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It’s Wildflower Festival time!

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Join all you FRIENDS this Saturday, March 4th in Palm Desert’s Civic Center Park FREE ADMISSION & ALL THE FUN YOU CAN HANDLE! Put down some roots in our Beer & Wine Garden and Enjoy Live Music with Palm Desert’s favorite classic rock band: Beach St. A GoGo PLAY! KIDS ZONE & “NATURALLY INSPIRED” YOUTH ART CONTEST SHOP! ARTISANS AND CRAFTSPEOPLE VENDING THEIR WARES CONNECT! LOCAL ENVIRONMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS SAVOR! TERRIFIC FOOD & BEVERAGES FOR SALE SHARE THE JOY OF SPRINGTIME! Thank you to our wonderful sponsors who make this a true community event! Visit for vacation rental jomes in the Coachella Valley.. Luxury homes in PALM DESERT Palm Desert offers homes in various architectural styles, custom builds, and even raw land to build your one-of-a-kind dream home. If you want to know more about what’s available to buy in Palm Desert, check out these luxury listings currently on the market with virtual showings. Homes for sale around the Palm Desert Area

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Nobu restaurant on-site at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden

Nobu Indian Wells

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The Nobu restaurant on-site at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden will permanently open on a year-round basis to the general public beginning on Monday, February 13. The world-famous Japanese restaurant located in Stadium 2 will open its doors to diners and remain open year-round, serving up its world-famous dishes outside the annual tournament dates for the first time. The Nobu Indian Wells menu will feature the restaurant’s signature blend of traditional Japanese dishes with South American ingredients, and include favorites such as the Yellowtail Jalapeño and Tiradito, numerous sashimi and sushi selections, and hot entrees like Black Cod with Miso. Reservations will be available starting Monday, February 6th via OpenTable or at (760) 200-8185. HOURS OF OPERATION: Monday – Tuesday: Closed (Open Feb. 13th and 14th) Wednesday – Thursday: 5pm to 9pm Friday & Saturday: 5pm to 10pm Sunday: 5pm to 9pm DIRECTIONS / PARKING: 78-200 Miles Ave Indian Wells, CA 92210 Please enter Gate 2 from Washington Street for parking/valet. BOOK RESERVATION   Visit for vacation rental jomes in the Coachella Valley.. Luxury homes in PALM DESERT Palm Desert offers homes in various architectural styles, custom builds, and even raw land to build your one-of-a-kind dream home. If you want to know more about what’s available to buy in Palm Desert, check out these luxury listings currently on the market with virtual showings. Homes for sale around the Palm Desert Area

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Sensei Porcupine Creek Tennis

Sensei Porcupine Creek – Rancho Mirage

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Introducing Rancho Mirage’s premier wellness resort, Sensei Porcupine Creek (just a short 20-minute drive from the Indian Wells Tennis Garden). This intimate desert retreat offers tennis enthusiasts the opportunity to unwind in luxury at an intimate desert retreat offering spacious villa and hotel room accommodations and enriching wellness programs. Benefit from Sensei Porcupine Creek Tennis Optimal Wellbeing Program designed and tailored to each individual with instruction from the Director of Tennis, Caroline Vis, a former Professional who will lead you in two private lessons with video analysis and guided footwork and match play sessions. This beautiful desert retreat features peerless tennis facilities that match the professional courts of the Indian Wells Tennis Garden, and this five-day program is ideal for Level 3.0 tennis players and above (as ranked by the NTRP). Over the course of your five-day stay, you will focus on your overall well-being through 1:1 sessions on mindset, nutrition, yoga, and fitness, as well as insightful assessments and four-plus hours of personalized tennis instruction on world-class hard and clay courts. Sessions with your Tennis Pro will focus on stroke mechanics, footwork and match play while assessing your serve, ground strokes, volleys, overheads, spin, and consistency of shot placement. As the week progresses, you will incorporate improved techniques across every aspect of your game. Whether your intention is to improve your tennis game with daily lessons or relax and rejuvenate with a more flexible schedule, Sensei Porcupine Creek has a variety of accommodations and packages to suit your preferences: LEARN MORE   Visit for vacation rental jomes in the Coachella Valley.. Luxury homes in PALM DESERT Palm Desert offers homes in various architectural styles, custom builds, and even raw land to build your one-of-a-kind dream home. If you want to know more about what’s available to buy in Palm Desert, check out these luxury listings currently on the market with virtual showings. Homes for sale around the Palm Desert Area

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Sensei Porcupine Creek Tennis

Sensei Porcupine Creek – Rancho Mirage

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Introducing Rancho Mirage’s premier wellness resort, Sensei Porcupine Creek (just a short 20-minute drive from the Indian Wells Tennis Garden). This intimate desert retreat offers tennis enthusiasts the opportunity to unwind in luxury at an intimate desert retreat offering spacious villa and hotel room accommodations and enriching wellness programs. Benefit from Sensei Porcupine Creek Tennis Optimal Wellbeing Program designed and tailored to each individual with instruction from the Director of Tennis, Caroline Vis, a former Professional who will lead you in two private lessons with video analysis and guided footwork and match play sessions. This beautiful desert retreat features peerless tennis facilities that match the professional courts of the Indian Wells Tennis Garden, and this five-day program is ideal for Level 3.0 tennis players and above (as ranked by the NTRP). Over the course of your five-day stay, you will focus on your overall well-being through 1:1 sessions on mindset, nutrition, yoga, and fitness, as well as insightful assessments and four-plus hours of personalized tennis instruction on world-class hard and clay courts. Sessions with your Tennis Pro will focus on stroke mechanics, footwork and match play while assessing your serve, ground strokes, volleys, overheads, spin, and consistency of shot placement. As the week progresses, you will incorporate improved techniques across every aspect of your game. Whether your intention is to improve your tennis game with daily lessons or relax and rejuvenate with a more flexible schedule, Sensei Porcupine Creek has a variety of accommodations and packages to suit your preferences: LEARN MORE  

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Palm Desert News

Palm Desert BrightSide New Letter

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City of Palm Desert, California February Newsletter PDF Print copy Visit for vacation rental jomes in the Coachella Valley.. Luxury homes in PALM DESERT Palm Desert offers homes in various architectural styles, custom builds, and even raw land to build your one-of-a-kind dream home. If you want to know more about what’s available to buy in Palm Desert, check out these luxury listings currently on the market with virtual showings. Homes for sale around the Palm Desert Area

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Palm Springs Tram

Escape to the Desert

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Known as a hub for music and film festivals, the Greater Palm Desert Resort Area offers many ways to entertain you. Attractions include the Palm Springs Aerial Tramway, the largest rotating aerial tramway in the world. AND NOW THE NEW ACRISURE ARENA EVENT CENTER WHICH OPENED IN DECEMBER 2022. And you can discover many other ways to enjoy the desert by pick up a copy of the February issue of Inland Empire Magazine at your local major supermarket (including Stater Bros.) or Barnes & Noble. For a vacation home, surround yourself with breathtaking natural beauty tucked away amid dramatic mountain ranges at Marriott’s Desert Springs Villas and its sister resort, Marriott’s Desert Springs Villas II in Palm Desert. These villas are stylish desert retreats with every amenity you desire. Test your game on 36 holes of championship golf at the adjacent Desert Springs JW Marriott Resort & Spa pristine courses. On site, enjoy the convenience of The Marketplace for deli items, Starbucks coffee, The Grill, and Rockwood Grill. Or choose from five restaurants and two lounges at the nearby Desert Spring JW Marriott® Resort & Spa. Photo courtesy of Visit Greater Palm Springs Visit for vacation rental jomes in the Coachella Valley.. Luxury homes in PALM DESERT Palm Desert offers homes in various architectural styles, custom builds, and even raw land to build your one-of-a-kind dream home. If you want to know more about what’s available to buy in Palm Desert, check out these luxury listings currently on the market with virtual showings. Homes for sale around the Palm Desert Area

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FREE EL PASEO COURTESY CARTS

TRAVEL EASILY WITH THE FREE EL PASEO COURTESY CARTS

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The newly reimagined El Paseo Courtesy Carts provide FREE transportation all along the famed El Paseo shopping district and its popular stores, art galleries, and restaurants. The golf cart-style Courtesy Carts are the perfect way to be chauffeured and focus on what’s important–the shopping, of course! To use the carts on El Paseo, download the “Ride Circuit” app, available for both APPLE and ANDROID devices. Visit for vacation rental jomes in the Coachella Valley.. Luxury homes in PALM DESERT Palm Desert offers homes in various architectural styles, custom builds, and even raw land to build your one-of-a-kind dream home. If you want to know more about what’s available to buy in Palm Desert, check out these luxury listings currently on the market with virtual showings. Homes for sale around the Palm Desert Area

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2023 Desert X Artists Named

2023 Desert X Artists Named

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A dozen artists from Europe, North America and South Asia will deploy their artworks at outside areas across the Coachella Valley. City News Service,News Partner Posted Mon, Jan 30, 2023 at 3:19 pm PT Reply The 2023 event will run March 4 until May 7, according to a statement from Desert X. (Desert X) COACHELLA VALLEY, CA — Organizers of Desert X, a biennial outdoor art exhibition in the Coachella Valley, announced Monday the artists who will participate in the fourth edition of the site-specific display opening in March. A dozen artists from Europe, North America and South Asia will deploy their artworks at outside areas across the Coachella Valley from March 4 until May 7, according to a statement from Desert X. “There’s a saying attributed to the Kwakwaka’wakw nation that a place is a story happening many times,” said Desert X’s Artistic Director Neille Wakefield in a statement. “This idea of place as the multiplicity of stories flowing through it is central to Desert X. Artists are an essential part of this understanding and the ideas they bring to it irrigate our perception of place, nourishing the narratives already there and propagating those that have yet to be told.” Participating artists who will present immersive works including sculpture, painting, writing architecture, design, film, music, performance, choreography, education and environmental activism are: — United Kingdom-based artist Rana Behum with “Chainlink,” a structure appearing as a shimmering pyramidal haze of color or a chain link fence floating above the desert floor and spread across the valley. — United States-based artist Lauren Bon with “The Smallest Sea with the Largest Heart,” a poetic object to remind viewers of society’s capacity to destroy, their connection to water, and that the desert was once a sea. — U.S.-based rancher, artist and educator Gerald Clarke with “Immersion,” a giant board game with a goal to reach the center by answering questions about the traditions and histories of the Cahuilla Indians and other sovereign cultures. — Mexico-based artist Paloma Contreras Lomas with “Amar a Dios en Tierra de Indios, Es Oficio Maternal,” a Western-meets-scifi, audio-visual tour of a landscape featuring a dated car screeched to a halt and an array of tangled limbs from two mysterious characters, in an effort to push back at the violent male gaze of the landscape. — U.S.-based artist Torkwase Dyson with “Liquid a Place,” which is part of an ongoing series that features a sculptural installation that engages people as liquid beings seeking new forms. — Mexico-based artist Mario Garcia Torres with “Searching for the Sky (While Maintaining Equilibrium),” a herd of mechanical bulls designed to make people fall and becoming a macho celebration of failure. — United Kingdom and India-based artists Himali Singh Soin and David Soin Tappeser with “Namak Nazar,” immersive audio-visual environments inviting people to think through ecological loss and the loss of home. — U.S.-based artist Matt Johnson with “Sleeping Figure,” a cubist rendition of classical odalisque featuring shipping containers and the harem to which they belong. — U.S.-based artist Tschabalala Self with “Pioneer,” an equestrian statue serving as a visual representation of the birthright and place of Native and African American women within the American landscape. — Bangladesh-based artist Marina Tobassum with “Khudi Bari,” a modular mobile home that is low cost, durable, and can be assembled and disassembled to address the role of design amidst the world’s climate conditions. — Mexico-based artist Hector Zamora with “Chimera,” a performative action transforming street vendors into walking sculptures made of balloons to question the everyday uses of materials and functions of space. “In a time of global crisis, many of the artists have created spaces of freedom and possibility, suggesting new ways to build healing cultures of care that embrace and protect (bio)diversity, opening up opportunities for joy and hope anchored in justice,” Desert X co-curator Diana Campbell said in a statement. “Immersing ourselves in the stories of place also awakens us to its mythologies, whether they be religious texts and oral traditions across multitudes of belief systems that see us creating vessels to escape the flood as well as being cast into the arid wilderness to test the limits of existential and spiritual survival.” Visit for vacation rental jomes in the Coachella Valley.. Luxury homes in PALM DESERT Palm Desert offers homes in various architectural styles, custom builds, and even raw land to build your one-of-a-kind dream home. If you want to know more about what’s available to buy in Palm Desert, check out these luxury listings currently on the market with virtual showings. Homes for sale around the Palm Desert Area

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WILDLIGHTS - The Living Desert

Town Tradition: Local Plan For Living Desert Zoo’s

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 ‘Glow In The Park’ Palm Desert’s tradition offers a way for zoo-member families to view the Living Desert Zoo and Gardens after the sun has set. Ashley Ludwig,Patch Staff Posted Mon, Jan 30, 2023 at 8:44 am PT Reply (PHOTO: Courtesy Tianyu Arts and Culture, Inc. ) PALM DESERT, CA — It’s not the glowing forests of Pandora on Avatar, but it may be the next best thing for Palm Desert residents. For the second year in a row, the Living Desert Zoo and Gardens’ ‘Glow in the Park’ wildlife sanctuary installation brings the nighttime desert to life in a feast for the eyes. Presented by Arcisure Arena, Glow in the Park is reserved for zoo members. It is a ticketed, after-hours event scheduled from 6:30 to 10 p.m. from March 17 to April 30. Tickets go on sale in late January, according to the zoo website. Town Tradition: Local Plan For Living Desert Zoo’s ‘Glow In The Park’; PHOTO: Courtesy Tianyu Arts and Culture, Inc. For starters, take everything you know about lanterns and throw it away. The Living Desert Zoo and Gardens partnered with an installation expert who created larger-than-life light sculptures lit from within by colorful LED lights. The springtime display returns to feature themed paths that pay homage to pollinators and plants, showcase traditional Chinese lanterns and culture in unique ways, and tell visual stories of the desert in all of its extreme resilience. At night, the park appears to come alive with glowing displays of rams, flamingos, crocodiles, towering lions, butterfly trees and a Chinese dragon whose brightly-colored tail coils into a tunnel big enough to walk through. Some installations are interactive and others are merely breathtaking, according to a Discover Palm Desert spokesperson. Walk through the giant flamingo arch at the Glow in the Park at Living Desert Zoo. PHOTO: Courtesy Tianyu Arts and Culture, Inc. “The event is a truly awe-inspiring animal and nature-scape lantern creations are sure to delight your sight and senses,” according to the publication. There are interactive features, such as the glowing moon swing, unicorn carriage, and glowing photo frame to mug for photos next to a glowing gorilla. The darkness of the desert sky makes the light-up features even more spectacular. Living Desert Zoo and Gardens CEO and President Allen Monroe discussed the added bonus of a nighttime African Safari. To see the animals of the zoo at night, is unlike any other experience The Living Desert Zoo has hosted in previous years, according to Monroe. Expect new and exciting glowing creatures in 2023. PHOTO: Courtesy Tianyu Arts and Culture, Inc. “It’s been really exciting to see it come to life right before our eyes,” Monroe said in 2022. “Each section has its own unique theme and design and is a work of art in itself.” This year, the magic returns, according to Monroe. “This year’s event is sure to delight as an entirely new line up of lanterns will light up the night including lanterns of desert wildlife, animals of the sea, and even mythical creatures!” Guests can watch the desert come alive with lanterns, engaging art installations, interactive stations, and plenty of memorable photo opportunities at Glow in the Park. Glow in the Park will be held nightly, March 17 through April 30 from 6:30 to 10 p.m. Tickets are on sale now at LivingDesert.org. Advanced reservations are required as space is limited. Tickets are purchased for a select date and time. New this year, a combo ticket is available – guests can purchase any day general admission zoo ticket and a Glow in the Park ticket for a discounted rate. Glow in the Park is presented by Acrisure Arena home of the Coachella Valley Firebirds and sponsored by the City of Palm Desert. Produced in partnership with Tianyu Arts and Culture, Inc., Glow in the Park is an extraordinary night-time event featuring intricate, immersive, and truly amazing animal and nature-scape lantern creations. Photo: Tianyu Arts and Culture, Inc., Tianyu Arts and Culture, Inc. designed each lantern installation in partnership with the zoo to reflect the unique location of the Coachella Valley as well as the zoo itself. The Glow in the Park is immersive, with larger-than-life lanterns and glowing landscapes that create both the engaging art installations the area is famous for as well as a backdrop for photo opportunities, according to Glow In the Park fans. The much anticipated family-friendly event is ticketed, so zoo members can be prepared to spend a little extra if they go. Advanced reservations are required. The Living Desert Zoo and Gardens is located at 47900 Portola Avenue in Palm Desert. For more information, visit www.livingdesert.org. Get more local news delivered straight to your inbox. Sign up for free Patch newsletters and alerts. Visit for vacation rental jomes in the Coachella Valley.. Luxury homes in PALM DESERT Palm Desert offers homes in various architectural styles, custom builds, and even raw land to build your one-of-a-kind dream home. If you want to know more about what’s available to buy in Palm Desert, check out these luxury listings currently on the market with virtual showings. Homes for sale around the Palm Desert Area

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Wildest Restaurant + Bar

Spend A Perfect Valentine’s Day With A Perfect Dinner At Wildest

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Book Your Table Here! Meet Assistant Manager- Grace Hill Grace Hill was born in Southern California and has been a local to the Coachella Valley for the past five years. She has dedicated the past 15 years of her career to the hospitality industry working for Southern California’s premier restaurants and bars. Grace is an active member of the California Association of Realtors and is passionate about art and nature, and the healing effect it has on people. When asked about her involvement with Wildest Restaurant + Bar, she often cites her love of interacting with guests while providing a unique and unforgettable atmosphere for those that’s dine with us. When guests are asked about their experience with Grace, we often hear notes about her unwavering positivity, energy, and attentiveness to the dining experience. Grace echoes the moniker, “Let food be thy medicine”, which perfectly aligns with the values of Wildest Restaurant + Bar, and we are incredibly lucky to feel her impact every day. Some Of Our Favorite Things Experience A Rare Library of Michael Browne Wines At Wildest! Our journey began in 1997. I spent days working at a winery, nights in the restaurant – exhausted and run down, while Sarah worked full-time too. It was tough, for sure. It’s been a long road to get here—from launching Kosta Browne with everything we had to finally realizing our dream of owning a family winery. Today, our forever home stands in Russian River Valley’s heart, pouring 23 years of hard work into our signature wines, CIRQ and CHEV. Refining every step to delicious detail, we’re also in no hurry—taking time to love, laugh, enjoy life with our three wonderful kids—and, of course, drink great wine. Wildest Restaurant + Bar carries some a Rare Browne Family Wines including a 2010 Magnum Kosta Browne Chardonnay, 2018 Cirq Pinot Noir, 2019 Chev Pinot Noir, and other rare vintages. Want Your Own Event? Let us create something special just for you!   Happy Hour | Menu | Reservations Visit Our Website For More!   760-636-0441        Wildest Restaurant + Bar | 72990 El Paseo #3, Palm Desert, CA 92260 Visit for vacation rental jomes in the Coachella Valley.. Luxury homes in PALM DESERT Palm Desert offers homes in various architectural styles, custom builds, and even raw land to build your one-of-a-kind dream home. If you want to know more about what’s available to buy in Palm Desert, check out these luxury listings currently on the market with virtual showings. Homes for sale around the Palm Desert Area

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