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A New Age of Entertainment

A New Age of Entertainment

A New Age of Entertainment By Jerri Acosta   Webisode is a word of art made up of web and episode . These are short, maximum fifteen-minute TV episodes on the Internet. For the advertising world Webisodes are the hope of the future . They have great potential as more and more companies use these...
Jazz in the Pines

Jazz in the Pines

Jazzing It Up in the Pines By Bob Bogard   Idyllwild Arts will present the 25th Annual Jazz in the Pines August 10–12, 2018 in Idyllwild, California. The three-day event will feature more than two-dozen bands on the breathtaking 205-acre Idyllwild Arts mountain campus among the pines, under the festival’s signature colored parachutes. Attendees can...
Youth Gone Wild

Youth Gone Wild

Youth Gone Wild By Christina Vronay Ruggles   The Question Look, we’re both strangers here. I don’t know who you are, and you don’t know who I am. Through the medium of the printed word, we can only solve one of these problems. I’m Christina, and I’m addicted to estrogen. I inject the stuff once...
Fitness Trends 2018

Fitness Trends 2018

Fitness Trends 2018 Fitness trends come and go every year, but we’re going back to the basics in 2018, according to a new annual survey from the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) published in its Health & Fitness Journal. For the survey, the authors identified 40 possible fitness trends for 2018 and asked more...
Palm Springs Focus

Palm Springs Focus

TCC Presents The Stonewall Humanitarian Awards Gala Transgender Community Coalition (TCC) began as TDoR Palm Springs in 2014 and is a certified 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. In the beginning, its purpose was to raise funds for the first Transgender Day of Remembrance Memorial Cenotaph Statue. Due to the strong demand by the local transgender, intersex, gender...
Queer Love Songs

Queer Love Songs

Be Steadwell Releases New Album Queer Love Songs By Martha Tang Follow Up To 2017 Album Breakup Songs “Be’s songwriting is fresh and individual in the same personal storytelling way of Joni Mitchell or Carly Simon. Some might think it’s premature to align Be’s Queer Love Songs with such large and iconic artists but much...
Evening Under the Stars

Evening Under the Stars

25 Years of Honoring Community Heroes and Providing Outstanding Performances By Bob Bogard   In 1991 AAP – Food Samaritans was founded (originally called AIDS Assistance Program) with the goal of helping the most at-risk members of our community – people who are low-income and compromised by health issues – by providing nutritional support to...
Toni Braxton

Toni Braxton

Celebrates 25 Years In Music By Martha Tang   Multi-platinum, seven-time Grammy Award®-winning superstar and icon Toni Braxton released SEX & CIGARETTES last month via Def Jam Recordings. SEX & CIGARETTES – the ninth album in Toni’s legendary career – is her first studio album since 2014’s Grammy-winning collaboration with Babyface, Love, Marriage & Divorce...
2018 Food Trends

2018 Food Trends

What Are YOU Eating? By Chris Astrala   Remember when kale was the new lettuce, quinoa the new rice and cauliflower the new mashed potato? We are constantly looking for that latest thing to tickle our taste buds and at the same time be a bit healthy . We’ve run down a few trends that...
Transgender History

Transgender History

Always Overbooked By Terri Schlichenmeyer   It had to start somewhere.   Someone had to make the first step, to pave the way, to stick a fork into the ground and say, “Here, now.” Someone had to be the first so that others could follow, and in the newly updated book “Transgender History” by Susan...
Ji Strangeway

Ji Strangeway

Visual Artist, Poet & Filmmaker, Ji Strangeway By Michel Khordoc Visual Artist, Poet & Filmmaker, Ji Strangeway offers a raw and realistic take on the teenage experience for LGBTQ youth in new graphic novel “Red As Blue” With a unique, genre-bending style that is sometimes lyrical, sometimes sharp as a razor’s edge, and always engaging;...
The 24th Steve Chase Humanitarian Awards

The 24th Steve Chase Humanitarian Awards

The 24th Steve Chase Humanitarian Awards By Steven Henke   Co-chairs Patrick Jordan and Lauri Kibby will join Senator Barbara Boxer on February 10 when they welcome more than 1,500 D.A.P. supporters at the 2018 Steve Chase Humanitarian Awards benefitting Desert AIDS Project. The party begins with red carpet arrivals at the Palm Springs Convention...