April 2012

ABC as Simple as 1-2-3

MATTHEW LINK

Clusters of hungry hipsters, scene makers, and snowbirds linger under the Spanish arches in front of Cheeky’s, waiting to be ushered to an umbrella-covered table with translucent orange chairs or into the small dining room with plain white walls and wood-beamed ceilings.

Chicks With Sticks

JAN SILVER MAGUIRE

More than a sport, polo — especially in the desert — is a lifestyle. People in the game have known each other’s families for generations, and on match day, the play on the field accounts for only a fraction of the fun.

April Horoscopes

SHERRYL NOVA

Mars is deer-in-the-headlights stationary all month. We will all experience its effects.

An Insider’s Guide to the Santa Rosa and San Jacinto Mountains National Monument

ANN JAPENGA

In the 12 years since the Santa Rosa & San Jacinto Mountains National Monument was founded, technology has tightened its grip on us all. Scientists say many of us can no longer see the flash of a bighorn sheep’s rump, hear the peep of a towhee, or count the receding ridges of the Santa Rosas — not because the rump, towhee, and ridges aren’t there, but because we can no longer perceive them. Tiny screens have stolen our senses. The 280,000 acres of monument just outside Palm Springs is the perfect place to reclaim them.

CAMEO - What Drives You, Domenic Provenzano?

JUDD SPICER

Domenic Provenzano went from making golf clubs to making golfers. Growing up in Washington, D.C., he learned the tools of the game while constructing clubs in his family’s golf shop.

PSST! Designed to Go

STEVEN BILLER

With a sporty, compact design and buffet of personalization options, Land Rover’s two-door Evoque adds a refreshing twist among luxury SUVs — a class of vehicles that has lost...

PSST! Intelligencer

Famous faces and names on stage at the Clinton Foundation Health Matters Conference. Famous swimming pools in Palm Springs.

PSST! Shooting the Future

The third annual earth through a lens — a juried photography contest and exhibition encouraging a sustainable living to preserve the environment — opens April 1 and continues through June at the Rancho Mirage Public Library.

PSST! Word Association

WERNER GRAMCKOW of Indian Wells has published his memoir, “Brothers at War” (CreateSpace). As a boy raised in Germany, Gramckow cared only about soccer and going to America. His...

Solid Solutions

JANICE KLEINSCHMIDT

“I knew my customer was far too savvy to buy something simply because it had my name on it. If she does, it’s because I have worked hard to gain her trust…

‘The Lime Grows on You’

MATTHEW LINK

Less than a month before his death at his Rancho Mirage home in 2006, Gerald Ford offered these words in his last public statement: “The length of one’s days matters less than the...

WEALTH - Seeing the Light

ELLEN PARIS

Every month the Coachella Valley Economic Partnership hosts a Renewable Energy Roundtable at the UCR Palm Desert Campus. Participants include renewable energy experts, entrepreneurs,...