When the Desert Calls - New York Times

Palm Springs and the surrounding areas have long been the playground for Hollywood's rich and famous. However, it's no longer the rich and famous that are increasingly drawn to the desert for second homes and retirement homes. Read more about full time life in the desert - especially for retirees.

When the Desert Calls - New York Times: "By BARBARA E. HERNANDEZ
Published: May 27, 2007
ALAINA DeMARTINI decided to trade the San Francisco chill and fog for palm trees and bright stars in an open sky. So last year, she and her husband, David, a retired electrician, moved to the house in Palm Springs, Calif., that they bought as a second home five years ago."

Wie to play at Samsung World Championship in Palm Desert CA in October 2007.

The Sports Network - LPGA Golf: "Palm Desert, CA (Sports Network) - Michelle Wie has accepted a sponsor's exemption to the LPGA Samsung World Championship.
The prestigious 20-player event will be held from October 11-14 on the Canyons Course at Bighorn Golf Club in Palm Desert, California.
'It's an honor to be invited to play in the Samsung World Championship,' Wie said in a release. 'There is nothing like going back to where my professional career started, and playing against the best players in the world. I'm excited for the opportunity.' "

Renoir, Degas, Manet, and Van Gogh to Visti Palm Springs This Summer

Why fight the crowds in Paris this summer to see the Master painters of the Impressionist era? Instead, you can enjoy the cool and uncrowded private collection which includes leaders in American painting. You may not be able to afford a trip to Europe's Louvre, but surely you can swing one out the Palm Springs this summer!


From this weeks Palm Springs Art Museum Newsletter:
"From Degas to De Kooning: Impressionist and Modern Masters at the Palm Springs Art Museum This Summer!

From June 15 through September 3, the Palm Springs Art Museum is privileged to once again present during the summer season a selection of outstanding Impressionist and Modern paintings on loan from a private collection. Many of these works have graced the galleries during earlier summers, but this year a very special addition has been made to the works on view, masterpieces by Mark Rothko and Willem de Kooning, two of the leading figures in the New York School of Abstract Expressionism that developed in the late 1940s and catapulted American painting to international prominence. These outstanding works will be seen with eleven other paintings ranging from Impressionist studies of light and atmosphere by Edouard Manet, Edgar Degas, and Pierre-Auguste Renoir, to modernist essays in expressive color and form by Vincent Van Gogh, Henri Matisse, and Pablo Picasso, to the contrasts of realism and abstraction in contemporary works by Wayne Thiebaud and Joan Mitchell.

THIS EXTRAORDINARY COLLECTION IS ON LOAN TO THE MUSEUM BY AN ANONYMOUS COLLECTOR, COURTESY OF HEATHER JAMES ART & ANTIQUITIES."