Pioneertown News

Clever design allows a simple vacation home in the desert to stay cool in the blazing heat.

A rather interesting motel is up for sale in Pioneertown, California. Pioneertown is an unincorporated village which started as a live-in Old West motion picture set, built in the 1940s.

The July/August issue of Dwell brings us this beautiful desert home in Pioneertown, California .

The common indicators of success are nowhere to be seen on Cracker's resume. The commercial props that it enjoyed are a few pages back, back to the early- to mid-90s and smart-aleck hits such as 'Teen Angst ,' 'Low' and 'I Hate My Generation.' Oh, there is a festival named for the band, which it shares with the like-minded aging esoterics, Camper ...

We may be the world's luckiest staycationers. People travel here from all over the planet to enjoy Southern California's abundant tourist attractions.

It just makes sense that the Ditty Bops will make their eclectic presence known in Pioneertown next week.

There's some crazy stuff out in the desert. When heading to Pioneertown, most motorists are inclined to take I-15 to I-215 and then tread the minor highways as if heading to Palm Springs.

Heythe global financial crisis may have siphoned away 30 percent of your 401K and maybe even relieved you of your crappy job, but at least you survived the swine flu, right? So, we say it's time to celebrate, and there's no time like summertime - you know, before wildfire consumes the region in the fall.

Louis, MO, and will stay out on the concert trail through August, with dates lined up in 29 cities before the band meets up with sister act Camper Van Beethoven for their annual shared Campout event in Pioneertown, CA.

Guide Dogs of the Desert will have its second annual Desert Dog Run-Motorcylce Poker Run on Saturday.

The second annual Desert Dog Run will be held this weekend, benefiting the Guide Dogs of the Desert.

Southern California's deserts are definitely weird places. Forget about Nevada's Burning Man festival, because more remote Mojave Desert outposts have it beat when it comes to artistic, way-out happenings.

Is it a blessing or a curse to land thefirst performance of the weekend at a mammoth music event like the Stagecoach country festival, just now under way in Indio? On the down side, 80% of the crowd isn't here yet, and those who did poke their heads in on the so-called Palomino Stage, where the Jon LinnBand kicked off the music, were there more out ...

The Morongo Basin Horsemen's Association will dedicate its 15th annual Pony Express re-enactment to Frank Bogert as a memorial tribute.

California Castle, a 9,000 square foot 10 bedroom, 12 bathroom vacation rental estate and guest house, is located in the quiet hills above Palm Springs in the pristine surroundings of Yucca Valley.

These are busy times for Bryan Cranston, one of the most celebrated actors of the decade.

Two men died and a woman was severely injured Monday in a head-on collision on state Route 62 near Hoopa Road in the Morongo Basin, according to the California Highway Patrol.

PSYCHEDELIC COUNTRY: The neo-Spaghetti Western, neo-psychedelic, L.A.-based alt-everything band Spindrift is going on a cross-country tour in March.

Spindrift wants to expand your mind, but not in a Dr. Timothy Leary kind of way.

This Hi-Desert community, which began life as the backdrop for low-budget Westerns, will soon get the starring role in a new production.