Devour the Desert
A Palm Springs Food & Culture Journal
The Local Flavors | The Best Palm Springs Happy Hours: A Civic Institution Disguised as a Cocktail
In many places, happy hour is a financial strategy.
In Palm Springs, it borders on a civic institution.
Palm Springs may not have invented happy hour, but it has certainly embraced it with unusual enthusiasm.
The Local Culture | Goodbye Norma Jean, Hello 1,037 Marilyns: Palm Springs Throws a World Record Birthday Party
On the weekend of what would have been her 100th birthday, Palm Springs did what Palm Springs does best: it transformed nostalgia into spectacle, glamour into community and history into something delightfully fun.
The Local Architecture | Atomic Dreams & Coffee Shops: John Lautner, Googie and the Palm Springs State of Mind
By the 1950s and 60s, Palm Springs had become an unlikely playground for architectural experimentation. Hollywood stars escaped Los Angeles for weekends in the desert, bringing money, glamour, and a taste for the futuristic. Architects arrived eager to test radical ideas under endless blue skies.
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.