May 2012

May Horoscope

SHERRYL NOVA

Jupiter and Saturn are incompatible these days — a generic transit that applies to all of us. Jupiter is our “big picture.” Naturally optimistic, we plan large and talk happy.

CAMEO - What’s it Worth to You, Roderick Hardy?

Janice Kleinschmidt

Helping value artifacts from the Titanic, appraiser Roderick Hardy has been researching a gold chain with gold nuggets. “The only one who would have the audacity to wear it would be Molly Brown,” he speculates. “Everyone else in the upper class would be wearing very refined jewelry.”

Psst! - Dishing Palm Springs … in a Good Way

JANICE KLEINSCHMIDT

You’ve dined in Palm Springs. Now you can dine on Palm Springs. NotNeutral offers a porcelain “map” of the western edge of the city.

Psst! - Fab Prefab

JANICE KLEINSCHMIDT

Palm springs Modernism Week not only brings pop-up stores to town, but also this year brought a “pop-up” house.

Psst! - Intelligencer

Toscana Country Club, Babyccinos, Hard Rock Artist Gesso Cocteau, Bugatti, Christopher Kennedy, and "Happy" Palm Springs.

The Light Touch

Janice Kleinschmidt

Painters would be the first to tell you that the natural light in Palm Springs, Seattle, and Paris differs drastically. But a lighting designer says his work in those three locales remains the same.

As You Like It

MATTHEW LINK

For every $1 a seller spends on staging, they average $3 in return, says the Palm Springs-based veteran of the housing market. Many times, I have been in competition with a similar listing — the same model of home or condo. My listing sells every time, while their unstaged one sits.

Inspiration for Sale

ELLEN PARIS

Initially an outpost influenced by Spanish architecture, then an experimental pool for midcentury modern pioneers, the Coachella Valley today fires up the imagination with a breadth of styles drawing on influences throughout time and place.