June 2008

A Feast of Fashion

Bright lights, little city, big action. An explosive Fashion Week El Paseo unfolded its third annual program in March.

Detours - Treasures of the Sea

Think of Orange County as a luxurious gift: a package of perfect climate and plentiful culture wrapped in ribbons of prodigious capitalism. Here on California’s Gold Coast, art, shopping, and...

By Sharon Apfelbaum

Editor's Letter

Reading Barbara Sinatra’s reflections about her husband (“Doing it Sinatra’s Way” (February 2008) reminds me of one afternoon in the early 1940s when I drove 75 miles from my home in Topeka...

Steven Biller

Horoscope

Mercury retrograde alert! Eighty percent of you are subject to the inconsistencies of this time.

by Sherryl Nova

In Store

Dressed in fabrics that stand as an updated reminder of late 1960s flower power, the organic forms and pithy metalwork of Stonegate’s Roots lighting, available exclusively at Thom Home, are the...

By Sarah Reiss

Intelligencer

Gourmet ingredients from foie gras to fungi take center stage June 15-20 during the inaugural Palm Springs Restaurant Week.

Playing it Cool

Filming in the desert, Charles Evered takes the road less traveled for Adopt a Sailor

Tod Goldberg

Playing the Trump Card

Since April 2007, the winner of Donald Trump’s 2006-2007 season of The Apprentice has served as vice president of sales and marketing for the Trump International Tower under a contract that came...

Photography by Taylor Sherrill

PSST! June 2008

When Norman Borine died the day before his 89th birthday, he was completing a book chronicling his career as a dancer in Hollywood musicals, as well as on Broadway and television.

When History Met Sally...

The woman who has spent a quarter of a century preserving the past at the Palm Springs Historical Society bows out

By Janice Kleinschmidt

Wine - Rhônes on the Rise

Lesser-known grapes from France gain ground in California

By Janice Kleinschmidt