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Lisa Vossler Smith: Modern Woman

By Darya Mead | Sep 23, 2022

Lisa Vossler Smith’s roots in the desert and long track record in the Coachella Valley Art and Culture scene makes her a perfect fit for Modernism Week’s CEO.

The Other Side of Utopia

By Cezar Greif | Sep 23, 2022

Though Harry Styles may be the marquee name attached to Don’t Worry Darling, the real star is the architecture of Palm Springs.

Go With The Flow

By Darya Mead | Sep 23, 2022

A couple imbue their gallery with positive, healing vibrations.

Event organizer Paul Anderson’s first La Quinta Art Celebration was nearly his last. Anderson, a former president of the board of directors for the Sausalito Art Festival and onetime Northern California weekly magazine publisher, is also the head of Scope Events, which was chosen in 2019 by Celebration’s board to produce the annual March event.As Anderson labored through the early months of 2020 to produce a much more upscale, patron-focused event than had been produced previously, the news of the looming pandemic was dire. “The world was in turmoil,” he says.

The Art of Inclusion

By Kent Black | Sep 23, 2022

The Artists’ Center at the Galen is one for art and art for all.

The Art of Kathy Caldwell

By Desert Staff | Sep 23, 2022

“I always start with a sketch. They’re pretty rudimentary sketches, but strangely when I finish a piece, it always looks remarkably like what I’d first sketched,” says Jewelry artist Kathy Caldwell.

Gemini Man: Musician Derek Jordan Gregg

By Desert Staff | Sep 23, 2022

Growing up in the small southern Oregon town of Cave Junction (pop.

Clancy Lane Contemporary

By Karen Kidd | Sep 23, 2022

Anyone who thinks they feel a heightened level of excitement as they drive along Bob Hope Drive in Rancho Mirage of late isn't imagining things. An estate home in the prestigious Clancy Lane South gated equestrian development has gone on the market with an asking price of almost $3.3 million and amenities that include its own private tennis/pickle-ball/ basketball court

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5 @ Bermuda Dunes: Stunning Silver Rock Development homes

By Amy Roberts | Sep 23, 2022

Exceptional valley living awaits at an exclusive opportunity from Silver Rock Development, Inc., within the historic Bermuda Dunes Country Club.

Somewhere in Time: Love, Music and a Desert Legacy

By Darya Mead | Sep 23, 2022

Nancy Waterfall, at 96, said: “there are only two things important in life, love and music.” This is the story of a masterfully curated snapshot in time, of a house in the desert and how one family’s musical passion and pedigree has connected generations.I met Susan Waterfall (Nancy’s daughter) and Allan Pollack in their adorable cottage behind their Berkeley Hills home they bought in 1983.

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The Show Must Go On

By Kent Black | Sep 23, 2022

After a nearly two-year hiatus during the pandemic, the McCallum Theatre returned last season to thundering applause.

Michael Childers: The Man With the Golden Rolodex

By Kent Black | Sep 23, 2022

When I first met Michael Childers, it took us about five minutes to discover that we had a very close friend in common: the late Steve Lowe, whom I’d met when I bought his church in Madrid, New Mexico, and whom Michael had met after Steve renovated the Lautner Motel in Desert Hot Springs.