Coachella Valley Weekly - September 13 to September 19, 2018 Vol. 7 No. 26

coachellavalleyweekly.com • September 13 to September 19, 2018 Vol. 7 No. 26

Venus De Fido

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Big Bad Voodoo Daddy

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The Mavericks

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Grand Central

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Jhey and the Whee

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September 13 to September 19, 2018

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CONTENTS A Few Good Men - Gala & Awards........ 3 Vwnus De Fido........................................ 4 Big Bad Voodoo Daddy at Westin......... 5 Tony Bennett at Fantasy Springs.......... 5

September 13 to September 19, 2018

DISTINGUISED MEN OF THE COCHELLA VALLEY TO BE HONORED

BY INLAND EMPIRE RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE AT ANNUAL GALA

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he Inland Empire Ronald McDonald House is kicking off the giving season with its annual gala and awards ceremony, A Few Good Men, on Thursday, September 20, 2018. This year’s event at Agua Caliente Casino Resort and Spa in Rancho Mirage, California will honor eight distinguished gentlemen from the Inland Empire who have made an impact on the communities of the Coachella Valley in which they live and serve.

The Class of 2018 honorees, hand selected for their years of volunteer and philanthropic service to the region, include: Jack Srebnik, Restaurateur; Frank Harrison, President of General Air Conditioning and Plumbing; Dean Rathbun, Partner-United American Mortgage Corporation; V. Manuel Perez, Fourth District Supervisor; Adolfo Iniguez, Morning Show Host-Programing and Production Director; J. David Miller, Founder & Head Coach of the SoCal Coyotes; Joel B. Johnson, Esq., Attorney at Law; and Darrell Mike, Tribal Chairman 29 Palms Band of Mission Indians.

The event, co-chaired by Bruce and Ann Piller of La Quinta, will include a red carpet entrance, entertainment, cocktails, silent and live auctions, and delicious food. Those interested in supporting the event can contact Penelope Sachs at 909-747-1262 or purchase tickets online at rmhcsc.org/ inlandempire/events. Table sponsorships, program ad placements and other sponsorship opportunities are still available.

“Romans 12:8 instructs us to respond to those in need with great acts of mercy, to contribute generously and with zeal, and to offer cheerfulness and support to all who are hurting. That describes these great men around me - and the mission of

Ronald McDonald House Charities,” said David Miller, Founder and Head Coach of the SoCal Coyotes. “We are so humbled to be included. I’m very grateful for my wife Laurie Beth and all of our children, who share a relentless commitment to offer love and comfort to those in need throughout our community.”

The Inland Empire Ronald McDonald House works to keep families close to their critically-ill children - located steps from Loma Linda University Children’s Hospital, the House allows families to access critical medical care while ensuring they have a warm nurturing, caring, environment and safe place to stay. The Inland Empire Ronald McDonald House is a home away from home for these families and serves 54 families nightly. Guests have access to a private guest room, private bathroom, and share common areas such as living room, kitchens, dining rooms, refrigeration, activity rooms, library, laundry room, business center, backyard play space and much more.

Since opening on September 12, 1996, the House has served more than 23,000 family stay requests from Riverside and

San Bernardino counties. Of all the families served from Riverside County, 48% are from the Coachella Valley. For more information, please visit rmhcsc.org/inlandempire.

For more than 35 years, Ronald McDonald House Charities® of Southern California (RMHCSC) has been dedicated to improving the health and well-being of children and families across Inyo, Kern, Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara and Ventura counties. RMHCSC helps families with critically-ill children stay together, connecting them with others facing similar challenges through its six Ronald McDonald Houses® in Bakersfield, Loma Linda, Long Beach, Los Angeles, Orange and Pasadena and two Ronald McDonald Family Rooms®.

One of the few chapters to operate a costfree, medically supervised Camp Ronald McDonald For Good Times®, RMHCSC helps children with cancer and their siblings rediscover childhood and develop the selfesteem and self-efficacy often lost as a result of the disease. More information about RMHCSC and its programs can be found at www.rmhcsc.org.

The Mavericks......................................... 6 Bill Engvall at Spotlight 29.................... 6 Brewtality............................................... 7 Sports Scene........................................... 7 Consider This - The Magpie Salute........ 8 Art Scene - Desert Icons......................... 9 Pet Place............................................... 10 The Vino Voice ...................................... 11 Club Crawler Nightlife ................... 12-13 Good Grub - Grand Central PS............ 14

FRANK HARRISON

President Of General Air Conditioning and Plumbing

ADOLFO INIGUEZ

Morning Show Host, Radio Programming Director & Production Director

JOEL B. JOHNSON ESQ. Attorney at Law

DARRELL MIKE

Tribal Chiarman 29 Palms Band of Mission Indians

J. DAVID MILLER

Founder & Head Coach of The SoCal Coyotes

Breaking the 4th Wall-Jhey & the Whey... 15 Screeners ............................................. 16 Book Review......................................... 17 Safety Tips ............................................ 17 Haddon Libby...................................... 19 Dale Gribow......................................... 19 Free Will Astrology.............................. 20 Life & Career Coach............................. 20 Cannabis Corner................................... 22

V. MANUEL PEREZ Fourth District Supervisor

DEAN RATHBUN

Partner - United American Mortgage Corporation

JACK SREBNIK Restaurateur

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ANNOUNCING THE VENUE AT VENUS

BY AMANDA DORTA

LOCAL BUSINESS

ACOACHELLA PRODUCTIONVALLEY PROGRAM WITHIN VENUS DE FIDO WHERE THE MANTRA IS “WE LOVE TO MAKE YOU FEEL GOOD!” NON PROFIT ORGANIZATIONS HAVE FOUND THEIR FAVORITE LOCAL EVENT SPACE!

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enus De Fido Wellness Fitness and Events Center has launched the Venue at Venus, an Event Production program that offers extremely reduced room rental rates to local nonprofit organizations who are willing to book their events at least 30 days in advance.

The announcement was made by the Venus De Fido founding CEO, Lorie Loftis, who is passionate about creating opportunities that benefit nonprofits. The company has worked with many nonprofits and has developed several events for local organizations like the Parkinson’s Resource Center, the Palm Desert Historical Society, Loving All Animals, and Cancer Partners and is currently in its third year of business.

The Venue at Venus offers a compilation of 5 exciting event spaces nestled among many turn-key focal points that any nonprofit group will enjoy.

About the Event Spaces: The Indoor/Outdoor Café can be booked for a special event or can be used to host an impromptu walk in meeting. Live Music capacities in this leashed-dog friendly outdoor patio space and can be complied with other spaces. Groups of up to 40 can enjoy the patio.

The Indoor Park can be booked for special events and can be set up in advance with notice for Café service if your party is large and/ has dogs off leash. Makes for a great

vendor hall space as well. This space has full AV Capacities with dance floor, bar and buffet options. Groups up to 150.

The Outdoor Piazza can be booked for special events and can be set up in advance with notice for Café service if your party prefers this space. This space offers a VIP entrance and full AV Capacities with dance floor, bar and buffet options. Groups up to 75.

The Group Fitness Room can be booked for group Fitness Workshops and also serves as an additional room rental option for larger special events buffet service. This space offers a large wall projector to showcase digital media pertaining to nonprofit organization.

Capacity up to 75 theatre seating set up.

The Venus Lobby where live entertainers love to play the Steinway in the lobby area, which can be booked privately after hours or just rsvp table(s) for smaller groups for meeting with Cafe Service. Live Music capacities in this leashed-dog friendly indoor space. Capacity up to 65.

What’s more? Your organization does not have to rent a room or produce an event to benefit from the Venue at Venus’ nonprofit program turnkey fundraising opportunities during regularly scheduled events.

In house donation. This option allows your organization to receive a gift donated from Venus. This can be utilized to raise funds for your organization through an “opportunity drawing” at any approved time.

Charity Brunch Events. Enjoy a Private brunch or open your event to the public.

Plan in advance to receive a percentage of the revenue collected donated back to your charity.

Add on to ticket price. Collaborate with the Venue at Venus to increase the ticket price for any given event. Your organization will be written a check for the total of the difference.

Pre-purchase tables at any event and sell seats. Resell the seats at a price of your choosing and keep all of the difference for your Charity.

Nonprofit organization must have a valid 501(c)(3) fling to process receipts to account for the reduced room rental rates offered.

The Venue at Venus is a program within the Venus De Fido Wellness Fitness and Events Center that has extensive experience producing fashion shows, trade shows, workshops, catered events and productions located in central Palm Desert. To book and event or reserve your organization to benefit from any of the turn-key fundraising options please contact the Events Department via email events@venusdefido.com or call 760.834.7070.

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September 13 to September 19, 2018

SWING ONTO THE DANCE FLOOR AT THE WESTIN MISSION HILLS RESORT ADDS

BIG BAD ofVOODOO DADDY CONCERT IN ADDITION TO FALL GROOVES SERIES great music and friendship featuring Grammy

he Westin Mission Hills Golf Resort & Spa adds Big Bad Voodoo Daddy (BBVD) to the lineup of renowned artists that will be performing this Fall at the 4-star resort. Currently on its 8th season at the Westin, the Grooves concert series continues with Grammy award winning artists headlining 3 spectacular concerts on October 27th, November 24th and December 8th. The BBVD concert will be taking place November 16th as a part of the Cathedral City Hot Air Balloon festivities happening at the resort.

This Big Bad Voodoo Daddy concert is no ordinary concert, it’s a benefit concert to help raise funds for the American Heart Association in addition to being a part of the Balloon glow happening that evening at the Westin. In the background of BBVD’s performance, guests will enjoy the sights of hot air balloons being lit up like giant colorful light bulbs. Pilots coordinate to fire up the burners and illuminate their balloons all at once for a breathing taking view.

The Westin Mission Hills is a proud sponsor of the Cathedral City Hot Air Balloon Festival.

Ticket proceeds of the BBVD concert will go towards the American Heart Association’s efforts to reduce disability and deaths caused by cardiovascular diseases and stroke. While guests enjoy the sounds of Big Bad Voodoo Daddy and the view, they’ll also be helping a good cause.

Tickets are $40-$120 and can be purchased at: hotairballoonfest.com or directly at eventbrite.com/e/balloon-glow-concerttickets-49479616866.

Kicking off the concerts happening this fall is the first Grooves concert with artists Melissa Manchester, Paul Brown, Gregg Karukas, and Michael Paulo on October 27th.

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Award winning artists. Singer/songwriter Melissa Manchester is a Grammy award winner for her number one hit “You Should Hear How She Talks About You”. Guitarist Paul Brown is a two-time Grammy winning urban jazz producer with over 60 #1 radio airplay hits. Brown has scored countless hit singles and done thousands of performances across the world. Gregg Karukas won the Grammy for producing, composing, arranging, playing all keyboards and engineering Echoes of Love, which won Best New Age Album at the 55th Grammy Awards in February 2013. Michael Pauolo has been one of the most versatile and cosmopolitan saxophonists in pop, soul and contemporary jazz for nearly 35 years. These 4 artists will share the stage on October 27th at 7pm at The Westin Mission Hills for a great opening show for this series. Purchase Tickets: www.groovesatthewestin.com.

The series continues with an electric show on November 24th with SPECIAL EFX All Stars: Chieli Minucci, Elliott Yamin, Nelson Rangell & Lao Tizer. Guitarist, composer, and arranger Chieli Minucci is three-time Emmy- winning and longtime leader of SPECIAL EFX, a major force on the jazz and world music scene for 35 years. Elliott Yamin is an American singer widely known for his hit single “Wait for You” and for placing third on the fifth season of American Idol. His self-titled album, released March 20, 2007, debuted at number one on the Billboard Independent Albums chart and at number three on the Billboard 200.

Nelson Rangell is one of the most exciting and diverse performers in the genre, equally adept at soprano, alto, and tenor saxophone, as well as being a genuine virtuoso on flute and piccolo. Keyboardist and bandleader

Lao Tizer is a gifted performer known for his genre-bending mix of jazz, classical, new age, and jam-oriented music. Don’t miss these artists hit the stage at The Westin Mission Hills November 24th at 7pm. Purchase Tickets: www.groovesatthewestin.com.

Michael Lington, Steve Oliver and the LA Collective will be taking over the stage at the last concert of the Fall Grooves series. Michael Lington is a Danish-American contemporary saxophonist, songwriter, producer, recording artist and a purveyor of soul and contemporary jazz. Steve Oliver is an American musician, guitarist, vocalist, songwriter, and producer. Backing them will be the hottest new ensemble in smooth jazz, LA Collective. LA Collective is comprised of these accomplished musicians: drummer Tony Moore, bassist Darryl Williams, keyboardist Greg Manning and Kay-Ta Mizuno. The LA Collective originally came together as a backup band for different artists on the 2014 Dave Koz Cruise to Alaska. The band’s success on their first tour made them a permanent fixture in the Southern California contemporary jazz

music scene. The group draws directly from the diverse talents of its members and the “collective energy” they manifest on stage.

Don’t miss these artists close out the Grooves series with a bang on December 8th at 7pm.

Purchase Tickets at www.groovesatthewestin. com.

The concerts, which all begin at 7 p.m. with doors opening at 6:30 p.m., are open to hotel guests and visitors with individual tickets available from $45-$85. The top tier ticket includes a VIP reception featuring heavy appetizers and the opportunity to meet the artists. Reservations are required by calling (760) 770-2150 or via email to pinziminips@ westin.com.

For music lovers traveling to the event, or for locals who want to turn the night into a staycation, a special room rate is available.

Book online or call (877) 253-0041 and reference the code, “JAZZ.” For info about the Grooves concert series, contact Apaulo Music at (951)696-0184. For info about the Westin visit westinmissionhills. com or call (760)328-5955.

EVENTS FANTASY SPRINGS RESORT CASINO PRESENTS A ONE NIGHT ONLY PERFORMANCE BY MULTIPLE GRAMMY WINNER

TONY BENNETT WITH SPECIAL GUEST ANTONIA BENNETT

“We aren’t likely to see a recording career like this again.” - The New York Times “…his voice is still a technical marvel, and no one else on Earth can make a lyric written eight decades ago sound as natural as a conversation at a coffee shop.” - New York Magazine antasy Springs Resort Casino proudly presents Tony Bennett, the 19-time Grammy Award-winning musician whose music spans over six decades, on Friday, December 7, 2018 at The Special Events Center.

With worldwide record sales in the millions, and dozens of platinum and gold albums to his credit, Tony Bennett is a musician who touches the hearts and souls of audiences with his legendary vocals and charming stage presence.

His long list of achievements includes nineteen Grammy Awards, including the prestigious Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, making this artist a true international treasure. Signature tunes like “Steppin’ Out With My Baby” and “I Left My Heart In San Francisco” form part of the fabric of American music culture. Often billed as the world’s most boyish octogenarian, Tony Bennett is a vital musical artist at the peak of his powers. Tony Bennett’s daughter, Antonia Bennett has been touring with her father and will open the performance with a collection of jazz/ pop standards.

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At the age of 91, Tony Bennett is not slowing down and his last recording, Tony Bennett Celebrates 90 just won a Grammy Award for his son Dan Bennett who produced the album.

Bennett also appeared on the 60th Anniversary Grammy Awards telecast where he presented an award with John Legend, who sang with Tony on the 2006 Tony Bennett: DUETS recording.

This past November, the Library Of Congress presented Bennett with The Gershwin Prize marking the first time that an interpretive singer has been honored. The event was broadcast on PBS Nationally this January and featured tribute performances by Stevie Wonder, Josh Groban, Michael Bublé, Gloria Estefan and many others.

His signature song, “I Left My Heart In San Francisco, was inducted this year into the National Recordings Registry.

Bennett celebrated his 90th birthday in August of 2016 and the milestone was marked by the broadcast of Tony Bennett Celebrates 90: The Best is Yet To Come, a two-hour prime time special that aired in December. A companion CD of the same name was released simultaneously. 2012 marked the 50th anniversary of the singer’s signature song, “I Left My Heart in San Francisco” as well as the release of a new documentary film, The Zen Of Bennett, created and conceived by Tony’s son and manager Danny Bennett. In 2014, Tony Bennett released a collaborative album with Lady Gaga, Cheek To Cheek, which featured the two legendary artists performing jazz standards together. The album debuted at #1 on the Billboard Album charts making Bennett the oldest musical artist, at the age of 88, to have an album top the Billboard 200, and the album won the Grammy Award for Best Traditional Pop Album. Tony Bennett is a Kennedy Center Honoree, an NEA Jazz Master and a recipient of the United Nation’s Humanitarian and Citizen of the World honors. Last fall also saw the release of Bennett’s fifth book, Just Getting Started, which he co-authored with journalist Scott Simon. Tony Bennett’s new collaborative album with Diana Krall, Love Is Here To Stay,

celebrates the music of the Gershwins and will be released on September 14th.

Tony Bennett is also a talented painter. He has exhibited his work in galleries around the world, and three of his original paintings are part of the permanent collection in the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, DC. Throughout his career, Tony Bennett has put his heart and time into supporting humanitarian concerns and joined with Dr. Martin Luther King in the historic Selma march in 1965. His many charitable works include raising millions of dollars for Diabetes research and lending his artwork to raise funds for the American Cancer Society. Together with his wife, Susan, Tony Bennett established the charitable organization Exploring The Arts (ETA) to support arts education in public high schools. Tony founded the Frank Sinatra School of the Arts, a New York City public high school in his hometown of Astoria, Queens and ETA now supports 38 public high schools throughout New York City and Los Angeles.

For more information on Tony Bennett please visit www.tonybennett.com and www. exploringthearts.org.

Tickets for the Tony Bennett performance on Friday, December 7, 2018 at 8pm, are on sale now for $109, $89, $69 and $49 at the Fantasy Springs Box Office, via phone (800) 827-2946 or online at FantasySpringsResort.com.

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MUSIC THE MAVERICKS ON A MISSION – AN INTERVIEW WITH EDDIE PEREZ

SOLD OUT: MAVERICKS WITH LOS LOBOS, SEPTEMBER 14, AT 9 PM @ MORONGO RESORT AND CASINO

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f there was an award for continually and successfully defying the laws of genreidentification while remaining relevant and respected throughout the decades, the road-tested Mavericks would win every year, ad nauseum. With one of the most standalone voices since Elvis and Roy Orbison (in this writer’s opinion), The Mavericks have outdared categorization with apparent disregard for anything but creating the music that pours out of their souls. The one common thread, woven between each prismatic collection of neotraditional country, Tex-Mex, western swing, country pop, rock-a-billy and LatinFusion songs, is an authentically loving, respectful bow to the timeless and multicultural roots that timeless American music was built on. The Mavericks were Americana before the genre ever existed in the minds of award show producers, and they have owned it unapologetically, to the joy of many, always.

The aptly named Mavericks began their euphonic expeditions in 1989 and by their second album, What A Crying Shame, released in 1994, they had four top 40 country hits: “O What a Thrill,” “There Goes My Heart” and “I Should Have Been True.” A fifth single, a cover of Bruce Springsteen’s “All That Heaven Will Allow,” peaked at number 49. 1995’s Music for All Occasions won the band a Grammy Award for Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal for “Here Comes the Rain.”

They followed that up with «All You Ever Do Is Bring Me Down,” their highest country chart peak at number 13.

The band took a long break in 2004 but came back to earn two more Grammy nods for their critically acclaimed album, Brand New Day, with nominations for BEST AMERICANA ALBUM and BEST AMERICAN ROOTS SONG ( “I Wish You Well”). Not to shabby for the group’s first independent studio album, released on their own Mono Mundo Recordings. These accomplishments along with their CMAs, AMAAs and ACMAs are just a snapshot of the indelible multi-platinum footprint The Mavericks have left and continue to leave on

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the music industry.

Their bus was parked in Oklahoma City, when renowned guitar slinger, Eddie Perez, the guy on press duty that day, gave me a call to discuss the Maverick’s upcoming sold out show at Morongo Resort and Casino. The scheduled call interrupted a classic episode of the original Batman television series. The interview quickly turned into an inspirational conversation that I hope to capture on behalf of our many local musicians and readers.

Eddie had joined the Mavericks just prior to their near decade long break. Perez began playing in bands at the age of 13. His dad had taken him to see ZZ Top and he was fascinated.

A fan of Devo and Adam Ant (to name a few), Perez discovered Honky Tonk music thanks to Dwight Yoakam’s Guitars and Cadillacs.

“Hearing that really turned me around and it gave me a focus,” he says. It was in 2003 when Perez replaced Nick Kane in the Mavericks, bringing his rock and roll flair and sensibilities with him. “You wouldn’t think that an influence of Jimmy Page or Angus Young of AC/DC would fit into The Mavericks, but somehow it does…I don’t even think of music in genres anymore.”

Fit as he did, the band would break up in 2004.

Perez spent the time between 2004 and 2012 recording/touring with his main inspiration, Dwight Yoakum, as well as joining George Straight and Raul Malo in the studio

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AN EVENING WITH BILL ENGVALL

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potlight 29 Casino is proud to present An Evening with Bill Engvall on Saturday, December 1st at 8 p.m. in the Spotlight Showroom. Tickets ($60, $50, and $40) go on sale this Friday, September 7th at 10 a.m. the Casino Box Office and Spotlight29.com. Spotlight 29’s Spotlight Showroom offers the premier entertainment experience in the Coachella Valley.

A Grammy-nominated, multi-platinum selling recording artist and one of the top stand-ups in the country, Engvall is best known as one-fourth of the hugely successful Blue Collar Comedy Tour. The Blue Collar concert films sold over 9 million units and led to the WB hit sketch comedy

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for their albums. Eddie happily shared that it was he who “sent up the first Bat Signal,” as he put it (reflecting his TV programing of choice), that got the band back together. Singer Raul Malo had penned some songs that in his heart, he knew were songs that belonged to The Mavericks. “The timing seemed to be right for once. We wanted to do it right, so we met in the studio and said, ‘Let’s just see what we get.’ We ended up recording ‘In Your Arms,’ on the first take and from there, the whole record blossomed.”

Longtime friend and record producer, Scott Borchetta of Big Machine Records promptly and happily offered his support. Reflecting on that time, Perez shared, “We really weren’t quite prepared for how much the industry had changed while we were apart. I am old school in my heart and soul, and the people I’ve gravitated toward have the same energy – an authentic, nostalgic vibe. We do a lot of things ourselves now,” he said, referring to when the band established their own label in 2016, Mono Mundo Recordings (distributed

by Thirty Tigers Through Red). Raul Malo described the transition to Forbes: “Our business concerns now go hand-in-hand with our artist concerns. They are two in the same, whereas before, whenever you work with another entity, there’s another agenda. When someone else owns your masters, you’re at

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the mercy of whatever business they need to take care of.” Mono Mundo Recordings was inaugurated with All Night Live: Volume 1, followed by the band’s debut studio album for the imprint, Brand New Day. With the two Grammy nominations it earned independently, decades after their genesis, it is clear - The Mavericks have not lost their stellar ability to create ripples in an everchanging music-verse.

To talk to Eddie Perez, they will not be stopping again any time soon. If anything, the goals are much loftier and even more meaningful.

“After all these years, we still find huge purpose in it,” Perez shared, his genuine joy and gratitude pouring through the phone.

The charismatic guitar player, who through his authentic love for the music and incredible work ethic has managed to maintain strong relationships in the industry amidst all the changes, beamed at the opportunity to talk to younger artists. “To the young artists out there - be true to yourself; figure out what you want to leave out there in the universe.

It’s like the Blues Brothers say in their movie,” he laughs, ‘We’re on a mission from God.’ Joy has transcended to something greater than what we (The Mavericks) ever set out to do. These days feel like we’re standing on top of a mountain, and it feels great. I think artists around the world – dancers, painters, musicians – we all bring balance to a world that is almost apocalyptically troubled. We have a platform to put out what we want to see in in the world, a common goal with likeminded old friends, to make things better.”

Watch for the full release of The Mavericks first holiday album, Hey! Merry Christmas! loaded with original songs in early November.

It features eight new seasonal originals and the Maverick’s readings of two yuletide perennials, Darlene Love’s “Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)” and Irving Berlin’s “Happy Holiday.”

Follow them at themavericksband.com.

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show, Blue Collar TV. In 2012, he reunited with fellow Blue Collar stars Jeff Foxworthy and Larry the Cable Guy on the Them Idiots Whirled Tour, which aired on CMT. Most recently, Engvall was a contestant on Season 17 of ABC’s Dancing with the Stars, making it all the way to the finals. He previously starred in and executive produced the hit TBS sitcom The Bill Engvall Show.

Earlier this year, Engvall lent his voice to the animated comedy series Bounty Hunters, also on CMT. Engvall’s debut album, Here’s Your Sign, was certified platinum and held the top position on the Billboard Comedy Chart for 15 consecutive weeks, peaked at No. 5 on the Country Album Chart and reached the

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Subsequent albums 15° Off Cool and Aged and Confused continued Engvall’s impressive run of success.

Prepare for side-splitting laughs with comedian Bill Engvall on Saturday, December 1st at 8PM. Tickets are $60, $50 and $40, on sale this Friday, September 7th at Spotlight29.com, Star Tickets (800) 5853737, or the Spotlight 29 Box Office and Gift Shop. All attendees must be 21 or older.

Top 50 on Billboard’s Top 200 Chart. His sophomore album, Dorkfish, was certified gold and topped Billboard’s Comedy Chart.

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o, the other day at the brewery where I work, this couple sits at the bar and the guy asks the beertender what’s good and what’s new on tap. The couple orders a flight, and his girlfriend is very happy with the selection of beer she’s received. Not him though. For every beer she’d sip and enjoy, he’d then sip it and tell her why it wasn’t very good. Their biggest discrepancy came when they tried my Chardonnay oaked sour with black and blueberries. After exclaiming that she loved it, he took a sip, made a face, and explained (mansplained) to his girlfriend and the beertender what he felt the beer was lacking. “I homebrew my own sours, and I’ve just got this really picky palate,” he stated matter-of-factly to everyone around him, “I get that it’s hard for local breweries to make the kind of beer that I’m used to.” I shook my head and laughed at his statement. I was a homebrewer as well. As was the brewery’s owner. As was almost everyone you will meet in the independent craft beer industry.

I cringed at his statement, but only because I can remember being as pompously douchey as this guy was.

Taste is a subjective thing, what one person finds appealing, another may find repellant.

This is never more obvious than in beer and music. Subcultures breed very strong views that tie emotion and a feeling of integrity with a sense of competition and one-upmanship; the biggest example being when a growing musical act or brewery gets accused of “selling out”. One of my favorite underground heavymusic bands, Pig Destroyer, just released their new album, and the elitist metal community

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was quick to lambast the band for adding a bassist and cleaner production values to their sound. “Boring,” “disappointing,” “their old stuff was better,” is the rallying cry from the vocal minority. When Firestone Walker debut their 805 Blonde Ale in 2012, I may have said all those exact same things about the Paso Robles brewery. I was just learning to brew my own IPA’s, and if I you were going to impress me, you had to do a hell of a lot better than some bland, fizzy, boring, basic-ass blonde ale like 805. Don’t even get me started about the time I visited Claremont Brewing Co. I’d been home brewing for about a year and a half and had already racked up a half a dozen medals in small and local competitions. I was starting to get a bit of an ego, and I’d wonder why local breweries weren’t making the medjool-date and honey infused, oak-aged, English brown ales that I was making (and my ego said it was because they didn’t have muh skillzzz). A group of mine had rented a bus and did a brewery tour around the Inland Empire, and I spent most of that trip analyzing and criticizing everything I sampled. I was harshest

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on poor Claremont Brewing Co. I found fault in everything they had on tap, especially their stout, which I remember thinking tasted like straight soy sauce. By knocking the products created by businesses, I was letting everyone know I could do better in my garage.

Homebrewers are imaginative and idealistic, but they’re not always realistic.

The marijuana gummi-bear stout that you made last year in your garage, the one your friends all went crazy for? I’d love a sip of it, but good luck trying to recreate that recipe along with the dozen others you’d oversee keeping on tap if you were in charge of your own brewery. Or maybe you’d be able to jam 110 pounds of gummi edibles into your brew kettle after all. My first job as a brewer was very educational, and it helped wipe away a lot of my pretentious home brewing expectations.

Creating 5-gallon batches in your kitchen or garage for yourself and your buddies to drink is one thing, having to create 350 gallons of a beer that people must be willing to pay $6 a glass for is a different story. And what people will be willing to pay for all depends on your location and the demography you’re serving.

A brewery in Portland might be able to get away with brewing something so wild that an LA crowd might not go for it, and likewise, a beer that resonates with the Los Angeles craft beer scene may be too much for a more conservative beer drinking crowd like that of the Coachella Valley. That’s not to say that there aren’t dozens and dozens of craft beer aficionados out here that love a good pastry stout or sour IPA with lactose, but those beers aren’t what the basic, everyday drinkers crave.

BY AARON RAMSON To brew beer for a living means serving your audience and a bulk of your audience will want a clean, balanced, easy-drinking beer that doesn’t challenge their palates too deeply. And that is exactly why Firestone Walker sells so much more of its 805 Blonde than it does its critically acclaimed Sucaba barrel-aged barleywine.

To my credit, Lord Homebrew (what I named him) who came and graced my brewery with his presence didn’t say I was a bad brewer.

He simply let everyone know that his own homebrews were vastly superior in terms of complexity and flavor. And they very well may be! The joy of home brewing comes from being limited only by your imagination. I just received a text from work telling me that the black and blueberry sour sold out in less than 2 weeks of being on tap and it is officially gone. Although it didn’t meet his expectations of what a worthy sour should be, it did resonate with many other patrons, and they responded with their wallets. Like it or not, the goal of every good craft brewery should be to create a portfolio of beer that ranges the gamut from mass-appeal to bold and innovative. I didn’t understand that as a home brewer with something to prove, but as a professional who creates recipes to satisfy more than just myself and my buddies, I gained a respect for the 805 blonde ale that the Lord Homebrews of the world couldn’t possibly understand.

SPORTS SCENE SERENA’S ANTICS BRING WOMEN’S TENNIS TO THE FOREFRONT

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erena Williams absorbed a $17,000 fine in the wake of her tumultuous US Open final loss to Naomi Osaka on Sunday as debate raged over whether the code violations that sparked her meltdown were sexist. US great Billie Jean King was among those coming down hard on Serena’s side in her claim that chair umpire Carlos Ramos penalized her for comments that a male player could have gotten away with. “When a woman is emotional, she’s ‘hysterical’ and she’s penalized for it,” King tweeted. “When a man does the same, he’s ‘outspoken’ & and there are no repercussions. Thank you, Serena, for calling out this double standard. More voices are needed to do the same.”

National Organization of Women president Toni Van Pelt weighed in with a statement calling for the USTA to sever any ties to Ramos for “a blatantly racist and sexist move”. My thought is that’s a little strong, however, one has to admire the passion. “Ramos claimed he was just following the rules, but in actuality men stretch the rules all the time and are lionized for being ‘bad boys’ while women are benched.”

Williams’s second-set meltdown overshadowed Naomi Osaka’s 6-2, 6-4 victory, which made the 20-year-old the first Japanese to win a Grand Slam title. Osaka,

playing in her first major final against a 23time Grand Slam champion she idolized as a child, capped an outstanding two weeks in which she also beat 2017 runner-up Madison Keys by simply outplaying her hero. But her triumph was reduced to almost a side note as Williams railed about her treatment, accusing the US Open of being out to get her. “Always something happens to me here,” she huffed at tournament referee Brian Earley, summoned to the court after she failed to get satisfaction from Ramos. “Because I’m a woman you’re going to do this to me,” she said.

After the match, Williams, playing in her third Grand Slam since giving birth to her daughter last September, took a more measured perspective on whether tournament officials had targeted her in an event she has won six times. “Sometimes it might seem like things always happen, but you just kind of have to try to realize that it’s coincidence.

Maybe it’s coincidence,” Williams said. But she didn’t walk back her claim that sexism played a role. “I’ve seen other men call other umpires several things,” she said. “I’m here fighting for women’s rights and for women’s equality and for all kinds of stuff.”

Williams was incensed in the first instance when Ramos assessed her a code violation for receiving coaching from her box, although

BY FLINT WHEELER

Coach Patrick Mouratoglou admitted in an interview with ESPN that he was trying to advise her with a hand gesture and said that all coaches do it. Yes, I was coaching just like everybody else. We have to stop this hypocrisy.

Furthermore, Serena didn’t even see my gestures. She felt humiliated by the warning,” said the Frenchman. Williams took the charge as an attack on her character. “I don’t cheat to win,” she told Ramos. “I’d rather lose.”

Tennis Legend Billy Jean King took the opportunity to espouse her long-held view that coaching should be allowed “on every point”. “It isn’t, and as a result, a player was penalized for the actions of her coach,” King tweeted. “This should not happen.” In a cascade of events Williams was issued a code violation for racquet abuse after giving back a service break in the second set. The one-point

penalty, further inflamed the star who branded Ramos “a thief”. “You will never, ever be on another court of mine, you are the liar,” she fumed and he handed her a game penalty for a third violation for verbal abuse that cost her a game. Ramos’s actions were strictly by the book, but many observers felt he could have used his discretion and not called the coaching violation, something umpires often let go.

“I will admit I have said worse and not gotten penalized,” James Blake, the former topranked US male tennis player, said on Twitter.

“And I’ve also been given a ‘soft warning’ by the ump where they tell you knock it off or I will have to give you a violation. He should have at least given her that courtesy.”

I agree with James, this is the Final of the U.S. Open, not the Topeka Invitational. Did Serna act a little nuts? Yes. But then again, she was being beat by a 20 year old on the grandest stage. As much as Serena’s antics were childish and the way she was treated either fair or unfair, the point remains - at least we’re talking Women’s Tennis. And it’s been a while since I could say that.

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September 13 to September 19, 2018

CONSIDER THIS

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rotherly warfare is nothing new in the world of Rock N’ Roll. First, and most famously, the Everly Brothers were either at odds or not speaking. By the early ‘70s, John and Tom Fogerty of Creedence Clearwater Revival nearly came to blows and never performed together again. Across the pond in Great Britain the same fraternal acrimony tore apart Ray and Dave Davies of the Kinks, as well as Oasis’ fractious Gallagher brothers, Noel and Liam. Chris and Rich Robinson of the Black Crowes are just carrying on a time-honored tradition.

The Black Crowes seemed to burst on the scene with their 1990 debut, Shake Your Money Maker. The Marietta, Georgia band had been incubating since the mid ‘80s, almost signing with A&M before finding a home at Rick Rubin’s Def American label. Their heady brew of Stonesy swagger and Southern Comfort boogie bridged the gap between altrock, Grunge and Jam bands.

Aside from lead vocalist Chris and guitarist Rich, the band’s line-up went through myriad changes, but throughout the ‘90s, their albums consistently landed in the Top 50 on the Billboard charts. Their second decade seemed even messier, as band members came and went, and both brothers veered off with solo projects. But the music remained, for the most part, consistent. All told, the Crowes released eight studio albums, five live efforts, (including one featuring Jimmy Page and a brace of Led Zep and Yardbirds covers), plus three compilations.

It all shuddered to a halt in 2015 when the brothers suffered an irrevocable split.

Rich went on record saying that Chris tried to force him and original drummer Steve Gorman to cede ownership rights to the Black Crowes’ name and agree to become salaried employees. Chris countered, “it’s way more complicated than Rich’s outburst,” but declined to elaborate. The ‘Crowes had officially called it quits.

From the ashes of the Black Crowes, Rich formed The Magpie Salute. Old Crowe compadres that joined up included guitarist Marc Ford, bassist Sven Pipien and Eddie Harsch on keys. All three had spent time in the band and lived to tell the tale. Sadly, before they could begin touring, Eddie rather

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“HIGH WATER 1” (EAGLE RECORDS/ THE MAGPIE SALUTE UNIVERSAL MUSIC GROUP)

suddenly passed away. Filling lead vocalist slot, only one singer would do, and that was British musician John Hogg. He and Rich first met when John and Sean Genocky’s band, Moke, opened for the Crowes in the ‘90s.

During a Crowe hiatus, the pair formed the band Hookah Brown. Unfortunately, it never really got off the ground. Here was a chance for them to get it right.

In true Robinson fashion, the Magpie lineup went through requisite changes, swelling its ranks to 10 members and slimming down to the current six, which includes Matt Slocum on keys and Joe Magistro on drums. At the start of 2017 they booked three shows at the Grammercy Theatre in New York City.

When those immediately sold out, a fourth show was added by popular demand and soon, a full-fledged, U.S. tour commenced.

Commemorating the experience, the band released a self-titled, limited edition live album. It included a couple of originals and some well-placed covers. Now the band has returned with High Water 1, their first set of original music.

The record kicks into gear with “Mary The Gypsy,” a cataclysmic blast of Glamtastic grit. Opening with a brief burst of royal fanfare and scattered cheers, it quickly locks into a pummeling back-beat, staccato guitar figures and rippling piano. The lyrics are a surprising mix of Tolkien imagery and Dylanesque jabberwocky. But there’s also some veiled political commentary salted in the mix; “The bike king of Raynes Park waves his scepter around, the scepter protects us from the corporate clowns, who’s goal is to derail all of humanity, to confuse and box in the many millions like me/He charges into the very core of the crown, steps in to reveal the very natural sound, emerge triumphant banish the foes from this town, in time to turn it all back around.” Guitars coil on the break with sinewy menace as time signatures shift.

The tune closes with a sudden, cacophonous piano chord, echoing the major C the Beatles employed in “A Day In The Life.”

The next three songs, “High Water,” “Send Me An Omen” and “Sister Moon,” offer a master class in economical songcraft and instrumental prowess. The title track opens with a heavily braided, highly percussive guitar attack that recalls the British Folk-Rock of Nick Drake and John Martyn. Rather quickly they intertwine with spidery electric riffs, plangent piano and tensile bass lines, all are tethered to a galloping rhythm. John’s vocals are surprisingly gauzy and tender as he throws down this gauntlet, “show your true colors, better choose the right ride.” The momentum powers down on the break as waspish electric notes lap over liquid acoustic arpeggios, sparking and pinwheeling through a wistful coda.

If Humble Pie had ever collaborated with the Partridge Family, It might sound like “Send Me An Omen.” It’s as tough as “High Water” was tender. The arrangement marries gritty guitar licks and fluttery keys with a walloping beat. John’s whiskey-soaked rasp leaps above the fray, conjuring up memories of Small

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Faces/Humble Pie stentor, Steve Marriott.

Meanwhile, lush “Bah-bah-bah-bah” backing vocals add a sugar rush sweetness. Inclement weather is a metaphor for a relationship that appears to be wallowing in the mire; “Send me an omen, the one that made your mother cry/The fissure Is growing and the river is flowing, nothing to show for the things we tried.” As a splintery guitar solo unfurls, the instrumentation pares down to gossamer electric piano and a steady kick drum beat before exploding with a scorching crescendo.

Meanwhile, the intro on “For The Wind” blends whispery acoustic filigrees and sparkly piano chords that cushion John’s achy croon.

But before the listener can completely luxuriate in the moment (“Calgon, Take me away”), the rest of the band barrels down locking into a Dixie-Fried boogie that takes no prisoners. This dynamic pivots between airy verses and crunchy choruses as lyrics hint at corrupt dynasties and rats leaving a sinking ship; “Gone, no evil is reaching at all, the poison is leaking beyond and they’re all alone/ All the leaders following, all believers are leaving, gone, and they’re all alone.” On the break the guitars weave a tapestry of shivery notes that ripple, cascade and soar, at once epic and intimate.

Two tracks constitute the heart and soul of this record, “You Found Me” and “Color Blind.” The former is a lovely minor key waltz anchored by loping pedal steel, warm acoustic guitar and plaintive piano. The lyrics offer a simple encomium to an enduring love, through highs and lows, flaws and foibles, equanimity and frustration; “If I painted all these pictures from inside, I’d reveal all my pains and all my highs…We dance through the dawn, I show you my fall, my winter, my spring, my everything/ But you found me You reached me in here.”

On the latter, the political is personal and vice versa. Honeyed acoustic riffs lattice over sidewinder electric guitar, roiling bass, shimmery keys and a rock steady beat. But it all takes a backseat to John’s impassioned vocals. Speaking from experience, the lyrics take aim at the racial animus that continues to divide the world. Growing up the child of a mixed-race relationship, he is viewed as “A walking contradiction, two myths of creation.”

He states the obvious “My blood is a magical spring, mix of races, don’t mean nothing to me/My skin is a beautiful canvas, all the colors of creation scarred on the inside,” before

unleashing this Cri de coeur “I see all around a broken dream, and everything’s in black and white, when will the world catch up with me, I am color blind and free.” Slashing guitar solos erupt, underscoring his psychic pain.

The action slows briefly on the cinematic “Sister Moon.” Stuttery piano chords share some musical DNA with the Screamin’ Jay Hawkins classic, “I Put A Spell On You,” but from there the songs diverge. High lonesome pedal steel and swoony keys intertwine over a chunky back-beat. The lyrics offer subterranean snapshots, accenting the noirish tableaus; “In one endless moment your desert lover was headed back home, you and I all alone, a gun by your bed and a spy on the phone/You were all dressed in black when you kissed his mouth and smiled with the roof tipped back.” Tinkling piano runs meander as the melody winds down, offering a delicate denouement.

The remainder of High Water 1 revs up like a souped-up muscle car, from the saloonstomp of “Take It All” which wraps barrelhouse piano notes and bottleneck riff-age around a fractious hopscotch beat, to the back porch ramble of “Hand In Hand.” Then there’s “Walk On Water,” a Stonesy groover that blends spiraling guitars and a whiplash beat and finally, the Swampy ambiance of “Can You See.” The record closes with the Bluesy “Open Up,” stately piano connects with reticulating guitars and a percussive thump. Cryptic lyrics hint at new beginnings; “All of my life I’ve been waiting, all of my life hesitating.” Rather than ending on a graceful note, this wanton song leaves the listener wanting more. (Never fear, High Water II is due in early 2019).

Produced by Rich, the album was recorded in Nashville, Tennessee and features the additional talents of Byron House on standup bass and Dan Winstrom on pedal steel, as well as some production work by Moke compatriot, and ace producer, Sean Genocky.

The music presented here is at once lean, mean and stripped-down, but there’s also a courtly, somewhat bespoke quality that speaks to the inherent craftsmanship of the players. The camaraderie comes through in the songs. Nothing is ostentatious or showy, but not enough can be said about the musical synergy that is displayed with every riff, every lick, every note and every chord.

Rising from the ashes of The Black Crowes, Rich Robinson had everything to prove. After all, older brother Chris was the front-man and focal point of a decades-old institution. By surrounding himself with a crack collection of versatile musicians, willingly sharing the spotlight with artists like Marc, John, Sven, Joe and Matt, he has created a stellar debut.

The Magpie Salute manages to distill their influences and experiences into a style that is equal parts warm, familiar and wholly original.

High Water 1 feels like an instant classic.

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SCENE DESERT ICONS: PART TWO BYART ANGELA ROMEO

September 13 to September 19, 2018

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esert Icons, curated by Michael McCall, is at The Yucca Valley Visual & Performing Arts Center, located at 58325 Highway 62, Yucca Valley, California.

The exhibition challenged artists to present the desert as they see it – through their daily lives and work. It runs through October 21.

Last week we highlighted the work of several artists. This week we continue.

When one thinks of an iconic desert figures Snake Jagger comes to mind. Snake cuts a colorful character and his distinctive style, Whimsical Surrealism, exudes his passion and love for the desert.

“Desert Icon - it is an honor to be considered one. I have lived and worked in this area for over 40 years, so I may have earned that title, just a little bit,” smiled Snake. “I was approached by Michael to be involved in this show at the Yucca Valley Arts Center. I was convinced that this new venue was a game changer for the high desert. Michael choose from a variety of paintings I had. These are his choices and I agree with him.”

“The diversity in this show is a wonderful commentary on the diversity of the creative minds that inhabit this inspirational environment. And at the same time there is much that pulls us all together as creative people, doing what we love to do, and making statements at the same time.”

“With my work, my message has always been that we are the stewards of this planet.

It is up to us to care for and protect our little blue marble in space.”

Photographer Dan Bartlett sees the desert through the eye of lens. “I have a great love for the desert and all the beauty and weirdness it holds,” stated Dan. “The Yucca Valley Arts Center is fantastic! Michael and all others involved did an outstanding job putting this show together.”

“My work, What A Day For A Daydream, is an unfortunate desert icon in the sense that it literally someone’s junk. I embrace it by

portraying it as art. I challenge the term icon by showing a photo of a boat in the desert.”

“Each artist’s unique approach to the theme makes this show special. The different styles pooled together complement each other and make this show interesting and appealing. I hope that the works will leave visitors with a new outlook and greater appreciation for our incredibly beautiful desert and the fascinating icons that are a big part of it.”

What attracted curator Michael McCall to this project?

“Once I was asked to design the exhibitions for the first year of the gallery, I went about planning and building a show of hi-desert artists that represented how the environment influences their choices. I wasn’t interested in pretty pictures. I wanted to experience their collective imagination and see how they can stretch from the seen into the unforeseen.

Humor and insight were going to trump pedantic and scholastic concerns in this one.

So, I went looking for the unusual.”

But what makes something desert and an icon? “Good question...The repeated use of an image creates the icon in our minds.

If you look into it, the Saguaro Cactus is the accepted icon of the North American desert continent. Yet that species of cacti is not native to the Mojave Desert, but the Joshua Tree is. My quest was to definitely challenge the accepted icon of the hi-desert region.”

“How many times do I see a pretty picture of a sunset with a Joshua Tree in the continue to page 17

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PET PLACE

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COLUMBO’S AMAZING RESCUE!

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emote rural areas are sometimes “dumping grounds” for unwanted dogs. Callous humans abandon pets they no longer want. Sometimes while the discarded dogs attempt to chase after their humans’ cars as long as their strength holds out. Sometimes these animals form packs with other stray or abandoned animals, surviving on small prey. Some of them perish from starvation or injuries. One brown Lab mix dog was more fortunate than most abandoned and lost strays.

On July 10, 2018, mountain biker Jarrett Little was riding with a group of cyclists through the woods near Columbus, Georgia.

Suddenly Jarrett spotted a dog coming out from behind the trees. The dog was limping, and Jarrett suspected he was hit by a car.

Jarrett recalls, “We stopped to regroup, the dog came out of the woods to greet us. He ran up to us at the roundabout near Oxbow.

We could tell he was starving. He was really thin, his ribs were showing, and he had a lot of road rash and a broken leg. He gobbled down an entire pack of energy chews and drank the water we gave him.”

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route. Jarrett picked the dog up, and the animal clung to his back. The photograph of the dog clinging to the bicyclist’s back went viral on social media. We animal lovers believe that dogs know our intent, and this pup seemed to instinctively know he was being rescued from his long ordeal.

The group arrived in Columbus, and their first stop was a bicycle shop for more water and supplies. Jarrett began talking with a

woman named Andrea Shaw who was there on a business trip. Andrea was fascinated by the injured brown dog and his amazing cycling trip.

Jarrett recalls, “Right when arrived in town, we instantly ran into Miss Andrea who was in town from Maine. She decided to keep the dog and get him checked out medically after he gave her a sweet welcoming hug.”

Andrea took the pup to a local vet where they discovered he had a broken hind leg and a broken toe on a front foot. Canine Freedom Transportation transported him back to Maine to live with Andrea on her horse farm once he

was able to travel. He traveled with 25 staples in his hind leg with four pins to stabilize the fractures and a full cast on a front leg. Andrea named him Columbo, nicknamed “Bo,” after the city where he was found.

When so many people saw the amazing photo of the cyclist carrying the dog and learned of Columbo’s story, Andrea got so many fans that she decided to start a Facebook page for her new dog. The Adventures of Columbo Facebook page not only provides updates on the lucky pup on his new horse farm, but also spreads awareness for other dogs in need.

One of his Facebook postings tells Columbo’s rescue experience from his point of view. “I’m so lucky that Jarrett Little likes to bike! He and his friends found me. They gave me snacks and water. Then Jarrett gave me a lift into town. Normally, I would have loved the walk, but my left hind leg was broken and a toe on my right foot was also broken. We found Andrea Shaw once we arrived downtown. I hugged her because she spoke so nice to me.

I bled on her new shirt. She must have liked it though because she called her husband Joel and said ‘I’m saving this dog, he’s bleeding and broken and I’m not leaving him.’”

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THE VINO VOICE

RAVAGE THE GRILL!!

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o one needs to instruct us Coachella Valley residents on the fine points of outside grilling. We’re old hands at this and we grill on a regular basis. The reason of course is that we have the weather all year long to do so! And we’re not just cooking away to simply buck traditions, but we can grill and thrill away on Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year’s and Valentine’s Day and amaze with our culinary display.

And then again, we foodie folks are so liberated and appreciative that we relish the opportunity to improve and widen our discriminating palates. This past Labor Day, we had the chance to experience one of the latest gastronomic joint ventures in the BBQ and grilling world.

We’ve written previously on Ravage Wines, both their Cabernet Sauvignon and Dark Red Blend. For the price, these wines are the top of the class with “decadent” reds that have proven so popular lately. The winemakers themselves declare this blend to be DARK + RICH + DEFIANT. “It tempts the taste buds with its dark, decadent flavors and smooth structure to push your sensory limits to the edge.”

The Ravage Cabernet Sauvignon and Dark Red Blend are both smooth, generously ripe and rounded out with vanilla/mocha notes.

The Cabernet includes Merlot, Zinfandel and Syrah; the Dark Red Blend is Cabernet Sauvignon, Petite Sirah, Syrah, plus Merlot, Zinfandel and other red grapes. Both have California appellations.

Recently Ravage Wines has teamed up with Pitmaster Hugh Mangum, of New York’s Mighty Quinn’s BBQ, to provide you with the ultimate summer experience complete with expert advice, essential grilling tools, and hot tips for grilling different mouth- watering cuts that are sure to impress family and friends.

From pre-grill prep to the all-important final seasoning, this insider knowledge will have you mastering the grill in no time.

Hugh believes that when it comes to grilling; the bolder the better, which is why he always pairs his grilled fare with Ravage Cabernet Sauvignon 2016 (around $12) a robust and

flavorful red from California. Both rich and easily indulgent, it’s the perfect match for big flavors from the grill. Whether making flavorful steak tacos, or opting for equally as delicious lamb shoulder pitas, the smooth, fruit forward Cabernet Sauvignon enhances the flavors of any sizzling-hot meal.

Hugh Mangum was born in California to a father who hailed from Texas. It was he who introduced Mangum to the legendary barbecue of the Lone Star state.

Mangum started out as a professional drummer before heading to culinary school and working in the kitchens of acclaimed chefs like Jean George Vongrichten. In 2011, he melded the barbecue traditions of Texas and the Carolina’s to create a unique “New York Style” offered at his first Mighty Quinn’s location in Manhattan.

It was a huge hit that lead to four more venues in the New York metro area. There are now outlets in Taiwan, the Philippines, Japan and Dubai.

Perhaps the star of the culinary show is his sauce—Texas spicy with a Carolina vinegar kick.

Mighty Quinn’s Slow Smoked original recipe sauce is served at all of his locations. Overall it took Hugh 10 years to perfect his cookery and style: the right seasonings, temperature, timing and technique for smoking meats,

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and, the trademark sauce—“Cooking the Old School Way with Wood and Time.”

What you learn is what you’re raised with, but in this day in age, with more information available, cultures and regions have been blurred. Switching it up is more fun, and you should try different sauces. That’s part of what made Mighty Quinn’s so popular — we’re not just Texas or Carolina barbeque, we take influences from both to make something great.

Hugh was just featured last week on the CBS This Morning—Saturday, “The Dish” segment, cbsnews.com/video/the-dish-pitmaster-hugh-mangum. There he presented and spoke of his signature recipes & dishes that included Brisket Sandwich with pickled

cucumbers and chilies; his Mac and Cheese that was just awarded “New York City’s Best”; Burnt End Baked Beans; Buttermilk Broccoli Slaw; Sweet Potato Casserole and Sweet Corn Fritters. He also served a Mighty Quinn beer that is brewed at the restaurant.

Working with Ravage, Mangum has prepared a couple of dishes where he showcases the Ravage Cabernet Sauvignon.

One, he pairs the dish with the wine, the other, he actually adds the Cab to the recipe.

With his Miso-Garlic Pork Chops, he creates a marinade of shiro (white) miso, granulated sugar, garlic cloves and mirin, and marinates the pork overnight if possible, or at least 4 hours. He’ll grill the chops for 3-5 minutes per side; served with vegetables and a glass of Ravage Cab. In his Grilled Ravage Cabernet-Braised Short Ribs, with 2-3 pounds of short ribs, he first places the ribs on a hot grill over direct heat for approximately 5–10 minutes per side.

For the braise, he utilizes 2 cups of Ravage Cab along with 2 cups chicken stock and herbs. The ribs are place in the braise with added cooked bacon in a covered Dutch oven for 2½ to 3 hours, along with vegetables, a glass of Ravage will work as well at the table.

Bon Appétit & Cheers!

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HUNTER’S; PS; 760-323-0700 Open Mic 9pm JOSHUA TREE SALOON; JT; 760-3662250 TBA 9pm KILO’S CANTINA; TP; 760-835-1363 The Diagnosis Show w/ Annabelle Asylum, When Tides Turn, Ormus, Decapitate the Kause and Instigator 9pm LAS CASUELAS TERRAZA; PS; 760-3252794 Hot Roxx 6:30pm LIT@FANTASY SPRINGS; IND; 760-3452450 Country Night w/ Whiskey Tango 9pm THE LOUNGE, AGUA CALIENTE; RM; 888-999-1995 Quinto Menguante 8-1am MELVYN’S RESTAURANT & LOUNGE; PS; 760-325-2323 Ron Greenip 8pm MOXIE; PS; 760-318-9900 Pedro Le Bass 9:30pm NEIL’S LOUNGE; IND; 760-347-1522 Karaoke 8pm THE NEST; PD; 760-346-2314 Kevin Henry 6-8pm Tim Burleson 8pm PAPPY & HARRIET’S; PT; 760-365-5956 LA Witch, Death Valley Girls and Starlight Cleaning Co. 8pm PLAN B LIVE ENTERTAINMENT AND COCKTAILS; TP; 760-343-2115 Intimate Acoustics w/ Morgan James 8pm SAMMY G’s; PS; 760-320-8041 Evaro Brothers 8pm SHANGHAI RED’S @ THE FISHERMAN’S MARKET; PS; 760-3229293 The Smooth Brothers 7pm SULLIVAN’S STEAKHOUSE; PD; 760341-3560 Dude Jones 6:30pm TACK ROOM TAVERN; IND; 760-3479985 Karaoke 9pm THREE SIXTY NORTH; PS; 760-3271773 Mike Cosley 6:30pm WANG’S; PS; 760-325-9264 Black Market Jazz 5-8pm WOODY’S PALMHOUSE; PS; 760-2300188 Yve Evans 6:30pm ZELDA’S; PS; 760-325-2375 DJ 8pm

BLUEMBER; RM; 760-862-4581 The Stanley Butler Trio 6-10pm CASCADE LOUNGE, SPA RESORT CASINO; PS; 888-999-1995 DJ Michael Wright 9-1am CATELLI’S; PD; 760-773-3365 Patrick Tuzzolino 5:30pm CATALAN; RM; 760-770-9508 George Christian 6-9pm CHEF GEORGE’S PICASSO LOUNGE; BD; 760-200-1768 Michael D’Angelo 7-10pm DRINGK; RM; 760-888-0111 DJ Journee 9pm ELECTRIC SPORTS LOUNGE; YV; 760228-1199 DJ Ceddy Cedd 9pm EL MEXICALI CAFÉ 2; IND; 760-3422333 Cesar Daniel Lopez on the harp 6-9pm GADI’S BAR & GRILL; YV; 760-8201213 Sticky Doll, Throw the Goat, The Wastedeads and Instigator 8pm THE HOOD; PD; 760-636-5220 Reggae Heatwave w/ Higher Heights, Crucial Culture and Unity Frenzy 9pm HOODOO COCKTAIL GARDEN @ THE HYATT; PS; 760-322-9000 Keisha D 7pm HUNTER’S; PS; 760-323-0700 Live VJ 9pm INDIAN WELLS RESORT HOTEL; IW; 760-345-6466 Bob Allen 6pm JOSHUA TREE SALOON; JT; 760-3662250 Karaoke 7:30pm KILO’S CANTINA; TP; 760-835-1363 TBA 9pm KOKOPELLI’S; YV; 760-228-2589 Karaoke 8pm LAS CASUELAS TERRAZA; PS; 760-3252794 Hot Roxx 7:30pm LIT@FANTASY SPRINGS; IND; 760-3452450 Six Hot Live 9pm THE LOUNGE; AGUA CALIENTE; RM; 888-999-1995 DJ Jerry 9pm MELVYN’S RESTAURANT & LOUNGE; PS; 760-325-2323 Ron Greenip 8pm MOXIE; PS; 760-318-9900 Eevaan Tre 6:30pm, DJ Pedro Le Bass 9:30pm NEIL’S LOUNGE; IND; 760-347-1522 Karaoke 8-1:15am 29 PALMS INN; 29 Palms; 760-367-3505 THE NEST; PD; 760-346-2314 Kevin Micha Schellhaas 6:30pm Henry 6-8pm Tim Burleson 8pm ACE HOTEL; PS; 760-325-9900 The Full PALM DESERT COUNTRY CLUB; PD; House Band w/ Nena Anderson 8pm 760-345-0222 Steve Williams Experience 6:30pm AGAVE LOUNGE@THE HYATT REGENCY; IW; 760-674-4080 Art of Sax PAPPY & HARRIET’S; PT; 760-365-5956 8pm Ted Z and the Wranglers 8pm AJ’S ON THE GREEN; C.C.; 760-202PEABODY’S CAFÉ; PS; 760-322-1877 1111 Bill Saitto Duo 6:30pm Karaoke 7:30pm AMERICAN LEGION; PS; 760-325-6229 PLAN B LIVE ENTERTAINMENT AND Fleet Easton 6-8pm COCKTAILS; TP; 760-343-2115 Red’s Rockstar Karaoke 9pm BART LOUNGE; C.C.; 760-799-8800 Palma City Presents: Moon Ensemble, PURPLE ROOM; PS; 760-322-4422 After Two, Burgundy Blues and Indiocholo Jackie Beat and Sherry Vine: Battle of the 7pm Bitches 8pm BERNIE’S; RM; 760-202 4499 Barry RED BARN; PD; 760-346-0191 Chalice Minniefield, Brian Dennigan and Leon 9pm Bisquera 7pm RIVIERA; PS; 760-327-8311 Michael BIG ROCK PUB; IND; 706-200-8988 Keeth 7pm Whiskey Tango 8:30pm SAMMY G’s; PS; 760-320-8041 Evaro BLUE BAR, SPOTLIGHT 29; INDIO; 760- Brothers 8pm 775-5566 DJ Double A 8pm

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MEET, EAT AND DRINK AT GRAND CENTRAL PALM SPRINGS

et your site on relaxing, and unplug with friends for great food and drinks at Palm Springs newest gathering spot, Grand Central.

It was a long time coming for the opening of Grand Central at the historic La Plaza shopping center in downtown Palm Springs, which welcomed patrons recently this past May. The delay was understandable, as the space in La Plaza had been vacant for 12 years, and no doubt needed some extensive updating to transform it from the former Desmond’s department store, to a fullfledged restaurant.

La Plaza was built in 1936 by one of Palm Springs women pioneers, Julia Carnell.

Carnell was an Ohio snowbird who would visit Palm Springs in the winter months. After sometime of visiting Palm Springs, she grew weary of the lack of shopping and nightlife in the area and decided to do something about it. She essentially built the 3 ½ acre property so that there would be a place where visitors and locals alike could enjoy shopping, dining, dancing and comfortable accommodations.

La Plaza was all inclusive, with 38 shops, 21 studio apartments, 8 penthouses, a theater, restaurants, nightclub, market, post office, drug store and many more amenities. Carnell had built one of the first shopping centers of its kind in Southern California.

La Plaza eventually became a Class 1 Historical site, and is a precious part of Palm Springs. Although the accommodation side of

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the plaza is no longer available, it still thrives with a variety of shops and restaurants, and serves as a tourism magnet with its Spanish style architecture and romantic corridors. It is a true treasure.

Grand Central has tapped into the historic integrity of La Plaza, embracing the collective relaxing essence, encouraging friendly gatherings, while reveling in great tastes and ambience. The dining spot is opened for breakfast and lunch and features a full bar. The original clock centers the restaurant and adds an endearing old time element.

Guests can indulge in a range of creative menu selections including breakfast items such as, Savory French Toast (parmesan brioche, citrus hollandaise, whipped goat cheese), Orange Ricotta Pancakes (orange yogurt dressing, whipped butter and fruit),

and Morning BLT (Nueske bacon, heirloom tomato, lemon arugula, double yoke poached eggs, avocado dressing, served open on grilled sour dough), among other selections.

Delectable lunch options include, The Desmond Burger (seared burger wrapped in prosciutto, beefsteak tomato, basil mayo, brioche bun and house cut fries), Grilled Cauliflower Steak (garlic crusted cauliflower,

rich Pomodoro sauce and sweet potato gnocchi) and Watermelon Berry Gazpacho (garlic and pink peppercorn soup with a grilled baguette), plus other items. For dessert try some of the sweet parting flavors including Macarons (chocolate, raspberry, almond, lemon, espresso or pistachio) or Waffles & Gelato (waffles and caramel sea salt), as well as others.

There are many things to enjoy about the Grand Central restaurant, from their exciting menu, to the rich history of their host building. It’s a perfect place to get wrapped up in all the things that Palm Springs is famous for, to relax and enjoy friends, great food and drinks. Julia would be proud.

Grand Central is located at 160 La Plaza, in La Plaza Center, Palm Springs 92262 For more information visit www. grandcentralpalmsprings.com.

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BREAKING THE4TH WALL

BY DEE JAE COX

THE ART OF STORYTELLING/JHEY AND THE WHEE

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he art of storytelling is a social and cultural activity that has spanned the centuries since before the written word. It is one of the oldest art forms and every generation of every culture has used this craft for entertainment, education or cultural preservation. Stories were told to recount and immortalize historic events.

They were cautionary tales and lessons.

Stories were family histories passed down orally from one generation to the next.

Stories can be expressed through verbal and written expression, as well as music, dance or simply hushed images whispered to an eager audience. But one of the most popular forms of story crafting has always been through songs. Some of the oldest and greatest legends were written in verse. Even Homer’s the Illiad and Odyssey had a musical lilt.

In contemporary times, singers and musical groups are not just entertainment; they are a part of the ancient tradition of storytelling. Modern bards who write about the spectrum of life’s experiences. From political protest to broken hearts, songs convey our deepest beliefs and emotions.

So it is always a thrill to discover new voices whose talents symbolize the best in entertainment, fun, pleasure and a dash of storytelling through their music. Such is the case with Singer /Songwriter Jhey Castles, who was looking for a way to get her songs out to an audience. She formed the band, Jhey and the Whee, four years ago with only her ukulele and a drummer. The band now consists of five memebers, Jhey Castles (Uke/lead vocals), Wesley Hall (drums / vocals), Alex Romero (bass), Jody Rorhl (guitar) and Kate Bowman (back-up vocals).

A favorite is Castles’ sultry and poignant tune, “Tear me apart.”

Jhey and the Wee, is an Americana Blues Rock band, who perform a lot of original music, as well as classic blues, rock, and bluegrass. Castles’ music is described as “intimately honest, sometimes filthy, introspective lyrics that strike a familiar chord with her audience that makes her feel like family.”

The Whee’s backup singer, Kate Bowman, is a successful L.A. actress and the Cofounder of the 2Cents Theatre Group, (www.2centstheatre.com.) In speaking with Bowman, I asked if she considered herself to be an actor who sings or a singer who acts, she gave the perfect response; “I consider myself an actor first. And I think the reason I’m an actor, and my purpose as an actor, is to tell stories and to help people feel understood, by helping to tell their story.

Jhey is an amazing songwriter (and she’s an accomplished actor as well, so we speak a similar language) and getting to know her music, and feeling like I can help tell her story by creating harmonies that enhance and further craft it, speaks to my purpose.”

On September 22, 2018, the world famous, Palm Canyon Roadhouse, (535 S Palm Canyon Dr, Palm Springs, CA 92264) will host the “Melrose Music Review2” an invasion of the best L.A. Bands right in the heart of Palm Springs. Jhey and the Whee, will be heating up the desert with their unique music and one of a kind #donkeykick drinking game. It’s a night to go out with friends, relax, enjoy the music and treat yourself to an incredibly good time.

Dee Jae Cox is a playwright, director and producer. She is the Cofounder and Artistic Director of The Los Angeles Women’s Theatre Project. losangeleswomenstheatreproject.org palmspringstheatre.com

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n the absence of new theatrical features opening this week, consider these freshly minted older and recent titles all mastered in striking hi-def.

Movie buffs are grateful for the excellent work by home video distributors like Criterion, Twilight Time Movies, Arrow and a handful of others in finding, licensing and transferring beloved films no longer available anywhere.

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GLORIA (1980) At long last on hi-def Blu-ray Gena Rowlands and writer-director spouse John Cassavetes’ wonderful gritty action tale that upends traditional streetwise mob movies is available in a great looking limited edition.

This memorable story about a gangster’s moll forced to go on the run with a young boy who may or may not have info the mob deems vital always hold interest. I loved the way the initial antagonism turns to grudging affection and how Gloria discovers a reserve of inner strength to complement her tough gal persona. Terrific orchestral/jazz score by Bill Conti (available on an isolated track) is almost worth the price of the movie itself.

THE TREE OF LIFE Terrence Malick’s rapturous story of childhood, wonder, and grief to the outer limits of time and space and creation itself sets a story of boyhood memories on a universal scale, charting the coming of age of an awestruck child in Texas in the 1950s, as he learns to negotiate the extremes of nature and grace represented by his bitter, often bullying father (Brad Pitt) and his beautiful, nurturing mother (Jessica Chastain).

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personal, cosmically ambitious culmination of Malick’s singular approach to filmmaking a Palme d’Or winner.

New 4K digital restoration, featuring an additional fifty minutes of footage, was supervised and approved by director Malick and cinematographer Lubezki. Malick has spent a big chunk of the last decade reediting his beautiful film and this new expanded edition has generated much anticipation among film fans.

Exploring “The Tree of Life,” is a fascinating 2011 documentary featuring collaborators and admirers of Malick’s, including filmmakers David Fincher and Christopher Nolan.

Also: New interviews with actor Jessica Chastain and senior visual-effects supervisor Dan Glass. There›s an informative new video essay by critic Benjamin B about the film’s cinematography and style, featuring audio interviews with Lubezki, production designer Jack Fisk, and other crew members.

I enjoyed the interview with critic Alex Ross about Malick’s use of classical music. PLUS: An essay by critic Kent Jones and (Blu-ray only) a 2011 piece on the film by critic Roger Ebert.

RAPID FIRE (1992) Brandon Lee’s inventive fight scenes along with an intelligent screenplay make this handsome production that launched

the career Bruce Lee’s charismatic son a fan favorite. Lee plays an LA art student who unwittingly gets involved with a deadly Mafia drug dealer (Nick Mancuso) and then gets recruited by a cop (Powers Booth) and his attractive assistant (Kate Hodge) to nab the bad guys. Director Dwight Little packs his movie with great martial arts sequences choreographed by Lee. The disc also features a spectacular Christopher Young score available on an isolated track on this limited edition from Twilight Time Movies.

JURASSIC WORLD: FALLEN KINGDOM

What can one say about a movie that has already earned more than $775 million worldwide -- and that’s before home video sales are factored?

This nice looking new iteration of the evolution on Isla Nublar features the return of Owen (Chris Pratt) and Claire (Bryce Dallas Howard) in an attempt to rescue the dinos from the impending doom of an exploding volcano. But is there a danger in tampering with nature/evolution and the building blocks of life itself?

This Frankenstein story includes the requisite cautionary dialogue about our fragile environmental matrix.

Production values make this the best looking of all the Jurassic movies and that goes for the splendidly life-like array of extinct prehistoric beasts on display. There’s a surprising amount of emotion embedded in all the silly fun. The 3D edition is sharp and crisp, but I enjoyed the look of the 4K UHD even more. The generous making-of extras will hold your attention. Universal.

Blu-Ray, 4K UHD and 3D. Universal Pictures Home Entertainment.

Also new and worth a look: Bart Layton’s AMERICAN ANIMALS, the unbelievable true tory about four young men, college friends, who attempt one of thee most audacioius art heists in U.S. history. robin@coachellavalleyweekly.com

BOOK REVIEW

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"BEAUTIFUL EXILES"

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here is a curiosity about how the famous and talented live and function.

Accomplished musicians, actors, artists and writers give so much of themselves for their craft. Through their work, we often feel as though we know them personally. In Meg Waite Clayton’s novel Beautiful Exiles (Lake Union, 384 pages), literary giant Earnest Hemingway and Journalist Martha Gellhorn become lovers and rivals.

Historical fiction is certainly among the most entertaining reading. It’s exciting to drop into a world where the setting and events are familiar. But what makes historically based storytelling especially intriguing is all the behind the scenes information that is unfamiliar.

Clayton begins her story in 1994 with her first person character who is the real Martha Ellis Gellhorn, a war correspondent and author.

She is in her mid-eighties with failing eyesight revisiting letters from her mother, Matie, exhusband, Ernest, and other famous people that include H.G. Wells and Eleanor Roosevelt.

After she reads a personal letter from Ernest, instead of donating it to archives in Boston, she tosses it into the fire and watches it burn.

The story goes back to the beginning in 1936, where on a trip to Key West with her mother and brother, Gellhorn meets Hemingway in a dive bar. She has already been published as a travel author and journalist, and much to Gellhorn’s surprise, Hemingway has read her work. Of course, she is keenly familiar with Hemingway’s work but is shocked to find that he knows her writing. They connect when they share their travel experiences and desire to cover the Spanish Civil War. Gellhorn decides to stay in the Keys and Hemingway takes the young and beautiful writer under his wing. She meets and spends much of her time with Hemingway’s wife Pauline and their two sons. She and Hemingway

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decide to go to Spain together to cover the civil war where they bond under gunfire and bomb blasts. They also become lovers. By 1940, they marry in a small ceremony in Idaho. She was his third wife.

Author Clayton has Gellhorn tell her own story which gives this book gravitas it might not have with an omniscient voice. Gellhorn is smitten by the charming and famous Hemingway. She is also flattered by his interest in her and enjoys the added attention it brings.

But, that quickly fades as she begins to realize he may be more of a hindrance than a help to her career -- and life.

I had never heard of Gellhorn before this book and it was a pleasure to get to know her and her journalistic contributions. Besides what I learned about Hemingway in high school and what is commonly known, I never took the time to explore much more of his personal life. Had this been a nonfiction biography of Gellhorn, I’m not sure I would have sought it out. As a novel, I was engaged and intrigued by her writing career and her struggle to be married to a famous and irascible writer.

Before America joined the fight in World War II, Gellhorna traveled in Austria, Czechoslovakia, France and other countries filing stories for Colliers magazine. She went to China, where she was asked by President Roosevelt to spy.

Once America was in the fight, Gellhorn was not granted press credentials because she was female journalist. Even with a personal relationship with both President Roosevelt and the First Lady, she had to finagle ways to get to the front lines in Europe to report on the war.

This book is nearly equal parts Gellhorn and Hemingway. Together they were fueled by drinking, writing and the adrenaline of war.

But, remove one of the triumvirate and they were not happy. What turned Hemmingway on also frightened him. He wanted his wife to stay at home with him, but she had to go where the action was. Which he did not like.

This historical adaptation shed new light on Hemingway for me. For the first time, I saw the man behind the writing – flawed and

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foreground? Too many. You will see a few Joshua Trees in the Desert Icons exhibition... a few, but only in context to another idea.”

“For me, curating a show entitled something as broad as Desert Icons was going to bring me a diverse group of artists. That’s how I work. I wanted diversity and especially in the images, which meant I had to go to their studios and look for myself. When you ask an artist to submit an image for reference, they send something they either like a lot or something they think I’m going to like.

I wanted to look through the stacks, into the corners, find out how diverse their own output is, and that is what I did.”

“Words help us to understand... but they are limited in definitions. Definition by its nature does not allow much room for our emotions to live and expand. Images have the ability to allow us to wander, to receive and come to conclusions without being told how to. I want the viewer to travel into

this exhibition and feel it... feel the desert, the oddness of it all. I wanted not only the artists, but also the viewer to expand a bit in determining what an icon might be and in particular what a desert icon might be.

That freedom I hope is perceived when you walk through the show, when you first enter through the arched portal I constructed that leads the viewer into the exhibition. We live in a world so torn and conflicted, I want people to enjoy their diversity, their own vision and perceptions. Stand at the portal and have your photograph taken, and you can simultaneously be a desert icon while you look at them.”

With this exhibition Michael McCall has cemented The Yucca Valley Visual & Performing Arts Center place in the rich art community of the HI Desert.

The Exhibition runs through October 21.

For more info visit hidesertculturalcenter. org.

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tormented. His personal life was infused into his writing. I went back and read some of Hemmingway’s short stories and I now see his personal fears and weaknesses permeate and perhaps drive his stories.

I also appreciated Gellhorn’s conflict of wanting to be respected for her own accomplishments and not because she was a famous man’s wife. Gellhorn is stronger and more competent than Hemingway but it’s almost blasphemy to acknowledge such.

By all evidence, she was tougher, braver and brighter.

I especially liked Gellhorn’s progressive mother, Matie, who was a suffragette.

Although she and Hemingway got on well together, she advised her daughter not to marry Hemingway. She warned her that her career may suffer and his name would overshadow her own. Matie was right. They were married only five years.

While together living in Cuba, Hemmingway wrote his Pulitzer Prize winning novel For Whom the Bell Tolls.

Martha Gellhorn is amazing and I’m grateful to be introduced to her through Clayton’s Beautiful Exiles. She does a terrific job bringing these two oversize personalities to life. Clayton’s research and expertise about Gellhorn and Hemingway is impressive and it shows on every page of her novel. Historical fiction is a wonderful way to get to know such talented and driven people and their place in time.

SAFETY TIPS

BY FIRE CHIEF SAM DIGIOVANNA

IT’S SUICIDE PREVENTION MONTH!

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uicide is on the rise. Regardless of race, gender, age, fame, financial status, it is rising! Having suicidal thoughts does not mean someone is weak or flawed.

More people now die of suicide than in car accidents, according to the Centers for Disease Control.

“Let’s look at some statistics and warning signs,” says Fire Chief Sam DiGiovanna.” Maybe we can help prevent one more!”

According to the CDC, nearly 45,000 lives were lost to suicide in 2016 alone.

Know the Warning Signs: Threats or comments about killing themselves, also known as suicidal ideation, can begin with seemingly harmless thoughts like “I wish I wasn’t here,” but can become more overt and dangerous.

Increased alcohol and drug use.

Aggressive behavior.

Social withdrawal from friends, family and the community.

Dramatic mood swings.

Talking, writing or thinking about death.

Impulsive or reckless behavior.

Is There Imminent Danger?

Any person exhibiting these behaviors should get care immediately: Putting their affairs in order and giving away their possessions.

Saying goodbye to friends and family.

Mood shifts from despair to calm.

Planning, possibly by looking around to buy, steal or borrow the tools they need to complete suicide, such as a firearm or prescription medication.

If you are unsure, a licensed mental health professional can help assess risk.

Risk Factors for Suicide: Research has found that more than half of people (54%) who died by suicide did not have a known mental health condition. A number of other things may put a person at risk of suicide,

including: A family history of suicide.

Substance abuse. Drugs and alcohol can result in mental highs and lows that exacerbate suicidal thoughts.

Intoxication. More than one in three people who die from suicide are found to be currently under the influence.

Access to firearms.

A serious or chronic medical illness.

Gender. Although more women than men attempt suicide, men are four times more likely to die by suicide.

A history of trauma or abuse.

Prolonged stress.

Isolation.

Age. People under age 24 or above age 65 are at a higher risk for suicide.

A recent tragedy or loss.

Agitation and sleep deprivation.

Can Thoughts of Suicide Be Prevented?

Mental health professionals are trained to help a person understand their feelings and can improve mental wellness and resiliency.

Depending on their training they can provide effective ways to help.

If you have suicidal thoughts or know someone that does, contact a licensed qualified mental health therapist immediately!

Fire Chief Sam DiGiovanna

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he Paris-based Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) mission is to promote policies that improve the economic and social well-being of people around the world. One of the things that this thirtysix member organization does is study educational trends.

When we look at 25-34 year-old adults globally, the most educated populace resides in South Korean where in 7 in 10 have attended college. Canada and Japan are next at 60% followed by Lithuania (55%), the United Kingdom (52%), Luxembourg and Australia (49%). Back here in Amurika, 48% of us have at least a little higher edumication. Mexico had the lowest levels at 22% followed by Italy (25%), Colombia (28%) and Costa Rica (29%).

What makes South Korea most interesting is that only 20% of 55-64 year-old South

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WHAT COUNTRY ARE THE SMARTERIST?

Koreans have college educations. To have education levels jump by 3.5 times in twenty years shows that their citizenry have made it a priority to increase knowledge in pursuit of better lifestyles.

Poland had the next highest jump from 14% for 55-64 year-olds to 44% for 25-34 year olds. Other notable jumps occurred in Turkey, the Czech and Slovak Republics and Portugal.

While all countries studied showed increased education levels amongst their youngest, Finland had the lowest improvement as 25-34 year-olds at 41% were only 4% better than their 55-64 yearold counterparts. Similarly, the United States (48%), Estonia (41%) and Germany (30%) showed the weakest improvement.

Russia was found to have the highest college graduation rate at 85% followed by Australia (76%), New Zealand (75%), Japan (72%) and Denmark (65%). Other notables include the United States (55%), the U.K. (44%), Germany (39%) and Mexico (26%).

To better understand the meaning of these statistics, consider Mexico. Onequarter of the 22% of Mexicans who attended university will graduate. Stated differently, 6% of Mexicans graduate from college. Here in the United States one in four graduates. Korea does not report this number.

Overall, the OECD found that adults

with a college education earned 56% more than their less educated counterparts while experiencing lower unemployment rates and a lower chance of depression. The OECD also found that 15% of all 18-24 year-olds did not work and/or were not pursuing a higher education.

For those pursuing a higher education, the most popular degrees were in business and law at 23% of enrollees followed by science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) at 22%. Doctorates were more often STEM-related with the natural sciences and mathematics representing the most sought after Ph.D. Within STEM, engineering is the most popular undergraduate degree.

Primary education is generally considered Kindergarten through 6th grade. On average, 6% of the people of any country do not have a primary education. Of countries reporting, India has the largest percentage

of uneducated people at 46% followed by Indonesia (43%), Portugal (30%), Costa Rica (29%) and China (25%).

Secondary education is generally considered junior high school and high school. On average, 16% of the people of any country do not have a high school education.

China and India are tied with the highest levels of people without a high school education at 64% followed by Indonesia and Mexico at 53%.

When we look at colleges globally, it should be no surprise that the United States has the highest average cost per year at $21,189. Latvia is second at $12,000 followed by the United Kingdom at $11,750. College is free in many countries such as Estonia, Finland, Norway and Sweden. For those countries, their people and governments realize that a well-educated workforce earns the most which leads to the strongest and most robust of economies.

Haddon Libby is the Founder and Managing Partner of Winslow Drake Investment Management and can be reached at HLibby@WinslowDrake.com.

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DALE GRIBOW ON THE LAW

LEGAL REPRESENTATION OF THE INJURED AND CRIMINALLY ACCUSED

WHAT DO YOU CHARGE FOR A LETTER? THIS IS THE MOST OFTEN ASKED QUESTION OF A LAWYER. I am asked this many times weekly. I explain that it is the equivalent to calling a doctor over the phone and asking what s/he would charge for an appointment and to treat and cure you. A lawyer, like a doctor, needs more information to evaluate your medical or legal matter.

Unfortunately, most legal matters are not resolved with just a letter and I don’t want to take money from a client who can’t afford to see the case to conclusion.

With today’s modern technology, a letter will result in an immediate response from the other party, or their lawyer, and if your client can’t afford to stay in the game why let them waste their money.

I believe lawyers should educate clients that the only thing a lawyer has to sell is time. Thus when a client (or the other side) calls or sends an email the lawyer is billing for that time. In other words the client has to be judicious in the use of the attorney’s time ...and understand that the lawyer is billing in 10 or 15 minute segments.

Some lawyers are more ethical than others, and will quote a low amount for a letter retainer, to get their foot in the door.

Later they demand a lot more money. There

are “good and bad” in every profession and that is in part, why the AVVO legal rating system was created. It allows lawyers to rate one another on a 10.0 system. I am honored to have a perfect 10.0 rating.

An hourly fee on a Civil matter, and especially a retainer, are guestimates of billable time. Unfortunately there is no way to know what the other side will do.

Sometimes upon receiving an attorney’s letter, the opposition will fold their cards, and we will simply prevail.

Other times the opposition hires an attorney and the paper battle begins. Some defense lawyers will “milk” cases and paper us by filing various motions. This causes all fees to escalate.

It is well known that there is nothing more expensive than Civil Litigation. Not only will it cost $600 to file a summons and complaint, but we may also need further funds to hire an investigator or serve the defendant. To prevent my clients from wasting money I suggest all clients write out a detailed summary before their first appointment. By doing that a lawyer is not charging a client to play secretary.

If the defendant does not respond we file, serve and get a judgment. If the defendant’s lawyer moves to vacate the judgment within six months we basically

start over again.

I ask all prospective hourly clients “Who has more money..........YOU or the other party?” If the client is not as well off as the other side, I explain it may be difficult for the client to stay in the game against a “legal bully” and maybe they should think twice before hiring a lawyer.

Football season is upon us. DON’T DRINK AND DRIVE OR TEXT. CALL A TAXI, LYFT OR UBER. IT IS A LOT CHEAPER THAN HAVING AN ACCIDENT OR DUI AND CALLING ME. I look upon my job as protecting the Constitutional Rights of every American who drinks, drives and gets arrested for a DUI or has an Accident.

I do however “Change Hats” when I SUE Drunk Drivers for damages to my Injured or Deceased (Wrongful Death) clients.

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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY

Week of September 13

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Author Anne Carson describes part of her creative process in this way: “Sometimes I dream a sentence and write it down.

It’s usually nonsense, but sometimes it seems a key to another world.” I suspect you might be able to benefit from using a comparable trick in the coming days. That’s why you should monitor any odd dreams, seemingly irrational impulses, or weird fantasies that arise in you. Although they may not be of any practical value in themselves, they could spur a train of thought that leads you to interesting breakthroughs.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): “The idea of liberation through the suppression of desire is the greatest foolishness ever conceived by the human mind,” wrote philosopher E. M. Cioran. I agree that trying to deny or stifle or ignore our desires can’t emancipate us. In fact, I’m inclined to believe that freedom is only possible if we celebrate and honor our desires, marvel at their enigmas, and respect their power.

Only then can we hope to refine them. Only then can we craft them into beautiful, useful forces that serve us rather than confuse and undermine us. The coming weeks will be an excellent time for you to engage in this spiritual practice, Taurus.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): “Remember that sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck,” says the Dalai Lama. Ain’t that the truth! When I was 22 years old, there were two different women I desperately yearned for as if they were the Muse Queens of Heaven who would transform me into a great artist and quench my infinite passion. Fortunately, they both rejected me. They decisively set me free of my bondage to them. Later, when I was older and wiser, I realized that blending my fortunes with either of them would have led me away from my true destiny. I got lucky!

In a similar but less melodramatic way, Gemini, I suspect you will also get lucky sometime soon.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Don’ts for Boys or Errors of Conduct Corrected was an advice book for boys published in 1902. Among many other strictures and warnings, it offered this advice: “Don’t giggle.

For the love of decency, never giggle.” There was additional counsel in the same vein: “Don’t be noisy.

The guffaw evinces less enjoyment than the quiet smile.” Another exhortation: “Don’t tease. Be witty, but impersonal.” In accordance with astrological omens, I hereby proclaim that all those instructions are utterly wrong for you right now. To sweetly align yourself with cosmic rhythms, you should giggle and guffaw and tease freely. If you’re witty—and I hope you will be—it’ll serve you well to be affectionate and personable.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): “Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious and adding the meaningful,” writes designer John Maeda. “The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak up,” says artist Hans Hofmann.

“Simplicity strips away the superfluous to reveal the essence,” declares a blogger named Cheo. I hope these quotes provide you with helpful pointers, Leo. You now have the opportunity to cultivate a masterful version of simplicity.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Your keynote is the Japanese word shizuka. According to photographer Masao Yamamoto, it means “cleansed, pure, clear, and untainted.” One of his artistic practices is to wander around forests looking in the soil for “treasures” that emanate shizuka. So in his definition, the term isn’t about being scrubbed or sanitized. Rather, he’s interested in pristine natural phenomena that are unspoiled by civilization. He regards them as food for his soul. I mention this, Virgo, because now is an excellent time for you to get big doses of people and places and things that are cleansed, pure, clear, and untainted.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Libran blogger Ana-Sofia Cardelle writes candidly about her relationship with herself. She keeps us up to date with the ever-shifting self-images that float through her awareness. Here’s one of her bulletins: “Stage 1. me: I’m the cutest thing in the world. Stage 2. me, two seconds later:

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no, I’m a freaking goblin. Stage 3. me, two seconds after that: I’m the cutest goblin in the world.” I’m guessing that many of you Libras have reached the end of your own personal version of Stage 2. You’ve either already slipped into Stage 3, or soon will. No later than October 1, you’ll be preparing to glide back into Stage 1 again.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “There’s no such thing as love,” said Scorpio painter Pablo Picasso, “there are only proofs of love.” I’m tempted to believe that’s true, especially as I contemplate the current chapter of your life story. The evidence seems clear: you will thrive by engaging in practical demonstrations of how much you care. You’ll be wise to tangibly help and support and encourage and inspire everyone and everything you love. To do so will make you eligible for blessings that are, as of this moment, still hidden or unavailable.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): According to a Pew Research Study, nearly 75 percent of Americans say they talk to God, but only 30 percent get a reply.

I’m guessing the latter figure will rise dramatically for Sagittarian Americans in the next three weeks, however. Why? Because the astrological indicators suggest that authorities of all kinds will be more responsive than usual to Sagittarians of all nationalities. Help from higher powers is likely to be both more palpable and more forthcoming. Any communications you initiate with honchos, directors, and leaders have a better-than-normal chance of being well-received.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): One day in October 1926, author Virginia Woolf inscribed in her diary, “I am the usual battlefield of emotions.”

It was a complaint, but also a brag. In fact, she drew on this constant turmoil to fuel her substantial output of creative writing. But the fact is that not all of us thrive on such ongoing uproar. As perversely glamorous and appealing as it might seem to certain people, many of us can do fine without it. According to my analysis, that will be true for you in the coming weeks. If you have a diary, you might justifiably write, “Hallelujah! I am NOT a battlefield of emotions right now!”

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Anthropologist Margaret Mead had definite ideas about “the ways to get insight.” She named them as follows: “to study infants; to study animals; to study indigenous people; to be psychoanalyzed; to have a religious conversion and get over it; to have a psychotic episode and get over it.” I have my own list of ways to spur insight and inspiration, which includes: to do walking meditations in the woods on a regular basis, no matter what the weather; to engage in long, slow sex with a person you love; to spend a few hours reviewing in detail your entire life history; to dance to music you adore for as long as you can before you collapse from delighted exhaustion. What about you, Aquarius? What are your reliable ways to get insight?

I suggest you engage in some of them, and also discover a new one. You’re in the Flood of Radical Fresh Insights Phase of your astrological cycle.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Stanley Kubrick made masterful films, but most of them bore me. I regard John Ashbery as a clever and innovative poet, but I’ve never been excited by his work. As for painter Mark Rothko, I recognize his talent and intelligence, but his art leaves me empty. The music of Nora Jones is pretty and technically impeccable, but it doesn’t move me. In the coming weeks, Pisces, I invite you to make the kinds of fine distinctions I’m describing here. It will be important for you to be faithful to your subjective responses to things, even as you maintain an objective perspective about them and treat them with respect.

Homework: Make two fresh promises to yourself: one that’s easy to keep and one that’s at the edge of your capacity to live up to.

---------------------------------------Rob Brezsny Free Will Astrology freewillastrology@freewillastrology.com

LIFE & CAREER COACH

BY SUNNY SIMON

THE SECRET SAUCE TO ACING AN INTERVIEW

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s I hung up with my new client, I knew he had some hurdles to jump before accepting a new position.

Thomas, a long-time entrepreneur, did not lack in the talent or experience categories, but one important factor held him back. He missed the mark in salesmanship. The resume we worked on would easily get him in the door, but I feared he would fall flat during the interview process because he lacked the ability to tell his story.

Thomas is a rather humble low-key guy.

Let’s face it, there is no room for modesty in an interview. If he didn’t learn the art of selling his background in an interesting congenial manner he would never make the short list.

The good news is, with practice, anyone can perform well in an interview situation. Thomas just needed to gain confidence. We began our interview preparation by talking about his transferable skills. Sometimes a visual exhibit helps, so I slipped a list of skills in front of him and asked him to check off all off the applicable boxes. Within 5 minutes the list grew to 50 hard and soft skills.

Next we did some interview practice. After Thomas answered the question we switched roles and I retold his story in an authentic manner highlighting his achievements.

Again we switched rolls and with more practice, Thomas began to understand the

art of communicating his strengths in an conversational manner.

If you’re reading this article you may be wondering how to coach yourself into scoring high on a interview score. In her book, “Brag!

The Art of Tooting Your Own Horn Without Blowing It,” Communication Coach, Peggy Klaus, advises the way to successfully ace an interview begins by making your resume come to life, so I suggest you start there. My client’s resume claimed he is “Adept at streamlining processes to improve operations and establish a highly efficient business.” When I asked him to give me an example of how he improved the business landscape, he launched into five scenarios proving his worth.

Have a friend or mentor pick apart your resume drilling down on your achievements.

Work on creating compelling narratives illustrating your accomplishments. Remember, you need to be memorable and rise above the competition so average answers will not cut it.

Craft a beginning, middle and end. Be specific, be concise and describe how you solved a problem and carried the ball to the end zone.

Interviewing is a skill that Thomas mastered with practice. You can too!

Sunny Simon is the owner of Raise the Bar High Life and Career Coaching. More about Sunny at www.raisethebarhigh.com.

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THE SCIENCE BEHIND CANNABIS-ASSISTED OPIOID REDUCTION

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his week’s article attempts to provide cannabis-assisted opioid reduction research to share with your physician or other health provider. Physicians need research. The website phil420.com will take you to a “German Patient Roundtable” that quotes world-wide studies supporting cannabis use. Philip J. Cenedella IV, an international cannabis consultant, manages the website. A Roundtable Discussion on this subject was prepared by Adrianne WilsonPoe, Ph. D and distributed by Congressman Earl Blumenauer on October 13th, 2017.

Dr. Wilson-Poe is an NIH-funded neuroscientist who has been studying cannabis, opioids, and their interaction for her entire career. She is a global leader with a strong publication record in chronic pain, addiction, and opioid reduction. Earl Blumenauer (D) is the U.S. Representative for Oregon’s 3rd congressional district, serving since 1996.

It is encouraging to note that on August 21st, 2018 the United Nations announced it will conduct a first-ever review of its cannabis ban. This could lead to rescheduling of the plant from Schedule I to Schedule II. Rescheduling to Schedule II with morphine will require physicians to write prescriptions for every tincture, pill, edible and topical creating a monumental disaster for medicinal users. This plant’s chemistry is more complex than the chemistry of an opioid. Knowledgeable cannabis activists are pushing for full declassification.

If you are wondering why your physician is reluctant to prescribe opioids one look at the policy of the California’s Prescription Drug Overdose Prevention Initiative will end your curiosity. The initiative requires physician notification every time one of their patients dies of an overdose of opioids. That will put a damper on anyone’s prescription tablet.

Getting back to the Roundtable Discussion the following are the results compiled by Dr. Wilson-Poe. In states with medicinal cannabis laws, opioid overdoses drop by an average of 25%. This effect gets bigger the longer the law has been in place. For instance, there is a 33% drop in mortality in California, where compassionate use has been in place since 1996. This finding was replicated by Columbia’s school of public health, using a completely different analysis strategy.

The National Academies of Science and Medicine recently conducted an exhaustive review of 10,000+ human studies published since 1999, definitively concluding that cannabis itself (not a specific cannabinoid or cannabis-derived molecule) is safe and effective for the treatment of chronic pain.

When 3,000 chronic pain patients were surveyed, they overwhelmingly preferred cannabis as an opioid alternative PubMed PMID: 28861516; PMCID: PMC5569620.

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97% “strongly agreed/agreed” that they could decrease their opioid use when using cannabis 92% “strongly agreed/agreed” that they prefer cannabis to treat their medical condition 81% “strongly agreed/ agreed that cannabis by itself was more effective than taking opioids Cannabis is opioid-sparing in chronic pain patients. When patients are given access to cannabis, they drop their opioid use by roughly 50%. This finding has been replicated several times from Ann Arbor to Jerusalem Boehnke KF, et.al. PubMed PMID: 27001005.

This opioid sparing effect is accompanied by an enhancement of cognitive function once patients begin cannabis therapy. This effect is most likely due to the fact that patients reduce their opioid use. Cannabis use is associated with a reduction in not only opioid consumption, but also many other drugs including benzodiazepines, which also have a high incidence of fatal overdose.

In states with medicinal cannabis laws, the number of prescriptions for analgesic and anxiolytic drugs (among others) are substantially reduced. Medicare and Medicaid prescription costs are substantially lower in states with cannabis laws.

CBD is non-intoxicating and is the 2nd most abundant cannabinoid found in cannabis. CBD alleviates the anxiety that leads to drug craving. In human pilot studies, CBD administration is sufficient to prevent heroin craving for at least 7 days.

For seniors who have been on opioids for chronic pain there are alternatives.

A holistic approach utilizes all modes of treatment: natural herbs, cannabis, aromatherapy, acupuncture, physician therapy maintenance, and/or yoga. Utilizing a competent provider to assist with the correct medicinal cannabis product is essential for success.

A printed copy of this paper can be obtained by emailing hilruth@gmail.com.

Ruth Hill RN provides consultations through holisticcaring.com.

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