Ruff Life

Hitting the road with "Rover" has gone upscale. Now you can share Southern California’s celebrity lifestyle with your furry friend. The days of staying at substandard hotels and dining at...

PSST! Scot Bruce

On Aug. 16, when Elvis Presley fans around the world pay tribute to the King on the 33rd anniversary of his death, Scot Bruce of Palm Springs will be shaking his hips before a sell-out crowd at the...

BY JANICE KLEINSCHMIDT

GRAND LUXE

Offered for $75 million by Christie’s Great Estates, Porcupine Creek hides behind the placid Mirage Cove neighborhood, where houses typically cost less than 1 percent of that price.

BY JANICE KLEINSCHMIDT

A Man of Passion

“Have you ever swum in the Salton Sea?” Dick Van Patten asks while sitting on the veranda at Melvyn’s Ingleside Inn. He has, he reports — about a year ago. “It was exciting!” His eyes...

BY JANICE KLEINSCHMIDT

For The Love of Beer

For the love of beer! Every Monday and enjoy one of the world’s favorite and most complex beverages, Beer! Receive 50% off all beer from 3 pm to close in Babe’s Bar & Patio.

A Million Solar Roofs

Southern California Edison Awards 36 Contracts for Utility-Scale Solar Rooftop Project - Two will be in Palm Springs, One each fro Thousand Palms and Joshua Tree.

The Developers - John Wessman

Wessman came to the desert in 1960 from "across the mountains" (Hemet) where he worked for contractors "on and off" from the time he was 10 years old. He began his Coachella Valley building career...

Your Summertime Escape

Palm Desert – Your Summertime Escape. Dine in a world-class restaurant. Enjoy an evening stroll while marveling at public art. Splash around a water park. Or just relax poolside.

Desert Cities Woman's Show

Grab your sister, your mother, your girlfriend and plan a girl's day out! The Desert Cities Woman's Show offers 100 displays with many other interests and concerns important to women today.

2010 Best of the Best Voting

Palm Springs Life will celebrate 72 of the people, places, and things that make the Coachella Valley a special place. Who and what will they be? That’s up to you! Please vote for your favorites....

The Developers - Warren Coble

Coble put up some impressive buildings — buildings like Alan Ladd's, Saks Fifth Avenue, Las Casuelas Nuevas in Rancho Mirage, Ocotillo Plaza, Prickly Pear Square, Sinatra Medical Education...

The Developers - Ernest Hahn

Even someone who wouldn't know a developer from a dirt farmer can't help but respond to the name "Ernest Hahn." In the Coachella Valley you can hardly say "shopping center" without including some...

The Developers - John Wessman

Wessman came to the desert in 1960 from "across the mountains" (Hemet) where he worked for contractors "on and off" from the time he was 10 years old. He began his Coachella Valley building career...

The Developers - Walt Colglazier

There's a strong rush of nostalgia in Walt Colglazier's John Wayne-drawl as he talks about the desert in 1937 — the year his father, who was a general contractor, brought the family to Cathedral...

The Developers - Roy and Bob Fey

When Roy Fey moved his family to Palm Springs from Chicago in 1956, he intended to finish construction of the Desert Skies Hotel and then move on to other interests. Developments such as Canyon...

Lawrence Welk

It's 10:30 Tuesday morning in Studio 31 at CBS, and they're well into rehearsal for the umpteen-hundreth taping of the Most Unlikely Success Story on Television.

By Helen Zukowski