Karen Lindell

Four sun-deprived boys from gloomy Great Britain inadvertently became ambassadors for heliotherapy. The Beatles’ “Here Comes the Sun,” “Good Day Sunshine,” and “I’ll Follow the Sun” all celebrate the cheer-boosting power of  sunlight.

Meet the authors of “The Marilyn Monroe Century,” a visual biography featuring Bruno Bernard’s intimate Palm Springs images of and stories about the actress.

Twelve years ago, in the center of a village near the border of Kenya and Tanzania, Shauna Mistretta sat in a circle with 10 Maasai women. Even though she wore

Discover the desert’s peculiar beauty at these six scenic Coachella Valley destinations.

A documentary premiering in Palm Springs highlights the triumphs, not just the tragedies, of Vietnam War veterans.

A Coachella Valley date farmer shares what it takes to get the fruit from tree to table.

Revolution Stage Company rises to bring a more progressive theater scene to Palm Springs.

The Lautner Compound, a popular event and destination wedding venue in Desert Hot Springs, has a modernist pedigree. Discover the history.

A 2.5-foot-tall bronze bell on display this month in Palm Springs serves as a call to action. The bell, created by multimedia artist and part-time Coachella Valley resident Paula Crown, is a work of art covered with intricately embossed Japanese words: Monogoto niwa taitei ura ga aru monoda. The epigram translates to: “The reverse side also has a reverse side.”

Women in Motion program returns to Palm Springs International Film Festival.

Local musical groups proudly take up residencies in the newly restored Plaza Theatre.

Pianist and musician Natasha Marin tunes to the sounds of Joshua Tree on her latest album, Songs of the Desert.

Palm Springs’ oldest hotel blends hacienda roots with Hollywood lore. Discover the history of Casa Cody, built by Harriet Cody.

A new photography exhibition from David Loftus spotlights the trees of Sunnylands, the historic Annenberg estate in Rancho Mirage.

The Old Schoolhouse Museum in Twentynine Palms displays a list from a 1950s edition of The Desert Trail newspaper titled “29 Reasons for Living in Twentynine Palms.” The list highlights, among other attributes, “no fog, smog, smudge”; “glorious sunsets — star-studded nights”; “good hotels, motels, trailer courts, restaurants, nightclubs”; and the area’s reputation as a “paradise for artists, outdoorsmen, rockhounds.”

Bird singing and dancing celebrates the Cahuilla experience, fostering cultural connection and community understanding.

The New York City-based Catholic musician Meredith Augustin will perform several liturgies, lead the Taizé Prayer and sing at a workshop at this week's Los Angeles Religious Education Congress.

I’d forgotten one more meaning of “free”: without cost. Parodoxically, though, freedom, as “Quartiers libres” viscerally illustrates, is expensive.

FacebookTweet Four days before a Madison Square Garden campaign rally where presidential candidate Donald Trump said Kamala Harris was “a very low IQ individual” and comedian Tony Hinchcliffe called Puerto Rico a “floating island of garbage,” amid