Gay Palm Springs Calendar

May 06, 2009 - Dec 29, 2009 6:00 PM Rudy De La Mor Entertains at Toucans in Palm Springs Toucans Tiki Lounge brings the hilarious antics and songs of Rudy De La Mour for your enjoyment on Mondays and Wednesday from 6:00 pm. to 11:00 pm. Toucans Tiki Lounge 2100 North Palm Canyon Drive Palm Springs, CA 92264 View map » For more information: Sponsor: Toucans Tiki Lounge Telephone: 760-416-7584 http://www.toucanstikilounge.com/

Sun, Fun, Special Events and Great Rates!

Summer Splash is back, and the 2010 Edition of the hugely popular Palm Springs Summer promotion promises to be the best ever - with more participating businesses, more special events, and more special offers than ever before!

Sponsored by the Desert Gay Tourism Guild, Summer Splash brings Greater Palm Springs area hotels, restaurants, bars, retailers, promoters and entertainment venues together to create a vibrant and varied line-up of special offers and special events. The fun begins on June 1st, 2010, and continues all the way through September 30th, 2010.

So come on! Jump in and join the Fun! And don’t forget to ask for your FREE SPLASH PASS!

http://www.palmspringsgayinfo.com/summersplash/

BARS:
CLUB W!
36737 Cathedral Canyon Dr. Cathedral City CA. 92234
760.321.0031
website
Show a receipt from any other Summer Splash Participant and get your second drink half off.

ELEVATION NIGHTCLUB
67-555 E. Palm Canyon Dr. Cathedral City, CA. 92234
website
Show your Splash Pass for a $1 well Drink! (0ne per customer, per visit).

HUNTERSNIGHT CLUB
302 E. Arenas Rd. Palm Springs CA, 92262
760.323.0700
website

SHAKERZ BAR & GRILL
301 N Palm Canyon Dr.
Palm Springs CA, 92262
760.320.2870
Present your Splash Pass for Shakerz Summer Splash "Shakerz" Cheeseburger Special with Fries for only $5.95.

STREETBAR
3224 E. Arenas Rd. Palm Springs CA, 92262
760.320.1266
website
Present your Splash Pass for a FREE Streetbar T-Shirt or Tank Top (0ne per customer).

TOOL SHED
600 E. Sunny Dunes Rd. Palm Springs, California 92264
760.320.3299
website
$3 Shot of Jagermeister with your Splash Pass!

WANG'S IN THE DESERT
424 South Indian Canyon Drive
Palm Springs, CA 92262
760.25.9264
website
Show your Splash Pass or print theis coupon for $2 happy hour & 10% off dinner (sun - thurs; 5:30 - 9:30PM).

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MONDAYS:

CLUB W!: Karaoke 9PM

ELEVATION: Happy Hour 3-7, $2 Well, $2 Draft

HUNTERS: $6 Skyy Cocktails & $9 Martinis

STREETBAR: Happy Hour 10AM-8PM; Karaoke 9PM

TOOL SHED: 0-69 Bingo at 9PM

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TUESDAYS:

CLUB W!: Country Western Dancing lessons 7:30;Open Dancing from 8:30PM

ELEVATION: Happy Hour 3-7, $2 Well, $2 Draft

HUNTERS: Tweeter Tuesdays with Tom

STREETBAR: Happy Hour 10AM-8PM; Karaoke 9PM

TOOL SHED: $3 Jagermeister Shots all day and night

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WEDNESDAYS:

CLUB W!: Karaoke 9PM

ELEVATION: $2 Well, $2 Draft all day & night

HUNTERS: $6 Skyy Cocktails & $9 Martinis

STREETBAR: Happy Hour 10AM-8PM; Karaoke 9PM

TOOL SHED: $1.75 drafts 9PM-12AM

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THURSDAYS:

CLUB W!: Retro City

ELEVATION: Happy Hour 3-7, $2 Well, $2 Draft - Mucho Mucho Latin Dance Party from 8PM

HUNTERS: Simply Smirnoss Thursdays

STREETBAR: Happy Hour 10AM-8PM

TOOL SHED: Happy Hour until 8PM; Underwear night from 9PM

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FRIDAYS:

CLUB W!: Karaoke 9PM

ELEVATION: Happy Hour 3-7, $2 Well, $2 Draft

HUNTERS: FurFridays, 5-9PM; Hottest Man Contest 10PM

STREETBAR: Happy Hour 10AM-8PM; Live Entertainment 9PM

TOOL SHED: Happy Hour until 8PM

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SATURDAYS:

CLUB W!: Club Woof! 4-8PM; Karaoke 9PM; Country Western Dancing 8:30PM

ELEVATION: Happy Hour 3-7, $2 Well, $2 Draft; Glamazons 8-10PM followed by dancing

HUNTERS: Happy Hour 10AM-7PM

STREETBAR: Happy Hour 10AM-8PM

TOOL SHED: Happy Hour until 8PM

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SUNDAYS:

CLUB W!: Fun & Gaymes Night 8PM

ELEVATION: Happy Hour 3-7, $2 Well, $2 Draft

HUNTERS: Happy Hour 10AM-7PM, $5 Bloody Mary, $6 Premium Bloody Mary (made with Smirnoff)

STREETBAR: Smokin Hot Bloodies with Pau & Joe 10AM-4PM; Miss Fern 7PM

TOOL SHED: Happy Hour until 8PM

RESTAURANTS:

COPLEY'S ON PALM CANYON
621 North Palm Canyon Drive
Palm Springs, CA 92262-5512
760.327.9555
website
Show your Splash Pass for a free glass of wine with Dinner

HAMBURGER MARY'S
415 North Palm Canyon Dr.
Palm Springs, CA 92262
760.778.6279
website
Get 15% off Hamburger Mary's Breakfast Menu
Friday - Monday; 10AM-3PM
Pancakes, French Toast, Egg Dishes and More.
$1 Mimosas or Champagne on Sundays.

JENSEN'S
Smoketree Commons Shopping Center
2465 East Palm Canyon Dr. #7,
Palm Springs, CA 92264
760.325.8282
website
2 for 1 Wine or Beer tasting when you show your Splash Pass. Visit website for complete details.

MATCHBOX VINTAGE PIZZA
155 South Palm Canyon Drive
Palm Springs, CA 92262-8300
760.778.6000
website
Bistro Salad & Pizza Combo for Two: $25 per couple or $15 per person. Voted "Best Pizza" in the Desert 4 years Running!

PINOCCHIO
134 East Tahquitz Canyon Way
Palm Springs, CA 92262
760.322.3776
website
BEVERY DAY: Bottomless Champagne @ $3.95 per person; Well drinks & well martinis from $2.50; Martini burger @ $8.95 per person.

POMME FRITE
256 South Palm Canyon Dr.
Palm Springs, CA 92262
760.778.3727
website
Enjoy a 3-Course Prix Fixe "Cool Menu":
Cold Soup, Caesar Salad with grilled chicken breast or served classic "Nicoise Salad" with Ahi Tuna, Vanilla or Ice Coffee Ice Cream Sunday. $19.99 per person.

SHAKERZ BAR & GRILL
301 N Palm Canyon Dr.
Palm Springs CA, 92262
760.320.2870
Present your Splash Pass for Shakerz Summer Splash "Shakerz" Cheeseburger Special with Fries for only $5.95.

SHARE WINE LOUNGE & SMALL PLATE BISTRO
Inside the Hyatt Suites
285 North Palm Canyon Dr.
Palm Springs, CA 92262
760.322.9000
website
Ask about Share's Summer Splash Cocktail Specials.

TRIO RESTAURANT
707 North Palm Canyon Dr.
Palm Springs, CA 92262
760.864.8746
website
Enjoy 10% off your entire bill with your Splash Pass. Limit one discount per customer per bill. Cannot be combined with any other offer.

THE TROPICALE RESTAURANT + PATION
330 East Amado Rd.
Palm Springs, CA 92262
760.866.1952
website
Sizzling Summer Early Bird Menu served daily fro 5-7PM

WANG'S IN THE DESERT
424 South Indian Canyon Drive
Palm Springs, CA 92262
760.25.9264
website
Show your Splash Pass or print theis coupon for $2 happy hour & 10% off dinner (sun - thurs; 5:30 - 9:30PM).

ZPIZZA
In the Jensen's Shopping Center
73607 Highway 111,
Palm Desert, 92210
760.568.5405
website
$5 off any purchase of $20 or more when you show your Splash Pass (Palm Desert Location only).

Check out the Palm Springs Restaurant Week Website for participating resturants.

http://www.palmspringsrestaurantweek.com/

FREE Film Screenings
This summer marks a milestone in film programming for the museum. In addition to the very popular and engrossing Global Film Initiative series returning this year, two four-week "mini-series" will be screened, one before and one after Global Lens 2010. All films are free of charge thanks to a generous grant from Wells Fargo. FREE Summer Films will be screened every Thursday night starting at 5:30 p.m. from May 13 through September 9 in the Annenberg Theater.

July 1
Leo’s Room, (El Cuarto De Leo), Director: Enrique Buchichio
Uruguay, 2009, Spanish, with subtitles in English, 92 minutes

In the heart of Montevideo, the affable but secretly troubled Leo wraps himself in the comfort of his small rented room, unmotivated to finish his college thesis or find a job, and content with infrequent visits from his girlfriend. After their six-month relationship ends, Leo begins to break out of his shell by cruising the Internet for a new companion, enlisting the aid of a sympathetic therapist along the way. However, it isn’t until he has a chance reunion with a classmate that he is forced to consider the true meaning of his reclusive lifestyle, and a future outside the metaphoric safety of his room. Featuring an affecting soundtrack and an equally endearing cast of characters, director Enrique Buchichio’s affirming drama is a unique vision of isolation and coming-of-age set against a modern tale of romance and friendship.

July 8
Masquerades, Director: Lyes Salem
Algeria, 2008, Arabic, with subtitles in English, 92 minutes

After working for much of his life as a gardener in his dusty Algerian village, Mounir dreams of improving his family’s fortune and gaining a measure of respect by marrying off his narcoleptic sister, Rym, to a “real gentleman.” However, Rym has other plans—she dreams of marrying Mounir’s best friend, Khliffa, who has secretly courted her for years. When Mounir lashes out at village gossip with a fib that he has promised Rym to a wealthy outsider, she comes out of her sleepy stupor to embrace the rumor and press her real betrothed into action. Beautifully brought to life by a memorable cast—including director Lyes Salem as the cocky but compassionate bumbler Mounir—this heartfelt comedy suggests that when dreams become reality, it’s time to wake up.

July 15
My Tehran for Sale, Director: Granaz Moussavi
Iran, 2009, Farsi and English, with subtitles in English, 97 minutes

In this riveting, insider’s perspective on life in Iran’s capital city, Marzieh—a terminally ill actress—wearily relates her desperate quest for political asylum through a series of interviews with an unsympathetic government official. Beginning with details of her doomed relationship with an Iranian-born Australian and their plan to relocate to Adelaide, she recounts her struggle to work as an actress under Iran’s current regime, her hope for a future ultimately dashed by the devastating discovery of her illness, and her need to “escape” the only home she has ever known. Set against the backdrop of Tehran’s thriving arts culture, and framed through a series of artful and dramatic flashback sequences, poet-turned-filmmaker Granaz Moussavi boldly registers the trials of a modern woman struggling to flourish in Iran’s contemporary political climate.

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July 22
Ocean of an Old man, Director: Rajesh Shera
India, 2008, Hindi, with subtitles in English, 84 minutes

In the aftermath of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, and amid the stunning natural beauty of India’s Andaman and Nicobar islands, an elderly British teacher struggles to run a small primary school despite the loss of many of the islands’ children to the recent tragedy. Ignoring the overwhelming grief that washes over the islands, he continues to teach his few remaining students until a government official delivers a relocation order to all residents, causing him to embark on a heartbreaking search for his missing students, convinced they must still be alive. Blending exquisite vistas with the ubiquitous sound of the ocean to convey the precarious balance between human life and the inexorable forces of nature, Rajesh Shera’s debut feature quietly unfolds as a delicate meditation on grief and loss.

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July 29
Ordinary People, Director: Vladimir Perisic
Serbia, 2009, Serbian, with subtitles in English, 79 minutes

On a seemingly average day, a busload of young soldiers is sent to a remote location in the countryside and given a macabre task: the execution of a number of civilians. Dzoni, a green recruit, initially objects, but as he moves from one killing to the next, he is swept up by the spectre of military authority, and quickly becomes desensitized by the apparently routine nature of his task. As he nears the end of his assignment, the quiet horror of the day slowly begins to affect him, forcing a painful reconciliation with his actions. Set in an unspecified time of conflict in the Balkans, director Vladimir Perisic’s highly attuned and unsentimental lens captures the psychological toll of war on its participants, and the universal struggle of all soldiers to reconcile morality with action.

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August 5
The Shaft (Dixia De Tiankong), Director: Zhang Chi
China, 2008, Chinese, with subtitles in English, 98 minutes

In a poor mining town in western China, the stories of a father and his two children intersect and intertwine, illuminating complicated relationships hidden beneath the community’s hardened exterior. Accused of an affair with her manager, the attractive daughter of the household finds herself spurned by her boyfriend and forced to accept an arranged marriage. Her brother dreams of being a singer, but after an unforeseen stint in prison, reluctantly heads into the mines like his father, who spends his days searching for the wife who left him many years ago. Writer-director Zhang Chi’s wise and poetic debut delicately expresses the turmoil of emotion and expectation wrought by a calloused and difficult existence.

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August 12
Shirley Adams, Director: Oliver Hermanus
South Africa, 2009, English and Afrikaans, with subtitles in English, 92 minutes

In this deeply affecting portrait of ordinary courage in present-day South Africa, a single mother—Shirley Adams—struggles to care for her paraplegic teenage son, Donovan, in a depressed district on the outskirts of Cape Town. Wearied but resolute, she desperately clings to him as he withdraws from the world following a suicide attempt, and is hopeful when his spirits are momentarily lifted by the appearance of Tamsin, a pretty but overeager social worker. But when the relationship between Donovan and Tamsin sours, his fragile emotional health declines, and Shirley's faith and perseverance are put to the ultimate test. First-time director Oliver Hermanus's observant camera holds close to its subjects, capturing the claustrophobia, intimacy and hushed anguish surrounding the tender daily routines of a mother and her child.

Free Admission - Palm Springs Art Museum 4pm to 8pm every Thursday