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1/31/2012
Gay gets a little more mainstream every day. For the first time ever, gay-friendly greeting cards are being sold in a major grocery store, the Albertsons at 1751 Sunrise Way.
The cards are targeted to LGBT couples but designed with tasteful motifs that appeal to mainstream buyers. Greeting themes include cards for same-sex weddings, anniversaries, everyday occasions and holidays like Valentine’s Day and Christmas. If the cards sell well in Palm Springs, Albertsons plans to ...
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1/4/2012
Most theatres would kill to have a sellout rate of 86 percent. But at the McCallum Theatre in Palm Desert, that’s just standard operating procedure.
“Our shows do exceptionally well,” reports Mitch Gershenfeld, the McCallum’s director of presentations and theatre operations. “We offer world-class entertainment in a very elegant venue. No other place in the Coachella Valley has the ambiance this one does.”
Opened in January 1988, the 1,127-seat theatre programs a wide variety of ...
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12/20/2011
Few things say Southern California more than the swimming pool. That’s why it was chosen as the subject of the new photo exhibit at the Palm Springs Art Museum. “Backyard Oasis: The Swimming Pool in Southern California Photography, 1945-1982” opens on Jan. 21 for a four-month exhibition.
“At one point, the highest concentration of private swimming pools in America was in Palm Springs,” says Bob Bogard, director of marketing and communications for the Palm Springs ...
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12/6/2011
In Hollywood, most showbiz careers are over long before age 60. But in Palm Springs, many a showbiz career is being revived at that age thanks to the Palm Springs Follies. “Our youngest performer is 58 and our oldest is 82,” reports Follies Communication Manager Greg Purdy. “We have a policy that the performers must have lived through the era that they’re portraying.”
The high-glitz Follies offers lavishly produced Broadway-caliber production numbers of songs from ...
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11/21/2011
The Annenberg Theatre may very well be Palm Springs’ community center. Located within the Palm Springs Art Museum, the 433-seat Annenberg attracts a diverse group of people for a wide range of events.
“We really are a vibrant community cultural center,” reports Bob Bogard, director of marketing and communication for the Palm Springs Art Museum. “We, of course, use it for theatrical performances, but we also do concerts here, have film screenings, host lecture series, ...
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11/9/2011
The Coachella Valley has a new gay and lesbian center—the LGBT Community Center of the Desert, more commonly known as just “The Center.”
But actually, it’s not new at all. The Center has been around for a decade, although some likely have never known about it because it went under the name of the Golden Rainbow Senior Center. The Center officially changed its name in October to reflect an ever-expanding range of services and programs ...
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10/25/2011
For some old-fashioned, Western fun, the place to be on Saturday, Nov. 12 is the Smoke Tree Ranch. That’s when the Desert Hoedown gets off to a smoke-stomping good time with a BBQ dinner, line dancing, horseshoe tossing and celebrity guests. The Desert Hoedown is the latest fundraiser by the AIDS Assistance Program, a resurrection of the long-running event last held in 2001.
“Reviving this traditional event is something I’ve been looking forward to since ...
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10/6/2011
Big isn’t necessarily always better. For the Terrazzo gay male resort on East Palm Canyon Drive in the Deepwell section of Palm Springs, small is the way they like it.
“What makes us special is being small,” reports Terrazzo manager Kevin Leggett. “We’re a 14-room guest house. We’re very private. We’re very discrete. Our guests like that we are small.”
Being small allows them to provide personalized service. “We get to know our guests,” says ...
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9/28/2011
You don’t really associate day spas and Palm Springs gay hotels. But there is one, and only one, gay resort that has a day spa on the premises. La Dolce Vita Resort, located in the Deepwell Estates section on South Via Soledad, is the one.
“We’re the only guesthouse that has a spa just for men,” explains owner Ken Stabins. “And all the spa employees are male as well. It’s really quite popular with our ...
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9/15/2011
In the 1940s, ‘50s and ‘60s, Warm Sands Villas catered to many a Hollywood star—everyone from Clark Gable to Shirley Temple stayed there. Nowadays, Warms Sands Villas sets out to make everyone who stays there feel like a star.
The resort went gay 20 years ago and is now one of the premier clothing-optional resorts in Palm Springs. The ersort goes out of its way to offer personalized service and make every guest feel as ...
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