By Julie Buehler
There are not many places I’d rather be than on a golf course, sipping a cold beverage of choice, strategizing the perfect shot before unleashing my slice that would make a New York style pizza joint proud.
Problem is when the temperatures seemingly soar beyond the New York area code; that cold beverage is warm in a...
This is the first of a 3-part series looking at the growth of MMA in the Coachella Valley…
By Julie Buehler
Every now and then you come across a story that gets better with each overturned rock, every source and phone call. Sometimes, a story captures the essence of everything we love about sports in one person’s simple expression of diligence....
Week of July 25
© Copyright 2013 Rob Brezsny
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): "I was six years old when my parents told me that there was a small, dark jewel inside my skull, learning to be me." So said the Leo science fiction writer Greg Egan in his story "Learning to Be Me." Let's pretend that you, too, have a small...
By: Bronwyn Ison
Why do most of us dwell in the past and/or anticipate the future? Are you cognizant you may have spent many of your waking hours contemplating the future? Perhaps, you have revisited your past due to nostalgic memories. Or, possibly we reflect on our past because we find comfort or we are determined not to repeat...
By Jill Coleman RN
For those of you who suffer from joint pain, I have some pointers that could help, and have personally tried myself.
First, I cut way back on sugar, including foods that turn into sugar once digested, like simple carbohydrates. My joint discomfort reduced by 75% in a month! This was without any supplements for my joints.
I eliminated...
By Dr. Maria Lombardo
It sure is hot these days! Higher temperatures can lead to lower energy, less activity and a general summer malaise. How do you stay feeling, and looking, great this summer? Dr. Maria Lombardo has some great tips to surviving the summer temperatures and staying on top of your game all year round!
We lose facial volume/fullness with...
By Heidi Simmons
Every incorporated CV city has a Mayor and Chamber of Commerce President. These two important positions have the ability to directly impact their immediate community through constituents and business.
In the city of Indio, citizens elect the city council to four-year terms. Each year a Mayor and Mayor Pro Tem is selected from the five council members to...
A Place to find Shelter, Growth and Hope for our Desert’s Most Vulnerable
By Lisa Morgan
I started researching this story after talking with Matthew Naylor, Founder and Executive Director of Music Programs for Marquee Performing Arts. He explained that he was working on finding a way to transport 10 homeless children from Martha’s Village to the academy, so that...
By Lisa Morgan
There is definitely something in the water here in the Coachella Valley; something is coming up from the wells under this parched desert earth that is emitting a musical vibration reflective of the stark, unique, surreal beauty of its terrain. Stark, unique, surreally beautiful – these are the same descriptors I am inspired to use for local...
By Noe Gutierrez
In a one word description, Brain Vat is aggressive. Brain Vat is a collaboration of four local desert musicians including Brad Garrow on guitar, Frankie Ramirez on drums, Sheridan Carnahan on vocals and David Gonzalez on bass. Garrow and Ramirez are seasoned veterans of the desert metal scene who were teenage band mates in the 80's in the...
By Judith Salkin
Who you wake up to in the morning can set the tone for the whole day ahead of you.
If it’s KESQ morning news anchor Alex Batres, your day is probably off to a pretty good start.
Along with co-anchor Jeff Stahl, Batres has been on the early shift at the desert station for the past year. She works...
by Tracy Dietlin
Sometimes some of the best food is found in smaller hole in the wall restaurants off the beaten path or less than fancy unassuming diners and in the case of this weeks featured review....Sports bars like Tilted Kilt.
While many gentlemen and ladies too, enjoy Tilted Kilt for its enjoyable eye candy that their lovely waitresses offer, there...
By Jennifer Tan AKA Mrs Fett
This article is a bittersweet one. Bitter in the sense that it means San Diego Comic Con has come to an end, and sweet in the sense that I get to share all of my amazing experiences with everyone. The entire week was a cyclone of cosplayers, previews, exclusives, anime, Magic: The Gathering tournaments,...
Michaelz Media, QV Live Streaming and Ross Management and Productions have joined forces to bring the Joey Covington Tribute Concert to a Worldwide venue.
The recent announcement of the Joey Covington Tribute Concert put the three media companies into planning overtime. The Tribute event comes after the death of Joey Covington on June 4 of this year in a car...
Support and Education for Local Music and Arts (S.E.L.M.A.) presents the Learning Tree Center (L.T.C.) Elementary School (k-5) of Palm Desert. The administrators, Mr. Robert Craven, Drucilla Craven and Angela Morway, have been serving the Coachella Valley community with a respect based educational experience alongside an array of childcare options for over 33 years.
L.T.C. currently offers an...
By Craig Michaels
While recently talking with radio personality Clarence Barnes about his long and illustrious career, it was hard for me to keep track of the numerous radio stations he has worked at over the years. Currently he is the afternoon drive personality and program director of U 92.7 FM in addition to filling the mid-day slot on Crush...
by Mike Bennett
Whenever I head out of town, I always think about stopping at the Wheel Inn and telling them Large Marge sent me. I also like to get some trinkets from inside the dinosaur store. There's just something about making a silly purchase inside of a brontosaurus's belly.
It's truly amazing how these dinosaurs have stood the test of...
Brace yourself for a windstorm of blockbuster proportions blowing through a TV near you. Coming to Syfy Channel on Thursday, July 18th the original movie, Blast Vegas, starring Frankie Muniz ("Malcolm in the Middle") and Barry Bostwick (Rocky Horror Picture Show).
The Syfy movie was filmed almost entirely at Fantasy Springs Resort Casino last summer. It centers around a group...
NEW Acts Include: Anna Lunoe, Bixel Boys, Bones, Classixx, Justin Jay, Kedd Cook, Kidnap Kid, Para One, Perseus, Posso, Todd Terry, Tropicool, Steffi Graf, Viceroy and more to be announced
SPLASH HOUSE, the new Palm Springs pool and music weekend and summer retreat served up by California’s coolest musical tastemakers, has added 13 additional acts to its line-up when it...
By Eleni P. Austin
Like John, Paul and George hooking up at a church social, or Mick and Keith trading American Blues records on a London train, the Postelles met as school boys at Columbia Grammar & Prep in New York City.
A mutual love of primal Rock & Roll united Daniel Balk (lead vocals/guitar), David Dargahi (lead guitar), John Speyer...
by Lola Rossi-Meza
People have lots of different opinions about Club Trinidad located at 1900 East Palm Canyon Drive in Palm Springs. However, the fact still remains, it was a favorite hangout of Frank Sinatra, who would enjoy the various entertainers performing in The Purple Room. Pianist and vocalist Roberta King was one of the many performers he would listen...
By Janet McAfee
Foster homes are desperately needed this summer for our four-legged friends who find themselves homeless through no fault of their own. Everyone knows there is a foster care system for children. You may or may not know that many animal welfare organizations have formal foster care programs that effectively "expand the walls of the shelters"...
By Rick Riozza
Quelle Chance!How fortunate for the intimate party of diners to be enjoying the first of the 2013 Around the World Summer Wine Dinner Series held last week, where the focus of the evening—mais oui, but of course—was France and its famed wine producing regions.
Escena Lounge and Grill is one of Palm Springs’ beautiful restaurants on every level....
PACIFIC RIM
Don’t you love it when a movie actually lives up to the poster! Guillermo del Toro’s epic robot vs monster movie is in many ways a revelation of Del Tor’s obsessive interests in the classic Japanese monster genre that gave us Godzilla, Rodan, rocket powered flying turtles and so much more.
As written by Del Toro and Travis Beacham,...
By Heidi Simmons
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Unsinkable: A Memoir
By Debbie Reynolds
Biography
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For six decades Debbie Reynolds has been entertaining on the big screen and stage. Written with as much energy and enthusiasm as her dancing, singing and acting, Unsinkable: A Memoir (William Morrow, 306 pages) by Raynolds and Dorian Hannaway, is an honest, revealing and fun-filled biographical read of the life and movies of...
by Haddon Libby
While wall-to-wall coverage of the George Zimmerman trial was going on, an autistic eleven year-old Menifee boy named Terry Smith went missing. People searched for four days before he was found. The person who found him, Pam Ragland, had a feeling that she knew where to find the missing boy and went to his home. Ragland searched...
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by Dale Gribow
Most people of a certain age have seen the movie The 10 Commandments. If you are like me you remember Charlton Heston climbing the mountain empty handed, only to descend with the preverbal two tablets containing the 10 divine decrees that are the guideposts of our Judeo Christian religions. My topic this week focuses on the...
By Bruce Cathcart
We now know that the Coachella Valley real estate market is a seller's market. That means that there are more buyers than sellers and that the excess demand is forcing home prices to go up. So is now a good time to sell your home?
Even though home prices have gone up considerably since their...
“July is Dedicated as National Grilling Safety Month…”
Dad, the Burgers are Burning, and So is the House! Not something one wants to hear… “While gas grills contribute to a higher number of home fires than their charcoal counterparts, all grills pose a risk for fires and burns says Fire Chief Sam DiGiovanna.”
Firefighters respond to multiple structure fires...
The “raw” food is a California almond. Outside of a very small group of farmers who sell truly raw, untreated almonds in quantities of 100 pounds or less at farmers markets and stands in California, all California raw almonds are steam cooked in propylene glycol (PPO). PPO was once used as a racing fuel but is currently...
Week of July 18
© Copyright 2013 Rob Brezsny
CANCER (June 21-July 22): We keep million-dollar works of art in well-guarded museums. Paintings created hundreds of years ago are treated with reverence and protected as if they were magical treasures. Meanwhile, beautiful creatures that took nature eons to produce don't get the same care. At least 5,000 animal and plant species...
By Sunny Simon
Recently my three year old niece, Alina, performed in her first ballet recital. She did a good job executing the steps, but at times she scampered around as if in search of something. By asking her mother, I discovered Alina was looking for her “X.” Each child was given a color coded X as a home...
By: Bronwyn Ison
Frequently I write about certain foods that will make your body smile. Happy belly, happy mind, happy you. Growing up you may have heard, eat your greens. Engaging in a diet rich in color reaps a plethora of benefits internally and externally. If we are what we eat why would you consider anything other than a healthy...
By Jill Coleman RN
Getting sunburned is NOT good, but we all need sunshine. It is the main source of life on this planet.
Our bodies convert sunshine into vitamin D from the oils in our skin. But if we are deficient in antioxidants from fresh fruits and vegetables like berries, broccoli, kale, and even algae, the body cannot protect us...
With support from Coachella Valley health food stores & health conscious individuals who were seeking a raw, gluten free, dairy free meal replacement bar, TRUElicious was born.
On her never ending quest for the best superfoods on the planet , Michelle Steadman’s idea for a start-up company was born out of frustration and a need to provide the best nutrients...
By Dr. Peter Kadile
Dr. Peter, my dad has had kidney stones, does that mean I will get them?
It’s been so hot this summer, will I get kidney stones if I don’t drink enough water?
Kidney stones (renal lithiasis) are small masses that can form in the kidney. Depending on the size of the stones, they will typically leave the body...
Part of the Fastest Growing Sport for Women in the Nation
By Lisa Morgan
“The first thing I ever learned in roller derby is to fall, and in the author world I believe that same rule applies.” author― Elizabeth J. Kolodziej
Roller Derby, one of the few sports largely exclusive to women, has become the fastest growing sport in America....
This Thursday, July 18th w/ Spankshaft! Doors Open at 8 pm, 21 and over only, $10 at the Door, First Come First Serve
By Lisa Morgan
Picture three brothers, like a Stand by Me movie scene (80’s version), standing around a car listening to their latest song on a cassette tape they recorded in their bedroom on a boom box. ...
By Noe Gutierrez
According to the always reliable Wikipedia, a palindrome is a word, phrase, number, or other sequence of symbols or elements, whose meaning may be interpreted the same way in either forward or reverse direction. Whichever way you spell it, Redivider will cause you to “murder for a jar of red rum”.
Of course that last statement is silly and is...
Singing from the Soul for Solace and School Loans
By Lisa Morgan
I first heard this lovely nightingale at Bar in Palm Springs. Giselle Woo, an amazing songstress herself, was hosting a singer/songwriter night at Bar. The rules were clear. There would only be one vocal microphone and one guitar microphone on the stage. You could also plug...
By Judith Salkin
When Rich “Da Coach” Gilgallon signs off his self-named show today (July 18, 2013) at 6 p.m., he’ll head over to the Escena Lounge for a couple of cool drinks, some conversation and hugs from his listeners.
Lots of hugs. The good-bye kind, with an extra pat on the back and a good squeeze, too, for luck.
Since Dec....
By Judith Salkin
As a little girl, the MIX 100.5’s Valerie Kattz loved listening to “the people in the radio.”
And somewhere along the line she decided she wanted to be one of them.
“As a kid I would play radio,” she says. “I had a Fisher Price recorder and I used it to interview my friends.”
She got herself on...
By Rachel Montoya
A couple weeks ago a close friend of mine from out of town was visiting and requested we do Italian and stay on the east side of the valley where he was staying. Several other friends had been recommending Chapelli’s for quite some time. Since his hotel was located close by we decided to give Chapelli’s a...
by Patte Purcell
Summer is in full swing and many of our favorite places are closed for the summer. Where's a girl to go? Escena Golf Club located in Palm Springs at 1100 Clubhouse View, is giving us some great options including live music Thursday thru Saturday. Their latest edition is National Recording Artist and blues legend Kal David who...
WHAT ~ Free Spay and Neuter Clinic for Cats and Dogs
Sponsored by Fantasy Springs Resort Casino
WHEN ~ Wednesday, July 31, 2013
8:30am – 5pm *Must Arrive at 9am to Register
WHERE ~ Fantasy Springs Resort Casino
(in front of Special Events Center box office)
84-245 Indio Springs Parkway, Indio
WHY ~ Fantasy Springs joins the fight to control the animal population by sponsoring a...
By Heidi Simmons
The Palm Springs Hotel Zoso closed last weekend to begin its transformation into a Hard Rock Hotel that will open this Fall.
Originally the Marquis, the hotel was built in 1985. Redesigned in 2007 to reflect the chic contemporary and modern culture of Palm Springs, it became the Hotel Zoso. Located on Indian Canyon in downtown Palm Springs,...
Six-day hiring fair designed to find 75 new year-round employees at the new Eureka! restaurant including hosts, servers, bartenders and a full culinary and kitchen team.
The Eureka!Restaurant Group, a California family of restaurants featuring all American handcrafted food and drink, announces its hiring fair dates for the new Indian Wells restaurant. Eureka!is expecting to hire 75 employees and the...
Desert Rose Productions, Inc. will present nationally acclaimed comedian Shann Carr in her one-woman show Sweet Sweet Laughter! At 7 PM, on Saturday August 10, 2013, at The Desert Rose Playhouse at The Commissary in Rancho Mirage.
A local favorite and a worldwide gay travel icon, Shann is just wrapping up a hiatus from touring that has allowed her to...
By Eleni P. Austin
When the song “A-Punk” started receiving massive radio airplay 5 years ago, first time listeners mistook it for a long lost track from Paul Simon’s “Graceland” album. The combination of joyful, Afro-Pop melodies and reedy tenor vocals recalled Simon’s improbably successful, mid-career classic.
It came as a complete surprise to find that it was the work of...
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