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Volume 69 | Number 17
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THE DESERT MOBILE HOME NEWS CELEBRATING THE DESERT COMMUNITIES FOR 65 YEARS
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New Year’s Eve celebrate your way!
he new year brings the promise of a tomorrow — more time with your loved ones, more chances for adventures, more cozy and content moments in your favorite places. There are so many ways for you to ring in the new year your way this Dec. 31. Take your old acquaintance and your new friends or just yourself to the celebrations at one of the Agua Caliente casinos. Savor dinner and drinks at one of the many restaurants offering specials for the holiday. Whether you try something new and different or indulge in an old favorite, we wish you the happiest of New Year’s Eve celebrations — and more importantly, a wonderful 2023.
Agua Caliente Casino will Light It Up 2023 at its three locations with a Dance Party at The Show with Zowie Bowie and DJ Boba at 9 p.m. DJ Carlos will be spinning the hits on the casino floor from 7 p.m. to 2 a.m. 32250 Bob Hope Drive, Rancho Mirage. Party Under the Stars in Cathedral City with an outdoor bar, food trucks, and music by Haute Chile in the Agave Caliente Terraza. Alf Alpha spin the hits on
• A 2009 study found that lost wallets were 88% more likely to be returned to their owners if they contained a photo of a baby. Barring that, you’re also more likely to recover one if you typically carry pictures of a puppy, family members or an elderly couple. • The word “checkmate” comes from the Arabic “shat mat,” or “The king is dead.”
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1. TELEVISION: What is the name of the next-door neighbor on TV’s sitcom “Home Improvement”? 2. LITERATURE: Which war was the setting for Anthony Doerr’s novel “All the Light We Cannot See”?
the casino floor from 7 p.m. to 2 a.m. 68960 E. Palm Canyon Drive, Cathedral City. The Palm Springs location will host a New Year’s Eve Block Party with performances by DJ Lady Kate and Pop Vinyl with a midnight firework extravaganza starting at 8 p.m. 401 E. Amado Rd, Palm Springs. For more information visit aguacalientecasinos.com Join Fantasy Springs Resort Casino for free live music to ring in the New Year at Twelve with a performance by Steel Rod and Guests and Tre’sure performing at LIT! The evening includes free party favors for casino guests, while supplies last. 84245 Indio • Want your candles to burn longer and drip less? Put them in the freezer for a few hours before lighting them.
• Martial arts icon Bruce Lee could throw a single grain of rice into the air and catch it with chopsticks.
In This Issue
• In what must qualify as one of the oddest marketing campaigns ever created, Burger King launched one that entitled customers to a free Whopper if they unfriended 10 Facebook friends. Those folks would receive a message explaining that their digital relationship was less valuable than the sandwich. Hey, we like Whoppers too, but really! • Early 19th-century composer Robert Schumann had an interesting, if grisly and ineffective, method of attempting to cure
Springs Parkway, Indio. 800-8272946, fantasyspringsresort.com Start your celebration early or come for a late-night toast. Larkspur Grill will be open all day New Year’s Eve with a four-course prix fixe menu available for dinner, 8 and 10 p.m., which includes a glass of sparkling wine and another toast at midnight, party favors, dancing, and more. The regular menu will be served from 5 to 6:45 p.m. Doug and Meg will perform from 8 p.m. to 12:30 a.m. Visit hotelpaseo.com or call 760340-9001 for reservations. 45400 Larkspur Lane, Palm Desert. CONTINUED ON PAGE 2
any disease he had or might have: plunging his hands into the guts of recently slaughtered animals.
3. MUSIC: Who wrote the song “All Along the Watchtower,” performed by Jimi Hendrix? 4. GEOGRAPHY: When is Earth Day celebrated each year? 5. HISTORY: Which two city-states fought the Peloponnesian War? 6. MEDICAL TERMS: What is a common name for the disorder called sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia? 7. ASTRONOMY: Where is the Oort Cloud in space? 8. GEOMETRY: How many sides does a nonagon have? 9. FOOD & DRINK: What’s another name for egg white? 10. GENERAL KNOWLEDGE: How large is the Times Square ball that drops at midnight on New Year’s Eve? (c) 2022 King Features Synd., Inc.
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• Dolphins have been witnessed amusing themselves by creating underwater bubble rings. • There’s a Google Map for Mercury, Venus, Earth’s moon, Mars, Pluto, three out of four of Jupiter’s moons, and all but one of the round Saturnian moons. • Sid Nouar, owner of the 1000&1 Signes restaurant in Paris, was the first deaf person to open a restaurant in France. It is also staffed entirely by deaf employees. (c) 2022 King Features Synd., Inc.