The Beths are celebrating their 12-year catalogue with the By Request tour. As the title suggests, every show’s set will be determined by audience requests.

The double smash burger we had during our visit was so delicious, the hubby needed to return just a few days later to have another.

A preview of the desert's October entertainment offerings, including & Juliet, Blues Traveler, Toots McApplesauce—and more!

Topics broached this week include dogs, national security, influencers, breakfast cereal—and more!

A preview of the nighttime and early morning skies in October 2026.

Before his solo career, Derek Jordan Gregg’s high-energy pop-rock outfit the Hive Minds was the talk of the town—and nine years after the end of the Hive Minds, Gregg has formed Avant Garden.

Robert Pattinson plays Hansen in a decidedly unflattering way: He’s a sociopath concerned only about the success of his show as his family life crumbles around him.

An excursion in the Alaskan wilderness goes dreadfully awry when retired military man James Belmont (Brad Pitt) suffers a heart attack while piloting himself and Odin out of a storm.

This style was originally brewed by the former Rheingold Brewery of Philadelphia in the 1960s, with marketing promoting the light lager as “diet beer.” Perhaps predictably, it failed.

We recently asked three of the four candidates for Coachella mayor the same set of seven questions. (The fourth candidate didn't get back to us.)

Topics addressed this week include fabulists, cocaine, khakis, legacy newspapers—and more!

In District 4, incumbent Evan Trubee, a local business owner, will face challenger Jonathon Polly, a geoscientist and auditor.

At the end of 2020, one of Stella Espinoza’s instructors at the Braille Institute asked her if she’d be interested in hosting a peer support group. She said yes; that group continues to meet every Monday.

Hits like “I Miss the Misery” and “Love Bites (So Do I)” are forces of rock nature, and Halestorm is set to perform at 7:30 p.m., Friday, Oct. 2, at Agua Caliente Rancho Mirage.

The Levitt AMP Twentynine Palms Music Series returns this fall, with live music offerings every Saturday from Sept. 26 through Oct. 24 at Freedom Plaza.

With plenty of nods to the games—it feels like it was made by somebody who truly loves playing those games—Resident Evil is far and away the best video game movie yet. It’s also a great horror movie.

Our latest roundup of restaurant news includes a big milestone for a Palm Springs institution; the return of J's Deli; and more!

Topics addressed this week include batteries, barbarism, firemen, horse meat—and more!

The organization said it has helped other local organizations bring in more than $14 million in funding over the years by providing data that pinpointed critical needs in the region. The nonprofit’s annual budget has been between $1.1 million and $1.4 million in recent years, but the bank accounts are now virtually empty.

The film shows never-before-seen interviews with the notoriously private Bea Arthur, focusing on her career and life starting in 1947, when she moved to New York City and studied drama at The New School.

The CactusToCloud institute's name is not directly related to the Cactus to Clouds hiking trail; instead, the name reflects the dramatic elevational changes found throughout the region and serves as a reminder of the diverse environments that make the desert so unique.

From what I could gather between retching spells, the Owen sisters are still cursed, and all men who fall in love with them die—and perhaps the same could happen to their children—all doomed because an ancestor said it was so.

In the 1970s, the Augustine Band consisted of only one adult member, Roberta Ann Augustine. Today, while still small, it has a big impact.

Our TV scribe used to write 3,000-plus-word features on fall TV, but now it all fits in one little column.

More than 40 acts will perform across the four events, including organizer Josh Heinz’s band Blasting Echo, which hasn’t played a show since 2023.

Topics broached this week include quilting, speed dialing, literacy, newborns—and more!

Ken Larmon has been organizing Mid-Autumn, a benefit concert for the Desert Cancer Foundation, to honor his late wife, Malinda Liu. The event returns for a third year at 6 p.m., Friday, Sept. 25, at Coachella Valley Brewing Co.

Apple TV’s Mayday is an enjoyable if sometimes clumsy Cold War riff inspired by the likes of the first Top Gun movie (but Mayday is not nearly as vapid).

These super-soldiers get out to cause mass mayhem ... and they make it as far as a trailer park.

A selection of comics whose careers exploded thanks to Kill Tony are on the Killers of Kill Tony tour, making a stop at Fantasy Springs on Saturday, Sept. 19.

Cabernet franc can be firm and spicy without being aggressive, ripe without becoming syrupy, structured without becoming heavy, and round without becoming soft. There is real body here. There are tannins. There is depth.

Topics covered this week include gravity, cold medicine, surveillance drones, top sirloin—and more!

If you’re expecting the ramen accoutrements one usually gets at a standard ramen restaurant, revise your expectations: You’ll get birria, ramen and a meaty broth in a bowl, with a plate of chopped onion and cilantro on the side.

"Come out and show us how cool you are. Show us your fashion; show us your style; show everyone around who you are, and just be your natural self.”

The film combines animation with live action as Coyote hires a small-time lawyer (a game Will Forte) to represent him in court. Alas, the movie just isn’t as clever as it wants to be.

Buddy is a competent blend of horror and satire that gets high marks for production design and performances.

A preview of September's area entertainment offerings, including Edith Márquez, Taylor Dayne, Kevin Costner and Modern West—and more!

All of the ingredients—including cilantro, pickled onion, cucumber, tomato, avocado and mango—were fresh and in perfect balance.

A preview of the nighttime and early morning skies (clouds permitting!) in September.

Equipped with an accordion, a golden voice and a serious ear for music composition, Yankovic has released 14 studio albums filled with playful parodies, outstanding original tunes—and plenty of polka!

Where beer is made by converting starches into sugars and then fermenting, with sake, a fungus formally named Aspergillus oryzae (known in Japan as koji) helps convert the starches into sugars.

Topics broached this week include debit-card fraud, portable printers, triangulation, colorful coats—and more!

In early 2026, the PVS Board of Trustees unexpectedly raised the specter of financial issues that threatened the school’s existence. What followed was a series of messages—often contradictory—sent by the board to both parents and teachers.

The Melvins are slated to return to Pappy and Harriet's next month. Guitarist/vocalist Buzz Osborne recently answered our set of 13 music-related queries.

Our latest look at local food news includes a new brick-and-mortar tamale joint in Indio; a new coffee and pastry shop in Cathedral City, and much more!

Writer-director Jane Schoenbrun’s film is at once an ode to ’80s slasher films, a satire of the same thing and, somehow, an autobiographical depiction of sexual awakening and gender transformation via a slasher-killer narrative.

After a decade-plus of successful jazz fests, the PS Women Jazz Festival in 2025 produced Blues at the Woodstock, trading the sweet jazz harmonies for raw and emotional blues power. In 2026, Blues at the Woodstock is back, taking place on Friday and Saturday, Sept. 4 and 5, at Hotel Zoso.

Topics broached this week include shock gloves, fiduciary duties, grand juries, insulation—and more!

The following message was recently posted on the organization’s website: “We are writing with a heavy heart to let you know that, due to a lack of funding for the arts and the overall economic conditions, The Desert Symphony will not present concerts this season."

Over the past few years, Mark Carrington, chair of Active Communities of Desert Center, has shepherded a variety of projects by convincing community engagement personnel at the solar producers surrounding AC-DC to provide funding to improve the community’s quality of life and market desirability.