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Published 02/12/2010 - 11:15 a.m. PST
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By Frances Allen
Twenty-two years ago, Frank Sinatra threw “a little party in the Desert.” It became an annual event as Frank would invite his friends to Rancho Mirage for a long weekend of fun, golf … and, well you know the rest.
But there was a charitable component behind many things Sinatra did, and the beneficiary of his “little party” was the Barbara Sinatra Children’s Center, which opened in 1986 on the campus of the Eisenhower Medical Center.
Twenty-two years ago, Frank Sinatra threw “a little party in the Desert.” It became an annual event as Frank would invite his friends to Rancho Mirage for a long weekend of fun, golf … and, well you know the rest.
But there was a charitable component behind many things Sinatra did, and the beneficiary of his “little party” was the Barbara Sinatra Children’s Center, which opened in 1986 on the campus of the Eisenhower Medical Center.
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Published 02/12/2010 - 11:12 a.m. PST
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March 1 not only brings spring to the Desert, it also brings “A Day in
the Garden,” a special fundraising activity held for the Palm Springs
Art Museum. It’s special because live auction items can be purchased
by
a single person or by forming a bidding group with friends.
What types of items are they? Here are the just-released descriptions of the first four items.
What types of items are they? Here are the just-released descriptions of the first four items.
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Published 03/11/2009 - 3:40 p.m. PST
By Frances Allen
Over the past
several years, the combined ATP and Sony Ericsson WTA
Tour events,
now played at the Indian Wells Tennis Gardens, have been
considered
as the “Grand Slam of the West.”
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Published 11/26/2008 - 8:11 p.m. PST
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Barbara Sinatra (center), with Dick Van Dyke, 2009 co-host of the Frank Sinatra Celebrity Invitational Golf Tournament festivities (left), and Tom Dreesen, who will serve as emcee.
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By Frances Allen
It has been confirmed that Gary Mule Deer will perform at next year’s 21st annual Frank Sinatra Starkey Hearing Foundation Celebrity Invitational golf tournament, Feb. 19 – 21.
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Published 03/11/2009 - 3:35 p.m. PST
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By Frances Allen
Arguably for more than the past decade, but certainly since the opening of the Indian Wells Tennis Gardens earlier, the hope and fame surrounding professional tennis has been forged in the Coachella Valley.
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Published 11/26/2008 - 8:01 p.m. PST
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Trademark hotel re-opens after a $70 million upgrade.
It felt
like 1968 for a minute. He sat on the balcony in his upstairs
room at
the Riviera, overlooking the pool shaped like a “paint
palette,”
reading his USA Today in a Burberry bathing suit, as the
women
below were in hair rollers and stilettos buzzing about the Miss
California pageant taking place later that afternoon.
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