Events
In every issue you can find the latest “Local Calendar” as well as “PSP Focus” with all the upcoming events in Palm Springs.
Put on your Dancing Shoes – Nexus Radio brings Dance Music to the Masses
Put on your Dancing Shoes Nexus Radio brings Dance Music to the Masses Nexus Radio, the first major radio and TV service specializing in dance music, knows what club fans want. They call it the 3Ds: the divas, the divos and the DJs. “Fans want music that fits their active lifestyles,” says Manny Esparza, Nexus...
Chuck Gumpert
CHUCK GUMPERT “Painting is just another way of keeping a diary” – Pablo Picasso Chuck Gumpert majored in art at Cypress College in California, studying the gamut from drawing and painting, to illustration and advertising design —and most importantly, specialization in what at the time was the still-emerging field of computer graphics, photo manipulation, and...
Idol Chat / An Interview with David Hernandez
Idol Chat An Interview with David Hernandez By Chris Astrala David Hernandez gained national attention with his powerful voice and affable personality as an American Idol finalist on season 7 of the popular talent show. He began acting and singing at age six, starring in musicals and performing with various theatre companies throughout Arizona....
Fashionable Kit
Fashionable Kit EastSiders Star Sets The Style In Show’s Second Season By William Cooke The critically acclaimed dark comedy starring Kit Williamson and Van Hansis as Cal and Thom, an adorable couple trying to stay together in the aftermath of infidelity, returns for its second season this fall, exclusively on Vimeo On Demand. The...
Fall’s Hottest Dance Beats
Beat Box Fall’s Hottest Dance Beats By Jimmy Newsum Another summer has passed and with it, the scorching temps (except in Palm Springs). But one place that shows no signs of cooling down are gay dance floors. DJs are working overtime to keep the dark confines and pulsing rhythms of their rooms hot and...
Always Overbooked…
Always Overbooked By Terri Schlichenmeyer Your favorite hangout isn’t all that fancy. It’s comfortable, though: you’ve got places to sit, flat surfaces for your stuff, and your friends are always around. Best of all, nobody says you can’t be there; everybody’s welcome all the time. It wasn’t always that way, though, as you’ll see...
Local Flavor
Local Flavor Every year we select a few local standout restaurant to feature in our yearly food issue. With so many fine restaurants here in the valley the choice is daunting. This year we decided to put that task on the staff to come up with a few of the places they repeatedly frequent. So...
Q&A with Willie Rhine
A Conversation with Willie Rhine Co-owner of Eight4Nine Restaurant & Lounge And the winning number is 849… or should I say Eight4Nine Restaurant & Lounge. That’s the name of what is sure to become one of Palm Springs’ newest hot spots. Co-owned and operated by the inimitable Willie Rhine (the other half of the...
Beat Box
Beat Box Summer’s Hottest Dance Beats By Jimmy Newsum Who remembers Will Smith, when he was one half of the hip-hop duo DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince, singing about summer, summer, summertime? If you’re among the boys shaking up dance floors today, you probably do not. The point is, even nineties kids...
Indelible Artistry
Indelible Artistry By Chris Astrala LGBT artists have continually challenged mainstream understandings of gender and sexuality. The impact of this on our society is immeasurable. For example, artists of the 1980s who worked tirelessly to bring attention to HIV/AIDS in America, artists today maintain their roles as leading figures striving for change and cultural...
Local Art Redefined
Local Art Redefined Webster defines art as the quality, production, expression, or realm, according to aesthetic principles, of what is beautiful, appealing, or of more than ordinary significance. We have gathered a small group of local artist who have expressed their own definition of what art means to them; what inspires them, what projects they...
Cairns
Cairns A guide to the Unofficial Gay Capital of Tropical Australia By Jay Horne, Editor FNQ Magazine Welcome to the Tropical Paradise that is the city of Cairns – The Unofficial Gay Capital of Tropical Australia and home to FNQ Magazine! Situated on Trinity Bay on the coast of Far North Queensland, the city...
