A few years ago, Janine Rivera, of Giselle Woo and the Night Owls, went to say hello to Y La Bamba leader Luz Elena Mendoza at a show—and discovered their families are both from Coalcomán, Michoacán.

Our beer scribe went hunting for beer in the Temecula area—and found a lot of delicious brews.

Current L-Fund board members, led by co-chairs Robbin Burr and Mei Ling Tom, have been taking a hard look at the challenges the organization is facing in terms of growing membership and maintaining its services as local needs grow.

Topics addressed this week include small business owners, pepper balls, chiefs of staff, Abraham Lincoln—and more!

Part Two starts in 2017, and at one point in this play, a young person is flatly asked if he knows about the AIDS crisis, and he hesitantly replies, “A bit …” These words astonish those of us who lived through it and lost so many during that time.

The follow-up takes the Grabber (Ethan Hawke), the serial killer from the original film, and tries to turn him into the new Freddy Krueger, stalking people in the dream world.

Founded in 1996, Well in the Desert serves 80,000 meals a year to people, both housed and without homes, dealing with food insecurity. Matt Naylor is the organization's president.

Once you arrive and go inside these lush palm groves, you will feel like you’re in a jungle a world away from the desert surroundings of the Coachella Valley.

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The tram ride from Palm Springs’ Chino Canyon to Mount San Jacinto whisks passengers from the 2,643 foot Valley Station to the 8,516 foot Mountain Station, a climb of more than a mile, in about 10 minutes.

Topics addressed this week include political violence, food carts, choose-your-own-adventure games, notepads—and more!

This will be the first year without a new AHS installment since 2020. (You probably remember what was going on then.) This means now is the perfect time to revisit the previous seasons.

Jared Leto plays Ares, a character that’s essentially security software created by an evil tech mogul, and he’s in search of a “permanence code” that would allow him to survive in the real world. This is the dumbest premise for a blockbuster movie this year.

As conceived, SPORT magazine would determine each year’s World Series MVP, while GM would deliver the award itself—a white Chevrolet Corvette convertible, which my dad would bring home to "work out the bugs."

She’ll be performing around the Coachella Valley in October building up hype for her debut album, Cottonwood, slated for release on Nov. 1; she’ll celebrate that day with a show at the Red Barn.

The band is kicking off a month-long tour in support of a new album, God Save the Gun, right here in the desert.

Topics broached this week include beards, bribes, boots, Biden—and more!

Although the duo's Oct. 21 performance at Pappy and Harriet's will be their first in the desert, their musical stylings are inspired by some of the Coachella Valley’s musical greats.

Desert Friends emerged out of Joshua Tree a little more than a year ago with a captivating blend of groovy, funky, trance-filled surf-rock tunes. The band is performing Sunday, Oct. 12, at the Joshua Tree Music Festival.

The Come Over October movement takes the intimidation out of entertaining and replaces it with a simple reminder: Open your door; invite someone in; and share one of the oldest rituals on Earth—a bottle of wine.

The photographer has been documenting the dark and demented Creatures of the Night drag show. In the music space, De Leon has been releasing music as Dead Stare, a solo project in which the artist mixes dark-wave synths with classic metal guitar.

This show chooses to fantasize and even glamorize the Gein story to show his connection to classic horror films, with re-creations of moments in those aforementioned movies. It’s a weird sort of celebration of his life.

Revolution Stage launches its third season with "Point Loma," a thriller written by Palm Springs resident Tim Mulligan.

Topics touched upon include tofu, fishermen, fatsos, banter—and more!

This year, the peak of the Orionid meteor shower coincides with the date of new moon, Oct. 21. Ideal!

Here’s how you’re supposed to eat these peppers: First, squirt them with a little lemon. Next, add some soy sauce, followed by the mayo. Then eat!

A survey of some of the varied October entertainment offerings in the Coachella Valley and high desert.

Review: Fans who could afford a ticket (or could somehow get one otherwise) to Acrisure last night were treated to an epic Paul McCartney performance.

Set in a fictional (?) America where an authoritarian government has suppressed the masses, destroyed the country and inspired violent revolutionary movements, Leonardo DiCaprio plays a rebel known for blowing things up.

Kopelson is one of the founders of the Chicago Gay Men’s Chorus. In the ’80s and early ’90s, it seemed that everyone in the chorus was passing away from AIDS. “You’d go to rehearsal on a Sunday and hear that someone else had died,” he said.

Since schools reopened, at least two of the valley’s three school districts have been working to offer better in-school medical and psychological support to students and family members experiencing mental-health and behavioral-health challenges.

The fundraiser seeks to raise much-needed funds for Barkee LaRoux’s House of Love, which helps senior and hospice dogs rescued from shelters and abandoned by owners.

Capriotti’s Sandwich Shop offers a sandwich called The Bobbie, which includes turkey, cranberry sauce, stuffing and mayonnaise.

Sour Cellars, in Rancho Cucamonga, makes world-class barrel-aged sour ales.

Topics addressed this week include podcast interruptions, The New York Times, being ambidextrous, bleach—and more!

The Mid-Autumn concert will take place at 6 p.m., Friday, Oct. 3, at Coachella Valley Brewing Co. in Thousand Palms. A donation of $15 is required at the door.

Our latest dose of food and restaurant news includes details on new coffee and gelato in Palm Springs; an Asian bakery opening in Palm Desert; and more!

Jake is the owner of Black Rabbit, a restaurant/club in New York City he started with Vince, before gambling debts caused Vince to flee. Vince returns to the city after a few years—bringing a lot of trouble with him.

Christopher Smith, aka Peacemaker (John Cena), had a rough first season, and things get even rougher in the new episodes, as Christopher visits an alternate timeline in which his deceased father and brother (David Denman) are alive.

CASAs spend at least one day a month with their assigned charge. But the role is more than simply providing companionship; the CASA communicates with legal, health and education professionals about the child’s case.

Topics touched upon this week include empathy, incivility, robust dialogue, flying—and more!

Sitting at an elevation of 1,600 feet, the campground includes 34 campsites and nine equestrian sites in the Cleveland National Forest.

Just after 6 p.m. on March 24, 2022, he called his husband and told him he was on Interstate 10. However, he needed to use a restroom, so he stopped at an outlet mall in Cabazon. Within 45 minutes, Michael Moser was dead.

Years after a fictional American civil war, young men gather for an annual ritual that requires them to walk until just one man remains standing, winning vast riches. The catch: When you bow out, you are executed on the spot.

Despite pending litigation, local animal advocates are working in tandem with Riverside County Department of Animal Services director Mary Martin on a spay and neuter project to prevent overcrowding.

Angel View, a nonprofit organization that helps disabled children throughout the Coachella Valley, was founded in 1954 on a natural hot mineral spring in Desert Hot Springs by a group of parents whose children suffered from polio.

Topics broached this week include union-busting corporations, Papa John, six-packs, invisible ink—and more!

Streaming TV, which is more expensive than ever (the “cable replacement” theory has finally come full circle), has some cracking new offerings this September.

While New York City has never looked more beautiful than it does in Highest 2 Lowest, stunningly shot by cinematographer Matthew Libatique, the film never finds a rhythm.

On Friday, Sept. 26, the kickoff event will occur at Coachella Valley Brewing Company; on Saturday, Oct. 11, is the lead-up event at The Hood Bar and Pizza, with the main event on Oct. 25 at the Tack Room Tavern.