Author Susan Arnaut Smith’s latest Grace Descanso novel Out at Night and Roma Bogard of Palm Springs has written a book titled For the Love of Art

Ayad Alkadhi responds to the U.S. occupation of his native Baghdad

When Tarinan von Anhalt spattered paint on the gold leaf-plated representation of the heraldic fawn of Margarete Klingler’s Austrian hometown in the Alps, master goldsmith and sculptor Klingler applauded. Oddly, Klingler brought the 6-foot Golden Chamois to Palm Springs specifically for that purpose. Even more unusual was von Anhalt’s method of application: using the blast of air from a jet engine to disperse the paint.

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 More

San Soucie Art Glass Studios in Palm Desert provided glass for three locations at the 55-story Bank of America Tower at One Bryant Park in New York, including a suspended ceiling in the lobby with 4,065 square feet of hand-carved glass. The company also carved the U.S. presidential seal on a glass panel for the USS George H.W. Bush, the final Nimitz-class aircraft carrier.by Arcadia Press.

Moya Henderson, who has edited a historical calendar for the Palm Springs Historical Society for 30 years, has published a book of images in the historical society’s collection that cover Native Americans, pioneers, transportation, the early community, the beginning of tourism, and entertainment.

Those who long for the days of double-feature movies should be in seventh heaven on April 22, when they can watch 35 films in a sitting (for free!) at Rancho Mirage Public Library.

Chalk up this column to shameless self-promotion: I have to tell you about the magazine’s new-look Web site, www.palmspringslife.com.

Palm Springs Art Museum, Opera Showcase of the Desert, Happy Chickadee, Kraft Nabisco Championship Celebrity Pro-Am, Copley’s on Palm Canyon, Teco Pottery, Mel Haber, Les Dames D’Escoffier.

The Coachella Valley once was dotted with hundreds of adobe houses, but most have washed away, collapsed, or been bulldozed. In recent months, some classics were slated for demolition. But economy-wary developers allow us a last chance to see these structural gems.