Horoscope – January 2011

In the New Year, Take Risks for Progress

Sherryl Nova Horoscope

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.

Janice Kleinschmidt. Arts & Entertainment, Shopping

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

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

Janice Kleinschmidt. Real Estate

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.

Horoscope – July 2010

‘Great Time for New Beginnings’

Sheryl Nova Horoscope

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…

Helen Zukowski PSL and Villager

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.

Story Tennesen Hiking, PSL and Villager

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

Ellen Paris. Real Estate

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

Sheryl Nova Horoscope

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.