June 2009

Detours - Orange County

A dollop of history garnishes every bite of Orange County. Modern media hype the region to a cliché wealth and status, but the richness of “The O.C.” landscape and its cultural pleasures offer...

By Sharon Apfelbaum

Editor's Letter June 2009

The desert has a wealth of action in the summer. Get out, take advantage of the great deals and sales, and enjoy the world-class attractions and culture.

Steven Biller

Home Is Where the Art Is

A photographer, a writer, and A coUple of sculptors place themselves in environments that inspire and fuel their creativity

By Jorie Parr

Horoscopes by Sheryl Nova

Expect significant recovery in the banking sector this month. Planets aligned with Earth provide the rationale. It’s an excellent time to reorganize your personal financial systems and begin...

Sheryl Nova

Intelligencer - June 2009

When Palm Springs Art Museum screened the Global Lens film series last summer, most screenings almost filled the 433-seat Annenberg Theater. The 501(c)3 Global Film Initiative awards grants to...

PSST - Blown Away!

When Tarinan von Anhalt spattered paint on the gold leaf-plated representation of the heraldic fawn of Margarete Klingler’s Austrian hometown in the Alps, master goldsmith and sculptor Klingler...

PSST - Rising to the Occasion

The president and founder of Desert Jet in La Quinta points to Angel Flight, Corporate Angel Network, PilotsNPaws, and Special Olympics Airlift as a few examples of how pilots volunteer their time...

PSST - Rock Solid

Cambria, the only producer of natural quartz surfaces in the country, made an unusual debut in the Coachella Valley: on the catwalk. Less than a month after opening a design center in Palm Desert,...

Under the Hawaiian Sun

My curiosity about how the raw intensity of the Hawaiian sun plays out visually upon form and atmosphere and what that blazing light reveals drew me toward the seed concept of an art show. I was...

Photography and text by Susan Benay