PSST / Intelligencer Archive

PSST! - Swizzle Sizzle

In keeping with the “hip” theme of the master planned Escena Golf Club in Palm Springs, architect Douglas Fredrikson of Phoenix, Ariz., updated midcentury modernism at the community’s clubhouse.

Janice Kleinschmidt

Intelligencer - January 2010

Children’s Discovery Museum of the Desert in Rancho Mirage was among the first four Good to Grow! Museums by the Association of Children’s Museums. The Rancho Mirage museum, as well as museums in Chattanooga, Tenn.; Bryan, Texas; and Rockford, Ill., completed a four-month review and were judged on their health-related practices.

BY JANICE KLEINSCHMIDT

Intelligencer - December 2009

World of Wine Events, creator of the San Diego Wine & Food Festival, has created a guide for the iPhone that lets users find about 3,200 wine-tasting rooms nationwide, with clickable phone numbers, maps, and directions.

Janice Kleinschmidt

Intelligencer - November 2009

Ready to turn your hot chocolate or yams into a gourmet treat? Try using handmade, low-fat, gluten- and high-fructose corn syrup-free Plush Puffs.

By Janice Kleinschmidt

Intelligencer - October 2009

Although the Palm Desert Art of Food & Wine has been canceled, wine lovers can make a short drive to the San Diego Bay Wine & Food Festival (Nov. 18-22), where chefs will compete for a package worth about $50,000

Intelligencer - April 2009

San Soucie Art Glass Studios in Palm Desert provided glass for three locations at the 55-story Bank of America Tower at One Bryant Park in New York, including a suspended ceiling in the lobby with 4,065 square feet of hand-carved glass. The company also carved the U.S. presidential seal on a glass panel for the USS George H.W. Bush, the final Nimitz-class aircraft carrier.by Arcadia Press.

Intelligencer - March 2009

An avid racer, Steve McQueen did many of his own stunts in films such as LeMans, Bullitt, The Great Escape, and The Getaway. Apparently, he passed along some driving DNA to son Chad. A former race car driver and father of two children attending Marywood Palm Valley High School, Chad McQueen helped organize a safe-driving skills course for local teens.

PSST! — Intelligencer

Palm Springs Art Museum, Opera Showcase of the Desert, Happy Chickadee, Kraft Nabisco Championship Celebrity Pro-Am, Copley's on Palm Canyon, Teco Pottery, Mel Haber, Les Dames D'Escoffier.

PSST!

The Best of the Coachella Valley and Beyond. Getting Personal, Our Towns, Mark Of Excellence, A Look At Movies, When Horses Fly, and Word Association.

Intelligencer

Hope In Florida, A Classical Act, and Sound To Film.