By Flint Wheeler
Chris Como became one of the most famous golf coaches on the planet on Saturday when Tiger Woods announced that he hired him as a swing "consultant."
Only the hardest of hardcore golf nerds knew who Como was before Tiger announced the hire. He's a 37-year-old based in Plano, Texas who's finishing a Master's degree in biomechanics at...
By Karen Creasey
Approaching a new year this 2015 has been a reflective experience. I have been thinking long and hard about what it means to make a new year’s resolution. What it means to resolve to start something, change something, or finish something. I have always been someone who makes new year’s resolution on the first day of the...
Week of December 18
© Copyright 2014 Rob Brezsny
ARIES (March 21-April 19): "Too much happiness can make you unhappy," reported journalist Marta Zaraska in the Washington Post. Citing research by psychologists, she concluded that being super-extra cheerful can make you selfish, gullible, and more prone to stereotyped thinking. On the other hand, she said, maintaining merely moderate levels of happiness...
By Bronwyn Ison
With less than two weeks in the year you may be reflecting upon 2014. This is your opportune moment to be thankful, revel in your accomplishments, contemplate change and envision 2015. Many people consider New Year’s resolutions. Is this you? What are your goals in 2015? Are you establishing new goals? Will you enact changes in your...
By Sunny Simon
Lying on my back with a throbbing headache I wondered why I spent weeks ignoring the signs. Obvious notices were posted all over town. Every supermarket with a pharmacy offered flu shots. The process probably took all of ten minutes but I chose to bypass this preventative measure. As a result, I spent some time paying the...
By Dr Peter Kadile
Every year, my patients use the holiday season as an excuse or “free pass” not to watch their diet so they can enjoy the Christmas parties, cookies, candy and sweets that are a mainstay of December. When January comes, it’s not unusual for patients to see me to “get back in shape” because they overdid it...
New FAST and FREE Trolley Service Begins Friday, Dec. 19
By Amy Blaisdell
The City’s ultra-cool new trolley service begins on Friday, Dec. 19 and you’re invited to ride the BUZZ at a fun and festive launch party at 5 p.m. on the corner of Tahquitz Canyon Way and Palm Canyon Drive with Mayor Steve Pougnet, the Palm Springs City Council...
Saturday, December 20, starting at 5pm @ The Date Shed, Indio. Ages 16+, $15 at the door. $30 VIP.
FOR ADVANCED TICKETS CALL760.501.6228
by Lisa Morgan
CV Weekly doesn't have an office Christmas party. No, here at CV Weekly, our boss throws the epic concert of the year. And it seems that there is no CV Weekly event that doesn't make contributing to...
BY DIANE MARLIN-DIRKX
This week started out with promise and then, with the long-awaited drenching from above, slick patent-leather wet streets turned into hours of eat-bon-bons- and- read- movie-magazines lie-downs-with feet-up escapes into romance, imaginings and self-indulgencies we yearn for during the busy season from now thru the holidays and long into the next year until the end of May...
Save 50% Off Herd Pack Adoptions
The Living Desert has a one-of-a-kind gift idea this holiday season with the gift of “adopting” an animal. For a limited time only, The Living Desert is offering a holiday special of 50% off an animal in the Herd Package (regularly priced at $100) which includes: jaguar cub, giraffe calf, zebra foal, fennec fox...
How fun would it be to go to a place with exotics birds, in a garden setting where you can buy special holiday gifts, have brunch, watch a major divisional professional football game, and sample great food from local restaurants and artisan tequilas with fine cigars? That’s what Loving All Animals has created with its Holidaze Sports Bar Brunch...
By Michael Picardi
The Holiday Parade in Desert Hot Springs, with the theme of Health and Wellness Through the Ages will make its way down palm Drive in DHS on Saturday, December 13, 2014 beginning at 11:00 am.
The DHS Holiday Parade is one of the largest in the Coachella Valley with over 60 organizations and more than three thousand participating:...
By Lisa Morgan
TKB Bakery and Deli will be hosting a Toy Drive Mixer, this Thursday, December, 18th at 6:30pm. Admission is $20 and a new, unwrapped, toy. All of the donations will be going to the Coachella Valley Rescue Mission. Organizer and co-owner of TKB Bakery & Deli, Melina Sipple, shared the story of how they started the family...
BREAKING THE FOURTH WALL
By Dee Jae Cox
“If you wish hard enough, even foolish dreams can come true.” And so believed Cinderella, who found her prince at the ball.
Rodger’s and Hammerstein’s Cinderella, now playing at the Palm Canyon Theatre and running through December 21st, offers a little bit of Broadway right here in Palm Springs.
From the moment that the lights...
Week #11 brought fun times for the audience and the musicians competing for their shot at the grand finals of the Tilted Kilt Open Mic Competition! The audience cheered for their favorite musicians as well as for fantastic audience giveaways from the Mary Pickford Theater such as hats, t-shirts, and backpacks. In the end it was the band The...
By Lisa Morgan
One day you’re posting a homemade video of a song that you've been messing around with in your bedroom, and the next day your buddy tells you that Dave Navarro just tweeted it! Now that's something that most musicians only dream about, but for John Marek, he literally became a YouTube, overnight success.
Marek had posted the video...
By Craig Michaels
Like many people in the business, Johnny Toot has been fascinated by music and radio from a very young age. Johnny, whose real last name is Isabell, is a Coachella Valley native. Always a prankster in school, Johnny explains how he acquired the name Toot; “I was a class clown and every once in a while I...
Along with Eevaan Tre and The Show. Saturday, December 13th, 9pm @ Schmidy's Tavern, Palm Desert. Presented by CV Weekly and Ming Bob Productions
by Lisa Morgan
WADE CRAWFORD
Crawford has been playing music since he was a kid. With no other musicians in the family, his influences are the music his mother and father listened to. Mom listened to rock and dad loved...
By Eleni P. Austin
“I know pain is a teacher, to be welcomed and not feared/Alas pain is your ally, so embrace it while it’s here/It’s here to open your eyes, here to make the way clear/…But me I’m just happy, yes me I’m happy all the time.”
That’s Ani DiFranco on her latest album, Allergic To Water. It’s a radical...
By Monica Morones
I get to meet a lot of local artists who catch my interest with their varieties of artistic expression and one artist I like in particular is Fred Warzecha III. Humble, appreciative, and extremely talented, this artist is amazing with an airbrush and his wearable art has people placing orders from all over the country. To be multi-talented...
By Kira Golden
Last Friday marked the unveiling of a mural that was donated to the Boys & Girls Club of Palm Springs by Keith Blum, who also goes by the moniker “The Mural Man.” Blum donated all the supplies, as well as his time and talent to create an organic piece of 3D illusion art on the wall of...
By Janet McAfee
There is no place like a “home for the holidays”, and a little dog named Johnny knows that better than most. Johnny was a stray homeless dog who ended up at the now closed Indio animal shelter. The Indio shelter was a blighted building on a dead end street with few adopters, and Johnny did not have...
By Rick Riozza
At this time in our desert wine community, the holidays, families, friends, and snowbirds gladly appear and there is no better way to exhibit brotherly affection than for us to join with all the good company for a warm toast along with a fine bottle of wine. I appreciate all your readers putting up with my remarks...
By Raymond Bill
Most of my dining adventures are shared with a close friend or a date but few people know of me as a family man. My most recent night out was with my two teenage children in celebration of their recent academic accomplishments. We shared a memorable evening at Wolfgang Puck Pizza Bar in Palm Desert. The streets...
By Robin E, Simmons
When Mike Nichols died last month at 83, there was an outpouring of deserved accolades for the acclaimed performer and director of films and plays (he won nine Tonys). The river of tributes always mentions, at the very least, 1967’s THE GRADUATE (for which he won a Best Director Oscar©), WHO’S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOLF...
By Heidi Simmons
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Deep Down Dark
by Héctor Tobar
Non Fiction
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One of the greatest human fears is being buried alive. Add to that the terrifying concern that you may be unimportant – that your life doesn’t matter since extracting you is too difficult. Then, throw in the horror of losing your humanity, wasting away as you wait months hoping to be rescued....
By Denise Ortuno Neil
I recall it as if it were yesterday. The four of us out in the backyard, are eyes huge with wonder as white flakes fell from the sky. We huddled together in the cold, my parents, my sister and I. It was as if we were witnessing a miracle, and in a way we were.
It was...
By Haddon Libby
After eighteen years in existence, exchange traded funds (aka ETFs) just passed the $2 trillion mark in total monies invested. Given that it took fourteen years for ETFs to reach $1 trillion, the rapid doubling is quite an accomplishment. Nevertheless, ETF holdings are dwarfed by mutual fund holdings that total $15 trillion.
If you are unfamiliar with what...
By Dale Gribow
It is now the week of December 10, 2014 and DUI arrests from Holiday Parties are already on the rise. In the next month both checkpoints and saturation patrols will be increased to meet the increased number of people attending holiday and football bowl game parties where they were drinking and driving.
We all know about checkpoints, which...
Before you buy your tree, check for freshness. Buy a fresh tree that is green and needles are hard to pull from branches. Place your tree away from a fireplace, or any other heating sources. Place the tree out of the way of traffic and do not block doorways. Shorts in electrical lights or flames from candles, lighters or...
“He who has a generous eye will be blessed, For he gives of his bread to the poor.” - Proverbs 22:9
On Christmas Eve we are teaming up with Well in the Desert for our 3rd Annual Charity Christmas Eve Feeding the Homeless. We plan on providing food, toiletry kits and clothes to over 200 local homeless people.
We plan on...
By Bruce Cathcart
Our local population of “snowbirds” continued to increase throughout the month of November although it appears so far that most of the early returnees have come to enjoy our wonderful winter weather in their second homes that they already own. Either that or they left their wallets at home as home sales flat lined in the month...
By Julie Buehler
Sports have gotten so soft. It’s disappointing.
I’m talking to everyone from spoiled fans to shortsighted ownership who think winning a championship happens in one-year increments and their ego should dictate how a team’s success is delivered.
Somehow we've taken the squishy-soft “everyone gets a ribbon” mentality, juiced it with million-dollar contracts and billion-dollar facilities and now, every season...
By Flint Wheeler
Good riddance, BCS championship. The final four bracket has been set for college football’s first ever playoff to crown a national champion.
On Sunday, the new 13-person selection committee announced that Alabama, Oregon, Florida State and Ohio State nabbed the top four spots in the new College Football Playoff ranking system to decide who will win it all.
For...
By Denise Ortuno Neil
Ah the holidays! It’s that special time of year for friends, family and lots of fattening food. Which can sometimes make your waistline grow along with the holiday spirit. What better time to get a jump on those pesky pounds, and head them off at the pass, than at the new Five Star Gym & Fitness...
Week of December 11
© Copyright 2014 Rob Brezsny
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Lord Byron (1788-1824) was an English poet who loved animals. In the course of his life, he not only had dogs and cats as pets, but also monkeys, horses, peacocks, geese, a crocodile, a falcon, a crane, and a parrot. When he enrolled in Trinity College at age...
By Bronwyn Ison
Here is your sage sugar tidbit for the holiday. The decadent rich and creamy slice of fudge and other sweet treats you intend indulging in will be with you until April, 2015. Research tells us that America is on sugar overload. The average person consumes 155 pounds of sugar per year, which equals 22 teaspoons per day....
By Sunny Simon
You managed your job search well and heard the magic word, “Congratulations.” The hiring manager gave you a hearty handshake and asked you to report to your new job on Monday. Now what? Being the new kid on the block tends to give most people the jitters. During my career in human resources I assisted hundreds of...
By Dr. Maria Lombardo
When you go into your Cosmetic Surgeon’s office there are usually several certificates framed and hanging on the walls. Most of these are diplomas from medical school and residency training programs or Board Certification in a specific specialty but some of them are for membership and participation in professional organizations.
When I look around my office, I...
More than 100,000 residents and visitors are expected in downtown Palm Springs on Saturday, Dec. 6 for the City’s signature holiday event. Lisa Vanderpump Named Celebrity Grand Marshal.
By Amy Blaisdell
The parade kicks off every year at 5:45 PM. on Palm Canyon Dr and Ramon Rd and every year brings includes magnificent marching bands and twinkling holiday floats adorned in...
“You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him." Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
By Lisa Morgan
Joseph had served in Desert Storm. Prior to deployment, he and four of his bothers in arms ceremoniously burned a cigar into each other's shoulder, vowing to suffer another burn in honor of each...
BY DIANE MARLIN-DIRKX
Perhaps a rich chocolate Yule Log jelly roll cake with calories-full of luxurious, luscious creamy filling! (Be careful out there on the party circuit.) Remember, Tis the season to ringa-sing out with the Fa-la-las, the Merry-Merrys, Num-num-nums and to quench the thirst of friends, family and strangers alike by pouring good cheer-worthy mugs filled to the rim...
Star-Studded Cast to Perform in One-Night-Only Benefit for Award-Winning Company
Coyote StageWorks will present a star-studded performance of “Side By Side By Sondheim” at 6:30 pm on Saturday, January 17, 2015 at the Helene Galen Performing Arts Center. The one-night-only event will benefit Coyote StageWorks, a not-for-profit company dedicated to advancing theatre as a vital art form in the Coachella...
Friday thru Sunday, December 5th - 7th
First Weekend Palm Desert, held the first weekend of every month through May 2015, features art and culture along with dining specials and shopping fun. This month First Weekend features specialty activities taking place with a backdrop of holiday light displays and décor.
The City of Palm Desert puts a special emphasis on this...
Family Activities Include Parade, Car Show, Art, Wine and Beer Gardens, Carnival, Kiddieland, Live Entertainment, and Lots of Tamales
The countdown is on for the 23rd annual Indio International Tamale Festival, presented by the City of Indio and Fantasy Springs Resort Casino. The celebration will take place Saturday, December 6 and Sunday, December 7, 2014 in Old Town Indio, from...
Week 10 of the Fall/Winter edition of the Tilted Kilt Open Mic Competition brought a great time for the musicians and audience members. Giveaways to rowdy audience members like new movie release t-shirts from the Mary Pickford Theatre got the crowd warmed up to cheer on their favorite performer. At nights end, after a very close competition and a...
Presented by Ronnie King Music & Coachella Valley Weekly
By Noe Gutierrez
The first Reggae Residency show at Schmidy’s Tavern in June was a knockout. It included performance by the Mikey Reyes Acoustic Movement, Higher Heights and Mozaiq. All three artists have increased in exposure and value after that summer night. It is now December and time for round 2. Hence...
By Lisa Morgan
Platinum-selling singer-songwriter, and 11th Season, American Idol winner, Phillip La Don Phillips has made our desert part of his North American headline tour. The Georgia born pop-rock music artist will be at Fantasy Springs Resort Casino on Saturday, December 6th. This tour is in support of Phillips’ second album in two years, Behind the Light. This is...
The Hick-Ups CD Release Party and Cow Punk Party @ Schmidy's Tavern, Friday, Dec 5 @ 9pm
By Lisa Morgan
Step into Schmidy's Tavern this Friday night, and you will be treading on some sonic trailer park territory the likes of a Quentin Tarantino movie. Zack Huskey, one of our desert's authentic originators of heavy desert, DIY rock has brought an old...
Performing @ The Hood Bar and Pizza, Friday, December 5th - 9pm
Bby Lisa Morgan
Sean Wheeler and Zander Schloss both fell on the troubadour's sword long ago. For them, there is no other product or service they are built to deliver other than music. Both of these musicians forged their own separate, noteworthy sonic footprints for almost a decade before...
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