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BNP Paribas Open
March 19th-21st 2010: Tennis Begins at Noon Daily
Indian Wells Tennis Garden
78200 Miles Avenue
Indian Wells, CA 92210
Ph: 760.200.8400
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Fashion Week El Paseo
March 20th-28th
Saturday, March 20-22 - 10 a.m. - 5 p.m.
The Shops on El Paseo Official Opening "Trunk" Show. Time: 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. The Shops on El Paseo kick off Fashion Week El Paseo with a luxury "trunk" show. Retailers at the desert's premier shopping destination will be paired with a 2010 luxury import vehicle provided by Desert European Motorcars. The trunk of every car, displayed in front of each store, will be filled with gifts provided by The Shops on El Paseo retailers. Guests will have an opportunity to open a trunk and win the gifts inside. Participating retailers include St. John, Vilebrequin, Cos Bar, Optical Shop of Aspen, Heather James Art and Antiquities, and Soma. Select boutiques will also host individual in-store trunk shows.
Visit www.TheShopsonElPaseo.com.
Sunday, March 21 – 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.
El Paseo Fashion's Day Out! El Paseo stores are opening their doors to welcome guests with a day of fun and excitement. Participating stores will offer trunk shows, personal appearances, demonstrations, gift with purchase, wine and hors d'oeuvres, informal modeling and much more.
Start your adventure at the Big White Fashion Tent on Larkspur Lane, just off of El Paseo, and receive your El Paseo Passport. From 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., enter a minimum of five participating shops, restaurants, and other establishments on El Paseo and receive a sticker for your passport at each one.
End your day by going to our El Paseo Fashion Day Out! After Party from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. Join us at the new location of J Russell! The Salon on the corner of El Paseo and Highway 111. Present your passport for admission, and you will automatically be entered to win fabulous prizes! Enjoy fine wine and food tastings to swinging sounds while you chat with your friends, meet new friends, and dance the dusk away.
El Paseo Fashion's Day Out! is for you, so have a great time!
Monday, March 22 - $50
Runway Bar El Paseo Fashion Show featuring designs from 15 top El Paseo stores. A sellout each year, this show ranges from one-of-a-kind designs by local designers to name brands from around the world. Its narrative impresses as El Paseo' sophistication comes to life as a dynamic, world-class fashion destination. 7:00 p.m. Enjoy pre-show hors d'oeuvres courtesy of Jensen's Catering.
After Party - Your Fashion Week ticket will serve as admission to the after party at Wally's located at 71775 Highway 111 in Rancho Mirage.
Tuesday, March 23 - $65
ASID Project Runway has top ASID-member interior designers using materials from their trade — fabrics, tiles, and paints — to design innovative creations in high fashion based on art works from the Passionate Pursuit exhibition at the Palm Springs Art Museum. Inspiring and entertaining, the show brings home style to life. 7:00 p.m. Enjoy pre-show hors d'oeuvres courtesy of East Meets West Catering.
After Party - Your Fashion Week ticket will serve as admission to the after party in the Big White Fashion Tent.
Celebrity Doodles Exhibition & Auction
March 19 & 20, 2010
Peter Konstantine Gallery 2600 Cherokee Way Palm Springs, CA 92264
760-832-9330
Celebrity Art and Doodles Silent Auction brings a unique and exciting evening of original artwork, live performances and food and cocktails into the front line in the fight against HIV/AIDS. Whether you come to see original celebrity art, to bid on a unique doodle or just attend to donate to an important cause, Celebrity Doodles is a full evening of art, music, food and friends. Come and see the paintings and doodles our celebrities Rosie O'Donnell, Barry Manilow and Suzanne Somers have donated, along with other artworks and memorabilia by Eduardo Xol of Extreme Home Makeover, Ernest Borgnine, Danielle Steele, Alan Hamel, Marc Cherry of Desperate Housewives, Bobbie Eakes of All my Children, David Steen of Sordid Lives, San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsome and Elle Décor Editor-in-Chief Margaret Russell to be auctioned.
Celebrity Art and Doodles Silent Auction is on Saturday, March 20, 2010, from 6-9 p.m. at the Loretta Young Estate in Palm Springs.
A VIP Preview Party will be held at Peter Konstantine Gallery on Friday, March 19, 2010 from 7-9 p.m. Tickets for the Celebrity Art and Doodles Silent Auction and VIP Preview Party are $105, and tickets for the Saturday Celebrity Doodles Silent Auction only are $75.
Coachella Valley Drive, Chip and Putt
Indio, California - March 11, 2010
The 4th Annual Coachella Valley Drive, Chip and Putt is coming up Saturday, March 20th at the Indio Municipal Golf Course from 9 a.m. to noon. REGISTRATION WILL BEGIN AT 8 A.M.
The Drive, Chip AND Putt is FREE and open to all boys and girls from 3-12 years of age, regardless of their skill level or previous exposure to the game of golf. a BAR-B-QUE LUNCH will be provided to all participants by THE INDIO NOON ROTARY.
The DRIVE, CHIP AND PUTT competition provides a chance for kids to compete in a fun group of events that help demonstrate and promote their golf skills and encourages the children to do their best and have a great time. Remember…children must attend with a chaperone during the event. This event is presented by the City of Indio and sponsored by the Indio Youth Task Force and The Family YMCA of the Desert.
REGISTRATION DEADLINE IS MARCH 18TH. For more information, please call the City of Indio at 760-391-4174.
The Concert for Haiti
Saturday March 20th 1-6PM
Marywood-Palm Valley School (Football field)
Phone (760) 328-0861
Students at the Marywood-Palm Valley School have organized a fundraising concert on Saturday, March 20 from 1:00 PM to 6 PM on the school's football field. Featured will be some of the Coachella Valley's premier contemporary music acts: Bodegas, Cakes & Brains, Carlee Hendrix, Caxton, Jay Curry, Last Kids Standing, The Pandem!cs, Rebecca Caldwell, and Think of the Children. In addition, works created by art students of the Marywood-Palm Valley School will be auctioned off to support the cause-related concert.
All concert proceeds will be donated to the international humanitarian organization, Doctors Without Borders, for immediate medical outreach treatment in the earthquake-ravaged nation of Haiti. Since 1971, Doctors Without Borders has provided critical health aid to peoples in nearly 60 countries.
Tickets are available on online for $10 or at the door for $12.
Vietnam War Program & Flight Exhibition
Saturday, March 20, 2010 at 1:00 PM
The Palm Springs Air Museum
745 N. Gene Autry Trail, Palm Springs, CA 92262
(760) 778-6262
The Palm Springs Air Museum is proud to present its annual Vietnam program. Dr. Isaac Eliachar, surgeon and history buff, will give a general overview on how the Cold War led to U.S. involvement in Vietnam. Doctor Eliachar will then review major phases of the war and set the historical stage for the presenters: Navy Skyraider pilot Ron LaValle (3 tours in Vietnam), US Army & Air Force helicopter pilot Bill Courtney (also 3 tours) and EC-47 Air Force pilot Jim Thorp (1 tour in Vietnam). Flight exhibition by a T-28 is scheduled to follow the program.
The museum is located at 745 N. Gene Autry Trail. Helicopter Rides are also available for $19.95 after entering the Museum. Individual admissions range from $5-$12. Children 5 and under and active military with ID are free. Discounts are not valid on Saturdays.
AN EVENING WITH PATTI LuPONE & MANDY PATINKIN
Friday, March 19, at 8:00pm and Saturday, March 20, at 3:00pm and 8:00pm.
McCALLUM THEATRE
Appearing together again after their Tony Award winning performances in Evita, Patti LuPone joins Mandy Patinkin for An Evening with Patti LuPone and Mandy Patinkin. These Broadway legends will bring their critically acclaimed concert to McCallum Theatre for three performances.
Patti LuPone and Mandy Patinkin are two of Broadway's most venerated performers, having both won a Tony Award for their performances in Andrew Lloyd Weber's groundbreaking Evita in 1980. Since then they have both starred in film, television, the concert stage and back to Broadway. An Evening with Patti LuPone and Mandy Patinkin brings them together again - at last.
Tickets are priced at $125, $85, $75 and $55 and are available by calling the McCallum Theatre Box Office at (760) 340-ARTS or online at
CIRCLE of ART SHOW & SALE
Downtown BORREGO SPRINGS, CA
Saturday, March 20 & Sunday, March 21, 2010 9AM-5PM
The 21st annual juried "Circle of Art" Show & Sale will be held
on Saturday, March 20 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and on Sunday, March 21
from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. This free outdoor fine arts show is staged on
Christmas Circle in downtown Borrego Springs. Over 70 artists will exhibit their quality paintings and art works
representing a variety of media including: fine arts, oils and watercolors,
photography, sculpture, ceramics/pottery, jewelry, fabric arts and other
art items. A full color poster featuring a painting by Robert A. Fleming will be
available for sale in advance and at the show. The title of the watercolor painting is,
"A Borrego Gathering."
For information call (760) 767-0042 or visit www.circle-of-art.org
LOCAL MEN'S SINGING GROUP: "THE SANDBLASTERS"
Arthur Newman theatre
73-750 Catalina Way, Palm Desert.
Saturday March 20th: 7pm
The Sandblasters, a chorus which represents the Coachella Valley Chapter of the Barbershop Harmony Society, has scheduled a performance to benefit the Joslyn Center's Arthur Newman Theatre for Saturday, March 20, at 7:00 p.m. The show will take place at the Arthur Newman Theatre, The show is planned as a musical celebration of barbershop quartet harmony singing. The performance will feature the Sandblasters Chorus, and several additional local quartets. Mack describes the music as highly entertaining, and "something old, something new, something borrowed something blue."
The Coachella Valley Chapter of the Barbershop Harmony Society membership is composed of men from 18 to 85 and from every walk of life who love to harmonize and share that joy of music with others. Originated in the late 1930s, barbershop quartet is a true American Art Form built around the unique sounds a combination of voices is capable of producing. The Society performs throughout the Coachella Valley in many venues.
Tickets for the benefit performance at the Arthur Newman Theatre are $15. For more information or to purchase tickets, contact the Joslyn Center at 760-340-3220.
"Parking Meters As Art"
Christian Hohmann Fine Art On El Paseo
March 17 to March 19
Christian Hohmann Fine Art Galleries is the first venue across the Valley to showcase these unique collectable meters from "A Time for Art" charitable project. The PENTA Building Group, one of the country's leading private commercial general contractors, and the Building Industry Association-Desert Chapter (BIA) are lending support to three Coachella Valley school districts' Art programs suffering from state budget cuts. PENTA and the BIA-Desert Chapter joined forces to create "A Time for Art" project benefitting the Palm Springs Unified School District, Desert Sands Unified School District and the Coachella Valley Unified School District.
Twenty local artists donated their time and talent to create one of a kind collectable pieces made from vintage refurbished parking meters. These unique metal "sculptures" will be auctioned off in a silent auction in the style of an art gallery opening at the Gardens on El Paseo on Thursday, April 15, 2010 from 4:00 pm to 7:00 pm. Auction proceeds directly benefit the three school districts' Art programs, which have been severely impacted by state budget cuts. All three school districts will have student volunteers at the auction.
From March 18 to March 20, Christian Hohmann Fine Art at 73660 El Paseo (760-346-4243) will display several of the meters. Upon leaving there, the meters will travel across the valley and be exhibited at seven surprise locations prior to the April 15 auction at the Gardens on El Paseo. The goal -- raise awareness for the event and interest in these one of a kind collector pieces.
Tickets can be purchased at: www.atimeforartcv.com and at the event with cash.
For additional event information: 760-776-6111
The Palm Springs Old World Renaissance Festival
Frances Stevens Park, 538 N. Palm Canyon Drive. 11 a.m.
A 16th century living history village featuring costumed street performers and live music.
Contact: organizers, (951) 735-0101.
