Detours - Treasures of the Sea
Think of Orange County as a luxurious gift: a package of perfect climate and plentiful culture wrapped in ribbons of prodigious capitalism. Here on California’s Gold Coast, art, shopping, and landscape create an idyllic travel triangle.

Editor's Letter
Reading Barbara Sinatra’s reflections about her husband (“Doing it Sinatra’s Way” (February 2008) reminds me of one afternoon in the early 1940s when I drove 75 miles from my home in Topeka to Lawrence, Kan., to hear the Tommy Dorsey band play at Kansas University.

Horoscope
Mercury retrograde alert! Eighty percent of you are subject to the inconsistencies of this time.

In Store
It’s no wonder that design giant Jonathan Adler has been obsessed with the ultra groovy wall sculptures of C.

Intelligencer
Gourmet ingredients from foie gras to fungi take center stage June 15-20 during the inaugural Palm Springs Restaurant Week.

Playing it Cool
Filming in the desert, Charles Evered takes the road less traveled for Adopt a Sailor

Playing the Trump Card
Since April 2007, the winner of Donald Trump’s 2006-2007 season of The Apprentice has served as vice president of sales and marketing for the Trump International Tower under a contract that came with her win on the reality show.

PSST !
When Norman Borine died the day before his 89th birthday, he was completing a book chronicling his career as a dancer in Hollywood musicals, as well as on Broadway and television.

When History Met Sally …
The woman who has spent a quarter of a century preserving the past at the Palm Springs Historical Society bows out

Wine - Rhônes on the Rise
Lesser-known grapes from France gain ground in California