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Everyone Knows it’s Windy

Around here, the same gusts that turn turbines also upturn semis. But hold on to your hats, there’s more to the story.

Stewart Weiner Current PSL, History

In Greater Palm Springs, the same gusts that turn windmill turbines also upturn semis. But hold on to your hats, there’s more to the story.

Mr. Anonymous

The story Frank didn't want you to read

Stewart Weiner Social Scene

Frank Sinatra didn’t want any rousing hosannas for a lot of the things he did personally for others. Many never even knew who their guardian angel was.

Paisans!

Frank Sinatra collected dozens of friends along the way. But it wasn’t always nice ’n’ easy.

Stewart Weiner History

While Frank Sinatra could claim to have hundreds of “friends,” there were levels to the meaning.

Schurr Joy

The Palm Springs Women’s Jazz Festival knew a sure thing when it booked singer Diane Schuur.

Stewart Weiner Arts & Entertainment

The Palm Springs Women’s Jazz Festival deserves the spotlight, especially when it kicks off with a concert by Diane Schuur on Oct. 9.

Swing-A-Ding-Ding

Bing Crosby and Bob Hope loved the game of golf. Frank Sinatra loved the way the game brought people together

Stewart Weiner Social Scene

To Frank Sinatra, golf was not an end in itself; it was a means to an end. And a helluva good way to hang out with friends.

Diane Schurr's Top 10 Albums

Singer on her picks: "I don’t know why I like it. I just do.”

Stewart Weiner Arts & Entertainment

Watching Diane Schuur listen to some of her favorite music- — the way she rocks back and forth, her fingers in constant motion, the broad beaming smile that lights up her face — is nearly as delightful as the music itself.

Let’s Get Away From it All

Palm Springs was a sanctuary for Frank Sinatra during the ups and downs of his career, through marriages, divorces, and deaths. And it all happened within these walls.

Stewart Weiner Home & Design

In 1947, Frank Sinatra had become a millionaire, and so he followed the lead of many other show business millionaires — he headed to Palm Springs.

Crime Pays

Burn Notice creator and Bermuda Dunes native Matt Nix transforms the criminally challenged characters from his childhood on the mean streets of Bermuda Dunes into cutting–edge shows

Stewart Weiner Arts & Entertainment

If it hadn’t been for some of the shady characters Matt Nix met while growing up here, we never would have been introduced to Nix’s criminally inspired hit TV series, Burn Notice.

Good Neighbor Sam

Architectural designer Sam Cardella brings classic buildings back to life in neighborhoods around the desert

Stewart Weiner Modernism

The Playboy mansion needs a little sprucing up? Robson Chambers’ historic home patiently awaits a little loving restoration? William Pereira’s footprint in the desert not big enough? Better call Sam Cardella.