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Bold Strokes: La Chica’s Deft Palette

The Palm Springs Pop-up Painter uses colorful, broad brushstrokes to bring the community together

By Darya Mead | Apr 12, 2023

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Art Couple

Herb Alpert and Lani Hall Return to the Desert

By Darya Mead | Mar 7, 2023

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Art Club

By Kent Black | Feb 17, 2023

Tamarisk Country Club hosts contemporary artists.

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Pictures at an Exhibition

By Desert Magazine | Feb 17, 2023

As the Artists Council prepares to celebrate over 50 years of juried shows, it’s clear they’ve found the perfect home at The Galen.

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Gotta Dance: Chad Allen Ortiz makes his moves in the dance world

By Darya Mead | Oct 28, 2022

Growing up over the mountain in Temecula, Chad Allen Ortiz was lucky to have a much older brother who paved the way for him, both as a dancer and member of the LGBTQ community.

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Curtain Call: Saving the Plaza Theatre

By Kent Black | Sep 23, 2022

During the pandemic, it wasn’t clear whether people would ever go to theaters again.

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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.

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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.

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Gemini Man: Musician Derek Jordan Gregg

By Desert Staff | Sep 23, 2022

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

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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.

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The Art of Inclusion

By Kent Black | Sep 23, 2022

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

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Go With The Flow

By Darya Mead | Sep 23, 2022

A couple imbue their gallery with positive, healing vibrations.

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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.

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Betsy Enzensberger Creates “Pop Art”

By Cat Makino | Jun 9, 2022

A six-foot tall rainbow ice pop drips on the floor at Delta’s new Sky Club at LAX.

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Young Playwrights Festival encourages creative minds

By Darya Mead | Jun 9, 2022

The Palm Springs Young Playwrights Festival promotes and encourages creative writing — in the theatrical form — and is open to all students K-12 within Riverside County, California.

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Kippi Leonard Infuses the Desert into Her Art

By Cat Makino | Apr 27, 2022

Seeking adventure nine years ago, Kippi Leonard liquidated her interior design company, then explored Italy, solo.

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Michael Nickerson-Rossi brings the art and beauty of dance to the desert

By Darya Mead | Apr 27, 2022

The Coachella Valley is a thriving hub of artistic energy, but dance access was slim pickings until Nickerson-Rossi Dance put down roots in the area.

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Kevin Neirman and Dave Larsen make art and a model home in the Coachella Valley

By Katie Nartonis | Apr 27, 2022

Husbands for more than 25 years, Kevin Neirman and Dave Larsen inhabit an airy, mid-century post-and-beam Paul Trousdale home in Palm Springs.

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Smokey Robinson back in the saddle at Stagecoach Festival

By Cezar Greif | Apr 1, 2022

Smokey Robinson is playing the Stagecoach Festival, which makes perfect sense if you know how he got the nickname “Smokey.” “When I was three or four years old, I loved cowboys and wanted to be one, so my uncle gave me the nickname ‘Smokey Joe,’” he explains.