After a nearly nine-month hiatus, Babe’s is back open in the desert. Well, sort of. While it’s true that the long-in-the-works new iteration of the local mainstay for brews and smoked meats opened ...

For years, Yellow Mart endured as something of an island floating in the sea of empty storefronts that had become downtown Indio. Mark Jernigan, who runs the shop, recalls that at one point things got ...