Devour the Desert
A Palm Springs Food & Culture Journal
The Local Celebs | Post, Beam, and Baseline: The Mid-Century Rhythm of Kirk Douglas
There is a particular kind of gravity required to survive Hollywood, and an even rarer kind needed to build a life that spans over a century.
Kirk Douglas had both. Long before he was the cleft-chinned icon of the silver screen, he was Issur Danielovitch, born to illiterate Russian-Jewish immigrants in Amsterdam, New York. His childhood was stripped of romance, defined by the biting cold of upstate winters and the literal grit of his father’s trade.
The Local Architecture | Glass & Steel: A History of Palm Springs Modernism
Palm Springs is a time capsule of Mid-Century Modern architecture, the greatest concentration of this style in the world.