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We debut our newest feature this festive holiday month. Our contributors are all gamers, like you, and have full lives (like you) with lots of different interests. So this page will
bring you interesting highlights of their gaming travels, entertaining, and varied and wonderful pastimes. We hope you enjoy this new feature.
Holiday Feasts!
“All I want for Christmas...?” A clean house, a healthy bank account, cheerful friends and family around the holiday table—and a great, big holiday jackpot—I can dream, can’t I?
As for the holiday table...are you entertaining this holiday season? Here’s a quick, interesting recipe for gamers called Clams Casino. We searched for the origin of this seafood dish, which
is popular
in the Northeast, and tracked it to several Italian- American cookbooks. (Does it have anything to do with the card game, “Casino”? Did it originate in a casino? We don’t know!) We don’t see this appetizer on many Southern California restaurant menus very often because of the dearth of fresh clams. The
classic version is made
with fresh clams and baked in their shells—usually the Little Neck or Quohag variety (both found on the East Coast). But here’s a quick version of Clams
Lucy in Palm Springs
Less than a few hours from Los Angeles, Orange County, San Bernardino and San Diego is downtown Palm Springs, perennial home and playground to the denizens of Hollywood. We’re all used to Palm Springs’ star-named roads and thoroughfares, beautiful estates, and tales of the rich and famous who have made Palm Springs their home. Palm Springs is, after all, the city where Liberace died, where Sonny Bono was mayor, and whose downtown features a bronze statue of Lucille Ball! It’s said that when Lucille Ball rst came to Palm Springs, she knew she’d found her home. (It’s also said she liked to play cards and games.) A long-time resident,
she was as approachable in real-life as she
seemed on screen.
Palm Springs’ tribute to an unforgettable
star, Lucy, portrayed as Lucy Ricardo, is a life-sized solid bronze sculpture sitting on
a bus bench. Created by Emmanuil and Janet Snitkovsky, the Art in Public Places sculpture of Lucy is on the northeast corner of Tahquitz Canyon Boulevard and Palm Canyon Drive in front of Leed’s Jewelers. So arresting and amazing, the Lucy sculpture draws an ever- faithful constant following to sit or drape themselves in her lap and be photographed for posterity. It’s one of
Photo Credit: Arthur Coleman Photography
our favorite homages to this fabulous American icon. But if you go to see her in the summer — beware! Palm Springs summer temperatures can exceed 100 degrees, so bronze Lucy then becomes molten hot. Unsuspecting tourists (we Californians know better!) can get a real hot seat next to Lucy in July and August.
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