Eleven Best New Restaurants
Which debuting restaurants truly shine is a perennial topic of debate. We visited as many as we could and selected the best among those opening and ripening since last year's collection of "best new restaurants."

A Tour De Force — International Film Festival
This charming location just may be the ideal spot for a film festival. Palm Springs is an easy ride from L.A. or Santa Barbara, where a lot of the talent lives. It’s easy for the industry to monitor, as opposed to Cannes or Venice. It has great amenities — beautiful hotels, swimming pools, golf clubs — and the setting offers a sense of romance to the films themselves.

Calling All Filmmakers

Editor's Letter
When you hear “Lights, camera, action!” in the desert, you know it’s January. You know it’s high time for the Palm Springs International Film Festival (Jan. 3-14), the area’s biggest and most glamorous nongolf event.

Fashion, Mood and Attitude
Any woman knows that style is not only what she wears, But also how she wears it.

Galleries — California at Mid-Century
From Palm Desert to Paris, the art of postwar Southern California has enjoyed unprecedented attention in the past two years. Bursting with color and invention, the sleek L.A. style of 50 years ago has been celebrated in Birth of the Cool: California Art, Design, and Culture at Orange County Museum of Art in Newport Beach, SoCal: Southern California Art of the 1960s and 70s from LACMA’s Permanent Collection (through March 30) in Los Angeles, and Los Angeles 1955-1985: The Birth of An Artistic Capital at Centre Pompidou in Paris.

Horoscope

Rear View — Life of a Cowboy
It’s 1939 and you’re shivering in a gray, eastern city when into town rides a tanned cowboy with a gap in his teeth. His name is Johnny Boyle; his sidekick is a lanky cut-up named Frank Bogert. They drag a barbecue out of their woodie station wagon and pretty soon the steaks are on and Johnny is tossing the lariat and singing in his heavenly baritone about finding cool water in the desert.

The Homegrowns
Film and television professionals live here and work on Hollywood productions.

Trinity Bay Interiors
Distinctive Design for Discriminating Tastes

Wealth — All Abroad!
Private bankers, investment advisors, and money managers tout strong portfolio diversification through international exposure to a rapidly developing global economy. Opportunities abound.

Wheels — Haute Hybrid
Toyota has given us the new Lexus LS 600h L, equipped with impressive safety features as the most complicated production car on the road today. It’s also the largest hybrid car you can buy.

Wine — The Odd Couple
Winemakers and wine drinkers have long appreciated the marriage of complementary red varietals into an elegant blend (Bordeaux leap to mind). A growing number of Australian vintners have taken what at first blush seems an incongruous step by blending a white varietal grape (viognier) into a red varietal (shiraz). In 2001, Australia shipped 963 cases of shiraz-viognier to the United States. That number catapulted to 69,975 cases in just the first three quarters of 2007.