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A Campy Christmas Indeed: Desert Rose's 'Crawfords' Is a Silly and Hilarious Drag-Infused Holiday Musical
Ah, yes, Christmas With the Crawfords … could the title sound any more Norman Rockwell-idyllic? But the very fact that Desert Rose Playhouse has chosen this play as its annual Christmas show should imme...
Holiday Happenings: There Are a Lot of Festive Things to Do in December; Here's a Quick Primer
The holidays are here again—and that means there are a whole lot of Christmas-themed events going on.
While we could fill pages upon pages of this newspaper with lists of things to do in December, we’v...
Santa Comes to Cathedral City: Snow Fest Promises Holiday Cheer for All
What says “Christmas” more than candy canes, hot chocolate, Santa’s Village and a slide made of “snow”? While I don’t know the answer to that question, I do know that all of this can be found at the N...
Creating Beautiful Things: Local Artist and Filmmaker Tysen Knight Shows the Incredible Talents of Homeless Street Artists
Tysen Knight was surrounded by street art while growing up—and it inspired him to become a street artist himself.
Now living in Palm Springs, Knight has helped bring street art into the mainstream. He’...
Magic, Honestly: Penn and Teller Take a Break From TV and Their Vegas Residency to Perform at Agua Caliente
When Penn and Teller first started performing in 1975, the duo was unlike anything else out there.
In 2018 … well, there’s still not anything else out there like Penn and Teller. The comedy/magic great...
Conducive to Creation: The Desert Art Center's Longstanding Mission Is to 'Stimulate, Educate and Nurture the Visual Arts’ of Local Residents
The Desert Art Center sits nestled in two historic buildings on Palm Canyon Drive. Founded in 1950, it is the oldest art organization in the Coachella Valley.
The artists who created it 68 years ago ha...
Terrifyingly Timely: After the Election and Another Shooting, Dezart Performs' 'Church and State' Is a Powerful, Near-Flawless Production
After a decade of Dezart Performs producing excellent, thought-provoking plays, one would expect artistic director Michael Shaw to open the company’s 11th season with something special—but the product...
Western Lit: A New Novel Follows Two Wanderers on a Westward Journey to Find Mythic Beasts
About two-thirds of the way into Carys Davies’ folkloric novel West , the widowed farmer John Cyrus Bellman recalls a riverboat encounter with a Dutch land agent and the agent’s wife. The unpolished far...
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- A Clinic on Acting as Actors: Coyote StageWorks Kicks Off Its 10th Season in Fantastic Fashion With 'The Understudy'
- Drag Diva: Bianca Del Rio, Winner of 'RuPaul’s Drag Race' and Self-Described 'Clown in a Dress,' Makes Her Palm Springs Debut
- For the Women: Thoughts on the Pride Events for Queer Women (and Their Allies) From Someone Who's Been There From the Dyke March Start
- A Revelatory Show: CV Rep's Season-Opener 'How I Learned to Drive' Powerfully Tackles the Topic of Sexual Abuse
- A Lot of Varied Art: Woodman/Shimko Gallery Is Known for Its 'Gay' Art—but It Offers So Much More
- Mall Art: The Westfield Palm Desert's STREET Party Celebrates Culture, Music and Food
- New Beginnings: The Excellent Production of 'The Sugar Witch' Proves the Desert Rose Playhouse Is in Good Hands
- On Their Own: After 50 Years Under the Wing of the Palm Springs Art Museum, the Artists Council Is Becoming Independent
- Western Lit: 'Kings of the Yukon' Explores a Fishing Culture Collapsing—as Reality TV Moves In
- Funny in Love: Megan Mullally, Nick Offerman Kick Off Season 2 of Palm Springs Speaks
- Western Lit: Two New Memoirs Tell Stories About the Beauty—and Dangers—of Living in the Wild
- Western Lit: Luis Alberto Urrea's New Novel Reflects on Family Relationships That Transcend the U.S.-Mexico Border.
- PSAM at 80: The Palm Springs Art Museum Celebrates a Milestone Anniversary With an Exhibit of New Acquisitions
- Western Lit: A Fantastic New Memoir Reflects on an Isolated Upbringing in a Survivalist Mormon Family
- Desert as Muse: The Hi-Desert Cultural Center Brings More 'Desert Stories,' and New Exhibits at a Brand-New Visual-Arts Space
- Experimental and Conceptual: The Desert-Centered Works of Cristopher Cichocki Get the Spotlight at the Lancaster Museum of Art and History
- Western Lit: Pulitzer-Winning Biography 'Prairie Fires' Examines the Gritty Reality Behind Laura Ingalls Wilder's Writings
- Interesting Incarceration: Desert Rose's 'Women Behind Bars' Is a Profane, Irreverent and Perfectly Cast Romp
- A Musical Worth a Toast: 'The Wedding Singer' Comes to the Palm Canyon Theatre
- Hooray for Clay: Palm Springs' Silica Studios Offers Ceramic Artists a Place to Commune and Create
- Funny Business: Aspiring Standup Comic Jacob Cantu Hopes His Monthly Comedy Night at The Hood Is the Start of Something Big
- Western Lit: Memoir 'Narrow River, Wide Sky' Shows What It's Like to Be Poor in the Shadow of Luxury
- Honoring Doris Day: CV Rep Hosts Actor/Singer Scott Dreier's Cabaret Tribute to the Legendary Performer
- A Message of Liberation: Juan-Manuel Alonso Celebrates Palm Springs and Those We Have Lost in New Murals at the LGBT Center
- Food Trucks, A Classic Film and Lots of Fun: Street Food Cinema Comes to La Quinta
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