Each year, Palm Springs Life invites readers to vote for their favorite businesses, experiences, and attractions across Greater Palm Springs in our city-by-city Best of the Best competition. Below, you’ll find this year’s winners for Best Music.
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Find Reliable Palm Springs Transportation With Cardiff Limousine & Transportation
As the premier transportation company in Greater Palm Springs since 1990, Cardiff Limousine & Transportation provides comfortable car, bus, limo, and shuttle service for groups of all sizes. Cardiff is an easy go-to for local rides, but the company also offers...
3 Hotels in Palm Desert With Easy Access to Shopping and Dining
SPONSORED JW Marriott Desert Springs Resort & Spa JW Marriott Desert Springs Resort & Spa spans 450 acres of mountain views, lakes and tailored amenities. Guests can explore restaurants, shops and palm-lined pools, or ride water shuttles through the property’s...
Find Your Perfect Palm Springs Vacation Home With Natural Retreats
Whether you’re looking for a midcentury masterpiece house with a pickleball court, an original Hugh Kaptur–designed retreat with an unforgettable pool, or a Spanish colonial in the Movie Colony neighborhood with a story to tell, we have the vacation home rental for...
3 Hotels in La Quinta With Easy Access to Local Attractions
La Quinta Resort & Club It probably sounded preposterous when Walter H. Morgan, heir to an oyster fortune, announced he was buying 1,400 acres of undeveloped desert to build a hotel. But in 1926, he opened La Quinta Hotel, a 20-casita retreat with three courtyards...
How to Plan a Weekend in Palm Springs
Friday Evening: What’s your scene? The Uptown Design District delivers artful meals in stylish spaces — try Eight4Nine or Bar Issi, both a stone’s throw from design-forward shops and galleries. For disco beats and rainbow lights, the Arenas District draws a lively...
Events, Tickets, Specials, and Good Reads
Wake Up With the Desert
Each morning, Palm Springs Life curates good reads and insider recommendations of the best things to do across Greater Palm Springs. Get The Daily Guide for fresh ideas, local flavor, and a daily dose of inspiration that’s actually worth reading.
Your Guide to LGBTQ+-Owned Businesses in Palm Springs and Beyond
Michelin-recognized dining, modernist architecture, storied Hollywood hideaways … People don’t visit Palm Springs for drab, that’s for sure. But they do visit for drag. And that upscale sense of spectacle Palm Springs is famous for informs many LGBTQ+-owned spaces in...
7 Must-Try Italian Restaurants Across Greater Palm Springs
Each year, Palm Springs Life invites readers to vote for their favorite businesses, experiences, and attractions across Greater Palm Springs in our city-by-city Best of the Best competition. Below, you’ll find this year’s winners for Best Italian Cuisine. Explore the...
Indio BBQ Festival Celebrates 10 Years of Great Food
Follow the smoky aromas in downtown Indio to the 10th annual Indio BBQ Festival on Nov. 8, a community event filled with barbecue flavors and family-friendly activities. Taste your way through a wide range of barbecue vendors, each serving their signature dishes....
7 Coachella Valley Spas That Will Melt Your Worries Away
Each year, Palm Springs Life invites readers to vote for their favorite businesses, experiences, and attractions across Greater Palm Springs in our city-by-city Best of the Best competition. Below, you’ll find this year’s winners for Best Spas. Explore the full list...
10 Best Greater Palm Springs Restaurants to Get Happy Hour
Each year, Palm Springs Life invites readers to vote for their favorite businesses, experiences, and attractions across Greater Palm Springs in our city-by-city Best of the Best competition. Below, you’ll find this year’s winners for Best Happy Hour. Explore the full...
7 Places to Shop Local for Home Décor and Furniture
Each year, Palm Springs Life invites readers to vote for their favorite businesses, experiences, and attractions across Greater Palm Springs in our city-by-city Best of the Best competition. Below, you’ll find this year’s winners for Best Décor & Furniture....
6 Questions With Coachella Valley Firebirds Coach Derek Laxdal
When Derek Laxdal signed on as the new head coach of the Coachella Valley Firebirds in 2024 — only the second coach in the franchise’s history — it was the hiring equivalent of winning a Stanley Cup. Laxdal grew up in Canada, where hockey is a national pastime....
The History of Casa Cody, the Oldest Hotel in Palm Springs
At Casa Cody, the only sight brighter than the pink bougainvillea spilling over the walls is the vivid orange horseshoe hanging in every room. “We think of those as our good luck charms,” says Sana Keefer, head of brand for Casetta Hotels, which runs Casa Cody, the...
14 Desert Hotel Pools to Dive Into
Palm Springs Riviera Palm Springs If it was good enough for Sinatra, it’s good enough for us. This classic resort boasts one of Palm Springs’ largest pools, perfect for an afternoon stretched out in the sun. Reserve a daybed, order cocktails, and revel in midcentury...
How to Spend a Day in Twentynine Palms
The Old Schoolhouse Museum in Twentynine Palms displays a list from a 1950s edition of The Desert Trail newspaper titled “29 Reasons for Living in Twentynine Palms.” The list highlights, among other attributes, “no fog, smog, smudge”; “glorious sunsets — star-studded...
Frey House II Opens for Tours Every Saturday Through November
Few residences capture the essence of desert modernism like Albert Frey’s Frey House II. Built in 1964, the mountainside retreat was carefully sited after Frey spent 12 months charting the sun with a 10-foot pole to determine the ideal orientation. The result is a...
What to See, Do, and Experience During Modernism Week October 2025
Golden light, crisp evenings, and a long weekend of midcentury magic. This month marks the spirited return of Modernism Week’s intimate fall edition. The festival, which marked 20 years in February, introduced its October gathering in 2013, distilling the signature...
Create Your Own Modernism Tour With a Drive Through These Neighborhoods
Canyon View Estates Boundaries: East San Jose Road to the north, East Avenida Grande to the south, South Calle Palo Fierro to the east, South Sierra Madre to the west. — Harry Styles and Florence Pugh’s characters in the 2022 psychological thriller Don’t Worry Darling...
Luxury Rancho Mirage Resort Sensei Porcupine Creek Excels in Wellness
Set within the foothills of the Santa Rosa Mountains near Palm Springs, Sensei Porcupine Creek — an expansive 230-acre property — offers a true desert oasis for your wellbeing journey. Wholly managed by Sensei, the former private Rancho Mirage estate has been...
Kate Hudson on Music, “Song Sung Blue,” and Life in Palm Desert
