Laugh, cry, love, lust, or simply disappear for an hour, a day, or a weekend into the cool Camelot Theatres June 19-25 during Palm Springs International ShortFest. This annual homage to the art of short film provokes emotion, stimulates synapses, and tickles funny bones with its broad scope of themed packages, including comedy, drama, thrillers, adventure, romance, celebrity, and more.
Palm Springs International Film Society Executive Director Darryl Macdonald will receive the first Cinemas Without Borders “Friend of the International Cinema Award” for his role in promoting global filmmaking.
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.”
Toscana Country Club, Babyccinos, Hard Rock Artist Gesso Cocteau, Bugatti, Christopher Kennedy, and “Happy” Palm Springs.
Academy Award-winning producer and director Oliver Stone, his mom and son sat together in Camelot Theatres for the screening of Stones “Comandante,” which opened the inaugural American Documentary Film Festival in Palm Springs.
When it comes to live entertainment, casinos rock — literally. Here’s a sampling of what’s hot and happening locally.
Sugarland, one of the hottest country bands in the land comes to The Show at Agua Caliente Casino • Resort • Spa on May 25, 2012.
1980 icons The Go-Go’s, who brought “We Got the Beat” into the world and several other big hits, promise to deliver again at Evening Under the Stars, May 5, 2012, in Palm Springs.
Good music is always in style, and few artists have proven this better than Tony Bennett. Bennett comes to Morongo Casino, Resort & Spa on May 11.
Blessed with an uncanny likeness to “Ol’ Blue Eyes” in sound and style, Di Salvo presents a Las Vegas-esque review of timeless classics by Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett, Dean Martin, Nat King Cole, and many others.