Palm Springs looking for volunteers to serve on boards, commissions
City News Service
Volunteers have until May 10 to apply to serve on one of nearly a dozen boards and commissions in Palm Springs, it was announced today.
“We encourage all citizens interested in serving on a board or commission to apply now because the city is immediately looking to recruit for open positions,” City Clerk Anthony Mejia said.
Applicants who are under the age of 18 will be considered, along with those who offer unique skills, experience or knowledge, the city said. Prospective applicants must either live, work or attend school within the city.
Palm Springs culture enthusiasts grapple with Forever Marilyn, Frank Bogert statue controversies
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Palm Springs: Midcentury Marvelous
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As an artistic form, the machine-geometry of a classic Minimalist cube has long signaled the heavy industrialization of the modern world which ravaged Africa, contributing to the water crises that today plague Ghana. Securing the resource for survival requires relentless daily labor.
That’s what all those yellow water containers are for. Bringing the local desert into the endurance narrative, Attukwei Clottey spread a puddle-shaped sheet on the ground that links the two cubes.
Set in another lovely garden, Amer’s “Women’s Qualities” is partly tongue-in-cheek, supposedly identifying essential human attributes according to gender. And partly it’s a savvy dismantling of cultural stereotypes often ascribed to nature.
Schiffer Publishing announces City Hall by Arthur Drooker
Los Angeles City Hall (1928). Photography copyright Arthur Drooker from the book City Hall published by Schiffer.
NEW YORK, NY
.-City Hall by Arthur Drooker is the first book to feature striking photographs of the most architecturally distinctive and historically significant city halls in the United States of America. Organized chronologically, this stunning volume presents fifteen remarkable city halls from across the nation, covering the evolution of American civic architecture from the early nineteenth century to the present day and representing a diversity of styles, such as Federalist, art deco, beaux-arts, and modern. Among the city halls documented in the book are New York, the oldest; Philadelphia, once the tallest building in the world; and Boston, the first major brutalist building in the US.