Jeronimo Arellano Contreras is one of the valley’s most creative drummers. Contreras, after starting the band the Royal Chicano Underground, modified his drum set to include timbales instead of toms; ...

Lost Property is not the only Los Angeles-area joint to open a sister restaurant in the Coachella Valley. About a year ago, La Provence Patisserie and Café—with locations in Beverly Hills and the Los ...

On this week’s tsunami-free Independent comics page: Claytoonz puts forth a cankles theory; The K Chronicles gets some opioids; This Modern World presents another case from the Detective-in-Chief; and ...

We all have our go-to summer wine. Some of us are firmly in the “rosé all day” camp, while others can be found reaching for a chilled bottle of sauvignon blanc. But this year, it’s time to open your ...

Indy Digest BLS Firing, Texas Redistricting Portend Democracy in Peril; We’re Building a Nuclear Reactor on the Moon Now? Coachella Valley Independent’s Indy Digest: Aug. 4, 2025 ...

Drummer Daniel Duardo, nicknamed “D-NASTY,” is a machine behind the kit, complementing the tasty guitar solos and intense vocal performances with thunderous percussive moments.

Real-life couple Dave Franco and Alison Brie give us the ultimate character study for co-dependency in Together, the latest in a series of recent prestige body-horror films (The Substance, Bring Her ...

Liam Neeson and Pamela Anderson try to do what Leslie Nielsen and Priscilla Presley did so effortlessly more than three decades ago. The result is a mixed bag at best.

Gianmarco “Johnny” Fiacconi, drummer of the local ’50s/’60s cover band The Dreamboats, started a new Instagram account on Jan. 7. Every day since, Fiacconi has uploaded a video of himself, sitting in ...

A look at August's local entertainment offerings, including George Lopez, Berlin, The English Beat, and more!

I was fortunate enough to spend the better part of a week in Madison, Wis., for the annual AAN Publishers (Association of Alternative Newsmedia) Conference, hosted by Isthmus, Madison’s longtime alt ...

As the Lost Property menu states, the breakfast smash consists of fennel sausage, a sunny-side-up egg, cheddar cheese and a Martin’s-brand potato bun. That’s it. That's all that's needed.