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Help end HIV at the Coachella Valley’s top restaurants
• Seventy-five percent of all sesame seeds grown in Mexico wind up on McDonald’s hamburger buns. • In 1998, a British man faked his own death by leaving his clothes on the beach and hiding to make his wife realize how much she missed him. Unfortunately, the prank backfired, as she divorced him after learning about it. • Former First Lady Hillary Clinton served on the boards of TCBY and Walmart. • Earthworms in the northern part of North America are a non-native, invasive species and a major factor in forest deterioration. • The last duel in Canada wasn’t much of a fight at all, being between two men who were so terrified that one fainted and the other was seized by horror. As if that weren’t enough, their guns were loaded with blanks. • Ever wonder why garlic is so anathema to vampires? One theory goes that it’s an antibiotic, and since vampirism was often thought to be a disease, it was harmful to them. Another holds that it was believed to repel mosquitoes, and since they’re both bloodsuckers, vampires would be repelled as well. • Brazil has the largest Japanese community outside of Japan. (c) 2022 King Features Synd., Inc.
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he concept is simple: restaurants, bars, and coffee shops donate a generous percentage of their sales to DAP Health (Desert AIDS Project), and diners then visit those locations to support the mission of ending HIV. Over two dozen restaurants throughout the Coachella Valley take part, including 1501 Uptown Gastropub, Tac/Quila, Juniper Table, The Tropicale, Farm, El Mirasol (two locations), Coachella Valley Coffee, Eight4Nine and others. Dining Out For Life Greater Palm Springs has grown to become the second-most-successful market in the country. In 2022, 68 desert eateries, bars, bakeries, and coffee shops raised $207,000, which was more than San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York City, Chicago and other large urban centers. DAP Health is committed to limiting the spread of HIV in the Coachella Valley where the rate of infection is 400 percent greater than the national average. Free and confidential testing is provided seven days a week, and the majority of clients is comprised
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of low-income, medically underserved community members. All funds raised in the Coachella Valley remain local. You have to eat, right? Might as well improve community health in the process. Dining Out for Life is held on Thursday, April 27. Visit diningoutforlife.com for a list of participating restaurants, bars, and coffee shops.
Fascinating facts about Coachella music festival • The first Coachella music festival was in 1999. Its 1999 headliners included Beck and Tool, headlining with 70 other acts. Both bands have played again since. • It all started with Pearl Jam. Lead singer Eddie Vedder was not happy with what Ticketmaster was charging their fans to see them in concert. They decided to boycott any venues that were controlled by Ticketmaster and performed at the Empire Polo Club grounds in 1993. Rick Van Santen and Paul Tollett saw how successful the sold-out show and they decided to throw a huge festival, becoming the founders of Coachella. • The festival wasn’t financially stable until its third festival At $50 a day, the festival actually lost $850,000 in 1999. They raised the price by $10 in 2001 but still lost money. It wasn’t until the third fes-
tival in 2002 that the finances stabilized with tickets ruching $74 a day or $125 to see all 75 bands over two days. • The festival has happened every year since 1999, except for one. In 2000, organizers cancelled the festival, citing an over-saturation of music festivals in the Southern California area that year. There was a festival every year after until the COVID-19 pandemic forced them to cancel it in 2020 and 2021. • Stagecoach is Coachella’s cousin. Stagecoach is a country music festival, and it’s always scheduled for the weekend after Coachella’s last show. The festival was started by Goldenvoice in 2007, after the owner of the Empire Polo Club considered redeveloping the land unless Goldenvoice could come up with another revenue-earning event in addition to Coachella.
3. LANGUAGE: What is the only word in the English language that ends in “mt”? 4. MOVIES: What is the name of Ryan Reynolds’ Alaskan hometown in “The Proposal”? 5. U.S. CITIES: How many buildings in New York City have their own ZIP codes, including the Empire State Building? 6. SCIENCE: Entomology is the scientific study of what? 7. CHEMISTRY: Which natural element is the most unstable? 8. FOOD & DRINK: What is the condiment tahini made of? 9. LITERATURE: What is the setting for John Kennedy Toole’s novel “A Confederacy of Dunces”? 10. ANATOMY: How many lobes are in the human brain? (c) 2022 King Features Synd., Inc. Answer on page 6