Coachella Valley Weekly - October 30 to November 5, 2014 Vol. 3 No. 32

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4TH ANNUAL

NOVEMBER 1ST & 2ND BROUGHT TO YOU BY

AT LA QUINTA CIVIC CENTER PARK

OPPORTUNITIES FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES

McDonald’s

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Raymond Lee Schwarz

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JD McPherson

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Well-Strung

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Tone Rubio

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TASTE OF THE VALLEY Featured every day from 11:00 am to 4:00 pm, the Taste of the Valley offers food and wine samplings from some of the valley’s finest restaurants! While at Taste of the Valley enjoy live music with top jazz musicians sponsored by Woody’s After Dark.

Please note: wristband holders must be 21 yrs or older.

Purchase Wristbands at www.DesertWomansShow.com/register or at the door.

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Desert Arc’s 4th Annual Italian Festival

By Lisa Morgan

Saturday & Sunday, Nov. 1st and 2nd @ La Quinta’s Civic Center Park. New Location, Same Great Italian Charm

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Publisher & Editor Tracy Dietlin Art Director Robert Chance Sales Team Raymond Bill, Lisa Morgan, Alaina Majiros Classified Manager & Nightlife Editor Phil Lacombe Features Writer Lisa Morgan, Judith Sulkin, Denise Ortuno Neil, Heidi Simmons Writers/Contributors: Lisa Morgan , Robin Simmons, Rick Riozza, Craig Michaels, Bronwyn Ison, Haddon Libby, Rachel Montoya, Angela Janus, Janet McAfee, Heidi Simmons, Dale Gribow, Raymond Bill, Jack St. Clair, Rob Brezny, Amanda Dorta, Eleni P. Austin, Curtis Hendricks, Noe Gutierrez, Sunny Simon, Richard Weiss, Dr. Peter Kadile, Dr. Maria Lombardo, Bruce Cathcart, Patte Purcell, Julie Buehler, Flint Wheeler, Laura Hunt Little, Rebecca Pikus, Scott Pam, Richard Noble, Karen Creasy, Monica Morones, Shawn Mafia, Phillip Carrillo, Rich Henrich, Kira Golden Photographers Laura Hunt Little, Scott Pam, Lani Garfield, Chris Miller/ Imagine Imagery, La Maniaca Distribution Phil Lacombe, William Westley

Contents

Desert Arc’s Italian Festival................. 3 111 Music Festuval............................... 5 PS Art Museum - Tramway Bench....... 6 NEW McDonald’s in Palm Desert........ 6 CV Link .................................................. 7 Dia De Los Muertos.............................. 8 AMFM- Raymond Lee Schwarz........... 9 Tilted Kilt Open Mic Week 4.............. 10 LMS - JD McPherson........................... 11 Desert DJs - Vicki Steele.................... 12 Terror At The Tackroom .................... 12 LMS - Well-Strung............................... 13 LMS - Classy Mother Fu?kers............ 13 Consider This - The Soft White 60s... 14 Art- Tone Rubio................................... 15 Pet Place.............................................. 16 The Vino Voice.................................... 17 Club Crawler Nightlife....................... 18 Pamp Palate- Blackhawk Culinary... 20 Screeners............................................ 22 Book Review....................................... 23 Haddon Libby: It’s All Local............... 27 Dale Gribow........................................ 27 Safety Tips........................................... 28 ShareKitchen...................................... 28 Sports Scene....................................... 29 Sports.................................................. 29 Health & Fitness ................................. 30 Free Will Astrology............................. 31 Health & Fitness................................. 31 Life & Career Coach............................ 32 Beauty................................................. 32 Weiss Cracks....................................... 34

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s an Italian American, I so appreciate what Desert Arc has done over the years in creating and growing our desert’s Italian Festival, and helping to celebrate the culture, the cuisine and everything we love about Italy,” shared Patrick Evans, of CBS Local Channel 2! Now in its fourth year, the Coachella Valley’s only Italian Festival has become so popular, a new location and an extra day are needed to facilitate the fun, food and festivities that it has become famous for.

Desert Arc, one of the valley’s largest and oldest, non-profit organizations, has provided opportunities for thousands of people with disabilities since 1959. This festival celebrates the Italian influences that have helped Desert Arc become what it is today. Vice President, Mitch Blumberg, shared how the idea came into fruition: “Executive Director, Richard Balocco, suggested to me that Desert Arc create a fall event to complement our annual Spring Golf Tournament. Both are fundraisers. Both just as importantly build and expand awareness of Desert Arc and our mission ‘to enhance the quality of life and create opportunities for people with disabilities.’ I reminded Dick that our campus property in Palm Desert was donated to Desert Arc by the Western Italian Golf Association in 1983, 31 years ago. Dick comes from100% Italian heritage as does his wife, Loretta Ferraro. With these bookends reflecting our Italian heritage and “

pedigree, an Italian Festival has been the perfect idea for an annual fall event here in the Valley. Many cities around the country have annual Italian Festivals. Now we do too!”

The launching of the festival in its initial year was a bit daunting, admitted Blumberg.

But a few inspirational and enthusiastic people came on board early to move the idea to fruition. “We asked Michael Castelli and Chef Brian of Castelli’s Restaurant if they’d participate. They loved the idea and jumped right on board. After that, it was much easier to get everybody else to participate. It was stalwarts like them and Mario, of Mario’s Italian Restaurants, that truly helped us in our success. I remember Mario hand-made cannolis. He had a sign that said, ‘Free Cannoli, but if you like it, please put a dollar in the jar.’ At the end of the event, he handed me $2,500 cash - every single dollar they had made from their two days of work! Fantasy Springs came on board shortly after. It’s people and businesses like these who’ve been participating since the beginning, that have helped to turn this into such a success!”

Another reason for the event’s growing number of attendees can be attributed to the return of a phenomenal lineup of entertainment. One of the most special and memorable performances of the day promises to be the Desert Arc Choir singing the Italian National Anthem (in Italian) with

special guest performer, Santina Pellegrino.

Filippo Voltaggio, star of stage, radio, TV and film will be performing. Singer, entertainer, Paul Elia is sure to have the ladies swooning once again. You’ll also take in the vocal beauty of former Dean Martin “Golddigger”, Joyce Garro. The lovely Joey English will MC the event and even Patrick Evans, our charming, CBS Local 2 Chief Meteorologist will be on hand to sing for the crowd, and say, “I told you so” in response to comments regarding the fabulous weather (so far it has been perfect, every year). New to the event will be Coachella Valley Music Award winners, Machin’, happy and energetic “Pied Pipers” of Spanglish Jive, Latin, Gypsy and Reggae. continue to page 5

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The fabulous food venders include: Appetito Castelli’s Ciro’s Restorante E & E Pel’s European Desserts Fantasy Springs Resort Casino Fisherman’s Market & Grill Frankie’s Old World Italian Bakery Funnel Frenzy Gourmet Delights Le Donne Cucina Italiana Livreri’s Bella Napoli Lulu’s Mario’s Italian Café Papa Cantella’s Sausages Pasquini Coffee

www.coachellavalleyweekly.com Pizzeria Villagio Red Leopard Tea & Italian Ice The Real Italian Deli / Il Corso S. Pellegrino-The Biscotti Lady Merchandise andInformational vendors at your disposal will be: AcQPoint Wellness Center Blest Blondies Brushstrokes Crystal Chrysler Fiat Desert Recreation District EZ103 Festival Merchandise Festival Photo Booth Italian Children’s Market JFK Memorial Hospital Loretta Ferraro Luxury Real Estate

Mary Kay Cosmetics Save2Give Sognitalia Imports Sopratutto Per Voi (Especially For You) Turfstore Direct Verengo Solar Welk Resorts Wyndham Vacation Resorts If you’re feeling especially hungry AND competitive, be sure to sign up for the annual Meatball Dash and their Spaghetti Eating Contest! If stuffing your face for prizes isn’t your cup of Pellegrino, never fear. The Family Fun Zone will entertain you with face painting, Buckets O’ Fun and a special Italian-themed puppet show. You can even create your own Venetian mask. There is sure to be something for everyone to enjoy, and you can feel especially good knowing that the proceeds benefit an organization that has provided so much for so many in our community for more than 5 decades.

So come, “Mangia, bevi e si felice” or “Eat, drink and be merry” at the La Quinta Civic Center Park. The celebration starts at 11 am both Saturday and Sunday, and goes until 5 pm. General admission is $10, but kids 10 and under are free. VIP tickets are also available. Your VIP ticket provides preferred parking and preferred seating along with a few other little surprises for only $30. For tickets and more information call Desert Arc at (760) 346-1611 or visit them at www.desertarc.org

111 MUSIC FESTIVAL

MOBILE MUSIC FESTIVAL TO TAKE PLACE ON SUNLINE BUSES!

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n November 01, 2014 the first ever 111 Music Festival will take place spanning across the Coachella Valley. This is a mobile music festival utilizing the SunLine as the venue, taking advantage of the intimate and unique atmosphere inside of a bus to expose the Coachella Valley to music, culture and public transportation. 25+ local musicians will perform from 2:55 pm to 7:05pm on six different buses along the Line 111 bus route.

The mobile music festival is for all age groups and included in the SunLine Transit Agency normal bus fare that is as low as $1.00 for a one-way ride and $3.00 for allday passes. The innovative music festival is a collaboration between SunLine Transit Agency and The Coachella Valley Art Scene.

The goal is to promote bus ridership through music and culture, thus raising awareness of

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the local transit system that is available to Coachella Valley residents and educating the community on the positive benefits that public transportation offers.

It’s simple in how the 111 Music Festival will operate. There are 4 main locations along HWY 111 where musicians + passengers can board from: -Stevens & Palm Canyon in Palm Springs -B St & Buddy Rogers in Cathedral City -Hahn & Town Center Way in Palm Desert -Flower & Indio Blvd in Indio Artists will board the bus to perform their set at one of these four “stages”.

They will ride from one stage to the next.

When they get off another band will get on, similar to a “relay” style. The set times will vary between 19 minutes to 46 minutes, depending on distance between the stages.

Passengers have the option to either board with them at the stage, or catch them

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down the road along any bus stop on Line 111.

Party on the bus! Passengers choose their lineup, ride with who they want to ride with, can exit the bus when they please and can board again when they want.

Artist Lineup information can be found at: 111MusicFestival.com/lineup Official Website: 111MusicFestival.com Social Media(s): @TheCVArtScene

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Community

By Kira Golden

New Horizons Reaches New Heights

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arly in the morning on Wednesday, October 22, a helicopter lifted an almost two-ton carved granite bench sculpture, created by artist Bruce Beasley and previously located at the Palm Springs Art Museum, to the top of the Palm Springs Aerial Tramway. Local philanthropist Bradford Bates, who donated the sculpture to the museum last year in honor of its 75th Anniversary, made the unconventional request to have it relocated to the top of the Tram as a way to share his interpretation of the piece more tangibly with visitors to the Valley.

When asked about the inspiration behind this donation and the unusual location, Bates responded, “Really, it’s the Valley, and coming here four years ago and making this my home; I really learned what the spirit of Palm Springs and the Coachella Valley is about: it’s about acceptance, renewal, about forgiveness and creativity.” Bates went on to say that he has been inspired by the community he found here and wanted to give some of that inspiration back to the people that provided it for him. He feels this carved bench, which he renamed New Horizons from its original moniker of Stone Horizons, represents all of these core aspects of the Coachella Valley, and he desired to share those values with those who seek the pensive and inspirational vistas the Tramway has to offer.

Executive Director of the museum, Dr. Steven Nash, explained that the new placement of the sculpture was chosen to provide visitors with “a beautiful place of relaxation and a great panoramic view of the Valley....where one can sit and contemplate nature and the beauty of life.” But getting it to the top of the Tram has not been an easy process.

“We’ve been working for at least a year with the Tram Authority,” Nash continued. “It has been extremely complex, transporting something of that weight by helicopter, and there were various alternative ways of doing it that were proposed.” It was eventually concluded that the helicopter was indeed the best way to go, once certain issues were overcome. Some of those, he went on to

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explain, were to do with air rights, the lift capacity of the helicopter, and the safety of air travel while carrying such a hefty piece of art.

Those conundrums were explained more fully by the helicopter pilot, a Mr. Tate, who said that the helicopter’s maximum lift capacity is about 6,000 pounds. Weighing in at 3,700 pounds, the sculpture in question is over half that. Furthermore, Tate elaborated on the reasons for the early morning flight.

“We wanted to do it when it was nice and cool outside; the aircraft works a lot better in cooler temperatures. Also, the other thing you have to worry about with the mountains is, in the afternoon, the wind picks up.”

To ensure the safety and proper placement of the piece, Tate had already been up to the location to scout the area and landscape so that he’d be familiar with the air currents and landmarks.

There were already people waiting at the top of the Tram to grab hold of the piece and place it properly before detaching it from the helicopter. “This should only take ten minutes total,” Tate said with a shrug, “Five minutes to get there and five to place it.” And yet it has been hours and hours in the planning--hard to imagine such a momentous undertaking would be accomplished so quickly.

Now, the beautiful, abstract, yet functional, sculpture resides atop the very mountains its jagged design evokes. It is one of the only pieces of public art to find its home at the lofty elevation of 8,500 feet in the entire nation. One would imagine art is normally not displayed at such a height as it may be more difficult to view; however, the Palm Springs Aerial Tramway makes reaching that elevation a simple and enjoyable matter. The Tram is a popular attraction to residents, visitors, and naturelovers alike, and now made all the more beautiful by the addition of this wonderful and meaningful work of art, where one can view and appreciate the gorgeous panorama of the whole valley laid bare, in peace and comfort.

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by Janet Newcomb

NEW STATE-OF-THE-ART McDONALD’S OPENING ON OCTOBER 31

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orporate McDonald’s is approaching its 60th anniversary as an innovative, quality-driven global foodservice retailer, and local entrepreneur Dick Shalhoub is nearing his 20th anniversary as a successful, innovative owner/operator of all of the McDonald’s in the Coachella Valley. It wasn’t long ago that he received design accolades for his unique Mid-Century Modern McDonald’s restaurant at Smoke Tree Commons in Palm Springs, designed

by Palm Springs architect James Cioffi, but this year he’s topping that with a modern beauty that has state-of-the-art technology that will speed up service and deliver even faster and fresher food than ever.

To enhance the quick service, there’s a dual-point drive thru and a state-of-the-art high density kitchen that’s built for efficiency.

And the Entertainment Quotient is over the top with an experimental digital projector that sends interactive games down to some of the tabletops from the ceiling, changing the games every three minutes. And there are also several high-tech electronic games for amusement. And, to match the almost futuristic energy in the place, the décor is colorful and contemporary.

There have been lots of interesting tidbits about the McDonald’s corporation over 60 years, and one of my favorites is that Dan Coudreaut, McDonald’s Executive Chef and Vice President, Culinary Innovation, graduated at the top of his class from the famous Culinary Institute of America. He was Executive Sous Chef at Dallas’ Café Pacific and Chef de Cuisine at The Four Seasons, and joined McDonald’s in August of 2004. Needless to say, his friends and family were surprised (maybe even shocked), but the job gave him an opportunity to innovate with a creative team of chefs and come up with products that attract customers to their 14,000 U.S. restaurants. You think it’s tough to get your family to eat what you cook for them? Be glad you don’t have Dan’s pressure.

Fast, Flavorful, and Fun

While it sounds like a simple, fun job, in a recent interview Chef Coudreaut commented about his responsibilities.

“Taste is by far the most important factor…

I also have to think about sustainability. We need a controllable supply of quality product that can be guaranteed to our restaurants.

I’ve got to think about American palates, portability, and the volume of ingredients that item would require. We also have to be customer-centric and follow trends and the way people are eating.” In other words, it’s complicated.

In celebration of this weekend’s launch, and the end of Daylight Savings Time on Sunday, the doors will open on Friday (Halloween) at 5 a.m. and Egg McMuffins will cost only $1.00 until 10:30. From 10:30 on, Big Macs will cost only $1.00.

These specials and times will be repeated on November 1 and 2. And just for fun for the whole family, on Saturday the Classic Fairytale Characters Queen Elsa and Princess Anna from the movie Frozen (provided by Once Upon a Time Character Company) will be entertaining in the restaurant from noon until three. This McDonald’s is handsome and easy to access, so it’ll be a great addition to the community.

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CV LINK COMMUNITY WORKSHOPS TO DISCUSS HEALTH AND SOCIAL EQUITY CONCERNS AND BENEFITS

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he Coachella Valley Association of Governments (CVAG) in partnership with the Riverside County Department of Public Health and the Southern California Association of Governments are conducting a Health Impact Assessment of the CV Link project and will hold a series of public workshops starting next week to discuss how the CV Link design can be improved to promote community cohesion and identity, increase physical activity, improve transportation access, increase economic development and contribute to better air quality.

The first workshop will take place on October 28th from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. at the College of the Desert Cravens Student Services Center located at 43-500 Monterey Avenue, Palm Desert, CA 92260.

The workshop is free to the public and all Coachella Valley residents, employees, business owners, government officials and advocates are encouraged to attend and share their ideas. No prior knowledge of CV Link or community health is required. The workshop will be bilingual in English and Spanish and a light dinner will be served.

The second workshop will take place on November 12th from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. at Bobby Drake Middle School Cafeteria located at 85358 Bagdad Street, Coachella, CA 92236.

The third workshop will take place on November 13th from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. at Cathedral City Hall City Council Chambers located at 68700 Ave Lalo Guerrero, Cathedral City, CA 92234.

For information about CV Link, please visit www.CoachellaValleyLink.com and find us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter with the handle @CV_Link and hashtag #CVLink.

A Health Impact Assessment of Coachella Valley Link The Coachella Valley (CV) Link will be a 50-‐mile multi-‐modal transportation path connecting eight cities and three Native American tribes in the Coachella Valley.

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Located in north-‐central Riverside County, California, the path will be open to bicycles, pedestrians, and low-‐speed electric vehicles (LSEVs) including golf carts and neighborhood electric vehicles (NEVs).

Construction for the CV Link is projected to begin in 2016. The planning process is led by Coachella Valley Association of Governments (CVAG) and is currently underway. A final Master Plan to be completed in late 2014 will guide the design, construction, and management of the CV Link Project and has been informed by public input and environmental analysis. Environmental review in compliance with the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) and the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) will also be completed.

Plan proponents have advocated several benefits of the path including its capacity as a transportation resource, thus relieving congestion on nearby Highway 111 and improving air quality; its role as an access corridor for employment, shopping, and school; its contribution as an opportunity for Fitness and recreation; and its economic benefits through projected design, construction, and maintenance jobs and as an amenity for the tourism industry.

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Governments (SCAG), CVAG, and the Riverside County Department of Public Health (RCDPH) are commissioning a health impact assessment to use multiple data collection and analysis methods to determine the potential positive and negative health effects of this project on the Coachella Valley community. Human Impact Partners has been hired to conduct the analysis.

Health Impact Assessment (HIA) is a practical approach that uses data, research, and stakeholder input to determine a policy or project’s impact on the health of a population.

Goals and Objectives The HIA will be conducted concurrently with the next phase of CV Link planning, and in addition to highlighting potential health impacts of the CV Link, the HIA will provide recommendations for maximizing health benefits of the path and monitoring and managing any identified potential negative impacts. In this way, the HIA will directly inform design features of the path.

The HIA may evaluate the CV Link’s influence on: • physical activity • air quality • economic development • social cohesion • community identity The HIA will analyze health impacts for communities with unique health statuses and concerns, including low-‐income communities and Native American tribes near the path.

Community participation In addition to partnerships with CVAG, SCAG, and RCDPH, the HIA process will engage partners such as local community-‐based organizations and residents, community councils, businesses, and public agencies through four community workshops, with the intention of building relationships, elevating community voices about health issues and priorities, and “groundtruthing” HIA findings and recommendations.

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DIA DE LOS MUERTOS GOES POOLSIDE

AT THE HACIENDA CANTINA & BEACHCLUB NOVEMBER 1ST. Procedes BENEFITING the MEALS ON WHEELS program

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undreds of locals and visitors alike are expected to continue their Halloween celebration with a new annual daytime DJ & Pool Party Event in Palm Springs. “Playa de los Muertos – a Dia de los Muertos Celebration” at the Hacienda Cantina & Beach Club will kick off poolside at 11am November 1st, featuring food, drinks and a wide variety of entertainment from world-renowned DJ Von Kiss along with DJs ColourVision and Aaron C. Event Chairperson Tristan Milanovich will be Mistress of Ceremonies for the full day’s festivities benefiting Meals on Wheels Coachella Valley.

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The $45 ticket price for what is expected to be a 400-person event includes an open Sangria bar and tray passed antojitos (appetizers) inspired by the traditional Mexican holiday. Guests are also encouraged to participate in other traditional aspects of the cultural celebration, such as sugar skullface painting, something that will be offered to guests for free at the event.

“We wanted to honor and capture the color and vibrancy of Dia de los Muertos celebrations and combine it with a beach party like only Palm Springs can offer,” said event coordinator George Nasci-Sinatra.

The popular DJs will be juxtaposed against a traditional Mariachi band, with sights and sound celebrating the “Day of the Dead” theme including tissue paper flowers and decorations, sugar skulls and more.

What: Playa de los Muertos – A Dia de los Muertos Celebration Where: Hacienda Cantina & Beach Club 1555 S. Palm Canyon Drive, Palm Springs, CA 92264 When: November 1, 2014 11am – 6pm For tickets visit: PlayaDeLosMuertos. brownpapertickets.com or call George Nasci-Sinatra at (760) 323-5689 X112.

Proceeds from the event will benefit Meals On Wheels whose volunteers deliver over 140,000 meals to home bound individuals as well as 7 congregate sites from Palm Springs to the Salton Sea each year valley wide. Meals on Wheels is a program administered by The Mizell Senior Center.

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By rich henrich

AMFM ARTIST RAYMOND LEE SCHWARZ SHARES THE SOUTHWEST

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he desert is freedom. It’s the land, the sky. It’s a wide, open landscape.

You can be who you want to be. You know, there’s not a lot of people around to f#@$ with you. I should have been born here but it took me twenty years to get here,” says AMFM artist Raymond Lee Schwarz of his self-proclaimed homeland, Santa Fe, New Mexico. Schwarz, once a standout football player, earning the honor of being the top player in his native Minnesota, followed the path less traveled after losing a scholarship due to injury and headed east for New York City and the avant garde stage. His journey led to early friendships with Andy Warhol and Mark Margolis and to emerging art scenes in the 70’s in Oaxaca, Austin and Santa Fe. “One way or another, art has been my life. I don’t think you become an artist, like you do a doctor or lawyer, you are born an artist. I guess I’ve been aware of myself as an artist since I was a kid. Perhaps you can study and you may learn some techniques but I think you really are born with it.” Raymond sits back in his chair, a guitar in front of him, books, woven rugs, craftsman furniture and paintings all around him.

CVW: You were once the slasher in a Roger Corman film.

RLS: Yeah, that was a hoot! Boy, those days were wild!

CVW: Does acting feed your painting or does painting feed your acting?

RLS: They’re two different animals. One doesn’t feed the other. It’s true, it helps to dabble in different mediums otherwise, you hit a wall. You need different outlets. Artists need to branch out and embrace different mediums.

CVW: You are recently emerging from your own wall.

RLS: Oh God…it’s been five years since I’ve really created anything.

CVW: What is this series about?

RLS: Capturing the West through the eyes of a madman! (He laughs). I’ve always liked “

Mexican blankets, the colors and patterns and the sun and the sky out West. Really it’s about capturing the colors and textures of the West.

CVW: And this is a departure from your previous art as a metal sculptor.

RLS: Yeah, I’ve crossed several mediums over the years. I was a jeweler and a silversmith at one point and on the stage and the silver screen. I went back to being a metal artist and then a sculptor and then back to theater and film. Now, I’m painting.

CVW: Why painting?

RLS: I always knew in the back of my mind that I would do something with paint but it was just time to do something different. It’s a lot easier to manipulate texture and color. I

sold all of my metalworking tools a few years ago. So, now there was just a blank canvas in front of me.

CVW: How do you get your inspiration?

RLS: A cup of coffee in the morning. The rest is my secret. Find your own inspiration!

(He chuckles) CVW: Are there artists that influence you?

RLS: I live in Santa Fe so, I’m surrounded by artists and inspired by many of them. A lot of them are friends. I’m not really into many famous artists. I try to not be influenced by trends or what’s going on in the art world.

Santa Fe is the second largest art market in the country behind New York but I came here when it was just an art colony. I still like that aspect of being around artists I’ve known twenty, thirty and forty years.

CVW: Did you set out to be an artist?

RLS: Absolutely. It’s chased more women away than if I’d been a guitarist, though!

It suits me perfectly as I have no other discernable skills other than my art and acting.

CVW: Why do you create?

RLS: Somebody has to! You’re asking me questions about things I don’t think about.

Why does a writer write? Why does a singer sing?

CVW: What do you want people to know about you as an artist?

RLS: (He laughs) I want the right ones to know that I’m single and I still dare to dangle!

Raymond Lee Schwarz will join Grant Kosh, another Santa Fe-based artist, as part of AMFM Fest’s art exhibit in the Mary Pickford mezzanine set to open Nov. 13th with a special reception for actor Ed Asner and

director Mark Rydell. The exhibit of desert artists will run through Nov. 16th. All art will be for sale with portions of the proceeds to benefit an AMFM and CVEP scholarship fund for Coachella Valley students interested in pursuing the arts.

AMFM Fest: art. music. film. more event will be held in Cathedral City at the UltraStar Mary Pickford and Cathedral City Town Square. Live music will be performed on Friday and Saturday (Nov. 14-15th) with food trucks and vendors on hand for the event. Film and art screenings will take place Thursday Nov. 13-16th with a closing night party scheduled at Schmidy’s Tavern in Palm Desert, who will also run a beer garden for the festival.

Entrance to view the art will be free along with the music. Tickets for film screenings and parties are available through the UltraStar Mary Pickford Theatre box office.

The four-day art, music, film and more event is sponsored by Cathedral City, Film 4 Change, CV Weekly, S.I.R., Westin Rancho Mirage and The Curve. More information on the artists and the event can be found at www.AMFMfest.com or at www.facebook. com/amfmfest

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Tilted Kilt Open Mic competition Fall edition week 5 winners

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he Tilted Kilt Open Mic Competition brought excitement and fun times in week 5! The audience cheered for their favorite musicians as well as for t-shirts and prizes from the Mary Pickford Theater and from Fireball Whiskey and the Tilted Kilt. At the end of the night, the enthusiastic crowd chose William Cortez “Ill Will” as the first place winner! Will was celebrating his 20th birthday last night and brought cupcakes for all, taking home a movie ticket and concession package from the Mary Pickford Theatre. William has now earned a spot in the Grand Finals where he’ll compete in the finals for the grand prizes of a 3 day/2 night trip to Las Vegas from Crater Lake Vodka, a $500 shopping spree at Guitar Center and a n entire weekend recording session with producer Ronnie King at his Chateau Relaxo to produce one mastered “radio ready” track. Second place went to Ryder and Jackie who took home a movie ticket package from the Mary Pickford Theatre as well. Third place winners were The Classy Mother Fu?kers who took home certificates for spa services up to $100 at EstheticX.Obsession Massage & Wax Bar. I am so proud that our competition’s performers are really all about the music and coming out to perform for the fun and pleasure of it and to support one another in the music community.

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Local Music Spotlight

By rich henrich

JD McPHERSON: TARANTINO COOL IN THE HANDS OF A VIKING

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THANK YOU for putting on a great show: Charity, Mike Sick-boy, Jim Holiday, Tanya Nunez, Brianna Finnell, B.R.O., Benny de la Maier, Felipe and Austin, Will Kelly, Marco Thoma, Juan and Kris of Giraffes Can’t Swim and Paul Gihren. I hope to see you all next week! Look for coverage of this week’s event and the announcement of winners in the next issue of Coachella Valley Weekly! SPECIAL THANKS to all of our sponsors: Ronnie King Music, Guitar Center, Crater Lake Vodka, EstheticX. Obsession Massage & Wax Bar, Riccio’s Steak, Seafood and Pasta, CV Weekly and Mary Pickford Theater, Abe’s Brand and Skitzo Kitty. AND THANKS to Johhny Carmona for being an awesome sound technician throughout each show.

Remember, the Tilted Kilt Open Mic Competition is ALL AGES and runs EVERY WEDNESDAY. YOU may compete EVERY week! PLEASE NOTE: Due to our overwhelming number of interested performers, sign in starts at 7pm and will be closed at 7:45pm.

BRING YOUR FRIENDS, FAMILY and FANS and note that the competition runs from 8-11pm so be sure your friends and family know to stay until the end to voice their vote!!! For questions or information about sign-up, please see Facebook.com/ TiltedKiltOpenMicCompetition or contact creator and host, Morgan James at OpenMicContact@ gmail.com or (714) 651-1911

October 30 to November 5, 2014

hat happened to music? I’ve heard many raise this question in search of something risqué, eclectic, raw, honest and real. Country turned into rock, rock rolled away and EDM is the craze of the day and yes, so many bands sound the same. However, for the true connoisseur of sound, there is no need to look any further than JD McPherson. Fortunately, you have a couple opportunities to see them live. Catch them on Halloween Night opening for local greats Queens of the Stone Age at The Forum in L.A. or on Nov. 2nd at Pappy & Harriet’s. Just be sure to experience this one.

From the rural southeastern corner of Oklahoma comes a voice and sound that reflects The Smiths, Buddy Holly, Fats Domino, Little Richard, The Ramones, The Pixies and the obtuse ideas of The Cramps.

JD McPherson and his band unleash a sound that is as fresh as it is familiar with the soul of Little Walter and the sultry of Peggy Lee. Every member of this band brings style, musicianship, and an appreciation for the history of music with a sharp edge that cuts so smooth. From rhythm and blues to rockabilly and doo-wop, the talent gathered here, dearly beloved will cause a footstomping revival of holy proportions guided by the godly hand of stand up bass, Jimmy Sutton.

I sat down with front man JD McPherson three days in to their tour after a rough ride from Austin. “There weren’t any hotels.

Every room was sold, so we kept driving,” his tired voice cracked. He wore an old miner’s hat that no doubt hid his road weary hair and revealed an old soul calling in the ghosts of music past. I wondered how this sound began.

CVW: Do you remember discovering music?

JD: I was always surrounded by music but I guess I started thinking about it as a thing you could be into because of my older

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brothers. My dad liked blues and good blues, at that, but I was just listening to whatever my parents were listening to. My older brothers were quite a bit older than me. One’s 16 years older. They were into guitar rock and that was interesting and when I was getting into guitar and Zeppelin and Cream and Hendrix. But before that, cool stuff like Small Faces all the Mod stuff.

I love The Kinks.

CVW: I read that you are into one of my favorites, The Pixies.

JD: I love The Pixies but one thing no one ever talks about is they had this really strong surf slant. They had guitar instrumentals on their records, which is crazy! Think about that. The only other band in the vicinity is The Smiths and they had like one instrumental. And when Frank Black was recording with the Catholics and the honky tonk stuff…he’s a really smart person. I tend to gravitate towards these people with obtuse ideas, like The Cramps.

On the surface they seem like this thing but when you dig in, you see that they were really thinking about a lot of things. It was

lowbrow but also really highbrow.

CVW: I get the sense that your music is more than what’s on the surface.

JD: Thank you. I was just talking to somebody the other day about when you put two things together that don’t necessarily make sense. We were talking about a Bo Diddley record. At the end of the record, the harmonica comes in and they turn the reverb and put it through an echo chamber plate or something. It was completely nuts! What a crazy vision. What a daring move by all parties. That is stuff I’m completely enthralled by.

CVW: It’s refreshing artistry.

JD: There’s a weird wall. People don’t want to touch that stuff. They’ll touch the 60’s but won’t go past to the 50’s or 40’s.

I don’t know why. They shouldn’t be afraid of it. Those are some of the killer grooves of all time. Those sounds can be lo-fi but have a lot of finesse to them. The grooves are just fantastic. Everybody likes it whether they know it or not. I get so many videos of people’s toddlers sent to me just freaking out to the music. It’s primal.

CVW: You’re about to open up for Queens of the Stone Age. How did this come about?

JD: Wow! I had been having a really bad day. I got separated from the group I was

with at airport security and feeling really small. And I heard “JD, guess who’s going through security? Queens of the Stone Age.” Of course, I thought, they all get to meet them and I don’t. I’m all alone and putting on my shoes and the pack of people I was with came back looking confused and asked me how I knew Josh, I said “I don’t know Josh”. Well, he says he wants to talk to you about something. And all of a sudden it was like this light appeared and Josh Homme comes jogging towards me and grabs me and picks me up and he’s like a huge Viking of a man in pressed trousers. He started telling me about this show and telling me how much he likes my music and how the band and his family listen to it all the time.

I can just say that meeting him and getting invited to do the show has been one of the most rewarding experiences. He’s genuinely made me feel, I don’t know what the words is, just granting me the time means so much and he’s so complimentary of our music. I can’t explain how low I was feeling that day.

I have the highest respect for him.

CVW: And then Pappy & Harriet’s?

JD: Really looking forward to playing there. We tried to eat there once but it was packed. And I want to go to Giant Rock, too!

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Vicki Steele Relates to Her Listeners, Afternoons on The Eagle 106.9

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Terror at the Tack Room

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orn in Louisville Kentucky, Vicki Steele was a very shy and quiet child who was more of an observer than a talker. Vicki later moved out to California in the early 80’s with her mother and sister.

Once her son was born, she quickly realized that she did not want to raise him in L.A so, she came out to the desert and decided this is where she wanted to stay.

At the age of 30, she was working for a local stock brokerage firm when “Black Friday” happened. Vicki, along with many of her co-workers lost her job due to cut backs.

They say when one door closes, another one opens. Well, a guy she was dating who was a DJ at the time suggested she go to radio school. As luck would have it, two days later a College of The Desert school schedule came in the mail and low and behold they had a Radio/TV broadcasting class on Tuesday and Thursday nights.

About 60 dollars and 16 weeks later, Vicki was receiving straight A’s and before she could finish the class she had a job at KPSIAM loading commercials and running shows on reel to reel tapes.

Over the next 24 years Vicki worked at a handful of different radio stations in the Coachella Valley with a variety of formats ranging from rock to easy listening and top 40. Currently, you can hear her friendly voice from 2pm to 7pm in the afternoon on The Eagle 106.9. Vicki feels right at home with the format that plays “Classic Hits” from the 70’s, 80’s and 90’s. She admits there’s nothing better than getting paid to play Bon Jovi, her all-time favorite artist who she has met six times.

Despite her shy demeanor, Vicki feels one of her strengths is the ability to relate to people and to make them feel they are important and special. If you ask her what her favorite part of the job is, you would

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by Lisa Morgan

Well-Strung: All Male String Quartet Set to Musically Mash Your Mind

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his Friday night will be one of the most spine-chilling celebrations of Halloween ever witnessed. The Tack Room Tavern and Desert DJ Entertainment bring you the 3rd annual ‘Terror @ The Tack Room’. The musical fright begins at 8 p.m. As with previous shows, there is no cost for entry and is a 21 and over event.

Here’s what to expect; Dance Floor One: The Hellraiser Stage will be supported by PLab Productions with DJ sets by All Night Shoes and DJ Skyhigh. Dance Floor Two: the Ghostbusters Stage, will feature live music by Eevaan Tre’ & The Show, What the Funk Hip-Funk Allstars and Coachella Valley Weekly’s ‘Best Cover Band’ of 2013 and 2014, Long Duk Dong, who will be joined by the second to none, George Gemini and Wyte Gye himself, Eric Willman. Dance Floor Three: is the Monster Squad Stage manned

by Desert DJ Entertainment Group with DJ sets by Fuse, Naki Beats, Guy Worden, Paul Z and DJ J Sizzle. Yours truly and Boycott Radio frontman/DJ extraordinaire Chris Long will be your hosts and emcees for the evening.

Included in the festivities is a best costume contest. The first place winner receives a gift certificate to Originals Barber Lounge (Free cut and shave), a gift certificate to Patrice Hair Studio (1/2 highlights), a $50 gift certificate to Tack Room Tavern and a $20 gift card from Desert DJ Entertainment Group. Second Place collects a gift certificate to Originals Barber Lounge (Free Shave), a gift certificate to Patrice Hair Studio (haircut and style), a $50 gift certificate to Tack Room Tavern, a $20 gift card from Desert DJ Entertainment Group and (2) passes to the Day of the Dead show at The Date Shed that

features Fortunate Youth, The Expanders and Big Mountain on November 1st. Third place wins a gift certificate to Originals Barber Lounge (Free cut), a gift certificate to Patrice Hair Studio (Hair cut treatment), a $25 gift certificate to Tack Room Tavern and a $40 Visa gift card from PlabProductions.

As a special treat EeVaan Tre & The Show will be debuting the song “The End of The Night” at midnight and have the song available for streaming for free beginning November 1st.

You are heavily encouraged to dress up in your Halloween best. Extra points go to those with style and inappropriateness. If you need transportation, Discount Shuttle of the Desert is providing special rates for Terror attendees. Contact them at (760) 808-5466. Please mention ‘Terror at the Tack Room’ to access special rate. The Tack Room Tavern is located at 81-900 Avenue 51 Indio, CA. You can call them for more information at (760) 347-9985. For up to date information and pictures from previous shows, visit the Terror at the Tack Room Facebook event page.

The sponsors: Musicians Outlet- musicians-outlet.com Date Shed- dateshedmusic.com Tack Room Tavern- tackroomtavern.com Originals Barber Loungefacebook.com/OriginalsBarberLounge Patrice Hair Studio Discount Shuttle of the Desert & Limodiscountshuttleofthedesert.com Find the groups on Facebook: Eevaan Tre’ What the Funk?

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magine, if you will, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Justin Timberlake joining forces and opening a music school across the street from Juilliard. The brilliant outcome of that venture would be these four, very becoming, classically trained, all male musicians known as “Well-Strung”.

Two violins, a viola and cello are expertly played by the quartet of instrumentalists, as they dynamically present “Le nozze di Figaro”

by Mozart. Then, just when you think you know what’s coming next, they gracefully woo you into another composition as they open their mouths and begin to sing in perfect arrangement and harmony, an excerpt from the Black Eyed Peas, “I got a feeling...” It is a sonically delightful experience, brought to you by four musicians; each individually accomplished, but pure genius when they perform this and many other pop and classical mashups in their nationally popular and critically acclaimed show, “Popsicle”. Their brilliance was not at all lost on Kathy Lee and Hoda when they performed on the TODAY show, and they’ve been touring rigorously ever since.

Well-Strung is composed of first violinist Edmund Bagnell, second violinist Christopher Marchant, cellist Daniel Shevlin and violinist Trevor Wadleigh, all well versed in symphony and musical theater. The show is directed and co-written by none other than Donna Drake

from the original cast of “A Chorus Line”, and the stellar arrangements are produced by the prolific and industry wide respected, David Levinson.

Speaking with first violin, Edmond Bagnell, he shared about life on the road: “We’ve toured constantly since Fall of 2013, playing some cool situations and some unusual situations. The experience has really pushed us as a group; we know each other pretty well these days. Surprisingly, there are no horror stories. There was one incident where we arrived in a town late at night, to play the next day, only to discover they had only booked one room for all of us. I don’t even remember how we decided, but without much drama, two of us just slept on the floor and two of us slept on a bed. I think it all speaks to the ‘one-ness’ that we have developed vocally, musically and personally.”

Well-Strung will perform Friday, November 7th at the Riviera Resort and Spa Hotel Grand Ballroom, in Palm Springs. They will perform along with comedian, Kate Clinton, for the Fifth Annual Center Stage, benefiting the LGBT Community Center of the Desert. The Riviera Resort and Spa is located at1600 N. Indian Canyon Drive, in Palm Springs. Tickets start at $175. For tickets or more information, call 760-416-7790, or visit thecenterps.org.

You can also get a glimpse of these talented four at their website well-strung.com.

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For This Young Band, It’s All Rock and Roll, and Metal, and Blues, and Jazz, and Big Band, and...It’s All Good!

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get an answer like this; “I would have to say meeting my listeners, making someone’s day just by saying their name on the radio.”

Her relaxed Southern roots translate into a person with very little ego who is always wanting to learn more. Her personal musical taste is as diverse as her personality, from Motown to Country and hard rock.

Voted the Best radio DJ in the Coachella Valley in 2009, Vicki has enjoyed making lots of great friends and loves spending her spare time at outdoor festivals like Coachella and Stagecoach. You might also find her up at Pappy & Harriet’s or The Rock Yard if something cool is happening.

If you have questions for Vicki you can email her at: vickijosteele@yahoo.com or you can call her at the radio station (760) 322-7890.

Written By Craig Michaels Craig Michaels Productions (760) 880-3848

Local Music Spotlight

October 30 to November 5, 2014

oday’s youth are able to completely drown themselves in all genres and styles of music if they want to. Thanks to the internet that has changed the music industry dramatically. It has both educated and perhaps overwhelmed today’s youth with sonic information and opinions. Still, it seems so many of the young musicians in or just coming out of our desert’s local high schools have one common thread: Their classic rock appetite for bands like Led Zeppelin, The Doors and Jimi Hendrix. But not all of them can translate it into their own, all original music. The Classy Mother Fu?kers, however, do, and they do it very well.

Lead singer, guitar player and songwriter, Joseph Vaughan and drummer, Jasyn Smith, have been playing together since meeting in band class. Their debut as “Classy Mother Fu?kers” was at the Open Mic competition at Tilted Kilt, a progressive contest that they won handily, setting themselves apart from 11 other musical acts. I was at the finals the night they won. It was a long night, packed with talented and passionate artists on varying levels of experience and skill. When these two young men took the stage with simply drums, guitar and a single vocal, my rather seasoned ears perked, and they had my full attention within the first verse. Astonishingly young to play and sound so seasoned, it was very clear that this duo has limitless potential.

Vaughan’s vocals are almost unreal when you consider how young he is. Even his lyrics and song construction seem to come from an old soul. Understated and somewhat mild mannered on the surface, the music produced from his vocals and guitar are incredibly refreshing, transporting a classic time in our music history into our modern day sound garden, satisfying that craving for good old fashioned rock and roll authenticity. Smith accompanies him on drums in true blues taste, feeling his way through the songs, and not merely playing them.

Vaughan, having graduated from high school last year, has been a self-taught guitar player and singer for the past 9 years. With no family members or teachers to inspire or mentor him, he chose the music of artists from 50’s and 60’s blues, some old and newer hard rock, jazz and even some big band musicians as his teachers, all of which come through in his original music.

Currently a senior in high school, drummer Jasyn Smith first developed his appetite for drumming while watching and eventually sitting in on occasion with cousins who were jamming in the garage. He finally talked his father into getting him a drum set. Other than his cousin showing him some fundamentals, Smith chose drummers from Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin and Metallica to be his teachers, yet has managed to learn the power in subtlety. Now, six years later, his teachers would be very proud.

Here is an example of the mature writing style of Vaughan, a song I would personally love to add to my own iTunes playlist: Who I Once Was In the days of my youth, I used to be so cold While everyone just stood around to watch me become who I once was.

Take the one that you know the most And show them what the world will be if you leave While all around flames rising from the ground And he’s here to take you home with him Cause I know.

What I’m to do.

It’s too sacred.

And Who I Once Was is gone for now.{2x} Hey you there, are you worried?

Cause your minds a blank.

Are you scared?

To shaky to become who I am and I stand.

Cause I know.

What I’m to do.

It’s too sacred.

And Who I Once Was is gone for now.{2x} Always inside, wonder why you’re too scared to hide.

Underneath you to find sacred memories on the other side.

The fallout brings you all around like it did before.

Left without the answers from all the other ones.

Taken from me honor, glory, everything that I once was.

Find me waiting for you angry for the cause of degrading me.

It’s time to take you all around in the search of Eve. While everyday it seems to take every part of me.

Yeah.

And Who I Once Was is gone for now.{3x} Written & Produced by: Joseph Vaughan & Jasyn Smith. Find this song on YouTube.

“We have been playing together for nearly four years now,” shared Vaughan. “We have been practicing for the several months and are working on our demo, ‘Dull Entertainment.’” That is a demo I am personally looking forward to hearing, and hope an EP is in their very near future.

You can support our great local music and catch these two promising musicians at Schmidy’s Tavern in Palm Desert opening for Wicked Jed this Halloween night, along with another incredibly talented group of teens, the Yip Yops.

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Consider This

Right” (Shift Independent Records) THE SOFT WHITE SIXTIES “Get

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an Francisco has been a mecca for Rock & Roll for nearly 50 years. The scene grew organically, its roots stemming from the Beat Generation coffee houses and performance spaces. Bands like the Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Sly & The Family Stone and Big Brother And The Holding Company took their inspiration from classic American idioms like Folk, Blues and Soul.

The Soft White Sixties is continuing that tradition. The young band has only been together a few years, formed in 2010, but their sound is timeless.

Joey Bustos already made a name for himself as the drummer of the Ska/Punk band, Link 80. Bustos was exiting the band just as bassist Ryan Noble joined, but the two stayed in touch.

Fast forward a few years and Octavio Genera had just relocated to San Francisco from Davis, intent on starting a band. Bustos saw him playing at a party. Bowled over by the singer’s power and charisma, Bustos introduced himself by announcing “I’m your drummer.”

Bustos reconnected with Noble and guitarist Joshua Cook joined them, but he wasn’t a perfect fit. The Soft White Sixties

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really clicked when Aaron Eisenberg joined on guitars and keys. They quickly recorded a 5 song EP and hit the road.

An incendiary performance at the 2013 South By Southwest Festival in Austin prompted PASTE magazine to name them one of “The Best 25 Acts We Caught At SXSW.” By the end of the year, the band went into the studio with producer Jim Greer, emerging five days later with their first full-length record, Get Right.

The album kicks into gear with “City Lights.” Fuzz-tastic organ notes, stabbing synths, rubbery bass lines, stinging guitar

and a pounding back beat lock into an infectious groove. Genera’s sinuous vocals slide through the spooky psychedelia with serpentine grace, the lyrics offer a paean to the pleasures of hedonism.

Three songs kick the album into overdrive, “Up To The Light,” “Lemon Squeezer” and “Don’t Lie To Me.” On “Up To The Light” rumbling bass fills and a stopstart rhythm provide ballast for Eisenberg’s slinky guitar licks and Genera’s vocal flights of fancy. The lyrics gently chastise a selfish friend. “Hey, if you could put yourself aside for once in your life, oh won’t you try/I

know it don’t come so easily to put all your pride on the passenger side.”

Powered by a locomotive rhythm, pounding piano notes, swirly organ runs and strafing guitar riffs, “Lemon Squeezer” is a salacious anthem of seduction. Genera’s demeanor is equal parts wanton and playful.

Finally, “Don’t Lie To Me” rocks hardest, combining thrumming bass lines and a walloping back beat. Eisenberg’s riffs pivot between scuzzy, soulful sweet and strident.

Bustos pounds his kit with Bonham-like heft as Genera’s vocals convey the ache of sexual betrayal.

The action slows on a couple of tracks, “Rubber Band” and “Roll Away.” The former channels Prince and a bit of Motown. Over a kick-drum beat, honeyed keys fluttery organ, and an air-raid guitar solo, Genera is empathetic. “I know sometimes it can feel like you aren’t the one behind the wheel, I know sometimes it can taste like someone poured salt in your coffee.”

The latter is hushed and willowy, sharing some musical DNA with the Replacements epochal “Androgynous.” Country-tinged piano and plangent guitar anchor the intimate pillow talk.

Other interesting tracks include the loping “Treat Me” which is propelled by swoony keys, slippery guitar and Genera’s soul-drenched vocals, the rippling, slightly smart-ass “I Ain’t Your Mother,” and the tentative acoustic shimmer of “You Are Gold.”

The album closes with “Tilt-A-Whirl.”

Suitably carnivalesque, Genera equates the ups and downs of a romantic relationship with an amusement park thrill ride.

Psychedelic guitars collide with percolating percussion, the calibrated chaos has a poptastic Beatle vibe.

As great as this band is on Get Right, they are an amazing live act. Genera prowls the stage with a lithe virility. Eisenberg is the enigmatic artiste, manning keys and guitar simultaneously, but making it seem effortless. Meanwhile, Bustos and Noble’s tandem time-keeping is a potent combination of agility and authority.

The Soft White Sixties seem poised to propel the San Francisco sound into the 21st century, one album at a time.

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October 30 to November 5, 2014

ixed Media Artist Tone Rubio, born and raised in Indio, is not only a talented painter, photographer, and graphic designer; he is a pillar of the community. From organizing projects to being an art mentor to the kids, 35 year old Rubio is setting a great example of what it is to be an artist that helps others and gives back. I got to visit with him in the Raices Cultura Art Building in downtown Coachella where local artists and high school art students were prepping ten giant sugar skulls that will be presented at the upcoming community event Dia De Los Muertos November 1st.

MM: How would you describe your style?

TR: My style is a cross between things I grew up with, how I grew up, and my surroundings. My strong influences are from television, pop culture, combined with hints of contemporary, abstract play on colors, and my old graffiti background.

MM: What is your medium?

TR: My mediums are very mixed, as mixed media as it can get. I never use just one medium in my artwork. It is more like 7 or 8 in any given piece; acrylic paint, spray paint, chalk, charcoal, collage pieces, markers, crayons. Pretty much if it can make a mark, I will use it.

MM: You are a photographer, painter, graphic designer. How did it all begin?

TR: How did it begin...it began literally...from the beginning lol. It runs in the family. My dad comes from a family of 11, and ALL of my uncles carry the art gene. I’ve been drawing or doing art of some form as far back as 5 yrs old. I was that one kid in every grade school class that did the drawings.

I used to mimic comics of Garfield, cartoons, and traditional comics. Then I would move on to sports scenes from my Dad’s stacks of Sports Illustrated magazines. I’d draw over and over until I got it exact, or at least I thought it was...and I’d sit there frustrating myself until it looked good to me. Then at around 7 or 8yrs old I saw movies like Wild Style, Beat Street stuff like that. And I thought that the graffiti was pretty awesome-just like any other artist kid growing up seeing that- we wanted to be like RAMO ha! So I would practice and practice my own name on regular line paper. I would do the names of everyone in my classroom for them. I would do this for years until I finally touched my first spray can at age 11 and was humbled really quick. Just like anything in art it takes time and technique to figure something out. I finally got pretty good at the control of the cans to where I felt good enough to go out and do my thing. And I did the graffiti writing thing on a serious tip for a pretty good while. From that first time...11yrs old...to about 20. Once I was into high school though I started thinking more

serious about art. My art teacher got me to move more into using paintbrushes and painting. From there I’ve been painting ever since.

The photography didn’t come until later. I was about 23-24. I mainly got a camera at first so that I could photograph my work. But I also felt that as an artist you should be able to pick up anything involved with art and excel at it because it is already in you. I know what my eyes are capable of seeing and that I could do it. A paintbrush is a tool, a pencil is a tool...and a camera is just a tool. It’s the person that takes the photo. As artists we already know stuff like composition, lighting, balance, color tones. So I always felt that the transition to photo wouldn’t be so hard. Like any medium it is just about learning technique. To all other artists out there I recommend picking up a camera and just doing it.

The graphic design came kind of by accident but at the same time by the same principle. My close friend is a computer genius and works in computers and that type of media. He always has access to all these great graphic design programs.

I just know the typical stuff that you need to know about computers. I’m not a pro at it by any means.

My friend gave me a couple of the programs on CD one day and said, “Take these home, install them, and just start messing with them!” Next thing I’m figuring stuff out and just letting my mind fly and I’ve been dabbling in the graphic design stuff ever since.

MM: Did you go to school or are you selftaught?

TR: Oooh this is a good question! Only because I have my own thoughts and opinions on the term “self- taught.” I’ve been approached with this question many times and I tend to laugh a little at it. I don’t believe we are self- taught. I believe we as artists are born with it. It is part of us, it is in our DNA. When I was a kid I didn’t teach myself to be a good drawer, it just happened automatically because it was already there. I also feel that you can’t go to school to learn to be an artist, you either are one already or you aren’t. I did continue my art education after high school though. And I will say I did learn a lot. But I learned stuff like how to be pushed as an artist, how to be riskier, letting your mind go, realizing that things don’t always have to continue to page 26

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Calvin, Rescued With only Minutes To Go

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escue dogs are the best dogs, loving, grateful, and wise having already triumphed over adversity. There is also magic to some of their rescues, a strange sequence of events and timing that makes one think divine guidance is behind them. It was July 2, 2010, a Friday evening around 4:00 pm when Pat Bonham called me. Pat, a fellow independent rescuer, was driving to Devore, a bleak high-kill San Bernardino County Shelter, to save a 6 month old black lab puppy due to be euthanized at 5:00 pm. Would I help find a foster home or adopter? I recalled seeing the same dog several days earlier. He was in the same kennel where I found and rescued my own dog, Enzo Ferrari. I locked eyes with the black lab for a few quick moments.

I began making frantic calls. No one was available. Then I called my friend Jackie Klof who lives with her fiance Steve in a home with a large back yard. They have two large dogs.

Jackie responded, “I’m up on a ladder painting right now and we really don’t want another dog.” I didn’t tell her the lab had less than an hour to live, although she sensed the urgency in my voice. Meanwhile, Pat called ahead to Devore to let them know she was on her way to rescue the dog. The shelter staff person told Pat the dog was already euthanized. For some inexplicable reason, Pat didn’t believe her and called back to speak to a supervisor.

The lab was still alive, but next in line for the euthanasia room. Pat kept driving, still unsure where she would take such a large sized animal even if she got there in time. It was 10 minutes to 5:00 pm, the clock was ticking, and the tears streamed down my face.

Meanwhile Steve arrived home from work.

Jackie and Steve’s household was in chaos as she later described it, “We had guests here, my Dad who was seriously ill and his caregiver were staying here, and I had just been bitten by a bee while painting. I told Steve about Janet’s call, and he figured out ‘They’re going to kill that dog’! That did it. We called Janet back to

Annie Oakley

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see if the dog was a male and a good match for our two female dogs.” Thankfully, the answer was “Yes!” It was now 4:55 pm and with only 5 minutes to go the young black lab was whisked into the warmth and safety of Pat’s car.

We thought we were “home free”, but more challenges were ahead. Once Pat arrived at Steve and Jackie’s home, Steve thought the dog looked sick and they didn’t want to expose their other dogs to a contagious illness. It is an unwritten but understood rule of rescue that once we pull a dog from a public shelter we don’t return them, no matter what obstacles or medical concerns arise. Jackie called their vet, and he reopened his clinic to examine the dog. Thankfully, Calvin had a minor case of kennel cough, but the dog was now homeless and was boarded overnight at the vet clinic.

Around 11:00 am on Saturday, my phone rang and it was Jackie, “Don’t ever phone me with a message like that again. The dog’s name is Calvin, and I’m on my way to pick him up right now.” Great news! Jackie explained, “I barely slept last night thinking of that dog’s face. I talked to Steve and he agreed we would keep him.”

They had to carry Calvin into the house, and when he arrived in his “doggy proof” room the young dog laid spread eagle on the floor, flat lined and unresponsive. He remained that way for the next seven days, eating when hand fed, “flat lined” except when carried out for potty breaks. Their dogs gently sniffed at the newcomer though he failed to acknowledge them. One time they checked in on Calvin to

find him staring curiously at himself in the closet mirror, and Jackie joked, “He’s a bit of a narcissist!” Jackie went away for the weekend, and received an excited phone call from Steve, “Wait till you see Calvin when you come back!”

Steve patiently worked with the dog, getting him to walk into the back yard on a leash for the first time. Finally hot dogs did the trick!

Soon all 3 animals were romping merrily after hot dogs Steve threw in the air.

Calvin overcame an abusive past, and blossomed into a joyful dog. Calvin looks a lot like a dog Jackie had decades ago, a black lab with a touch of Rottweiler, a dog she dreamed about having again. “It was meant to be” is an overused phrase, but there was a magical higher power at work in Calvin’s rescue.

The Bible calls on us to care for other living creatures. God never intended that we would

round up and execute stray animals whose only crime is being homeless.

Black rescue dogs have a hard time getting homes. Large dogs have a harder time getting out of shelters. Calvin is one of the lucky ones, a miracle dog who seemed to orchestrate his own rescue, arranging the timing of the events that would save his life. Over a year later, I met up again with the adult dog Calvin and was flattered when Jackie said he was “mesmerized” by me. Jackie reports that Calvin’s life today is full of happiness. Jackie reports, “Calvin loves his home, adores Steve and I, and loves our other dogs. Calvin is even more special because of how we saved him.

We are blessed to have him.”

I’ve rescued hundreds of dogs since Calvin through the Loving All Animals’ Mobile Mutts program, each with their own unique personality, and all fabulous and deserving of great homes. Create your story by going to our local county shelter and adopting. The Coachella Valley Animal Campus is located at 72-050 Pet Land Place, Thousand Palms, (760) 343-3644. You can view their adoptable animals online at www.rcdas.org. You can visit with any available animal in a visiting area, and possibly find your new best “furfriend”.

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by Rick Riozza

Beautiful Napa Valley Red Blend & Cab Franc Rosé from Virage “

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irage” is a French word meaning a turn in the road, a change in direction. It also can reflect a change in orientation or perspective. It’s the name taken by epicure multitasker Emily Richer for her wine business.

I like Emily Richer’s quick bio description on her blog page, “Investment banker turned right banker” For all of you Bordeaux enthusiasts picking up on the “right bank” moniker, you already understand the winemaking philosophy Emily proceeds upon.

Right now California Red Blends are hot.

Vino lovers are becoming more and more interested and enchanted with the final product of the fine art of wine blending. And how many wineries are running with the term “Meritage” (pronounced like “heritage”), that indeed reflect the producers use of the classic Bordeaux varietals.

The primary mission at Virage is to produce a cooler-climate Napa interpretation of a Right-Bank Bordeaux Blend. Emily states, “I enjoyed twelve years working with Napa Valley vintners including the St. Emilion deConinck family and Agustin Huneeus whose stunning Quintessa property showed me Napa Valley’s potential to interpret a Bordeaux blend.” Emily would also go on to work with the wonderful educator and James Beard award-winning “Wine Bible” author, Karen MacNeil.

Emily and I recently spoke on the phone and she said, “In introducing folks to my wine, I find so often, especially in California, that people tend to equate Napa Valley with Cabernet Sauvignon. Yet Napa’s extraordinary diversity of soils and climate can produce Cabernet Franc and Merlot with remarkable depth and complexity— when grown in cooler climate, among other things, we see reasonable alcohol levels that produce a great dinner wine.

This 2007 vintage is a blend of 71% Cabernet Franc, 24% Merlot and 5% Cabernet Sauvignon almost entirely from the cooler confines of Carneros, though it carries a Napa AVA. And I agree with the tasting note below: This stuff is delish!

Wine & Spirits Magazine wrote: “Cabernet Franc leads this layered, complex Bordeaux-style blend. Expressive aromatics introduce rich pomegranate and black cherry mingling with graphite, fine tobacco, and a savory minerality reminiscent of a Right-Bank Bordeaux.

“With time in a decanter, this built-toage blend gains further weight and depth, developing an exquisite plushy texture and layers of deep black-fruit flavors. Espresso and bittersweet cocoa powder linger in the mouthwatering finish. A special and complex wine that, like a great conversation, continues to evolve throughout dinner--and

on to the next day. Drink now or cellar for 10+ years.”

Emily continued, “I’m enchanted by Cabernet Franc. I call this ancient varietal the “heirloom grape,” which thrives in a narrow comfort zone and teases us with rich complexity when optimally ripe. Given the right conditions, Cabernet Franc offers a supple, thousand-thread-count structure with exquisite depth of fruit and savory elements.

“The rosé idea came in 2010, when I made the first wine ever produced from a 14 year old stretch of Cab Franc running down the fence-line of the north slope of our primary

vineyard source in Carneros. It’s all about the cooler climate again—retaining acidity, and for the rosé to achieve this flavor character, we gotta PICK EARLY! I adore dry rosé year round!—with crab, sushi, shrimp, any shellfish, pork, salads, ceviche, fish tacos, and with every hors d’ouvres I’ve ever created.”

Wine tasting notes for the 2013 Virage Napa Valley Rosé of Cabernet Franc, include: “Great floral nose of petunias, lime and green apples. The Palate is mediumhigh dry with tasts of earthy rose petals, pink grapefruit and lime. A rosé that is rich and earthy; a rosé that continues to open

up in the glass—like having a upgraded wine every 30 minutes. It actually tastes and looks a lot like some of the famed French Rosé Champagnes in color and style (just without the bubbles).”

This Virage Cab Franc Rosé will be selling for less than$18 a bottle. What a deal!

Certainly all you wine enthusiasts will join in this complimentary Sunday tasting as great way to usher in the warm desert holidays that wait us. Cheers!

Rick is your somm-about-town entertaining and conducting at wine events & tastings. Contact winespectrum@aol.com.

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By Raymond Bill

The Blackhawk Showdown at LaQuinta High School’s Culinary Department

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f you are a fan of The Food Network and shows like, “Chopped” and, “Iron Chef,” then you are certainly going to love what La Quinta High School’s Culinary Department is cooking up this season. Many people do not realize that just over one year ago, LQHS underwent a major renovation, receiving a state of the art kitchen and appliances, complete with a show kitchen and stadium seating. Assistant Principal, Sean Webb, has transformed his vision into a reality, creating a perfect venue for educating our valley’s teenagers as well as providing a stage for local chefs to compete for bragging rights. And the good news is that everyone benefits, including local charities.

Honoring the school’s mascot, the event is called, “The Blackhawk Showdown” and it is capturing the attention of foodies from all over our valley. Their most recent event featured Chef Brian Recor from Morgan’s in the Desert and Chef Reese Murakami from Kobe Japanese Steakhouse and his supper club, Dinner by the Akamai Ohana.

Each Chef was to prepare three dishes of which at least two would need to utilize the mystery ingredients, Hangar Steak and Prickly Pear, generously donated by Crown Meat Company and L & G Fresh Produce.

The chefs are only made aware of their mystery ingredients 24 hours prior to the event.

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As an audience member, I was able to enjoy the six plates prepared by the two chefs and participate in the voting process. While there are four “blind” judges that contribute 80% of the vote, the audience makes up the difference with their scorecards. Chef Brian Recor prepared a Hangar Steak Carpaccio with fresh arugula and figs, finished with a prickly pear emulsion for his first course while Chef Reese Murakami masterfully created a Chimichurri marinated Hangar Steak with mixed greens, feta cheese and prickly pear vinaigrette. Both dishes were well presented and bursting with flavor.

The following course would include Chef Brian’s Spice Crusted Hangar Steak accompanied by a Bosc Pear “ravioli” of celery root with a prickly pear gastrique.

The flavors were sweet and spicy and the presentation was phenomenal. Chef Reese would compete with a hearty chili of hangar steak with bacon and Greek sausage over white rice. While we as the audience felt Chef Reese had won the first round, it was clear Chef Brian was the favorite for round two!

For the final round, Chef Brian prepared a sweet dessert of Sponge Cake with a prickly pear sorbet and a passion fruit crème anglaise. It was remarkable to put it simply. Chef Reese opted to forgo dessert for a Korean style Bibimbap, mixed rice with hangar steak, pickled vegetables, egg

and shredded lettuce. It was a very unique dish that had many layers of flavor, showing off much talent. I was not sure who would win; it seemed to be anyone’s game. After some deliberation, Chef Brian Recor was victorious though it was clear everyone was a winner, especially the many culinary students that participated on stage and in the back of the house.

This is truly a community event, with much support from the following: Chef Scott Robertson, New Leaf Catering. Tim Johnson, A Culinary Beat. Alyssa Fornasiero, Bristol Farms Bakery. Mike Oster, AVIR in Palm Desert. Greg Goodman, My Little Flower Shop. Mellany Miller Photography.

E. & E. Pel’s Italian Ice. The Bianca Rae Foundation as well as EQUU8 have both benefited from the event with donations to each charity and the events have grossed $8600 for the La Quinta High School Culinary Arts Program.

For tickets and more information, contact Sean Webb at (760) 772-5020 or visit their facebook page, “Blackhawk Culinary Showdown”. Space is limited and tickets will sell fast, so be sure to stay tuned for upcoming events.

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Movie Reviews with Robin E. Simmons

DIY HALLOWEEN HORROR FEST

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bout this time of year, all over the world, there are festivals honoring the dead. There is no astronomical significance to the date as formerly pagan but now “Christianized” holidays attest. Some scholars think that at the dim recesses beyond the borders of written history, even before the Celtic rituals and bonfires of Semhain, there remains a collective memory of a cataclysm attributed to the gods (or God): a catastrophe that generated widespread death that remains in our collective unconscious.

But whatever the cause, there’s no question the day is not just about fear, but more about remembering our deceased ancestors as a reminder of our fragile mortality. For me, the true spirit of All Hallow’s Eve is not about being afraid so much as facing one’s fears -- and mocking those ancient fear-mongers that would deride, debase and denigrate our sacred humanity. Someone once said, “What we fear is what we most believe. Or we wouldn’t be afraid.”

So, in honor of this delicious season of fear, here’s a 24-hour horror film fest of perhaps lesser-known titles that you can show and share in your own home theater. Ater all, the dancing shadows on that screen are what it’s all about.

First off are two documentaries. One defines our need to feed and feel our fear. And the next, confronts real evil. What better way to set the mood?

LOVECRAFT: FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN

Writer Howard Phillips Lovecraft (18901937) said: “The oldest and strongest emotion of mankindf is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.”

This terrific documentary won the 2008 San Diego Comic Con “Best Documentary” award. H.P. Lovecraft is generally recognized as the father of modern horror fiction. His unique blend of horror, fantasy and science fiction remains popular today and remains a great influence on modern horror writers and filmmakers.

I enjoyed this long-overdue tribute that revealed Lovecraft’s old-world mindset and rather strange, xenophobic, reclusive life.

Film directors John Carpenter (HALLOWEEN and Guillermo Del Toro (HELLBOY) contribute thoughtful insights into Lovecraft’s moody style and original subject matter. And the

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influence on pop culture and movies in particular. Popular horror writers Neil Gaimen, Ramsey Campbell and Peter Straub offer informed and enthusiastic comments about Lovecraft’s world and influience on them. The documentary is made with great care and is a pleasure to experience. It sets the bar very high for similar works on other deserving writers. Great graphics and music set the eerie tone that no doubt would please Lovecraft himself. There’s extensive bonus material for the interviews and a gallery of Lovecraft inspired art.

DELIVER US FROM EVIL

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Stoker’s widow recognized similarities and sued Marnau and all prints of Marnau’s film were ordered destroyed!

But a few copies of landmark and exquisite German expressionistic masterpiece escaped and were the inspiration for German writerdirector Werner Herzog’s remake NOSFERATU: THE VAMPYRE (1979). Klaus Kinski’s pale makeup, pointed ears, long fingernails and mannered gestures will unnerve in this atmospheric, deliberately paced, fever-dream of a movie. Isabelle Adjani co-stars as the distraught wife of Bruno Ganz’s Jonathan Harker, who comes under the blood spell of Kinski’s magnificent creature. The music, mood and images will reverberate long after the movie ends. The DVD includes the German language version with English subtitles as well as a full-length, but slightly different English version and a most unusual bonus commentary by Herzog himself.

PHANTOM OF THE OPERA

Confronting real evil is the subject of Amy Berg’s exceptional 2006 documentary. I am not yet jaded at the revelation of the 1,600 year-old cover-up of sexual abuse by the Catholic Church.

Specifically, the monster in the sharp focus of Berg’s lens is the “reverend” Father Oliver O’Grady. The victims and the families of the victims, speak out in blunt, horrific, heartrending testimony. But what’s especially unsettling is the taped depositions of O’Grady’s superiors and the knowing coverup of the monstrous evil perpetrated under the cloak or piety. What greater sin is there than the betrayal of a child? Innocence lost is forever. It is beyond belief to me that most of the guilty, including Father Mahoney of the L.A. archdiocese, are not behind bars. Being the punk of a lifer would be getting off easy.

No pun intended. Evil in the name of God is destroying our global civilization.

Now that you’re reminded that there is real evil to fear, let’s safely go where “reel” fear dwells. For me and manhy others, some of the early vintage horror films seem more frightening than recent scare flicks. It’s even easier to suspend disbelief today because these odler films now seem like authentic historical documents! Some of them almost look like “found footage.”

NOSFERATU

Filmmaker F.W. Marnau’s NOSFERATU, EINE SYMPHONIE DES GRAUENS (1922) is the first in a long line of vampire films. Marnau freely adapted Bram Stoker’s Dracula but

With the famous line: “Feast your eyes, glut your soul on my accursed ugliness!” from Gaston Leroux’s mystery novel faithfully adapted by Universal Studios in 1925, Lon Chaney unmasks the pathetic, horrifying, iconic face of Erik, the mysterious mentor of the Paris opera. Two years earlier he had starred as Quasimodo in Universal’s HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME. Chaney’s indelible portrait of both tortured men transcended cinema and entered modern culture as emblems of humanity’s damaged soul. Joining Chaney in PHANTOM was the beautiful young Mary Philbin as Christine Daae. The film was directed by journeyman Rupert Julian. Several versions of this great silent film exist on DVD, but look for the more recent Blu-ray edition with a choice of terrific scores.

“VAMPYR” None other than Sir Alfred Hitchcock deemed Carl Theodor Dryer’s 1932 “Vampyr” the “only film worth watching twice!” The first sound film by one of the founding architects of cinema itself, delivers a palpable, sensual experience that, in my opinion, few films can match. Director Dryer is like a hypnotist whose film will put you in a waking dream that claws at the edges of the supernatural realm. This strangely layered film is about the journey of a man named Allan Gray who is drawn to a countryside inn by ghostly forces. Allan gray is played convincingly by “Julien West,” who in real life was the secretive Baron Nicolas de Gunzburg! At the inn, Gray becomes involved with the family that lives there and the ghosts and demons that also seem to be peripheral members of the family! But it’s Grays attraction to Giselle, the sexually charged virgin daughter, that seals his fate by forcing

a confrontation with the ultimate vampyr – Death itself. Interestingly, Giselle is played by the “great, accursed Sybelle Schmitz,” whose real life (look it up, no room here) was as interesting as her screen personas.

The final moments of asphyxiation in the blasphemed bodies of the horrific bat-men have probably had more influence on horror cinema than any other.

Long out of circulation in an acceptable transfer, Criterion’s restoration makes this truly terrifying landmark film new again.

NIGHT OF THE DEMON

When a British colleague of rational, levelheaded American psychologist Dana Andrews is brutally murdered, he of course denies it’s the work of the devil -- until he becomes the next target of the demon! This spooky little UK gem from 1957 was cut to 82 minutes for American distribution. The DVD contains the full-length restored original edition as well as the truncated American release under the title CURSE OF THE DEMON. Psycholofgical horror is the most terrifying – especially when it’s no longer psychological. This adaptation of Dennis Wheatly’s novel “Casting the Runes” does not shay away from going all the way. It’s a cult fave, especially in Britian.

“DEAD OF NIGHT” (1945)

One of the all-time great scare anthologies is a collection of freaky supernatural stories told by strangers at a remote estate. The topper is the grandfather of all psychological horror films in which Sir Michael Redgrave’s renowned ventriloquist tells his tale of madness and murder when his dummy exhibits a mind of his own. A concept that has been stolen in later film productions, but never executed as well. The DVD of the uncut, restored UK version is coupled with the wonderfully macabre “QUEEN OF SPADES.” “THE DEVIL RIDES OUT” Christopher Lee is Duc de Richleau who is concerned when a young friend is absent from their regular reunion. An investigation reveals the friend is trapped in a hypnoticastrological cult led by a malevolent Satanist named Mocata (Charles Gray). In a desperate game of brave good and raw evil, Lee challenges Mocata with a powerful ritual continue to page 26

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Book Review

October 30 to November 5, 2014

By Heidi Simmons

If Looks Could Kill

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hat if just one look at something could kill you? Would you ever open your eyes? In Josh Malerman’s Bird Box (Ecco, 272 pages), seeing is believing, but also deadly.

The story begins with Malorie, a young woman, who, with her sister, is moving into her first apartment. The news on the television is reporting a strange global phenomenon: People are taking their own lives and the lives of others in horrible and often gruesome ways for no apparent reason. The occurrences seem to be exponential and spreading across the United States.

But Malorie doesn’t watch the news and she is more concerned about being pregnant from a one-night stand. Social media is ablaze with terrible stories of creatures, alien invasion scenarios and government conspiracies but nothing concrete.

Malorie’s sister believes the online chatter. She insists they cover the windows because all it takes is one look at whatever it is and it’s over. Better safe than sorry.

But Malorie needs a pregnancy test kit. So the two, without looking, help each other drive to a pharmacy. Indeed, something is not right. When they return, Malorie tests

Bird Box

By Josh Malerman

Fiction positive and her sister commits suicide after one peek out the window.

The world Malorie knows quickly changes. But before the phones die and communication systems quit, Malorie hears about a house that’s taking in survivors.

When she arrives, the group takes her in, but their supplies are low and survival is a

challenge. And still, no one knows for sure what it is that is so deadly, but everyone has lost someone close.

The group forms a family and everyone does his and her part to keep the house safe and running smoothly. Malorie becomes close to Tom, the leader, who seeks ways to live as normally as possible without laying eyes on whatever it is. He wants to help her and her baby survive.

When the group votes to let in Gary, a stranger, the harmony in the house starts to break down. He acts like a gentleman, but Malorie does not trust him. Gary relates stories about the “creatures,” but is not sure anything is really out there. He believes that “man is the creature he fears” and only the weak are driven to madness. Perhaps he may even be immune to whatever it is.

As Malorie goes into labor, all hell breaks loose in the house. Someone has pulled down the blinds and looked outside. Now Malorie is on her own with her newborn and a roommate’s baby. She raises the children to live in the new world without depending on their eyesight and teaches the children to hone their hearing skills. When the kids are four years old, Malorie flees with them to a refugee camp down river. All three, blindfolded, make a terrifying escape twenty miles away without looking at anything.

Bird Box is a fun thriller. Author Malerman paints a frightening apocalyptic world. Since all the characters are blindfolded, even the reader doesn’t see the actual world. There seems to be carnage, but it might be all blue skies and sunshine. The characters all live indoors with the windows covered.

They are blindfolded when they go outside.

The heart novel is the characters’ dark perceptions of this new world. They never risk looking at the natural world and the reader never knows for sure what the terror is – but there is something lurking and it is deadly.

Malerman writes in short present tense

sentences. The chapters are also short, so the read goes by quickly. He structures the story by moving between Malorie’s river escape with the kids and the events that unfolded while living in the house.

Think, Andrew McCarthy’s The Road meets Stephen King’s The Myst.

As a protagonist, Malorie is a fresh and endearing character. She is vulnerable and innocent. She is not a brilliant girl, but she knows enough to save herself and the children. Malorie wins literary mother of the year!

There is a an age gap in this story. Right or wrong, Gary is old and old school. He thinks differently than the young people who live in the house. It is almost a generational clash of ideas and ideals.

But this is where the book is weakest.

There is too little philosophical debate and a lack of conversations about the nature of the threat and the entity. What is it?

How can it kill people by only making eye contact? Is it psychological? Mass hysteria?

I wanted more of Gary’s arguments that what we humans really fear is ourselves.

Further, Gary hints at the possibilities of human evolution and that this event is a way to weed out the weak and the mad.

Gary could have been a much stronger antagonist, providing more ambiguity, danger and intensity especially when it comes to the unknown and the nebulous creatures that altered their world. It would have been great if there was a metaphor in this story or an allegory of some kind. Even if I missed a deeper meaning, the Bird Box still raised the small hairs on the back of my neck.

Happy Halloween.

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It’s worth noting that some local churches offer “Harvest Festivals” in lieu of more disturbing Halloween parties for their youth, when in fact it was the pagan harvest rites that often included blood sacrifices! Hail irony.

“THE COMPANY OF WOLVES” (1984)

that may or may not destroy his coven and free his friend. This is terrific 1968 Halloween movie has lost none of it’s disturbing power as it raises all kinds of theological questions.

The beautiful DVD transfer features a great commentary with stars Christopher Lee and Sarah Lawson.

“HORROR EXPRESS”

Was that a train whistle? Or. Something.

Else!? Peter Cushing unearths a huge, frozen, man-like creature in China. It’s crated and put on a train for Europe where, surprise, it thaws out and breaks loose. Lucky for us, Cushing is reluctantly paired with rival scientist Christopher Lee to fight this diabolical creature hell bent on human destruction. It’s always great to see these two iconic actors together even in euro horror trash. This bizarred 1972 Spanish production is now a cult fave that has fallen into public domain but is also available in a nice, reasonably clean widescreen Blu-ray transfer.

“WICKER MAN – The Final Cut” (1973)

It’s been called the CITIZEN KANE of horror films. Edward Woodward is upstanding, decent Police Sergeant Neil Howie, an English outsider who is called to investigate the disappearance of a 12 year-old girl on Summerisle, just off the West coast of Scotland. Howie’s world is slowly turned upside down as he plunges ever deeper into the primitive, oh so pagan, nature worshipping community only to discover the missing girl is the bait and he is the prey. This wonderfully paranoid, occult thriller features Christopher Lee as Lord Summerisle and an au naturelle Britt Ekland. Directed by Robin Hardy from a screenplay by Anthony Schaffer. Is this 1993 classic cult film from the UK a warning of New Age beliefs? Is it pro-pagan or does it reinforce the sacrifice inherent in Christianity?

What it may or may not mean is up to you. But be warned, it goes all the way with it’s premise and that is a rare thing indeed. (Don’t confuse

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Neil Jordan’s little-known werewolf film mixes several Grimm fairy tales (mainly “Ltttle Riding Hood” and “The Little Boy Who Cried Wolf”) with a disturbing Freudian coming of age sexuality. Sarah Patterson is the hormonally driven lead facing puberty and predatory men.

A dangerous mix. Angela Lansbury is startling as the story-telling grandmother. David Warner is the sympathetic woodsman dad.

Weird, wonderful and genuinely horrifying. (R, widescreen, 95 minutes) “EYES WITHOUT A FACE” (1959)

George Franju’sblack and white French classic (aka LES YEUX SANS VISAGE) has influenced numerous films. Secluded in the French countryside, a brilliant, obsessive doctor attempts a radical surgery that could restore his beloved daughter’s once-beautiful face, but at a horrifying price. Stunned audiences around the world were shocked at the bold, yet lyrical imagery. The Criterion disc also includes “BLOOD OF THE BEASTS,” Franju’s graphic but beautiful 1949 short documentary about Paris slaughterhouses. R, widescreen, 95 minutes) “CLOSE YOUR EYES” Fans of the “Da Vinci Code” and “Angels & Demons” will appreciate Nick Willing’s little 2002 chiller that centers on a London murder investigation that uncovers occult symbols, Rosicrucian alchemy and blasphemous heresies that unfold when a hypnotherapist (Goran Visnjic) tries to help a female cop (Shirley Henderson) stop smoking and is asked to hypnotize a mute child who was kidnapped but escaped from an unknown assailant. This precisely made film with careful composition and terrific performances builds tremendous tension that leads to an outrageous climax. I thought about this scary little film for days afterwards.

For maximum effect, try and see these films in the order presented.

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Learning to center clay will make you rethink your life, lol. Shout out to the brilliant Ron Evans and Tim McMullen, two great ceramics professors from C.O.D. MM: You work with the organization Raices Cultura in Coachella. What is Raices Cultura and what is your role?

TR: Raices Cultura is a non-profit organization based out of the east valley in Coachella. It’s an organization that creates a space for artistic & cultural expression. It allows the eastern Coachella Valley to have a stronger voice. Raices Cultura is always involved in many public/community art projects and provides programs for students who have an interest in art & higher education. We do a lot of cool stuff out of that dungeon of an art warehouse. I got started with Raices because I have a lot of close friends who are founding members of the organization, and I naturally jumped in to help with the art component of the organization. Any art project that we have going on, I lend my thoughts to help accomplish whatever it is that we need to bring to life. My role with the organization would be as an Art Mentor. We do a lot of work with high school art students. I’m there to help guide their way through projects whether it be figuring out how to create large scale sculptures and brainstorming. If there is something they need help to figure out, I’m there to help them work it out. Or sometimes I’m just there when they need an opinion. I also tend to be the voice of reason for the majority of our projects.

In other words…I’m the, “Hey...let’s all calm down and get back to reality” guy. Or the “Reeeeeelax..... it’ll dry and we can paint over it” guy.

MM: You help with the student based installations that they use in the Coachella Valley Music & Art Festival. How did you get started with that?

TR: Yes, Raices Cultura was contacted a few years back by Goldenvoice to be art contributors for the festival and create a large scale art installation.

They liked the idea of Raices being a community non-profit involved in the arts that worked with local high school students. The way it works is.... this is a student designed installation. The students brainstorm ideas, come up with the designs. We are there as mentors to them. We help them bring their design to life. We help them figure out what we need to do to actually build the installation. And we are there throughout the whole process by their sides guiding the way and making sure things go as smoothly as they can possibly go. The students come up with lots of crazy cool ideas from flying spaceships, giant mushrooms that shoot out water, giant robots…you name it, lol. As the adult guys of the group, we have to remind them sometimes about our budgets and what we can actually get done realistically with our time given. It is such an amazing experience to create an installation for such a high profile event. To see photos on different social media sights of people posing by your artwork really is an awesome experience for me, and I can’t imagine how it feels for the students!

It is really awesome every year to be welcomed by the Coachella fest guys, and to have their full support. To say you are a fellow contributing artist to the festival every year is a pretty cool thing to say.

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And for the students to be able to do something like that on such a big stage is a very cool thing, something they will always remember for the rest of their lives. It is about a 3 to 4 month process of creating, building and fabricating. The end result is always a very grateful, gratifying feeling. We were contacted to be a part of it again for next year’s festival! So this will be our third year in a row.

MM: What do you think about the art scene in the Coachella Valley?

TR: It is growing. It took a while for it to happen, but it finally is. You have little pop up art shows and what not everywhere these days as compared to 10 years ago where you did the same thing and maybe 20 people showed up. You also have people within the community that are taking the initiative and are opening their own galleries, their own art supply shops and are providing a space for up and coming artists. We no longer have to get shut out by certain galleries in certain parts of town out here in this valley. I mean...the whole desert landscape thing is fine and all....but there is real art going on out here and it deserves to be seen.

MM: What do you think we could do as a community to improve it?

TR: The community needs to start realizing that you don’t have to look out of town for good artists. You don’t need to be from a big city like L.A. or NYC to have credibility. The great artists are all right here in our community. Don’t be afraid to give them a platform. I also feel that there shouldn’t be different cliques or circles of artists here. A lot of that goes on here and it shouldn’t be that way.

We should all work together as artists and want to collaborate with one another. We are all part of the same grind. If we all work together, help one another, we will all make it together. Being a part of this game for a pretty long time now, you realize that unfortunately things can be territorial, but it shouldn’t be that way and it doesn’t need to be that way. Always be humble. If you are an artist out there, I wanna do something with you.

MM: Tell us about your next event Dia De Los Muertos in Coachella, November 1st.

TR: This is our 9th Annual Dia De Los Muertos event! We create a community based Dia De Los Muertos event, and keep it as traditional as possible. We have altar displays, installation displays, traditional performances as well as musical entertainment. We also have a pop up art gallery component to the event that displays Dia De Los Muertos themed artwork from many local artists throughout the Coachella Valley. It takes a collective effort from a group of dedicated people each year to coordinate this event. I’m the art coordinator. All artists come through via an open call. There is no picking or choosing. Everyone has an equal chance at being a part of the show. We provide a space that night for established as well as up and coming artists to showcase their work together on the same bill. This is a one night event that takes place on 6TH Street in Coachella, Ca. on Saturday Nov.1st 2014 at 6pm! It’s about a 4 to 5 hour event, and it is FREE, so please come on down and check it out!

oter turnout on Tuesday, November 4th, is expected to be at the lowest levels in over a decade with fewer than two in five registered voters participating.

One of the key reasons cited by many Americans as the reason that they do not vote is because elections occur on Tuesdays. Tuesdays were chosen as Election Day in 1845 when America was principally a country of farmers. Back then, one had to get in their horse and buggy and travel to the county seat in order to vote. They also had to be white, male and a property owner of at least 50 acres. Congress chose Tuesday as they did not want to interfere with the days of worship between Friday and Sunday. As Wednesday was typically a market day where men sold their goods, Tuesday seemed like the best day possible.

In the current world, we are now an urban society where children, work and commuting consume the majority of our weekday time.

Additionally, the majority of Americans do not feel that their vote matters or will make a difference. Some do not vote because they do not feel informed while others will not even register to vote for fear of being called on jury duty.

As is the case in most elections, fewer than one in five voters who are under the age of 29 are expected to participate. A Harvard University study found that the majority of younger voters do not trust institutions like the government, military, Supreme Court and religious organizations.

Many felt that politicians are selfish while their votes would yield no tangible benefits to themselves. As such, younger voters prefer to get involved in community service where they can make a difference through their active efforts.

The last time that voter turnout was as low as is expected this year was in 1998 when the majority of Americans were

satisfied with the job that President Clinton and Congress were doing. This time, the vast majority of Americans are unhappy with the efforts of both President Obama and Congress. In recent elections, Americans would typically vote out the party in power in hopes of change. As power is split between both parties at present and four in five Americans feel that the country is going in the wrong direction, there is no clear alternative for an unsatisfied voter.

A large majority of Americans believe that both Congress and the President have no resolve to work together and fix things.

There is a widespread and growing plurality of Americans who believe that neither party has their best interests at heart.

This opinion is a stark contrast to 2002 when 70% of all Americans were satisfied with the direction of the United States. By the end of the Bush administration, only 7% of Americans were satisfied as our country was suffering through its worst economic recession in seventy-five years. As Obama came to office, satisfaction rose to 36% before descending to a low of 11% near the end of 2011. At present, less than one in four Americans are satisfied. In a relative sense, Democrats are the happiest with 36% satisfaction, independents at 22% and Republicans at 9%. These satisfaction levels are the lowest levels ever polled by Gallup

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leading up to a midterm election.

A recent Gallup Poll showed that 40% of Republican-leaning voters had thought about the election with 44% likely to vote.

Only 28% of Democratic-leaning voters had thought about the election with only 25% likely to vote.

With such dissatisfaction, why will the majority of incumbents be reelected? If people are so dissatisfied, why don’t more people vote for challengers?

Study after study comes to the same conclusion: voter ignorance and apathy.

Dale Gribow On The Law JAIL ON DUI’S IN THE INDIO COURT?

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ost new clients ask “you mean I could go to jail for a first offense DUI? I explain “Yes in the Indio Court you will receive a period of time in Jail as part of your sentencing”! Most DA’s will demand 10 days as a start on a first offense arrest.

Though I am sometimes referred to as a criminal defense lawyer, I choose to not view my DUI clients as “criminals”. I prefer to view them, and more importantly to treat, them as good, honest people that have found themselves in a scary and unfortunate situation and not treat them as criminals.

In my role as a DUI defense lawyer I look upon my job as protecting the Constitutional rights of every American who drinks and drives and thereafter gets arrested for Drunk Driving. I change “hats” when as a lawyer I sue of behalf of someone injured by a drunk driver.

During the holidays many of our neighbors will attend their office or neighbor’s party without thinking about the consequences. They, as well as tourists, will drink and not use good judgment. These drivers will drink more than they should or more than they realize and many will be stopped for speeding, unsafe lane change or not having an up to date tag on their license

plate. These are all probable cause for the officer asking the driver to take the Field Sobriety Test and a breath of blood test.

Many drivers will also get in a fatal car accident and injure or kill an innocent party. This tragedy happened to my 25 year old client Celena Nava who worked at Eisenhower. She was jogging last October 20 in Coachella and was hit and killed by a drunk driver. The pain the family has experienced is beyond words. It will last a lifetime and there is nothing anyone can do to take the pain away. The policy limits money I recovered for the family for Celena’s wrongful death, cannot begin to ease the pain they will experienced as they celebrate Christmas and New Year’s again this year.

I have sued drunk drivers for injuries they have caused to my clients for over 30 years AND I have successfully defended those charged with driving under the influence when I change hats. Most drivers did not realize they could be charged with a drunk driving with the little alcohol they believe that had consumed. They incorrectly looked at the number of drinks they consumed rather than the amount of alcohol in the drinks. For DUI purposes a drink equals 1 ounces of alcohol; 12 ounces of beer or 4 ounces of wine.

Thus when the bartender pours a 6-8 ounce glass of wine and you have two drinks you have consumed the equivalent of 3 or 4 drinks. Likewise my clients tell me they were not drunk. The law does not require one to be drunk but rather under the influence.

You are under the influence when your ability to drive is impaired and that occurs when you reach a .08 blood alcohol level.

However the Indio DA (unlike many other jurisdictions) will file .07’s...and YES the DA and the court asks for a minimum of 10 days in jail on a first offense DUI. It is also necessary to look at what medications the driver has consumed be they prescriptive, over the counter or illegal. Many pills have a warning not to mix with alcohol and not to operate heavy machinery after taking the medication.

This means a car not just a tractor. The

combination of alcohol and these pills will create a Potentiation so the driver is a lot more under the influence at .05 to.07 than the average person.

The bottom line is DON’T DRINK AND DRIVE, CALL A TAXI……IT IS A LOT CHEAPER THAN CALLING ME! Dale Gribow, selected every year as “TOP LAWYER” by Palm Springs LIFE, is also AVVO PEER rated SUPERB by fellow attorneys.

Gribow has been Man of the Year 7 times including The City of Hope and the City of Palm Desert.

For more than 30 years Dale Gribow Attorney at Law has been committed to protecting client’s civil and constitutional rights. Regardless of whether the matter of concern is due to a Serious Accident, DUI, Business, Real Estate or Estate Planning matter, every case is treated with dignity and diligence. The Gribow firm offers a respected legacy of experience and success to all they serve thus making Gribow the attorney of choice for thousands of clients.

If you have any questions regarding this column or ideas for future columns please contact Dale Gribow Attorney at Law at his NEW number 760 837 7500 and or his new email: dale@dalegribowlaw.com

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by Fire Chief Sam DiGiovanna

Flying the Broom or Driving this Halloween?

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hether you’re flying the broom or driving, you can help protect trick-or-treaters by following these driving safety tips on Halloween, or on any night your community hosts Halloween activities reminds Fire Chief Sam DiGiovanna. Be especially careful between 4 and 8 p.m., when most severe vehicle/ young pedestrian collisions happen. Drive slowly, and don’t pass stopped vehicles.

The driver might be dropping off children.

Park your mobile phone! Avoid distractions

by waiting until you’ve stopped to call, text, or surf. Watch for children darting into the street. Kids can cross the street anywhere, and most young pedestrian deaths happen at spots other than intersections. Yield to young pedestrians. Children might not stop, either because they don’t see your vehicle approaching or don’t know how to safely cross the street. Communicate with other drivers. Always use your turn signals. And if you have to pull over to drop off or pick up your kids, turn on your hazard lights.

For more Halloween Safety visit: www. cdc.gov/family/halloween Happy Halloween, Be Safe!

Fire Chief Sam DiGiovanna

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Fall into season at these events Do you need better skills with QuickBooks?

The Coachella Valley Women’s Business Center (it’s for men, too) will have a five session QuickBooks workshop on Wednesdays beginning November 5th. These classes are from 5:30-8:30pm each Wednesday and will be held at the Workforce Development Center in Indio at 44-199 Monroe Street. This beginner’s course will teach participants how to use QuickBooks while learning both best practices as well as pitfalls to avoid. Cost is $150 and includes a textbook.

For more information, go to www.cvwbc. com or call 760.345.9200.

Les Dames d’Escoffier Holiday Gift Bazaar Support education while holiday shopping!

On Saturday, November 8th, Les Dames d’Escoffier will hold their annual Holiday Gift Bazaar from 11am to 3pm at the Mary Pickford Theatre in Cathedral City. In addition to live music, chef demonstrations and food & wine tastings, a variety of gourmet and culinary items, hand crafts, jewelry, handbags, clothing and cookbooks will be for sale. All proceeds from the event go to provide scholarships to local young women pursuing culinary careers.

Les Dames d’Escoffier is a worldwide philanthropic society of professional women

leaders, including ShareKitchen’s Executive Director Angela Janus, providing scholarships and mentoring in the fields of food, fine beverage and hospitality. The Coachella Valley is one of only 29 international communities to have its own chapter.

Women In Business For Business Conference On Wednesday, November 19th, the Cathedral City Chamber of Commerce is hosting the ‘Women In Business For Business’ conference to educate women in the development of their businesses. The schedule of events includes presentations by Tricia Gehrlein of the Clinton Health Matters Initiative; Betsy Berkhemmer-Credaire, author of The Board Game; Pathways to Success on “Mentoring Young Women”; the U.S. Small Business Administration on “Financial Resources for Women”; the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and more. Check-in begins at 7:30am and closes at 5pm with a champagne networking reception.

Held at the Agua Caliente Resort, admission is $175. For your ticket or more information, contact event director Lynn Mallotto at rsvp@ cathedralcitycc.com or 760.328.1213.

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sports scene Like Hollywood, There Are Certain Sequels We Don’t Need To See

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’m a simple girl. Give me football and some beer and I’m happier than the late Chris Farley at a Chinese Buffet. If it’s Niners football, I’m likely to karate kick the air.

I’m not into “Oscar-worthy” fluff movies.

Don’t really need Hollywood to try and depict a reality that is more interesting than the actual reality of everyday life.

Instead, I love comedies, dumb ones, like Anchorman, Dumb and Dumber and Tommy Boy and I love super hero movies. Some good humor, solid action and a couple explosions and I’m happy. Simple.

Where all this goes terribly wrong is when Hollywood sees the money it makes on one simple movie and tries to make more off a sequel. Most of the time, the storylines are regurgitated, stale, stiff and the viewer is left wondering how they can get those brain cells and 2 hours of life back.

You can’t. It’s like the Raiders’ season, just call it a wash and move on.

And in honor of Dumb And Dumber To looking too Dumb to consider watching, I am publicly protesting sequels in sports as well.

The NBA Finals this summer were a sequel of the previous year between the Miami Heat and San Antonio Spurs. And sure enough, the series was equally unimpressive in quality of basketball played.

Good news is Bron Bron took off to Cleveland so it might be LBJ vs the Spurs, which would be annoying, but like Anchorman 2, I might make an exception because the

change of venue for the lead characters can change the story lines enough to make it worth seeing. Not likely to like it, but at least you’d be hopeful for some new one-liners.

Before the NFL season, a lot of prognosticators predicted Super Bowl 49 would be played by the same teams in Super Bowl 48, you might remember, the curbstomping of the Broncos at the hands of the Seahawks.

Who wants to see that?? (The correct answer is nobody, although every Seahawks fan just put the newspaper down and said, “Uh. Me. Duh.”) It won’t happen.

Sure, the Broncos look pretty strong right now, their lone loss coming in overtime at the hands of the Seahawks IN Seattle. And while NFL analysts proclaim the Broncos to be unstoppable, consider their 6 wins: They beat the Colts and Chiefs by 7 points each, allowing 4th-quarter comebacks and narrowly pulled those wins out at home. The win over the Arizona Cardinals came against the second and third string quarterbacks as injuries were piling up for the Cards.

The game they played against the Niners was fielded by a JV San Fran team that will look very different in weeks 9 and 10 as they get healthy and the Broncos Thursday Night win over the Chargers was again, a team who’s starters were out and the secondary looked like Lloyd Christmas running “at incredible rates”.

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Oh, and they beat the Jets. That, and $2 will buy you a slurpee, or Big Gulp. Welp, Broncos fans could be saying “See you later” after the first round of the playoffs if they play a healthy team with a pass rush (see Ravens, Patriots, Chiefs).

And the Seahawks can’t decide if they want to be a pass-happy team or a downhill running team. The team that won a championship last year with a stubborn adherence to its personality is now barely above .500.

While retreaded plots can get sports fans talking about the familiar matchups and revenge rules the conversation, originality will always win the day.

And if you haven’t been watching the World Series, a fresh, lively and fascinating showdown between a budding dynasty and a franchise that’s waited nearly 3 decades to play in the Fall Classic, you’re missing the best entertainment baseball’s offered in more than a decade!

We’ve never seen this matchup before and this World Series is why we don’t want sequels. I don’t care about the ratings, or lack thereof, if you’re a sports fan, you have to love this action!

I can appreciate the Giants’ every-twoyears championship push and it makes for great theatre when the villain is as good as the hero, but what the Royals have accomplished this post season is the stuff legends are made of!

They escaped the Oakland Athletics in

extra innings after trailing 7-3 going into the 8th inning! Then they beat the 2 best teams in the American League, scratch that, they scorched the Angels and Orioles and became the first team ever to win their first 8 postseason games.

They have a manager no one believes in and some young talent no one knew about coming into this season.

We know them now and I’m glad it’s a team we haven’t seen in the post season in a long time.

While Hollywood can never come close to the entertainment of sports, it can teach us a valuable lesson: Sequels rarely eclipse the first version and usually fall far short.

Stick with original content and let’s see some different teams in the Super Bowl, College Football National Title and beyond.

Julie Buehler hosts the Coachella Valley’s most popular sports talk radio show, “Buehler’s Day Off” every day from 3-6 on 1010 KXPS, the valley’s all sports station. She can also be seen every morning between 6-7am on KMIR sharing the coolest stories in sports. She’s an avid gym rat, slightly sarcastic and more likely to recite Steve Young’s career passing stats than American Idol winners. Tune in M-F 3-6 pst at www.team1010.com or watch “Buehler’s Day Off” on Ustream and KMIR. com for her sports reports.

by Flint Wheeler

BCS System of “Who’s In/Who’s Out” Still Rearing It’s Ugly Head…

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emember when Alabama’s rematch against LSU in 2011 contributed to the death of the Bowl Championship Series and the formation of the College Football Playoff? And then Alabama’s 2012 loss to Texas A&M meant the Tide were totally out of the BCS race, except they were back to No. 2 just 14 days later? And how it took the most amazing moment in college football history to put away Bama last year?

Yep, it’s the same “Non-Profit” public education football program led by the $7 Million a year coach Nick Saban. Boring, yes, but count on the Crimson Tide to be in the mix once again.

Alabama’s loss to Ole Miss a few weeks ago is now nothing more than a thing to argue about. The Tide ranked No. 4 in the AP entering Saturday, behind those Rebels, and then those Rebels lost at LSU. Bama now ranks well ahead of Ole Miss in the Coaches, and we’ve yet to have evidence the committee will think much differently.

While we can disagree about which of them should rank higher, the fact remains that it’s hard for a team to have more control over its destiny than Bama has now. That’s

based off an SEC West schedule, a quality out-of-conference win against potential Big 12 champion West Virginia, a quality loss in Oxford, and the Alabama brand name.

My Present College Football Playoff Roster Rose Bowl- No. 2 Alabama & No. 3 Michigan State. 1/1/2015 Pasadena, CA Sugar Bowl- No. 1 Florida State & No. 4 Oregon. 1/1/2015 New Orleans, LA Blessings once again on FSU for making the top spot simple. The rest of the troublesome Seminoles’ schedule continues to look tougher than expected, which could be fortunate if an upset strikes, but at the moment, I still have FSU reaching 13-0.

The SEC’s champion will rank No. 2 at worst.

Whether that team’s Alabama, a Mississippi school, Georgia, or someone else, that’s just the way the SEC rolls, always near the top.

No. 3 and No. 4 hold steady. Michigan State finally played a complete game and now gets a week off before its most crucial test, a home game against Ohio State. The Ducks’ defense remains a major concern, but they’ll likely only play one good offense from here on out, in the Pac-12 title game.

Next week, we’ll be able to adjust based

on any surprises in the committee’s first set of rankings. But I still expect conference champions to be heavy favorites for all four spots, at least in the Playoff’s first year. The committee wants to show it’s not the 2011 BCS all over again.

Cinderellas To Ponder Two changes this week: Ole Miss and Alabama trade spots, and Colorado State’s in for East Carolina University after a nineweek Pirates run. E.C.U. is looking shakier and shakier and has multiple potential losses in the weeks ahead.

While Marshall just won the only game I had it penciled in as losing, a 12-1 Colorado State University team would be more impressive than a 13-0 Marshall would,

especially if the Rams’ win over a surprisingly good Boston College turns out to be over a power-conference bowl team. This requires that Boise State drop another game, as B.S. University holds the head-to-head tiebreaker over C.S.U., and only conference champions are eligible for the designated mid-major spot.

Boise State could just take that spot for itself.

Making the obvious argument that the 5th team left out of this year’s playoff picture will look and sound a lot like the 3rd team left out in prior years with the BCS system. Good thing the playoff system, ummm, fixed this “Great team left out” problem we all whined about with the BCS system. Oh well, in a couple years we can increase the playoff roster to the top 8 teams. That’ll fix it.

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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY Week of October 30

ARIES (March 21-April 19): If you live in Gaza, you don’t have easy access to Kentucky Fried Chicken. The closest KFC restaurant is 35 miles away in the Egyptian city of El-Arish. But there was a time when you could pay smugglers to bring it to you via one of the underground tunnels that linked Egypt to Gaza. Each delivery took four hours and required the help of two taxis, a hand cart, and a motorbike. (Alas, Egypt destroyed most of the tunnels in early 2014.) I recommend, Aries, that you be as determined and resourceful to make your longed-for connections as the KFC lovers in Gaza were. Halloween costume suggestion: smuggler, bootlegger, drug-dealer, black-marketeer.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): It’s urgent that you expand your options. Your freedom of choice can’t lead you to where you need to go until you have more possibilities to choose from. In fact, you’re better off not making a decision until you have a wider selection. To playfully drive home this point to your subconscious mind, I suggest that this Halloween you consider disguising yourself as a slime mold. This unusual creature comes in more than 500 different genders, at least 13 of which must collaborate to reproduce. Here’s a photo: bit. ly/yellowslime.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): In the animated sci-fi TV sitcom Futurama, Leela is the mutant captain of a spaceship. In one episode, she develops an odd boil on her hindquarters. It has a face and can sing.

The actor who provides the vocals for the animated boil’s outpouring of song is Gemini comedian Craig Ferguson, whose main gig is serving as host of a late-night TV talk show on CBS. Telling you this tale is my way of suggesting that you consider going outside your usual niche, as Craig Ferguson did, to offer your talents in a different context. Halloween costume suggestion: Kim Kardashian as a nurse wearing ebola protective gear; science educator Neil deGrasse Tyson as a male stripper; a cat wearing a dog costume, or vice versa.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Native American hero Sitting Bull (1831-1890) was a renowned Lakota chief and holy man. He led his people in their resistance to the U.S. occupation of their land. How did he become so strong and wise? In large part through the efforts of his doting mother, whose name was Her-Holy-Door. Let’s install her as your exemplar for now. May she inspire you to nurture beauty and power in those you love. May she motivate you to be adroit as you perform your duties in service to the future. May the mystery of her name rouse you to find the sacred portal that ushers you to your next big gift. Halloween costume suggestion: a sacred portal, a divine gateway, an amazing door.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): This is one of those rare times when it’s OK for you to just throw out the dirty dishes that you are too lazy to wash. It’s also permissible to hide from a difficult person, spend money on a supposedly foolish indulgence, eat a bowl of ice cream for breakfast, binge-watch a TV show that provokes six months’ worth of emotions in a few hours, and lie in bed for an extra hour fantasizing about sex with a forbidden partner.

Don’t make any of these things habits, of course.

But for now, it’s probably healthy to allow them.

Halloween costume suggestion: total slacker.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Our evolutionary ancestors Homo erectus loved to eat delicious antelope brains. The fossil evidence is all over their old stomping grounds in East Africa. Scientists say that this delicacy, so rich in nutrients, helped our forbears build bigger, stronger brains themselves.

These days it’s harder but not impossible to make animal brains part of your diet. The Chinese and Koreans eat pig brains, and some European cuisines include beef brains. I’m confident, however, that your own brain will be functioning better than ever in the coming weeks, even if you don’t partake of this exotic dish. Be sure to take advantage of your enhanced intelligence. Solve tough riddles! Think big thoughts! Halloween costume suggestion: a brain-eating Homo erectus.

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): “The egromenious hilarity of psychadisical melarmy, whether rooted in a lissome stretch or a lusty wobble, soon defisterates into crabolious stompability. So why not be graffenbent?” So said Noah’s ex-wife Joan of Arc in her interview with St. Crocodile magazine.

Heed Joan’s advice, please, Libra. Be proactively saximonious. I’M KIDDING! Everything I just said was nonsense. I hope you didn’t assume it was erudite wisdom full of big words you couldn’t understand. In offering it to you, I was hoping to immunize you against the babble and hype and artifice that may soon roll your way. Halloween costume suggestion: a skeptic armed with a shockproof bullshit-detector. (For inspiration, check out these visuals: http://bit.ly/bsdetector.)

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): In AMC’s famous TV drama, a high school chemistry teacher responds to his awful luck by turning to a life of crime. The show’s title, “Breaking Bad,” refers to what happens when a good person cracks and veers over to the dark side. So then what does “breaking good” mean? Urbandictionary.com defines it like this: “When a criminal, junkie, or gang-banger gets sweet and sparkly, going to church, volunteering at soup kitchens, and picking the kids up from school.”

I’m concerned that you are at risk of undergoing a similar conversion, Scorpio. You seem so nice and kind and mild lately. I guess that’s fine as long as you don’t lose your edge. Halloween costume suggestion: a criminal with a halo, a sweet and sparkly gang-banger, or a Buddhist monk junkie.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): I’ve got two possible remedies for your emotional congestion.

You might also want to make these two remedies part of your Halloween shtick. The first remedy is captured by the English word “lalochezia.” It refers to a catharsis that comes from uttering profane language. The second remedy is contained in the word “tarantism.” It means an urge to dance manically as a way to relieve melancholy. For your Halloween disguise, you could be a wildly dancing obscenity-spouter.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): You are at a point in your astrological cycle when you deserve to rake in the rewards that you have been working hard to earn. I expect you to be a magnet for gifts and blessings. The favors and compliments you have doled out will be returned to you. For all the strings you have pulled in behalf of others’ dreams, strings will now be pulled for you. Halloween costume suggestion: a beaming kid hauling around a red wagon full of brightly wrapped presents.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Two physicists in Massachusetts are working on technology that will allow people to shoot laser beams out of their eyes.

For Halloween, I suggest that you pretend you have already acquired this superpower. It’s time for you to be brash and jaunty as you radiate your influence with more confidence. I want to see you summon reserves of charismatic clout you haven’t dared to call on before. Costume suggestion: The X-Men mutant named Cyclops or the legendary Native America creature known as the thunderbird, which emits lightning from its eyes.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): The African nation of Swaziland has passed a law prohibiting witches from flying their broomsticks any higher than 150 meters above ground. That will be a big problem for Piscean witches. There is currently an astrological mandate for them to swoop and glide and soar as high and free as they want to. The same is metaphorically true for all Piscean non-witches everywhere. This is your time to swoop and glide and soar as high and free as you want to. Halloween costume suggestion: high-flying witch, a winged angel, the Silver Surfer, or a mythic bird like the Garuda.

Homework: What Halloween costume would help you activate a secret or dormant part of your potential? Testify at FreeWillAstrology.com.

Rob Brezsny Free Will Astrology freewillastrology@freewillastrology.com

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Boob-A-Palooza Raises Funds and Awareness about Breast Cancer

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ombardo Cosmetic Surgery, Desert Crossfit and Las Palmas OB-GYN join forces to support Charity Godmother Three local businesses committed to wellness are coming together for Boob-APalooza, a fitness and fun event from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. November 8, 2014, to raise awareness and funds for breast cancer.

Desert CrossFit training facility, Lombardo Cosmetic Surgery and Las Palmas OB-GYN are presenters of the event to be held at Desert CrossFit at 73605 Dinah Shore Drive in Palm Desert.

“Breast Cancer Awareness should be all year round, not just in October! We are sponsoring this fundraiser as a fun way to address a serious issue.” says cosmetic surgeon, Dr. Maria Lombardo. “Desert CrossFit offers a super environment combined with an exceptional staff who take an avid interest in helping their clients achieve their health and fitness goals. This event is a great way to get in an entertaining workout and raise funds for a great cause!”

Registration opens at 9:30 a.m.

November 8, with the fun starting at 10 a.m. and continuing through 1 p.m. Activities include “The Boob Olympics” competition, raffle, DJ music, food and barbecue.

Admission is $10 or pay $30 and receive a T-shirt.

Proceeds benefit Charity Godmother, one of the desert’s newest non-profits dedicated to raising funds for not only breast cancer, but all cancers. The organization supports a variety of groups who need assistance including funding “bucket-list” wishes for individuals with cancer. www.charitygodmother.org

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by Sunny Simon

Want More Ice Cream? Just Ask!

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fter reading the blog of one of my favorite motivational speakers, I decided to heed his advice and give it a try. Darren Hardy, publisher of “Success” magazine convinced me of the old adage, “If you don’t ask you don’t get.” Sounds simple enough I know, but you must understand I’m a rule follower. If the sign displays a price of $75.00 it never occurs to me there might be wiggle room.

Darren illustrated his point by blogging about an experience in an ice cream parlor.

When he got down to the cone after eating a luscious scoop of vanilla his taste buds screamed for more. He charmed the clerk into adding a “small gratuitous shaving to the top” to help extend his joy. Seriously I thought? I would never dream of making such a request. Apparently this guy is super charming because the clerk replied it would be her pleasure. Wow! I was ready to give this a go so the very next night at a dinner meeting I took the plunge. Dessert was chocolate mousse. As a rule I do not eat dessert, however I thought a cookie would be nice. When a member of the wait staff came by I inquired in my sweetest and most pleasant manner if there was a cookie in the kitchen with my name on it. He replied that he would check, but

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never returned. I was not surprised, nor discouraged just rather pleased with myself for asking.

Next I tackled my cell phone bill. Last month I was charged a $20 premium for the number of texts I received. I called the nice man at AT&T and told him I wanted my plan to include unlimited texting. He quoted me a rate of $25 more than my base rate. Okay, this wasn’t working so I mentioned regretfully that I am forced to change carriers. At this point he told me he could sell me a different plan retaining the benefits of my current plan and including unlimited texting for $20 less than my base rate. Truly this made even less sense but who was I to question the wisdom of the mega-giant who supplies me with minutes? Sold! Thanks to Mr. Hardy I am now saving $20 every month and utilizing the text feature with no penalties.

Are you withholding your voice and accepting face value? Try speaking up this week for what you want. It doesn’t always work, but I can tell you from recent practice it’s a challenge worth pursuing. I’m getting good at this. Just wait until Santa sees my Christmas wish list!

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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by dr maria lombardo

Dr. Maria Lombardo, Lombardo Cosmetic Surgery is located in Rancho Mirage.

She specializes in both surgical and non-surgical cosmetic procedures including (but not limited to) facial, body and breast surgery, Botox, Latisse, and hCG diet program.

For a consultation or more information, visit www.lombardocosmeticsurgery.com or call 760-610-8990. Dr. Lombardo will be writing a bi-weekly column for CV Weekly.

Fall is in the air!

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inally! The snowbirds are returning.

Restaurants are getting busier and everyone’s calendars are starting to fill up with parties and events. This is the time of year that most people really start to think about doing a little “sprucing up” regarding their appearance. And there are many ways to go about it.

Fall is a great time of year to do a chemical peel. The sun isn’t quite as hot and the weather has cooled to be much more comfortable. I recommend a medium depth, medical grade chemical peel about once per year as part of a good skin care regimen. “Cleaning up” the surface of the skin evens out tone, erases those dark spots from too much sun exposure and helps the skin care products you are using to do a better job. This type of peel takes a full 7 days to complete, with the most dramatic peeling and flaking on the third and fourth days. Wednesday is a great day to do a peel so that you can peel the most over the weekend!

Smoothing out those wrinkles on the forehead or treating those pesky crow’s feet with Botox is another great option. Botox works in about 3 – 5 days and then the frown lines relax away after about a week.

So if you are trying to get ready for a party or special occasion – be sure to give yourself at least a week.

Of course, there are lots of other treatment options (including facial fillers, great skin care products, Latisse for longer eyelashes and surgical procedures for face, breast and body). As we enter the cooler season, it’s a great time to consider what you might like to do for yourself.

In honor of Fall, Lombardo Cosmetic Surgery is offering a special price on a package containing 20 units of Botox and a TCA chemical peel. Regular price is over $300 but for the month of November the price is $172.00 – call to schedule your appointment with Dr. Maria Lombardo today: 760-610-8990

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