Stylish oasis for sun-drenched leisure

Arts, culture and nightlife

You might walk off your dinner with the ubiquitous stroll along Palm Canyon Drive or take in the legendary show The Follies at the Plaza Theater at 128 South Palm Canyon Drive.

The Follies is in its 23rd and final season appropriately titled The Last Hurrah! and will wrap up in mid-May. This year's mix of music, dance and comedy features Darlene Love, Susan Anton and Maureen McGovern. (www.psfollies.com/)

For something decidedly more high-brow, check out the Palm Springs Art Museum, downtown at 101 Museum Drive, which features modern, contemporary and traditional art of the Americas. (www.psmuseum.org/)

Current exhibits feature contemporary glass, Western landscape photographs by Stephen Willard, works by artist Richard Diebenkorn, Insights into Architecture and Mesoamerican and Pueblo Ceramics. The museum is closed on Mondays and offers free admission on Thursdays from 4 pm.

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For aficionados of 20th century architecture, Palm Springs is a true oasis. It's worth a drive past the City Hall at 3200 East Tahquitz Canyon Way for a look at one of desert modernist Albert Frey's best-known designs. Frey also designed the Tramway's stylish visitor's center.

Combine a dose of iconic style and pop culture kitsch with a tour of Elvis Presley's mid-1960s home, where he and wife Priscilla spent their 1967 honeymoon followed nine months later by the birth of their daughter Lisa.

The house, at 1350 Ladera Circle in Palm Springs, has one-hour afternoon tours featuring docents dressed in character and photos are allowed. Reservations are advisable but not required. (www.elvishoneymoon.com/)

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