May Horoscope

Jupiter and Saturn are incompatible these days — a generic transit that applies to all of us. Jupiter is our “big picture.” Naturally optimistic, we plan large and talk happy.

SHERRYL NOVA

CAMEO - What’s it Worth to You, Roderick Hardy?

Helping value artifacts from the Titanic, appraiser Roderick Hardy has been researching a gold chain with gold nuggets. “The only one who would have the audacity to wear it would be Molly...

Janice Kleinschmidt

Psst! - Intelligencer

Toscana Country Club, Babyccinos, Hard Rock Artist Gesso Cocteau, Bugatti, Christopher Kennedy, and "Happy" Palm Springs.

Psst! - Dishing Palm Springs … in a Good Way

You’ve dined in Palm Springs. Now you can dine on Palm Springs. NotNeutral offers a porcelain “map” of the western edge of the city.

JANICE KLEINSCHMIDT

Psst! - Fab Prefab

Palm springs Modernism Week not only brings pop-up stores to town, but also this year brought a “pop-up” house.

JANICE KLEINSCHMIDT

Road Royalty

The fifth annual Rancho Mirage Desert Classic Concours d’Elegance exhibited more than 250 vintage cars and motorcycles on the golf course at its new venue, Westin Mission Hills Resort & Spa.

STEVEN BILLER

The Light Touch

Painters would be the first to tell you that the natural light in Palm Springs, Seattle, and Paris differs drastically. But a lighting designer says his work in those three locales remains the same.

Janice Kleinschmidt

As You Like It

For every $1 a seller spends on staging, they average $3 in return, says the Palm Springs-based veteran of the housing market. Many times, I have been in competition with a similar listing — the...

MATTHEW LINK

Inspiration for Sale

Initially an outpost influenced by Spanish architecture, then an experimental pool for midcentury modern pioneers, the Coachella Valley today fires up the imagination with a breadth of styles...

ELLEN PARIS

Chefs Dazzle Spectators at Food + Wine Palm Desert Festival

Fragrant smells of garlic, truffle oil, curry, simmering sausages, wood-fired pizzas, and spices wafted through the Big White Tent — home to Fashion Week El Paseo

BY PAMELA BIERI

The Birth of a Fountain

A Mexican father, a pioneer godmother and a staff of desert midwives brought the airport terminal's new "baby" into existence.

The Gourmet Gossip - Gary Sappington

Gary Sappington, free-lance chef, extraordinaire, prepares and serves divinely elegant fare for some of our most celebrated desert residents.

By Barbara Lawrence

Merry Christmas and Bon Appetit

Stuffed roast turkey, plum pudding, fruit cake — these are the traditional food for Christmas dinner and whose delightful odors emanate from every kitchen about this time of year.

by Shar Cracraft

The Gourmet Gossip - O.L. McKenney

Tramway General manager and restaurateur O.L. McKenney shares a menu of customer favorites from the Firepit restaurant.

By Barbara Lawrence

The Desert Riders

They are the true royalty of Palm Springs. Each Tuesday morning they emerge from the desert dawn, dressed in tailored riding pants and the customary — and not incidentally, custom-made —...

By Carolyn Patten

The Most Wives Club

The Gabors are to Palm Springs what fancy desserts are to a good meal: We could get by without them but they do add such a luscious finishing touch.

By Allene Arthur