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USA TODAY I'm Kristin Scharkey, features editor for The Desert Sun in Palm Springs, wishing you a happy Friday and sincere apologies for missing our Thursday edition. The news cycle never sleeps! 'We're still here': Palm Springs' historic gay bars see light at the end of the tunnel. Despite more than a year of pandemic-related closures, many of the bars located in the Southern California destination are open again. The city has long been one of the most popular LGBTQ destinations in the country. "These bars are more than just drinking places," Rob Giesecke, owner of Chill Bar Palm Sprin...

Print Driving down Saticoy Street in Reseda, it’s easy to overlook the spot known as the Cactus Ranch. Alert passersby might glimpse some rusty dinosaurs rising above a ramshackle fence and otherworldly plants — a moment of “What the heck was that?” — before it’s passed , replaced by endless houses, curbside retail and whatever new distraction grabs their eye. And that’s kind of what makes California Nursery Specialties Cactus Ranch a magical secret place, the way Diagon Alley in the Harry Potter books was open only to shoppers in the know. At this ranch, massive cereus cactus...

Vicki Stavrou: Golden Daze   Vicki Stavrou, Cactus Ranch, 2021. Acrylic on canvas, 90 x 100cm. Courtesy: the artist and Anthea Polson Art, Queensland. Vicki Stavrou understands the communicative power of colour – it functions as a visual language for her.  “I am always immersed in thinking about colour.  My main goal in painting is to find combinations that really sing,” Stavrou says.  In speaking about the exhibition’s title, Golden Daze, she relates that many of her paintings exude an affirmative, golden hue. She says, “sometimes I do feel ‘heady’ being so absorbed in the...