We’ll all her Icandy. The widow, in her 90s, recently had moved from her home in Desert Hot Springs into assisted living. Ted and Eric Zepeda were preparing the home’s contents for the estate sale they would conduct before the house was sold. As owners of Retro Etcetera, a local estate liquidation company, they had seen some unusual items in their line of work, but Icandy’s collection was a first.
T.S. Eliot was dead wrong. April is the coolest month. That’s certainly true in the East Valley where, over three long weekends, people flock to eat, drink, and be music merry at the Empire Polo Club, host of the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival and Stagecoach.
How a Chicken Sandwich Became a BNP Paribas Open Tradition
It all started with a chicken sandwich.
In the late 1990s, Raymond Moore often ate lunch at John’s, a modest hash house in Palm Desert. He and Charlie Pasarell, founders of a modest tennis tournament that had steadily outgrown its 1976 origins at Mission Hills Country Club and several other Coachella Valley locations, were on the brink of opening a huge tournament venue after 13 years of residency at what is now the Grand Hyatt Indian Wells Resort & Villas.
Why Do Cicadas Buzz? Find Out as They Hit the Coachella Valley
With rising temperatures comes a familiar seasonal soundtrack. Here, experts explain why cicadas make so much noise every summer.
Almost half a million people (including Zendaya) came to the Indian Wells Tennis Garden this month to watch the BNP Paribas Open. We look back at some of the standout moments.
How an army of ushers, EMTs, security officers, ball kids, and ambassadors makes the tennis tournament tick.
The Palm Desert High School grad enters the BNP Paribas Open with doubles partner Demi Schuurs this month as one of the world’s top-ranked duos.
Fast, exciting doubles play scores with fans at the BNP Paribas Open tennis tournament in Indian Wells.
How the former tennis champion Peggy Michel landed BNP Paribas as title sponsor of the Coachella Valley’s signature sporting event.
Instructor Isa Lapaj has an abiding grace, a worldly outlook, and a formidable intellect, and he brings it all to the dance lesson.
