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Restaurant Week: It’s more than dining out

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Palm Springs Restaurant Week .. 3 AMFM - Craig Semetko ...............4 AMFM - The Miracle Dolls ...........7 Film - I Do .....................................8 Public Personalities.....................9 Gamer Girl..................................10 Desert DJs..................................10 Consider This..............................12 Valley Rhythms..........................13 Pet Place.....................................14 The Vino Voice............................15 Club Crawler Nightlife...............16 The Pampered Palate................18 Screeners....................................20 Book Review...............................21 Restaurant Guide.......................22 Haddon Libby............................23 Education...................................23 Dale Gribow on the Law............24 Real Estate..................................24 Safety Tips..................................25 ShareKitchen..............................25 Road Trippin...............................26 Classifieds..................................26 Free Will Astrology....................27 Mind, Body & Spirit...................27 Health, Beauty, Fitness..............28 Life & Career Coach....................28 Comics - Weiss Cracks................30

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et ready to lift your forks for the 2013 edition of Palm Springs Desert Resorts Restaurant Week that starts tomorrow and runs through June 16.

This is the time of year for visitors and valley locals to discover the joys and hidden gems in Coachella Valley dining, attractions, hotels and spas.

Unlike other restaurant week events around the country, PSDRRW invites everyone not to just dine, but to take the time and discover what the valley has to offer in the way of places to play, unique valley hotels and spas.

Participating hotels like the Ace Hotel and Swim Club, JW Marriott, Saguaro, Curve Palm Springs and Korakia Pensione are offering special room rates and packages for

Restaurant Week guests, and you don’t have to be an out-of-towner to take advantage of the deals.

The Palm Springs Aerial Tram, Living Desert, UltraStar Mary Pickford Theaters, Desert Adventures Jeep Tours, Palm Springs Art Museum, Spirit of the King at the Spa Resort Casino and the Palm Follies, are all offering special discounted prices for Restaurant Week.

And while the “Eat. See. Stay.” package is great for visitors, “It’s also a great way for locals to discover all the things our valley has to offer, too,” says Juliana Manion Copley, a founding board member for restaurant week. “A lot of the time we’re so busy, we forget what’s available for us (in the Coachella Valley). Right now the

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www.coachellavalleyweekly.com good enough, you’re not close enough. So I had this longer lens on my camera, and I was snapping glorified head shots of the couple kissing. It was an exercise of seeing how close I could get – breaking that shyness barrier. After a while I asked myself, ‘Why am I doing this - to what end?’ As soon as I said that, the words of Cartier-Bresson popped into my head, ‘A good picture has to have a sense of context.’ I switched lenses, stepped back, and as I did, the other couple walked in behind them. That was literally the last fame and ultimately became the cover of my book.”

Craig’s selections from a new book, America Project, will be shown at the AMFM Festival this June. These are pictures that he’s taken throughout America, each telling a story. Not all of these have a comedic aspect, but are very telling in

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Craig Semetko: World Renowned Photographer of the Absurd and the Ironic

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he AMFM Festival is truly bringing together a phenomenal group of artists who are not only the cream of their industries, but some of the most fascinating, worldly and likeable people you could possibly have the pleasure of talking to. Craig Semetko, rightly billed as “World Renowned Photographer of the Absurd and Ironic” is one such talent. My time interviewing this comedic storyteller, who has mastered the art through both standup and photography, was one of laughter coupled by intrigue and awe.

“I remember getting out of trouble in nursery school. I made this kid cry somehow, and I just knew that if I didn’t get this kid to stop crying I’d be in big trouble. I made a goofy face or something and it was like magic! The tears just stopped and he started laughing. It was completely transformative for me and it made me realize the immense power in being able to make somebody laugh,” shared Craig as he explained how he started in comedy. “It stuck with me – a total survival instinct that I still use today.

I was also exposed to Peter Sellers and Jackie Gleason, comedians my dad liked. I was just a funny kid who was voted class clown.” For a while though, Craig’s career path appeared to take a different path. At 16 he took a job as a Page in the House of Representatives. He returned at 19 as an intern. “I remember being at some party with other 19 year olds. One kid said to another, ‘So what are your thoughts on the China/US relationship.’ The other kid started, ‘Well on my recent trip to China...’

I thought, ‘What? You’re 19! Go have a beer. Find a girl!’ At that point I knew if I was going to devote my life to bullshitting people, I might as well be upfront about it.

So I became a comedian.”

For several years, Craig worked writing and performing sketches for major corporations. “In 2000, I had a great job that took me all over the world. I thought I should probably bring a camera. Prior to this not only was I not a photographer I was an anti-photographer. I didn’t want to have a camera around my neck looking like a tourist.” As he’s telling me this he laughs at the irony: he explains that as he was talking to me, he was walking around a parking lot in Atlanta with a camera around his neck. “At that time, I didn’t even own

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of your work along with it.’” This first show was titled, “From Classic to Contemporary-Henri Cartier-Bresson and Craig Semetko.”

Since 2008, Craig’s photography has taken off, and his photography has been shown all over the globe.

Craig was eventually approached to do a book of his work. The book was titled, Unposed a collection that shows his comedic side. At the very beginning of the book there is a stunning shot of a small Mongolian child with the biggest eyes looking straight into the camera. I asked Craig what the story was behind the photo. “I took this at an outdoor, night market. Mom was standing off to the side. She didn’t speak English but with hand gestures, she gave permission for me to take the picture. I squatted down

a camera. I was outside of Shanghai, and I took a photo of a two people in a canoe and when I got the print, I thought, wow this is beautiful. This could be in National Geographic.” The thought occurred to him, that as a comedic actor, he had some free time. Maybe he could use photography as another medium to tell stories. And that is where it all started. Craig sums up his philosophy of photography by quoting the iconic photographer he has idolized and studied obsessively, Henri Cartier-Bresson: “’Photography is nothing. It’s life that interests me.’ My photography stems from people watching which is basically what you do as a comedic actor and writer. I provide the essence of a story in a single frame.”

“I didn’t have any intentions of using my photography for money. I felt like I had to a certain extent, whored myself out with my comedy taking the corporate route, and didn’t want to do that with photography. I wanted to do it and just see what happens.”

Years went by and a friend suggested that he show some of his prints to a gallery in Durango, Colorado. “I brought 10 prints.

The woman who owned the gallery was interested and told me to stay in touch. Six months later I received an email. ‘It just so happens that we are doing a showing of some of Henri Cartier-Bresson’s work and wondered if you would like to show some

May 30 to June 5, 2013 their presentation. One such picture is a devastating shot of the rollercoaster that was sent out to sea by Hurricane Sandy.

“The whole body of work in America Project is a bit of a departure. It goes deeper than Unposed. There is still some humor with bitter ironies, and some shots that make you shake your head and say, ‘Wow, what a country!’” These will be viewed along with other selected pieces from Unposed.

You can discover more about this colorful story teller who shoots in black and white, by visiting his website semetko.com.

But do yourself the favor of a lifetime, and make sure you see his work and perhaps even meet him in person at the AMFM Festival held in Cathedral City, June 13-16th.

You can purchase tickets and check out the other amazing creative forces the festival is bringing to us at amfmfest.com.

to his height and took the picture. Friends have asked me, ‘What in the world did you say to that kid?’ I swear, I said nothing!” he laughs. This is typical of Craig’s photos. He captures images that tell part of the story, and beg for the rest to be told.

Another photo in the book showing two separate couples: two sitting on the curb kissing and the two holding each other mourning over a memorial represent the culmination of Craig’s study of the art of photography and his desire to tell a story.

Here the mentors seemed to have been standing right over his shoulder as he was shooting. “This was early in my career and the result of doing all the reading I could and studying picture books. I thought of Robert Kappa who said, “If your pictures aren’t

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weather is perfect to stop and remember all we have in our desert.”

This year more than 80 restaurants from the Casino Restaurant at the Two Bunch Palms Resort in Desert Hot Springs to Jackalope Ranch in Indio are participating during the 17 day event, offering special Restaurant Week deals that include a choice appetizer, entrée and dessert. The meals are priced at either $26 or $38, with wine and other spirits available at an additional cost.

Some restaurants will offer special menu items, while others will stick to the items off the regular menu. At Mastro’s Steakhouse, which opened on El Paseo in Palm Desert this past November, General Manager Patrick Bennett sees this as an opportunity to introduce the renowned eatery to customers who might see it as being a pricier dining spot.

“A lot of people have a preconceived notion of what Mastro’s is like,” he said.

“This is an opportunity to get people in to try the menu. Some might then make Mastro’s the place they go for special occasions or to

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treat themselves every couple of months.”

It certainly turned out that way for Cello Bistro owner Bonnie Barkley. With the restaurant in the corner of a small shopping center, Cello might be passed up for diners driving up the street.

“We’ve gotten a number of regulars because of restaurant week,” she said.

“People who might not try us come in and we have some regulars who dine with us several times during restaurant week because of the prices.”

It’s not only the visitors that take advantage of Restaurant Week, many of the restaurant owners make sure to check out new places, too. Copley was lining up her list which included Mastro’s and Dish in Cathedral City. “There are so many places, and this is a great way to find out what everyone is doing,” she said.

For information on participating restaurants, spas, attractions and hotel specials, check out the Palm Springs Desert Resorts Restaurant Week website at palmspringsrestaurantweek.com.

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raveling as a power trio, Warped Tour veterans the Miracle Dolls, will be rocking the event of the summer – the AMFM Festival in Cathedral City. This indie, alternative rock band, reminiscent of all that is great from the music of bands like Hole and Garbage is fronted by twin sisters Dani and Dezy Doll whose busy music career was launched when mom bought a used guitar and guitar book from a local pawn shop. Growing up between Hacienda Heights and the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation in North Dakota, the girls found their earliest audiences at the local Calvary Chapel Church and their garage. “In the beginning, we just wrote all our own stuff.

We didn’t even think about doing other people’s stuff. It was just easier to do our own.” Upon their mom’s suggestion, the girls contacted their hometown reservation about playing their music there. They were hugely receptive. “The Native American market has been really good to us. They’ve been very enthusiastic about our music and have kept us very busy.”

Their first album, THIEVES AND GUNS was produced by Oingo Boingo bassist and Reel Big Fish’s producer, John Avila.

MXPX’s bassist/vocalist Mike Hererra also contributed to the album. They describe their music as “a mix of melodies dancing back and forth between the Bass and Guitar, with heart racing rhythms and the natural balance of the twins sharing vocals.” I would call it the pure essence of female rock stripped down to simple honest perfection accented by haunting twin vocals.

Dina, the twin who plays bass says, “When we write, our goal is to keep it melodic and catchy.” The Dolls also decidedly keep their love songs positive. “Some of the songs on the album we wrote with Mike Herrera were great! They had a bit of a punk edge but were a little bit negative. We noticed what we wrote came into our lives, so we’ve decided that we’re going to be savvy about

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Native American, Warped Tour Rock-Twins to Play the AMFM Fest & Donate Guitars to the Cathedral City Boys & Girls Club what we want in our lives and keep our love songs positive.”

This past February, the Dolls released their second album on Valentine’s Day. “Kiss Me Auras” was debuted on all the radio stations on reservations throughout the United States and was extremely well received. John Avila, who had worked on their first album, told them, “Man, I love your guys sound, it’s really evolved.” Dina explained, “Our music is always evolving based on where we are at the moment – we just make what we feel at that moment.”

The simplicity in that statement is as likeable and refreshing as their collective attitude and music.

For the AMFM Festival, the Miracle Dolls are excited to perform with Go Betty Go drummer, Aixa Vilar. “They were one of the bands we loved to go see.” The girls will be playing music from the new album and performing their album favorite, Shape the Clay. “I like the bass line and my vocals and Des did a great job writing it. It’s genuinely fun for us.” They will be doing a special show for the Cathedral City Boys and Girls Club June 13th at 4pm and at the festival Friday, on the Main Stage at 9 pm.

It has become common place for fans to bring guitars to them on stage to be donated through their Native American Youth Music Program. The Native American Youth Music Program is an informal, non-profit, volunteer effort, whose mission is to send 10 guitars and amplifiers to youth programs on Tribal Reservations in the United States, and First Nations Reservations in Canada. As members of the Hidatsa Tribe, The Miracle Dolls initiated the program in July 2010 after an extended tour of U.S. reservations.

“We became aware of the fact that teenage suicide rates among Native Americans are 150% above the U.S. average.” While growing up on the reservation, Danielle and Desiree De La Rosa (Dani and Dezi Doll) used

their musical abilities to get them through tough times. They took it upon themselves to try and provide a similar creative outlet for Tribal youth. Through donations from individuals who supported the concept, the Miracle Dolls gathered together 10 guitars, and presented them to the Boys and Girls Club on Fort Berthold Reservation in New Town, North Dakota. They will be presenting guitars to the Boys and Girls Club of Cathedral City during their performance there.

To check out their music check out the following sites: miracledolls.com facebook.com/pages/Miracle-Dolls facebook.com/pages/Native-AmericanYouth-Music-Program For tickets to and information on the AMFM Festival go to http://amfmfest.com

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By Judith Salkin

Saying ‘I Do’ to love: A tale of love and ‘ICES’ I

t’s been a relatively short time-frame since the Christopher Street riots of the late 1970s to the Supreme Court deliberating on the legality of Prop 8 in California and the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act, and the states that have enacted marriage equality.

It’s just not quite enough. There are chinks in those protections. New York State can legalize same sex unions, but that doesn’t automatically mean that the U.S. government, especially the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Agency, accepts those unions.

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That division of between state’s rights and the federal government are at the center of the plot of David W. Ross’ poignant film, “I Do.” Ross, along with director Glenn Gaylord and producer Stephen Israel, will be at the Cinemas Palme d’Or in Palm Desert for a question and answer session following the 4 p.m. screening of the film on Sunday.

In “I Do,” Brit Jack Edwards (Ross) in some ways is a man apart from society. He’s lived in NYC, since he was 17 on student and work visas, and it’s where his family and friends are. He’s delighted when his brother

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By judith salkin

Ginger jefferies and only relative Peter (Bowler) and wife, Mya (Witt), tell him he’s going to be an uncle, and devastated when Peter is killed a short time later.

Seven years later, when his work visa is denied, in desperate move to remain in the U.S., Jack marries Ali, his lesbian best friend, who works as a photo stylist to his shoot lighting director, in a move that on the surface seems like a solution.

That is until Jack meets Mano, an American-born Spanish architect, a man who shares his sense of family and whom he can finally open his heart to.

For Ross the premise of the film was a chance to explore the realities of what same-sex couples face even in these changing times, especially as a naturalized American citizen.

“I’ve been in the States for nine years and the subject has always been on my radar,” he said recently in a phone interview from Los Angeles. “When the ICE officers go to Jack’s apartment and push past Ali, most people don’t realize that’s a reality; they don’t need a warrant of any kind to do that.”

Like his character Ross spent time in his past, before becoming an instant hit in the mid-1990s, as a photographer’s assistant, and that training is evident in the film’s photographic quality which he wrote into the screenplay.

In one scene as Jack stands at a window looking out over New York, Mano comes up from behind and tenderly wraps his arms

around him and Jack finally relaxes into his lover’s embrace.

“I wanted that scene to show Jack finally giving in to being loved, and at the same time being apart from the world outside the window,” Ross said. “For him, it’s a huge change in his life.”

“I Do” isn’t the actor/screenwriter’s first film, a small role in 2006’s “Quinceañera” earned Ross the kind of attention as his days as a member of Bad Boys, Inc. “A friend who was a model asked his agent to put my picture up,” he said. “And a photographer for the band saw it. A week later, I was in the band.”

With that early brush with instant fame, Ross retreated from his acting career. “I know what that kind of instant fame can do, and so I took myself out of and worked on the film.”

At this point in his life, “I have my own Mano,” he said. “I’m very content in my life.”

And he’s hoping to expand his career.

The idea of fame isn’t so overwhelming and he’s hoping to expand his resume. “I’d love to have a chance on a show where I get to develop the character over a year or more.

That would be wonderful.”

What: Q&A with “I Do” filmmakers David W. Ross, Glenn Gaylord and Stephen Israel When: Sunday (June 2) following the 4 p.m. screening of the film. Cost: $11 Where: Cinemas Palme d’Or, 72840 Highway 111, Palm Desert Information: (760) 779-0730; thepalme.com

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inger Jeffries makes her way into most of our homes, in one way or another, just about every day of the week. Whether it’s as the Chief Meteorologist for ABC affiliate KESQ bringing us the forecast for the Coachella Valley or public service announcements for valley events, for most of the past 17 years she’s been a fixture in our homes.

But there’s more to Jeffries, 41, than just the face of weather in the valley. She’s a mom, a student, teacher, science nerd, self-affirmed geek, active member of the community, a leader to the members of her on-air weather staff (she leaves notes and lollipops for them at the weather desk) and, pretty funny lady in person.

And unlike the weather girls of the early years of television, isn’t just set dressing she noted recently sitting in the station’s empty Palm Desert studio. “I don’t just point to the map and read the weather.”

Jeffries and her staff use the Weather Central service. “So I make all my own graphics and formulate my forecast,” she said of the daily updates she presents at 5 and 11 p.m. “It’s not Accuweather where you get weather in a box.”

But weather wasn’t always on the map for Jeffries. She was born the youngest of four at the hospital where her surgeon dad worked in Truckee, Calif., near Lake Tahoe, and spent her first four years in Emerald Bay. By that time, her teacher mom wanted a more stimulating school atmosphere for her children and the family moved to Sacramento.

And, yes, Ginger is the name on her birth certificate. “Chalk that up to my dad’s sick sense of humor,” she says with a laugh. “When he was in junior high he had a babysitter with the name and he had a crush on her. By the time I was born I think my mom was tired of picking out names and just went with it.”

As a teen, she looked forward to a life in sports. “I was planning on playing professional tennis,” she says of the sport she began playing as a child.

In her senior year of high school Jeffries was on her way, playing the junior Davis Cup

circuit when a pair of car accidents just a month apart, both caused by drunk drivers during daylight hours, took a toll on her back and knee, and the university where she had planned on playing pulled her scholarship.

“Without the scholarship, I had to make other plans,” she said.

Jeffries decided to follow her surgeon dad into medicine and attend school at San Diego State University, studying biology. “I was a geek,” she says proudly. Once again she changed direction in her senior year, and this time Jeffries took another left turn.

When her sorority president who was the editor of the campus paper asked her to write a piece for the paper, “Something happened,” she recalled. Also the producer of campus daily news break, when the sorority prez asked Jeffries to fill in one day, “I was really flippant and told her, ‘sure, I can walk and chew gum’. It turned out it was the biggest high I’d had in my life.”

Jeffries found herself seriously thinking about switching career paths. “I called my mom and told her, I thought I was crazy, but this is what I wanted to do,” Jeffries says.

Mom’s response was for Jeffries to follow her heart.

With degrees in Biology and Journalism, a stint at a San Diego AM radio station and a nine month on-air gig where she had to write, produce and edit her spots in Redding, Jeffries made it to the valley – the first time – in 1996 as a general assignment reporter and weekend anchor.

Along with her on-air gig, Jeffries continued taking courses toward a Ph.D. in atmospheric sciences and wanted to be on the station’s weather team. She even left for a nine month shot when she didn’t get the gig. “I was friends with (former news director) Erin Gilhuly who wanted me back at the station and she worked to get me the weather spot,” she said.

Jeffries last exit from the valley was a little more than a decade ago, when she moved to the number three market in Philadelphia.

“That was quite a jump, from market 148 to number 3,” she says of the move. But 12 hour days, a nanny spending more time with her children, Chloe, then three and Weston, a year-old toddler, didn’t seem like the life she wanted. “I started working on Monday, fired my agent Thursday and began working on coming back to the valley,” she says.

The ability to have a private life, home school Chloe and Weston, be active in her community and to be fulfilled in her professional life are what have pulled Jeffries back to the valley and KESQ. “For me, it’s the perfect situation,” she says.

As for that Ph.D., which was put on hold to raise her kids, plate tectonics are pulling Jeffries away from atmospheric sciences. “I’m just a big kid, I still love learning,” she says.

“My favorite thing is going out in backyard with the kids and blow things up, like Mentos and Coke. I still have questions I need to find answers for.”

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he 10th installment of the Call Of Duty franchise is scheduled to hit this November with Call Of Duty: Ghosts. During the Xbox One press release, Activision and Infinity Ward dropped the Modern Warfare title, and brought us something completely new. The game takes place here in the United States, after a mass devastation hits our Military, and government. The game will feature an all new story, and cast, most noteable, the addition of a German Shepard, that becomes an emotionally bonded part of your campaign.

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ghosts are real; and they are coming!

There have been dogs in the past, both in game, and multiplayer, but not to this extent. Infinity Ward has gone above and beyond to really make you rely on your new K-9 companion, although there is no certainty as to whether or not the dog makes it through the entire campaign.

Wishful thinking has left everyone with the hope that you will be able to play AS your new four-legged brother-in-arms, but there has been no clarification to the rumor at this time.

The game packed a punch with crisp environments, greatly improved anatomical features, including the face, arms, skin and lighting. Using a Next-Gen engine for graphics and design, Activision promises to deliver a much needed more subversive atmosphere for their 10th anniversary game as well.

Multiplayer, a main selling point for the franchise, will feature an interactive environment, including the ability to open and close doors to affect game play patterns

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or “the river”, and interactive booby traps allowing you to catch your enemy players off guard. After some roaring from avid CoD players throughout the years, key features to your movement have also been added, including leaning (my favorite addition so far), sliding, and a more fluid movement when jumping over walls or obstacles.

With every large title release, preordering is a must! While Target and Walmart both let you pre-order for just a dollar, I would recommend popping in to your local GameStop. Not only do you get a double sided poster, but you get an exclusive weapon camo, which makes that final killcam, just a tad more enjoyable.

Midnight Launch events will take place, but will not be promoted until later this year.

The title is set to release November 5, on PS3, Xbox 360, and PC. The game will most likely be re-released after the next-gen consoles, Xbox One, and PS4 are released in 2014.

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ack in the 50’s - and still today, the Coachella Valley has been known as the “Playground of the Stars” for those celebrities who want a break from Tinseltown. During the past decade the spotlight has been reignited on Palm Springs and the surrounding desert cities which have become a mecca for music, art and film festivals. Unlike many of the other festivals in the Valley which take place during the season, the AMFM Fest is scheduled for June 13 through the 16 and will be centered at the Mary Pickford Theaters in Cathedral City.

Film 4 Change is the organization that is responsible for bringing the festival into the desert. Founder and director of Film 4 Change, Rich Henrich’s philosophy is that films can change people’s lives. The

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organization consists of a community of storytellers, “We bring storytellers and filmmakers together to support, encourage and share the stories that connect us to the world around us and to each other,” explains Henrich.

An entrepreneur, writer, producer, actor, teacher and mentor, Henrich graduated with a B.A. in Philosophy and Film. Besides working on several movie campaigns (including The Blair Witch Project and Happy Texas,) Rich has also worked on other film festivals including the Cancun International Film festival which is still active today. AMFM is a fest that is tailored to independent and progressive artists, musicians, filmmakers, designers, and culture-makers who aren’t afraid to think differently.

Each night movies will be shown at the Mary Pickford Theater with live bands playing on the Town Square stage beginning at sunset. The line-up of bands can be seen on the AMFM web site. Fest goers will not only be treated to an eclectic line up of musicians but will recognize some familiar groups such as local acts Gram Rabbit from the high desert and Blasting Echo.

If you missed Tachevah or the Coachella Music and Arts Festival, this is your chance to see top DJs spinning at many of the receptions associated with the AMFM Fest. The DJs will also be wrapping up the

live bands that will be playing on the Town Square stage each night. DJ Day, (Damien Beebe) who is scheduled as one of the headliners, is a DJ, producer and musician hailing from Palm Springs, CA. With an illustrious career spanning two decades, he was recently named “Palm Spring’s Finest” and for good reason: His well-executed DJ sets make him a must see for any DJ enthusiast. Day recently completed a 10 date tour of Europe to support the release of his new album; “Land of 1000 Chances.”

If you can’t make it out to the Fest you can catch Day hosting his weekly party at the renowned Ace Hotel in Palm Springs ever Thursday.

Other DJs playing at the four day festival include DJ Joplin who is known for her unusual and intriguing musical upbringing-spanning Bluegrass to Rock, Classical to Jazz and Punk to modern day Electronica.

For the last 10 years, she has been mainly recognized for her deep and funky House grooves, but her more recent repertoire extends far beyond to include Afro-Latinjazz and Blues influenced Downtempo, Broken Beat and Funk. Creator of LA based music and visual collective Pork & Beats, Joplin finds herself building musical “environments” anywhere from yoga studios to downtown warehouses, art galleries and Hollywood clubs. As of May

2009, you can hear Joplin every Sunday in her newly created Deep Soul Lounge, residing within Marques Wyatt’s infamous Deep-LA, now running 10 years strong.

Completing the DJ line up is DJ Deklun from Portland, OR, who is also featured on the movie soundtrack of “Down and Dangerous” which will be showing at the festival. DJ Pedro La Bats and his brother Ricardo who go be “Pharmacy” are home grown DJs from Palm Springs who round out the list.

The first ever AMFM Fest is also looking for volunteers whose qualifications require good people skills. You can purchase an all access VIP pass for all 4 days of the festival or see a movie for little as $5 to $10. For more information or to buy tickets you can visit the fest web site: www.amfmfest. com.

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f you came of age in the late ‘70s/early 80s, chances are you remember when Punk Rock felt like a secret. Pre-internet, pre-MTV, maybe if you were lucky, Rolling Stone wrote a little blurb about your favorite Punk band.

At the same time, small start-up labels were staking their claim in the Punk Rock firmament. An easy introduction to any new group came if they were on the same label as your favorite band.

The SST label was easily the most popular and influential underground independent label of the era. Guitarist Greg Ginn (of Black Flag) started the label in 1978, and proceeded to create the Mount Olympus of Punk. The roster of Greek Gods included Black Flag, Minutemen, Descendents, Dinosaur Jr., Sonic Youth, Bad Brains, Firehose, Fatso Jetson and Meat Puppets.

Meat Puppets began making music in 1980 in Phoenix, Arizona. Brothers Curt (guitar/vocals) and Cris (bass/vocals) Kirkwood cycled through a series of bands in high school before hooking up with drummer Derrick Bostrom. The Kirkwoods played conventional Rock & Roll until Bostrom introduced them to Punk Rock via his collection of 45s.

Their self-released EP was crammed with noisy, hardcore punk. Greg Ginn heard the recording and signed Meat Puppets to SST in 1982. Their eponymous debut was thrashy and chaotic, perfect fit for SST.

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As the band crisscrossed the country playing tiny dive bars and Punk clubs, they began to expand their musical horizons.

By the time they released Meat Puppets II the trio had settled on a potent blend of Punk, Country and Psychedelia. That sound was solidified on their third effort, Up On The Sun. That album received national exposure in the mainstream press.

Between 1982 and 1989, the Pups released seven albums through SST. They were never the label’s most popular act, but Meat Puppets remained loyal long after label-mates disbanded or abandoned SST for the greener grass of major labels.

Just as the Grunge era dawned, Meat Puppets did jump ship and sign with London Records. Despite a major label push, and exposure from MTV’s 120 Minutes, their London debut, Forbidden Places, was a flop.

Luckily, Kurt Cobain had name-checked bands like Meat Puppets and the Pixies as huge influences. By 1993, Nirvana was the biggest band in the world, and they invited Meat Puppets to be the opening act for their In Utero tour.

In the midst of that tour, Nirvana taped an “Unplugged” segment for MTV. Cobain invited the Kirkwoods to join Nirvana on stage to perform “Plateau,” “Oh Me” and “Lake Of Fire,” three classic tracks from Meat Puppets II. Needless to say, it was a pyrrhic victory when the Pups 1994 release, Too High To Die, achieved critical and commercial

success just a few months after Kurt Cobain’s suicide. Twelve years after their debut, Meat Puppets finally had a gold record.

Unfortunately, their newfound prosperity made it easy for Cris Kirkwood to burrow deep into drug addiction. His complete dependency on heroin and crack cocaine forced the band into an extended hiatus in 1996.

Curt Kirkwood busied himself with extracurricular music as Cris spiraled downward. In 2003, following the overdose death of his wife, Cris attacked a security guard at a Phoenix post office. He was shot twice and ended up incarcerated in an Arizona State Prison.

As Cris worked through his personal issues, Curt tentatively began resurrecting Meat Puppets with a series of different drummers and bass players.

By 2006, Cris was free and sober and the Kirkwoods reunited musically along with new drummer Shandon Sahm, (son of legendary Country-Rock progenitor, Doug Sahm). Happily, Meat Puppets were reborn.

The band’s output was prodigious.

Between 2007 and 2011 they released three albums, Rise To Your Knees, Sewn Together and Lollipop. Now the band has just recorded their 14th effort, Rat Farm.

The album kicks off with the title track.

Opening with a tribal tattoo rhythm and crustaceous guitar riffs, the tune quickly downshifts into a loping gait. Curt’s honeyed harmonies belie the lyrics’ tart menace… “Hallelujah, I’m rotten to the

core, and I take what I want and I want a little more.”

Several songs on Rat Farm expand Meat Puppets sonic palette. The guitars on “One More Drop,” pivot from Punky power chords to searing bluesy fills to dusty psychedelia in under four minutes.

“Down” jangles and jingles with Byrdsy delight. A tambourine provides the tick-tock beat on this ode to childhood adventure.

The lyrics on “Leave Your Head Alone” use sly metaphors that instruct us to let go of cerebral worries and “right brain” it for awhile. Sensation over reflection.

The melody here is suitably relaxed and serene.

“Again” matches a waltzy stop-start melody with stream-of conscious lyrics…

“Once more again do we find reality lingers behind/To bury our memories in a hole in the road.”

Three songs, “Waiting,” “Time And Money” and “Sometimes Blue” offer the album’s sweetest surprises. The melody on “Waiting” echoes Marty Robbins’ old gunfighter ballads like “El Paso” and “Big Iron.” The lyrics are an inscrutable haiku but the tune is anchored by beautiful Spanish guitar filigrees that cascade, dive and plateau.

“Time And Money” is propelled by chunky power chords and an infectious chorus that feels like a grungy Grateful Dead outtake. “Sometimes Blue” is a breezy celebration of nature that includes a countrified guitar break.

Other stand out tracks include the jangly Jesus parable, “Original One,”the slippery “You Don’t Know” and the swiveling Tilt-A-Whirl of “The River Rose.”

The album closes with “Sweet,” a churning maelstrom anchored by scorching guitar riffs, throbbing bass lines and a pummeling backbeat.

Nowadays the Ramones’ “Blitzkrieg Bop” plays as background music in Coppertone commercials, and Hot Topic practically sells Punk Rock kits. Black Flag has reformed as as two competing bands, Black Flag with Greg Ginn and Ron Reyes and FLAG with original singer Keith Morris. Original punks can rest assured that as much as Meat Puppets change, their primal style remains the same.

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s we approach June, we find there are still many things to do all over the Coachella Valley.

Saxophonist and vocalist Pat Rizzo along with pianist and vocalist Patrick Tuzzolino will perform their final show this Sunday, June 2, from 7 until 11 p.m. in the Purple Room at Club Trinidad, 1900 East Palm Canyon Drive in Palm Springs. (760) 3271161 ext. 230. Karaokie Jo is there every Wednesday until June 12, however, on Saturday, June 8, she will be there for their “going out of business party” starting at 4 p.m. Call Joann at (760) 329-7636 for more information.

The Spirit of the King Show, starring Steve Connolly, is presented every Wednesday through Sunday at 6 p.m. with a Sunday

matinee performance at 2 p.m. in the Cascade Lounge at the Spa Resort Casino, 401 East Amado Road in Palm Springs.

Tickets for this unforgettable performance start at $35. This Saturday, June 1, at 6 p.m. plan to attend a special “Happy Birthday Marilyn From The King” with guest entertainer Catlyn Day as Marilyn Monroe. “Enjoy a special moment between

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by Lola Rossi-Meza Marilyn and the King as he sings ‘Are You Lonesome Tonight’, an eternal love song,” said Executive Producer Michael Murphy.

The Azul Tapas Lounge, 369 North Palm Canyon Drive in Palm Springs, has a variety of entertainment through the upcoming summer months. On Thursday, May 30, pianist and vocalist Paula Prince performs at 7:30 p.m. This Friday, May 31, The Sassy Shore Show featuring Sassy Rossi and Jersey Shore perform at 7:30 p.m. Every Sunday is the Judy Show. Call for their schedule (760) 325-5533 or visit AzulTapasLounge.com.

The HooDoo Patio Restaurant and Bar at The Hyatt Palm Springs, 285 North Palm Canyon Drive features entertainment by guitarist and vocalist Kal David every Thursday from 7 until 9 p.m. Vocalist Rebecca Clark performs every Friday from 6:30 until 9:30 p.m. Steve DiTullo performs every Saturday from 6:30 until 9:30 p.m.

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Central Park Restaurant, 2330 North Palm Canyon Drive, at the Adriatic Villas, features entertainment nightly. All performances are from 6 until 10 p.m. in the Piano Room, unless specifically noted.

Every Thursday, Bobby Jerome performs; Friday features Jimmy Frank; Friday and Saturday, John and Gina Carey perform from 6 until 10 p.m. from the back patio off The Tango Room; Sunday is a fun night with Karaokie Jo; Monday is Poetry Open Mic

Night hosted by Keisha; and Rebecca Clark performs every Wednesday from 6:30 until 8:30 p.m. (760) 866-9166.

Woody’s Burgers and Beer, 317 North Indian Canyon Drive, is another venue with nightly entertainment. Every Thursday features the Bill Saitta Jazz Band at 6 p.m.; This Friday, May 31 features Yve Evans at 6:30 p.m.; Every Saturday is the Stanley Butler Band at 6:30 p.m.; Every Sunday is the blues with Barry Baughn at 6:30 p.m.; Every Monday features Woody’s Jam Night with hosts John and Gina Carey performing with the Urban Soul Project at 7 p.m. followed by the Jam at 8 p.m.; Every Tuesday is saxophonist John Bolivar at 6 p.m.; Every Wednesday is the Brian Nova Trio at 6 p.m.

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ommunities around our country are revolutionizing their public animal shelters and becoming “No Kill”. A public shelter qualifies as No Kill when they reach a euthanasia rate of less than 10%.

The city of Cleveland, in spite of its grim economy, recently became “no kill” without spending additional tax money. It began with a coalition of volunteer animal lovers determined to make a difference, going into the city shelter taking photographs of the animals and posting them on Facebook and Twitter.

The Cleveland volunteer organization’s Facebook page now has 6,750 followers, and a 24-hour phone line enables people to begin the adoption process at any time of day or night. Wonderful photographs on Facebook showcase the animals as loving and beautiful creatures.

Coachella Valley residents now have the opportunity to learn from international award-winning shelter photographer Nanette Martin during her return to the Coachella Valley this weekend. During Nanette’s Life Saving Photography workshops, you will learn

to take fabulous photos that capture the unique traits of each animal. Great photos help form a connection with prospective adopters and save lives.

Plan now to attend the Life Saving Photography class on Friday, May 31, at the Loving All Animals’ conference room in Palm Desert. The morning session, from 10am to 1:00 pm, focuses on photography techniques including lighting and backdrops. The second workshop, from 2pm to 5pm, includes editing your photos utilizing the FREE downloaded software, Gimp. Participants should bring a laptop or tablet, and of course a camera. You can attend one or both of these workshops, and the cost is only $25 for each. Nanette’s website www.sheltermephotography.org has more information. Call (760) 834-7000 to register.

I had the pleasure of taking Nanette’s class when she was here in March. Here are some tips that will improve your pet photos.

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connections happen through eye contact. (3) Shoot from the animal’s eye level. (4) Use a squeaky toy to get the animal’s attention.

Great photos can turn shelter animals, stray animals, and your own pets into superstars.

Once you get great photos, you can create your own flyers to find adoptive homes.

Templates are available on www.bestfriends. org and www.petbond.com if you need help making flyers. Remember that 90% of your prospective adopters don’t want to hear a

sad story, so don’t use guilt, fear or negativity in your biography about the pet. Use action adjectives to positively market the animal.

Don’t write, “5-year-old male Cocker Spaniel, sadly dumped by callous owner, needs new home”. Instead consider, “Meet fabulous Clooney, as handsome as ‘George’!

This playful 5-yr-old superstar Spaniel will win your heart with his loving enthusiasm”. The experts are mixed as to whether you should include a human in your shelter pet photo.

However, we did include a small insert of George Clooney holding his rescue dog on the adoption flyer of a dog named Clooney. .

Use interesting names that capture the animal’s personality. When you are placing a pair of animals together, give them names that imply they belong together. Bonnie & Clyde, Scarlet & Rhett, Kate & William, Keith Richard & Mick Jagger will get more attention than Buddy & Fido. Whether you need to rehome a cat or dog or adopt a shelter animal, make it interesting and fun! And that winning photograph will capture their hearts.

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ith the 2013 Palm Springs Restaurant Week upon us, I’m hearing from you readers the usual lament, “so many wines…so little time.” Well we can remedy that—and I know a great place to start.

In her article two weeks ago, Judith Salkin alerted our valley to the extravaganza that gets a kick-start with the May 29th & 30th pre-event “Uncorked! Here, multi-course wine pairing dinners are in the offering and more and more eateries are jumping in on it. And although Restaurant Week will end June 16th, wine will continue to pour forever.

Figue Mediterranean in La Quinta is revealing their version of Restaurant Week by featuring the Tastes of Italy: A 3 course rustic Italian dinner for only $38. And for you vino lovers, sommelier Celeste Cotta, further enhances the celebration with wine pairings at an additional $15 for light to medium-bodied wines, and $25 for the more full body quaffers.

Figue is the new fashionable, sexy, and friendly restaurant in town that is hitting the gastronomic mark with their presentation of the wildly versatile cuisine that rims the Mediterranean. Based around the context of Southern French cookery (after all la figue is French for fig), Chef François de Menlogue ducks in and out with the inventive and tasty traditional cuisine & influences of Spain, Italy, Greece, Lebanon, and Morocco.

I recently sat with Celeste to get a taste and take on her wine picks for the fortnight’s special menu. She’s really a kick who loves her vino and is out front in providing the diners with a stellar array of both their tried & true favorites and all of those new labels and bottles—local and international.

Hey—I feel an article coming on, simply covering their regular wine list! Besides the range of inventive cocktails and craft beers available, Figue’s listing includes over 30 wines by the glass and over 100 bottles of wine for uncorking.

So, Celeste and I are going over the Restaurant Week menu and wine list when I mention my recent three-article series on Rosé; she immediately goes over and grabs me a glass of a Priorat Grenache Rosé.

Yes—it was a delicious and hearty Rosé that can match any meal on the entire menu.

Now this Buil & Gine Rosat Priorat Rosé isn’t on the regular wine list, but it was Celeste’s Wine Selection of the Week. This

is exactly what we like to see: great tasting wines that come her way which she has no reservations to showcase to her patrons. So not only is she able to work “outside of the box” but this summer she’s putting together some fun wine programs that will include wine blending classes. Stay tuned on that one—and feel free to check in on her picks for the next Wine Selection of the Week.

Okay—let’s get on to Figue’s Restaurant Week wine pairing menu: The first antipasti course choices consist of GARDEN VEGETABLE PANZANELLA, SEAFOOD BRUSCHETTA, CHICKEN AND RICOTTA POLPETTINE, and SAN DANIELE STEAMED MUSSELS. As mentioned, there are two wine pairing flights. Ordering from the “Pianissimo” $15 wine accompaniment, I’m loving the La Marca Prosseco from Veneto with any of the antipasti. This versatile Italian sparkler carries ripe citrus, lemon, green apple, and touches of grapefruit, minerality, and some toast. The finish is light, refreshing, and crisp. Perfect for the food, mood, and weather.

Le Secondi second course comprises of GNOCCHI TOCCO DI CARNE (Potato Dumplings, Pork & Porcini Sauce), TUSCAN FISH AND SHELLFISH STEW, SHAVED PORK WITH SUMMER FRUITS, or SPIT ROASTED CHICKEN. Harmoniously, the 2011 Badia a Coltibuono “Cetamura” Chianti is full of red and black cherries as the palate expands to cranberry with touches of pomegranate and minerals. A perfect balance of that Sangiovese acidity will continue to partnerup and refresh after each delicious mouthful of fare.

A variety of three Italian dessert dishes will receive the honors to accompany Celeste’s “home-fashioned” limoncello [LEE-mon-CHELLO, not lemon-Chello].

Sweet success on these pairings as Celeste was keen on providing light and summery beverages to the lighter qualities of the offered plates.

The “Fortissimo” $25 wine pairings— again, for those wishing heartier wines, include a beautiful white 2011 Brolia Gavi La Meirana from Piemonte. I’ve had this un-oaked Gavi previously which is beautifully round, supple white flowers laced with yellow peaches, subtle hints of

ash and crushed rocks. The Tuscan 2010 Ciacci Rosso di Montalicino is a dead ringer for its neighbor Brunello, and the 2006 Roccolo Grassi Recioto is a delicious off-dry vino with notes of kirsch, chocolate liqueur and ground spice mix. Sweet dreams.

Buon Appetito! e Salute!

Figue is located at 47-474 Washington St. in La Quinta. For information or to make a reservation call 760.698.9040 or visit www.eatfigue.com.

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THE OUTPOST TAVERN; C.C.; 760-3289004 Karaoke w/ DJ Stuart 8pm PAPPY & HARRIET’S; PT; 760-3655956 Rabbit & Rutherford w/ Amanda Jo Williams 8pm PURPLE ROOM@CLUB TRINIDAD; PS; 760-327-1161 T.B.A. RIVIERA RESORT & SPA; PS; 760-3278311 Mikael Healey & Michael Bolivar, Starlight Lounge 5-7pm, “Re-Liv the-Riv” Starlight Lounge 8-12am ROCK GARDEN CAFE; PS; 760-327-8840 T.B.A. 6pm ROC’S FIREHOUSE; PD; 760-340-3222 Red’s Rockstar Karaoke 9pm SAMMY G’s; PS; 760-320-8041 Evaro Brothers 8pm SCHMIDY’S; PD; 760-837-3800 Karaoke 9pm SIDEWINDER GRILL; DHS; 760-329-7929 Spaghetti Western Night w/ Walt Young 5pm SULLIVAN’S STEAKHOUSE; PD; 760341-3560 The Smooth Brothers (BL)(RG) TACK ROOM TAVERN; IND; 760-3479985 Karaoke w/ T-Bone 8-12am VICKY’S OF SANTA FE; IW; 760-3459770 Doug Montgomery 7-11pm VILLAGE PUB; PS; 760-323-3265 Nite Fixx 9pm DJ upstairs 9:30pm WALLY’S DESERT TURTLE; RM; 760-5689321 Bob Yetter 6-10pm WOODY’S BURGER; PS; 760-230-0188 Bill Saitta Jazz 7-11pm ZELDA’S; PS; 760-325-2375 DJs 9pm

FRI MAY 31

19TH HOLE; PD; 760-772-6696 Karaoke w/ T Bone 9pm 29 PALMS INN; 29P; 760-367-3505 Dana Larson 6pm (AC) ACE HOTEL; PS; 760-325-9900 Friends of the Smell 10pm AJ’S ON THE GREEN; C.C.; 760-202-1111 Karaoke w/ AJ The KJ 8-12am ARNOLD PALMER’S; LQ; 760-771-4653 Mark Gregg 7pm AZUL; PS; 760-325-5533 The Sassy Shore Show 8pm BAR; PS; 760-537-7337 Good Friday w/ DJ Journee 10pm BILLY REED’S; PS; 760-325-1946 T.B.A. 6:30pm BLUE BAR, SPOTLIGHT 29; INDIO; 760775-5566 DJ PWee 8pm (VD) BLUEMBER; RM; 760-862-4581 The Stanley Butler Trio 6pm CAFÉ PALETTE; PS; 760-322-9264 John Gallagher 7pm CASCADE LOUNGE, SPA RESORT CASINO; PS; 888-999-1995 DJ Dynamic Daze 9-1am CASTELLI’S; PD; 760-773-3365 Patrick Tuzzolino 6pm (PB) CHARLI MARRONE’S; IND; 760-6251500 Club Night w/ DJ 9pm 18+ CLIFFHOUSE; LQ; 760-360-5991 Eddie Gee 7:30-10:30pm

CORK TREE; PD; 760-779-0123 Live Entertainment 6pm CUNARD’S SANDBAR; LQ; 760-5643660 Paul Patterson 6pm (PB) DATE SHED; IND; 760-775-6699 Dirt, Burning Bettie, Boycott Radio, DJ Guy Worden and DJ J Sizzle 9pm DESERT SAGE; LQ; 760-564-8744 Danny Sands 5-9pm DICKIE O’NEALS IRISH PUB; PS; 760325-2600 Lassie Jo’s Best Damn Karaoke 7pm DILLON ROADHOUSE; DHS; 760-2511991 EL MEXICALI CAFÉ 2; IND; 760-342-2333 Cesar Daniel Lopez on the harp 6-9pm FIRECLIFF; PD; 760-773-6565 Sonny Evaro 6-10pm THE GRILL ON MAIN; LQ; 760-777-7773 Alternating groups 8-11pm (RR) HAMILTON’S; LQ; 760-698-8303 Open Mic w/ Mikey Reyes 8pm THE HOOD; PD; 760-636-5220 Mickey Avalon w/ THR3 Strykes & Chill Clinton 8pm INDIAN WELLS RESORT HOTEL; IW; 760-345-6466 Frank Di Salvo 6-9:30pm JOSHUA TREE SALOON; JT; 760-3662250 Live DJ 8:30pm (VD) LAS CASUELAS TERRAZA; PS; 760-3252794 Palm Springs Sound Company,in the afternoon,Hot Rox,in the night LAVENDER BISTRO; LQ; 760-564-5353 Johnny Meza 6pm LE PAON; PD; 760-610-5320 Dennis Michaels 6pm (PB) LIT@FANTASY SPRINGS; IND; 760-3452450 Common Ground 9pm THE LOUNGE; AGUA CALIENTE; RM; 888-999-1995 In A-Fect 9pm (VD) MARGARITA’S; PS; 760-778-3500 Mark Guerrero & Dennis Alvarez 6:30pm MELVYN’S RESTAURANT & LOUNGE; PS; 760-325-2323 Ron Greenip 8pm (PB)(VD) NEIL’S LOUNGE; IND; 760-347-1522 Karaoke 8pm THE NEST; PD; 760-346-2314 Kevin Henry 6-8pm Tim Burleson 8pm (PB) O’LEARY’S; PS; 760-325-4913 T.B.A. 9pm THE OUTPOST TAVERN; C.C.; 760-3289004 Karaoke w/ DJ Stuart 8pm PALM DESERT COUNTRY CLUB; PD; 760-345-0222 The Refills 6-10pm PAPPY & HARRIET’S; PT; 760-365-5956 Country Western w/ Dave Gleason 8pm PLAN B LIVE ENTERTAINMENT AND COCKTAILS; TP; 760-343-2115 Jeanette’s June B-day Bash w/ One For the Road 8pm PURPLE ROOM@CLUB TRINIDAD; PS; 760-327-1161 The Gand Band 8pm RED BARN; PD; 760-346-0191 T.B.A. 9pm RIVIERA RESORT & SPA; PS; 760-3278311 Mikael Healey & Michael Bolivar, Starlite Lounge 5-7pm, Jose Molino Serrano, Side Patio 6:30-9:30pm, Lindsey Harper, Starlite Lounge 10pm ROCK GARDEN CAFE; PS; 760-327-8840 T.B.A. 6pm

ROC’S FIREHOUSE; PD; 760-340-3222 Red’s Rockstar Karaoke 9pm SAMMY G’s; PS; 760-320-8041 Evaro Brothers 8pm SCHMIDY’S; PD; 760-837-3800 DJ Music 9pm SHANGHAI RED’S @ THE FISHERMAN’S MARKET; LQ; 760-777-1601 The P.S. Blues w/ Gil Hansen and Tony Dean 8pm (BL) SIDEWINDER GRILL; DHS; 760-329-7929 Country Night w/ Walt Young 5:30pm SOUL OF MEXICO; IND; 760-200-8787 Latin Rock 10pm SULLIVAN’S STEAKHOUSE; PD; 760341-3560 Demetrious and Co. (JZ)(RR) TACK ROOM TAVERN; IND; 760-3479985 Reaction 9pm TRILUSSA ITALIAN RISTORANTE; PS; 760-328-2300 Julius & Sylvia Music Duo 6-10pm VIBE; MORONGO CASINO; CAB; 951-7555391 Funky Fridays 10pm (VD) VICKY’S OF SANTA FE; IW; 760-3459770 Doug Montgomery 7-11pm VILLAGE PUB; PS; 760-323-3265 Nite Fixx 9pm DJ upstairs 9:30pm WALLY’S DESERT TURTLE; RM; 760-5689321 Bob Yetter 6-10pm WESTIN MISSION HILLS; RM; 760-3285955 Michael Keeth 7pm WILLIE BOYS; MV; 760-363-3343 Club Speak EZ 9pm THE WINE BAR AT OLD TOWN; LQ; 760564-2201 David & Olivia: An American Duo 7-10pm WOODY’S BURGER; PS; 760-230-0188 T.B.A. 7-11pm (CR) ZELDA’S; PS; 760-325-2375 Sweet Louie & The Men of the Hollywood Strip 9pm

SAT JUNE 1

19TH HOLE; PD; 760-772-6696 The Caddies 10pm 29 PALMS INN; 29P; 760-367-3505 Beverly & Bill 6-9pm (JZ) ACE HOTEL; PS; 760-325-9900 Nomerica, noon, poolside, Nomerica w/ DJs 10pm AJ’S ON THE GREEN; C.C.; 760-202-1111 Cabaret on the Green w/ Les Michaels & Joel Baker 7pm ARNOLD PALMER’S; LQ; 760-771-4653 Mark Gregg 7pm AZUL; PS; 760-325-5533 T.B.A. 7:30pm BACKSTREET BISTRO; PD; 760-3466393 Jazz on the Patio w/ Linda Peterson 12:30-3:30pm (JZ) BAR; PS; 760-537-7337 The Stone Foxes w/ The Rebel Noise 10pm BLUE BAR; SPOTLIGHT 29; IND; 760775-5566 DJ PWee (VD) BLUEMBER; RM; 760-862-4581 Steve Madeo 6pm CASCADE LOUNGE, SPA RESORT CASINO; PS; 888-999-1995 DJ Dynamic Daze 9-1am CASTELLI’S; PD; 760-773-3365 Patrick Tuzzolino 6pm (PB) CHARLI MARRONE’S; IND; 760-6251500 Live Bands 8pm

CORK TREE; PD; 760-779-0123 Live Entertainment 6:30-9:30pm CUNARD’S SANDBAR; LQ; 760-5643660 Paul Patterson 6pm (PB) DATE SHED; IND; 760-775-6699 Fortunate Youth, Na’an Stop, and Inna Vision 9pm DESERT SAGE; LQ; 760-564-8744 Danny Sands 5-9pm DHS SPA LOUNGE; DHS; 760-329-6787 Karaoke w/ DJ Scott 9pm DICKIE O’NEALS IRISH PUB; PS; 760-3252600 T.B.A. 8pm DILLON ROADHOUSE; DHS; 760-251-1991 EL MEXICALI CAFÉ 2; IND; 760-342-2333 Cesar Daniel Lopez on the harp 6-9pm FIRECLIFF; PD; 760-773-6565 Sonny Evaro 6-10pm THE GRILL ON MAIN; LQ; 760-777-7773 Rob Martinez and JB 8-11pm (LR) THE GROOVE LOUNGE; SPOTLIGHT 29; INDIO; 760-775-5566 DJ 7pm HAMILTON’S; LQ; 760-698-8303 Generous Thieves 8pm THE HOOD; PD; 760-636-5220 Rockabilly Night w/ The Deadbeat Daddies 9pm INDIAN WELLS RESORT HOTEL; IW; 760-345-6466 Frank Di Salvo 6-9:30pm JOSHUA TREE SALOON; JT; 760-3662250 Cali Celts 8pm LAS CASUELAS TERRAZA; PS; 760-3252794 Palm Springs Sound Company,in the afternoon,Hot Rox,in the night LAVENDER BISTRO; LQ; 760-564-5353 Johnny Meza 6pm LE PAON; PD; 760-610-5320 Dennis Michaels 6pm (PB) LIT@FANTASY SPRINGS; IND; 760-3452450 T.B.A. 9pm THE LOUNGE, AGUA CALIENTE; RM; 888-999-1995 In A-Fect 9pm (VD) MELVYN’S RESTAURANT & LOUNGE; PS; 760-325-2323 Ron Greenip 8pm (PB) (VD) MARGARITA’S; PS; 760-778-3500 Mark Guerrero & Dennis Alvarez 6:30pm NEIL’S LOUNGE; IND; 760-347-1522 Karaoke 8pm THE NEST; PD; 760-346-2314 Kevin Henry 6-8pm Tim Burleson 8pm (PB) NYPD; PS; 760-778-6973 Live DJ O’LEARY’S; PS; 760-325-4913 T.B.A. 8pm PALM CANYON ROADHOUSE; PS; 760327-4080 T.B.A. 9pm (RR) PALM DESERT COUNTRY CLUB; PD; 760-345-0222 The Arrangements 6-10pm PAPPY & HARRIET’S; PT; 760-365-5956 Shadow Mountain Band 5pm, Country Western w/ Dave Gleason 8pm PEABODY’S; PS; 760-322-1877 Karaoke 7:30pm PLAN B LIVE ENTERTAINMENT AND COCKTAILS; TP; 760-343-2115 PURPLE ROOM@CLUB TRINIDAD; PS; 760-327-1161 Live Music 8pm REILLY’S IRISH PUB; CC; 760-324-9600 George Momb 1pm RENAISSANCE PALM; PS; 760-322-6100

Art of Sax featuring Sax Man Will Donato & Eddie Reddick 7-10pm (JZ) RED BARN; PD; 760-346-0191 The Refills 9pm RIVIERA RESORT & SPA; PS; 760-3278311 DJ Shasta, poolside noon, Mikael Healey & Michael Bolivar, Starlite Lounge 5-7pm, NovaMenco, Bikini Bar 7pm, Lindsey Harper, Starlite Lounge 10pm ROCK GARDEN CAFE; PS; 760-327-8840 T.B.A. 8pm ROCKYARD@FANTASY SPRINGS; IND; 800-827-2946 Thank You, Drive Thru and Queen Nation a Tribute to Queen 7:30pm ROC’S FIREHOUSE; PD; 760-340-3222 Mikey Reyes Acoustic Movement w/ Machin’ 10pm SAMMY G’s; PS; 760-320-8041 Evaro Brothers 8pm SCHMIDY’S; PD; 760-837-3800 The Vibe 9pm SHANGHAI RED’S @ THE FISHERMAN’S MARKET; LQ; 760-777-1601 The P.S. Blues w/ Gil Hansen and Tony Dean 8pm (BL) SIDEWINDER GRILL; DHS; 760-329-7929 Karaoke w/ Milly G 6pm SOUL OF MEXICO; IND; 760-200-8787 Latin Music 10pm SULLIVAN’S STEAKHOUSE; PD; 760341-3560 Smooth Brothers (BL)(RG) TACK ROOM TAVERN; IND; 760-3479985 The Mighty Delta-Tones 9pm TRILUSSA ITALIAN RISTORANTE; PS; 760-328-2300 Julius & Sylvia Music Duo 6-10pm VIBE, MORONGO CASINO; CAB; 951755-5391 DJ Hektik 10pm (VD) VICKY’S OF SANTA FE; IW; 760-345-9770 Doug Montgomery 7-11pm VILLAGE PUB; PS; 760-323-3265 Nite Fixx 9pm DJ upstairs 9:30pm WALLY’S DESERT TURTLE; RM; 760-5689321 Bob Yetter 6-10pm WESTIN MISSION HILLS; RM; 760-3285955 Michael Keeth 7pm WILLIE BOYS; MV; 760-363-3343 Working Men 9pm THE WINE BAR AT OLD TOWN; LQ; 760564-2201 Mark Linford 7-10pm (AC) WOODY’S BURGER; PS; 760-230-0188 Stanley Butler 7-11pm (JZ) ZELDA’S; PS; 760-325-2375 Dance Party !!! 9pm (VD)

SUN JUNE 2

29 PALMS INN; 29P; 760-367-3505 Bob & Allison Garcia 6pm ACE HOTEL; PS; 760-325-9900 Intoxica Radio Live w/ Howie Pyro 10pm AZUL; PS; 760-325-5533 The Judy Show 7:30pm BAR; PS; 760-537-7337 Forbidden Lounge w/ Matt Harris & Mike Bent 6pm BILLY REED’S; PS; 760-325-1946 T.B.A. 6:30pm CASCADE LOUNGE, SPA RESORT; PS; 888-999-1995 Nash with Quinto Menguante 9pm (LR)

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Experience It, Taste It, Live It!

by raymond bill

Ray’s top 5 for restaurant week B

eginning this weekend, many of my favorite restaurants will be participating in the Palm Springs Desert Resorts Restaurant Week, where guests have the opportunity to enjoy a three-course meal for a set price. Now residents and tourists alike can enjoy eating out at many restaurants from May 31 to June 16. Having eaten at most of the restaurants that are participating, I would like to share my top five restaurants to not miss during restaurant week.

#5. bluEmber- When it comes to ambiance, very few restaurants can compete with the beautiful scenery and elegant, outdoor dining area. With tasteful entertainment and amazing food, bluEmber is definitely a mini vacation from the usual.

The grounds are immaculate and the service is top notch. bluEmber is located inside the Rancho Las Palmas Resort and Spa on Bob Hope Drive.

incredible and will leave you speechless. The wine list is extensive and quite impressive.

Take everything you know about a fine steakhouse and throw it out the window because Mastro’s set’s the bar now.

#3. Cuistot- This French restaurant is perhaps one of the most beautiful restaurants in the valley and the food is as impressive as the décor. Cuistot makes the list not only because the chef is truly an amazing talent, but they offer perhaps the largest wine selection of all restaurants and definitely the best sommelier in the valley with Fred Gerber. I am still telling my friends about the Quail stuffed with Sweet Breads and the perfect wine pairings Fred selected for the meal.

#1. Johannes- Deciding my top favorite restaurant was not a difficult task. Ever since I had dinner with friends here months ago, I have not stopped sharing my experience with friends and strangers alike. The martinis are large and delicious and the food is addictive! I cannot state enough how much I love this restaurant.

The service is impeccable, and I mean truly flawless! The food is ALWAYS authentic, prepared to perfection. Having a birthday?

Go to Johannes!

Special anniversary dinner? Johannes! In the mood for the best Schnitzel you will find for hundreds of miles? Yes, Johannes is the place to be, but that’s just my opinion. Find out for yourself when Restaurant Week starts this weekend.

I have eaten at most of the restaurants participating and now that I am fortunate

to be working and supporting the amazing, dish-Creative Cuisine Restaurant in Cathedral City, I would definitely recommend you come see me as well during this Restaurant Week. There are so many choices for fine dining and the price is so affordable that one could eat out for several nights for the price of one night on the town. Find out which restaurants are participating by visiting www. palmspringsrestaurantweek.com and most will require reservations. Start reserving now because the good restaurants will fill up fast.

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“Best of the Valley” Two Years Straight Over 100 Menus Items Ranging From Prime Steak to Fresh Seafood

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#4. Mastro’s Steakhouse- To be blunt, this is the best steakhouse in our valley, without exception. The dining room is a work of art and the staff seems to work together effortlessly.

The steaks are

Chapelli’s

• New and exciting contemporary cuisine • Exceptional ingredients including the best available local and organic Presents products • Not just dinner, it is an experience

Reservation are strongly suggested

Award Winning Pizza Voted

#2. Rockwood Grill- Located inside the JW Marriott’s Desert Springs Resort and Spa, this new restaurant is classy and cutting edge, pairing fun and exciting flavors and a beautiful resort setting. This restaurant makes number two because of the quality of food and the unforgettable service from the beautiful Elena. This restaurant is exactly what our desert needed. With a tender, fall off the bone Lamb Shank and the Filet Mignon with an incredible chimichurri sauce, you must see what makes this place so unique!

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Movie Reviews with Robin E. Simmons

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Screeners No. 62

by Heidi Simmons

The Wife’s Perspective

EXTREME ROAD RAGE! HANGOVER III

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Vin Diesel, Paul Walker and Dwayne Johnson lead the returning cast in this continuation of the full-throttle franchise that found its stride in FAST FIVE and goes for even greater stakes in this adrenalin fuelled, visceral action adventure. Since the $100 million Rio heist, our heroes have scattered across the globe. But lying low as exiles is so unsatisfying that when Hobbs (Johnson) discovers a team of mercenary drivers in 12 countries, he has no trouble assembling his road gang, especially when he gets a promise of a full pardon. And then Dom (Diesel) realizes Letty (Michelle Rodriguez) is not dead but is second-in-command to the mercenary drivers! Incredible high-speed road action and racing stunts take everything to the next level.

Newcomers Luke Evans and Gina Carano join co-stars Jordana Brewster, Michelle Rodriguez, Tyrese Gibson, Sung Kang, Gal Gadot, Chris “Ludacris” Bridges and Elsa Pataky. Director Justin Lin does his thing behind the camera in this increasingly exhilarating franchise for the fourth time.

No doubt there was CGI assist in some of the action, but most of what’s roaring up there on the big screen is really happening and that makes it all the more exciting. In movies like this, plot is actually almost irrelevant, but F&F6 has a tight story and sharp wit. And the stakes are bigger than ever. What more could you ask for? Big recommendation.

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The “Wolfpack” is back in this painfully unfunny action film that has no wedding or wit. I tuned out after the bloody beheading of a giraffe in the opening scenes. There’s a lot of anger on screen -- and surely from any audience hoodwinked into forking over money and time to see it. But don’t take my word.

Variety said this film marks the franchise’s descent into “pitiable pointlessness.”

And that it was “bereft of laughs.” Stay as far away as possible.

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enveloping atmosphere of horror and death the original series conveyed so well. WELL GO USA Entertainment. Bluray HANSEL & GRETEL WITCH HUNTERS

This reboot of a Grimm Fairy Tale was not embraced at the box office. The bloody and sometimes goofy retelling has two fine leads in Jeremy Renner and Gemma Arterton as self-proclaimed vigilantes, bounty hunters, hell-bent on revenge against witches for the childhood trauma the two suffered when they were held in captivity. Soon, H&G find themselves hunted by an overwhelmingly and powerful evil entity that is nothing like the witches who captured them when they were children. I liked the action and the look of this fever dream that is not a parody or satire. It works for me and the 10 added minutes of the Unrated Cut only add to the blood and the action. Director Tommy Wirkola has a good eye for composition and stylized action. Not for everyone, but for fans of unexpurgated Grimm stories, this one is bloody fun.

Interesting extras. Paramount. Blu-ray.

Write me. RobinESimmons@aol.com

n last week’s column, American author F. Scott Fitzgerald’s wife, Zelda, was the subject and voice of three new novels.

She was indeed Scott’s muse, his source of inspiration, and quite possibly the creative force behind his literary talent. These works of creative non-fiction or historical fiction seem to be a popular trend in publishing.

The Paris Wife by Paula McLain (Random House, 352 pages) is the story of Hadley Richardson and her marriage with literary giant and American icon, Ernest Hemingway.

This fictional narrative begins in 1920. At 29 years old, Hadley is a lonely spinster living in her younger sister’s guesthouse, when she travels to Chicago to visit a friend. It is there that she meets the 21 year-old Ernest, who is a struggling poet and journalist.

Hadley is quickly warned of his moodiness, drinking and womanizing but the two are drawn to each other. Ernest enjoys her honesty and she finds his enthusiasm for life appealing. After a short romance, they get married and begin their life together in Paris with the help of her trust fund income and an inheritance.

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With a letter of introduction from famed author Sherwood Anderson, the Hemingways quickly meet Ernest’s mentor Gertrude Stein and her partner Alice B. Toklas. The two show the newlyweds around and introduce them to other artists and writers including the Fitzgeralds. In his book The Sun also Rises, Hemingway called this group of expatriates the “Lost Generation -- referring to the generation that came of age during World War I. Hadley and Ernest travel around Europe taking little adventures and Hemingway begins to find his literary voice. But as the couple acclimates to Paris and the creative and intellectual fellowship, their relationship falls apart.

If you know nothing about Ernest Hemingway’s life or his works, The Paris Wife is a beautiful but sad romance novel.

It’s a woman who desperately loves and

believes in her husband but loses him and herself in an indulgent, decadent and destructive lifestyle. A love doomed to fail from the start.

For those who are Hemingway fans, it is easy to get caught up with all the familiar details and facts that surrounded his life.

However, in many ways the known minutia becomes distracting rather than engaging.

Although we are familiar with the actual events of his life, Hadley’s telling and revelations seem empty and meaningless.

It is as if the author put together an outline, filled it with every thing she knew about both Ernest and Hadley in chronological order and then filled in a first person narrative. The historical and literary figures we recognize drift in and out without much

impact.

The book is readable, has charm and there is a sweetness in the prose likely stemming from the author’s own awe of the subject. Not surprisingly, the reader learns that much of what Hemingway wrote, came from his personal experiences with his wife while living in Europe. In this fictional version, it’s kind of fun to live with them as the recognizable events that ended up in Hemingway’s work unfold, but it lacks psychological insight and emotional depth. When it comes to understanding these phenomenal and larger than life personalities, we haven’t really learned anything new or the things that truly inspired them.

The wife’s perspective, fiction or nonfiction, is a great opportunity to explore the lesser or unknown side of a famous character.

It is the spouse’s intimate knowledge of the private person that we hope will reveal something new. To understand the vulnerabilities, demons and or strengths, to see how it influenced their public persona and work -- this is what we want to discover within the narrative. In The Paris Wife, author McLain gives the reader a superfluous romantic vision of Ernest and Hadley’s relationship rather than a truly insightful characterization of the iconic literary genius. But perhaps that is her perspective if not her purpose.

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for all its heavy pop culture baggage that entered on the heat of the first big modern tabloid affair -- the already married Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton -- and the birth of that modern breed of parasites known as paparazzi.

To say nothing of the near demise of 20th Century Fox. With the passage of fifty years (!), maybe it’s time to look at the movie for what it is; namely, the story of a woman whose lust for power and love threatens the fate of the world’s greatest empires. Grand in scope and scale, the four-hour plus film has been restored and the results are stunning. Burton’s Mark Anthony and Taylor’s Egyptian queen convey a sense of the chemistry that may have played a part of the attraction of their historical counterparts. Their offscreen attraction is impossible to dismiss when watching the film unwind. Rex Harrison retains a kind of Shakespearian distance as Julius Caesar. The actual story is a tragedy. Cleopatra’s plan is to seduce Caesar so she can have a Roman ally and retain her kingdom. But it’s thwarted when he is fatally stabbed in the senate.

When mighty Roman general Mark Anthony comes along, she seduces him in the hope he will protect her and her kingdom. But the seduction of Anthony reduces him to a sniveling, petty drunk. At the Battle of Actium, Anthony is defeated.

Cleopatra withdraws her troops. With Egypt in peril and enemy forces closing in, the doomed lovers have a final farewell.

Generous extras make this epic worth reconsidering for the digital library. 20th Century Fox. Blu-ray.

SADAKO 3D To audiences familiar with the RING movies, this 3D entry will be somewhat disappointing. Yes, there are some nice moments in the mostly unsuccessful attempt to update the terror (it’s no longer VHS based). What is lacking here is the wonderful sense of impending menace and the delicious feeling of an

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Wine Bar

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Roc’s Firehouse 36891 Cook St # 10 Palm Desert, CA 92211

American

American

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Tack Room 81800 Avenue 51 Indio, CA 92201

American

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Casey’s

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Sullivan’s 73505 El Paseo Palm Desert, CA

American

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Charli Marrones

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AJ’s on the Green American

Dickie O’Neals

(760) 202-1111

(760) 325-2600

36-200 Date Palm Dr Cathedral City

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Western Grill

American

Lavender Bistro Continental 78073 Calle Barcelona La Quinta, CA 92253

(760) 564-5353 www.lavenderbistro.com

2155 North Palm Canyon Dr Palm Springs, CA 92262

Italian

El Mexicali II 43-430 Monroe St. Indio, CA

Irish

78772 California 111 La Quinta, CA 92253 www.lamppostpizza.com

Crab Pot

70030 California 111 Rancho Mirage, CA 92270

Seafood

(760) 321-7635

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Mexican

(760) 342-2333

Pacifica

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Seafood

(760) 674-8666

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San Miguel

Pizza

Lamppost

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Western (760) 347-1522 Grill Restaurant & Lounge 80956 Hwy 111 Indio, CA 92201

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The New Dinosaurs: iPods, CDs and Radio

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he sale of musical recordings began nearly 135 years ago with a wax cylinder encoded with grooves.

Nearly forty years later in 1920, the first radio stations came into being. Both are poised for their biggest changes in history.

Those first wax cylinders created by Thomas Edison ruled the market for nearly 30 years until a flat disc overtook it in sales around 1920. It took nearly twenty years for the flat disc to overtake the cylinder in sales. Made initially made of rubber and then a shellacked mix of pulverized rock and limestone, the flat disc (referred to as the 78 due to its revolutions per minute) caused the discontinuation of the cylinder by 1929.

The demise of the 78 started almost immediately following the advent of a more sturdy vinyl disc and microgroove in the early 1930’s. In the 1950s, the 33 1/3 was used for albums containing thirty minutes of music while the 45 was used similar to the 78 as the single song format.

The demise of the 33 1/3 and 45 was in development in the early 1930s as well.

Originally only in a reel to reel format, the magnetic tape was too costly used by radio

stations and recording studios as a result.

It was not until 1962 that the cassette tape entered the marketplace. Within twenty years of its debut, it was outselling vinyl records.

In 1982, the compact disc entered the market. Within ten years, it was the primary source of recorded music to the consumer with the complete demise of the tape by 2001. As the CD overtook the market, its replacement had entered the marketplace in 1997 - a flash drive better known to us mp3 players or iPods. These devices could hold tens of thousands of songs and were completely portable. At the same time, satellite radio was attempting to replace terrestrial radio following its 2001 launch.

As the mp3 downloads surpassed CD in sales in 2012, the mp3 demise was also underway. The first signs were in 1999 when an illegal file sharing software program called Napster showed that the purchase and ownership of music was vulnerable to a service where people could program their own music channels for free. Legal options like Pandora in 2005 and Spotify in 2008 showed that both mp3 ownership and radio stations were poised for replacement over the next decade.

Throughout time, consumers have

received more and better content at a lower and lower cost. As wireless networks have gotten better, the consumer is nearly always attached connected to the Internet via their smartphones. As the consumer can choose the songs or podcasts that they want to hear on an app on their smartphone, it is inevitable that radio and mp3 ownership will see an ever shrinking percentage of the market.

To understand the financial drivers at play, Apple earned $4.3 billion from its music sale while CDs sold 193 million units in 2012. Satellite radio generated $3.5 billon in revenues while terrestrial

by Curtis Hendricks

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Time for Finals!

elcome parents and students to finals season. Schools are beginning to start their end of the year procedures, which may include dances, graduation practices and of course the finals. Many students are already beginning to show signs of summeritis, which is a condition that causes students to lose focus on their studies and begin the process of living a life of no school. The condition of summeritis can be combated through extra efforts from parents and teachers by holding students accountable for their work and studies. I combat the symptoms of summeritis this time every year with my children and students with varying success rates.

Keeping our children in study mode is important at this time of year because of the dreaded finals. California uses many standardized tests in public schools throughout the year, including a final exam. California’s standardized final exam consists of procedures and questions to lessons that may not have been taught sense the beginning of the school year.

Studying is essential, not just for new skills, but also for refreshing old skills. I find the best study notes can be found on the California Department of Education’s (CDE) website, http://www.cde.ca.gov. You want to find the “test release questions” on the CDE’s website. These questions are examples of previously used questions and similar questions may appear on the current test.

In addition to the state standardized

testing, teachers may take it upon themselves to give their own finals. The teacher made finals may be more difficult as the state standardized test is multiplechoice. Teacher made tests will ask students to work out the problem and give the answer without giving other example answers. Studying for teacher made tests are made simple as the teacher will usually hand out a study guide/packet. If your child needs additional help, here are

radio generated $14 billion in ad sales of which one-third were political ads. Upstart Pandora has 80 million users and $275 million in sales while Spotify was fast on their heels with 24 million users and $250 million in sales. Overall, music revenues have dropped by nearly 75% since its peak in 1999.

It is no wonder that Apple via iRadio, Google’s All Access, Amazon’s Cloud Service and Sony’s Music Unlimited are all looking to start their own cloud music services meant to compete in this ever changing and lucrative field. History shows us that tens of billions in annual revenues will be moving to a new and less expensive delivery methods in the very near future.

Education some excellent math and science websites to study with: purplemath.com, aaamath. com, khanacademy.org, brainpop.com and youtube.com. One of my favorites is youtube.com because you can search for specific skills within a subject and find hundreds, if not thousands, of useful video examples and lectures.

Studying should not be left solely to the student. I have noticed that the most successful students are the students that have parents as study partners. Please give some time to your child during study and help them, learn with them, and encourage them to learn.

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aka Weeding through the health care maze when your loved one has Dementia or Alzheimer’s!

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understanding the system and where to go for assistance.

The most important situation that brought me to my ‘aha’ moment was witnessing the process of admission for my mother-in-law who a few months ago experienced a few falls causing her dementia to rapidly progress. These events sent her into a tailspin from which she continues to recover today.

Please let me share some valuable information my wife and I learned the hard way, the anguishing way when my Mother in Law would not be admitted to the hospital because her health conditions did not meet the computer guidelines for Medicare admission. She was ill, and on our

By Bruce cathcart

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Finding the Best agent

n preparation for this series of articles I googled “find a real estate agent”. I was amazed when my search turned up over 40,300,000 results! The information on this subject available on the Internet is truly overwhelming and ranges from the theoretical to the practical, from good helpful tips to unrealistic hype. So before I get into how to find an agent, let’s take a look at what a real estate agent is and what we are looking for in an agent.

According to Realtor.com, “A real estate agent is anyone who is licensed [by the state]

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4th attempt to admit, she met the criteria.

Granny was hospitalized to then be sent to an excellent Skilled Nursing Facility where she spent 2 months in therapy and is now back into an assisted living environment where nurses are on duty.

Did you know that even if you stay in the hospital overnight, you might still be considered an “outpatient”? Your hospital status (whether the hospital considers you an “inpatient” or “outpatient”) affects how much you pay for hospital services (like X-rays, drugs, and lab tests) and may also affect whether Medicare will cover the care you get in a skilled nursing facility (SNF). You’re an inpatient starting the day you’re formally admitted to the hospital with a doctor’s order. The day before you’re discharged is your last inpatient day. You’re an outpatient if you’re getting emergency department services, observation services, outpatient surgery, lab tests, or X-rays, and the doctor hasn’t written an order to admit you to the hospital as an inpatient. In these cases, you’re an outpatient even if you spend the night at the hospital.

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to advise the public on real estate issues”.

Both real estate brokers and real estate salespeople are considered real estate agents as they represent their clients in real estate transactions. Real estate salespeople must work under the supervision of a real estate broker. In the state of California, real estate salespeople must successfully complete several real estate courses and pass the state salesperson exam before obtaining their license. To become a real estate broker, a real estate salesperson must successfully complete additional classes and pass the state broker’s exam. A REALTOR is a real estate agent that is also a member of the National and California Association of REALTORS. Real estate agents are professionals and like in all professions they include among their ranks the good, the bad and the ugly.

Honesty and integrity top my list whenever I look to hire any professional service but of course that alone does not assure me that they can get the job done.

There is no substitute for knowledge and experience. No one wants to be anyone’s first client (except for maybe Mom and Dad)! But in addition to having the right knowledge a good agent must be able to

2. Make sure your teen has a way of contacting you throughout the evening and make sure you can contact your teen; warn them of the dangers of talking or texting while driving.

Medicare.gov Can we abide by the 5th commandment?

Yes we can. Knowledge is power and in the coming weeks I will focus several articles on issues relating to the elderly and those that love them.

If you have any questions regarding this column or ideas for future columns please contact Dale Gribow Attorney at Law at our NEW number 760- 837- 7500 and or our new email of dale@dalegribowlaw.com.

3. Get the evening’s itinerary as well as a list of names and phone numbers of each person with your teen.

4. Talk to your teen in advance. Make sure your teen knows how to handle difficult situations; talk to your teenage about drinking and not driving, avoiding accepting a ride from a drunk driver, rejecting offers of excessive alcohol or legal & illegal drugs, or not succumbing to pressure to engage in sexual activity.

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ts Graduation and summer break time once again; its celebration time! This can be expensive, however, cost is a minor concern for most parents when it comes to these events says Fire Chief Sam DiGiovanna. “Their biggest concern is the risky behavior associated with graduation events and school break parties – drinking and driving, distractions while driving, drugs,

unsafe sex.” Yes, it happens and it’s critical that parents talk to their graduates about these dangers. Here are a few tips that can help keep your teen safe and make this time of year something they fondly remember:

5. Insist that no changes be made to the evening itinerary unless you grant permission.

1. Know who’s driving all evening: Are your kids or a friend driving, is there a designated driver, or will they be renting a limo?

7. Make sure your teen has money to cover alternative transportation costs (cab?), if necessary.

Real estate

communicate and apply that knowledge efficiently and effectively. A good agent needs to be able educate their clients and keep them informed every step of the way… and with smart phones, texting, email, tweeting, and Facebook there is no excuse for not staying in contact with each other! I believe that real estate agents are hired to protect their clients and as such they should inspire a feeling of confidence and security.

Really great agents always put their client’s needs ahead of their own and end up sacrificing vacations, days off, dinners out, and time otherwise spent with loved ones to help their clients achieve their real estate goals. Knowing this I also recommend having an agent with a positive attitude and a good sense of humor are a must. I know that all this sounds like a lot to look for in any professional but in my experience the best professional real estate agents today have all of these qualities. Next week we’ll get into how to find one of these agents.

This week’s real estate tip: When selecting a real estate agent to help you with your real estate needs it is important that after you do a little research on them you also go with your “gut” feeling. This agent is going to be an important person in your

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Chances are that if you like working with them others will too!

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The 5th Commandment tells us to Honor (and Protect) our Mothers & Fathers ost people of a certain age have seen the movie The 10 Commandments. If you are like me you remember Charlton Heston climbing the mountain empty handed, only to descend with the preverbal two tablets containing the 10 divine decrees that are the guideposts of our Judeo Christian religions. My topic this week focuses on the 5th Commandment which mandates Honoring Your Mother and Father, and that we, the children of the sandwich generation, although well-intentioned, actually have not a clue how to weed through the maze of healthcare challenges our government has imposed upon us.

My epiphany to learn and share information on helping seniors and those who love them stems from some very personal experiences. First, it is becoming more prevalent in my practice to see instances where elderly seniors, are left to fend for themselves on estate planning issues, a DUI or auto accident, and of course health issues. This is often due to their children and/or siblings not always being available, or the relatives simply not

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8. Report suspicious activity/people to school officials immediately.

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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY © Copyright 2012 Rob Brezsny Week of May 30 GEMINI (May 21-June 20): In Japan it’s not rude to slurp while you eat your ramen noodles out of a bowl. That’s what the *Lonely Planet* travel guide told me. In fact, some Japanese hosts expect you to make sounds with your mouth; they take it as a sign that you’re enjoying your meal. In that spirit, Gemini, and in accordance with the astrological omens, I encourage you to be as uninhibited as you dare this week -- not just when you’re slurping your noodles, but in every situation where you’ve got to express yourself uninhibitedly in order to experience the full potential of the pleasurable opportunities. As one noodle-slurper testified: “How can you possibly get the full flavor if you don’t slurp?”

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Here’s a thought from philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein: “A person will be imprisoned in a room with a door that’s unlocked and opens inwards as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push that door.”

I’d like to suggest that his description fits you right now, Cancerian. What are you going to do about it? Tell me I’m wrong? Reflexively agree with me?

I’ve got a better idea. Without either accepting or rejecting my proposal, simply adopt a neutral, open-minded attitude and experiment with the possibility. See what happens if you try to pull the door open.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): If you have been waiting for the right moment to perfect your party skills, I suspect this might be it. Is there anything you can do to lower your inhibitions? Would you at least temporarily consider slipping into a chronic state of fun? Are you prepared to commit yourself to extra amounts of exuberant dancing, ebullient storytelling, and unpredictable playtime?

According to my reading of the astrological omens, the cosmos is nudging you in the direction of rabble-rousing revelry.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Where exactly are your power spots, Virgo? Your bed, perhaps, where you rejuvenate and reinvent yourself every night?

A place in nature where you feel at peace and at home in the world? A certain building where you consistently make good decisions and initiate effective action? Wherever your power spots are, I advise you to give them extra focus. They are on the verge of serving you even better than they usually do, and you should take steps to ensure that happens. I also advise you to be on the lookout for a new power spot. It’s available.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Reverence is one of the most useful emotions. When you respectfully acknowledge the sublime beauty of something greater than yourself, you do yourself a big favor.

You generate authentic humility and sincere gratitude, which are healthy for your body as well as your soul. Please note that reverence is not solely the province of religious people. A biologist may venerate the scientific method. An atheist might experience a devout sense of awe toward geniuses who have bequeathed to us their brilliant ideas. What about you, Libra? What excites your reverence? Now is an excellent time to explore the deeper mysteries of this altered state of consciousness.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): When explorer Ernest Shackleton was planning his expedition to Antarctica in 1914, he placed this ad in London newspapers: “Wanted: For hazardous journey.

Small wages, bitter cold, long months of complete darkness, constant danger, return doubtful.

Honor and recognition in case of success.” Would you respond to a come-on like that if you saw it today? I hope not. It’s true that your sense of adventure is ratcheting up. And I suspect you’re itching for intense engagement with the good kind of darkness that in the past has inspired so much smoldering wisdom. But I believe you can satisfy those yearnings without putting yourself at risk or suffering severe deprivation.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “I’d rather not

sing than sing quiet,” said the vivacious chanteuse Janis Joplin. Her attitude reminds me a little of Salvador Dali’s. He said, “It is never difficult to paint. It is either easy or impossible.” I suspect you Sagittarians may soon be in either-or states like those. You will want to give everything you’ve got, or else nothing at all. You will either be in the zone, flowing along in a smooth and natural groove, or else totally stuck. Luckily, I suspect that giving it all and being in the zone will predominate.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): In 1948, Nelson Mandela began his fight to end the system of apartheid in his native South Africa. Eventually he was arrested for dissident activities and sentenced to life imprisonment. He remained in jail until 1990, when his government bowed to international pressure and freed him. By 1994, apartheid collapsed. Mandela was elected president of his country and won the Nobel Peace Prize. Fast-forward to 2008. Mandela was still considered a terrorist by the United States, and had to get special permission to enter the country.

Yikes! You probably don’t have an antiquated rule or obsolescent habit that’s as horrendous as that, Capricorn. But it’s past time for you to dissolve your attachment to *any* outdated attachments, even if they’re only mildly repressive and harmful.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): As a renowned artist, photographer, and fashion designer, Karl Lagerfeld has overflowed with creative expression for 50 years. His imagination is weird and fantastic, yet highly practical. He has produced a profusion of flamboyant stuff. “I’m very down to earth,” he has said, “just not this earth.” Let’s make that your mantra for the coming weeks, Aquarius: You, too, will be very down to earth in your own unique way. You’ll follow your quirky intuition, but always with the intent of channeling it constructively.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): In the following passage, French novelist Georges Perec invites us to renew the way we look upon things that are familiar to us. “What we need to question,” he says, “is bricks, concrete, glass, our table manners, our utensils, our tools, the way we spend our time, our rhythms. To question that which seems to have ceased forever to astonish us.” A meditation like this could nourish and even thrill you, Pisces. I suggest you boost your ability to be sincerely amazed by the small wonders and obvious marvels that you sometimes take for granted.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Back in the 1920s, the governor of Texas was determined to forbid the teaching of foreign languages in public schools.

To bolster her case, she called on the Bible. “If English was good enough for Jesus Christ,” she said, “it’s good enough for us.” She was dead serious. I suspect you may soon have to deal with that kind of garbled thinking, Aries. And it may be impossible to simply ignore it, since the people wielding it may have some influence on your life. So what’s the best way to deal with it?

Here’s what I advise: Be amused. Quell your rage.

Stay calm. And methodically gather the cool, clear evidence about what is *really* true.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): A few weeks ago, the principal at a school in Bellingham, Washington announced that classes would be canceled the next day. What was his rationale? A big storm, a bomb threat, or an outbreak of sickness? None of the above. He decided to give students and teachers the day off so they could enjoy the beautiful weather that had arrived. I encourage you to make a similar move in the coming days, Taurus. Take an extended Joy Break -- maybe several of them. Grant yourself permission to sneak away and indulge in spontaneous celebrations. Be creative as you capitalize profoundly on the gifts that life is offering you.

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hat is all the hype about quinoa? What is it? Why is it good for me? After researching quinoa I learned it is either a grain or it is associated with the spinach family. Without antagonizing the experts, does it matter?

We know it could possibly be a healthy grain or interrelated to a leafy green. We do know that most vegetarians love quinoa.

Are you curious about the pronunciation?

Try saying, ”KEEN-wah”. Quinoa is abundant along with myriad benefits. Fortunately, it is also versatile and can be prepared multiple ways.

Quinoa has Spanish roots and was once called Quechua. It originated in the Andean region of Ecuador, Bolivia, Columbia and Peru. The Inca’s believed it was the “mother of all grains and/or gold to them”.

We have been warned of consuming to many carbohydrates. Quinoa is an excellent replacement for rice or pastas. Quinoa is a nutritious carbohydrate and assists with you remaining lean and boosts your stamina.

The taste and texture is similar to brown rice crossed over with oatmeal. You will recognize that it is fluffy, crunchy, creamy, and a bit nutty.

Why Quinoa? It tastes good and can be helpful with your diet. It can be a complete source of protein when paired with another food. Quinoa is the only plant-based protein that contains all 9 essential amino acids. The amino acids include: Histidine, Isoleucine, Leucine, Lysine, Methionine (cysteine), Valine, Threonine, Tryptophan, and Phenylalanine (tyrosine). When all of these amino acids are present in the body, every cell in the body is being fed protein.

These amino acids in the super food quinoa is necessary to feed our muscles, stimulate hair and nail growth, is excellent for our organs and the list perpetuates.

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any carbohydrate. When you consider rice or pasta with your meal, reconsider and add quinoa instead. Quinoa can be prepared as a dessert as well. Rather than rice pudding, try the quinoa pudding recipe included.

One can use quinoa as you would rice, you can also make quinoa pudding.

To make four servings of banana quinoa pudding, boil 1 1/2 cups of water and add 3/4 of quinoa. Reduce the heat and simmer for 15 minutes. Leave the quinoa in the pot but remove from the heat. Place 2 cups milk, 2 peeled ripe bananas, 1/2 tablespoon of salt and 2 tablespoons of sugar into a blender and mix until smooth. Stir this mixture into the saucepan with the quinoa and return to a medium heat. Cook until the mixture is creamy and warm, about 8 minutes. Add 1/2 teaspoon of vanilla and 1/2 tablespoon of butter to the warm mixture and stir without returning to the heat. Serve warm for a delicious dessert on a chilly night.

Time to head to the market and fill your basket with quinoa. The recipes are plentiful and you will be energized by all the healthful benefits. Stay healthy!

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