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Legends of Palm Springs brings to you a special evening as we celebrate the Academy Awards at our Oscar’s viewing cocktail party. The entire Academy Awards event will be broadcasted entirely [7PM Easter/4 PM Pacific on ABC}.

We will have Academy Awards prediction sheets to “cast” your ballot for who you think the winners will be! The person who predicts the most correct winners will be eligible for the Grand Prize! If in the case of a tie the winner will be chosen by a drawing.

This will be a themed event--come dressed as your favorite Legendary Movie Star and receive a $5.00 gift certificate to the bar!

Palm Springs Buzz Stops and free parking is available at 149 Indian Canyon [2nd lot across Spa Resort].

See you at the Oscars Viewing Party!

Calling Volunteers!

Mizell Senior Center is seeking a few dedicated Volunteers. Our Nutrition Program needs servers for our Café 480 lunch service on Wednesdays from 11:00AM to 1:00PM. You will help set-up the room for lunch and serve meals to seniors. Also, we need volunteers for our great thrift store, Aunt Betty’s Attic. Various shifts are available in this dynamic thrift store. Cash register experience is helpful. Mizell also has additional volunteer opportunities at various times for front desk, greeter, and special events. Contact Beverly Newton, Volunteer Coordinator at 760-3235689x117 or ask for Beverly at the front desk.

Feb 19 Jersey’s Throw Back Thursday

Torch Song Trilogy Jersey Shore host fun-tastic Movie night at Ultra Star Desert Cinema (old Imax) See page 19 Feb 24 P. S. Community Concert Association Five accomplished chamber musicians known for their outreach appeal; Susan Egan, For further information or to become a member, please visit the website: www.psconcerts.org or call the office at 760 770-0774 See page 44..

Weekends Join To Be Or Not To Be, Married With Children star, James “Gypsy” Haake and Carnival Cabaret! Thursday, Friday and Saturday! Tickets for this sensational show are available at the door or CarnivalCabaret.Ticketleap. com

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45 Adrian’s Picks Issue 34 48 At The Theatre Feb 18, 2015 to 24 AdamsArtExpose’ NEW Feb 24, 2015 36 Business Directory 32 Classifieds 38 Cheers!

LEGENDS OF PALM SPRINGS BRINGS 25 Desk of the Publisher 34 Featured Bars, Resorts & Dining. YOU A SPECIAL EVENING AS WE 44 LIVE! NEW! CELEBRATE THE ACADEMY AWARDS 54 Jersey’s Journal NIGHT COCKTAIL PARTY. 41 Leather Realm 52 Maps of the Area 46 Massage Directory 4 PM PACIFIC TIME 24 News 36 Quote of the week 04 Specials & Events 55 The Last Word Desert Daily Guide is published by the 43 The Center Schedule DDG Media Group. Advertisers, or other interested persons may write to DDG 38 Veterans Notes Media Group, Activities and Entertainment 49 Weekly Guide to Stars Publisher: Will Paige Editors: Adrian Ayala, Justin Paige Writer/Photographer: Adrian Ayala

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$2.50 Well Drinks & Martinis 10:00 AM Tool Shed Happy Hour until 8:00pm 11:00 AM Oscars 11a - 9 p 2:00 PM Barracks Happy Hour to 8PM Oscars Happy Hour to 7PM Legends of Palm Springs Happy Hour to 2-7 3:00 PM Sunshine Cafe Daily Dinner Special $9.95 5:00 PM Rio Azul Happy Hour from 5 PM To 7 PM Street Fair Crispy Tacos $2 6:00 PM Palm Springs Village Fest 7:00 PM Tool Shed 8-Ball Tournament 8:00 PM Barracks SPANK! Fetish Social Night Tool Shed Underwear Night 10:00 PM Barracks THRUST featuring Art with his men and DJ Mixtress Victoria 7:00 PM Hard Rock CafeF LIRT Bella da Ball

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Sunshine Cafe Daily Dinner Special $9.95 5:00 PM Rio Azul House Margarita $5 Hunters FUR 7:00 PM Barracks Fund Raisers & Cruise Night Spurline show tunes 8:00 PM Streetbar VJ Rob Roberts 10:00 PM Tool Shed Music by DJ Luis Cintron

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DID YOU KNOW?

Leonardo da Vinci, one of the greatest painters and most versatile geniuses in history as well as one of the key figures of the Renaissance cultural movement. His Mona Lisa and his religious scene The Last Supper rank among the most famous pictures ever painted.

And GAY! Yup Gay! Leonardo was arrested, more then once along with several young male companions, on the charge of sodomy AKA gay sex. No witnesses appeared against them and the charges were dropped.

Famous da Vinci Quotes.

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

Art is never finished, only abandoned.

There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.

Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.

Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.

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ADAMSARTEXPOSE’ Hitchcock Body Casting

Had an enjoyable and memorable evening Saturday, February 7, attending the Hitchcock Body Casting event at Mischief Cards and Gifts on Arenas Road. Philip Hitchcock was welcoming guests at the door of Mischief. As a body casting artist, Hitchcock personally presents a handsome physique. Wearing cargo shorts and a sleeveless T-shirt, he gave the casual appearance of a working artist

in the Sistine Chapel.

Philip and Marilyn hugged, wiping tears of remembrance as they viewed the photo of Christopher’s sculpted arm as part of the sculpture that immortalized him and his friend David. The sculpture was originally commissioned for the Holy Trinity Church in Los Angeles and was presented to Marilyn as a memento of her son.

After this sentimental prelude, Hitchcock introduced the model, Christopher Bates, who was to pose for the body cast demonstration. The hunky physique model stripped down to his briefs. Hitchcock wrapped the model’s briefs with soft plastic wrap. He then added water and stirred a powder material, called alginate. This is commonly used by dentists to make castings of teeth. He then proceeded to put the alginate, about the consistency of cool whip, on the model’s upper torso. Using handfuls of the thick alginate he draped the model starting from the shoulders to the plastic wrapped area.

As he worked Hitchcock entertained the Following me in the door was a mature audience with humorous anecdotes and an couple. The lady introduced herself as overview of the history of his body casting Marilyn Larkin. She said to Hitchcock, “I work. He also offered members of the audihave a letter you sent me in 1998 after my son, Christopher Murphy had passed away. ence the opportunity to take a small gob of the wet alginate and allow it to set up on He was a model, along with another friend their hands. This material can capture skin of his, David Conrad, for this sculpture texture, wrinkles, and other minute details you made.” She handed him the letter and pulled out her Smart phone with a photo of at a very realistic level. After about 10 minutes he proceeded to wet strips of plaster a body casting sculpture, (above) showing two arms with fingers touching, as is epito- cloth, like what is used for casting broken arms, etc... These wet strips were put over mized Michelangelo’s “Creation” painting 24 inYour weekly LGBT Gay Desert Guide.the View our Free Version on-line. alginate on Digital the model to provide a Continued on page 30

FROM THE DESK OF THE PUBLISHER by Will Paige It’s amazing to watch the future unfold. If you are the type of person that holds equal parts in their hearts for the past and the present, you are probably equally delighted to watch the past and present mingle and procreate with a new thing or idea, as we are equally disturbed when progress removes choice and human interaction.

every book now in production uses the same technology, not radically different than the Gutenberg press or even further back to the first movable type developed in China by the Han Chinese printer Bi Sheng in 1041. Johannes Gutenberg was a metals expert and was able to use that knowledge to vastly improve on existing technology of the past. We all know how these improvements created a wide circulation of books, but more so the information and ideas were exchanged that Einstein termed the “agent of change.” Some would call it luck or the rich getting richer, but to others it gave the means, knowledge and ability to increase their share of fortune. The new printing press then is the internet, in its ability for assembling pictures and text in a new way but with a new dimension of depth of study to rival all the world’s libraries at the tips of your fingers.

Yesterday I read how a person ordered a book on Amazon only to see it was printed and shipped on the same day it was ordered. We call this demand print, but I think no one but Amazon could turn it all on in such a shot time. But here you are, looking for that book you used to own or based on some suggestion and you click, order it, add your credit cards, and then wait for the mail to deliver it a few days later. But the amazing part is that somewhere, in a quiet factory, an enormous machine becomes operational, devoid of life, not even caring what is being printed. No huSo yeah, it’s a big deal, Amazon printing on mans will come between you and the post demand, but they, like Google, will not stop man or woman, just clicking a machine to improvements. Unlike Einstein and Frankprint your book. The pages are printed and lin and Edison, these inventors were of but fed down an assembly line feed by a large flesh and blood, with egos and tempers roll of paper, and 8 to 16 or more pages are and the madness of genius all had the same all printed at once, on both sides. Cutters flaw. They were weak humans that died and and folders slice and dice it like origami many of their future inventions no longer into the insides of the book. It is then glued remained relevant without their constant to its cover and laid softly to rest in a cardre-factoring of new information and desire board shipping box. There it remains a few to see its completions. These new invenseconds until the final label containing your tors are formed inside large corporations, address is stamped, then it is again whisked faster, never ending and not necessary with away to join thousands upon thousands of human compassion. other boxes to be shipped that day. This is the world of automation.

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tions are using open source development that is now and will soon eclipse all that we know about how inventions will come.

We must embrace open source to avoid the terrible loss of small to mid-sized business like mom and pop stores we witnessed all across the nation over twenty years ago.

We must remember that a true quality of life exists between the merchant and the customer that will never exist in a company that takes e-mail only as a convenience to it customers.

We must look to the new millennials, with their tremendous technology skills and love for social media. These young people that have never lived in an HIV-free world since the illness was first diagnosed in humans. They are now entering the world of development, starting with small projects and building on successes after successes until they begin to imagine. Of these will emerge a new Einstein, and that person mind will soar as they begin to realize their potential to design and develop a technology to meet some future need as those are coming to a point when they will desire it.

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for development projects and Including the dvelopment of the the Aniamal Labatory Information Managemest systems and clinical trails world wide and nationaly at varous universities in the US.

Notes: From health monitoring to back yard gardening over 2,000,000 open source projects exists in the US. If you are reading us Online it is most likely running on free open source software from the web server to the back end services and connections. including your modem (linux).

All major companies around the globe are using open source technology, including Facebook, Google and more.

Many people widely believe that Linux is the world’s first open source software. But this honor goes to the A-2 system that was developed for the UNIVAC compiler in 1953.

The DDG is an ongoing supporter and developer of open source systems; If you are interested in learning more about FREE software for web, home, office or retail please call us to at 888-743-3349 and ask for Will.

Will Paige is publisher and owner of the DDG. He has extensive experience as a consulting engineer for Toyota, Experian, MySpace, and others. E-mail him your love letters, hate mail, and general queries at publisher541@desertdailyguide.com

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Johnnies restaurant next door, for viewers firmer support for the alginate. Fifteen min- to enjoy while they watched the body casting, utes later the alginate mold with the hardened plaster was removed from the model.

Phillip Hitchcock’s work has brought viewing pleasure to appreciative audiences, He showed the inside of the mold with the contours of Bates’ sexy chest and abs down emphasizing the esthetic and eroticism of to below the belly button. The next process male body over the past 20 years. He is was to mix the material, which would make originally from the St Louis, Missouri area.

He graduated from UCLA with honors and the Molded reproduction of the casted worked in California until 2005 when he torso. moved back to St. Louis.

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He has been commissioned to create work for numerous clients some of which include, Fox TV, WWE World Wrestling Entertainment, Sony Pictures, Barbie Benton, etc. His work is featured in collections from the Leslie –Lohman Foundation in New York to Henry Jewelry, Honk Kong.

He opened PHD gallery in St. Louis in 2007, featuring local, regional, and national artists. He is listed among the 100 most influential gay men and lesbians in America

by Out magazine.

Christopher Bates and Philip Hitchcock This is a plaster like material, only more durable than plaster. After another interlude of 20 minutes, Hitchcock removed the torso cast from the mold and held it up next to the model to compare the resemblance.

The cast was laid out to view and feel, of which some audience members indicated they would like to compare by feeling the model.

His work is featured in his book, Dark Impressions, the art of Philip Hitchcock. You can view and purchase copies of this book along with original body casts and framed photos of his work at Mischief Cards and Gifts. His e-mail is Allimages@Philiphitchockdesigns.com

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LEATHER REALM by Dave Murdock Leather Politics No, I don’t mean politics in the sense of democrat or republican, but the rather more complicated politics that surrounds the leather lifestyle. I’m not even sure that politics is the right word, but it comes closer than any other I can think of. The complications arise because there aren’t just 2 or 3 parties, but a plethora of ideals that leathermen revolve around.

But first, let’s set the scene…

Perhaps because it was my coming out period, I tend to think of the 70’s as the heyday of public Leather sex with institutions like the Mineshaft perched in the center of New York’s meat packing district (which was very apropos). For those of you who have only heard of the Mineshaft but never ascended its fabled stairs I can only say that it was a fetishists’ dream. I remember climbing those stairs for the first time, a very nervous 20 something, and, upon paying my entrance fee (I declined to check my clothes that first night), I walked into what, at first glance, was a small, dark bar. I remember thinking “This is what the fuss is all about?”

But as my eyes grew accustomed to the dark I saw a black leather curtain in the corner of the room being swept aside by an exiting leather stud. Curious, I followed him into the next room which was, if anything, even darker. Now this was more like it. There certainly was a lot of

sex going on, but basically it was vanilla sex, a lot of sucking and fucking, but pretty tame. THEN I saw a stairway descending down to another level. For all of those innocents it should have had a sign over it that said “Sexually Abandon Yourself All Ye Who Enter Here.” I decided to explore.

At the bottom of the stairs a small dimly lit anteroom gave way to a huge room, in which the first thing that caught attention being a row of 8 or 10 bathtubs, in which lounged men were involved in water sports among other things, some naked, some fully clothed. I do remember thinking I wouldn’t want my leathers sitting in those tubs, however would you get them clean again? On the other side of a dividing wall, a maze of private and public rooms filled with slings, cages, crosses, in short, everything a budding leather man into SM could want. I don’t remember what I did that night, but I do remember coming out of there as the sun was rising and the butchers were bringing in the meat carcasses from the refrigerator trucks and hooking them into the meat processing plants around the neighborhood. I don’t want to seem wanton, but I began to know the butchers by their first names… <grin>. I fondly remember taking a college chum there when he first moved to NYC. He was so excited, so turned on to get there he was almost dragging me down the street. Once we went downstairs and turned the corner to the tubs he latched Continued on page 48

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This Houston based quintet is said to inspire audiences through unique, interactive chamber concerts that are unique in their outreach appeal. They have pioneered unconventional performance practices and are dedicated to teaching tolerance through music education in schools.

The program begins at 7:30 p.m. on Feb. 24 at the Camelot Theatres in Palm Springs, one of the best venues in the desert for comfort and acoustics. Tickets for the performance are available at the door for $20. (Tickets for the entire season are just $50.)

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onto me with a grip of steel and turned intrinsic part of the scene that no one and said “Don’t leave my side…. Just don’t gave it much thought… until later when leave my side”. we started the mourning process.

Hot, raunchy edgeplay sex was rampant, it was everywhere, it was hot, it was fun and it was plentiful. 2 ways, 3 ways, orgies, whatever…and that was just the beginning of the evening. “OK”, I hear you ask, “What the hell does this have to do with Leather politics?” Well, it means everything, and it means nothing. It means nothing because the sex had little to do with leather etiquette, leather families, or leather roles and rules. It had everything to do with Leathersex and the hot Leathermen you undertook it with. Everything because the uninhibited sex was such an

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WEEKLY GUIDE TO THE STARS ARIES (March 21-April 19): Spokes on the wheel aren’t always easy to just grease. Toss some elbow work in if you want the gears to turn.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Silence is only golden when it’s warranted. If you see something out of the ordinary, speak your mind. Don’t regret the quiet later.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Cautious and steady isn’t always the most practical of methods. Mix it up a little bit. Taking a risk now and then can pay off.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): There’s change in the air. Grasp it now before it escapes out the window. You might not know if there’ll be more on the horizon.

LEO (July 23-Aug 22): Test your mind every day. The brain can be just as much a muscle as the rest.

But it still needs to be flexed.

VIRGO (Aug 23-Sept 22): It can feel like love is just out of reach, but still in the eye’s view.

If there’s someone you’re secretly feeling things about, gauge theirs towards you.

LIBRA (Sept 23-Oct 22): Every so often, the staleness and stagnation of routine can seem maddening. Tweak a few details here and there to stave off the inanity.

SCORPIO (Oct 23-Nov 21): Tough times are hardly new, with or without a recession. Tighten up your purse-strings now in order to enjoy the fruits later.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov 22-Dec 21): Finding something perplexing?

Take a step back and ask for someone else to take a stab. Fresh eyes are better than weary ones.

LIBRA (Sept 23-Oct 22): Stress can build up over time if you let yourself bottle it in. Find outliers for the strain. Take a run or hit the gym. Release the excess.

AQUARIUS (Jan 20-Feb 18): Be smart about your next moves.

Life can be a bit like chess; a pawn can become a queen, but it can also be easily slain.

PISCES (Feb 19-March 20): Moderation can be your friend just as much as it can be your enemy.

Too much and you’re overdoing it. Too little and you feel empty.

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JERSEY’S JOURNAL by Jersey Shore All of my world is a stage. And since I have this stage I must utilize it and create the best shows I can. Give people new and interesting entertainment and to challenge myself, as well. When I leave this earth I hope I deserve a huge standing ovation! I just need to put the work into it. Now I am at a good place in my life when I can start being more creative that I ever was, and obviously more than I have been recently, which is null, none, zero!

When I plan a show I don’t just pull a dress and do a song. I put actual thought into it. If I have 4 numbers that night, I tried to do a flashy showgirl headdress number, a dance number, some comedy, a ballad. I try to give different looks and stylized routines.

There is nothing most unsatisfying than standing there in a dress mouthing words.

So, as I go through the many, many pastis tubs I have never even cracked open in five years I seem to find unfinished projects of headdresses and costumes and whatever I want to turn them into.

er. When life brings you down, just add glitter. On a special note, no matter how many times you wash your face or whatever area you glitter...your ass? It will be there many, many days afterwards. I can attest to that. I’ve even shit glitter a few times. Don’t ask!!!! NO, I wasn’t screwing a fairy. Unless he was a butch one with no lisp.

So, glitter and be gay. Glitter and be straight. Just Glitter!!!

Peace, love, and Glitter, Jersey Jersey can be contacted at: Dragapalooza@aol.com jersey can be seen performing at: Throw back Thursdays with Jersey Shore 6pm cocktail hour 7pm movie @ Ultra Star Cinema Cathedral City (former Imax) Special Azul appearance Feb 24th 7:30 pm

I have the power, not to mention the creativity and resources to do so, so look out my little chickadees for the second coming of Shore. Well, it’s actually the 5th or 6th coming. Creativity is a huge outlet for me, and my mental health, and have you noticed all I mention is my struggle with depression, maybe sniffing glue and Image and Photo by James Cesena / The iMiJ Factory spreading the air with glitter will make @ dragapalooza@aol.com 54 extraYour weekly LGBT Gay Desert FreeJersey Digital Version on-line. life sparkly.

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THE LAST WORD by George W. Zander The Last Word By George Zander Governor Wallace is alive. Send in the National Guard!! For those of you who forgot or weren’t yet born..

Jan 11 1963. President John F. Kennedy issues presidential proclamation 3542, forcing Alabama Governor George Wallace to comply with federal court orders allowing two African-American students to register for the summer session at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa. This will be looked at as the “Thank Jesus we can have black people playing football now.” action. The proclamation ordered Wallace and all persons acting in concert with him to cease and desist from obstructing justice.

Backwards a few years and on September 4, 1957, the first day of school at Central High, a white mob gathered in front of the school, and Governor Orval Faubus deployed the Arkansas National Guard to prevent the black students from entering. In response to Faubus’ action, a team of NAACP lawyers won a federal district court injunction to prevent the governor from blocking the students’ entry. With the help of police escorts, the students successfully entered the school through a side entrance on September 23 1957. Fearing escalating mob violence, however, the students were rushed home soon afterward. Eisenhower ordered troops from the Army’s 101st Airborne Division and the Arkansas National Guard (take that Gov’ner) to protect the students, who were shielded by federal troops.

Fast Forward again...to now.

Some counties have refused marriage today in face of federal law. President Obama needs to muster the National Guard now and open up marriage in the counties breaking the law! The President hasn’t had to do that yet, as many Alabama Court Houses are now opening.

In Arkansas the Legislature went back to 1977 and re-introduced Anita Bryant tactics. Lawmakers have approved legislation that prohibits cities and counties from implementing anti-discrimination policies for LGBT people. The measure was inspired by the successful effort to repeal a non-discrimination ordinance in Fayetteville, the first in the state.

So, two of our least favorite states are taking us back in time.

These folks have not stopped fighting the War Between the States. They think that they are just resting and they will win the next round.

The best thing for us to do is if you have some extra money, send it to organizations in those states. If you have some time volunteer! AND REGISTER TO VOTE. These folks won’t ever give up!.

Join us at Palm Springs VillageFest every Thursday George W. Zander Field Manager, Equality California 760.409.0208 george.zander@eqca.org

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