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Elegant guests in black ties, stunning gowns and fine jewels were escorted down a red carpet by a team of 120 tuxedoed volunteers at the Palm Springs Convention Center for the 18th annual Steve Chase Humanitarian Awards Gala last Saturday.
With all the award shows on TV this month, I'd like to nominate one desert nonprofit for the Serendipity Award of the month. The Tolerance Education Center is neatly tucked away in an efficient little building near the corner of Bob Hope Drive and Ginger Rogers Road in Rancho Mirage.
Next month's Fashion Week El Paseo is already inspiring special events and fabulous fantasies among the desert's fashion divas.
The Palm Springs Woman's Club recently hosted its second annual chili cook-off, which garnered more than 140 decked out western-clad guests.
“Barbara Keller ... just saying her name makes you smile,” said Lisa Vossler Smith, one of the speakers honoring Keller at her recent star dedication ceremony at the main entrance to Lulu California Bistro on Palm Canyon Drive.
The verdant beauty of The Empire Polo Club in Indio was the picture perfect setting last month for Polo For Paws. After a week of blustery winter weather, the gods were shining on this fun and successful fundraising event benefiting the Humane Society of the Desert.
Nearly 100 people turned out recently to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Guide Dogs of the Desert and help raise funds for the expansion of the Guide Dogs facility.
The McCallum Theatre's fundraising group the Muses & Patroness Circle has built a reputation for staging musical events that rival those booked by the theater, and word has it that they've done it again — with an event called “Singing and Swinging At The Cocoanut Grove.”
Most of us credit a special teacher or two in our early education for influencing the rest of our lives. Two beloved former teachers at Palm Springs High School will be honored and inducted into the Wall of Fame at a program on Feb. 29.
Upcoming charitable fundraisers and philanthropic events in the Coachella Valley's desert communities.
Most people don't have the bulging bank accounts of Bill Gates or Oprah Winfrey, even if they share a powerful desire to change the world by donating money. That is where a philanthropic geometry known as “giving circles” is filling a niche.
It was a pink, pink world at the Palm Springs Art Museum's Pink Martini gala last week.
Eisenhower Medical Center has long been one of the reasons locals give for moving to the desert.
The most exciting, well-attended Go Red luncheon for the American Heart Association was chaired by Kathleen Von Dehn and was held at the Westin Mission Hills Resort.
More than 60 members and guests of the desert branch of the English Speaking Union attended a festive dinner at the Grill Room of the Spa Resort Hotel in Palm Springs to hear “Nuances of Language” by Dr. Michael Hammond, executive director of the Agua Caliente Cultural Museum.
Palm Springs Women In Film and Television held its annual membership meeting and luncheon at the La Quinta Country Club last month.
Approximately 150 guests attended a fundraiser for Mourning Star Center of the Visiting Nurse Association of the Inland Counties at Simply Divine in Palm Desert.
The good news: Polio is no longer a dreaded childhood disease in the United States. The bad news: It is still rampant in Nigeria, Pakistan, Afghanistan and to a lesser degree, India.
Giving a painting to an art dealer is like giving a cake to a baker or giving a book to a publisher. A sort of coals-to-Newcastle situation.
Mika Moulton is living proof that redirecting anger can produce positive results. After her son, Christopher, was kidnapped and murdered, she decided to redirect her anger into finding a way to turn tragic events into something positive.
With performances including ballet, contemporary and jazz styles, Dance For Life whisked supporters of AIDS Assistance Program and Dancers Fund off their fundraising feet.
Current and future women leaders were featured at the Girlz and Our Leaders' scholarship fundraiser luncheon benefiting Women Leaders Forum of the Coachella Valley, which has created a scholarship in the name of Jackie Lee Houston.
The Palm Springs area chapter of Fashion Group International recently held a somewhat informal get-together at Villa Portofino in Palm Desert.
Last Saturday, the 29th annual — and final — Mousetrap Invitational Golf Tournament benefiting The Living Desert and Zoo was played at Ironwood Country Club.
The Agua Caliente Resort Casino Spa was packed with more than 700 people attending the eye-popping “Tribute to the Ed Sullivan Show” benefiting the Desert Friends of The Developmentally Disabled We Care Dental Center.
Kentucky Derby, Ascot, the Royal Wedding and now The Hat Affair at the Renaissance Esmeralda Resort, a fundraiser for The Muses and Patroness Circle, the McCallum Theatre's fundraising organization.
Nothing beats an intimate venue for live entertainment, and Vicky's of Santa Fe in Indian Wells certainly fits the bill as the location for The American Jazz Institute Supper Club Series.
Nearly 250 guests recently attended a spirited and festive event at Eisenhower Medical Center.
Here are more stories from grads of Palm Springs High School, classes 1960 and 1961, when asked by questionnaires about what originally brought them to greater Palm Springs.
Patty and Arthur Newman were recently honored with a star on the Palm Springs Walk of Stars.
Concert pianist John Bayless recently demonstrated an open-to-the-public Master Class with Noah Yaghoubian, a McCallum Theatre Open Call grand prize winner, before a crowd of music lovers at the Rancho Mirage Public Library.
The Palm Springs Air Museum continued its Hollywood in the Skies theme last weekend with a special lecture, book signing and reception by historian and author Hugh Ambrose.
Jeannette Banoczi stood proudly in the entry hall of the Avondale Golf Club greeting each of the 130 guests that came to celebrate her 90th birthday, a dinner and dance hosted by her daughter Madelaine Skenderian.
Upcoming charitable fundraisers and philanthropic events in the Coachella Valley's desert communities.
A fan cannot step onto the basketball court with Kobe Bryant or catch a touchdown pass from Tim Tebow. But they can tee up with a golf legend. That's exactly what Bob Marra did in the Humana Challenge.
Cielo Vista Charter School hosted a wine tasting benefit last Sunday at the O'Donnell House in Palm Springs.
More than 730 members and guests of the Palm Springs Art Museum last week attended the long-awaited opening of its newest exhibition, “Backyard Oasis: The Swimming Pool in Southern California Photography, 1945-1982.”
Since the Southwest Arts Festival began in 1986 as the Western Impressions Festival, residents and visitors have anticipated the Indio-based event. As the Indio Chamber of Commerce's largest fundraiser, the festival's mission has remained the same.
Vicki Biss McDermott, who has lived in our desert most of her life and was a big cheese in planning the 2010 Palm Springs High School 50th class reunion, has always been curious about what brings people to settle in greater Palm Springs. So she sent questionnaires to reunion attendees.
Upcoming charitable fundraisers and philanthropic events in the Coachella Valley's desert communities.
With 188 films, 27 parties and 1,000 pleasures down — with only a few encores to go — last week's closing party for the Palm Springs International Film Festival was a celebration of what many are calling the best festival ever.
A party which followed the screening of two powerful gay-themed films served to put the “gay” in GAY!LA at this year's Palm Springs International Film Festival.
Not all of the Palm Springs International Film Festival awards were presented at the dazzling opening gala.
The desert's reputation for welcoming diversity got another notch in the belt last week when the Texas Tenors brought their divinely diverse country-pop-operatic music mix to a sold-out audience at the McCallum Theatre for the second year in a row.
What do glamorous philanthropist Helene Galen of Rancho Mirage, pottery show entrepreneur Dennis Warden of La Quinta and me, a newspaper columnist of Palm Springs, have in common?
Humana partnered with KaBOOM! and Desert Alliance for Community Empowerment to build a playground outside the soon-to-open San Felipe Community & Migrant Housing Complex in Oasis last week.
A few complaints were heard among the more than 600 people attending last Sunday's Capitol Steps comedy night presented by the Rancho Mirage Cultural Commission.
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