By Eleni P. Austin
Rick Shelley grew up a typical kid in Walla Walla, Washington. He played G.I. Joe’s, built forts, rode bikes he also spent a lot of time worried about Big Foot’s whereabouts. His father’s family had been farm workers who migrated from the south. A musical clan, Rick always heard stories centered around guitars and fiddles, a...
Shop small and make a big difference! La Quinta Arts Foundation will present its Thanksgiving weekend edition of Art Under the Umbrellas at Old Town La Quinta on Saturday, November 28, 2015 from 10 am to 4 pm. This date was set to coincide with Small Business Saturday 2015, which has grown into a national movement encouraging people to...
By Janet McAfee
I moved quickly through the kennels at the San Bernardino City Shelter checking the availability dates on the dogs' kennel cards, not wanting to lock eyes with the pups longer than necessary. Many of the animals were still on hold for an owner to claim, though sadly the percentage of owner retrievals is small. I spotted an...
By Rick Riozza
Well—there’s not much of it around town. Where have all the Beaujolais Nouveau parties gone?—long time passing. Although it was just last year that the Viceroy Hotel carried on their tradition of a horse drawn carriage hauling in a large wooden cask of the young purple wine straight from Burgundy France via LAX from Charles DeGaulle; and,...
MASTRO’S
For the first time ever, Mastro’s Palm Desert (along with Mastro’s locations all across Los Angeles), will be open for Thanksgiving Dinner next week, starting at 4pm!
Forget about your aunt’s dry turkey and start a brand new tradition with juicy steaks, sumptuous seafood and martinis! (no cleanup!!).
Holiday Cocktails: Mastro’s is known for their incredible cocktails, and for the holidays,...
By Robin E. Simmons
PICK OF THE WEEK:
SPOTLIGHT
Shocking, repellant and lurid. The true and riveting story of the Boston Globe’s year-long investigation into the child abuse allegations and cover-up by the Catholic Church garnered not only a Pulitzer Prize for the paper’s Spotlight team, but also revealed a local and then international scandal at the highest levels of the once...
By Heidi Simmons
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“Portraits and Voices of the Salton Sea”
by Christina Lange
Nonfiction
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Right in our back yard is the State of California’s largest body of water. At 33 miles long and 13 miles wide –- that’s approximately 376 square miles! -- it is considered a sea. To put that in clearer perspective, the Salton Sea is bigger than Tahoe and Mono...
“They told me to take a street-car named Desire, and transfer to one called Cemeteries, and ride six blocks and get off at—Elysian Fields!”
By Dee Jae Cox
This journey, the precursor to the play, allegorically represents the trajectory of Blanch Dubois’ life, the tragic protagonist of Tennessee Williams’ Pulitzer Prize winning play, “Street Car Named Desire” currently in production at...
By Haddon Libby
As you gather with friends and family for the Thanksgiving holiday, I want to arm you with information that you can use to distract your favorite aunt or uncle and keep them from retelling that story that they have been telling since you were at the kid’s table.
As turkeys are indigenous to North America and Mexico, how...
By Dale Gribow
My column ideas come from reader’s suggestions but this week it came from a 25 year old client on Friday November 13, 2015 who had a DUI with a Driving on a Suspended License. In Indio this could mean a 10-30 jail sentence... on a first offense.
She had NO prior DUI’s which normally suspends a CDL. DMV...
The Kitchen is the heart of the home during the holidays. Keep it safe with these safety tips:
• Stay in the kitchen when you are cooking on the stovetop so you can keep an eye on the food.
• Stay in the home when cooking your turkey and check on it frequently.
• Keep children away from the stove. The stove...
Record Setting 9th Annual Tournament attracts 18,000+ to Valley
Synapse Sports has announced the ninth annual Sand Storm Lacrosse Festival, being held Jan. 16-17, 2016 at the Empire Polo Club in Indio, Cal., has been expanded to include competition on 51 fields. A record 330 boys’ and girls’ teams - comprised of middle and high school players - are...
By Flint Wheeler
The weekend that was on the NCAA gridirons, and a sorting through of some of the key issues to find opportunities on the games to come.
It’s late November now
One of the reasons why college football can bring such major edges is that a season is actually several different acts played out across the stage, each bringing their...
Week of November 19
© Copyright 2015 Rob Brezsny
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Urbandictionary.com defines the English word "balter" as follows: "to dance without particular skill or grace, but with extreme joy." It's related to the Danish term baltre, which means "to romp, tumble, roll, cavort." I nominate this activity to be one of your ruling metaphors in the coming weeks. You...
Dear Jenny,
I have been in quite a few relationships but not one has stuck! Not one has lasted longer than a year… Every time I am in a relationship, no matter how great it is in the beginning, it always seems to end abruptly. I have always complained that I meet unavailable men and they just never seem to...
By Sunny Simon
During the past few weeks I’ve heard several people brag about character traits they attribute to “being from New Jersey.” After putting some thought into it, I wondered if upbringing in a certain geographic location brings with it an acquired persona.
In addition to political strategist, Julie Roginsky, Chris Christie, the 55th Governor of the Garden State, the...
Set for November 13 – 15 at the Palm Springs Air Museum
Hear from Leading Authorities Andrew Ordon, MD & Ritu Chopra, MD, NFL Players and More
By Michelle McLaughlin
The first annual Palm Springs International Health & Fitness Festival November 13 – 15 is a community-wide event with everything Health & Fitness. The event is at the Palm Springs Air Museum at...
Bryan Cranston plays blacklisted screenwriter Dalton Trumbo in the critically praised film TRUMBO. He and the film are getting a lot of attention. Do some of the controversies in Trumbo’s life resonate with us today? Recently, I had the privilege of speaking with Mr. Cranston about this, among other things. What follows is a part of our conversation. ~...
The Life and Death Battle from the Front Lines of our Streets
By Lisa Morgan
Coachella Valley had a total of 521 homeless individuals reported, based upon a homeless count in 2013. As of 2015 that number was reduced to 364. While Indio dramatically decreased from an estimated 256 in 2013 to 92 in 2015, Palm Springs increased from 60...
Performing at Schmidy's Tavern, Palm Desert, Friday, November 13 8pm
By Lisa Morgan
I never questioned if the guy was good. My friend Jon Eben, former bandmate turned Nashville resident, songwriter and guitar slinger, was never known to be a bullshiter, nor did he ever give praise all that easily. "Travis Meadows is so hot," he said, "Nashville stands around...
By Rebecca Washington
The Date Shed opened its doors to the public for the first time on November 25, 2011. The idea for the Date Shed was a natural progression after all the years of the Coachella Valley Arts and Music Festival where the Date Shed was used as a private party area to host close family and friends during...
While planning and preparing for your big Thanksgiving Day feast, remember to schedule in time to crawl, walk or run to help support our homeless community. The 9th Annual Hightower Thanksgiving Day 5K benefitting Marth’s Village and Kitchen will return to El Paseo on Thanksgiving Day morning. This is a great holiday tradition that gets bigger and better every...
By Esther Sanchez
Saturday, November 14th, local non-profit organization, Culturas, and the City of Coachella are proud to present the 4th annual Synergy Fest! A free, all-ages music and arts festival that has taken the community by storm. The brain-child of Culturas co-founder and director, Ms. Yaya Ortiz, says the purpose of Synergy is to unite and mobilize the community...
Week #12 of the CV Open Mic Competition Fall edition brought a full house and 20 performances! The bands, singers, instrumentalists, rappers, duos, etc., gave it their all while DJ Alex Updike kept the crowd feeling the music in between performances. Audience giveaways such as hats and t-shirts from the Mary Pickford Theatre kept the crowd cheering for more....
By Patte Purcell
I always love a good Jazz Jam and Palm Springs has got some great ones. The VIP Afterparty at the BMW of Palm Springs Smooth Jazzfest was so much fun that nobody wanted it to end. We had artists come in from LA, San Diego even Las Vegas to jam. One of the 'Drifters' vocalist Michael Howard...
By Noe Gutierrez
The Cult will be releasing their new album, Hidden City on February 5th 2016. Their first single, “Dark Energy” was released on November 6th and is classic and progressive Cult. Ian Astbury explained about The Cult's new album this week, "Hidden City is a metaphor for our spiritual lives, our intimate interior lives. I find today's gurus...
By Eleni P. Austin
“Mind goes faster than pen, but the end is so stupid/Like bubblegum in your hair isn’t fair but it smells good.” No those aren’t Deep Thoughts from Jack Handey, they’re the lyrics from the song “Open Up” on the new Dead Weather record. The Dead Weather is yet another super-group featuring Jack White.
Jack White has been...
By Rebecca Pikus
Sealed with a kiss is a term used to express endearment from one person to another.
“SW” just happens to be the first two letters of Sandy Swett’s last name (the photographer) and “AK” are the last two letters of Peter Mikulaks last name (the artist).
“SWAK” was created as a way to identify their creative collaboration, two artists...
By Angela Valente Romeo
I remember an episode from the TV show Taxi; someone asks the collective drivers what they do for a living. Only one, Alex Rieger, answers truthfully, “Me? I am a taxi driver.” No qualifications just stating the fact. Ask David A. Clark what his response is and it is just as clear and true, “I am...
By Amanda Dorta
The Coachella Valley is rich with opportunity and a few of our neighbors have recently appreciated from her harvest. CV locals Chris Reyes and Daniel Slaughter have come together to provide us the expansion of a Bloodline Tattoo second location. The new shop is an easy find at 73861 Hwy 111 in Palm Desert right next to...
Nov. 14th & Nov. 15th at the Palm Desert Civic Center Park
By Janet McAfee
There is something for everyone at the 7th annual Super Pet Adoption Festival this weekend, Nov. 14th and Nov. 15th at the Palm Desert Civic Center Park. This year’s event promises to be better than ever, with the now legendary Wizard of Oz theme. Dorothy and...
By Rick Riozza
At start of our celebratory season here in the valley, CV Weekly is happy to continue with the Thanksgiving tradition of presenting a couple of the desert’s venerable wine purveyors with their wonderful vino selections.
Both Dan Sullivan of Dan’s Wine Shop in Palm Desert and, Costa Nichols’ Desert Wine & Spirits in Palm Springs, each take the...
By Raymond Bill
Once again, La Quinta High School Culinary Department has put together an event that will not soon be forgotten! The Blackhawk Culinary American Diabetes Showdown took place last week in their state of the art kitchen, and provided over $3,000 to benefit American Diabetes Association (ADA). These benefit events are not only entertaining to those who attend...
By Robin E. Simmons
SPECTRE
For me, Sean Connery will always be the real James Bond. But among all the men who have been issued that emblematic license to kill since Connery, Daniel Craig is the best fit of a no-nonsense spy on world-saving missions. I loved SKYFALL -- both its relevant world threat and meticulous, eye-popping craftsmanship. Director Sam Mendes...
By Heidi Simmons
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“Walking With Abel”
by Anna Badkhen
Nonfiction
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Nomadic people have roamed this planet since the beginning of time. Around the globe borders have been drawn and more and more boundaries have been created. In Anna Badkhen’s Walking With Abel: Journeys With the Nomads of the African Savannah (Riverhead Books, 320 pages), a transhumant culture struggles to exist in the rapidly...
By Haddon Libby
Have you been paying any attention to the 2016 Presidential Election Process? If you have not, here is some of what you are missing:
On the GOP side, once-upon-a-time front runner JEB! rebooted his campaign and now uses the slogan, JEB! CAN FIX IT. Personally, I do not want any more politicians of privilege who have the fix...
By Dale Gribow
When considering insurance policies and or agents, be sure you are comparing apples to apples. Sometimes the most important factor is not which is cheapest, because cheaper is not necessarily better. Comparing my fee to that of a cheaper lawyer is like comparing a $9.95 Sizzler Steak to one from Morton’s at $49.95. They are both called...
Did you know that Diabetes is one of the leading causes of disability and death in the United States? It can cause blindness, nerve damage, kidney disease, and other health problems if it’s not controlled reminds Fire Chief Sam DiGiovanna.
One in 11 Americans have diabetes — that’s more than 29 million people. And another 86 million adults in the...
By Julie Buehler
UFC star, Cub Swanson, is know for his knockout blows and the beer he crafted with Coachella Valley Brewing Company, Killer Cub, is just as powerful.
It’s another instance of a locally-born super star consciously deciding to reinvest in the community that invested in him.
Swanson told me it took more than 2 years of planning and navigating complex...
By Flint Wheeler
A guy walks into a Vegas Sportsbook wearing a Trench Coat, large billed hat and a Wad of Money. He looks both ways, walks up to the Counter, and puts down a Stack of Bills. The Room is hushed. In a Low, almost too low to hear voice he says, "Michigan -3."
And so that's Sharp Money right?...
By Dr. Peter Kadile
You’ve probably heard of probiotic supplements by now. Probiotics are now commonly seen or mentioned in television, radio and internet ads.
What are probiotics?
Micro-organisms that are intentionally taken to benefit health. We usually think of probiotics as the “good” or “healthy” bacteria.
Our gut has trillions of micro-organisms that provide a wide range of benefits to our bodies....
Week of November 12
© Copyright 2015 Rob Brezsny
ARIES (March 21-April 19): "I demand unconditional love and complete freedom," wrote Slovenian poet Tomaž Šalamun. "That is why I am terrible." In accordance with the astrological omens, I'm offering you the chance, at least temporarily, to join Šalamun in demanding unconditional love and complete freedom. But unlike him, you must satisfy...
By Bronwyn Ison
If we all held the same opinions in common, our world would be rather mundane. Possessing a difference of opinion creates engaging and stimulating conversation. It is rather interesting two people can grow up in the same home, be taught the same values yet have such diverse views on the same topics. It is also what propels...
By Sunny Simon
As a career coach I encounter clients who are down on the mat and often temporarily out for the count. Many have lost their jobs based on corporate restructurings; others experienced a bad break due to personal relationships, business ventures or other significant life zingers. At one time or another, each of us has experienced a severe...
SET TO PERFORM AT FANTASY SPRINGS RESORT CASINO
Friday, November 6th @ 8pm
By Tracy Dietlin
Chart-topping San Francisco-natives Train will bring their vast catalog of hit songs to fans at Fantasy Springs Resort Casino on Friday, November 6 on the Special Events Center stage. The Grammy and Billboard Award winning band will play tracks from their newest album, Bulletproof Picasso, including...
By Lisa Morgan
This band will definitely leave you flustered, in the best way. You’ll want to hear and see more of this fresh yet classically timeless, rocking original goodness. I had the opportunity to sit in on a rehearsal, and I was completely won over. The unspoken synchronicity between these players is tangible. The music they play comes from...
By Lisa Morgan
This band took Goldenvoice’s Tachevah Competition by the throat and won the prized opportunity to play the high profile Block Party. They had only put the band together 6 months prior with that very goal in mind. This tenacious tribe was still in high school at the time. Some of them still are. Since then, major changes...
By Lisa Morgan
When longtime desert musician, Mark Gregg, shared a YouTube video of his son playing guitar and singing into the camera, I was immediately impacted. The song was “Firewater” and the voice, the mechanics of his guitar playing and the seasoned depth of his lyrics were far beyond his years. I would meet the young singer/songwriter months later...
SET FOR NOVEMBER 14 AT INDIO GOLF COURSE
Free event to feature barbecue competitions, live music and craft breweries
As many as 50 of the best pit masters in the state will be competing for a prize pool of up to $10,000 at the inaugural Indio California State BBQ Championship and Festival on Saturday, November 14 from 10 a.m. to 6...
Debuts November 6 and Features New and Significant Special Events for the 2015 – 2016 Season
By Chris Clemens
First Weekend Palm Desert, held monthly the first weekend from November through May every year, is a monthly three-day signature celebration, featuring world-class art and cultural activities, dining and shopping specials, and now featured events with different themes.
The first major event, STREET,...
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