Jupiter and Uranus square off with Pluto (the “nonplanet”) this year. A time of upheavals can be good fortune for those who seek a better way.
Road Work
Palm Springs artist Steve Maloney has loaned 15 artworks to NASCAR corporate offices.
While NASCAR executives cringe when they see mangled metal on the racetrack, they’re enjoying the sight of bent, twisted, and ripped-from-the-chassis sheet metal mounted on the walls of their offices
The Smoketree School
Painters respond to the call of the desert
For many artists in the early 1900s, a trip to the Palm Springs area became an essential spiritual pilgrimage.
GRAND LUXE
On the market for $75 million — by far the largest price tag ever for a desert estate — Porcupine Creek has everything but its own ZIP code
Offered for $75 million by Christie’s Great Estates, Porcupine Creek hides behind the placid Mirage Cove neighborhood, where houses typically cost less than 1 percent of that price.
Desert Tea Lovers Rejoice!
Teavana Tea Emporium Comes to El Paseo
Desert Tea Lovers Anticipate Teavana Tea Emporium Opening in Coachella Valley
Horoscope – July 2010
‘Great Time for New Beginnings’
On July 21, an unprecedented alignment begins in Libra and Aries — a combustible time that will influence us for weeks. It marks the end of many established forms and processes.
Lawrence Welk
The Champagne Music Man bubbles on, and on, and on…
It’s 10:30 Tuesday morning in Studio 31 at CBS, and they’re well into rehearsal for the umpteen-hundreth taping of the Most Unlikely Success Story on Television.
The Secrets of the Road Runners
Jim Cornett, the curator of natural science at the Palm Springs Desert Museum, tucked a photo of a roadrunner and a photo of a bald eagle under his arm and ventured out onto the streets. His mission was to test the public's awareness of animals.
The Roadrunner cartoon character was especially drawn for Palm Springs Life magazine by the artists at Warner Bros. Jim Cornett, the curator of natural science at the Palm Springs Desert Museum, tucked a photo of a roadrunner and a photo of a bald eagle under his arm and ventured out onto the streets. His mission was to test the public’s awareness of animals.
Wealth – May 2010
Luxury in Another Land. Resort housing deals lie beyond U.S. borders — just be cautious
Rita Pacheco often travels between La Quinta and her 5,000-square-foot oceanfront home on the Mexican Riviera in Mazatlan. “I go every other month and stay for a month. Between my computer and Skype, I can do business from there,” says Pacheco, who manages vacation properties she owns in the desert. She says her five children thought she had flipped out when she announced she was building a home in Mexico.
Horoscope – April 2010
ARIES (March 21-April 19) You are so near a significant period in your life. A lot of preliminary drudgery should be undertaken, especially where you are not sure why. Momma bird does not count eggs before she builds the nest. Let your natural impatience goad you into cleanup and reorganization.