Palm Springs Eternal

Palm Springs EternalOut in the Coachella Valley, where the Los Angeles basin meets the Colorado Desert, lies a glittering elephants graveyard known as Palm Springs. It's where fading movie stars simmer in the sun, where golf courses glisten and hot springs burble and there's never really much happening, and that's why you go there. Which is true enough---except that Palm Springs also has a black ghetto, busing for racial balance, smog (from L.A., 100 miles away), overgrowth, high-rise hassles, a...