Live from La Quinta

The Palm Springs valley art season kicked off today with the 24th iteration of The Southwest Arts Festival in Indio, the desert's largest and longest-running art show. The three-day affair takes place at the Empire Polo Grounds—a verdant venue with glorious views of the snow-capped Santa Rosa Mou...

Here in the Coachella Valley, last week’s record-setting rainfall resulted in a delayed Bob Hope Classic (finishing today) but 360° vistas of glorious frosted mountains from Palm Springs to La Quinta. The deluge also resulted in many road closures—the desert doesn’t soak up rain with alacrity–whi...

For a golf-rich area like the Coachella Valley, Sweet Spot—La Quinta Museum’s newest exhibition—is perfectly named. The museum's latest exhibit showcases 50 years of desert golf lore while celebrating master clubmaker, Mario Cesario, an artisan whose handcrafted woods have been wielded by such no...

La Quinta honored its own last week in the 8th annual Pillars of the Community awards at City Hall, celebrating residents who make a difference in their community.Linda Williams, a friend and Windermere Real Estate colleague, was among five honored by La Quinta for their significant contributions...

There are luxury foreclosures and bargains available throughout the Coachella Valley, from La Quinta to Palm Springs. Here are some wonderful ones in La Quinta (and an extra from Palm Desert!) Check out the best of these high-end homes which have just come on the market and give me a call if you'...

The new year is briskly underway here in the Coachella Valley (La Quinta, Palm Springs, Indian Wells, Rancho Mirage and Palm Desert) and recent real estate sales reflect both bank-owned foreclosures and non-distress bargains.The valley is hopping! The Kennel Club of Palm Springs just wrapped up i...

I played Santa today. With a dozen Windermere colleagues, we loaded up the vans and trooped south to deliver Christmas gifts to our fourth-graders at Oasis Elementary. Although only 23 miles south of our La Quinta office, Thermal is a world apart from its ritzy, country-club neighbor. Date-palm o...

Bundled up warmly and flashlights in hand, four of us happily strolled the side streets of downtown Palm Springs during Thursday's 14th Annual Walking Tour of the Inns. The yearly event gives locals and visitors a chance to peek into the quaint, historical small inns that are such an integral par...

While others plotted their post-Thanksgiving pre-dawn assault on big-box stores touting flat-panel TV bargains, Kirk and I eschewed such banal pursuits in favor of more sensory pleasures! The day after a thoroughly wonderful Thanksgiving hosted by long-time friend, Cathy Colbert, in her darling R...

The Living Desert's annual fall plant sale takes place this weekend so Kirk and I headed over there yesterday after the eventful morning on El Paseo. We'd breakfasted at the newly-opened Italian-themed cafe, Il Sogno, where we spied a favorite artist in town from Flagstaff. Connie Townsend, an ar...