BYLINE: DIANE MARLIN-DIRKX
Labor Day, by law a national holiday, is celebrated on the first Monday of September. Hallelujah! Get ready for a day off on Monday, September 3rd, as this is the day we celebrate the American worker. And if you’re lucky enough to have a job, that’s you! Signed into law on June 28, 1894, the federal holiday was the idea of Peter J. McGuire, president of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America. This day also unofficially marks the end of summer vacation for future laborites: the kids of our great country who have been eagerly counting the days until—bursting with promise and resolve, they eagerly parade into the hallowed halls of our public schools (or charter, or private, whatever), gripping lunch bags filled with peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, hoping their teacher will call in sick and they can torture the sub. Students arise! Teachers, may the force be with you! Don’t you just love this country?
Friday, August 31, 7-9pm. Once in a Blue Moon! Joshua Tree Retreat Center’s Drum Circle honors the second moon of the month traditionally called the Blue Moon and you don’t want to be seen “standing alone without a dream in my heart,” so join the Institute of Mentalphysics as they host another of their monthly Drum Circles. Fair warning: The next Blue Moon won’t be until July 2015, according to facilitator Sam Sloneker, so bring your family, friends, drums, shakers, tambourines and any other percussive instrument and join the party! Get wise moon children, because the full moon’s polarity effect created by the Sun and the Moon pulling in opposing directions with Earth in the middle brings on a period of intense energy and precarious balance (oops!). Playing together in a circle helps to ground and center the group according to legend, along with other benefits of creative togetherness, including community connection, relief of stress and strengthening of the immune system. Location: 59700 Twentynine Palms Hwy., Joshua Tree. More information, call the Center at 760-365-8371, or visit www.jtrcc.org
Sunday, September 9, 6:30 – 9pm. “Party Hearty!” That’s the request on the invitation to a benefit for The Well in the Desert and it couldn’t be more fitting as an honor to the organization’s late friend Chuck Hodges. The charity provides daily hot meals, emergency food assistance, weekly supplemental food distribution, and access to community services to the working poor, the homeless, seniors, handicapped and others in need throughout the west end of the Coachella Valley—and have for 15 years. Join the party in The Purple Room at Club Trinidad for music, dancing, dinner buffet. Entertainment will be provided by notable locals vocalist Lola Rossi, Reggie “Vision” Alexander and pianist Denise Motto. $35 per person, no-host bar. Call 760-323-8353 for reservations. Credit cards accepted, or pay at the door. Location: Club Trinidad, 1900 E. Palm Canyon Dr., Palm Springs. Donate to Well in the Desert, PO Box 5312, Palm Springs, CA 92263.
Tuesday, September 11, 7:30pm. Filling “the skies with music every September 11th,” the September Concert is the Coachella Valley’s longest running annual 9/11 remembrance event of the country’s horrific attacks in 2001. The free concert takes place at the Palm Desert Civic Center Park presented by the Palm Desert Sister Cities Foundation. It gives our community an occasion to come together to celebrate universal humanity through music, to honor the courage of those who gave their all on that tragic day, as well to salute the dedication of all those who have served, suffered and sacrificed since that day. As elsewhere around the United States and around the world, this anniversary will remember with patriotic music and a tribute-themed program. Organizers expect hundreds to attend and encourage everyone to bring chairs, blankets, water and a candle. Location: Civic Center Park, Fred Waring Dr., and San Pablo Ave. For more information, visit www.palmdesertsistercities.com, or call 760-333-4629.
Sunday, September 16, 4-6pm. It’s a first! A Disco Tea Dance premiers a poolside party benefitting the Aids Assistance Program at the Saguaro Palm Springs Hotel known by its joie de vivre in festive colors and ever-so-savvy sharp style! The evening puts up on stage San Francisco’s favorite DJ Jerry Bonham (SF’s “Remember the Party”) with a special performance by legendary Disco Diva Martha Wash. Get ready to get down, get out by the pool to the hottest sounds around. Speaking of get-up, is there a dress code for pool-side partying? For tickets ($45 per person), and more info, call 760-321-8481, or visit www.aidsassistance.org. For discounted rooms at the Saguaro, call 760-323-1711 and use rate code AApdisco. Saguaro Palm Springs Hotel, 1800 E Palm Canyon Way (at S Sunrise Wy.).
Wednesday, September 19, 1pm. Hear the real skinny on U.S. Diplomacy from Foreign Correspondent Nicholas Kralev, author of the non-fiction book, America’s Other Army. Journalist, author and lecturer, Kralev will speak on his ten years of travel with four U.S. Secretaries of State as diplomatic correspondent for the Financial Times and Washington Times, traveled to 80 countries, visiting 50 U.S. embassies and interviewing 600 career diplomats. Read what Hillary Clinton, Condoleezza Rice, Colin Powell and Madeline Albright were really thinking as they dealt out and made deals in foreign policy. A correspondent with highest level access, Kralev shares “behind the scenes secrets, how it affects our daily lives, contributes to U.S. security and prosperity,” plus the challenges ahead for the 21st century. Held at the non-profit Palm Springs Air Museum, the program is included with regular museum admission, ranging from $8 to $15. Book signing follows. Seating limited. Call 760-778-6262, or visit www.palmspringsairmuseum.org. Location: 745 N Gene Autry Trail, Palm Springs.
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