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Ron Sharp’s 111 Tattoo

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Lumpy’s Scramble for Autism

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The Wine Bar

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Contents

Ron Sharp’s 111 Tattoo.............3 Lumpy’s Scramble for Autism..3 At The Drive-In Speaks!............5 Pet Place....................................6 Don’t Be Clueless......................7 Publisher’s Pick.........................7 ShareKitchen.............................8 Economic/Political....................9 Business Profile.........................9 Avoid ID Theft AKA.................10 Golf Column............................10 Valley Rhythms.......................11 Desert DJ’s...............................12 The Vino Voice.........................13 Club Crawler Nightlife............14 The Pampered Palette............16 Good Grub...............................16 Screeners.................................17 Culture.....................................18 Book Review............................19 Restaurant Guide....................20 Classifieds...............................21 Mind, Body & Spirit................23 Health Fitness & Beauty.........23 Free Will Astrology.................24

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Meet the Desert’s ‘Low-Budget Jesse James’

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aybe you’ve seen him at his tattoo shop in Palm Desert.

Maybe you’ve seen him teaching spin classes at Gold’s Gym. Or maybe you saw him spitting cow hearts into a bucket from a tank of cow blood on national television last year.

Wherever you’ve seen him, one thing’s for sure: Ron Sharp knows how to be seen.

“I’m kind of like the low-budget Jesse James,” Sharp laughs. “That’s why I named myself the ‘Palm Desert Badass.’”

The tattoo artist and “Fear Factor” champion moved to the desert in 1999 after touring with Tesla. He quickly set out to make a name for himself as a tattoo artist and, 13 years later, he owns his own shop, 111 Tattoo. Sharp has also been a fixture in the local metal scene as a guitarist for local bands. Aside from tattooing and rocking out, Sharp manages to find time to teach

spin class at Gold’s Gym. “For me, that’s my outlet for keeping myself sane, having a crowd to entertain,” he says.

And after entertaining the sweaty masses in spin class, Sharp set his sights on entertaining on the small screen.

“The spin thing and the music thing and the tattoo thing all kind of built up together and kind of got me on TV,” Sharp says. He hosted his own show, Deluxe TV, for five years before moving it to YouTube, where Ron Sharp’s Deluxe TV covers everything from guitar techniques and Fender factory tours to motorcycle stunts and even a thumb war showdown with former pro wrestler Chyna.

For anyone who’s curious, Chyna pinned Sharp’s thumb within seconds. continue to page 4

A Cause Close to Home The Lumpy’s Scramble for Autism raises funds for families in need

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pril is Autism Awareness month, and among the walks for autism and other fundraisers in the valley is one of the most anticipated and successful events of the year: The Lumpy’s Scramble for Autism, presented by Jensen Wealth Advisors and hosted by TaylorMade and Adidas Golf.

The ninth annual golf tournament takes place on Friday, April 20, at PGA West.

Randy Corti, owner of Lumpy’s Golf, started this event because, for him, autism hits close to home. Actually, it is at home: Corti’s 16-year-old son has the disorder. Randy knows firsthand what life is like raising an autistic child, and knows how much support families need to provide their children with the necessary therapies and services.

Speech and occupational therapies can be very expensive, and many families cannot afford them without help.

Proceeds from the Scramble fund the Lumpy’s Foundation, which, in turn, donates

money to the Coachella Valley Autism Society and provides discounted speech and occupational therapies for autistic children here in the Coachella Valley.

Autism is a developmental disability that

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typically appears within the first three years of life. The cause is unknown. According to the Centers for Disease Control and continue to page 5

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video and I was like, ‘Not only yes, but hell yes!’” Sharp says.

Released for the 20-year anniversary of the “Vulgar Display of Power” album, “Piss” is a lost track that Sharp says he’s proud to become a part of.

“It’s very dear to my heart that I’m in that video. I get to smash stuff up, mosh around and wear no shirt, like a crazed metaler,” Sharp says.

But perhaps what Sharp is most proud of are his children, Sye, 17, and Chloe, 16. His face can’t help but glow with fatherly pride when he talks about Sye’s achievements as a pianist or Chloe’s talent as a guitarist and singer. “[Chloe] sings and plays the guitar like Jewel. My son went to Berkeley in Boston over the summer on a scholarship. He can

Chyna’s far from the only celebrity Sharp has rubbed elbows or wrestled thumbs with. In Alcoholics Anonymous, Sharp watched Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler receive his 90-day sobriety chip. Tyler once visited Sharp’s tattoo shop where one of his artists mistook the singer for Mick Jagger.

“We all just started laughing,” Sharp says. “I don’t think anyone has ever said to him, genuinely, ‘Hey, are you Mick Jagger?’”

After hosting his own TV show and making plenty of high-profile connections, Sharp was ready to go for the big leagues: national television.

“After meeting all this kind of heavy duty people, I went to Hollywood and started auditioning for TV shows,” Sharp says.

He was cast in a show called “Road Warriors” that was set to air on the History Channel. On it, Sharp would have ridden across the country on his bike sampling weird foods.

“They had me and another handsome guy,” Sharp says, “but then they changed the name of the show to ‘Hairy Bikers’ and they had these big fat hairy guys and their bikes sucked.”

Although “Road Warriors” fell through, Sharp was determined to land a spot on a reality show. With experience as a cook, Sharp lined up an audition for “Master Chef” and once again came close.

“I got up to meeting Gordon Ramsey,” Sharp explains, “and for some reason at the last minute they put another ‘edgy’ guy in.”

But the casting call experiences paid off when then-girlfriend Julie Hill landed the pair an audition with “Fear Factor,” a reality show where contestants face their fears while completing a series of gut-wrenching stunts.

“My ex-girlfriend got us a casting for ‘Fear Factor’ and I didn’t want to do it,” Sharp explains. “And then we went down there and it turned out that all the girls in the casting agency were girls that I’d already went in and done screen tests for.”

But the fates conspired again against Sharp’s reality TV dreams.

“We got in a huge fight on the way home,” Sharp explains. “We broke up and I said I wasn’t doing ‘Fear Factor.’ If they wanted us to do, I wasn’t calling.”

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Then they got the call.

“Within an hour, the producer of ‘Fear Factor’ is on the phone going, ‘You guys are on the show. We want you on the show.’

And we both said we’re not doing it.”

But the producers wouldn’t take no for an answer. They came up with an idea for an “exes” show and Sharp and Hill agreed to compete. Although their episodes were edited to look like the former couple was headed for a reunion, Sharp says one of the hardest things about the experience was being nice to each other behind the scenes.

“We fought [during] the whole thing tooth and nail,” Sharp says. “Just the night before [the shooting], she was walking home to Palm Desert from the motel in L.A.” The two managed to keep it civil during the filming of their episode, “Broken Hearts and Blood Bathes.” They even managed to outperform two other ex-couples on what was the show’s biggest stunt to date, where Sharp and Hill scavenged for cow hearts in a tank filled with cow’s blood and took turns stuffing them into each other’s mouth and spitting them into a bucket.

In the end, Sharp and Hill took home the $50,000 prize—but they couldn’t say a word about it until the episode aired.

“We won the show and then had to keep our mouths shut for three months and not tell anybody. I didn’t even tell my children,” Sharp says.

With his half of the winnings, Sharp paid for his daughter’s tuition, shared some of the money with his mother and bought an old Harley.

“And now I’m broke again,” he laughs.

Now that he’s conquered reality television, Sharp is set to try his hand at acting in an upcoming episode of Spike’s “1000 Ways to Die.” “I can’t talk about it [because of contractual obligations] but I can say that everyone who knows me is going to know it’s me,” Sharp says. The episode will air sometime in the show’s upcoming season.

Sharp can, however, talk about another project that has him equally stoked—his cameo in Pantera’s latest music video, “Piss.”

“I’ve always been a huge Pantera fan and the director of Pantera’s new video called me personally and asked me to be in their

www.coachellavalleyweekly.com sit down behind the piano and play anything you want to hear,” Sharp boasts. “My kids are freaking awesome.”

With musical talent in their genes, Sharp says a family band could be in their future.

“I would really like to ultimately have a family band with my kids,” Sharp says. “And then a reality show for the band.”

While his kids focus on finishing school, though, Sharp is looking to start up a new local band.

“Now that I’m settled down and everything’s going good I’m going to start up a new band, like a three-piece Motorheadstyle band,” Sharp says, “and that’s ‘cause I love speed metal and just crushing it.”

Sharp is currently auditioning members for the band and hopes to be playing shows by the end of May. In the meantime, Sharp will be celebrating his tattoo shop’s 5-year anniversary, its grand opening and his 45th birthday on Friday, April 20th with a party at the shop’s Palm Desert location.

“We’re going to give away raffle prizes for tattoos and for the smoke shop [next door], and we’re going to have hot dogs and a DJ,” Sharp says. From 6 p.m. to 9 p.m., the public is welcome to party with the cow heart-spitting, Harley-riding and tattoo gun-wielding “Palm Desert Badass” as he celebrates another year of tattooing, rocking out and living it up in the desert.

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Prevention, autism affects one in 88 individuals here in the U.S. The disorder is more prevalent in boys, affecting one in 54. Autism can affect speech development, socialization, learning abilities, motor skills and behavior. It is considered a spectrum disorder, meaning that children affected can display some or all of the symptoms in varying degrees of severity. Early intervention and speech and occupational therapies, as well as other kinds of support, have proven essential in helping these children learn and function in society.

This year, the Lumpy’s Scramble will be on three different courses at PGA West: Norman Course, Stadium Course and Nicholas Resort Course. According to Randy

Corti, the need to expand is due to the evergrowing popularity of the event.

“There are great folks here in the desert who are willing and eager to support this cause.” Randy said. “I appreciate the great customers, businesses and individuals. The community has the attitude to pitch in and help here, because they realize that families need support to keep them on track.”

This year’s tournament schedule is as follows: • 11:30 a.m.: Player check-in.

• 11:30 a.m. to 12:45 p.m.: Lunch provided by Buffalo Wild Wings.

• 1 p.m.: Scramble start.

On the course, food will be available from Burgers and Beer, City Wok and others.

After golf, players are invited to stay and enjoy dinner provided by Murph’s Gaslight,

drinks from PGA West’s no-host bar, and live music from the desert’s own John Stanley King Band, all at the PGA West Private Clubhouse. Players can sign up for silentauction prizes and purchase raffle tickets to win some of the more than $40,000 in merchandise. Prizes for the longest drive, straightest drive, and closest-to-the-pin on every par 3 are just some of the gifts up for grabs. Prizes include a golf cart from Golf Carts of the Desert, a big-screen TV, a $500 Costco gift card and much more.

If you would like to sign up to participate in the Ninth Annual Lumpy’s Scramble for Autism, go to lumpys.com for your entry form, or swing by Lumpy’s and fill one out in-store. Individuals and teams of four can purchase entry into the tournament.

The mission statement of the Lumpy’s

Foundation is “to aid local families dealing with the challenges of autism.” One of the things this charity makes affordable is private speech therapy; it can cost $110 an hour, but, due to the Lumpy’s Foundation, is only $20 a session. Some 75 children a year are able to benefit from discounted speech therapy, and 50 a year for occupational therapy, thanks to Randy Corti and the Lumpy’s Foundation. The money raised for the Coachella Valley Autism Society helps provide more free and discounted services and support for families and children living with an autism spectrum disorder.

It’s not too late to sign up for the Ninth Annual Lumpy’s Scramble for Autism or donate to the Lumpy’s Foundation. For more information, go to lumpys.com.

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At the Drive-In Speaks!

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egendary post-hardcore outfit At the Drive-In is reuniting to perform at Coachella this year.

But the group -- whose members Omar Rodríguez-López and Cedric Bixler-Zavala eventually splintered to join Mars Volta -- didn’t know what expect when, in November, they switched on their amps to play together for the first time in 11 years.

But together with Jim Ward, Paul Hinojos and Tony Hajjar, they all gathered in El Paso, Texas to find out if burying the hatchet meant they were ready to make music together again. They answered that question with a seething mesh of raw, unrehearsed punk rock power. “We knew within 15 minutes of jamming that we were good,” says Hajjar, who lives in L.A. “We didn’t play old songs, we just started playing. I could tell from everyone’s movements and smiles that this was right.”

Months before announcing their Coachella reunion, At the Drive-In’s revival was confirmed with an impromptu jam session. But the years of ground work needed to get them performing together took patient orchestration and timing.

From repairing their personal relationships

to launching a new record label, every move to reform the band has gotten its members closer to reclaiming the control they lost at the height of their success.

Why They Finally Reunited (Hint: It Wasn’t the Cash)

Formed in 1993 in El Paso, At the DriveIn’s aggressively-articulate post punk sound made an indelible mark on indie rock culture. Seven years, three studio albums, and five EP’s later, they received a whirlwind of success with 2000’s Relationship of Command. However,

personal differences caused the band to implode in 2001. Fans watched as Rodriguez-Lopez and Bixler-Zavala went on to form the Latin-infused psychedelic prog outfit The Mars Volta while Ward, Hinojos and Hajjar founded alternative rock act Sparta.

Three years ago, the band members who’d grown up in a van together from their teens to mid-20s decided to heal their longtime rift, spending a weekend patching things up at Rodriguez-Lopez’ house in Mexico.

In November they received the master recordings for Relationship of Command through a reversion deal with their former label, Fearless Records. With a patched friendship and their old album in their laps, the members are launching a new label, called Twenty-first Chapter, which will rerelease the album. (The name references the last chapter in the original version of the novel A Clockwork Orange where Alex, story’s the violent central character, makes amends on all of the sins he’s committed.)

“We started talking about it, and then of course people hear we’re talking about it,” Rodriguez-Lopez says. “And then Paul

Tollet at Coachella, who offers us money every year to get back together and play hears about it...then it all starts to become a reality.”

But they say it wasn’t about the money necessarily: they just wanted to play together again.

“The most exciting part to me is that there’s not a firm ending to this band,” Ward says. “This isn’t the sort of thing where we’re taking advantage of the reunion status and going and doing as many festivals as we can. We’re doing this very slowly and we literally don’t know what’s going to happen.”

As for the anticipation of what a modern day At the Drive-In might sound like, Ward and his band mates avoid getting wrapped up in fan’s grandiose expectations And after years of being non-operational; fans aren’t the only ones who will be surprised by what what the band does on stage.

“When people come to the shows, they’ll see what we are,” Ward says.

“When we get to the show, we’ll see what we are.”

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PET PLACE

escue dogs are the best dogs, loving, grateful, and wise having triumphed over adversity. There is also magic to some of their rescue stories, a strange sequence of events and timing that makes one think divine guidance is behind them. It was July 2, 2010, a Friday evening around 4:00 pm when Pat Bonham called me.

I was an independent rescuer at that time.

Pat, a fellow rescuer, was driving to Devore, a bleak high-kill San Bernardino County Shelter, to save a 6 month old black lab puppy due to be euthanized at 5:00 pm. Would I help find a foster home or adopter? In a curious coincidence, I recalled seeing the same black dog several days earlier. He was in the same kennel where I found and rescued my own dog, a Maltipoo later named Enzo Ferrari. I locked eyes with the black lab for a few quick moments, and as always wished I could take more dogs.

I started making calls frantically to contacts in that area. My brother Wayne was not home. My friend Larry who was in the market for a dog answered the call but was out of town. More dead ends. Then I called my friend Jackie Klof who lives with her fiance’ Steve in a home with a large back yard. Jackie is a dog lover and they have two large dogs. Jackie responded, “I’m up on a ladder painting right now and we really don’t want another dog”.

I didn’t tell her the lab had less than an hour to live, although she sensed the urgency in my voice. Meanwhile, Pat called ahead to Devore to let them know she was on her way to rescue the dog. The shelter staff person told Pat the dog had already been euthanized. For some unexplicable reason, Pat didn’t believe her and called back to speak to a supervisor. The lab was still alive, but next in line to enter the euthanasia room. Pat kept driving, still unsure where she would take such a large sized animal even if she got there in time. It was 10 minutes to 5:00 pm, the clock was ticking away, and the tears streamed down my face .

Meanwhile Steve arrived home from work.

Jackie and Steve’s household was in chaos as she later described it, “We had guests here, my Dad who was seriously ill and his caregiver were staying here, and I had just been bitten by a bee while painting. I told Steve about Janet’s call, and he said ‘They’re going to kill that dog’! That did it, we called Janet back to see if the dog was a male and a good match for our two female dogs”. Thankfully, the answer was “Yes!”. We had a home! It was

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Calvin, Rescued with Minutes to Go

now 4:55 pm and with only 5 minutes to go the young black lab was taken out of the holding area and wisked into the warmth and safety of Pat’s car.

We thought we were “home free”, but more challenges were ahead. Once Pat arrived at Steve and Jackie’s home, Steve thought the dog looked sick and they didn’t want to expose their other dogs to a contagious illness. It is an unwritten but understood rule of rescue that once we pull a dog from a public shelter we don’t return them, no matter what obstacles or medical concerns arise. Jackie called their vet, and he reopened his clinic to examine the dog. Thankfully, Calvin had a minor case of kennel cough, but the dog was now homeless and was boarded overnight at the vet clinic.

Around 11:00 am on Saturday, my phone rang and it was Jackie, “Don’t ever phone me with a message like that again. The dog’s name is Calvin, and I’m on my way to pick him up right now”. Great news! Jackie explained, “I barely slept last night thinking of that dog’s face. I talked to Steve and he agreed we would keep him”.

They had to carry Calvin into the house, and when he arrived in his “doggy proof” room the young dog laid spread eagle on

the floor, flat lined and unresponsive. He remained that way for the next seven days, eating when hand fed, but “flat lined” in his room and outside when they carried him out for potty breaks. Their dogs Kailey and Kelli gently sniffed at the newcomer though he failed to acknowledge them. One time they checked in on Calvin to find him staring curiously at himself in the closet mirror, and Jackie joked, “He’s a bit of a narcissist!” Jackie

went away for the weekend, and received an excited phone call from Steve, “Wait till you see Calvin when you come back!” . Steve patiently worked with dog, getting him to walk into the back yard on a leash for the first time. Hot dogs did the trick! Soon all 3 animals were romping merrily after the flying hot dogs.

Calvin overcame his past of abuse and neglect, and blossomed into a happy joyful adult dog. Jackie later explained that Calvin looks a lot like a dog she had decades ago, a black lab with a touch of Rottweiler, a dog she dreamed about having again. “It was meant to be” is an overused phrase, but there was a magical higher power at work in Calvin’s rescue. I believe we rescuers are doing God’s work. The Bible calls on us to care for other living creatures. God never intended that we would round up and execute stray animals whose only crime is they are homeless.

Black rescue dogs have a hard getting homes. Large dogs have a harder time getting out of shelters. Calvin is one of the lucky ones, a miracle dog who seemed to orchestrate his own rescue, arranging the timing of the events that would save his life, ensuring that the members of his rescue team met each deadline. Over a year later, I got to meet up again with the adult dog Calvin and was flattered when Jackie said he was “mesmerized” by me. Jackie reports that Calvin’s life today is full of happiness. The dog they believe was never before petted by human hands, now comes running for his share when Kailey and Kelli get attention from their humans. Jackie describes their experience with Calvin, “He loves his home, adores Steve and I and our other two dogs. He loves to play with Buck, his special buddy next door, a Brittney Spaniel. Calvin is even more special because of how we saved him. We are so blessed to have him”.

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n all the frenzied circus of the calendar we’ve forgotten to speak to a very important subject. Like, let’s talk Dress Code. Especially as the triple-digit temps are moving our way, quiet as a stealth drone. At last weekend’s Chill-chella fest, 95,000 patrons of the musical pop-pourri with bellies and abs tight as tambourines, enough tattoos to open an art gallery and with jingling and jangling belly-button rings ran for cover.

Anything would do to thwart the cold and drizzle: hoodies, ponchos, shower curtains, garbage bags. Not a pretty picture. This week with searing heat warming up enough to curdle the sunscreen, when we asked a weekend fest-going friend what “mode du jour” was rattling her closet cage, she replied, “as little as possible seems to be the ticket.”

Yes, and make it comfortable. Or stay inside.

Choices ahead.

Saturday, April 21, 9 am. Shown to rave reviews in filmdom’s leading global festivals, the local Desert Film Society will present the west coast premiere of Free Men at the Palm Springs Camelot Theatre at an yawningly early hour to accommodate the film’s introduction at 9:20 am and after-movie discussion.

However, they promise complimentary eyeopening refreshments. This teaser is echoed by film critic Allan Hunter (Screen Daily) who called the tense thriller, “An eye-opener… absorbing drama…that engages both the heart and the mind.” In French with English sub-titles, Free Men is set in German-occupied Paris where a young, unemployed Algerian earns his living as a black marketer, but when

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IN THE COACHELLA VALLEY he is arrested by the French police agrees to spy on a Paris Mosque. It stars Tahar Rahim with the “undeniable screen presence that recalls a young Robert DeNiro,” says Jordan Mintzne (Hollywood Reporter). If they don’t serve popcorn, we’ll stage a revolution. Okay?

Saturday, April 21, 6 pm. The Steinway Society of Riverside County will present international pianist and award winner Dr. Giorgi Latsabidze in Concert at a private home in Palm Springs. The complimentary evening for classical music buffs is a benefit for the children’s programs for the society. Dr. Latsabidze will be performing works by the romantic Rachmaninoff and local Palm Springs composer Joe Giarrusso. Austrian critic Harald Heller profiled the pianist as “…not only remarkable for his technical brilliance but also

for his high musical sensitivity.” Latsabidze has performed in London at the historic Wigmore Hall, won an award in Italy for his score of the film Waltz-Fantasy, and founded Onward Entertainment, an independent film company in Los Angeles where he scored the company’s first film Twilight’s Grace now gathering rave reviews at film festivals . He just returned from Taiwan where he performed Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 21 with the Taiwan Symphony.

Seating is limited. For information and address, call 760-341-4130.

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Publisher’s Pick

Not Just Another Sunday

The final day of Coachella’s first weekend wowed this first-time attendee

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t this point, it is well-known that the resurrection of Tupac Shakur via hologram was the highlight of the closing night of the first weekend of the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival 2012.

Even though he died in 1996, Shakur’s life-like image joined Snoop Dogg onstage as they performed “Come With Me,” “Hail Mary” and “Gangsta Party.” Before the amazing feat took place, there was a brief Frank Sinatra experience (via a projection).

Plenty of living all-star rappers also joined Dr. Dre and Snoop onstage, including Kurupt and Warren G, who offered a tribute to the late Nate Dogg with the song “Ain’t No Fun.” Rapper-on-the-rise Kendrick Lamar joined Dre for the duo’s first live performance of their collaboration, “The Recipe,” and Wiz Khalifa on “Young, Wild and Free.”

The much-anticipated (and leaked) arrival of 50 Cent and Eminem did not disappoint. 50 Cent, along with Tony Yayo, gave us “What Up Gangsta,” “P.I.M.P.” and “In Da Club,” while Eminem provided “I Need a Doctor,” “Forgot About Dre” and “’Til I Collapse,” before shouting out: “I’m out for real this time, Coachella.”

Even with all the excitement, tricks and guest appearances, the stage still belonged

to Dre and Snoop as they performed songs including “Drop It Like It’s Hot,” “Gin and Juice,” “Nothin’ But a G Thang,” “Kush,” “What’s My Name” and “Still Dre.” Another noteworthy performance came from Swedish punk band The Hives, who had the crowd on their feet the whole time, with bossy and confident lead singer Pelle Almqvist telling festival-goers to profess their undying love for him. They obliged.

On the amphitheatre stage came an amazing performance by Florence Welch, who was mesmerizing in her flowy bluevelvet cat suit, coming off like a cross between Stevie Nicks, Loreena McKennitt and Annie Lennox with her powerful vocals.

Up and coming rap/hip-hop artists the Airplane Boys, who performed at the Gobi Tent, were definitely worth watching; so was local DJ Alf Alpha, who was on earlier in the day, and Calvin Harris, who took the stage at the Sahara Tent. Australian singersongwriter Gotye delivered an awesome set to a packed crowd at the Mojave Tent, which is where we first spotted Katy Perry. Gotye is best known for his hit song “Somebody That I Used to Know.”

Katy Perry wasn’t the only famous person we spotted. Rihanna, Emile Hirsch,

Tim Roth, Lindsay Lohan and many others escaped our camera, but were within view.

For this first-time festival attendee, it was quite a weekend, full of great music, star sightings and a lot of walking. It was also a people-watcher’s delight.

My recommendation: Embrace the fact that you have to do some walking, and catch as many of the smaller acts in the tents as you can. That’s where you’re most likely to run into the likes of Katy Perry, and to experience the up-and-comers who will be selling out their own shows soon.

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Morningside Country Club, 39033 Morningside Dr., Rancho Mirage. This prestigious local non-profit group affiliated with the national organization of women in the arts will honor Janice Lyle, Ph.D., former executive director at the Palm Springs Art Museum, consultant, and now Center Director of the Annenberg Foundation Trust at Sunnylands in Rancho Mirage.

Proceeds from this fundraising luncheon will provide scholarships for selected graduating high school seniors who are pursuing an education in the arts. Tickets, $70 per person. Information, call Kathy Bjork, 760-567-3525; or email pspenwomen@gmail. com Sunday, April 22, 6:30 pm. The 3rd Annual Opera Under the Stars Gala will honor local philanthropists Gayle and Chuck Hodges with this year’s St. Cecilia Patron of Arts Award sculpture created by internationally recognized artist Tim Shockley. “Much of what the Hodges do is without fanfare, which is the way they prefer it,” says Arlene Rosenthal, OperaArts president. There is plenty of fanfare in the festivity! Truly under the stars, the gala begins on the Rose Lawn in front of the Emerald Ballroom at the Esmeralda Renaissance Hotel and Spa at 6:30 pm with chilled cocktails served among caressing breezes, an elegant sit-down dinner on a velvet carpet of sweet scented grass, accompanied by a musical program and soloists led by director Victoria Kirsch. Fanfare at its most magical! Tickets are $125 per person, or $1000 for a table of eight.

For more information, call 760-323-8353, or go to www.operaartspalmsprings.org.

Wednesday, April 25, 11:30 am. The Indian Wells Athena Awards were named for the Greek goddess of wisdom, war and wit who “sprung” mythologically-speaking from the head of Zeus, fully armed. The annual luncheon honors two women of extraordinary accomplishment in our local community at the Renaissance Esmeralda Hotel and Spa in Indian Wells. (Natch.) This year, the awards will go to Travis Erwin, U. of Oklahoma graduate, member of Delta Gamma, public school teacher, certified Public Accountant and real estate broker, who has been a volunteer, fundraising chairwoman, board member and president of too many organizations to mention here. The Athena award will also be presented to Rose Tijernia-Swearingen, Ph.D., founder and executive director of Life’s Journey Center in Palm Springs, who has been called a gifted educator and therapist with three decades of extensive experience in addiction and recovery. Individual ticket, $50, or $500 for a table of 10. For reservations, call the Indian Wells Chamber of Commerce, 760346-7095.

Friday, April 27, 7 pm. His Girl Friday, a screwball comedy of a film if there ever was one, starring Rosalind Russell and Cary Grant will be presented by The Desert Classic Film Society as part of the Women in Classic Film series at the Bijou Cinema in Yucca Valley.

You’d think there would be no time for a trot out for refreshments when film historian Christopher Perry gives a mini-lecture on women in the industry, but no. It’s revealed that his lecture is not so “mini!” There were

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During the intermission, hand-tinted glass slides of female stars from the silent era will be shown. What a roster! Don’t worry if you don’t know their names, these women are stellar pioneers who have left a great legacy that won’t be forgotten. For information and to join the society go to www.meetup.com/ DESERT-CLASSIC-FILM-SOCIETY. Tickets per person, $5. Reservations are recommended as seating is limited. Call Christopher Perry, 760-365-0475.

Friday, April 27 – 29. Spend the weekend with the whole fam-damly at the Ace Hotel’s summer camp Crafting Community! It’s the third year of a 3-day extravaganza of activities: Interactive art workshops, storytelling and S’mores under the stars and bonding with the loved ones! Workshops include underwater photography, succulent gardens and how-to’s from customizing t-shirts and sneakers, henna tattoos, leatherworking, creative cookies and macramé. Get those bodies moving with skateboarding, relay races, obstacle courses and a ping-pong tournament? Start your morning with yoga! End the day around the campfire! The Crafting Community package is $820 for adults and 1 kid and includes a 2-night stay in a Standard King or Double room, access to all activities. Enjoy a Friday night taco dinner, Saturday/Sunday continental breakfast, and a custom Crafting Community tote bag filled with goodies. Additional humans (any size, any age), $135 added to package price, plus taxes and resort fee. Must be booked by phone.

Call 760-325-9900.

Saturday, April 28, 9 am to Noon, and evening auction 5:30 to 7:30 pm. Artists are warming up their brushes! The “Desertscapes Paint-out” will be presented by the Mojave Desert Land Trust (MDLT) and the California Art Club (CAC) in a phenomenally picturesque area of Joshua Tree known (by those in the know) as the Joshua Tree North Wildlife Linkage, 2,125 acres of desert flora and fauna, including the desert tortoise, bobcat, fox, coyote and fabulous flurries of feathered birds in a natural desert habitat. All will be ready for the close-up as painted by experienced, renowned artists whose work will be auctioned off that very evening! The mission of the MDLT and CAC is to protect and preserve the desert habitat while capturing its natural beauty in the moment and certainly in the “raw!”

Participating artists are Elaine Mathews, Terry Masters, Diane Best, Veronique Branger, Esther Shaw, and others. For a schedule of events, go to www.desertscapes.net. More information at www.mojavedesertlandtrust. org, or call 760-366-5440. Joshua Tree Art Gallery (JTAG) is at 61607 Twentynine Palms Highway in Joshua Tree, CA. Saturday, April 28, 7 pm. Steel yourself for curtain-up on the play “Lush” written by Valerie-Jean (VJ) Hume as a “reading theatre” experience at the Rancho Mirage Tolerance Education Center, 35-147 Landy Lane, Rancho Mirage. The historical drama tells the genesis of Alcoholics Anonymous in an honest,

sometimes cruel story of how the scourge of alcoholism, a progressive, often fatal, but always destructive disease was always considered “a guy-thing.” In the 30s, socialite Mary Mann struggled against the affliction, but found herself living on a park bench until she faced her demons and with the founding of AA was named its “First Lady.” Full houses and standing ovations greeted the work at the Betty Ford Center, Indio Performing Arts Center and ABC Recovery Center. “Lush” has garnered 5 Desert Theatre League awards.

At a time when one of every ten Americans can be considered an alcoholic, this is mustsee theatre at its most brutal and beneficial.

Suggested donation, $25. For reservations or information, call Melisse Banwer, 760-3288252.

Sunday, April 29, 4 pm. Hold on to your geetars Coachella/Stagecoach pop-rocker-festers, here come new musical vibes grown right here at home. The annual New Music Concerts of the Idyllwild Arts Academy Orchestra announces that the 2012 concert features legendary singer/songwriter/guitarist Richard Thompson who will team with So Percussion in The Barnsdall Gallery Theatre. There will be premieres from composers Thompson, Chen Yi, Idyllwild Arts Music Director Peter Askim and the world premiere of the orchestral version of wildly experimental 20th century composer John Cage’s “Credo in US.” Written in 1942, this was the first work to utilize live radio or pre-selected recordings, producing performances in which no two are alike. The concert is a fundraiser for the William M.

www.coachellavalleyweekly.com Lowman Concert Hall Building Fund. Tickets are available online at www.itsmyseat.com/ IAF, at presale rates of $10 for students and $20 for adults. At the door, the tickets will be $15 and $25 respectively. Patron ($150) and Benefactor ($250) tickets are also available, with VIP benefits. Idyllwild Arts Academy, 52500 Temecula Dr., Idyllwild, CA. Call 951659-2171, or go to www.idyllwildarts.org.

Saturday, May 5, 6:30 to 9:30 pm. Cheers to the Living Desert for “Saving Wildlife One Beer at a Time,” which is the mission for the 3rd annual Brew at the Zoo, one of Southern California’s most popular beer festivals. It’s a hot How-to, and How not-to celebrate America’s finest brews benefitting the zoo’s care for over 500 animals, 1600 protected acres and scholarship programs for thousands of visiting school children. Map it out: Over 3 live music stages, over 1500 guests expected, 40 vendors, beer and wine pairings with delicious appetizers (including veggy options) and desserts. Non-alcoholic beverages are offered along with premium wine and beer.

Themed areas include Paradise Cove, Discovery Ale House, Eco-Luxury Safari Lounge, HPE Sustainability and Leadership Award, Home brew demonstrations, Hangover Prevention Center, Big Brew Raffle, animal encounters.

A VIP Lounge has even more enticement.

Tickets are $40 member, $55 non-member.

VIP Lounge, $175. Bring ID: Open to adults 21 and up. Children, infants and strollers are not permitted. Taxi’s available. Call 760-346-5694, ext. 2121.

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e’ve all heard the staggering statistic that 90% of restaurants fail in their first year. Fortunately for aspiring culinary entrepreneurs, this is just a nasty rumor. The reality of the situation, as determined by smart people who conduct legitimate studies complete with qualitative and quantitative data, is that just 29.6% of restaurants go under in that same period. Under capitalization, or not having enough money, is usually cited as the main reason. The reality is that there are several reasons as to why culinary start-ups shutter their windows during their first years of operation including location selection, quality of life considerations and the changing food habits of consumers.

As in any real estate transaction, the age old adage of “location, location, location” holds true in selecting a location for a successful restaurant. Not only is it important to situate your restaurant in a place where your targeted customers eat, you need to consider the drive-by numbers as well as the ingress and egress

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of your proposed location.

Another key to success is determining a quality of life balance between owning and operating your dream restaurant and maintaining healthy relationships with your family and friends. Undertaking any new business will require lots of time and lots of help, especially in the restaurant business. Be sure you have the support you need before embarking on this grand adventure because you’re going to need it.

“Cutting the mustard” in today’s hopeful economy requires that successful restaurateurs understand their markets more than ever and meet the desires of consumers by offering locally grown, fresh menu offerings, understated décor and quality service. Need more? Contact ShareKitchen.org for more information on how to launch and grow your business with our Kitchen Incubator program. Be happy on the inside. Eat well. Be well.

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he STOCK Act (Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge Act) was passed into law last month, a full six years after first being introduced to Congress by Representatives Louise Slaughter of New York and Tim Walz of Minnesota. The act is fairly simple - elected officials and their staffs cannot use insider information procured in the normal course of their jobs to make a profit. The problem came to the attention of most Americans following a “60 Minutes” story on the issue related to the release of the Peter Schweizer book, “Throw Them All Out.” Both accounts demonstrated how some of the nation’s most senior elected officials made millions from trading decisions made with highly suspicious timing.

Among those cited in the book was California’s Senator Feinstein for a $1 million investment in Amyris only weeks before the Department of Energy awarded the “green” company a $24 million contract. This was the only stock

investment made by the Feinstein’s that year. Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, similarly received benefits from a $220,000 investment in the initial public offering of VISA while helping to defeat the Credit Card Fair Fees Acts of 2008 and 2009.

Within two days, she made $100,000 from the investment. If she still holds that investment today, it is worth $615,000.

Among the Senators who benefitted most from his access to information was Senator Kerry of Massachusetts earning millions from his unique ability to time buys and sells only weeks prior to significant upward or downward moves in many healthcare stocks. Despite widespread and apparent incidents of insider trading by those inside the Washington DC beltway, no charges have been brought against anyone despite clear evidence that inside information has been rampant.

It is interesting to note that while the Act begins to address the problem of insider trading in Washington DC, at the

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last minute, provisions meant to require heightened reporting requirements from firms in the “political intelligence” business were stripped from bill. The sale of “political intelligence” is an emerging business where these intermediary firms collect non-public information from their sources in Washington DC and sell that information to hedge funds and Wall Street.

Also stripped from the final language of the STOCK Act were tools needed by law enforcement to better detect, investigate and prosecute public corruption. While Senators Leahy of Vermont and Grassley of Iowa urged Senators Reid and McConnell to reinstate the corruption elements that were stripped by Rep. Canter of Virginia, neither chose to act on this request.

Given that those in Congress and the Senate have investment portfolios that show average returns that are consistently 6% higher than the rest of the investing universe, one can guess at the reasons for this aberrantly high return relative to most

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SIR Keeps Desert Parties Going A

s one of four co-owners of SIR Equipment Rentals’ Palm Desert branch, Randy Hewitson spends many nights setting up audio and lighting equipment at star-studded private parties and sold-out concerts in the valley.

While many would say it’s a dream gig, Hewitson insists it’s not as glamorous as it sounds.

“There’s a lot of stress involved [because] things go wrong all the time.

There’s nothing really glamorous about it all,” Hewitson says. “Whenever we go do jobs we’re usually the first ones there and the last ones to leave. It’s a lot of hours, a lot of the time and a lot of lifting. It’s not what people think.”

“But it’s better than flipping burgers,” he adds with a chuckle.

Hewitson has seen his share of the rich and famous as a full service backline provider, whose services include audio, lighting, musical equipment and staging

rentals for events ranging from birthday parties and speaking engagements to festivals and concerts. He’s provided rentals for birthday parties where celebrities like Snoop Dogg perform or, more recently, a private Kenny Rogers concert at Bighorn.

“There’s something going on every night of the week,” he says of the desert’s private party scene.

Hewitson, who also owns Musician’s Outlet in Palm Desert, delved into the musical equipment rental business when he received a call from The Commodores in 1990. The group needed musical equipment for a private party they were scheduled to play in the desert.

The Commodores gig was just the first of what would become a second business for Hewitson. Over the years, more phone calls came pouring in for equipment rental and Musician’s Outlet Rental Equipment, or MORE, was born. In 2006, Hewitson

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merged his operation with SIR, a national backline company that was looking to expand to the Coachella Valley.

Now, SIR provides backline equipment for Coachella Valley staples such as the City of Palm Desert’s annual 4th of July fireworks display, the Rancho Mirage Art Affaire and Palm Desert’s Summer Concert Series.

With the holy grail of local music festivals in full swing, Hewitson says the Coachella Music and Arts Festival is SIR’s current dream gig.

“I’ve been trying for years to get [Coachella]. I almost got the backline gig for it this year,” he says.

Several years ago, SIR worked on five Coachella stages. Hewitson, who has been in ongoing talks with the festival’s producers, is keeping his fingers crossed that SIR will provide backline services for Goldenvoice’s landmark festival next year.

Americans and investment managers.

One of the fixes recommended but not incorporated in the bill was to have all elected officials and their staffs keep their stock portfolios in blind trusts so that decisions made in governance could not influence the value of their investments.

As Congress and the Senate continue to allow for the use of insider knowledge by political intelligence firms while intentionally failing to strengthen the hand of law enforcement, it is no wonder that many believe that the STOCK Act was no more than window dressing in an election year.

Most telling was Senator Lieberman being honored by a ballroom of corporate lobbyists only eighteen hours before the passage of the STOCK Act. Minutes prior to the passage of the watered down Act, Lieberman said, “This represents Congress at its best.” No wonder their approval ranking is only 12%.

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of each license, credit card, etc. If your wallet is stolen you will know what you had in your wallet and know all of the account numbers and phone numbers you must call and cancel to protect yourself from ID Theft. Keep the photocopy in a safe place.

5. You should carry a photocopy of our passports when you travel either here or abroad. When we travel each of us has copies of all the passports.

6. If your ID is stolen the thieves can order expensive items and apply for a credit card. They can get a credit line approved to buy high ticket items, receive a PIN number from DMV to change their driving record information online, and more.

Here is how you protect yourself from ID Theft.

7. Cancel your credit cards immediately by having the toll free numbers and

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your card numbers handy so you know whom to call. Keep this information where you can find it.

8. File a police report immediately in the jurisdiction where your credit cards, etc., were stolen. This proves to credit providers you were diligent, and this is a first step toward an investigation (if there ever is one).

Most important of all: 9. Call the 3 national credit reporting organizations immediately to place a fraud alert on your name and also call the Social Security fraud line number. This will avoid applications over the internet to obtain credit etc.

The alert means any company that checks your credit knows your information was stolen, and they have to contact you by phone to authorize new credit.

There are records of all the credit

checks initiated by the thieves’ purchases, which you can be alerted to before placing the alert. After that there should be no additional damage. The thieves will probably throw your wallet away and hopefully someone will turn it in. If you follow this info it should stop the thieves dead in their tracks.

10. Key numbers to contact if your wallet has been stolen: 1.) Equifax: 1-800-525-6285 2.) Experian (formerly TRW): 1-888-397-3742 3.) Trans Union: 1-800-680-7289

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ollowing one of golf’s holiest weeks can often trigger a lull in both viewership or the strength of field and a normal event might be faced with more trepidation when played immediately after one of golf’s Majors.

That was not the case this past weekend as PGA Tour stopped at one of its most well-respected venues, the RBC at The Harbor Town Golf Links. Yes, you saw the lighthouse and the many boats and cruising vessels pulled-up around the 18th green to watch the action as the final groups came through, finishing a great week on the east coast. You also saw a very strong field coming off a Major which made for a better watch……well, maybe.

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The setting was beautiful and the weather was perfect but as the leaderboard began to take shape it definitely differed from a week earlier although the golf played was stellar.

When it all shook down, Carolina resident and Tar Heel Alum (via Sweden), Carl Pettersen outlasted former Masters champ, Zach Johnson and his playing partner, Colt Knost for his first win of the season. CBS’ Gary McCord referred to the final group at one point as the “antifitness” group which got a yuck-yuck from his commentating cronies, and went on to slip on the prestigious plaid jacket that comes with winning at Harbor Town. Of course it’s not the green jacket presented a week earlier at Augusta but at least he has something to wear to that tacky 70’s-themed costume party this fall……..

On the Champions Tour, the older gents were at it again and Michael Allen

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4.) Social Security Administration (fraud line): 1-800-269-0271

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Nicole Hannan-Jodoin

PEOPLE DON’T PLAN TO FAIL, THEY FAIL TO PLAN 1. Do not sign the back of your credit cards. Instead, put ‘ASK FOR PHOTO ID.’ 2. When you are writing checks to pay on your credit card accounts, DO NOT put the complete account number on the ‘For’ line. Instead, just put the last four numbers. The credit card company knows the rest of the number, and anyone who might be handling your check as it passes through all the check processing channels won’t have access to it.

3. Put your work phone # on your checks instead of your home phone. If you have a PO Box then use that address instead of your home address. If you do not have a PO Box, use your work address. Never have your SS# printed on your checks. You can add it if it is necessary. But if you have it printed, anyone can get it.

4. Copy the contents of your wallet on a photocopy machine. Copy both sides

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outlasted Kenny Perry, Peter Senior and the “Gutty Little Bruin” Cory Pavin for his first win of their season.

Golf is now officially “in full swing”…. so tune-in to The CaddyShack every Saturday morning to talk golf with Roger and I and keep yourself in the “loop” with whats happening locally and on all of the different tours………Listen in, will 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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he International Opera Institute presents “Scenes From The World’s Four Greatest Operas - Carmen, Tosca, Madame Butterfly and Cavalleria Rusticana” featuring Nicole Hannan-Jodoin, Carrie Landsgaard, Colette Gardner, Angeline Petronijevic, Cynthia Leigh, Fabrizio Doria, Mariana Oknysky, Lauren Magnum, Mario Rehas, Josephine Romo and Mathew Edwardsen under the musical direction of Knut Erik Jensen.

The performance will be held on Saturday, April 28, at 7 p.m. at the Palm Desert High School Performing Arts Center located at 74910 Aztec Road in Palm Desert. Tickets are available for a donation of $25 or more by calling (760) 636-0008 or visiting their website: www.InternationalOperaInstitute. org. Artistic Director Rose Kingsley-Knight, ballerina and former Metropolitan Opera singer commented, “This is a very special concert because it is dedicated to the memory of Frank Knight, President of the International Opera Institute.”

Born and raised in Palm Desert, California, Nicole Hannan-Jodoin recalls her

very first performance at the Washington Charter School. “When I was in second grade, I was chosen to sing in our school’s talent show. I sang ‘I Whistle A Happy Tune’ from The King and I.” Many people in the audience told her how much they enjoyed her singing, which struck a chord with the novice performer. With the support and encouragement of her parents, HannanJodoin started vocal training at 10 years old with William Reynolds.

She now studies with Rose Kingsley of the International Opera Institute. “It is a non-profit organization and all of her students have an opportunity to perform in different outreach programs for children.” In October of 2011, she played the role of Lola in Cavalleria Rusticana at Auburn University in Alabama. Kingsley, who was teaching a Master Class, arranged to have her longtime colleague, Dr. John Robert Cart, Dean of Music at Montclair State University in New Jersey, perform the male lead role. Meeting Dr. Cart at that performance proved to be a life changing opportunity for Ms. HannanJodoin. In November, the entire production of the Opera was featured at the Indian Wells Theatre at CSUSB. She has had the opportunity not only to study with Kingsley, but with William Vendice, who was Head of the Music Staff and Chorus Master for the Los Angeles Opera from 1995 to 2007; Gregory Buchalter, currently a cover conductor at the Metropolitan Opera; Valery Ryvkin, of Opera Santa Barbara and the Greensboro Opera; and Dr. Kathleen Rowland, Professor

of Voice at USC, Pepperdine University and UC Santa Barbara.

“I have always loved performing. I especially enjoy drawing people in...to get to know the character, and as an artist, I portray the different characters with my own twist. Music has been a part of my life ever since I was a little girl and I always knew this is what I wanted to do for the rest of my life. It is my passion.”

Hannan-Jodoin is currently a senior at Xavier College Preparatory High School.

Along with other students from the school, she has volunteered to work with the children at several homeless shelters including Shelter from the Storm. She was also a volunteer Cantor at St. John’s Lutheran Church in Indio and one of the performing artists of the Steinway Society of Riverside County and the Coachella Valley.

She was interviewed and auditioned to

attend the John J. Cali School of Music at Montclair State University several months ago and was accepted to attend this fall.

She received the John J. Cali Musicianship Award, a four year scholarship, truly a blessing for this talented young lady.

When asked about her opinion regarding music in schools, her response was very similar to my own. “Taking music out of schools is horrible. I was inspired and learned music in elementary and middle school. If a music program was not there when I was in school, I wouldn’t be where I am today.”

Ironically, on Wednesday, April 25, Nicole Hannan-Jodoin returns to the Washington Charter School as a judge to help choose the students who will participate in this year’s talent show on Thursday, May 17.

You may contact her at NicoleJodoin2@ aol.com.

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Who Is The Greatest DJ of Them All?

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oday’s greatest DJs are more than just headphones and turntables, they are superstars. DJs spend their time collaborating with artists, touring the hottest clubs in the world, working on soundtracks, experimenting with new sounds, merchandising, releasing compilations, and more. Their shows keep tens of thousands on their feet with a mixture of music, lighting, and special effects. As such, it has become a misnomer for DJs to append only the “DJ” title to their name. Many have dropped “DJ” to better represent themselves as all-around artists, writers, producers, and musicians.

Former Idol judge Simon Cowell, is

putting his own spin on the DJ fame game. Cowell has announced he is working on a new reality competition series searching for the world’s best DJ. Cowell’s SYCO Entertainment is partnering with Jada Pinkett-Smith and Will Smith’s Overbrook Entertainment and Sony Pictures Television to launch the format, which is expected to be shopped internationally and domestically.

“DJs are the new rock stars.

It feels like the right time to make this show,” he said in a statement, commenting on the rising popularity of such acts as Deadmau5, David Guetta and Swedish House Mafia (the second two out of three will be playing Coachella again this weekend) Currently, according to DJ Magazine, David Guetta is ranked as the world’s number one DJ replacing Armin van Buuren the Dutch powerhouse DJ/producer and “King of Trance music” who slipped to number two. Rounding out the top 5 are Tiesto, Deadmau5, and Above & Beyond.

No word yet from Cowell whether any of the fore mentioned DJs will act as judges for

the DJ reality show but said he will not be scoring the contestants himself. My bets are down one or more of the Will Smith family will be a part of the judging process. As for this no name show, I would like to suggest, “The Scratch Factor”.

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he fun story of how Madeira wine came to be is when the Portuguese sailors, a few hundred years ago, filled the wooden casks of wine from the Madeira Islands and shipped them to ports in India and China. The only route to take was to go south around the African continent and up through the Indian Ocean.

On board, common temperatures in those tropic zones often huddled around 120 degrees. They soon discovered the wine could be preserved by mixing in some brandy—but, the wine was still “cooked” by the heat However, this combination lead to a flavor profile that was unique, distinct, and delicious. A whole new wine industry was borne from that process. It was the European aristocracy’s wine of choice of that time and was George Washington’s favorite. So—as you would expect, Madeira can handle the heat!

That old adage of serving red wine at room temperature doesn’t work out here, therefore we have to remember to serve our reds moderately chilled at 55 degrees for the young and up to 68 degrees for the old vintages; our whites wonderfully chilled at 45-54 degrees and our Champagnes and Sparkling wines exquisitely chilled at 38-42 degrees.

In the desert, never fear of serving your wine too chilled. Your glass will warm up quickly and it’s the fun task to catch the full

bouquet as the wine gets into its ideal taste parameter: Remember good wine always evolves in the glass and during the meal. It’s this mystique of wine that keeps us coming back.

Now to the whole bunch us wine enthusiasts and collectors—who have a case or two, or twenty, or two hundred!, keeping our wine in pristine condition is always a main consideration. We know the quality of wine we are holding and the necessity to keep our bottles cool and at the right humidity.

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Wine Vault is a premier 10,000 sq. ft custodial wine cellar that maintains a constant temperature of 55 degrees and 65-70% humidity, the optimum condition for wine storage. Pretty much, most of your in-home wine coolers—which are great to have around the kitchen, are just that: wine coolers, not humidifiers.

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The Wine Bar

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ome of my best memories have been wine tasting with friends and family. Whether we drive to Temecula or venture further to Santa Barbara, we are certain to have a great time.

We cannot, however, get away as often as we would like. Just three miles south of Highway 111, The Wine Bar is nestled in the heart of Old Town La Quinta. Offering welcoming smiles and a variety of wine flights, The Wine Bar feels like an escape to a winery without using a full tank of gas!

The Wine Bar has been open for just over seven months but is definitely the locals’ hot spot. When we entered, we immediately noticed the elegant interior design and beautiful art on the walls. With your choice of large black leather couches and chairs, high-top granite tables or the granite counter top, you are guaranteed to enjoy their large selection of fine wines in style! The Wine Bar has partnered with The La Quinta Arts Foundation; local artists need to display their work and they need to

Good grub

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hen editor Tracy Dietlan asked me to recommend a good restaurant for this week’s column, I hesitated to share what has been my best-kept sushi secret for months. But for the sake of the greater good, I’m going to introduce you to Sawa Sushi.

When it comes to sushi bars, I have one all-important rule of thumb for judging whether I’ll be back: The quality of their salmon sashimi.

Let me explain. Several years ago, I thought I knew what fresh salmon was supposed to taste like. What I failed to realize was that salmon and other fish travel hundreds, if not thousands of miles to grace

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decorate the walls, it’s a win-win.

As we walked through the aisles of reasonable priced wines, we noticed that The Wine Bar is more than just a place to enjoy great food and wine with friends. The retail section of the store offers an impressive cigar selection, which you can enjoy in their cigar section of the patio. They also display a variety of wine accessories like openers, aerators and wine glass charms. There are custom made-to-order gift baskets from $25 that are great gifts for any occasion and The Wine Bar will ship to most of The United States. The best part about the place is that you can purchase a bottle of wine from the retail side and have it corked and poured for you and your guests at no additional charge! If your palette cannot decide on just one wine, you are in luck! Try one of their many wine flights that include three, two-ounce tastings, giving you the opportunity to have it all. After enjoying a few tastings, I knew exactly which wine to order. The list changes often, which gives it

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our plates here in the desert. With that kind of travel time, loss of freshness is a given. If you’ve never had truly fresh fish, it’s easy to settle for the pale slices that are often served in the desert.

Then I moved to South Korea, where I watched as a fisherman sliced me a piece of his fresh catch at one of the country’s largest wholesale fish markets. The salmon melted on my tongue and I realized I had been living a lie when it came to quality fish.

My quest for fresh fish didn’t end there.

I’ve eaten fresh-caught tuna from chefs in Tokyo, sampled sashimi in Singapore and watched the fishing boats return with dinner off the coast of Thailand.

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variety while staying current.

Now, don’t be confused by the name, The Wine Bar, because they offer a menu that is impressive on its own. We shared an order of hummus and bite-sized pita chips while sipping our wines and followed it with a Mediterranean Flat Bread, topped with artichoke hearts, roasted tomatoes, olives and cheese, drizzled with a savory balsamic glaze. Incredible! They have meat and cheese platters and also offer sandwiches and desserts, but owner, Robert, will tell you the highlight of the menu, would be

their selection of homemade soups and fresh salads.

The Wine Bar is located at 78015 Main Street, Suite 109 and open daily at 11 am, serving until 9 pm Monday through Wednesday, 10 pm on Thursday and open until 11 pm Friday and Saturday for live music. Come down for their Saturday wine tastings at 4 pm or schedule a private tasting with friends or for a special occasion. Stay up to date on upcoming events and tastings by signing up at www.TheWineBarAtOldTown. com

Sawa Sushi

You could say my sushi standards are high—a sushi snob, if you will.

I wouldn’t expect a sushi bar in the middle of the desert, where the nearest ocean is hundreds of miles away, to have Japanese-quality salmon gracing their bar.

Yet somehow Sawa Sushi serves sashimi so fresh, I’d swear I was back in Noryangjin Fish Market in Seoul, salivating as the fisherman served me another slice.

The true stars of Sawa Sushi’s menu are the 26 different combinations of fresh fish and vegetables the chefs have created for their special roll menu.

On a recent trip, my boyfriend and I ordered from Chef Eric’s special menu. I indulged in the spicy Miami Vice roll, which includes salmon, cream cheese and shrimp tempura topped with crab meat, jalapeno slices and special sauces. The mellow salmon and cream cheese blend well with the kick of the jalapeno, and it’s easily one of my favorite rolls.

My boyfriend went with the towering Rainforest Roll, which is a shrimp tempura and avocado roll topped with salmon, tuna and scallions. We were pleasantly surprised with the generous fish portions, and my boyfriend found himself playing a precarious

game of Jenga on chopsticks while trying to devour the lofty pieces.

We ordered tempura shrimp and cream cheese won tons, both of which were served to perfection. The tempura shrimp was light in both color and taste, not over-fried in old oil, and the won tons were almost overflowing with cream cheese.

Sawa Sushi also serves a full menu of Chinese dishes, including staples such as orange chicken, chow mein and fried rice.

Plenty of deals can be found here, too.

The lunch and dinner bento boxes combine two or three menu choices with miso soup, steamed rice and a green salad. Chinese entrees are also featured during Sawa Sushi’s lunch special and are served with soup, salad, and egg roll and rice. The daily happy hour offers buy one, get one specials on all beers and you’ll also get a free California roll when you order two rolls off of Chef Eric’s special menu. If you order three, you’ll get a free spicy tuna roll.

When you go, order a few pieces of salmon sashimi—and feel free to share the secret.

Sawa Sushi 78995 Highway 111 Ste. 6, La Quinta 760-564-6199

SILLY & SPOOKY

on’t you hate it when the promise of the poster is not delivered in the theater? And what about a hot trailer that has scenes not in the movie?

But sometimes we’re lucky and the poster exactly delivers the essence of the film and in fact the movie takes us further into that world and it’s more than we expected.

That’s what we want! Consider these two widely different films in theaters now that deliver satisfying movie experiences true to the words and images of the poster.

THE CABIN IN THE WOODS

This satisfying and surprising film, produced and co-written by Joss Whedon and directed by his longtime collaborator Drew Goddard (CLOVERFIELD), stretches the horror genre as much as examines it.

The standard horror elements that we’ve seen hundreds of times set up the story: Five college kids go to a remote cabin for a weekend of fun. But soon, and this is no spoiler, we – and not the kids -- see there’s a high-tech underground lab beneath the cabin that controls the disturbing events the kids are dealing with. And what about the two curious -- or diabolical -- scientists at the controls? But there’s so much than this highly intriguing premise. Is this movie about Free Will? Is it a cautionary tale about sinister government experiments? Is there a matter of national security at stake here?

What do the scientists in the lab hope to find out? Or is the movie about the horror genre itself and the strange relationship of horror-meisters and their fervent and peculiar audience? This sometimes-pasted together movie with many ragged ends will engage and surprise you. And at the end, it’s just like the poster warns: “You think you know the story. Think again.”

Screeners No. 4 TWO NEW FILMS FULFILL THEIR POSTER PROMISE

inadvertently finds himself the star of a popular TV show. But as much as I enjoyed seeing this impersonation act, I never really laughed out loud. And please stay to the end for the “serious” public service warning about copying the violence in the movie along with explanatory slow-mo shots of how it’s all fake anyway. For me, this film was a surreal hallucination. After final fade out, I still wasn’t sure what I had just seen.

Lots of issues arose beyond the casting. For instance, to go full contemporary raunch or not? Do a period comedy as if set in the 40s or make it current? Or make it about adult fan boys going to a Stooge convention and going crazy? The Farrelly brothers chose wisely to cast and make-up their actors to resemble the trio as if thrust in today’s world after being cut off since birth. Also true to the old film shorts is the use of three segmented sequences that tie together in the bigger plot about saving the orphanage in which they have spent their entire – yes, entire – lives. The stooges, played (or is that impersonated?) by Chris Diamantopoulos (Moe), Will Sasso (Curly) and Larry (a terrific Sean Hayes). Great bits by Jennifer Hudson as lovely, singing, Sister Rosemary and Larry David (that’s correct) as Sister Mary Mengele.

battles opiates and madness. He thinks his salvation lay in the arms of lovely Rosa, his best student. Only problem is Rosa’s betrothed, Edwin Drood – Jasper’s own nephew. I like Rory Kinnear’s Reverend Septimus Crisparkle and Freddie Fox is always in the moment as Jasper’s reviled -- and loved -- nephew Drood. BBC/PBS/ Masterpiece. Blu-ray.

GREAT EXPECTATIONS

And for the home theatre – new high def Dickens

The prolific Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870) has two classic tales new on Blu. It’s great seeing these new interpretations of this gifted man’s novels and knowing they are still hugely relevant and relatable. Both are gorgeous looking PBS/BBC productions that capture the era as well as the timeless essence of Dickens compelling stories.

The stellar cast features Ray Winstone, Gillian Anderson, David Suchet and newcomer Douglas Booth as Pip. The almost archetypal story plays with the potent and timeless themes of simple kindness (done for no reward) and that of “learned indifference.” The gears of fate and how they can be reassembled by tiny decisions of good or ill fascinated Dickens I believe. Brian Kirk directs with a feel for the subtext and a fine eye for composition in this three hour retelling of a tale that never gets old. BBC/PBS/Masterpiece. Blu-ray.

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THE THREE STOOGES

I suppose if there’s a need to make a Three Stooges movie -- and I wonder if there is -- this is about as good a mimicry of the most iconic films in the Stooge oeuvre as possible. The notion to reboot the Stooges has been long in gestation. I remember seriously talk of it for more than a decade.

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There are a couple of clever gags and lots of their trademark pinching, poking and hammering in the film that has the violent nyyuuuking trio trying to suddenly raise $830,000 for their orphanage. Along the way they get involved in a murder and Moe

Dickens’ strange last – and unfinished novel – gets an interpretation that is challenging and thrilling as it unfolds the exceedingly disturbing story of obsessive love and addiction (or are they indeed the same thing?). Choirmaster John Jasper seeks to create divine music while he

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by Marissa Willman

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ith a flurry of local and state legal battles set to decide whether medical marijuana collectives can legally operate storefronts in the valley and the state, local collectives and medical marijuana activists are concerned that patients who rely on collectives will be unable to access medicine they rely on for issues including insomnia, cancer and kidney disease.

Recently, the county of Riverside sued a number of collectives operating storefronts in Thousand Palms, an unincorporated area of the county. Although collectives are legal under California Senate Bill 420, municipalities such as Riverside County have taken to using zoning laws to ban collectives from operating storefronts.

“Riverside County has chosen to try to supersede the state law by enforcing their own law by saying they do not want any storefront dispensaries in the county of Riverside,” said Abe Robbin of IVTHC, a collective named in the lawsuit.

“The county does not take the time to understand that a lot of these patients are older,” Robbin said. “You’re basically pushing them to go buy these meds from the streets, and then you’re only going to help the drug cartel because you’re pushing these older patients to do that.”

As the collectives await their day in court on June 17th, a larger legal battle that will determine the fate of all storefront collectives in the state will be fought in the state’s Supreme Court.

Lanny Swerdlow, R.N. is a medical marijuana activist and founder of Inland Empire Patients Health and Wellness Center. The collective was sued by Riverside for violating the city’s zoning ordinances that ban medical marijuana collectives

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Swerdlow believes law enforcement is the driving force behind the crackdown on medical marijuana collectives.

“Cops are working on the taxpayer’s dime to overturn the will of the voters,” Swerdlow said, citing the amount of revenue police departments received in federal funding for drug law enforcement and asset forfeiture in marijuana-related cases.

The court’s decision in Swerdlow’s case will determine whether municipalities can legally prevent collectives from operating storefronts by banning them under zoning laws.

The ruling on his case will be instrumental, Swerdlow said, because it will set a firm legal precedent for cities and counties in an area where courts have historically waffled on the issue.

Earlier this month, the California Fourth District Court of Appeals ruled in City of Lake Forest vs. Evergreen Holistic Collective that municipalities cannot use zoning laws to ban storefronts as long as the marijuana is grown onsite.

The Thousand Palms collectives are hopeful that the Lake Forest case will set the precedent for their own court date on June 17th and that the legal system will work in favor of their patients.

“We see the real needs of our patients every day,” said Troy Solomon of Desert Care Solutions, a collective named in the lawsuit.

“We’re hoping for a favorable outcome for our patients because [Thousand Palms] is the only place where we can serve this side of the valley.”

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“We are the bootleggers, the speakeasies of our generation,” Solomon said, “and that’s unfortunate.”

Solomon said the legal bills for Desert Care Solutions to defend itself amounted to “upwards of $10,000,” a steep cost for collectives that operate as nonprofits but one that Solomon says is worthwhile because shutting down would be detrimental to their patients. It is an outcome he hopes the collective will not be forced to face.

“It would be very sad because it would push everything back underground,” Solomon said.

A spokesman at Coachella Valley Wellness, a medical marijuana delivery service, said that in that case, the drug cartels would be the only winners.

“The cartels love it because when we get closed down, these people are just going to get their medicine somewhere else,” he said.

He said he is often contacted by people who want to try alternative treatment but are unaware of how to go about getting a recommendation for medical marijuana and know little about the benefits or how to access it. Because of this, his service stresses confidentiality when building relationships with patients.

To get a medical marijuana recommendation, a patient must be suffering from a medical condition that can be treated with medical marijuana, such as cancer or chronic pain. A licensed physician can write the recommendation after taking the patient’s medical history and administering a physical exam. Collectives must validate the recommendation before

the patient is allowed to join.

Collectives say they are amazed at how their patients’ quality of life improves with medical marijuana treatment.

“One of the biggest benefits of working in this type of industry is most of our patients are 55 and older. It’s amazing what cannabis does for them. They’re not killing their body with all of these pills that can ruin your liver,” Robbin said. “We have a lot of patients who are going through chemo and radiation and they tell us, ‘This is the only thing that lets me eat, the only thing that lets me sleep.”

Solomon said he has seen people with high anxiety return to school and live a normal life when before medical marijuana they were unable to leave their homes.

“It improves the quality of life for people, whether they’re suffering from a physical or mental illness,” Solomon said.

A spokesman from Coachella Valley Wellness said his service has helped improve the quality of life for patients with Lyme disease, muscular dystrophy and insomnia.

“I feel that clients seem to be maintaining a lifestyle that they want,” he said, adding that the delivery service allows them to serve patients who are physically or otherwise unable to access medical marijuana.

Swerdlow is hopeful that his case before the state’s Supreme Court will eventually pave a path toward full legalization of a substance he believes is less harmful than legal substances such as tobacco and alcohol. As an R.N., he said he sees the proof on a daily basis.

“I never had a patient in a hospital bed because of cannabis,” Swerdlow said.

“But from smoking cigarettes or drinking alcohol? Every day.”

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Drug Culture and Prison Time

merican teens in the 1970s can tell you about the drug culture of that time. Whether they participated socially or used heavily, access to elicit substances was just a heartbeat away. They may not have inhaled but certainly they knew someone who had.

In the case of Susan LeFevre she used drugs socially and sometimes to selfmedicate for the emotional pain of having an abusive mother whom she could not please no matter how hard she tried to be a good and perfect daughter. Raised in a respectable, conservative, middle-class Catholic home, LeFevre was thrown out of the house while still in high school for hanging around the “wrong types.”

LeFevre struggled to make ends meet.

She drove a crappy car, worked hard and lived with several roommates. A pretty, blue-eyed blond, she rarely had to purchase drugs. Friends, and friends of friends, were constantly dropping by to party, sometimes bringing drugs and leaving small quantities.

Tiring of that scene and wanting to get her life back on track, she barrowed money from her parents, enrolled in community college and moved to an apartment out of town telling no one her address but her mother.

When a druggie she barely knew showed up at her place, she wondered how he found her. He asked if she had drugs to sell

or if she knew where he could purchase drugs. LeFevre said she had no drugs, had stopped using and no longer hung around that crowd. She reluctantly smoked a joint with him and then they went for pizza.

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if she pleaded guilty she would get one-year probation. Her defense attorney, her uncle (a lawyer with ties to the district attorney’s office), and parents encouraged her to take the deal. Nineteen years old, with no previous record of any kind, Susan LeFevre was sentenced to 10 to 20 years in prison.

After a year in prison, with no contact or support from her family, LeFevre’s grandfather came to visit. He encouraged her to escape and said he would help. He knew she was going to be locked up for the

At the pizza place, Lefevre was ambushed and arrested for being a drug “kingpin.” It was a set up. The police bullied and intimidated her to give them names of other drug dealers. She refused because she truly did not know. The prosecutor said full 20 years and realized the conditions would only get worse. A week later, LeFevre scaled a barbed wire fence and escaped prison. Three days after that, she was in California starting her new life.

Susan LeFevre changed her name and eventually married. She became “Marie S. Walsh,” had three children and to all appearance was a typical, suburban soccer mom. She had a good life. She rode horses, played tennis and regularly met for bridge with the neighborhood women. Marie volunteered for community charities, was a law-abiding citizen, attentive wife and dedicated mom. No one -- including her family -- knew of her past. It was a secret she could not, and would not tell.

Thirty-three years into an almost idyllic life, Michigan corrections caught up to Marie Walsh now in her 50s. With a Lexus in the driveway and her children in their bedrooms, Susan LeFevre aka Marie Walsh

was arrested at her cul-de-sac home with an ocean view and sent back to a smothering Michigan prison. Over a year later, she was released on probation with the help of the state’s female governor.

A Tale of Two Lives: The Susan LeFevre Fugitive Story is less about her life as a fugitive and more about her life as a prisoner in the horrendous Michigan prison system.

Her book is a nightmare of corruption, injustice and sadistic behavior. Walsh/ LeFevre says, “A huge majority (inmates) had made relatively trivial bad choices that weren’t a threat to anyone but themselves.

Most were not so different than I.” “It (prison system) was a manufacturing plant for corruption. Relevant educational classes and programs were scarce, or hobbling along until the next budget cuts eliminated them entirely in favor of building more prisons and hiring more guards.”

Walsh does not hold back her contempt for the corrupt prison industry. She says the prison union is so powerful that even the warden and elected officials won’t challenge the cruel conduct towards inmates. Walsh states that today more than 70% of inmates return to prison within three years of leaving and, in most cases, in far worse condition than when they went in.

Susan LeFevre paid a price and Marie Walsh suffered the consequences of a tried and convicted criminal. A Tale of Two Lives: The Susan LeFevre Fugitive Story is a selfpublished book that, beyond its grammatical errors, typos and formatting problems, is an intense and compelling narrative with firsthand insight into the billion-dollar taxpayer funded prison industry. It makes you realize that the free and easy days of the 70’s drug culture turned ugly on the heels of Nixon’s hi-profile, dubious ”drug war.”

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loss and when our body is metabolizing smoothly and hydrated properly we are able to flush toxins out of our body with ease.

The soluble fibers from the seed help keep the colon hydrated and allows for efficient elimination. If one is calcium deficient you may want to eat more cheese and ice cream.

By weight, chia has more calcium than whole milk. Although Chia seeds are rich with numerous benefits its not a meal. The seed does not replace your mineral and vitamin needs but rather is an enhancement. Overall the Chia seed minimizes food cravings, improves digestion, gives you energy to be active, balances blood sugar, and helps to improve the omega-3 balance.

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Vein Vein Go Away

urple, blue and red are all beautiful colors, but no so pretty when they appear in the form of spider veins or varicose veins.

These unsightly veins generally appear on the legs, face and even hands. Once they appear they won’t go away without treatment and if left untreated have a tendency to get progressively worse. This week we’ll discuss the cause of spider and varicose veins, various treatment modalities and how to find the right physician to meet your needs.

Varicose veins are generally the result of trauma and/or genetics. Having them removed should not be cause for concern since the blood flow through these veins will simply be rerouted to healthier veins once the unhealthy veins have been collapsed. Once the veins are eliminated they will not reoccur, but treatment will not prevent other new veins from

appearing.

Sclerotherapy is most commonly used to treat spider veins on the legs and hands.

This effective treatment is essentially a series of injections of a sclerosing (hardening) solution that irritates the vein walls causing them to collapse and be reabsorbed by the body. The needle used is very small, but there may be a slight burning sensation upon injection of the medication. Sclerotherapy requires little to no downtime and is a relatively simple treatment. Depending on the individual, several treatments may be required.

Endovenous Laser Treatment, also known as EVT or EVLT is a popular and accurate procedure used to treat varicose veins of the legs. This more invasive procedure is typically performed under local anesthesia. It utilizes ultrasound and laser technology to close off the faulty

valve that caused the varicose vein to form. Bruising is the most common side effect and patients are generally required to wear compression hose or stockings after the treatment. This technology is constantly being perfected and improved upon. It is being used more often than surgical treatments such as ligation and stripping.

Laser treatment is especially effective for facial veins. A V-beam laser or ELOS technology is the best course of treatment for spider veins or rosacea appearing on the face. Topical anesthesia should not be applied as it causes the veins to shrink, thus making it difficult for the laser to find its target. This treatment is fast and relatively painless with little to no downtime. Temporary redness and possible bruising are the most common side effects.

No matter what your vein situation

may be, it’s important to receive treatment from an experienced and knowledgable physician’s office. Dr. Greenberg, The Original Vein Doctor in the desert has an outstanding reputation, offers all treatment modalities and even trains other physicians on how to treat spider and varicose veins. Itching, burning or painful vein treatments may even be covered by insurance. Dr. Greenberg offers complementary consultations and may be reached at 760.320.2200 should you or a loved one be considering treatment.

Don’t be afraid to explore your options.

Being embarrassed to show off your legs in summer shorts doesn’t need to be a worry any more. Help is near and there is sure to be a an effective treatment that’s right for you!

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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY Week of April 19

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Let’s see if you know what these exquisitely individuated luminaries have in common: Salvador Dali, Martha Graham, Stephen Colbert, David Byrne, Maya Deren, Malcolm X, Willie Nelson, Bono, Dennis Hopper, Cate Blanchett, George Carlin, Tina Fey, Sigmund Freud. Give up? They are or were all Tauruses. Would you characterize any of them as sensible, materialistic slowpokes obsessed with comfort and security, as many traditional astrology texts describe Tauruses? Nope. They were or are distinctive innovators with unique style and creative flair. They are your role models as you cruise through the current phase of maximum self-expression.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): In December 1946, three Bedouin shepherds were tending their flock near the Dead Sea. They found a cave with a small entrance. Hoping it might contain treasure hidden there long ago, they wanted to explore it. The smallest of the three managed to climb through the narrow opening. He brought out a few dusty old scrolls in ceramic jars. The shepherds were disappointed. But eventually the scrolls were revealed to be one of the most important finds in archaeological history: the first batch of what has come to be known as the Dead Sea Scrolls. Keep this story in mind, Gemini. I suspect a metaphorically similar tale may unfold for you soon.

A valuable discovery may initially appear to you in a form you’re not that excited about.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): The devil called together a committee meeting of his top assistants. He was displeased. Recruitments of people born under the sign of Cancer had fallen far below projected totals. “It’s unacceptable,” the dark lord fumed.

“Those insufferable Crabs have been too mentally healthy lately to be tantalized by our lies. Frankly, I’m at wit’s end. Any suggestions?” His marketing expert said, “Let’s redouble our efforts to make them buy into the hoax about the world ending on December 21, 2012.” The executive vice-president chimed in: “How about if we play on their fears about running out of what they need?” The chief of intelligence had an idea, too: “I say we offer them irrelevant goodies that tempt them away from their real goals.”

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): “If you don’t run your own life, someone else will,” said psychologist John Atkinson. Make that your motto in the coming weeks, Leo. Write it on a big piece of cardboard and hold it up in front of your eyes as you wake up each morning.

Use it as a prod that motivates you to shed any laziness you might have about living the life you really want. Periodically ask yourself these three questions: Are you dependent on the approval, permission, or recognition of others? Have you set up a person, ideology, or image of success that’s more authoritative than your own intuition? Is there any area of your life where you have ceded control to an external source?

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Here are the last words that computer pioneer Steve Jobs spoke before he died: “OH WOW. OH WOW. OH WOW.” I’d propose that we bring that mantra into as wide a usage as Jobs’ other creations, like the iPhone and iPad. I’d love to hear random strangers exclaiming it every time they realize how amazing their lives are. I’d enjoy it if TV newscasters spoke those words to begin each show, acknowledging how mysterious our world really is.

I’d be pleased if lovers everywhere uttered it at the height of making love. I nominate you to start the

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trend, Virgo. You’re the best choice, since your tribe, of all the signs of the zodiac, will most likely have the wildest rides and most intriguing adventures in the coming weeks.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): A starfish that loses an arm can grow back a new one. It’s an expert regenerator. According to my understanding of the astrological omens, you are entering a starfishlike phase of your cycle. Far more than usual, you’ll be able to recover parts of you that got lost and reanimate parts of you that fell dormant. For the foreseeable future, your words of power are “rejuvenate,” “restore,” “reawaken,” and “revive.” If you concentrate really hard and fill yourself with the light of the spiritual sun, you might even be able to perform a kind of resurrection.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Too much of a good thing isn’t necessarily good. (Have you ever hyperventilated?) Too little of a good thing can be bad. (Have you ever gotten dehydrated?) Some things are good in measured doses but bad if done to excess.

(Wine and chocolate.) A very little of a very bad thing may still be a bad thing. (It’s hard to smoke crack in moderation.) The coming week is prime time to be thinking along these lines, Scorpio. You will generate a lot of the exact insights you need if you weigh and measure everything in your life and judge what is too much and what is too little.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Sculptor Constantin Brancusi had a clear strategy as he produced his art: “Create like God, command like a king, work like a slave.” I suggest you adopt a similar approach for your own purposes in the coming weeks, Sagittarius. With that as your formula, you could make rapid progress on a project that’s dear to you. So make sure you have an inspiring vision of the dream you want to bring into being. Map out a bold, definitive plan for how to accomplish it. And then summon enormous stamina, fierce concentration, and unfailing attention to detail as you translate your heart’s desire into a concrete form.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): “If there is one door in the castle you have been told not to go through,” writes novelist Anne Lamott, “you must. Otherwise, you’ll just be rearranging furniture in rooms you’ve already been in.” I think the coming weeks will be your time to slip through that forbidden door, Capricorn.

The experiences that await you on the other side may not be everything you have always needed, but I think they are at least everything you need next.

Besides, it’s not like the taboo against penetrating into the unknown place makes much sense any more.

The biggest risk you take by breaking the spell is the possibility of losing a fear you’ve grown addicted to.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): When rain falls on dry land, it activates certain compounds in the soil that release a distinctive aroma. “Petrichor” is the word for that smell. If you ever catch a whiff of it when there’s no rain, it’s because a downpour has begun somewhere nearby, and the wind is bringing you news of it. I suspect that you will soon be awash in a metaphorical version of petrichor, Aquarius. A parched area of your life is about to receive muchneeded moisture.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Forty percent of Americans do not know that the dinosaurs died out long before human beings ever existed. When these folks see an old cartoon of caveman Fred Flintstone riding on a Diplodocus, they think it’s depicting a historical fact. In the coming weeks, Pisces, you need to steer clear of people who harbor gross delusions like that. It’s more important than usual that you hang out with educated, cultured types who possess a modicum of well-informed ideas about the history of humanity and the nature of reality. Surround yourself with intelligent influences, please.

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