The Albert Frey designed Cree House was built in 1955 between Palm Springs and Cathedral City, but it’s history stretches back almost a decade earlier.
Glenn Close is The Wife
But she’s not the victim.
Glenn Close has walked miles in the sometimes uncomfortable shoes of dozens of eclectic characters since The World According to Garp.
Honor Thy Culture
Ruben Gonzalez’s never-say-die activism started alongside Cesar Chavez and continues with Coachella’s artistic set.
Ruben Gonzalez’s never-say-die activism started alongside Cesar Chavez and continues with Coachella’s artistic set.
The Sky’s the Limit
Pioneers of modern architecture, fashion, industrial design, and entertainment found inspiration in the wide-open desert.
Pioneers of modern architecture, fashion, industrial design, and entertainment found inspiration in the wide-open desert.
Our Place in the Sun
These innovative thinkers could launch their ideas almost anyplace, but they choose Greater Palm Springs.
These innovative thinkers could launch their ideas almost anyplace, but they chose Greater Palm Springs to realize their dreams.
Original BFFs
Barbara Sinatra and Nelda Linsk were the It Girls of Palm Springs’ Golden Age.
Homey little bits and glimpses are the kind of things only a close friend would know. For Barbara Sinatra, that friend was Nelda Linsk, who met then Barbara Marx in the fall of 1965.
Harold Matzner: The Brilliant Enigma
In Part 2 on one of the Coachella Valley's most influential people, nine valley residents discuss his branding brilliance, particularly in regard to the Palm Springs International Film Festival.
In Part 2 on one of Palm Springs’ most influential people, nine valley residents discuss Harold Matzner’s branding brilliance with the city’s film festival.
Harold Matzner: An Oral History
Part 1: Prince of the Desert.
you live in Greater Palm Springs and mention of the name Harold Matzner doesn’t cause you to sit up a little straighter in your seat, then clearly you’re not paying attention. Owner of Spencer’s Restaurant in Palm Springs and CEO of a New York/New Jersey–based branding, advertising, and marketing company, Matzner, who turned 80 in July, has contributed more than
Order on the Court
While the brawl for bragging rights raged on between the Racquet Club and the Tennis Club in Palm Springs, a new champion was emerging in the east valley.
It may have been some 40 years ago but tennis hall-of-famer Charlie Pasarell still remembers the last ATP tennis tournament played in Tucson before it was relocated to Mission Hills Country Club and the valley where it would grow to become the BNP Paribas Open. First of all, it wasn’t really even a tennis tournament. “They called it the American
Love Match
Long before golf became synonymous with Greater Palm Springs, tennis was all the rage. But, like most obsessions, it sometimes went out of bounds.
In 1987 I was researching a story about a connection between two of the oldest and most memorable Palm Springs institutions: El Mirador Hotel and The Racquet Club. It was just a few years before Charlie Farrell — movie and TV star, former mayor of Palm Springs, and founder, with Ralph Bellamy, of The Racquet Club — died of a
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