May 2009

10 NEW Rules of Palm Springs Real Estate

We’ve seen our share of tumult in the real estate market, but we’re here to share some sage advice with those of you in the market to buy a new house. If you know real estate history, these...

BY SHEILA GRATTAN

Editor's Letter - May 2009

Seldom do I dread producing an issue of Palm Springs Life, but this month — our annual real estate issue — came with a challenge: We, like the army of reputable experts whom we interviewed,...

Steven Biller

Fashion Week El Paseo 2009 Wrap

Behind the scenes, at the tip of the runway, and in the mix of all the action at Fashion Week El Paseo, our photographers captured the excitement of Palm Desert’s most popular event.

Forever Seeking the Dream House

Is your house your best investment? It absolutely is when you apply the old-fashioned, or back-to-basics, rules of home ownership. It is only in the last two years since World War II that market...

BY ELLEN PARIS

Intelligencer - Driving A Hard Bargin

Keith McCormick’s Classic Car Auction in February set a record attendance for its 24-year history with 27,000 attendees. However, none would pay as much as the owner of a 1961 Caddy Limo wanted.

Palm Springs Horoscopes - May 2009

No matter your chart, the energy cycle runs in overdrive. Impatience, arrogance, and anger dominate negotiations. A sense of urgency encourages action for its own sake — never a good idea. We all...

Gain Strength and Pace Yourself

PSST - Overlooked Real Estate

For $2.5 million, you could buy a chunk of mountainside perched over the private O’Donnell Golf Club. Thomas O’Donnell, who built the course in the late 1920s, apparently had fashioned living...

PSST - Soaring Into the Record Books

With the title “chief mechanic,” you might think Matt Voight spends all his time tinkering with, well, mechanical stuff. But at Palm Springs Air Museum, he’s digging into paperwork and...

PSST - Timely Moves

During a visit to Palm Springs from his Milwaukee home, Peter Mahler found his first house in the Las Palmas neighborhood. He was 15. “I told the owner I wanted to buy it,” he recalls. Seven...

Janice Kleinschmidt

PSST - Word Association

Byron Nease, a Broadway star who has performed the role of Raoul in more than 1,700 performances of The Phantom of the Opera and who has a home in Palm Springs, has written Behind the Mask … No...

Revisiting the Kaufmann House

It’s like being in Switzerland: You want to see the Matterhorn,” says Crosby Doe, a veteran salesman of architecturally significant houses. And when in Palm Springs, he adds, “You want to see...

By Morris Newman

The Calm in the Storm

Adams painted the two newest works in the exhibition on linen, taking himself closer to the raw surface: no ink or acetate, only acrylic paint.

BY STEVEN BILLER

Wheels - The Viper SRT-10 ACR

The Viper SRT-10 ACR is the last version of the Dodge supercar before its ailing parent company, Chrysler, sells off the Viper brand. It’s also by far the best. Powered by an 8.4-liter V10...

BY PAT DEVEREUX