By Lisa Morgan
Google Mickey Avalon and you’ll get the run down on the guy. His early life reads like a hard core drama where any minute you expect the lead character to finally succumb once and for all to the knock out punches life dealt him that would take and have taken many out early in their first chapter. ...
Getting the Spotlight They Deserve Headlining at the AMFM Festival June 14
By Lisa Morgan
If you have yet to hear the creatively rich, innovative, unique, genre coalition of musical integrity that is Gram Rabbit, then drop what you’re doing and make amends immediately. This band, fronted by the beautiful Jesika Von Rabbit, and co-founded with the genius of Todd Rutherford,...
By Lisa Morgan
What do you get when you combine two stand-up comedians who are also film makers who also “know people” in the industry and want to make oodles of money, or as they say, “Disney” money? NO! Not an online traffic school!!! You get Comedy Film Nerds - industry knowledge plugged into high voltage comedy giving you hilariously...
By Lisa Morgan
There is one genre that costs its player almost everything in order to be able to deliver it with the integrity and simple, stripped down honesty that it was created for; this one brand of music demands that you live through it to legitimately deliver it. BB King lived through it and therefore it lives though him. ...
by Eleni P. Austin
Mention the name Tom Jones, and people usually equate him with louche lounge singers like Wayne Newton and Englebert Humperdinck. While those singers seem content to trade on past glories and hit singles from 40 or 50 years ago, Jones is more of a musical explorer, eager to conquer new territories.
Tom Jones was born Thomas John...
I guess you could say I grew up in the "technology era", every year a new console or game came out. When I was 5, I would steal my older sisters Gameboy, and play Mario Bros. under my bed until my sister caught me. After enough games of hide and hope the batteries aren't dead (which I learned was...
by David Wayne
I came to the realization while dining at Trio restaurant in Palm Springs that not only do I love to eat, but I also love the whole dining experience. Trio has one of the most unique menus in the Coachella Valley, from Crawfish Pot Pie to Lamb Shank; and it has all been created masterfully by Chef...
By Noe Gutierrez
Chris Thomas is committed to his community and helping younger generations learn about team work, ethics and basketball skills through his Indio Warriors Youth Basketball program. In a way, Thomas is the mild-mannered philanthropist Bruce Wayne. While the Batman character is personified by Thomas’ alter-ego, hip-hop/rap artist Tiptoe Stallone.
Thomas talks about his humble beginnings, “I was born...
by Jennifer Tan (aka Mrs. Fett)
Microsoft released details on their newest console Xbox One this week, in response to the wide range of competition in the gaming arena. With smart phones and tablets now competing for the same money that would be spent on a console, Microsoft merged the two seamlessly. Featuring an AMD 8 core CPU, 8GB of...
@ The Date Shed Saturday, May 18th @ 9pm, 18+older
By Lisa Morgan
The Date Shed is once again exploiting the fact that any excuses for not joining them on a Saturday night are simply invalid. In what has become standard protocol for the place, the Date Shed is bringing yet another certified gold album selling power rock band to their...
Scott Christopher - Photographer, Artist, Poet, Pro Athlete and Dream Catcher
Appearing at the AMFM Festival
By Lisa Morgan
There are those “once in a lifetime” moments that, with a little luck and presence of mind, can be captured forever through photography. There are a few, very gifted people with the consummate, instinctual eye and vision, who do so with poignant intensity....
By Mike Bennet
It's truly amazing just how many historic places are tucked away all around us. As far as I know Desert Christ Park is not recognized as a historical monument, but it sure looks like it should be. The first statue by Frank Antone Martin was dedicated on Easter Sunday in 1951!
It’s always a little cooler in Yucca...
By Lisa Morgan
Even if this band wasn’t wonderfully unique, even if their lyrics weren’t catchy while still maintaining depth and integrity, and even if their songs weren’t musically crafted and produced with an ear that has the potential to rival T Bone Burnett or Mutt Lang, I would still crank this band’s music loud and proud and in stereo...
by Lola Rossi-Meza
Guitarist John Pagels performs with vocalist Mike Costley and drummer Sal Frisaura at Three Sixty North, 360 North Palm Canyon in Palm Springs. This Thursday, May 16, from 7:30 to 11:30 p.m., will be their last performance for the season. The restaurant will remain open until after Memorial Day. The group will return in October.
Pagels is also...
By Janet McAfee
Please join the effort to find Tucker. A pet lover's worst nightmare is having your dog go missing in an unfamiliar location. Not knowing your pet's fate is a heartbreaking experience as you wonder if he is scared, injured or hungry. This 2-year-old, 10 pound male poodle mix named Tucker went missing Friday, April 19, around 7:00...
By Curtis Hendricks
On Friday, May 10, 2013, I attended the Rancho Mirage High School (RMHS) open house. The campus is the most beautiful and spacious campus in the valley. My lucky daughter will be attending RMHS making her part of the first freshman class. Entering the school I was stunned by the huge courtyard. After I was finished observing...
By Judith Salkin
When Bonnie Barkley opened Cello’s, an Italian Bistro, four years ago, she signed the restaurant up as a participant in the annual Palm Springs Desert Resorts Restaurant Week, which runs May 31 through June 16 this year.
For Cello’s, tucked into a small strip mall at Date Palm and Gerald Ford Dr. in Cathedral City, with no anchor...
By Jill Coleman RN
Today, I wanted to cover one of my favorite herbs-GARLIC. It may not contribute to the best breath in town, but the health benefits are truly outstanding! Some of them may surprise you!
First, it is a natural mosquito repellent! Maybe that's where the vampire thing got started! It also helps lower bad cholesterol, blood pressure, and...
Danielle Pinkerton Joins Live Well Clinic in La Quinta
Pink Body Spa, an essential resource for fine spa services in the Coachella Valley, has relocated to the Live Well Clinic and will offer the same high level of customer service in a larger, more diversified environment. The combination of full spa services, combined with the health & wellness treatments available...
By Judith Salkin
I’ve always believed that you can find some of the best food in the small, out of the way restaurants. That especially holds true when talking about exotic foods or foods that are as indigenous as “American” food.
Here in the Coachella Valley it’s that way with Mexican food, from the home-grown chain of Las Casuelas eateries from...
By Craig Michaels
Growing up in Seattle, WA, Timothy White (DJ Twitchd) is proud of the fact that he has been living in the Coachella Valley on and off most of his life. In addition to mastering the art of mixing music, White comments on his accomplishments as a dancer, “I used to be a co-director of a dance company...
By: Bronwyn Ison
Are you consistently finding yourself rushing from one appointment to another? Are you overbooking yourself? Are you in tune about what you can accomplish in an hour, day, week, or months time? Each person feels the daily stresses of life. Yet, you may be sustaining too much responsibility. If the stress is becoming consuming it is time...
By Dale Gribow
All readers of The Coachella Valley Weekly should remember that a Driver’s License is a Privilege and not a right. With privileges come responsibilities and the need to follow the driving laws as set forth in the California Vehicle Code.
The Desert Sun on Sunday May 12, 2013 reported on the results of the DUI Checkpoints from Saturday...
By Eleni P. Austin
There are two kinds of singers in Pop music. Vocalists like Mariah Carey, Whitney Houston and Celine Dion who are pitch-perfect with every glissando, melisma and crescendo flawlessly executed. But it’s technique over feeling, method over passion.
Frank Sinatra, Edith Piaf, Billie Holiday, Rickie Lee Jones, Judy Garland. These are singers who lived the song. These artists...
By Bruce Cathcart
Yes it’s true! The average home sale prices in the Coachella Valley are up over 100% when compared to the average home sale prices for homes sold in the Coachella Valley in 1983. But who cares? The statistics don’t lie, they just get manipulated. And the “presstitutes” today will say almost anything and manipulate the data to...
By Rick Riozza
We are still figuratively knee-deep in pink wine.
As reported, Rosés are the “new hit” fun wines for the warmer days a-comin where we can enjoy the light qualities of a white wine along with the touch more fuller flavors of a red. This wine works all day long from lunch, through midday quaffers, appetizers, and on to...
Book Review by Heidi Simmons
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The Great Gatsby
By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Novel
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The great American novel is something everyone wants to read and American authors long to write. It is a narrative which encompasses place, time and attitude that accurately depicts our nation’s culture, lifestyle and experience. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby (Scribner, 192 pages) certainly manages these requirements and gives...
ShareKitchen is offering one of the most unique dining experiences during Palm Springs Desert Resorts Restaurant Week, May 31 through June 1.
The public is invited to join ShareKitchen for a 3-course, Organic, Gluten-Free, price-fix dinner featuring a farm to table menu which includes three appetizers, followed by choice of one of three entrees and a trio of dessert. Organic...
By Robin Simmons
When F. Scott Fitzgerald’s iconic novel was first published in 1924, it was the height of the “roaring twenties” and the Jazz Age. After the “war to end all war,” America was undergoing a huge transformation in a youth-driven, wealth-obsessed, bootleg-fueled, amoral culture that was at odds with its entrenched, heartland Bible-embracing denizens.
Fitzgerald’s novel is much more...
Week of May 16
© Copyright 2013 Rob Brezsny
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): You have arrived at the edge of reality. Or rather, to be precise, you have arrived at the edge of what you think of as reality. Here's where things could get very interesting. Just on the other side of that edge you're brushing up against, there is...
By Sunny Simon
During a coaching session, a client remarked she was on a mission to find her "inner child." Her words inspired me. I had never really thought much about the subject so I did some research.
Of course we have an inner child because once upon a time we were children. Who is this little person part of your inner...
By Haddon Libby
Is the political arena a rich person’s game?
According to the Center for Responsive Politics, the answer appears to be ‘yes’. More than half of all Senate and Congress members are millionaires with an average net worth of just under $1 million while the average American has a net worth of $66 thousand with 16% of all Americans...
May is National Bike Month to bring awareness to all the benefits regarding Biking. No matter what age it’s important to be a good “Roll Model” for Safety to be a good cyclist says Fire Chief Sam DiGiovanna. “More and more people are taking to the streets for both exercise, pleasure and commuting.” It’s important to observe the following...
By Janet McAfee
Our weather cooled down this week, extending the time Coachella Valley residents can enjoy
walks and hikes in our beautiful desert. All dog owners know how much their canine pals love being
included in their activities, and exploring nature with "Benji" makes it more enjoyable for the humans.
In the final days of Spring, the time is right to head...
by Lola Rossi-Meza
Lyons English Grille in association with Chi-Chi Productions present Jennifer Hart and Llew Matthews
in “Isn’t It Romantic” on Sunday, May 19. The Dinner Seating begins at 5:30 p.m. with Showtime at 7
p.m. $44.95 for dinner and show and $20 for the show only with a two drink minimum. Reservations are
required by calling (760) 327-1551. Lyons English Grille...
By Dale Gribow
There is an old adage that People Don’t Plan to Fail but rather They Fail to Plan. Nowhere is that
more true than with respect to our abundant Homeowners associations in the greater Palm Springs
gated communities. Each community has their own Homeowners Association’s Governing Rules. It
is important that we all read the HOA rules for our community. Ignorance...
Open to the public for Palm Springs Desert Resorts Restaurant Week 2013, ShareKitchen’s Pop-Up Restaurant is coming alive with the Coachella Valley’s very best trend setting local culinary entrepreneurs who are growing their small food businesses through ShareKitchen’s Culinary Business Incubator Program. From May 31-June 16, local chefs, caterers and specialty food product developers will be combining their passions...
by Jill Coleman RN
We are eating more sugar than ever today. Recent research shows Americans eat 2 pounds
of processed sugar a week, on average! One hundred years ago, sugar was considered an occasional
treat, and outside of raw organic fruit, many rarely ate desert.
The trouble is, today most of the sweeteners are processed high fructose corn syrup. This
fructose is made...
By: Bronwyn Ison
Mothers around the world will be celebrated on Sunday the 12th day of May. According
to Wikipedia, Mother’s Day is a proclamation honoring mothers and celebrating
motherhood. The influence of mothers on society is preeminent.
In the United States, Mother’s Day commenced approximately 150 years ago. An
Appalachian homemaker, Anna Jarvis originally proclaimed, “Mother’s Work Day.”
This was a day to raise...
By Curtis Hendricks
For many in our valley, school will be out on June 7th, 2013. June is not far off from now.
In fact, we have less than one month before summer vacation becomes a reality. For our top
grades, such as 8th grade moving on to high school and 12th grade moving on to college,
graduation and summer come sooner than...
Book Review by Heidi Simmons
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Mom & Me & Mom
By Maya Angelou
Autobiography
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We all have mothers. Beyond bringing us into the world, good relationship or not, mothers can profoundly impact our lives and shape who we become. In Maya Angelou’s autobiography Mom & Me & Mom (Random House, 224 pages), the famous author and poet focuses specifically on her mother and...
By Robin Simmons
THIS IS THE END
A handful of young Hollywood stars are partying at James Franco’s place when Armageddon or the Apocalypse or the End of Days happens. That’s the clever premise behind the directorial debut of actors and writers Seth Rogan and Evan Goldberg. If the movie is as consistently witty as the trailer and the tone stays...
By Rick Riozza
Last week we figuratively dove into a big fat vat of pink wine discussing how this wonderful Rosé brew is experiencing a re-birth with vino lovers.
We wrote that the new “American palate” is now appreciating the Provençal style dry or non-sweet blush wine and that this type of Rosé is quite often the answer to wine-pairing woes: ...
By Eleni P. Austin
Back at the turn of the last century, vocalist Thomas Mars, guitarists Christian Mazzalai and Laurent Brancowitz and bassist Deck D’Arcy formed the band Phoenix in Paris, France.
As a garage band, Phoenix cut their teeth covering songs by Hank Williams, Sr. and Prince. Soon they began composing their own music. By 2000, they released their debut,...
Week of May 9
© Copyright 2013 Rob Brezsny
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): You may have only a dim idea about how your smart phone and computer work, but that doesn't prevent you from using their many wonderful features. While you're swimming, you know almost nothing about the physiological processes that are active inside you, and yet you have no problem...
story and pictures by Mike Bennett
Oak Glen is a great destination for families, singles and lovers. It seems like it's always apple
pickin’ season there. A great road trip if you want to get out of the scorching heat that has come so
early.
There are 2 ways to get to the mountain town of Oak Glen, take 10 west to Beaumont...
By Bruce Cathcart
I always liked the bumper sticker that read “Real Estate, buy a lot!” The play on words gives the double meaning of both buying a lot of real estate and buying a parcel of land referred to as a vacant “lot”. Both ideas are good ones and looking back I wish that I had taken better advantage...
By Fire Chief Sam DiGiovanna
Last week fire stories filled our headlines across the nation as several large wildland and structure fires caused millions in damage, injuring both occupants and firefighters and destroyed thousands of acres. We are witnessing what will be one of our worst and longest fire season in history says Fire Chief Sam DiGiovanna.
Though determination of many...
By Haddon Libby
Are you or someone you know looking for a profession that will last you a lifetime?
To start, it’s probably a good idea to know where not to look. As digital money becomes more pervasive, the need for cashiers will continue to dwindle. This will also reduce the need for lower skilled workers in the finance sector.
Construction work...
By Sunny Simon
You just scored an interview with your employer of choice. Getting the job offer
is dependent upon rising above the competition. It takes more than a good
resume and firm handshake to pull off a successful initial meeting. The interview
is your one shot at convincing the hiring manager you are the ideal candidate for
the position. Increase the odds of...
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