March 2009

Shooting Star

Fashion Week El Paseo marquee designer Juan Carlos Obando follows the path to becoming one of America’s hottest couturiers.

By Jorie Parr

Poise and Passion

Ana Ivanovic seeks a repeat performance as winner of the tennis tournament formerly known as the Pacific Life Open

By Joel Drucker

Revisiting Modernism - Christopher Georgesco

A Desert Hot Springs artist sees his work as an extension of his architect father, architect Haralamb Georgescu

Wheels - Mercedes-Benz AMG SL65 Black Series

There’s little point in trying to explain the reason for the Mercedes-Benz AMG SL65 Black Series’ existence. One look at it shows you all you need to know. Its purpose: speed. Lots and lots of...

Flights of Fantasy

As Juan Carlos Obando readies his couture collection for Fashion Week El Paseo, we dream of his intricately detailed gossamer fashions floating over the beautiful landscape of Andalusia at Coral...

Extreme Know-Howe

An L.A. designer reveals hip young men’s fashions for spring. A classic Southern Californian who comes from a skateboard/surfboard culture, fashion designer Jade Howe calls his menswear “cowboy...

Animal Samaritans Break Ground on New Vet Clinic

Thirty years in the making, Animal Samaritans SPCA breaks ground on a new veterinary clinic on Feb. 24 (National Spay Day USA) in Thousand Palms.

Staff Report

Astonishing Andalusia

Andalusia at Coral Mountain in La Quinta provide an irresistible draw: remote enough to inspire country-style living yet only a 10-minute drive to shops and restaurants.

By Jan Silver Maguire

Auction Action

In 2007, a Beverly Hills buyer paid $288,000 for 30 cases of 1986 Château Mouton-Rothschild ($800 per bottle) at a Christie’s wine auction. That year, Christie’s wine department tallied up...

By Janice Kleinschmidt

Editor's Letter - Steven Biller

It was close. Fashion Week El Paseo — the fourth-year event that punctuates the style and elegance of the Coachella Valley’s world-class shopping destination — was teetering on cancellation...

Galleries - March 2009

Matthew Carone took up painting in the 1940s after Hans Hoffman asked him to model in a class in which Carone’s brother Nicolas was a student. He has never stopped painting since that seminal...

By Steven Biller

Horoscope - March 2009

Institutions that are so last century are crumbling. We are in a period of rapid change, much like the years 1961-1968. It will be up to the Aquarian agers (born in the ’60s) to lead us back to...

By Sherryl Nova

In Store - Worthy Complements

By Susan Stein

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...

Psst - Bali Hai

Although she lives in Bali, fashion designer Nadya says that Asian and Western cultures influence her creations. She describes her inspiration as “cooking with leftovers,” as she uses fabrics...

PSST - Bling and Bubbles

Tami Cimperman wanted to send party guests home with rhinestone-emblazoned glassware. To her dismay, she found none; and vendors told her rhinestones wouldn’t stay on glass anyway. “Oh,...

By Janice Kleinschmidt

PSST - Devoted to Dinah

Jane Blalock, Julie Inkster, Sandra Palmer, Donna Caponi, Nancy Lopez, and Amy Alcott may be the names most Kraft Nabisco Championship fans recognize. But followers of the golf tournament should at...

By Janice Kleinschmidt

PSST - From Rooms to Runway

Scarlett O’Hara famously made a gown from drapes in Gone With the Wind. Coachella Valley interior designers will set about making their own fashion statements in a similar vein for a Fashion Week...

By Janice Kleinschmidt

PSST - Words About Wine

If the next best thing to partaking in something you’re passionate about is reading about it, then Peggy Meyer calls it as she sees it: “heaven.” The Palm Springs resident uses the word to...

By Janice Kleinschmidt

Wealth - Caveat Emptor

That billionaire Mort Zuckerman could fall victim to Bernard Madoff leaves average investors shaking in their boots. Brian Shea, vice president and regional manager of Wells Fargo’s Wealth...

By Ellen Paris