As a charitable culinary community center operating out of a full restaurant, ShareKitchen participants have access to a shared kitchen facility that serves as a test kitchen where aspiring restaurateurs can develop their menus and recipes in addition to providing space for product development and small batch production for local distribution. The operation of ShareKitchen from a full...
PAUL WILLIAMS: STILL ALIVE
Remember Paul Williams -- the diminutive actor, songwriter and all-around raconteur? He was everywhere in the 70s and then slowly evaporated and -- poof! -- he completely disappeared. Williams was the guy who wrote number one songs (The Capenter’s “We’ve Only Just Begun,” Barbara Streisand’s “Evergreen” among others), was a popular (and crazy funny)...
Are you able to resist those puppy dog eyes begging for food scraps at the kitchen table? Obesity is a serious condition that can shorten the life of your dog or cat. Many pet owners fail to make the connection between their pet's weight and a myriad of medical conditions. Veterinary nutritionists estimate about 25 percent...
Nestled inside of The Westin Mission Hills Resort in Rancho Mirage is the lovely Fireside Lounge. The restaurant is decorated in rich plum and cream tones which gives it a very warm and inviting feel. It is the perfect spot to have lunch or an intimate dinner, inside or out on the patio, where you can enjoy the lush...
We are living in incredible times. I was reminded of this on Friday evening. I sat back, relaxed, and enjoyed watching the opening ceremonies of the 2012 Olympics. The ceremonies in London, England captivated me. Aside from being excited to watch the greatest athletes’ in the world, I was in awe of the incredible performances...
Salon Spotlight: Brien O'Brien Salon
Nestled in the The Corridor in uptown Palm Springs, locals and visitors find an eclectic mix of shopping and services from the ever popular Koffi and Just Fabulous to the hip and modern Brien O'Brien Salon. Curious as to what this up and coming salon has to offer, I ventured inside with my cup of...
“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them,” said Albert Einstein. Applying this statement to the current state of the local and national economies, I got to thinking about the paths toward a sustainable and robust recovery.
The solutions seem obvious to me. Lower fuel costs by transitioning to natural gas for transportation as that...
by Mike Livingston; Co-Host, The CaddyShack Radio Show
Whether it’s on U.S. soil as is normally the case or on those occasions when he hops the pond, Freddie Couples transcends…..he’s loved everywhere! Even coming down the stretch at this week’s Senior Open Championship (British Open), you heard as many cheers of “Freddie, Freddie) as you did for any of the...
FREE WILL ASTROLOGY
Week of August 2
© Copyright 2012 Rob Brezsny
ARIES (March 21-April 19): The astrological omens suggest that you now have a lot in common with the legendary Most Interesting Man in the World -- adventurous, unpredictable, interesting, lucky, one-of-a-kind. To create your horoscope, I have therefore borrowed a few selected details from his ad campaign's descriptions of him....
BYLINE: DIANE MARLIN-DIRKX
If you’re a manic multi-tasker (go on, brag a little), if you are someone who likes to dress as if you have something to do (down to the last sweep of mascara), if you consider “artisanal” too-snobbish in a fresh-from-the-fields summer of Farmers’ Markets, if you can stand seeing your guy in a baseball cap turned...
DJ’s have come a long way since the phrase was coined by American commentator Walter Winchell in 1934. Elementia does more than just play music, he is constantly in his studio producing new sounds and remixing old ones. Considered more of an artist and producer, Elementia has had a few of his songs show up on the dance music...
A SECRET OUR GOVERNMENT DOES NOT WANT YOU TO KNOW ABOUT???
If you are a VET or Know a VET you MUST READ THIS. This may be the most important article you have ever read and it is retroactive too.
The Department of Veteran Affairs offers a little known benefit to war era Veterans, who are at least 65 years old,...
FATHER JOHN MISTY “FEAR FUN” (Sub Pop Records)
“Father John Misty” is the musical moniker of Josh Tilman.
Until recently he was the drummer for beardy folk-revivalists the
Fleet Foxes.
Throughout his tenure with the Seattle band, Tilman released
seven full-length CDs and three EPs, but they were sparse solo affairs.
“Fun Fear” marks not only Tilman’s relocation to Los...
Book Review by Heidi Simmons
“Subliminal: How Your Unconscious Mind Rules Your Behavior”
Nonfiction
Leonard Mlodinow
Is it possible to know what motivates us? To know why we do the things we do? Say the crazy things we say? In Subliminal: How Your Unconscious Mind Rules Your Behavior (Pantheon, 260 pages), author Leonard Mlodinow looks at the scientific evidence...
By Marissa Willman
If you’re ready for a relaxing getaway, there’s no need to look beyond your backyard: The Miramonte Resort & Spa in Indian Wells is the ultimate destination to melt your stress away.
The resort’s high expectations for customer service are palpable from the moment you arrive on the property. Whether you’re checking in, sitting down for a meal...
By Lisa Lynn Morgan
In temperatures that threatened to melt my eyelashes together, I parked my vehicle that had only just begun to control its inner 130 degree climate. I walked my lethargic posterior across the parking lot, enduring sporadic blasts of heat from the asphalt that made my hair move (an amazing fact if you know how much...
The Westin Mission Hills offers locals a perfect getaway—without leaving the Coachella Valley
Our Superb Staycation
By Tracy Dietlin
Upon arriving at the Westin Mission Hills Resort in Rancho Mirage, it is immediately obvious that this is a five-star resort.
There’s a beautiful entryway that you walk through before the lobby doors, which open to an elegant lobby with employees willing to cater...
By Marissa Willman
Triple digit weather might be here to stay but you don’t need to look beyond the Coachella Valley for ways to beat the heat. CV Weekly has rounded up the best local options to stay cool in the desert this summer.
Desert Ice Castle
Grab your skates and head to the rink to cool off this summer. Desert Ice...
Summer Sparklers by Rick Riozza
Last week we featured the racy and elegant German Riesling Kabinett as the one to accompany your Pinot Grigio, Sauvignon Blanc & Chardonnay wines for the summertime. Although we do a big bash of bubbly discussion and drinking around the winter holidays and New Year’s, it’s also a great time—now in heat haven,...
by Lola Rossi-Meza
Manny Lopez goes to Graceland during Elvis Week 2012.
Musician, band leader, RCA recording artist and nightclub owner, Manny Lopez, has been performing since the early 1950s. He was recognized as the “King of the Cha-Cha-Cha” in the early 1960s when the popularity of the dance became a phenomenon. “I worked in so many places, I can’t remember...
Caffeinated coffee improves your health and reduces your risk to a host of diseases and illnesses. Most of the benefits are due to two compounds - antioxidants and caffeine.
Antioxidants help repair cell damage while removing free radicals responsible for health issues such as cancer. By removing free radicals, coffee has anti-aging benefits while reducing your risk to colon, breast...
20% of all ticket sales donated to
Support and Education for Local Music and Arts, Coachella Valley Chapter 1
Edge TV Palm Springs has created a SELMA television and production program associated with the Coachella Valley’s reality dating show RED HOT DATE. It has been announced that 20% of all ticket sales will be donated to Support and Education for Local...
THE DARK KNIGHT RISES eclipses almost everything else on the big screen horizon. I predict it will get Academy nominations for Best Picture as well as Best Director. I was stunned and sadden that shortly after my Friday movie update on Michael Knight’s KNWZ 94.3 morning news show during which I raved about this spectacular film,...
Then Join it at the Spa Resort Casino for the Sizzling Hot New Game Show, Red Hot Date!
Just because temperatures in Palm Springs are at their highest, doesn’t mean valley entertainment is going cold....
There is an army of people rescuing animals from euthanasia in California's public shelters, now armed with the internet and social media. Amber Houck was part of that rescue army. This amazing young woman also served in the United States Army in Kuwait just after the Gulf War, and was involved in the rebuilding process along the...
If you practice Yoga there is a good chance you have heard of Ayurveda. Living an Ayurvedic lifestyle is a healthy one to adopt. It enables a person to encompass optimal physical, mental, and spiritual well-being. In the ancient language, Sanskrit, Ayurveda means, “Knowledge of Life.” The resurgence of this 5,000-year-old system has three fundamental energies....
Imagine your Self. Eyes closed, arms spread, face up to the desert night sky. You breathe in what is offered and exhale yourself into it all. Even if you have yet to hear them, War Drum reflects this moment and manages to echo in your ears. The fairly harmonic, yet rockin’ vintage instruments slowly but surely catch you up...
Temperatures soar and we slink indoors, afraid of sweating and sunburns this time of year. But communing with nature feeds the soul and keeps us healthy. We need to experience the delights of the desert in all it's glory in every season, but finding ways to do it in the summer and still stay cool require a little more...
Cities throughout California are having severe budget problems due to rising pension and health care benefits for city retirees, lower sales and property taxes and the loss of their Redevelopment Agencies (RDAs). RDAs were meant to remove blight while improving city tax revenues. Some cities used RDA monies to buy non-revenue producing properties from themselves in order...
Good Grub at a Great Price
Located in downtown Indio across from Indio Performing Arts Center, at 83-011 Indio Blvd., is a small, quaint Mexican restaurant called Rincon Norteno. The décor might not be fancy but the food and the service are both worth stopping in for. Since 1964 Rincon Norteno Mexican Restaurant in Indio, has been serving up good...
by Mike Livingston; Co-Host, The CaddyShack Radio Show
In one the of the most drama-filled finishes you’ll ever see, we as a golf viewership watched a great and talented young player literally throw-up all over himself last weekend at the world’s oldest and most celebrated sporting event, The Open Championship. I think it was the 141st Open (we call it...
Week of July 26
© Copyright 2012 Rob Brezsny
ARIES (March 21-April 19): In your personal chart, the planet Uranus symbolizes those special talents you have that are especially useful to other people. Which aspects of your soulful beauty are potentially of greatest service to the world? How can you express your uniqueness in ways that activate your most profound...
BYLINE: DIANE MARLIN-DIRKX
Halfway through the joys of summer where “easy does it” seems to be the traditional motto, the mission, and not the translation of the unspoken “scream” from the Norwegian expressionist Edvard Munch pastel that early May was gaveled down for $120m in a12 minute bidding war. Although non-admirers gargled glass shards at the price, others,...
Although the dry desert scenery is a sharp contrast to the lush tropical Islands of Trinidad and Tobago, where Sherwin John (known as “DR.”) and Kerwin Greenidge (known as “Gov'ner”) grew up, both have made themselves right at home in the Coachella Valley.
Island Rhythms, a D.J. company based in Cathedral City, was founded in 2005 by Sherwin...
by the dB’s Bar/None Records
The term “Power Pop” was coined by Pete Townshend as a way
to describe the style of music The Who played in the mid 60’s. Other purveyors
included the Small Faces, the Kinks and the Beach Boys. But the
sound originated with the Beatles.
Power Pop is characterized by strong melodies, crisp vocal harmonies,
economic...
by Heidi Simmons
“Working Backwards From the Worst Moment of my Life”
Stories
Rob Roberge
Short stories are some of the best ways to not only experience great literature but also life itself. Though short stories don’t always hew to literary rules, they absolutely require a creative and intelligent construction of language that resonates in some way with our human condition.
In the...
By Lola Rossi-Meza
Kal David sings the Blues in The Purple Room at Club Trinidad
For the next several weeks, Kal David will perform every Thursday, from 7 to 11 p.m., in the Purple Room at Club Trinidad located at 1900 East Palm Canyon Drive in Palm Springs. (760) 327-1877 ext. 230. He is scheduled to perform on Friday, August 17,...
A Cool Breeze of Riesling by Rick Riozza
Summertime . . . and the living is . . .well—a bit slower. It’s hot out there, so it’s not a bad thing to take some time to try out some new or different light-bodied wines.
In our previous columns—which you can go to on-line at coachellavalleyweekly.com ( click on Vino...
by Lola Rossi-Meza
Jam with Greg Veach at the Dillon Roadhouse every Sunday.
Have you ever attended a Jam? GREAT... Then you know, how much fun it is to have an opportunity to play with professional musicians and appreciate a good time, with lots of other talented vocalists, guitarists, bassists, drummers, and those who play other instruments like harmonica, fiddle and...
By Marissa Willman
As the middle of summer approaches, the excitement of being out of school wanes and children start to say every parent’s favorite phrase: “Mom, Dad, I’m bored!”
There’s still more than a month to go before the kids head back to school and the Desert Recreation District has plenty of summer programs and camps that will keep your...
Is milk good for you? Research published in Pediatrics magazine shows that dairy products do not build strong bones and prevent osteoporosis to the degree that we once thought. While calcium is healthful for your bones, exercise is far more helpful in building bone density. Reducing your intake of sodium and animal proteins is also of...
_Peter Mikulak
By Selma Grows
Originally from inner city New Haven, Connecticut, where he had a thriving General Contracting business, Peter Mikulak now joins the Coachella Valley’s community of self sustaining artists.
Three years ago, due to the recent economic challenges, Peter Mikulak was forced to leave his 14 year career and suffered homeless conditions as a result. Times have been...
LOCAL PRODUCER RECALLS WORKING WITH THE SCREEN ICON
When Ernest Borgnine unexpectedly died earlier this month at the age of 95, I immediately thought of Larry Delrose, a local businessman who was a producer -- and had a hand in writing -- NIGHT CLUB, the last film in which Mr. Borgnine was featured as a leading man. The story about...
In the animal kingdom, rats are a species with an image problem. Capable of spastically scurrying in any direction, they are associated with Halloween and may elicit screams when they catch humans by surprise. Contrary to reputation, these rodents are actually very sociable, keenly intelligent and can be trained to interact with people. I recently learned...
There are so many things to be said about Stuft Pizza Bar & Grill. First, this restaurant is way more than just a pizza place. There menu is actually overwhelming, with enticing appetizers and a “gourmet small plate” menu which includes Cajun ahi, 7 oz. NY steak, Asiago mac & cheese, crab cakes, citrus herb Atlantic salmon and grilled...
One of my favorite things to do is SLEEP! When I cannot sleep or have insomnia it drives me crazy. Tossing, turning, wrestling with my sheets and pillows can be maddening. There are many contributing factors as to why one might toss and turn at night. Some aspects may include stress, anxiety, had a late...
Ominously Confident
By Xan Raymond
Although Perishment has been on hiatus since August 2011, the four band members do not appear as though they’ve grown apart at all as they pile into a booth at a diner in Palm Desert, laughing and joking like old friends.
That hiatus is almost over: Perishment is prepping for a massive comeback show, as part...
Psoriasis plagues as many as 7.5 million Americans according to psoriasis.org. The disease stems from genetic traits that send signals to grow skin cells at an increased rate. The cells build up and crust over, ceasing normal healthy growth. The plaques formed by psoriasis are often irritated, painful and ugly, leaving the person bearing the disease to experience not...
Since the creation of the Magna Carta 797 years ago, English speaking people have lived with this freedom: “No free man shall be imprisoned...nor will we proceed with force against him...except by the lawful judgement of his equals or by the law of the land.” Thomas Jefferson wrote, “I consider trial by jury as the only anchor...by...
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