Palm Springs: Old Hollywood Hangout Has Become a New Escape (Guest Blog)
The pandemic shut down many of Palm Springs’ attractions, but residents remain hopeful, Michele Wilens writes
Michele Willens Guest Writer Last Updated: February 9, 2021 @ 4:01 PM
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In the 2020 Andy Samberg film “Palm Springs,” the characters undergo a Groundhog Day-style time loop. To which the real-life residents of, and visitors to, this town say: If only.
If all had been normal, Jennifer Lopez, Quentin Tarantino, Joaquin Phoenix, Martin Scorsese and many others would have now returned to their homes, after a sun-baked week of screenings and parties. The Palm Springs International Film Festival has become one of the favorites for those promoting their work. Alas.
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Photography in the Raw
The humbling exhibition “Photo Brut” brings together generations of self-taught artists who appropriate photographs or create their own.
The Japanese artist Ichiwo Sugino achieves his impersonations in “Photo Brut” mostly with adhesive tape and posts them on his Instagram account. Subjects include cultural figures from Thomas Edison to Alfred Hitchcock to Martin Scorsese and Andy Warhol.Credit.Ichiwo Sugino
Feb. 4, 2021
It’s great that the American Folk Art Museum doesn’t charge admission these days. More than one visit may be needed to absorb its landmark exhibition “Photo Brut: Collection Bruno Decharme & Compagnie.”
This jaw-dropping, sometimes heart-rending show a larger version of which was seen at a photography festival in Arles, France, last summer is a cornucopia of established and unfamiliar names, from the celebrated Henry Darger to the all-but-unknown Ichiwo Sugino; improvised mediums and often painful stories of isolated l
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1836: The temperature dropped to 44 degrees, the coldest recorded since the island was settled.
1856: William Hackley recorded in his diary: Rose at 5:30 and walked on the beach, returned home and bathed. At 9:15 a.m. barometer 29.57, thermometer 68, wind north by east 2, clouds 9. The weather is raw and disagreeable. Drew up petitions for John Lowe of the Libby Sheppard for 172 bales of cotton and one anchor and chain, Simon Frow of the schooner Florida for 201 bales of cotton, James Riggs of Ramona for 112 bales of cotton and Oliver Braman of the schooner Dart for 61 bales of cotton from the wreck of the ship Mary Hale, Rollins Master. Samuel Douglas filed libels for William Lowe, schooner Chestnut and John Curry of the schooner Relampago. My petitions are in fact libels as there was no consortship between the parties. R.W. Welch refused to endorse the bills of Captain John S brigantine Sarah Stern incurred for replacing sails, spars and riggings lost at sea and Tift to whom she w