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Volume 69 | Number 16
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THE DESERT MOBILE HOME NEWS CELEBRATING THE DESERT COMMUNITIES FOR 65 YEARS
The Magic of Lights
Illuminates valley nights with dazzling drive-through experience
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ights make the holidays more special, and that’s especially true with the Magic of Lights. This eye-popping production debuts this year, making the season brighter and more colorful. The Empire Polo Club will be transformed into a vibrant drive-through event, featuring dozens of displays, illuminated canopies and digital animation, all constructed with millions of individual LED lights to create a memorable holiday experience. The event is structured with one-price per carload, affordable for families and all ages. Inside the comfort of their own vehicle, guests will enjoy Magic of Lights’ classic holiday favorites including Winter Wonderland, the 12 Days of Christmas, Toyland, Festive Elves and Reindeer Road. In addition to the 200-foot long Enchanting Tunnel of Lights, there will also be three other brand-new tunnels including the Blizzard Light Tunnel, the Snowflake Tunnel and the Candy Cane Light Tunnel. Other brand-new displays include the 32-foot tall, animated Mattel’s Waving Christmas Barbie, Prehistoric Christmas featuring life sized dinosaurs greeting guests and Bigfoot Monster Trucks. Created with over two million sparkling lights, Magic of Lights is intended to be a nostalgic
• When Ivan the Terrible’s young son Dmitry died, a bell was rung to mark the occasion. The bell was later lashed, tried for treason, found guilty and exiled to Siberia. Why? Local legend had it that the bell rang of its own accord, which was considered an evil omen. • Almost every New York City alley scene in the movies is shot at the same location.
1. TELEVISION: What is the primary setting of the Netflix series “Bridgerton”? 2. GEOGRAPHY: Where is the Republic of Maldives located?
and festive event that may become the Coachella Valley’s next annual tradition. Produced by Family Entertainment Holdings, LLC, the event will exhibit 12.6 miles of light cord and 3,750 staff hours dedicated to each production. The steel displays are designed, bent, cut and welded into 800 frames that are combined in different configurations to create the giant winter holiday scenes. Each frame of each scene is designed using the latest CAD technology and hand built in-house from 15 pages of design specifications. Every show uses about 10 miles of steel to
build the displays and 10 miles of LED lighting installed inside the displays. There are 10 different colors of LED bulbs used in the shows. The event accommodates various sizes of vehicles (at different pricing levels-please check website), and guests are asked to stay in their vehicles. No passengers are allowed in the back of truck beds. It’s time to light up the night! Held through January 1 from 5:30 to 10 p.m. nightly. Tickets start at $30 per vehicle. Empire Polo Club, 81800 51st Avenue, Indio. For more info visit magicoflights.com.
• A neuroscientist suffered a series of strokes that left him with an irresistible urge to rhyme and rap. He made the most of this unusual side effect by going on to pursue freestyle rap and improvisation as a hobby.
• In some cities, road crews use pickle juice or beet juice to combat winter’s icy streets.
• We hate to disillusion you, but pumpkin spice and pumpkin pie spice contain no pumpkin whatsoever. • Got a mouse problem at your house? Your grocery store might provide a quick and easy answer in the form of bananas. Male mice are scared of their scent -- especially virgin male mice.
* Nigel Richards won a French Scrabble World Championship without actually knowing how to speak the language. He just memorized words from a French dictionary. • American radio broadcaster Art Bell stayed on air for a worldrecord-setting 116 hours and 15 minutes as part of a fundraiser to bring 130 Vietnamese orphans to the U.S. for adoption. (c) 2022 King Features Synd., Inc.
3. LITERATURE: What is the subject of Walt Whitman’s poem “O Captain! My Captain!”? 4. LANGUAGE: What is the third letter of the Greek alphabet? 5. HISTORY: When was the last time the Liberty Bell rang in Philadelphia? 6. MOVIES: What was Henry Fonda’s jury number in “12 Angry Men”? 7. MATH: What is a heptahedron? 8. BUSINESS: In what year did McDonald’s introduce the Big Mac to all of its customers? 9. U.S. PRESIDENTS: Which president tried to ban Christmas trees from the White House? 10. ANIMAL KINGDOM: What do bees collect from flowers and use to make honey? (c) 2022 King Features Synd., Inc. ANSWER TO TRIVIA ON PAGE 6