Pride Movement Stands up to COVID
By Steven Taylor Pride movement stands up to COVID with ambitious Global Pride event featuring music artists and world leaders. When Los Angeles Pride announced on March 12th that they were postponing their planned events for June, it confirmed what many Pride organizers across the world were fearing – that the COVID19 pandemic was going...
SAGE, Improving the Lives of LGBT Elders
By Jessica Rozycki SAGE is the country’s largest and oldest organization dedicated to improving the lives of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) older people. Founded in 1978 and headquartered in New York City, SAGE is a national organization that offers supportive services and consumer resources to LGBT older people and their caregivers. SAGE also...
Pride: A Deeper Love
By Max Jimenez This year’s Pride will be different for all of us. For most, it will be a solo celebration happening in living rooms and bedrooms around the world. That doesn’t mean it has to be any less of an occasion or less meaningful. The show will go on! We spoke with some of...
If a virus could sing
If a virus could sing … Could this musical version of COVID-19 help us defeat the disease?By George Moretti We’re all now familiar with the spiky look of the coronavirus protein. But what do you think it might sound like? An engineering professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has shown us. By assigning musical...
Coping with COVID-19 by Using the Power of Music
In Italy, people isolated by the COVID-19 pandemic stood on apartment balconies, singing “Bella Ciao” – “goodnight, beautiful” – together into the night. Musicians in a Dutch symphony filmed themselves playing Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy” individually – then assembled a compilation video titled “From Us, For You.” In Columbus, children played their cellos from their...
New Releases
With this quarantine at times comes creativity. Here are a few artists who haven’t let this time get them down and have come up with fantastic results. Billy Porter Releases New Single – ‘For What It’s Worth GRAMMY®/EMMY®/TONY®-winner Billy Porter has released a soul-stirring cover of Stephen Stills’ “For What It’s Worth,” as performed by...
Sir Elton John Comes to Palm Springs (Almost)
By Chris Astrala On May 2 2020, Meyer and his backup group, the Rocket Band, will bring pop classics such as “Tiny Dancer,” “Bennie and the Jets” and “Crocodile Rock” to Evening Under the Stars at the O’Donnell Golf Course in Palm Springs. The one-night event will showcase Sir Elton John’s most memorable musical moments...
Message from AAP/Food Samaritans Executive Director, Mark Anton
In these difficult and uncharted times, AAP – Food Samaritans’ focus on supplying nutritional support, as it has been for the last 30 years, is of #1 importance to us. Although these unprecedented times are proving to be a struggle for many, including us, we want you to know we fully intend to continue to...
Delicious Trends
By Chef Andre Carthen Today’s food trends are more inline with a fashion jungle profile. What was hot yesterday, might kill you today. Not so long ago, everyone was pushing ORGANIC. What was supposingly better for you, could kill your bank account. Then came SUPERFOODS and KALE, the new end all, be all. Kale Cesar...
A Perfect Sight: Modernism Week 2020
Modernism Week’s signature event will take place February 13-23, 2020, celebrating fifteen years of highlighting midcentury modern design, architecture, art, fashion and vintage culture in Palm Springs. For it’s fifteenth year, the 11-day festival will feature a wide array of events including the Palm Springs Modernism Show & Sale – this is the 20th anniversary...
Desert AIDS Project: Removing Roadblocks to Human Potential
Desert AIDS Project: Removing Roadblocks to Human Potential By Steven Henke Desert AIDS Project CEO, David Brinkman is expected to share DAP’s vision for the future during the event. “Desert AIDS Project’s story includes a long history of identifying and responding to epidemics,” he said. “We intend to pay forward what we’ve learned during our...
The Standard Magazine: 2019 Revisited
When looking back at 2019 one has to say that it most definitely was at times, unbelievable. The old adage that “Truth can be Stranger than Fiction” comes to mind. So instead of rehashing all of the crazy, we decided that the Year in Review we would revisit some of the articles featured on the...
