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Reading the Queens

Reading the Queens

Reading the Queens Psychic Medium Roy Tomko Serves Psychic Healing By Larry Olsen The world first got to know psychic medium Roy Tomko from his popular YouTube series, Reading the Queen and Reading the King.  Fans of spirit channeling found his candid banter with drag queens and gay male models to be refreshing and fun. ...
The 35th Palm Springs International Film Festival

The 35th Palm Springs International Film Festival

The 35th Palm Springs International Film Festival By John Bayern The Palm Springs International Film Festival brings Hollywood to Palm Springs Now entering its 35th year, the Palm Springs International Film Festival has a well-established reputation as one of the most prestigious and well-attended film festivals in the country. The Festival has long secured its...
Interior Motives

Interior Motives

Interior Motives A Conversation with Designer Dann Foley By Chris Astrala Dann Foley has been designing residences and hospitality projects for more than 30 years.  He is a writer, author and speaker on all things related to the home.  He has been featured in many national magazines. His namesake brand, Dann Foley Lifestyle includes licensed...
Drag Now. Drag Forever.

Drag Now. Drag Forever.

Drag Now. Drag Forever. Drag is not a crime. Drag is art. Drag is entertainment and has existed for hundreds of years and is part of everyday life. Performers can rest knowing they will be judged by their look and personas and celebrated for serving realness, elegance, and glamor, not just by wit and originality....
Cinema Diverse is Back!

Cinema Diverse is Back!

By Michael C. Green The Sixteenth edition of Cinema Diverse, The Palm Springs LGBTQ+ Film Festival will soon be underway. The schedule is set, and tickets and passes are now on sale. The festival, which includes forty-nine feature films and over 100 short films this year, runs for two long weekends at the Palm Springs...
LGBTQ+ Filmmakers and Artists on the Rise in 2023

LGBTQ+ Filmmakers and Artists on the Rise in 2023

LGBTQ+ Filmmakers and Artists on the Rise in 202 By Francisco Rivas Twenty twenty-three is shaping up to be a Very Queer Year. Sundance was very gay, between the new Ira Sachs film, and a documentary about the Indigo Girls, and Anne Hathaway in a lesbian drama. The talk of Cannes was Pedro Almodóvar’s queer...
Field Of Dreams

Field Of Dreams

Field Of Dreams Rugby Champ Ben Cohen Pursues His Hollywood Dreams By Sean Larkin Ben Cohen, the Rugby champion and longtime ally of LGBTQ+ rights, is making his acting debut this summer in Patterns, a new LGBTQ+ series acquired by TLA Releasing, streaming now on Dekkoo. “When I first read the script for Patterns, I...
Wellness Trends 202

Wellness Trends 202

Wellness Trends 2023 By Adrian Castro Wellness trends look a little different year after year. In 2022, we ate our greens in powdered form, opened up about mental health struggles on social media, and tried quiet quitting our jobs in the name of less stress. So, what’s on the agenda in 2023? The fact is...
Eurovision

Eurovision

Eurovision: One of the Biggest Nights in Music on the LGBT+ Calendar By Travis Espinoza Eurovision has a long and proud history of supporting queer artists and championing LGBT+ rights. There have been countless key moments that waved the flag for LGBT+ representation. In 1998 Dana International entered the competition as the first trans performer...
DAP Health’s 2023 Steve Chase Humanitarian Awards

DAP Health’s 2023 Steve Chase Humanitarian Awards

By Daniel Vaillancourt The Steve Chase Humanitarian Awards, DAP Health’s biggest annual fundraiser, also fondly known as The Chase returns to dazzle donors outdoors at the Palm Springs Convention Center on the evening of Saturday, March 25. Fashion, medicine, and music will take center stage at the starry annual benefit gala. Created by (and named...
Modernism Week 2023

Modernism Week 2023

Modernism Week 2023 By Bob Bogard Modernism Week’s signature February festival will take place February 16-26, 2023, highlighting midcentury modern architecture, art, interior and landscape design, and vintage culture in Palm Springs. For the seventeenth year, the annual 11-day festival will feature a wide array of events including the Palm Springs Modernism Show & Sale,...
The 34th Palm Springs International Film Festival

The 34th Palm Springs International Film Festival

By John Bayern The Palm Springs International Film Festival brings Hollywood to Palm Springs Now entering its 34th year, the Palm Springs International Film Festival has a well-established reputation as one of the most prestigious and well-attended film festivals in the country. The Festival has long secured its place on the world stage as the...