June 7 to 13, 2012 Vol. 1 No. 11

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Red Hot Date.............................3 PS Art Museum.........................5 Appreciating the Wells.............6 Don’t be Clueless......................7 Haddon Libby: It’s All Local......9 Sports Scene...........................10 Golf Column............................10 Valley Rhythms.......................11 Desert DJs...............................11 Pet Place..................................12 The Vino Voice.........................13 Club Crawler Nightlife............14 The Pampered Palette............16 Club Crawler Review...............17 Screeners.................................18 Book Review............................19 Restaurant Guide....................20 Classifieds...............................21 Dale Gribow on the Law.........22 ShareKitchen...........................22 Campaigning for Zeros..........23 Free Will Astrology.................24 Mind, Body & Spirit................25 Health Fitness & Beauty.........25

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You Think It’s Hot Now? Red Hot Date Ignites Summer Romance at Spa Resort Casino!

Dating Game Style Show Brings Valley Singles Together

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alm Springs, CA, June 1, 2012 – Just because temperatures are on the rise, doesn’t mean valley entertainment is going cold. Hosts Cirenia Guerrero, Craig Michaels, Blake Bentley and Andie Bradley are going to make sure of that as they navigate audiences on June 15 (and monthly thereafter) at Spa Resort Casino through a modernized Dating Game style show, where “Anything Goes” and “Everything can Happen.”

Reminiscent of the popular 1970’s game show, The Dating Game, Red Hot Date is a high-energy, fast moving; anything goes dating game show, set on a live stage and broadcast on Palm Springs’ local television.

Pushing the boundaries on what makes dating an often seductive and sexy test of personality and wit, Hot Date promises to have even the most politically correct audiences rolling in the aisles. Also a full-fledged multimedia experience, this extremely interactive game show is filmed in high-definition and displayed on jumbo screens to ensure everyone in the audience has a front row seat to all the action. Not only that, but producers say that the audience will be part of the action, with the ability to ask stage contestants questions, vote on who should be picked and be contestants themselves through entertaining pop culture trivia and singles games.

“We’re excited to be working with the Spa Resort Casino and their staff,” says the show’s producer, Valerie Wells, as the two have come together to help create Wells’ vision of a “Singles Utopia” through modern lighting techniques and multimedia effects.

Parkwil Manor Haunted House has also stepped up to help create a stylish dating game style stage, complete with lighted partitions and set pieces.

“The show is geared towards valley professionals of all orientations and anticipation for the show has grown quite heavily as the first show date draws closer,” says Wells. Currently slotted for the “Hot Seat” (or the singles that will be choosing between three eager contestants vying for a date with them) are Charissa Farley, owner of Farley Interlocking Pavingstones and Rich Warren, owner of Sign World [see sidebar].

Several stage contestants will also be chosen at the event, and producers encourage anyone interested in being on the show to contact them at info@HotDATEvents.com.

Although tagged as a singles event, producers are quick to note that couples will also find the experience entertaining.

Along with providing singles games, Love

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Shack will be providing couples games to help “reignite the spark” says Love Shack representative, Serena Leichtfuss. Not only that, but a variety of prizes are up for grabs for contestants and audience members alike, which include everything from suites provided by Renaissance Palm Springs and the Palm Springs Hilton, to dinners provided

by Trio, Ace Hotel and many more.

Red Hot Date’s first taping will take place at Spa Resort Casino’s hotel side in the Canyon Conference Center on Friday, June 15th and will air on KRET-TV (Channel 14 Time Warner, 21 Verizon Fios) early July every Saturday morning at 11AM. The show will also be following the dates of the winning contestants and airing them shortly after. Guests are encouraged to enjoy a

happy hour reception at the hotel pool beginning at 7PM prior to the show, with doors opening at 8PM. Tickets are $25 and can be purchased through HotDATEvents. com.

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A stunning architectural photographer in every sense of the word, 41 year-old James Randal Butchart’s work and life are nothing short of amazing. This colorful, creative and smartly stylish Seattle native is a former model, casting director and celebrity photographer. His interest in architectural beauty has led him to purchase several vacation homes in the Movie Colony area of Palm Springs. A man who loves to travel and has photographed clients as far away as Paris and Monaco, Butchart is at the end of the day, a family man. He loves his family and little Chihuahua, Cooper. Butchart is looking for an adventurous partner, yet someone who will also enjoy staying at home and making dinner while sharing a bottle of wine with him. He hopes his next relationship will be his last and has plans to spend the summer photographing hotels in Tuscany and Capri. Perhaps you will be joining him? If you are interested in being a contestant on Red Hot Date and vying for the affections of James Randall Butchart, contact info@edgetvproductions.com.

Charissa Farley, President, Farley Interlocking Paving

Charissa Farley’s fierce determination, strong product knowledge, industry affiliations and commitment to growing the country’s interlocking concrete paver industry have gained her the reputation as the “Queen of pavers” in the Coachella Valley and beyond. Though she laughs at this, she’s proud of providing education on the aesthetics, practicality, sustainability and cost effectiveness of pavers. She has been described as “a pioneer in the landscape industry” and ranks among the premier promoters of interlocking concrete pavements. She is also the host of Home Makeover in the Desert, serves as a Board Member for the Desert Cancer Foundation and can often be spotted at charity events throughout the valley. Charissa is interested in meeting someone adventurous who enjoys travelling, attending events and carrying quality conversations over a nice bottle of wine.

Rich Warren, Owner, Sign World

Rich Warren’s forward-thinking business sense, friendly attitude and commitment to quality and service have helped to bring his unique visual sign creations to some of the most prominent companies throughout the Coachella Valley. An avid motocross fan, Warren is also working to develop his dream of a large motocross track in the city of Indio, from which he’s already obtained the land and required permits. This adventurous guy doesn’t just stick to the sand however, as he is also a world record holder for Formula One Racing, having won three back-to-back championships for Miller Beer. Although Warren describes himself as a man who enjoys “going fast,” he feels he’s now at an age and place in life where he’d “like to see other people do it.” Rich Warren is interested in meeting someone a woman who is low maintenance, likes to have fun and “who can enjoy travel and water and wind and sand and fun stuff!”

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PS Art Museum to Screen Foreign Films, Comedies This Summer

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ooking for a way to stay cool this summer? Then join the Palm Springs Art Museum on Thursday nights for free film screenings of handpicked foreign films and classic comedies each week through September.

The Palm Springs Art Museum will screen ten foreign films this summer as part of the museum’s free 2012 Global Lens series, followed by screenings of five class comedies in conjunction with the Palm Springs International Film Society. This is the fourth year the museum will host the Global Lens series and its second collaboration for the Classic Comedy series.

The Global Lens series, organized by the Global Film Initiative, was designed to showcase films by young and upcoming directors from countries not typically associated with filmmaking. The 2012 Global Lens series kicked off last week with a screening of the Albanian film “Amnesty”

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and will continue through August 2nd with films from countries including Columbia, Brazil, Iran, Rwanda and Morocco.

The foreign film series will be followed by the Classic Comedies series, which starts on August 9th and features such classics as Leo McCarey’s “Duck Soup,” starring Groucho Marx, Frank Capra’s “Arsenic and Old Lace” starring former Palm Springs resident Cary Grant, and Woody Allen’s “Annie Hall,” starring the award-winning director opposite Diane Keaton.

Films will be screened each Thursday at 6 p.m. through September 6th at the museum’s Annenberg Museum. While the screenings are free, seating is available on a first come, first served basis. Museum admission is also free on Thursdays between 4-8 p.m.

To learn more about the Palm Springs Art Museum’s summer film series, visit psmuseum.org.

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Appreciating the Wells

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Palm Springs, Hotel Room in 2010. Valerie adds however, that her most memorable experience is and continues to be the people she works with. “I’ve been blessed to have the opportunity to be on a team with some of the most creative and passionate minds I’ve ever met.” Adding, “not only that, but they’re good people too.”

Valerie’s faithful attitude towards relationships has manifested itself as an exciting addition to the Coachella Valley networking/ dating scene and the word is spreading like wildfire. She envisions a job creating a revenue producing production where the prominent, up and coming, and general members of our community can come together for recordable entertainment and a chance at a “Red Hot Date” (www.hotDATEevents.com).

It is clear that we can rely on Valerie Wells and Edge TV as she continues her commitment to creating chance and opportunity for us all to laugh, learn and WORK TOGETHER.

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Madeleine L’Engle, Judy Blume and many more. She remembers gathering old textbooks from the throw pile to bring to her childcare so she could teach the younger children the ins and outs of English, Math and History. A bit of a tomboy, she remembers rarely leaving her father’s side, once even helping, at the age of 12, to roof a house. “My father always taught me that anything is possible. He never once said to me, ‘you’re a girl, you can’t do that!’ Maybe that’s where I get my persistence!”

Perhaps it’s this early exposure to education that kept Valerie in college for nearly ten years. She had four different majors including business and psychology before graduating her last semester with all A’s and a Bachelors in Communications with a Public Relations emphasis and Minor in Psychology from San Diego State University … all as a single mother.

“It drives me crazy when I hear some students making the excuse that continuing education is too hard and not worth it.

College was such a great experience and opened up so many opportunities for me.

Yes it was difficult at times, but now I can do many of the things myself that I would have once depended on someone else to do for me. It’s freedom,” she says.

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upport and Education for Local Music and Arts (S.E.L.M.A.) Coachella Valley Chapter would like to take a moment to appreciate one of the Wells of our desert home as the life supporting, nurturing and creative forces they are. The Well we are speaking of today happens to be a human being with a befitting name. Introducing Ms.Valerie Wells, Executive Producer at Edge T.V Productions. She is the founder and creator of many local community media projects; including Palm Springs EDGE TV, Red Hot Date (see cover story) and the new It’s your Nickel series with John Paul Valdez premiering this week on KNEWS 94.3 FM. She also serves as a Program Director for SELMA, helping interested youth explore the world of television and film. Ms. Wells’ contagious predestined attitude refines itself, as this behind-thescenes creative force continues to build her own organic presence while staying committed to community enrichment in the Coachella Valley.

The daughter of an inner city school principal, Wells was a highly inquisitive child from the start. She happily recants long, lazy summers in her father’s elementary school library, getting lost in Laura Ingalls Wilder, Stephen King,

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ith apologies to musical icons Rodgers and Hammerstein (Carousel), “June is bustin’ out all over!” We expected that once the heat was on and the snowbirds cleared out, we could lazily settle in for “The Long, Hot Summer” (apologies on ditto-status to Bill Faulkner) with a tall drink crackling with shaved ice nestling in an ergonomicallycorrect chaise longue by the pool--- or, better, close to the bar, stirring only to fire up the grill, fling a chicken (whatever) into the flames, and flip through the pages of a steamy read. Good luck with that, desert denizens, because starting here, starting now, the summer is filled with a marvelous mashup of a hot-rock tribute and YankeeDoodle dandy band concerts. It’s rife with rare ballet performances, a magician, a blow-out of books, a hike for flora and fauna on the trail, fun fundraisers, yuka-minute comedy via “the great bard of Avon” (apologies to you-know-who), and the story of a Star, as in Movie Star, as in Bernie Schwartz (read on). And you thought you were going to get bored. Oh, ha, ha, ha.

Every Thursday, June 7 – July 4. Music to our ears and stars in our eyes! Palm Desert celebrates the return of free concerts to Civic Center Park in the Amphitheater with fab acoustics and a summer-style vibe. Concertgoers are encouraged to tote blankets, lawn chairs and picnic baskets filled with your favorite snacks and soft drinks. (Alcoholic beverages and smoking are no-no’s!) Every Thursday at 7:30 pm

beginning June 7 the concert series will offer a variety of talented musical acts designed to get your toes-tapping, handsclapping, voices-humming and bodies swaying and swinging. Here’s the line-up!

June 7: Nitro Express Band Country Music.

June 14: Southband Classic Rock. June 21: Vanity Fair Dance Music. July 4: Swing Cats Big Band Jazz and Patriotic Music. Location: Civic Center Park, San Pablo Ave. and Fred Waring Drive. For more information, call 760-346-0611, ext. 416.

Friday, June 8. Show at 8 pm. Dog n Butterfly: The Ultimate Heart Tribute is a production you don’t want to miss at Spotlight 29 Casino Showroom. The fab 70s female rock music artists named Heart took the stage by storm and left a legacy of great music led by the take-no-prisoners vocals of Ann Wilson, her guitar-wielding sister Nancy Wilson and rousing back-up players. Portrayed with the same skilled musicianship of the originals, this energydriven band leaves audiences reeling and ravenous for more. In fact, the Wilson sisters call their performance, “Amazing. We are truly honored, humbled and proud!!!”

The group includes Lizann Warner as Ann, Courtney Chambers as Nancy, Sean Michael Clegg as Roger Fisher, Scott Snyder as Steve Fossen and David Pimentel as Michael Derosier. Free performance for guests 21 and older. For tickets, go to www.

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Saturday, June 9, 4pm. Summer time and we’re all goosepimply for the rousing musical pulse of a marching band that only the composers entitled to be called the “March Kings” can produce to perfection.

We’re in luck! The “Desert Winds Freedom Band” is coming to the Rancho Mirage Library for its fifth annual concert where the percussion beats, the reeds tweet and the brass blows up a storm with the traditional music of the John Philip Souza, Karl King, Henry Philmore, and more great American march standards and themes from TV shows and the movies. The band, founded by Gary Moline in 2001, “is a diverse, inclusive group of music-loving people” who may

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11am – 5pm, The Palm Springs Art Museum invites the community to come to the museum where a whole building of delights await! On June 10, Family Activity in Zone 101 (Main Level), between 11am and 3pm, features Animal Mania where artists use animals to represent different aspects of themselves that asks the observer “what animal will you choose to represent you?” The noble horse? The slithering snake? The protective working dog? Or the fluffy Fifi? Artists in Action in the Houston Atrium (Main Level), 1pm, is a unique demonstration by the Artist Council members, each portraying the same animal in different media from Pastel and painting to block prints, clay sculpture and others.

Family Friendly Films, Annenberg Theater (Lower Level), 2pm, unspools a hilarious Golden Globe-winning documentary exploring the wildlife of the Namib Desert titled Animals Are Beautiful People created

by Jamie Uys (The Gods Must Be Crazy) and released in 1975. And Spotlight Talk, Orientation Center (Main Level), 11am and 3 pm, is an invitation to take an intriguing look at the depiction of animals throughout the museum and explore the artists’ choices of representation for meaning. The Palm Springs Art Museum, 101 Museum Dr., Palm

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Sunday, June 10, 5 pm – 6 pm. Our ballet slippers may have slipped its ribbons ages ago, but we still jump for joy in our hearts at the ballet, and every other form of dancing. The Desert Dance Company will present Don Quixote, adapted from the Miguel de Cervantes novel, and one of the few ballets to survive the Imperial Russian ballet repertory. All the original Spanish passion, humor and magic is captured as first staged by the Ballet of the Imperial Bolshoi Theatre of Moscow in 1869 with choreography by Marius Petipa to the music of Ludwig Minkus. Staged for today, the ballet is directed by ex-prima ballerina Catherine Demonchaux, and Actor’s Studio actress/instructor/director Wendy Girard.

Featuring amateur and professional local talents, the group will also present other dance rhythms after the featured ballet, including jazz, hip hop, musical theater and contemporary dance that the whole family will leap in a communal jeté to applaud! At the Annenberg Theater, Palm Springs Art Museum, 101 Museum Dr., Palm Springs. Tickets from $19 to $23. For more information, call PSAM at 760-322-4800.

Sunday, June 10, 1pm – 5pm. Helping People Hear Again (HPHA) is the beneficiary of Sizzling Summer Fiesta, an afternoon of delicious Mexican food, entertainment, prizes and chef demonstrations at the Rio Azul Mexican Bar & Grill, 350 S. Indian Canyon Dr., Palm Springs. A free raffle continue to page 8

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Leaders are friendly, knowledgeable and experienced. Members include several hundred hikers who are year-around residents, as well as seasonal snowbirds.

Instructions: To register, for meeting place and further instructions, call between 8am, and 8pm, 760-771-1256. Wear proper gear including a hat, hiking boots and sunscreen, bring at least 2 qts. of liquid—and always tell someone where you are going. (Make them jealous!) National Forest Adventure

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s I sat down to write this week’s article with a can of cold, refreshing, sugar-free, zerocalorie Coke Zero, I decided to take a look at the debate raging over the ban on the size of sodas in New York City. Going forward, New Yorkers will have to buy their sodas in quantities of 16 ounces or less if Mayor Bloomberg gets his way. Supporters feel that this is a proactive step by government to protect us from an unhealthful product that is causing a spike in healthcare costs while detractors feel it is no more than “nanny state” activities by the overreaching hand of government. Bloomberg cited the contribution of sugar to obesity, a condition that is responsible for most Type II diabetes, 70% of cardiovascular disease, 42% of breast and colon cancers and 30% of gall bladder surgeries. The American Heart Association guidelines on daily sugar intake are 36 grams for an adult man, 20 grams for a woman and 12 grams for a child. The average American consumes 90 grams of sugar daily.

I do not know how anyone can get around the fact that this is government intrusion on one selective product which contributes toward obesity. While one 20 ounce Coca-Cola has 240 calories and 65 grams of sugar, a 24 ounce RockStar Energy Drink has 660 calories and 60 grams of sugar, a simple 12 ounce McDonald’s Strawberry Shake has 570 calories and 79 grams of sugar, a medium Dairy Queen Cookie Dough Blizzard 1,020 calories and 108 grams of sugar and a double chocolatey Frappucino at Starbuck’s has 520 calories and 52 grams of sugar. A 16 ounce orange juice has 220 calories and 48g of sugar while a 5.6 ounce strawberry margarita has 360 calories and 23 grams of sugar. Surely all of these should be banned. What about candy

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Alzeimer and Parkinson Diseases. A good thing about Coke Zero is that it has half the aspartame of Diet Coke. Additionally, the quantities needed to induce cancer in rats was so large that I am not not worried.

The same can be said for the potassium benzoate that is used to keep the crisp flavor consistent.

Potassium benzoate is the same stuff that we are exposed to from the exhaust of your car.

Coke Zero uses less aspartame because of its use or acesulfame potassium or Ace K which is 200x sweeter than sugar and used to offset the lower aspartame levels.

The problem with Ace K is that it contains methylene choride, a known carcinogen that causes headaches, depression, nausea, mental confusion, liver, kidney and vision problems in addition to cancers such as breast and colon. Yikes.

Potassium Citrate isn’t too bad as it helps break down kidney stones, something a frequent soda drinker has a heightened risk of. That said, it is to be avoided if you have kidney problems, a urinary tract infection or if you are dehydrated - a bit of a problem in a “refreshment”. Also, pregnant woman are warned to avoid this ingredient as it can be harmful to unborn babies. Sodium benzoate reduces potassium in your body and can cause asthma and eczema while another ingredient, phenylalaine, causes

people with PKU, (phenylketonurics) serious health risks. While this ingredient occurs naturally in milk, eggs and beef, people taking anti-depressants or having Parkinson’s disease, a sleep, anxiety disorder or other mental health issue are advised strongly to limit their exposure phenylalaine.

Until this year, most products with caramel for coloring used Caramel E150d, a product that inhibits the metabolism of the vitamin B6 while reducing white blood cell count and cancer in animals. As E150d is cosmetic and not critical to flavor, when the FDA suggested that manufacturers replace this ingredient or label the soda with a cancer warning label, the drinks were quickly reformulated. Caramel E150d is still contained in other products like soy sauce though without the warning label. Another ingredient found in many sodas but not Coke Zero is BPA or bisphenyl-A - carcinogen that can problems with the endocrine system including premature puberty and reproductive issues.

A 2008 study published in the Obesity Journal concluded that the problem with the diet drinks is that they enhance appetite which causes weight gain. Mayor Bloomberg’s war on sugar and obesity will probably cause more people to drink products like my Coke Zero. The wellintentioned but overreaching law will most likely cause increases in obesity and the ingestion of even worse compounds - an outcome that Bloomberg most certainly was not looking for.

My daughter has more sense than Bloomberg and most Americans when it comes to soda - just avoid it and drink things like water. You don’t need the intervention of Big Government - even a ten year-old knows that.

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While Bloomberg may be well intentioned, shouldn’t he and the rest of government be focused on things like safety and jobs? If the real concern is over obesity, shouldn’t he be focused on the high fat, calorie and sodium content of countless items served everyday at most food establishments in America?

This debate avoids me as I like the sugarfree, no calorie version of the offending beverage. That isn’t bad for me...or is it? My fifth grade daughter vehemently disagreed so I took a closer look at the label of ingredients on my Coke Zero.

Phosphoric acid is the stuff that breaks down rust. In humans, it breaks down calcium which is important to strong bones and teeth while causing kidney problems in some. Okay, no problem, I will take a calcium supplement to offset my Coke Zero intake.

What else? Aspartame causes cancer in rats, or so says the European Ramazzini Foundation. Many experts believe that it plays a role for some in the onset of

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20, with Polynesian Paradise Dancers, and June27, with the Scott Land Marionettes.

The Summer Reading Program (SRP) with special events and contests with prizes are open to children pre-school to grade 5 and are free of charge! Just sign the kids up at the Westfield mall’s lower level temporary location. For more information, call Robin Stewart, Special Events, 760-346-6552, email robin.stewart@rivlib.net, or go to www.rivlib.net Saturday, June 16. 9:30am. The pretty boy from the Bronx makes it Big-Time!

Desert Film Society presents the awardwinning documentary and international festival favorite film Tony Curtis: Driven to Stardom at the Camelot Theatres in a onetime premiere showing in the Coachella Valley. Over six decades in 130 films, the teen idol proved he was more than a pretty face in such critically raved-about movies as Sweet Smell of Success, The Boston Strangler, Some Like it Hot and The Defiant Ones which earned him an Oscar nomination.

A rebel with a cause, he influenced the careers of James Dean and Elvis Presley, yet had commitment problems with wives Janet Leigh and Christine Kaufman.

Featuring Debbie Reynolds, Sidney Poitier, Harry Belafonte, Jamie Lee Curtis, and others. Ticket is free for DFS members; $15 at the door. For more information, call 760770-0507, or go to www.desertfilmsociety. com. Camelot Theatres, 2300 E. Baristo Rd., Palm Springs.

Saturday, June 16, 8 am. Get out of that lounger and take a hike! Coachella Valley

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Fill in the blank in this hit song

by Orianthi: “Shut up and____?

What month was the title of a hit song by Daughty?

(A) September (B) October (C) November (D) December

(A) Kiss me (B) Be quiet (C) Be still (D) Go away (A) Kiss me

ticket is given with each donation of a hearing aid in any condition---and there’s no limit! Donate six hearing aid batteries for a raffle ticket, again no limit. This nonprofit group fits financially-challenged Coachella Valley residents at no cost, along with hearing tests, ear molds, fittings and free hearing aids through local hearing aid business partners. For applications to qualify, call 760-776-1738, or go to www. helpingpeoplehearagain.com. To attend the fiesta, make your paid reservations by calling 760-776-1738. PayPal users, visit the web site. Mail check or money order: HPHA, 40101 Monterey Ave., STE B-1, PMB 327, Rancho Mirage, CA 92270.

Monday – Friday, June 11-15. A heat-busting, energy-conducting ENTERTAINERAMA is taking center stage at the McCallum Theatre for an entire week when the McCallum Theatre Institute’s Summer Session Festival 2012 presents three (3!) exciting performances that educate and entertain audiences of all ages. Beginning on Monday at 1:30 pm, the festival presents Nearly Lear performed

by Susanna Hamnett, who plays the part of King Lear’s devoted fool in a story both tragic and tickle-pink funny with Susanna, as “Noreen” is disguised as “Norris” in the Shakespeare gender-bending tradition. On Wednesday at 1:30 pm, get ready for awardwinning master storyteller David Gonzalez, accompanied by Daniel Kelly, and the story of Sleeping Beauty. The classic once-upona-time romance gets a new spin with the addition of rhymed verse, music-meister Bach’s “Goldberg Variations” and images that project a groovy multimedia world.

Twisted? A bit, but in a good way. One critic was struck by its “brilliant comic spark.” The Festival concludes on Friday, 1:30 pm, with The Space Between Molecules performed

by Milwaukee Ballet and choreographed

by Petr Zahradnicek, a native of the Czech Republic who joined the dance company in 2003, was a two-time finalist in McCallum’s Choreography Festival, and is known for combining the precision of classical dance with the freedom of modern dance. Each performance ticket, $15; Festival pass, $35; children, 12 and under, $7. Box office, call 760-340-ARTS, or online at www. mccallumtheatre.com.

Wednesdays, June 12 – June 27. Dream Big READ! The Palm Desert Library in its temporary location at the Westfield Palm Desert shopping mall due to remodeling of its permanent location, is still offering the best of the reading, watching and listening pleasures for the summer—books, cds and DVDs---for checkout and returns of Riverside County Library materials. And for beginning, as well as entrenched (adults) bibliophiles, do they have the programs! On Tuesdays and Thursdays, 10:30am, Preschool Story Time with books, songs, games and simple crafts for ages 2-7. June 12, Bilingual Story Time with Senorita Mary Carmen; June 14 with Miss Alice. Wednesdays, 10:30am, June 13, features Magician Joel Ward, June

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by Marissa Willman

Local Youth Swing into The First Tee Youth ages 7 to 17 can learn the importance of values such as honesty and respect this summer by participating in a local program that teaches nine core values on the golf course.

The First Tee Coachella Valley is part of a national youth development program that teaches kids life skills and values through the game of golf. The program serves approximately 1300 youths in the Coachella Valley.

“Our mission is to equip these kids with the tools that will make them successful people for life,” said Chris Keener, program director at The First Tee Coachella Valley.

“Each of our 9 core values are words that are synonymous with the game.”

Core values include words such as honesty, respect, integrity and perseverance, Keener said.

“There’s always going to be at least one of those core values attached to each and every lesson plan,” Keener said.

A typical class at The First Tee begins with a brief introduction to the core value and golf activity of the day in a

classroom environment. Then, students and instructors head to the golf course for a hands-on experience.

“We minimize the amount of [instructor] talking because we want the students to have an active role in the learning process,” Keener said. “It empowers the youth to have an active role in their experience.”

After the activity, students return to the classroom to reflect on what they learned on the field. Keener said The First Tee employs a reflection model called “Good, Better, How.” “It gives the juniors an opportunity to talk about what they enjoyed and what was positive,” Keener said. “Then we ask what could have been better? What wasn’t quite what they were expecting it to be? Then they identify how to do something better next week.”

During the 11-week summer program, classes of 12 students also attend golfrelated field trips.

The organization hosts its regular 8-week sessions in the fall, winter and spring, where students ages 4 to 17 can attend

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classes once a week. A yearly membership, which costs $120, includes all three 8-week sessions—a total of 24 two-hour classes— plus a week at The First Tee’s upcoming summer camp. The First Tee also provides equipment for members.

Signing up for a yearly membership before the summer camp season is the best deal, Keener said, because the summer

program also includes 11 beginner classes on Saturdays for new members, in addition to the fall, winter and spring sessions and week of summer camp. Additional summer camp programs are $50 per week.

The First Tee members are also welcome to play on their own at the facility’s range in Palm Desert. The First Tee also provides classes at four other ranges during the fall, winter and spring sessions.

On June 23rd, The First Tee Coachella Valley invites the public to watch the Palm Springs Power baseball team play the San Francisco Seals, where 20% of ticket sales will benefit The First Tee. Volunteer coaches are also needed to keep the student-teacher ratio at 4:1 and Keener said novice golfers are welcome to apply.

“Some of my best volunteers are nongolfers,” Keener said.

To learn more about how you can donate to The First Tee, email Chris Keener at ckeener@drd.us.com.To learn more about The First Tee and its programs, visit TheFirstTeeCoachellaValley.org.

by Mike Livingston

TIGER OF OLD EQUALS JACK IN HIS OWN BACKYARD W

hat another unbelievable week of golf, all the way around….did you even notice? As we discussed at length on the desert’s best golf talk radio show airing from 6-8 a.m. on Saturday mornings, The Memorial Tournament, hosted by Jack Nicklaus and played at the famed Muirfield Country Club is viewed by the players as another (almost) major. The field is as tough and world class as you’ll find on tour all year and this year was no exception.

Earlier this year Tiger Woods broke an almost two-year winless streak to win at Bay Hill (hosted by The King, Arnold Palmer) and claim that tournament for the sixth (yes, sixth!) time. He came to The Memorial seeking his fifth win here and remained

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stable throughout a tumultuous week, weather-wise. Cold, rain and wind gave way to beautiful weekend conditions for those who survived which did not include all of the big names you might have thought going in. Rory McIlroy having only last week missed his third consecutive cut and lost his world number one ranking, spit-thebit hard again at Muirfield with a string of bogies and worse down the stretch to miss another cut. Joining him in front of the T.V. with us for the weekend were names like: Bubba Watson, Nick Watney, Bill Haas, Keegen Bradley, Jason Day, as well as recent winners Carl Pettersen and Kevin Na. Sunday’s back nine provided the dramatic golf theater of several years ago as the three shot lead of Spencer Levin gave

way to first Rory Sabbatini and his “hat” and then after another shot for the ages and the Tiger career highlight reel, his chip-in from above and behind the sixteen for birdie catapulted Woods into a lead he would not relinquish and in fact, increase with a birdie at the last for a two-shot win, his second of the year, fifth at The Memorial. In addition and something the networks again used to their theatrical advantage was the fact that this was Tiger’s 73rd career victory, tying the same amount Nicklaus had in his career.

Tiger was quick to mention in his answer that he felt that 73 wins “wasn’t too shabby, especially at only thirty-six years old.”He then pointed out that he’d still be around for many more years and should add a few more wins…….He’s a beaut, isn’t he?

As Dibble would say, “Let’s talk LPGA Tour!”….The gals finished-up ShopRite Golf Classic with American Stacy Lewis remaining hot and holding off ‘Shack favs Katherine Hull and Azahara Munoz.

OK so by now you know the drill, the only place to talk golf on Saturday morning is YOUR wake-up call. It’s the Caddy Shack on KNEWS 94.3 FM…..Tune-in, we want to hear from you!……Fore!

Mike Livingston is the Co-Host of The Caddy Shack Radio Show on KNEWS 94.3 FM on Saturday Mornings from 6:00-8:00 a.m.; Additionally, Mike is the Director of Management for Personalized Property Management Company, in Cathedral City.

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Valley Rhythms

Country rock band Nitro Express debut Concert Series

alm Desert’s Summer Concerts begin this Thursday, June 7, with Country rock band, Nitro Express performing from 7:30 until 9 p.m. at the amphitheater in the Civic Center Park located at the corner of Fred Waring Dr. and San Pablo Ave. This San Diego based band, Nitro Express, became a Coachella Valley favorite Country band when they were chosen as the house band for “Two Step Tuesdays” held at the Agua Caliente Casino. “We performed there for over 4 years,” said Jimmy “Nitro” Pulsifer, co-founder of the band over 15 years ago.

“The dancers loved to line-dance and we would get requests to perform specific dances, not necessarily a particular song.”

However with their extensive repertoire, they were able to accommodate their fans with several different songs suitable for the line-dance requested.

Although the band has changed over the years, this group of musicians have been performing together for over 8 years.

Band members include lead and rhythm

guitarist Pulsifer; Rick “Nitro” Dunham on bass; Spike “Nitro” Loudermilk on lead and rhythm guitar and Patrick “Nitro” Giurbino on drums. Besides all sharing the same stage name “Nitro”, they all sing lead and background vocals and all wear western coats and hats. “It might be pretty hard to wear our coats and hats in 100 degree weather, especially since we all dress in black,” Pulsifer said with a chuckle, “So we may have to make an exception for this concert.”

One thing is for sure; this dynamic band will thrill the audience with lots of great

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music. Their show will feature old and new Country songs made famous by Johnny Cash, Kenny Chesney and Alan Jackson, to name a few, but keep in mind, they also know classic rock songs. If someone requests a Beatles tune, they can play it. They do their best to stay true to the authentic sound of the songs but they do “make them their own” with the Nitro Express “stamp”. To contact them, please call Jimmy “Nitro” at (619) 280-1076 or e-mail NitroExpressBand@aol. com A bit of interesting history...Pulsifer’s ancestors came to this country on the ship after the Mayflower, “The Fortune.” The ship landed in the New World in November of 1621 and carried only 37 passengers.

Jimmy said his family lived in upstate New York, but there is a concentration of Pulsifers in Maine and Utah, all related in some way.

“Music was always a part of my life when I was growing up. My Father played piano in a Dixieland band and would rehearse every week at the house,” said Pulsifer.

“My brother played the trumpet, my sisters

played the flute and I played trombone. We performed in the Marching Band at school.

That was great, but I wanted to play the songs that were on the radio, so I bought a guitar at 16 and learned how to play it. I think it is very important for children to be exposed to music at a young age, all types of music. It does have an impact in their lives as they grow up. All the band members have similar stories; we liked the music of the time. But appreciate all the music of the past.”

Bring your blankets and low lawn chairs this Thursday to the Civic Center Park. Make it a great family night and enjoy the evening!

The concert series continues on Thursday, June 14, featuring Classic Rock with Southband; June 21 features dance band Vanity Fair. The concert series concludes on Wednesday, July 4, with the Swing Cats Big Band followed by fireworks at the City’s annual Independence Day Celebration. For more information call (760) 346-0611 or visit www.palm-desert.org.

with Craig Michaels

DJ Supa James, Paying His Dues With Sights Set For Big Markets

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s a young teenager James Palomares knew there was no other job he would rather have than getting paid to play music. In fact, to this day it is the only job he has ever had.

The summer before 8th grade James asked his dad to take him to the radio station so he could learn how everything worked.

James would confirm his passion for being in front of a microphone on that trip.

Too young to get a job in radio at age 14, James quickly figured out how to make extra money as a mobile DJ playing at school dances and private parties. This was about the time I first met the up and coming DJ and remember swapping equipment with him at times to use for various mobile gigs.

James would eventually be given the name “Supa James” by fellow DJs Once he gained his confidence in front of small crowds, James decided he wanted to fulfill his dream of being on the radio, eventually landing back at KPSI in Palm Springs where he first got excited about

radio and began working for free as an intern. The big break came when James was offered his first on-air position at KVEG in Las Vegas at the age of 17. “It was an amazing feeling, mostly because all the time and work I had been putting in for free as an intern had paid off and I had proven myself as a joc” James recalls.

At age 18, it was time to pack up and move to Sin City to pursue his radio career while at the same time spinning music in many of the night clubs including the popular “Rain” night club -where James

once did a Hip Hop Show with the rap group “Three Six Mafia” in front of a sold out crowd of three thousand - and one of his favorites the “Revolution” night club in the Mirage Hotel. Although James has performed at the hottest night clubs in Las Vegas you can tell how much he loves the Coachella Valley when he comments “ In California, there’s no better feeling than going to Zeldas night club in Palm Springs to play music for people I haven’t seen for a long time!.”

You won’t find DJ Supa James doing

many mobile gigs these days, while still living in Las Vegas he has a very busy schedule working for Royce Intl Broadcasting. He is the music director and has a radio show from 5pm to 10pm weeknights. You don’t have to drive to Las Vegas to hear James on 104.3FM because his show is simulcast here on 97.7 KRCK FM in Palm Springs and on 92.7 FM in San Francisco.

James still finds time to promote events in the nightclubs and knows when he promotes a show on air, via twitter and Face Book, he is confident it will be a solid event with a huge turnout! James has his sights set on working full time in the San Francisco, Los Angeles, or New York markets.

If you want to contact James you can e-mail him at: djsupajames@gmail.com Written by: Craig Michaels Musical Affair Entertainment 760 619-3276

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by Rick Riozza

Author John Martel, Legal Thrillers & Rescue Dogs

ohn Martel is a New York Times best selling author of legal thrillers who lives in Rancho Mirage with his wife Bonnie. This well known American novelist is also a former trial attorney who brings realism and stunning insight to legal fiction. His popular novel “Billy Strobe” will soon be made into a motion picture. The theme of amazing rescue dogs weaves its way through many of John’s novels, delivering a subtle message that leaves the reader wanting to go out and experience the magic of adopting. John is a huge dog lover.

John and his son adopted a rescue dog that was in a high kill Los Angeles shelter.

“My son and I got a rescue dog who was abused, and only the two of us could get close to him. I was ready to despair, but we hung in there, and now he’s returned our love over a thousand times. At first the dog was easily threatened and snarled at anyone other than my son and I. He was badly damaged, and it took time and patience for Walter to turn into a loving dog. We got Walter before my grandsons were born, but Walter turned out to be incredibly gentle with children.

My two grandsons ages 3 and 6 don’t want to go anywhere without the dog. Walter is like my third grandson.” John is pictured here enjoying a hike with Walter.

John states, “Most of my books incorporate a dog as an important character. I try to convey the notion that there are so many lonely people whose lives could be enriched by a canine friend who is silently waiting to be discovered at a shelter.” The Coachella Valley is full of retired people, single and widowed, many of whom would find their lives enriched by the companionship of a dog.

Loving All Animals recently adopted a dog to a 75 year old widow who never owned a dog before, and she reports she cannot now imagine life without him.

The hero in Conflict of Interest, young lawyer Seth Cameron rescues a 3 legged dog from a shelter on the eve of his scheduled euthanasia. The dog he named Fat Dog or “Fats” becomes his best friend and accompanies him to his law practice.

An exerpt from the book describes their relationship, “Fat Dog was probably supposed to have been a Golden Retriever, but something had gone wrong - possibly a male

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basset hound - during mating. Then, not far into life, a car attack left him an orphaned pup with three legs, which is the way Seth found him at the Bakersfield SPCA, just in time to commute his sentence. In Seth’s case, after Rosie’s departure, Fat Dog wasn’t ‘man’s best friend’, he was his only friend.” Themes of animal love and loyalty can be found in most of John’s novels. He hopes to inspire readers to venture forth and save a dog so that they in turn may be “saved” by that dog.

In the 2011 novel Billy Stobe, Billy’s partner and best friend Mr. Dog, was also saved by his human hero on the eve before euthanasia. When Billy himself is sentenced to prison in Soledad, Mr. Dog leaves his adoptive parents in Los Angeles and sets off on foot to unite with Billy almost 400 miles away - - with disastrous results. Here’s a brief exerpt from that book, “Prison etiquette.

It wouldn’t matter much anyway. Darryl Orton struck me as just another decent human being who had been run over by life somewhere along the way. Like Mr. Dog, whose sentense at the L.A. dog pound I’d commuted at the eleventh hour. Mr. Dog eventually got over his slinking around, but it’s a scientific fact that humans have better memories than canines, though not as much

good sense. When the mail came with only twenty-eight hours to spare, it was both good and bad. The good part was an order from the Superior Court of the City and County of San Francisco, granting my motion for a new trial on behalf of Donald Giovanni Campora. I wept with relief when I saw it, then wept with grief when I read the second piece of mail. It was from the friend watching my dog for me.

Seems that Mr. Dog had been hit and killed by a car while trying to cross Wilshire Boulevard.

He had been heading north, towards Soledad.

Toward me.”

During our interview, John discussed his thoughts on the psychological resilience of dogs. Their psychological system allows them to recover from trauma that goes beyond what humans are usually able to do. “Our dog Walter was once quite neurotic and now he’s completely well adjusted and happy. A dog can get past its trauma and not act out their vengence on the new owner.” Amazingly, these canines have the abiity to heal trauma in their owners. Some of our combat Veterans returning from Iraq and Afganistan with post traumatic stress disorder use service dogs to ease their anxiety. Some people suffering from childhood trauma now take service dogs with them into the workplace. These soothing animals allow them to work and participate in daily activities that might otherwise be too stressful. Dogs have an amazing ability to adapt and form new bonds, teaching us through example. As the familiar bumper sticker reads, “Who Rescued Who”.

Enjoy a John Martel novel this summer.

Adopt a rescue dog who will joyfully and gratefully sit next to you on the couch while you read. More information is available on John Martel’s website www. johnmartel.com.

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THE VINO VOICE

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t’s nice to be back hitting all the food and wine bar scenes that are going on.

We’re in the final days of Restaurant Week 2012 where we’ve been dining at all the famous desert restaurants in the valley at discount prices. Great places we’ve eaten at, and, great places we’ve been desiring to eat at. And, of course, enjoying the wines they’re offering.

There’s a whole bunch of info regarding food and wine pairings—stuff that this column will no doubt discuss as we all continue on the game of wine, but the bottom line really is when the meal and the wine, together, take the appreciation and enjoyment to a different level.

From simple matters like sliced cheeses and meats for appetizers or lunch—a light wine, sparkling or not, bumps it up. And some of us are so deep into the wine ethos that it’s harder to imagine pastas, fish, poultry, or meat without a wine—or at least we don’t want to go there.

But where we do want to go is out to these restaurants to see what’s cookin’ and what’s on the wine list. Always on the lookout for a good restaurant, we like to dig a bit deeper into their wine menu. It never has to be extensive but we wish it to have some reasonably priced and eclectic offerings—an interesting and perhaps “sexy” wine.

I’ll just kind of ramble on places we’ve been and places we’re going to, and let’s see what strikes your fancy: Johannes Restaurant in Palm Springs where the “The Eclectic Chef” Johannes Bacher prepares some of the most inventive “global” cuisine in the desert—and guaranteed fresh ingredients or it’s off the menu for the night. He’s got a major wine list with

all the great usual suspects—and, he’s got those sexy Austrian wines: The Mark Huber Gruner Veltliner, crisp with those vanilla spice, apricot, pear, and grapefruit/lime notes, pairs wonderfully with the poached Tiger Shrimp, Ahi Tuna & Avocado Tartare, or Steelhead Trout appetizers, and, the Australian Grass Fed Kangaroo Loin matches great with the Blaufrankisch wine with its aromas of berries, cherries, licorice, smoke, spice, and black pepper.

Cuistot in Palm Desert is the country French “resto” we all want to get locked in for the night. The cuisine is stellar and sommelier Fred Gerber strives to satisfy all vino desires from those $450 Pinot Noirs—that I’ve seen people order, to great wine by the glass from around $7-$12. For Restaurant Week, Fred recommends a glass of Ferarri-Carano Fumé Blanc with the Grilled Sea Bass, and, a French Syrah Blend, Chateau L’Hospitalet Reserve with the Braised Gigot and Lamb Chops. Both wines at $9.50 Mindy Reed’s Zini Café Mediterrano on Palm Canyon in Palm Springs serves up the delights that its name brings to mind: Tapas, Pizzas, Pastas, and Seafood. That type of bistro fare on the street-side terrace is bumped up further by the $5 glass of New Age white wine that is served on ice with lemon as they do in Buenos Aires. Mindy carries a bunch of sexy wines by the glass— her favorite right now is Mastroberadino’s Sannio Felanghina, the bouquet is fresh and fruity with flavors of citrus, pineapple, and white flowers.

Acqua Pazza Bistro in Rancho Mirage and LuLu California Bistro in Palm Springs I hear are providing a free glass of house wine with their Restaurant Week 3 Course meal for $24. These are fun places to eat

and drink and have great happy-hour deals.

And that reminds me, the most scenic Escena Lounge & Grill in Palm Springs will pair their 4 course meal with 4 glasses of wine for an additional $18.

The Wine Bar at Old Town in La Quinta gets in this list for where else can you grab a delicious Panini sandwich, a classic Caesar or Caprese Salad, or a cheese and meat platter alongside a flight (3 glasses) of premium wines for tasting! A wine shop, restaurant & bar all at a great venue.

I always give a shout-out to Johnny Costa’s Ristorante of Palm Springs where Vince Costa consistently provides authentically delicious Italian food—as his dad did for Frank Sinatra. The place is beautiful, romantic and knee-deep in Italian wines. When you go—give me a buzz, I’ll

recommend a great Italian red.

And speaking of Italian—on the other side of town, there’s Charli Marrones’s Italian Bar & Grill, 42250 Jackson St. Indio.

Everyone tells me the cioppino is fantastic, so I’m really looking forward to that while I check out their wine list. Plus, CV Weekly’s first summer mixer is being held there on June 7th at 6:30 pm. We’ll see you there-Arriverderci!

As the old saying goes: So many restaurants, so much wine . . . so little time.

The new one’s better: It’s time to slow down and savor the food & wine and enjoy the company of your friends and loved ones.

And let’s thank God for the abundance!

Bon Appetit! Here’s to your health!

Rick can be reached at winespectrum. com

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Enjoy some of the best food in Old Town La Quinta. Serving a light, high quality, wine friendly menu all day.

Open daily at 11 am. Live music Friday and Saturday nights. Saturday afternoon wine tastings. Visit our website for Tastings and Entertainment details.

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Legends & Icons

and let me state that these were huge, fresh shrimp with a perfect cocktail sauce accompaniment. We were off to a great start. Entrées are served with choice of soup or salad and after our starters, we were ready to dig into what would be a memorable meal.

Joined by a very close friend, I was able to enjoy two of their many entrée selections. The Bourbon Street Mushroom Chicken was served with a bourbon sauce that had a bit of a kick. Though the chicken was tender, the sauce was a little spicy for my taste. The BBQ Pork Ribs, however, stole the show! With a barbeque glaze that had a full flavor without the dripping mess, I was able to spare my white shirt from a trip to the cleaners. The meat pulls away from the bone effortlessly and my only regret was not ordering the full rack so that I could

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Legends & Icons has plans for expansion and once you get the chance to try their food, you will be thankful for it! Great for lunch or dinner, Legends & Icons is open from 11:00am and dinner is served until 9:00pm with the bar remaining open to 10:00pm. One of the best happy hour menus in the valley is available from 2:00pm to 6:00pm. View their full menu at www. legendspd.com

veryone knows about the Red Barn. It’s been the best little dive bar in town since 1968 and has always been owned by Milo Mallotte.

That is until April 1 of this year when John Labrano bought the Barn. Labrano, who had been coming to the desert since the early 70s, had been looking to buy a bar here in town for the last few years. He moved from Long Beach to Palm Desert in 2006. His first time at the Red Barn was about three years ago. “A friend of mine told me to meet him here on a Sunday to watch a football game,” says Lobrano. “I fell in love with it right away and told my friend I wanted to buy it.

He laughed and said Milo will never sell it.”

Then earlier this year he found out that Milo was actually looking to sell so he hunted him down and took him to breakfast. “We hung out for about 3 weeks,” recalls Lobrano.

“We went back and forth to each other’s houses and shared a few meals and finally I just said ‘just give me a fair price of what you want for it and I’ll buy it’ and here we are.”

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’m going to let you all in on a bit of a secret. The best pork ribs in town are not at a touristy, overdecorated barbeque restaurant and you won’t find them at your average chain barbeque restaurants either. If you are seeking full flavored, fall-off-the-bone deliciousness, then I have just the place for you. Legends & Icons is under new ownership and they have stepped up their game!

I was looking for some comfort food, close to home and read some good reviews online, mentioning some positive changes brought by the new owner of Legends & Icons. I had no idea I was about to have such an experience. I had been there for lunch several times but decided to try the entrées that people had been raving about. We started with the shrimp cocktail

enjoy them again the following day! With authentic homemade flavors and classic selections like Prime Rib, Fried Chicken and their famous Meatloaf, I will be bringing the whole family, again and again.

With a cold beer to wash down this amazing meal, I almost decided to leave then, on a high note, but I could not resist the sweet Apple Crisp dessert a la mode. Served warm and topped with rich vanilla ice cream, this brown sugary sweet goodness was even better than described

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There have been some positive changes since he took over. The ceilings have been fixed, the walls painted, a small stage installed and a PA for the bands. There’s even been a cool mural painted behind the stage. “I don’t want to change it, I just want to clean it up. I’m not looking to change what it is because I bought it for what it is. But I’m somewhat of a clean freak so it can still be a dive bar but be a clean one,” he says laughing and then adds, “I’m going to redo the bar, replace the carpet and the bathrooms are going to look like the Taj Mahal.” He says that women want a clean bathroom and a bar that’s safe and he’s going to provide both.

And the other thing people want is food.

Yes…the Barn now has food which he refers to as their Munchy Menu of bar food. “ I’m not looking to be in the food/ restaurant business but at the same time it’s nice when you’re drinking to be able to have a little something. We have corn dogs, chili, nachos, philly cheese steak, bar food stuff. I put out nuts and snacks between 4-6 so the

customers have something salty to munch on while they’re drinking.”

Long time patrons of the Barn’s music scene can still count on seeing their favorite bands perform with an extended schedule for live music that includes Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays. They are also doing karaoke on Tuesdays. Labrano shared that he would like to go more classic rock and Top 40 but they will still have metal and the harder stuff, but maybe one or two nights a week instead of three. “I want to have music that people want to get up and dance to.

And I wouldn’t mind having 2 bands a night playing on a regular basis with one starting at 8:00 and the other at 10:00. Right now all the bands are starting at 9:00.”

Labrano says he really bought the Barn for his sons. “I have 3 sons and someday this will be theirs. To be honest I’m 47 and getting lazy and I plan on working another 5-7 years and then I want to retire. They’re all MMA fighters and athletes and by then they’ll be in their late 20s and this will be perfect for them.”

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Screeners No. 11

DESPERATE DESIRES & FATAL FLAWS

NEW MOVIES TOY WITH BIG THEMES

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here are a slew of big new movies waiting to battle it out at the box office. The best news for us is that as the summer cranks up triple digit temps in the CV, cool theaters seem even more inviting. Check out these titles for the big and little screen that dabble with the dangers of unbound curiosity, greed and revenge.

International reviews have been mixed, but Scott’s extraordinary, breathtaking production design is as impeccable as it is inventive. An emotional Rapace stands out in the fine cast that includes a cool, aloof Charlize Theron and Michael Fassbender as an advanced, smiling but unfeeling android.

Considering the huge themes introduced but not fully explored, I was not as intellectually stimulated as I was visually enthralled. The original ALIEN is a high bar to surpass, but this outing definitely enhances that dark and dangerous world. On a personal note, I think director Scott is fascinated with questions of origins and our various notions of divinity (see again the director’s cut of his masterful but underrated KINGDOM OF HEAVEN). I’m still trying to distill what this film is really about and why I found it so enthralling and unsettling. Let me know what you think. Opens here Friday June 8.

it endures and what it means -- beyond the obvious issues of mother-daughter conflict -- is another matter.

Director Rupert Sanders’ first feature reboots the familiar fairy tale and the result is a horrific medievalish nightmare that turns the story inside out. It’s a big, opulent tapestry of fear, courage, desire and revenge. There’s not a lot of chemistry between Kristen Stewart (TWILIGHT) and Chris Hemsowrth (THOR) and the dwarves are great -- kind of like Hobbits on steroid -- but Charlize Theron steals the show as the singularly obsessive wicked Queen. She’s got being a very bad girl down to a fine art.

However, the main thing that makes this movie worth seeing is the sheer, epic, eyepopping spectacle of this ingenious dark

six 20-something adventurous “extreme tourists” visiting the place where nothing is said to have survived. Their guide has told the visitors that short visits to the area are not dangerous. We know something has survived (or there wouldn’t be a movie), but even though there are several jolts, and a lot of running around in the dark, it’s all very predictable. Brad Parker directs with moments of visual flair, but it’s not enough to save the movie. Now playing.

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It’s been more than 30 years since ALIEN, and over the years there’s been much industry talk about revisiting that world on the big screen, so perhaps it can be said the most anticipated movie of the decade really is Ridley Scott’s epic space opera. For this movie, it’s better to know less than more, so here’s a thumbnail review that will not hint at spoilers that would lessen the fun of experiencing the film. (Yes, the 3-D version is very immersive but not necessary.)

The time is 2093, a few years before the events of ALIEN. Scientist Elizabeth Shaw (Noomi Rapace) -- after analyzing similar cave art all over the world, suggesting ancient alien visitation -- wants to prove the existence of God and discover the origin of life itself. Wealthy industrialist Peter Weyland bankrolls the journey to a moon light years away. Suffice it to say that this astonishingly vast and visually rich film is as cutting edge technically as possible. It is also a frightening and sometimes gory journey that revisits the mystery of the “space jockey” glimpsed in the original ALIEN. Big questions are raised about Evolution and Creation, but the final results of taking a trip to meet one’s Maker is definitely not a transcendent holiday in the heavens.

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SNOW WHITE AND THE HUNTSMAN

My guess is that the Brothers Grimm would probably approve of the movie iterations of the Snow White fable they collected and recorded during their forays in rural Germany during the early 1800s.

The Grimm boys would also no doubt love the fact that this story is still alive and undergoing contemporary alterations. Why

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This taut, Norwegian thriller about Roger, a beguiling headhunter who steals art to maintain his luxurious lifestyle, will keep you on the edge of your seat – and not just to read the subtitles. When his beautiful art gallery owner wife tells him about a rare, extremely valuable painting in the possession of a mercenary, Roger risks everything to get it. The result is a twisty, wickedly funny, relentless, explosively violent cat-and-mouse game where people are not what they seem and the hunter is the prey. Morten Tyldum directs this slick adaptation of Jo Nesbo’s bestseller. Now playing.

CHERNOBY DIARIES

A clever premise from Orin Peli (PARANORMAL ACTIVITIES) fails to radiate a satisfying payoff.

Strikingly desolate locations in Hungary and Serbia effectively stand in for the ghost village of the infamous Chernobyl nuclear facility’s work force -- now radioactive and of course abandoned for many years. The story has

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Danny Boyle’s directorial debut from 1994 is a stylish thriller about three obnoxious roommates who take on a fourth housemate, a stranger, whose sudden demise leaves them with a suitcase stuffed with money and two big questions: What to do with the body and the money? Although the choices they make are sometimes irrational and illogical, there’s plenty of tension that builds in the most unexpected ways as they essentially come unglued, go crazy or both. Ewan McGregor is a standout as a loutish schemer in this Scottish gem.

The Criterion Blu-ray edition is, as usual, pristine.

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Book Review

Get to Know Jesus’ Son

f you are not familiar with author Denis Johnson, you should be.

He is one of America’s great literary talents. Johnson writes far beyond character, place and story. His genius is his ability to convey unsaid information. He allows the reader the freedom to engage and interpret the emotion and friction at their discretion. His prose come to life and live on the page as if they always existed, and he has, without judgment or opinion, simply recorded the events for posterity.

Johnson is a poet, novelist and play write. So far, he has written nine works of fiction. In 2007, his novel Tree of Smoke (Farrar, Strause & Giroux, 614 pages) won the National Book Award. He is a graduate of the prestigious Iowa Writers’ Workshop.

Two of Johnson’s shorter works, Train Dreams and Jesus’ Son are arguably his best.

Train Dreams (Picador, 116 pages) is about Robert Grainier, a hardworking frontiersman, who harvests lumber and builds train trestles with a railroad gang at the turn of the 20th century. Working around Idaho’s panhandle, Grainier struggles to make a life in a challenging, difficult world filled with tragedy and obstacles. His character is simple, uncomplicated and sincere. But for a novella, Train Dreams

Train Dreams Novella Denis Johnson

feels like an epic tale.

Early on the narrator says about Grainier’s experience on the Eleven-Mile Cutoff railway: “made him hungry to be around other such massive undertakings, where swarms of men did away with portions of the forest and assembled structures as big as anything going, knitting massive wooden trestles in the air of impassable chasms, always bigger, longer deeper.”

Johnson tells Granier’s story like a parable. It is a passing world that exists like a dream. The third person narration enhances Grainier’s lonesome life in the American wilderness.

When the reader is informed that Grainier died in 1960, we realize Grainier must have lived several different realities over the decades during the rapid industrialization of the country.

Train Dreams is not about trains, but the railroad is the backdrop of Grainier’s life. As a Canadian orphan, young Grainier arrives alone in Idaho on a train with a note pinned to his shirt.

He is haunted by the sad lament of a train whistle as it echoes through the canyon near his cabin, the very place where a forest fire destroyed his home and family. The powerful locomotive is a reminder of the unstoppable growth of a changing landscape and nation.

Train Dreams was first published in The Paris Review, 2002. It was released in hardcover last year, and is now in paperback.

Jesus’ Son (Harper Perennial, 160 pages) is Johnson’s only collection of short stories. There are 11 tales, each told by the

Jesus’ Son Fiction Denis Johnson

same narrator in the first person. They are episodic events in the narrator’s life and the lives of those around him. It is a fragmented glimpse into the world of the dispossessed and marginalized members of our society -- especially those who indulge in drugs, fail to maintain sobriety and struggle to make a buck.

Johnson’s writing is reminiscent of Raymond Carver and Charles Bukowsky. It is gritty, rife with fringe characters who are mostly up to no good. They are people who don’t know that they don’t know. Broken, damaged and unlucky, these are folks who have few moments when they are charming, kind and sincere. Adroitly, Johnson gets the reader to empathize with the narrator’s pathology as the character fights to transcend his world and find redemption.

Although we root and hope for his recovery, we sense that ultimately he is doomed: “Sometimes I heard voices muttering in my head, and a lot of the time the world seemed to smolder around the edges. But I was in a little better physical shape every day, I was getting my looks back, and my spirits were rising, and this was all in all a happy time for me. All these weirdos, and me getting a little better right in the midst of them. I had never known, never even imagined for a heartbeat, that there might be a place for people like us.”

The title, Jesus’ Son is a line from Lou Reed’s song “Heroin.” The title is nowhere in the text. Reed’s lyrics begin: “I don’t know just where I’m going/ but I’m going to try for the kingdom, if I can/ ‘cause it makes me feel like a man.” Maybe Johnson’s point is that we are all trying for the

“kingdom.” That we are all part of the grand human experience and desire to leave a mark in this world -- some residue of our existence.

Train Dreams and Jesus’ Son are books you can read in one sitting. Johnson is a minimalist. There is nothing over-written in these stories that linger. It is rare when a book helps us reconsider the world around us: the people, our place in time and our humanity. Both books are worth considering for easy, but memorable, summer reading.

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DIE HARD TILL DEATH (DHTD) Pedal to the Metal, Balls out, metal band that delivers the goods!! More bang for your buck! Heavy music with a groove! Slammin drums, pounding bass, loud,screamin guitars, melodic yet powerful intense vocals with visual layden lyrics! www.diehardtilldeath. com www.facebook.com/ DieHardTillDeath www.reverbnation. com/DieHardTillDeath www.twitter. com/DHTDtheband JEKKEL – Hot & fast 4-piece rock outfit from the desert. “One Way Road” music video out now! New EP & shows expected Summer 2012 | www. youtube.com/JEKKELvideos | Twitter: @JEKKELtheband and www.JEKKEL. com -THE HELLIONS are proud to spread rawk’n’roll gospel for those in need of some salvation,an excuse to shake your ass and drink some booze... come out May 5th- The Hood for some Cinco de Mayo party action. www.facebook. com/thehellions-official

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: S D R A Y Settling the Property Damage BACK Edgy Zeros R U & What to Look forIinNa PIOLawyer W Dale Gribow On The Law

by Dale Gribow Attorney at Law

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stand, to read something that our office (or your spouse) has written down. This is true even though you have dictated that information to us or them. That is called “hearsay.” Thus, I suggest very strongly that you personally keep the diary and not your spouse or other family member.

I am often asked, “Why are you a better attorney than the next attorney?” I was an A.V. Rated Attorney for many years (which is the highest rating you can get nationally); I graduated pre-med/pre-law from U.S.C.; I have focused on Personal Injury cases for over 30 years; I worked for an insurance defense firm and I spent 5 years with the county as a trial attorney. When I moved to The Greater Palm Springs area, I was one of two attorneys in this area of law listed in the Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers for the Coachella Valley. In addition I have been profiled in Palm Springs Life Magazine 2011 as a TOP LAWYER and again in June 2012.

I have also been honored with a superb AVVO legal rating of 9.7 out of 10 and have been Man of the Year 6 Times including the City of Palm Desert and the City of Hope. In addition Dale Gribow Day has been declared 4 times However, I honestly believe the single most important factor was that I, too, was rear-ended. I saw an Orthopedist, a Chiropractor, an Acupuncturist and a Physical Therapist. Thus I am sensitive to what my clients are going through. When I was rear-ended, I described my head as feeling like a bowling ball and my neck felt like a piece of spaghetti. I use to have to put my hand behind my head as I pushed myself up from the bed in the morning because my neck was too weak. Thus, I can relate to the pains of injured victims.

I remember all too well what it was like to have a fear of driving. I remember that every time I came to a stop I would look in the rear and side-view mirror to make sure the car behind me was going to stop.

Whenever I would hear brakes screech, I would tighten up my neck and shoulder muscles thinking I was going to get rearended again. Don’t be surprised if this happens to you. If it does, write it down in your diary and tell your doctor and my office about it.

My entire life was thrown upside down after my accident and whatever responsibilities I had one second before the accident I still had. On top of those

responsibilities I now had to worry about getting my car fixed, fighting traffic to get to a doctor and being annoyed by waiting in the doctor’s waiting room for extended periods of time. Then I had to deal with the insurance company to get a car rental. You may have similar problems. On top of this you have to deal with going to a lawyer’s office and remembering all the things I am sharing with you.

I often make the analogy that your life is similar to a glass of water that is almost filled to the brim. One second before the accident, your glass of life’s responsibilities was almost full and now you are adding a lot of extra stress into that glass in the form of dealing with the car rental company, dealing with the car repair, dealing with the doctor, dealing with the lawyer, and thus causing it

to “spill over”. All those things may cause you to be uptight and to lash out at those that mean the most to you.

I have found over the last 30 years that when one “spills over” with pressure it often affects the relationship between the husband and wife or parents and kids.

When you are upset with your pain, etc., one often has a tendency to lash out at those closest to them. An innocent question of “Did you have a good day?” could result in a situation where someone barks at you asking “how could I have had a good day, I’m in pain.”

This Part 4 of a 7 Part Series to be continued next week.

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Wednesday, June 20, 2012 9:00 am - 12:00 pm

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PANEL WILL INCLUDE SPEAKERS FROM: RIVERSIDE COUNTY SHERIFF ’S OFFICE Lt. Jon Anderson RIVERSIDE DISTRICT ATTORNEY’S OFFICE Gerald W. Fineman MILLION KIDS Opal Singelton SAFEHOUSE OF THE DESERT Jennifer O’Farrell

by Angela Janus

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he Corn Refiners Association (CRA) is an organization located in Washington D.C. that is comprised of companies specializing in converting corn into corn starch, corn oil and high fructose corn syrup (HFCS).

In 2008 the CRA launched a series of commercials that said, “HFCS is made from corn, has no artificial ingredients, has the same calories as sugar and is okay to eat in moderation.” These commercials were an attempt by the CRA to “rebrand” high fructose corn syrup.

Rebranding is a way for companies to communicate to consumers that something about them has changed.

This is done by changing a logo, slogan, and/or name and is done in an effort to reposition a product in the marketplace or to shed a negative image or reputation. The loss of a brand position can lead to lower profits and possibly the failure of the business. A prime example of rebranding is when Phillip Morris changed its name to Altria to prevent any consumer backlash of their Kraft Brand when the courts finally ruled that cigarettes are bad for you.

This week, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) refused to allow

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ith respect to the handling of the property damage, you should never talk to the defendant’s adjuster about the facts of the accident.

If we OK it then only discuss the repair of your car. This also applies to your company’s insurance adjuster, if the other party did not have insurance, and we are pursuing an uninsured motorist claim.

Insurance companies will often try to get you to go to their body shop. This is often because their body shop will try to do the work for a lesser amount. This is because they are getting a volume of business from the insurance company. Sometimes these body shops cut corners at your expense.

It’s not in your best interest to have a lower property damage because as I have explained many insurance companies will not settle cases with a low property damage.

In 2012 it is more important than ever, that we try to get full value on the property damage. This problem with low property damage was not present in previous years, but in the last few years, having a case with low property damage often results in a defense verdict - EVEN WHEN YOU ARE REAR ENDED! Though this is hard to believe, the most recent jury verdicts support this stupid result.

As a personal injury litigation law firm, we subscribe to several different jury verdict publications that tell us the facts of every case that has gone to trial in Southern California. It tells us the name of the plaintiffs, doctors, lawyers, judges, property damage and injuries, how much the plaintiff demanded, what the defense offered and what the jury awarded. By reading these verdicts, we come across case after case where THE CLIENT IS REAR ENDED WITH LOW PROPERTY DAMAGE AND A RESULTING UNFAVORABLE VERDICT. I find it helpful to treat each case as if that case were going to go to trial, though only 10% of the cases are actually tried.

If the case goes to trial, it will take place several years from now and your memory today is better than your memory will be in 2, 3 or 5 years. If you have to go to trial, you can refresh your memory while you are on the witness stand by reading something that you have prepared. That is called refreshing your memory and under the law, “past recollection recorded” is an exception to the Hearsay Rule. The court will not allow you, while you are on the witness

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Campaigning for Zeros works on a new album, prepares for a Cali tour

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hanks to a craigslist ad posted in October 2009 by a bored musician trapped in a neck brace following an automobile accident, the Coachella Valley has Campaigning for Zeros.

The trio of Eric Taylor (vocalist and guitarist), Brad Ouellette (drummer) and Kevin Wiseman (bassist and occasional, um, cowbell-ist) brings an edgy alternative/ rock/punk sound.

Some may find the name to be a bit on the unusual side. Taylor’s wife chose the name from a list of random ideas the band members had jotted down—and the result was Campaigning for Zeros.

Influenced by artists such as Nirvana, Green Day, Michael Jackson and Radiohead, the Zeros released a three-song EP, Premonitions, that dropped in July 2011.

The band is currently working on new

material that’s slated for release in the near future. The members are also putting together a small California tour in August.

“After the summer, we are talking about possibly recording a full album and seeing where it takes us,” says Taylor.

In between now and August, the band has scheduled a series of gigs. On Thursday, June 21, they are playing at The Hood Bar and Pizza in Palm Desert; admission to the show—which will also include The Atom Age and Odyssey 9—is free. On Saturday, July 30, they’re slated to play at Plan B Live Entertainment and Cocktails in Thousand Palms.

For more information on Campaigning for Zeros, visit their site at cfzeros.com.

Already a fan? Join their mailing list by emailing campaigningforzeros@gmail.com.

For more information call Mary Battin 760-567-9421

another attempt by the Corn Refiners Association to rebrand ‘high fructose corn syrup’ as ‘corn sugar’. In a petition filed in 2010, the CRA asked the FDA to authorize the use of ‘corn sugar’ as an optional replacement for HFCS because apparently consumers are confused by the name and the new name would more appropriately reflect the real product.

Unfortunately for the CRA, the term “corn sugar” has been used to represent ‘dextrose’ for the last 30 years. Looks like high fructose corn syrup will have to live with its nasty reputation until CRA’s next rebranding attempt. Kudos FDA.

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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY Week of June 7

ARIES (March 21-April 19): If your destiny has gotten tweaked by bias or injustice, it’s a good time to rebel. If you are being manipulated by people who care for you -- even if it’s allegedly for your own good -- you now have the insight and power necessary to wriggle free of the bind. If you have been confused by the mixed messages you’re getting from your own unconscious mind, you should get to the bottom of the inner contradiction. And if you have been wavering in your commitment to your oaths, you’d better be intensely honest with yourself about why that’s happening.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Diamonds are symbols of elegant beauty, which is why they’re often used in jewelry. But 80 percent of the world’s diamonds have a more utilitarian function. Because they’re so hard and have such high thermal conductivity, they are used extensively as cutting, grinding, and polishing tools, and have several other industrial applications. Now let’s apply this 20/80 proportion to you, Taurus. Of your talents and abilities, no more than 20 percent need be on display. The rest is consumed in the diligent detail work that goes on in the background -- the cutting, grinding, and polishing you do to make yourself as valuable as a diamond. In the coming week, this will be a good meditation for you.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): The pain you will feel in the coming week will be in direct proportion to the love you suppress and withhold. So if you let your love flow as freely as a mountain spring in a rainstorm, you may not have to deal with any pain at all. What’s that you say? You claim that being strategic about how you express your affection gives you strength and protection? Maybe that’s true on other occasions, but it’s not applicable now.

“Unconditional” and “uninhibited” are your words of power.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): What actions best embody the virtue of courage? Fighting on the battlefield as a soldier? Speaking out against corruption and injustice? Climbing a treacherous peak or riding a raft through rough river water?

Certainly all those qualify. But French architect Fernand Pouillon had another perspective. He said, “Courage lies in being oneself, in showing complete independence, in loving what one loves, in discovering the deep roots of one’s feelings.” That’s exactly the nature of the bravery you are best able to draw on right now, Cancerian. So please do draw on it in abundance.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): In his book The Four Insights, author Alberto Villoldo tells the following story: “A traveler comes across two stonecutters. He asks the first, ‘What are you doing?’ and receives the reply, ‘Squaring the stone.’ He then walks over to the second stonecutter and asks, ‘What are you doing?’ and receives the reply, ‘I am building a cathedral.’

In other words, both men are performing the same task, but one of them is aware that he has the choice to be part of a greater dream.” By my astrological reckoning, Leo, it’s quite important for you to be like that second stonecutter in the months ahead. I suggest you start now to ensure that outcome.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Harpo Marx was part of the famous Marx Brothers comedy team that made 13 movies. He was known as the silent one.

While in his character’s persona, he never spoke, but only communicated through pantomime and by whistling, blowing a horn, or playing the harp. In real life, he could talk just fine. He traced the origin of his shtick to an early theatrical performance he had done. A review of the show said that he “performed beautiful pantomime which was ruined whenever he spoke.” So in other words, Harpo’s successful career was shaped in part by the inspiration he drew from a critic. I invite you to make a similar move, Virgo: Capitalize on some negative feedback or odd mirroring you’ve received.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): What is your relationship with cosmic jokes, Libra? Do you feel offended by the secrets they spill and the ignorance they expose and the slightly embarrassing truths they compel you to acknowledge? Or are you a vivacious

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lover of life who welcomes the way cosmic jokes expand your mind and help you lose your excessive self-importance and show you possible solutions you haven’t previously imagined? I hope you’re in the latter category, because sometime in the near future, fate has arranged for you to be in the vicinity of a divine comedy routine. I’m not kidding when I tell you that the harder and more frequently you laugh, the more you’ll learn.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): In addition to being an accomplished astrophysicist and philosopher, Arthur Eddington (1882-1944) possessed mad math skills. Legend has it that he was one of only three people on the planet who actually comprehended Einstein’s Theory of Relativity. That’s a small level of appreciation for such an important set of ideas, isn’t it? On the other hand, most people I know would be happy if there were as many as three humans in the world who truly understood them. In accordance with the astrological omens, I suggest you make that one of your projects in the next 12 months: to do whatever you can to ensure there are at least three people who have a detailed comprehension of and appreciation for who you really are.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Yesterday the sun was shining at the same time it was raining, and my mind turned to you. Today I felt a surge of tenderness for a friend who has been making me angry, and again I thought of you. Tomorrow maybe I will sing sad songs when I’m cheerful, and go for a long walk when I’m feeling profoundly lazy.

Those events, too, would remind me of you. Why? Because you’ve been experimenting with the magic of contradictions lately. You’ve been mixing and matching with abandon, going up and down at the same time, and exploring the pleasures of changing your mind. I’m even tempted to speculate that you’ve been increasing your ability to abide with paradox. Keep up the good work. I’m sure it’s a bit weird at times, but it’ll ultimately make you even smarter than you already are.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Be on the alert for valuable mistakes you could capitalize on. Keep scanning the peripheries for evidence that seems out of place; it might be useful. Do you see what I’m driving at, Capricorn? Accidental revelations could spark good ideas. Garbled communication might show you the way to desirable detours. Chance meetings might initiate conversations that will last a long time. Are you catching my drift? Follow any lead that seems witchy or itchy. Be ready to muscle your way in through doors that are suddenly open just a crack.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): An article in the Weekly World News reported on tourists who toast marshmallows while sitting on the rims of active volcanoes. As fun as this practice might be, however, it can expose those who do it to molten lava, suffocating ash, and showers of burning rocks.

So I wouldn’t recommend it to you, Aquarius. But I do encourage you to try some equally boisterous but less hazardous adventures. The coming months will be prime time for you to get highly imaginative in your approach to exploration, amusement, and pushing beyond your previous limits. Why not get started now?

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): According to my reading of the astrological omens, you would be smart to get yourself a new fertility symbol. Not because I think you should encourage or seek out a literal pregnancy. Rather, I’d like to see you cultivate a more aggressively playful relationship with your creativity -- energize it on deep unconscious levels so it will spill out into your daily routine and tincture everything you do. If you suspect my proposal has some merit, be on the lookout for a talisman, totem, or toy that fecundates your imagination.

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Our bodies are composed of about 70% water. Our brains are roughly 80% water.

We’ve been told to drink at least eight 8 oz. servings of water a day, but is that really enough? Is it too much? The only way to truly determine if you have achieved the proper amount of hydration is by looking at the color of your urine. If it’s anything other than nearly clear, you need to drink more water. Of course supplements such as a daily dose of vitamins and minerals will change the color of urine, but this change is only temporary. Look for clear urine at least a couple times each day.

The proof is in the pee. The latest rule of thumb states to consume half your body weight in ounces. Put simply, a person weighing 160 pounds should consume 80 ounces of water each day. That equals 10 8 oz. servings of water per day. Keep in mind excessive activity and perspiration causes this daily allowance to increase. So during the hot summer months you will likely need to drink even more water!

Coffee contains water, soda and tea contain water, but pure water is what your body needs. Anything containing caffeine or alcohol dehydrates the body. And since we are trying to achieve hydration, steer clear of any fluids that aren’t crystal

clear. Liquids containing sugar, such as fruit juice, are just adding unnecessary calories to your diet. Although most of us consume beverages other than pure water, keep in mind you may need to increase your intake of pure water to compensate for the dehydrating effects of alcohol consumption.

Don’t wait until your feel thirsty to drink water. By the time thirst signals are triggered, your brain has already experienced dehydration. A 1-2% decrease in hydration can cause your brain to not function properly and may even be the result of short term memory loss. If you are experiencing “brain farts”, you may just need to drink more water. Water actually feed the neurons in our brains and keeps them functioning in a healthy manner. Water also helps keep the brain from overheating.

It’s easy to fall victim to dehydration in the desert heat. Try to overcome this by planning in advance. I carry a bottle of water with me wherever I go. Although it sometime feels cumbersome to keep a bottle in an already weighed down purse, leaving water in the car on a hot day won’t bring much relief when it reaches 110 degrees. Try packing a lightweight cooler with ice packs and water bottles to aide in the ease of hydration. It takes a little bit of effort, but the reward is well worth it.

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ula hooping isn’t just for children anymore. Adults are revisiting this childhood pastime for exercise and a myriad of health benefits. Yes, hula hooping is great exercise and fun. Vastly more people are taking to the hoop due to the slimming effect on the midsection.

Hooping is fun, engaging, incredible exercise and affordable. If you had difficulty keeping the hoop on your waist as a child, you can be rest assured with a little practice you’ll be hooping for exercise in no time.

The Hula Hoop has been around since the fifth century and has been used for play and exercise for centuries. Historical evidence tells us the Hula Hoop was used by the Greeks and was made of wood, bamboo, grass, vines, and metals such as copper and iron. Today, we know of Hula Hoops made of plastic. Hoops come in different sizes, weights, and colors. Custom hoops made for professionals range in weight, from 3lbs to 7lbs. Some hoops have a special padding to help cushion the material as it rotates around your waist. You should also know the hoop isn’t just for rotating around your waist. Once you have mastered the hoop on your waistline you can begin taking the hoop around your wrists, ankles, neck, arms, and legs. There is room for much creativity with the hoop and one can introduce tricks into their hooping routine.

It is as though your hoop is your dance partner. Hooping thus becomes this poetic fluidity of motions, and therefore a dance.

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to music and move freely integrating on and off body transitions with the hoop. Modern day hoopers spin fire, decorate their hoops with design and color, and recently have added LED lights in the tubing of the hoop.

There is an actual “World Hoop Day.” It began in July of 2007 and is a charity that gives Hula Hoops to children in need. The charity encourages children to stay creative through exercise.

The benefits to Hula Hooping will amaze you. This activity/exercise is fun for the entire family and fun with friends.

Hooping will increase your heart rate, work the abdominal muscles, improve blood circulation, improve your flexibility, relieve stress, and lift your spirits. The continuous movement helps build a healthy, strong heart. As you strive to keep the hoop on your waist the abdominal muscles are stimulated and engaged, hence toning and strengthening. Flexibility can be obtained in the spine by the constant rotation of the waist targeting the lower back. You can now say goodbye to that unwanted weight in your thighs for hooping tones the inner and outer thighs, maintains healthy knees, and gives you a firm booty. Plus, your spirits are lifted and your confidence soars. Yes, you can have fun working out!

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