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On a blustery April afternoon, the James O. Jessie Desert Highland Unity Center in Palm Springs welcomed an after-school crowd of youngsters. “Are you checking in?” longtime manager Jarvis Crawford asked, and a boy mumbled affirmatively. “Do me a favor with your sound,” Crawford said, gesturing for the boy to silence his phone. The post

Chances are the Agua Caliente Cultural Plaza at the corner of East Tahquitz Canyon Way and North Indian Canyon Drive in downtown Palm Springs has caught your eye. And well it should. Famously, the 5.8-acre campus sits atop the ancient Agua Caliente Hot Mineral Spring known as Séc-he, the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians’

Out past downtown Joshua Tree, beyond the rustic saloon and vintage stores, tourist traffic thins, structures become sparse on the landscape, and the brilliant horizon opens wide in the dusty distance. The post Inside Andrea Zittel’s Experimental Desert Compound in Joshua Tree appeared first on Palm Springs Life.

For the sartorial set — whose calendars tend to revolve around gallery openings, charity galas, and spritzes best enjoyed in dramatic sleeves — few Coachella Valley rituals rival the annual runway spectacle that takes over The Gardens on El Paseo each March. Music lovers have Coachella. Golfers have The AmEx. The style set has Diamond

On a rocky hillside above Palm Springs, an empty swimming pool sits beneath the San Jacinto Mountains, windblown and weathered. Terraced pathways disappear into overgrowth. Windowpanes are missing. Floorboards warp beneath decades of neglect. The post Forgotten Hollywood Estate Above Palm Springs Could Rise Again appeared first on Palm Springs Life.

Ahh, the hamburger. It’s one of America’s most ubiquitous and adaptable dishes. It might begin as a sizzling patty smashed into the flat-top at the local greasy spoon, or a thick puck with suet in the grind and bacon jam as an accessory. You don’t have to choose. The burger can go high or low,