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Friday, January 25, 2019 Vol. 15 No. 8
Super-Duper Exhibit! *Photo courtesy Childrens Discovery Museum of the Desert
Sid The Science Kid visits Children’s Discovery Museum of the Desert By Desert Star Staff Rancho Mirage, CA– Beginning Saturday, February 2, kids can join Sid the Science Kid on a fantastic, scientific adventure when Sid the Science Kid: The Super-Duper Exhibit! Opens at Children’s Discovery Museum of the Desert. This
exciting, new traveling exhibit brings the award-winning PBS KIDS TV series Sid the Science Kid to life. For the first time, kids will be able to step into Sid’s world and become “science kids” themselves as they discover and investigate everyday science questions
around Sid’s home, at school in the Super Fab Lab and on the playground. Through fun, hands-on activities, kids will use scientific tools and thinking to learn about simple machines, the laws of motion, magnetism, air power, and the five senses. Being a super-duper-ooper-
schmooper good time is sure! Sid the Science Kid: The Super-Duper Exhibit! Will be at Children’s Discovery Museum of the Desert from February 2 through May 12 and is free with Museum admission. The Magic House creates them, St. Louis Children’s Museum in collaboration with
The Jim Henson Company. Museum admission is $9.95 per person, over the age of 1. CDMOD is open Monday through Saturday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. and on Sundays, 1 p.m.5 p.m. For more information, please, visit cdmod.org or call 760-321-0602. Continues on Page 3
Neil Simon is still relevant with Brighton Beach Memoirs at IPAC By Jack Lyons Theatre and Film Critic Member American Theatre Critics Association One of the enduring joys of seeing Neil Simon plays even 40 years after being written, is they’re still relevant when it comes to observing the foibles and folly of humans as viewed through the lens of America’s late comic genius playwright. Simon was a big family oriented playwright. He wrote mostly about what he knew best – working class American
immigrant families, which back then in the 1930’s, most families had immigrant roots and stories. Simon’s plays were always up-beat. Never depressing. And he infused all his work with comedy. If people laughed with his characters, not at them, then he felt there was hope that things would get better for everyone. And America of the 1930’s, deep in the Great Depression, needed all the comedy help it could find. “Brighton Beach Memoirs” now on the stage of Desert Theatreworks, located in the Indio Performing Arts Center (IPAC) in Indio,
Photo by Paul Hayashi Photography