Mod Madness: Modernism Week 2017
Mod Madness: Modernism Week 2017 By Bob Bogard Modernism returns February 16-26, 2017, highlighting midcentury modern architecture, art, interior and landscape design, and vintage culture in Palm Springs. For the twelfth year, the 11-day festival will feature a wide array of events including the Palm Springs Modernism Show & Sale, tours of iconic homes...
The 2017 Steve Chase Awards Gala
We’re So Excited! The 2017 Steve Chase Awards Gala. Over 1,500 D.A.P. supporters will walk the red carpet at the Palm Springs Convention Center when they attend the 2017 Steve Chase Humanitarian Awards Gala benefitting Desert AIDS Project on February 11. For 23 years, the Steve Chase Humanitarian Awards gala has raised millions...
4th Annual Gift Guide
4th Annual Gift Guide Well it’s that time again and if you are starting to wonder what to get those certain special people in your life, we might be able to help. The Standard Magazine Holiday Gift Guide will perhaps give you some ideas with unique and fun items. You will find gifts from...
Celebrating Community for 30 years
Celebrating Community for 30 years By Ron DeHarte From an evening musical and house parties to becoming the second largest event in Palm Springs, Pride has always brought the community together. The Greater Palm Springs Pride organization commemorates the 1969 Stonewall Rebellion on New York’s Christopher Street and celebrates the advances made toward...
Changing the Face of Comics
Changing the Face of Comics By Chris Astrala Writers and illustrators of comic books are talented individuals who tell stories as well as illustrate them. Comic book illustrators who identify as LGBT use that identity in the production of their work. This can be by way of cartoon fantasy depicting a tolerant and accepting...
Creating an Artful Community
Creating an Artful Community Life long artist and Coachella Valley native Debra Ann Mumm is making an impact in the desert art scene. With 30 years of artist materials training and numerous painting workshops, this Palm Springs High School and College of the Desert alumni is the creator of Venus Studios LLC, a business...
Rainbow Fashion Week
Rainbow Fashion Week One Designer’s Vision Rainbow Fashion Week returns to New York City – one of the four fashion capitals in the world – for the third consecutive year kicking off Manhattan’s pre-Pride events with eight days of queer fashion shows, June 17-24, 2016. When it comes to Fair-a-Porter … green is the...
Where Do I Go?
Where Do I Go? By Chris Astrala Robert Louis Stevenson once said “For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.” Whether your reason to move is to experience something new, re-experience something you have loved or to just get...
Take Five with Travel Guru
Take Five with Travel Guru, Casey Zilionis Casey Zilionis is owner of CruiseC2C, Palm Spring’s newest travel agency. With over thirty years in the travel industry, Casey’s career has taken him around the world as an international flight attendant, a tour guide, and an advertising executive for various cruise lines. Now he’s living his...
Evening Under the Stars
AIDS Assistance Program/Food Samaritans Expands it Services By Bob Bogard AIDS Assistance Program – Food Samaritans was founded 25 years ago with the goal of helping the most at-risk members of the Greater Palm Springs community – people who are low-income and compromised by HIV/AIDS. It recently expanded its services to include people suffering...
Paddling Against The Stream Club Artists Fight To Survive The Digital Age
Paddling Against The Stream Club Artists Fight To Survive The Digital Age By Shawn Larkin Adele and Taylor Swift are making loads of money as their honest song writing, paired with catchy tunes, top the charts with platinum sales. Yet, they are proving to be the exception to the rule. It turns out that...
Worldwide Musical Voyage
Worldwide Musical Voyage By Chris Astrala Music. No matter who you are or where you are from, music is part of your life. We decided to take you on a musical journey around the world and visit ten of the most renowned music festivals. So pack your bags, check that your passport is up...
