Hard Rock Hotel Palm Springs will launch FUSION / The Sunday Pool Party on June 22 with a special appearance by Sky Blu of the wildly popular dance/pop duo LMFAO.
FUSION is Southern California's newest pool party, offering a sizzling blend of music and fun beneath the trademark sunny skies of downtown Palm Springs.
Vice President & General Manager Hector Moreno...
YOU CAN LEAVE THE WEEKENDS TO EVERYONE ELSE: BUT MONDAYS ARE MINE!
The Rock Spa at Hard Rock Hotel Palm Springs is giving locals and mid-week travelers a great reason to love Mondays with its new "Mondays are Mine" summer spa program, which offers 20% off every 50-minute (or longer) treatment along with a variety of relaxing spa "perks."
The Mondays...
Week of June 19
© Copyright 2014 Rob Brezsny
ARIES (March 21-April 19): If you were alive 150 years ago and needed to get a tooth extracted, you might have called on a barber or blacksmith or wigmaker to do the job. (Dentistry didn't become a formal occupation until the latter part of the 19th century.) Today you wouldn't dream of...
By Bronwyn Ison
If I had to choose a period of time or age in my life to revisit, my teen years would not be my first choice. My teen years were not unfriendly to me. I simply would not care to endure the pressures our teen girls have today. Yoga for teen girls is growing in popularity. Why? Studies...
by Sunny Simon
As I was completing my last coaching session of the week, I cheerfully wished my client a Happy Father’s Day. Unknowingly I had figuratively stepped on a land mine. After a long and lengthily sign he scoffed telling me his dream day included a juicy steak and a nap in hammock situated somewhere in a breezy leafy...
By Dr Peter Kadile
I answered a few questions regarding skin protection from the sun in my last article. On a related note, I would like to mention heat related injuries that I frequently encounter in my practice, especially during the summer.
Second Degree Burns
This type of burn causes significant skin damage and forms blisters. I have treated several cases of...
Palm Springs International Short Film Festival & Short Film Market
By Heidi Simmons
The Palm Springs “ShortFest” celebrates 20 years as the world’s largest short film festival and short film market. Starting Tuesday, June 17, 320 films from over 50 countries will screen at the Camelot Theaters in Palm Springs. This exciting fest features 58 short film programs over seven days.
The...
By Robin E. Simmons
This year’s 20th anniversary celebration of our popular Palm Springs International Short Film Festival features an exceptionally strong line up of clever, creative and engaging films. I’d be hard pressed to pick one film package as superior to all the others. However, I do recommend these programs and films:
ALTERED STATES Friday, June 20, 8 pm. Is...
By Julie Buehler
When you watch children playing on a playground, there’s a certain freedom they enjoy, a certain carefree exuberance that makes watching them a blast. So the tragedy that befell Adrian Grajeda and his family this past January when an out-of-control motorist careened into Grajeda’s schoolyard, sending debris flying and hit the 10-year-old was particularly heartbreaking.
A young athlete,...
By Flint Wheeler
Rory McIlroy is adjusting well to single life. The same can’t be said of his former fiancée, tennis star Caroline Wozniacki.
On Sunday, days after calling off his engagement to Wozniacki with the wedding invitations still in the mail, Mcllroy won his first event since the split, taking home the European Tour’s prestigious BMW PGA Championship.
Then on Tuesday,...
By Kurt Martin
Over the past three days, 1,215 players were drafted in the MLB First Year Player Draft. Five of those 1,215 were current and former POWER players. On Saturday, those five players not only joined the most competitive baseball league in the world, but joined the illustrious list of POWER players such as Ryan Wheeler, Bryan Shaw, Aaron...
The Power were on pace for their first loss of the season but had a furious rally in the 8th inning scoring four runs to take an 8-5 lead. Austin Lord then closed it out in the 9th to give the Power their sixth win of the season against the visiting Novato Knicks. Tanner Kiest started the game for...
Hosted by Morgan James: This Wednesday, June 18th @ 7pm
By Lisa Morgan
As if you needed another reason to venture into The Tilted Kilt in Palm Desert, the popular, eye-candy clad restaurant, sports bar and entertainment venue is providing locals with yet another forum of entertainment. A twelve week long, open mic competition will provide budding musicians and vocalists an...
By Craig Michaels
Radio personality Doug Mize, is extremely passionate if not obsessive about his broadcasting career. His background is vast in radio, television, and other forms of entertainment. Doug’s embrace of new technology and ideas over the past 14 years has enabled him to secure more radio jobs than I can mention in this article.
His first memories of wanting...
@ Pappy and Harriet's Pioneer Town Palace
By Shawn Mafia and Lisa Lynn Morgan, respectively
Shawn Mafia:
Pappy’s is always on their game when it comes to parking. By the time the stream of cars I was engaged with topped the hill, and Pioneertown Road flattened out, we were set upon by a crackerjack team of parking attendants. Strange long-haired, desert mutants...
Article and Photos by Monica Morones
The Coachella Valley is bursting at the seams with raw talent. I had the pleasure of interviewing a unique individual. Meet Camilo Gomez, AKA J. Patron.
He is a local Hip Hop artist, Colombian born, but raised in the valley since the age of four. With his fourth album about to drop later this year...
By Tracy Dietlin
This Saturday night, Remnants of Man will bring their in-your-face brand of metal to The Hood where they will headline on a bill that includes metal strongholds Galaxy Crusher and Eyes Set to Kill.
Remnants of Man are an American melodic death metal band with European and Swedish metal influences, but born and raised in the Coachella Valley....
By Eleni P. Austin
If it was possible for Van Morrison, Cat Stevens and Joe Cocker to have a love child, his name would be Ray Lamontagne. 10 years ago, the Pop music landscape was cluttered with mediocre shite from Rascal Flatts, Ashlee Simpson and another tedious standards collection from Rod Stewart. Lamontagne’s debut, Trouble, arrived without fanfare and it...
By Rebecca Pikus
Leslie Jean Porter definitely qualifies as a modern-day Renaissance Woman -- she is an award-winning Producer, Director, Writer, Photographer, Filmmaker, Fashion & Costume Designer, and Fine Arts Painter! And Leslie Jean definitely has the Beauty & the Brains! To be invited to one of Leslie's soirees, or her dinner parties with her international flair -- whether in...
By Janet McAfee
June has arrived, bringing with it the hottest weather so far this year in the Coachella Valley. This is a good time to remind folks that their parked car can quickly turn into a death trap for their dog. When the outside weather is only 72 degrees, your car parked in direct sunlight can heat up to...
By Rick Riozza
Although Middle Ridge Winery processes and bottles their wine in the Temecula wine country, it’s thetall pines and sweet smelling cedars of the popular artist community of Idyllwildthat is home to winemaker Chris Johnston and his wife Melody. It’s where they live out their life’s philosophy, “the conversation is as important as the wine.”
As a youth, Johnston...
By Raymond Bill
It is that time of year again, the time where people come from all over to celebrate restaurant week here in the Coachella Valley. It is also a great opportunity for those of us that enjoy dining out to fit a few more restaurants into our budget. With participating restaurants offering full course meals for $26 or...
By Robin E, Simmons
WORDS AND PICTURES
Last month, I incorrectly said this fine film opened on the wrong date. It actually opens Friday, June 13, at Palm Desert’s Cinemas Palme d’Or. I’m glad I have another chance to recommend this wonderful adult romantic drama. It’s among the better films, if not the best film, I’ve seen so far this year.
Director...
By Heidi Simmons
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The Apartment
by Greg Baxter
Fiction
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Everyone wants a safe place to call home; a space that is secure and keeps out evil. But what happens if the evil is within? In Greg Baxter’s, The Apartment (Twelve, 208 pages) finding a comfortable place to live is not about walls and a roof.
The story is about a man looking...
The City of Palm Springs will be the hot spot in Southern California for music lovers seeking warm rays of sun this weekend as world famous recording artist Moby headlines the 2nd annual Splash House Pool Party and Music Weekend, June 13-15.
The pool party and music extravaganza, in partnership with world famous music promoters Goldenvoice and LED, will return...
By Denise Ortuno Neil
It is widely known and accepted that laughter can be instrumental in brightening the mood of the masses; relieving stress and enticing those feel good hormones to come to the surface. But what if laughter came with a nice shot of knowledge as well? With so many comedians going for the laugh without substance, Haddon Libby...
New Visitors Guide Developed and Wayfinding Site Maps Installed
Cabot's Pueblo Museum received a $5,000 grant from Southern California Edison (SCE), an Edison International Company, enabling the development of an updated Visitor's Guide and two large wayfinding maps installed on the grounds.
"Without grants and our generous supporters, we would not be able to give visitors the unique experience and showcase...
By Haddon Libby
In May, more people were working in the United States than at any point in history - 138 million of America’s 318 million population. This level slightly exceeded the previous record set in January, 2008.
Most troubling is that job growth over the last six years has been heavily skewed toward low paying and part-time jobs. Since 2008,...
By Dale Gribow
Father’s Day is around the corner. The best gift you can give to dad is to encourage him to plan ahead for the family and to make an Estate Plan.
It is very common to talk to clients who have a trust but have never FUNDED it. In that regard we can learn from film and TV actor...
We recently celebrated Memorial Day and D – Day honoring those who sacrificed for our freedom. True hero's no doubt! We also celebrated National EMS/First Responder Week as well. It recognizes fire, police and medical first responders who provide the day-to-day lifesaving services of emergency medicine's "front line." Father's day is upon us and there are lots of Hero’s...
Could you or a friend use some extra money, training or guidance to help improve your career or life?
The County of Riverside will give you $4 for every $1 you save to start or expand a business, learn a new trade or buy a house.
The program is part of the Community Action Partnership of Riverside County and meant to...
By Mrs Fett
It’s hard to imagine any E3 will compare to last year’s brawl between Microsoft, and Sony. This year’s major convention will have no console wars, and no ground breaking news and developments in hardware and consoles.
But that’s not to say this year will be a complete waste. As I tooled around the exhibit floor, a day before...
BY ASSEMBLY DISTRICT #56 AND ASSEMBLYMEMBER V. MANUEL PEREZ
Hot Purple Energy – with a focus on the “Energy”— was recently named 56th Assembly District’s “2014 Small Business of the Year.” Owners Nate Otto, President, and David Herrlinger, Vice President, will travel to Sacramento on June 16th to participate in a recognition event sponsored by the California Small Business Association.
Assemblyman...
Honoring Nine Distinguished Community Leaders
ALA’s Leadership Training Institute honored local community members on May 31 at the Indian Wells Golf Resort Pavilion. The honorees consistently go “above and beyond” and were nominated by their peers for this prestigious award. They’ve all proven excellence in community leadership and service. The event, hosted by Patrick Evans, a local media personality was...
Hard Rock Hotel Palm Springs announces the arrival of Rhythm and Motion the world's first fully immersive music-centric spa menu utilizing amplified vibrations, pressures and patterns, as the foundation of its treatments. This groundbreaking experience takes guests on a rhythmic massage journey - bass vibrations ripple through the massage table as treble beats come from above, sending pulses through...
Swimming is Meditation in Motion
By Karen Creasey
Stress… Just the word makes me want to take a deep cleansing breath. It is the word used when we feel overwhelmed, burdened, or loaded. Most often we talk about stress in light of a challenge or a threat to our well-being. We interpret our stress levels by what we feel we can...
Week of June 12
© Copyright 2014 Rob Brezsny
ARIES (March 21-April 19): In its quest for nectar, a hummingbird sips from a thousand flowers every day. As it flaps its wings 70 times a second, zipping from meal to meal, it can fly sideways, backward, or forward. If it so desires, it can also hover or glide upside-down. It remembers...
By Bronwyn Ison
Hopefully your ego did not get the best of you in the past week, reference part one of last weeks article. Having a big ego, by opinion of most, is not viewed positively. Sigmund Freud’s psychoanalytic theory contains three elements of the personality. Comprised of the id, the ego and the superego. The three of these work...
By Sunny Simon
As I sat at my desk attending a virtual conference call, the CEO, Keith shared a story about his weekend bike trip. Listening to him recount the outing I knew we had nothing in common when it came to biking. My ideal ride was around the block on my beach cruiser. Keith’s joy ride was an uphill...
The Southern California Desert's Most Interesting Man Celebrates Another Incredible Year At Pappy & Harriet's , June 6th & 7th
by Lisa Morgan
The "Most Interesting Man" seen in the popular beer commercials doesn't have a thing on musician/producer, Dave Catching, or his beard. As the sun flies around Catching's world for the 53rd time, the guitar player for well-known hard...
Desirae (Desi) Ava Grace Cechin is one of the most powerful young ladies to live here in our Coachella Valley, yet Desi is only five years old. In April of 2014, Desi’s parents, Laura and Terry, brought her to the ER for what they thought could be problems with her appendix. After a Computerized Tomography (CT) scan, Desi was...
By Heidi Simmons
The Palm Springs International ShortFest & Short Film Market officially begins at the Camelot Theaters June 17 and runs through the 23rd. This entertaining fest will present 320 plus films from over 50 countries! But if you feel like a quickie now, all you have to do is log onto the festival website www.psfilmfest.org/shortfest to view ten...
By Lisa Morgan
Most people read CV Weekly from front to back. Not the Weiss family. They start at the back page because that's where Richard Weiss' syndicated cartoon is published weekly. The beautifully penned cartoons inspired from Weiss' stand up routine, are collected in his newly published book, "Weiss Cracks", a hilarious and very punny collection of laughs. Weiss...
By Lisa Morgan
DISTURBING FACTS:
There are 4,000 children in the foster care system in Riverside County alone.
100% of gay children in our foster care system have reported abuse in their foster homes.
58% of human trafficking victims come from foster/group homes, IN RIVERSIDE COUNTY.
California is one of the top three states with the most human trafficking, with victims smuggled from around...
w/ You Know Who & Brain Vat LIVE at Schmidy’s Tavern Sat. 6/7/14
By Noe Gutierrez
SpiralArms ascended from the unforgettable bands Systematic, Forbidden and Man Made God. The six member force includes Tim Narducci (Systematic) on vocals & guitar, Craig Locicero (Forbidden) on lead guitar, Chris ‘Cornbread’ Lombardo (Vicious Rumors) on bass & vocal, Brad Barth on keyboards, Andy Galeon...
Daughtry, the chart topping rock band fronted by multi-platinum lead singer, Chris Daughtry, are bringing their award-winning brand of Rock n’ Roll to the Fantasy Springs Special Events Center on Saturday, August 2, 2014.
An instant hit amongst rock fans from the start; Daughtry’s self-titled first album debuted at No. 2 and sold 304,000 units in its first week. The...
This July 11, 12 and 13, stand -up comics, Improv groups and sketch comedy groups from Los Angeles, Phoenix, Chicago and elsewhere will converge upon the Indio Performing Arts Center for its first ever Coachella Valley Improv/Comedy Festival. Performances and workshops are all open to the public for nominal fees.
According to IPAC Artistic Coordinator Jeanette Knight, the festival’s brainchild,...
By Eleni P. Austin
Perhaps no one is more familiar with the down side of fame and celebrity than Sean Lennon. His father, John Lennon, leader of the Beatles, was quite possibly the most influential musician in the world.
In December, 1980, John Lennon was gunned down in the street. Sean was only five years old. No one could blame him...
By Rebecca Pikus
Philippe Chambon looks very much like the French Expressionist painter that he is -- with his boyish good lucks, steady, intense gaze, & perfect goatee! He was born in Lyon, France to a young couple that had an appreciation for all things artistic and was exposed to the work of many of the great artists of Western...
By Denise Ortuno Neil
For over 30 years the largest indoor mall in the Coachella Valley has sat prominently in the heart of Palm Desert. The mall has evolved over the years providing a large variety of stores to choose from and has become a mecca for desert shoppers making it a regarded Coachella Valley’s shopping attraction.
It may be hard...
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