August 2009

Editor's Letter August 2009

As the social season rests and the summer heat hits like a blast furnace, inside seems the place to be (unless you’re taking in the stunning beauty at the top of the tram).

Steven Biller

Going for Shipshape

At the old North Shore Yacht Club on the Salton Sea, broken aluminum siding bangs ominously in the wind while pigeons fly in and out through the holes in the building. Apocalyptic graffiti —...

By Ann Japenga

Horoscope - August 2009

Solar Year Holds Promise for Country - Barak Obama’s Aug. 4 birthday chart indicates a strong working relationship with the press. His solar year will be productive in areas of reformation and...

SHERRYL NOVA

Intelligencer - Be A Shoebox Hero

KDI Kares’ Shoebox Heroes campaign, in conjunction with the Coachella Valley Rescue Mission, provides children in need with new shoes. Through Aug. 15, collection locations accept boxes of new...

Janice Kleinschmidt

Intelligencer - Lost but not forgotten.

Wesley Eure and Kathy Coleman’s cameo with Will Ferrell in Land of the Lost ended up on the cutting-room floor. Eure, who lives in Palm Springs starred in the popular children’s adventure...

Intelligencer - New Books

Author Susan Arnaut Smith’s latest Grace Descanso novel Out at Night and Roma Bogard of Palm Springs has written a book titled For the Love of Art

Janice Kleinschmidt

Leaving the Crime Scene

Over the last nine years, Lewis has produced 49 and directed 45 episodes of the hit series. Seated in his modernist house at Tamarisk Country Club in Rancho Mirage, he says, “For the last year,...

BY ROBERT JULIAN

PSST! - Coloring History

While Don and Dayle McKinney appreciate the pioneering roots of their families in the desert and the old black-and-white photographs that Don’s grandmother took, they think history “translates...

Janice Kleinschmidt

PSST! - Days of Wine and Donuts

Thornton Winery’s summer barbecue class took an unexpected spin with a dessert of Grilled Sugar Donuts.

Janice Kleinschmidt

PSST! - They Knead It, We Want It!

To Herbert Hoover’s “a chicken in every pot and a car in every garage,” add “a loaf of bread in every arm” — Panera Bread’s registered mission statement.

Janice Kleinschmidt

Shooting the Desert

In the Mid-20th Century, Palm Springs earned legendary status as Hollywood’s playground. Now, if a couple of local filmmakers have anything to say about it, the desert resort communities could...

SCOTT BRASSART

Sister Act

The two women on stage at the Indian Wells Theater execute a game of musical pingpong. Sharing the spotlight, Dela Zimmer effortlessly soars through arias, followed by her sister Elizabeth...

ROBERT JULIAN