TV Host and Chef, Guy Fieri, teamed up with La Quinta High School to throw a special barbecue thanking over 400 local veterans and first responders. His foundation partnered with the Packhouse at Aziz farms, and La Quinta High School’s Culinary Program. One of the students, Caleb Balmer tells us Fieri gave the students a
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Festival promoter Goldenvoice has banned the Confederate flag and related imagery from this year’s Stagecoach Country Music Festival. The rule was added to the festival’s code of conduct. “Stagecoach provides an inclusive environment and rejects divisive symbols. The Confederate flag and related imagery are prohibited on the festival grounds and in the The Resort –
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The Stagecoach Country Music Festival is here, and starting Thursday you can start seeing an increase in traffic and people coming into the Coachella Valley. The Stagecoach Country Music Festival will follow on April 29, 30, and May 1. If you’ve traveled around the area during the first two weekends of the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival,
Continue Reading In a video posted to social media, singer Brandi Carlile told fans she’ll be missing Stagecoach this year. She was scheduled to perform Friday night. “Hey, buddies. It finally happened. I have the COVID, so I won’t be able to come to Stagecoach,” Carlile said. She said she has a chest infection, but that she
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Riverside County health officials are continuing to investigate the apparent food poisoning that led to the hospitalization of at least 46 shuttle bus drivers who were shuttling attendees to and from the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival. Jose Arballo Jr., spokesperson for the county’s health department, told News Channel 3’s Samantha Lomibao on Tuesday
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The 2022 Coachella Music and Arts Festival is officially in the books. It was a busy couple of weekends for the East Valley, while Palm Springs felt only some of that Coachella rush. Many businesses were prepared for the surge in customers. “We’ve been very very happy with numbers that we’ve seen so far this
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Music festival season in the valley could not be possible without the countless bus drivers that take festival-goers to and from the festival grounds. Riverside County Fire Department dispatchers got reports after midnight on Monday of several sub-contracted festival shuttle drivers becoming ill with food poisoning at the county fairgrounds in Indio. “We received multiple 911
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The Coachella Valley is the place to be in festival season, with tens of thousands of people coming here just for Coachella and Stagecoach alone. It can spike demand for everything from vacation rentals to hotels to rideshares. And people are paying the price. Friday night at the Nest, one of the valley’s hot spots
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The set times for Weekend 2 of the Coachella Music & Arts Festival have been released! One of the immediately notable changes is that Arcade Fire is not on the list of performers this weekend. The popular band performed a surprise set on Friday on Weekend 1. Another notable change is singer Bishop Briggs has
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Renowned Regional Mexican group Grupo Firme will be honored with the key to the city of Coachella on Friday. The band is fresh from performing Weekend 1 of the Coachella Music & Arts Festival. 🔥🔥 @GrupoFirme pic.twitter.com/nKj0eT1nTW— Coachella (@coachella) April 16, 2022 Coachella Mayor Steven Hernandez and the city council will present the band with
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Every year during the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festivals (CVMAF) people look forward to the many performances and art structures. A Coachella Valley local got the opportunity to produce one of the pieces standing at Empire Polo Club this year. Cristopher Cichocki said he has lived in almost every city of the Coachella Valley
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A 32-year-old Orange County man accused of assaulting an Indio police officer and leading law enforcement on a brief chase near the Coachella Music & Arts Festival has been charged with assault with a deadly weapon on a peace officer and other offenses. Michael Anthony Berber of Fountain Valley made his initial court appearance Wednesday
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Festival season is still in full swing in the desert with Coachella Weekend Two kicking off in just a few days. And this time around, festival goers can ditch the masks when taking an Uber or Lyft. “I think it’s good, I think pretty much everyone is vaccinated and at the festival there’s not mask
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An Indio police officer who was struck by a fleeing suspect vehicle near the site of the Coachella Music & Arts Festival has been discharged from a hospital. It happened at 10:46 Saturday night at Calle Conejo and Avenue 48 when the officer attempted to stop the driver for not following traffic controls put in
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As the first weekend of the 2022 Coachella Music and Arts Festival wraps up, News Channel 3 requested arrest and citation information from Indio Police. Indio Police tell News Channel 3 that traffic-related citations are up 41% and arrests are up 13% since the last Coachella Weekend 1, which was back in 2019. Indio Police
Continue ReadingLeah Dolan, CNN This weekend sees the return of Coachella after a three-year pandemic-induced hiatus. And, as ever, there will be as much written about the festival’s fashion as its performances. But while the event was once classed among the most stylish outings on the cultural calendar — thanks to its celebrity attendees and exclusive
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You will probably want to avoid the 10 freeway today, especially heading westbound, if possible. That roadway and the surface streets surrounding the Indio polo fields will be busy as Coachella Music Festival attendees head out of the area. Pre-pandemic, this was an annual occurrence, but it’s back for the first time since 2019. The
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INDIO (CNS) – Day two of the Coachella Music & Arts Festival is underway at the Empire Polo Club with a jam-packed lineup that features festival staples and newcomers, a goodbye performance and the possibility of unreleased music being debuted by one of hip-hop’s biggest stars. A shirtless Justin Bieber and a Harry Styles-Shania Twain
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Many people come to the Coachella Valley for the festivals through different modes of transportation. There is one helicopter service that is chartering rides into Thermal from Santa Monica, helping ease some traffic through the weekend. Thousands of cars full of festival-goers are hitting the road this weekend to get to Coachella Music Festival. But
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Rancho 51 – Festival Campgrounds is a place for those attending the music festivals to camp out, but this year it’s going the extra mile to give back to some of the youth in the Coachella area. Every year Rancho 51 welcomes hundreds of people onto their property to offer them a piece of the
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