Spa Resort Casino presents a new season of Concerts Under the Palms, a series of outdoor live music shows in a unique setting at the corner of Indian Canyon and E. Andreas Road in downtown Palm Springs starting on November 12, 2016, and continuing through April 8, 2017.
Surrounded by a grove of skirted palms under a starry night sky,...
By Eleni P. Austin
The Beatles are such a ubiquitous presence in music that it’s easy to kind of take them for granted. People tend to forget that (along with Elvis Presley and Bob Dylan), these four lads from Liverpool forever altered the course of Rock N’ Roll.
John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr were born during World...
By Angela Romeo
There are some weeks when there is so much happening that one doesn’t know where to start. This is such a week….
First let’s start with the worldwide musical celebration to honor Archbishop Desmond Tutu’s 85th birthday. Coachella Valley resident Jason Rothberg is spearheading this event: “The Archbishop has dedicated his life to the service of others and...
By Rachel Montoya
Art is an expression of human creative skill and imagination, typically in a visual form such as painting or sculpture. Art also comes in various branches of creative activity, such as photography, ceramics, music, literature, and dance. There is a common thread in between these activities - Passion. Passion will take you places, and passion also takes...
By Rick Riozza
No—this isn’t a salutation to some readily imaginable lively bacchanal festivity. Rather, this is my enjoyable endeavor to enter in on the “Women’s theme” for this edition of CV Weekly.
How fortuitous actually: As I mentioned a few columns back, we’re moving on from covering wine wise guys to the gentler wine wise gals, where I get to...
By Janet McAfee
We will never know the suffering these two precious brother dogs endured in their early life. They were 4 months old and living in squalor, devoid of sufficient food, vet care, or human love. Their lives were saved by The Desert Dog Project, a charity operated by Pat Bonham. One of Pat’s neighbors contacted her about the...
By Share Kitchen
A decade ago, tasked with raising money for a trip to Italy with classmates at La Quinta High School, best friends Brandon Weimer and Leah Post came up with an idea that hardly anyone could resist: buttery sweet toffee covered in rich dark chocolate with crushed roasted almonds sprinkled on top.
Today, Weimer and Post — now college...
By Robin E. Simmons
NOW PLAYING:
THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN
Director Antoine Fuqua lays on a contemporary patina on his western action drama reboot of 1960’s The Magnificent Seven which was in turn a remake of Akira Kurosawa’s classic 1954 film about hired mercenaries coming to the aid of a beleaguered village. Fuqua’s film has a great look – some of the scenes...
By Heidi Simmons
I have been approached by men, more than once, who have told me they will not read anything written by a woman. One said, he wouldn't even read my column when he saw the author was female.
This genuinely surprised me and gave me pause. I hadn't given gender much thought when it came to great storytelling. It...
By Haddon Libby
In recent years, the Department of Justice has instigated 144 cases against financial institutions like Wells Fargo Bank. These cases have led to more than $250 billion in fines yet no one has gone to jail. While the financial firms have had to fire some people, most firms have continued in a business-as-usual manner after each case.
Bank...
By Dale Gribow
Believe it or not many lawyers do have a heart. I feel like crying after rejecting a victim's case with big injuries. Unfortunately most potential clients focus on the injury and not on the harmful negative factors like: admitting liability at the scene; no immediate medical treatment; being at or partly at fault: low property damage; prior...
To date, some of this year’s most destructive fires were dangerously close to the Napa, Paso and Santa Barbara Wine Regions. Our hearts go out to the victims of these dangerous wildfires. Ask any Firefighter - they take any loss personally. Sometimes were just outnumbered, many times mother nature and the fires fury is too much. Especially with these...
By Flint Wheeler
NCAA coaching carousel ride is finally come to a halt. However as of this writing, the L.S.U. Head Coach, Les Miles, is looking for a job. Some schools have made better choices then others. Below I’ve listed this season best hires as of yet. I see at least one of these to sniff the new L.S.U. opening...
By Jenny Wallis
Dear Jenny,
I have been actively dating someone for seven weeks. We haven’t talked about monogamy or have had sex yet. I am interested in seeing where it goes, yet he hasn't broached the subject of being exclusive. Is it appropriate timing to bring it up or assume he's still pursuing other women? And should I continue to...
By Dr. Peter Kadile
Cold and flu season is just around the corner and soon unlucky individuals will be complaining about runny noses, sneezing, cough, congestion and body aches. As I’ve always stressed, it’s important to drink plenty of water, obtain adequate sleep, supplement with vitamin D and most importantly wash your hands to prevent you from getting sick. Let’s...
Week of September 29
© Copyright 2016 Rob Brezsny
ARIES (March 21-April 19): What's the difference between a love warrior and a love worrier? Love warriors work diligently to keep enhancing their empathy, compassion, and emotional intelligence. Love worriers fret so much about not getting the love they want that they neglect to develop their intimacy skills. Love warriors are always...
By Bronwyn Ison
You know the emotions generated when you allow thoughts to swirl in your head. Good, bad, or indifferent. Our minds are powerful. Our thoughts can determine our moods, how we respond to others, and can dictate our day. However, often we allow negative regressive thoughts to rule over the positive.
Consistently, the past fifteen months, I’ve made a...
By Sunny Simon
I leaned in offering my friend the comfort of a warm hug telling her I’d see her soon. We’d spent an hour together over coffee. She was going through a rough patch and needed a listening ear. Let’s face it; there is no better remedy to help heal the hurts than attentive compassion coupled with an embrace.
As...
From Publisher Tracy Dietlin:
It is with great pride and pleasure that I announce to you CV Weekly’s Top 12 Most Interesting & Influential Men of the Coachella Valley for 2016.
While there are many deserving men in the valley, with several of them actually being part of my CV Weekly team, I chose each of these Men for specific individual...
Charity: Raices Cultura
By Noe Gutierrez
Eevaan Tré is an artist. Crossing music and fashion like no else in the Coachella Valley, he has developed his own unique brand and continues to cause females to swoon at the sound of his voice and at the cut of his rug. “My job is to be the artist. I have always been involved...
Charity: Temple Isaiah
By Heidi Simmons
"Working in the entertainment industry all my life, it's been about being creative," said Christopher Spellman, Founder of Comic Con Palm Springs. "As a writer, producer, my career has been all about putting together creative projects at a very high level."
For Spellman, Comic Con was a challenge that fit with his skill set and was...
Charity: Big Brother’s and Big Sister’s
By Rich Henrich
This past weekend, I had the pleasure of speaking with Steve Sanchez, a Marine on a mission to serve community through sound principles of vision, leadership and integrity. In our current state of affairs, the political landscape may not seem so attractive. But when you need a tough situation to be handled,...
Charity: Desert Aids Project
By Heidi Simmons
"It's an incredible honor," said Robert Moon, Mayor of Palm Springs. "I have no other job. It is the only thing I do. I work full time being Mayor."
When Moon is not at City Hall, he travels to meetings and events all over the Coachella Valley representing Palm Springs. Moon spends hours reading and...
Charity: The Desi Strong Foundation
By Rich Henrich
Along the winding road of life he lost his passion. Then found it again while being homeless in Palm Springs. His story is an inspiration and a call to action for each of us to connect with our own ability to be a force for good. Peter recently completed his community project, “30...
Charity: Coachella Valley Repertory Theater
By Heidi Simmons
"I like going through life doing my best to have a good time," said Jerry Keller, restaurateur. "I'm lucky to have a business where I can be creative and effective enough to help people enjoy life and make everything a little more fun."
The Keller family owns Lulu California Bistro in Palm Springs and...
Charity: Pet Rescue Center
By Tracy Dietlin
If you love a good party, and have been in the Coachella Valley for any period of time, you most likely have heard of BB Ingle, and most certainly have attended one of his monster parties. He has always had an affinity for bringing people together in celebration, and has taken his love for...
Charity: Go Red for Woman
By Heidi Simmons
"I look at Go Red as a celebration of the heart, but it's really a focused mission to educate woman on how to recognize heart symptoms and live a heart healthy life," said David Herrlinger, VP, Hot Purple Energy. "The ability to save so many lives by spreading the word about the need...
Charity: Loving All Animals
By Noe Gutierrez
The success of The Hood Bar & Pizza may not have continued if a certain gentleman did not step in to take the helm. Sir Brad Guth is that man. Guth is no stranger to the business world. He has a storied career in sales. “I began a career in retail as Buyer for...
Charity: ACT for MS
By Noe Gutierrez
What can we say about FITZ that hasn’t already been printed in previous Coachella Valley Weekly articles featuring him? The fact that we’re writing about him again and that he is one of CV Weekly’s Top 12 Most Interesting & Influential Men of 2016 is an indicator that he continues to maintain his integrity...
Charity: GCVCC Future Leaders Program
By Noe Gutierrez
Josh Bonner will tell you he’s a “simple guy”. He is far from it. As President and CEO of the Greater Coachella Valley Chamber of Commerce, aka The Chamber, the second largest in Riverside County, he is leading the charge of the Coachella, Indio and La Quinta Chambers of Commerce as well as...
Charity: Safehouse of the Desert
By Morgan James
Will; Hard Work; Determination; For Soterios Anagnostou these are words to live by. Growing up in Dana Point Soterios spent his youth surfing, skateboarding, fishing and immersing himself in the local art culture. At a young age he fused his artistic talent with his athletic abilities and became notably involved with a popular...
By Morgan James
Rob Lawrence has a spirited nature, striving to enjoy the adventure of life itself, volunteering for causes near and dear to him, and self-expression through his music. Lawrence displays his big heart playing music for various charities supporting causes from Animals to Autism. If asked to give of his time, talents, or expertise, Lawrence is always the...
@ Pappy and Harriet’s, Thursday, September 22nd, 8 p.m. FIRST COME FIRST SERVE
"The most problematic times for the band were when we tried to play by the rules. When we just said, ‘Screw that! We’re just going to do what we want,' like make a record about lesbian pirates and put on a vaudeville-like show...those ideas were limitless." - Sally...
By Patte Purcell
Who's that entertainer on the stage, screen, TV, radio, behind the camera, in front of the camera, singing with combos, orchestras, and every musical genre from jazz standards to country? One performer stands out, the "Prince of Palm Springs" Fleet Friend Easton.
I met this bundle of energy last year at the Purple Room with my friend Sherrie...
Fantasy Springs Resort Casino Continues To Bring Top Notch Entertainment To The Coachella Valley
By Lola Rossi
International singing superstar Julio Iglesias performed at Fantasy Springs Resort Casino last Saturday, September 17, in The Special Events Center to a capacity room of adoring fans from the Coachella Valley, Los Angeles and some as far as Arizona.
During the Concert he spoke to...
By Eleni P. Austin
Scott Miller was born in 1960 and grew up in Sacramento. In fact his family originally settled there during the California gold rush of the 1850s. His parents had an eclectic record collection that included Broadway show-tunes and a cross-section of Folk music. By the time he was school-age he was obsessed with the Beatles and...
By Slim Man
One thing you gotta love about America, when a movie hits big, you can be absolutely sure there will be sequels coming out for the next fifty years or so. The first Godfather sequel was the first movie to actually use a number after the name, as in Godfather II.
Seriously!
The Star Wars movie franchise got a little...
By Dee Jae Cox
At some point in our lives we are all faced with mortality. The Realistic Joneses by Will Eno, takes us into the melancholy and somewhat strange world of two couples, Bob Jones (Luke Rainey,) Bob’s wife Jennifer, portrayed by Christine Tringali, and their new next-door neighbors, John (Tanner Lieser) and Pony Jones (Brianna Eylicio.) Eno, whose...
By Angela Romeo
Artists are influenced by their location. Lighting, weather, natural landscape, man-made landscape all factor into one’s work. For Jeff Coleson the sunshine of the desert was a break after so many years in Seattle.
“Seattle is many things including rainy and cold. Palm Springs, even in the summer, is refreshing. I am feeling at home,” noted the resident...
Fashion, Fun and Celebrity Guest Speaker Cindy Williams
Dog Day Afternoon, a fashion show and luncheon event to benefit The Pet Rescue Center, will be held on Monday, November 7, 2016 from 11:30am to 2:00pm at Mountain View Country Club in La Quinta. One highlight of the event will be celebrity guest speaker and longtime animal lover Cindy Williams, best...
By Janet McAfee
Five emails containing the daily euthanasia list of Devore’s shelter animals appeared on my computer, sent by folks who tirelessly network homeless animals. At the bottom of the list was a pair of adorable little fluffy terrier dogs described as “rescue only” due to fearfulness, which means only an approved animal rescue group could take them. They...
By Rick Riozza
A lover or connoisseur of wine is known in some places as an “oenophile”, pronounced: “ee-no-file”. One would think that this is perhaps some ancient Classical Greek term that we’re stuck with—but it’s not. It was more-or-less the name of one of the first Manhattan restaurants to encourage bringing in your own bottle of wine—and probably prompting...
By Tracy Dietlin
While there are many fabulous restaurants in the Coachella Valley, there is one that keeps me going back week after week and that is Stuft Pizza. The original La Quinta location was doing so well that owner John Bertram decided to open a second location a little over a year ago at the Westfield Palm Desert Mall.
Obviously...
By Robin E. Simmons
NOW PLAYING:
SNOWDEN
The first thing I did when I got home after watching “SNOWDEN” at the newly refurbished Mary Pickford Theater was to stick a piece of masking tape over the camera lens of my laptop computer. I love paranoid thrillers and I’m a big fan of Oliver Stone’s movies. He’s like a modern left-leaning Shakespeare who...
By Heidi Simmons
Since Johannes Gutenberg invented the printing press, male authors have dominated the written word. William Shakespeare, Charles Dickens, Edger Allen Poe, J.R.R. Tolkien, John Steinbeck, Ray Bradbury, Leo Tolstoy, Oscar Wilde, Arthur Conan Doyle, J.D. Salinger, Franz Kafka, George Orwell, Raymond Carver, Dr. Seuss, and the list of great authors goes on and on and on.
It's nearly...
By Haddon Libby
The 2016 elections are coming up in about 45 days. If you listen to many politicians and their marketing machines, these will be the most important elections since the beginning of time. While that bit of hyperbole is not necessarily true, it is important that we exercise our constitutional right to vote.
During this election season, most incumbents...
By Dale Gribow
These secrets and suggestions are not known by many lawyers who only focus on the guilt or innocence of their client. Most lawyers don't consider the financial consequences DUI drivers encounter upon insurance renewals. Good attorneys, however, consider all DUI consequences.
You don't have to be drunk to be guilty of a DUI. A DUI (Driving Under the...
By Maria Miranda
Social Security District Manager in Palm Springs, CA
Social Security joins you and your family in celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month, which runs from September 15 to October 15.
We know the contributions of Hispanics can be traced to before the origins of the United States with the discovery, exploration, and naming of many places in our nation, such as...
Approximately 140 Firefighter's, Police Officers and United States Military Members golfed with local residents this last Saturday Sept. 17th to raise money for the Folds of Honor Patriot Golf Tournament at the Westin, Mission Hills raising money for educational scholarships for children of United States Military members who have been killed or disabled while serving our nation.
Mission Hills Golf...
By Flint Wheeler
Thursday night represented our first look at a very big bet by Twitter on its future as a live events platform.
The social platform live-streamed the first of 10 Thursday night football games, with the stream available on mobile as well as its brand new connected device apps. Twitter has streamed some sports before, but this was by...
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