet goes missing. You feel the angst of not knowing their fate, wondering if they are hungry or sick, and worst of all worrying if they are still alive. One local woman, Amy Hope, turned her worry into action, and is taking extraordinary means to find her beautiful missing Tuxedo cat...
By Rick Riozza
It’s sure been the craze this past decade; flavored vodkas continue to mount the shelves with new and fancy essences from, seemingly, any organic substance and from the rarest outposts around.
But, let’s remember what was, probably, the first flavored vodka: Gin. Several hundred years ago, someone, most likely in Holland or Belgium, began to infuse alcohol with...
By ShareKitchen
For many caterers, bakers, and food vendors, the cost of opening a restaurant or catering business can be daunting, if not wholly prohibitive. But Veronica Burgen, the owner of justMe Sweets in Indio, operates a shared commercial kitchen that puts a small business within reach for many would-be entrepreneurs.
Burgen opened the kitchen last April after closing her original...
With Mayor Moon and a Palm Springs Chamber Ribbon Cutting.
Event includes New Menu Food Samplings, Entertainment, Raffle Prizes and More!
Village Pub is celebrating 21 years in downtown Palm Springs with a special celebration event, commencing with Mayor Robert Moon and Palm Springs Area Chamber of Commerce conducting the official ribbon cutting ceremony promptly at 4:15 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 21,...
Event Will Showcase More Than a Dozen Restaurants, Feature Live Music
The City of Indio, in partnership with the Greater Coachella Valley Chamber of Commerce and the Indio Visitors Bureau, will present the Third Annual Taste of East Valley on Thursday, October 27 at Shields Date Garden. The event, taking place from 4 to 7 p.m. on the sprawling...
By Robin E. Simmons
This week I had an opportunity to check out the new “D-Box” motion activated seats at the newly remodeled Mary Pickford Theater operated by D’Place Entertainment.
For me, this added technology is more than a mere gimmick. But a legitimate addition to the ritual pleasure of going to the movies!
Each D-Box seat is motorized to create the...
By Robin E. Simmons
Film buffs and collectors everywhere are grateful for the handful of boutique home video distributors (besides Criterion) that have licensed, transferred -- and in some cases restored -- vintage films for the highest quality home theater experience. To find titles that might be of interest, check websites for Kino Lorber, Warner bros archives, Olive Films, TCM...
By Heidi Simmons
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When Breath Becomes Air
by Paul Kalanithi
Memoir
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Death is often difficult to talk about and it feels especially strange to consider one's own passing. Yet, death is a reality we all face. In Paul Kalanithi's When Breath Becomes Air (Random House, 238 pages) a neurologist shares his life -- and death.
Author Kalanithi had his life all planned, but as...
“I can’t believe it’s been 10 years. I remember it like it was yesterday. I was home in Orange County leaving for work in Los Angeles. I could see the large plumb of smoke to the east. In a matter of moments it intensified. The plumb expanded and rose quickly into the atmosphere. I knew something went bad. I didn’t...
By Maria Miranda
Social Security District Manager in Palm Springs, CA
Social Security is committed to treating all Americans fairly. This commitment extends to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender people covered by Social Security’s many programs.
October is also National Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) History Month. It’s a month-long annual observance of the history of the gay rights movement. First...
By Haddon Libby
Your vote matters. While it may not make a difference in the Presidential race, down ballot votes are of critical importance to all of us in our everyday lives. To understand this, we need look no further than the race for 2nd district of the Coachella Valley Water District (CVWD) which represents Palm Desert, Thousand Palms, Bermuda...
By Dale Gribow
There are more DUI FATALITIES in the Coachella Valley, per capita, than anywhere else in California. Thus it is logical that DUI arrests and fatalities spike during CV concerts. Naturally our law enforcement agencies become more vigilant on concert weekends.
Concerts bring out DUI checkpoints. These checkpoints are legal, as long as the police follow certain protocols. Everyone...
By Flint Wheeler
Can you believe it’s week 7 already? Almost the halfway point of the NFL season includes a great AFC clash that looked like it would feature two of the best quarterbacks of this era. But that won’t happen now. I reached out to my buddy Chester Vargas, professional sports better and employee at the Mandalay Bay Sports...
Week of October 20
© Copyright 2016 Rob Brezsny
ARIES (March 21-April 19): In the 1980s, two performance artists did a project entitled A Year Tied Together at the Waist. For 12 months, Linda Montano and Tehching Hsieh were never farther than eight feet away from each other, bound by a rope. Hsieh said he tried this experiment because he felt...
By Bronwyn Ison
In life we are challenged with tests and passing them is a part of never giving up. Without trials and tribulations we would not prosper. I am certain you have had circumstances you didn’t believe you could surmount. Yet, as time passed you were able to see the light at the end of tunnel.
Just when you think...
By Doug Morin
Executive Director, Coachella Valley Volunteers in Medicine
Do you know that your ears never stop hearing, even when you sleep? Your brain just ignores incoming sounds. And that your sense of hearing is dependent on tiny hairs deep inside your ear, and if you lose those hairs you lose your hearing? And that you don’t have to clean...
By Sunny Simon
On a serious mission to purge unwanted files, I filtered through the masses of paper in my office and unearthed an old “Warm and Fuzzy” file. The red folder contained cards and letters from family, friends and employees. Sifting through the contents a small thank you card with a bear dancing in the sunshine caught my eye....
By Tracy Dietlin
My first festival was in North Carolina when I was 15. Since then I’ve been to numerous festivals including, the US festival in San Bernardino in the 80s, Lilith Fair, Coachella and Stagecoach many times, and bunches of smaller festivals as well. Desert Trip was by far the best festival experience I’ve ever had for many reasons....
By Lisa Morgan
Day 1:
The sound was pristine no matter where you wandered at this historic event. Each vocal and each instrument had its special place on its path through your ears and into your chest. The visuals behind the state of the art screen were breathtaking. The crowd was classy (for the most part), the weather typical (if you...
By Laura Hunt Little/Photographer
The elements that make rock legends even larger-than-life were running full tilt at Desert Trip. A massive stage with state-of-the-art PA, a 400-foot wide main screen, perfectly programmed lighting, giant tee-pees, smokestacks, lasers with appropriate fog, choreographed pyrotechnics and fireworks were all turned up to 11.
But just a few hundred yards from the grandstands was a...
And You Are Invited: October 28th at The Hood Bar & Pizza
By Esther Sanchez
At what is sure to be one of the parties of the year, on October 28th at The Hood Bar & Pizza, The Hellions will be joined by The After Lashes, De-Con and all of the cool kids to commemorate the release of their newest album,...
By Morgan James
With music success outside of the Coachella Valley, Hip Hop group, The Bermuda is bringing their music home to share with an enthusiastic local audience. Gaining popularity one show at a time, these rappers are thrilled at the warm reception. With several local upcoming shows plus one in Los Angeles with Insane Clown Posse, The Bermuda is...
By Eleni P. Austin
Trying to describe Public Access T.V. using just one or two adjectives is nearly impossible. The band’s sound encompasses Punk, New Wave, Power-Pop, Glam and Post-Punk. Although the four-piece has barely been together for two years, their full-length debut has been one of the most hotly anticipated albums of 2016.
John Eatherly grew up in a small...
By Noe Gutierrez
Making headlines on "CBS This Morning" and "Entertainment Tonight" about the highly publicized and controversial suicide of their beloved son Julian, actor Kristoff St. John ("The Young and the Restless") and Palm Spring's based world champion boxer Mia St. John are continuing their crusade to raise suicide and mental health awareness.
According to recent data provided by the...
Gloria Steinem said, “Women have always been a part of the past. We just haven’t always been a part of history.”
2016 marks the 96th Anniversary of the passage of the 19th Amendment, granting women the right to vote. A right not given freely nor out of benevolence, but a rather a hard fought battle that was won with much...
Lou Ferrigno and Lou Ferrigno, Jr. Welcome Pro and Amateur Bodybuilders, Powerlifters and 3,000 Fitness Fans this October 28-30th
The 3rd Annual Ferrigno Legacy™ presented by Carr Cellular Fitness returns to Agua Caliente Casino Resort Spa in Rancho Mirage, CA near Palm Springs on October 28-30th 2016.
California’s newest and most prestigious IFBB Olympia and NPC national qualifier hosts 450+ athletes competing...
By Craig Michaels
The Art Place in the Palm Desert Design District has been a destination for designers and homeowners for over 20 years and is a one-stop-shop for all your decor needs. These unique shops are nestled in the Palm Desert Design District located at 41801 Corporate Way, just off Hovley Lane.
Some of these studio-galleries have artists in residence...
A Stealth Media Buying Company is Now a Full Service Creative Powerhouse
Old Town La Quinta-based JNS Media Specialists has undergone a full rebranding effort intended to better align with the full range of services their agency now provides. JNS Next, Creative and Media Hub now offers services including strategic marketing solutions, branding, graphic design, content writing, website development, production and...
By Angela Romeo
Art is a part of our lives. Every day it has an impact on us. For Photographer Stephen Elson growing up in a home that embraced art has led to a lifetime of inspiration.
“I was fortunate to grow up in a household surrounded by art books, multiple periodicals of fashion and art, and a collection of Japanese...
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