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  • 50 years of Billy Reed’s

    Matthew Wilkinson

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    50 years of Billy Reed’s

    It’s one of those places everybody knows.  Locals, obviously.  But over the years, I’ve been surprised at how many tourists and visitors to Palm Springs know it. It’s not fancy or high-priced.  It doesn’t have a Hollywood backstory, which so many Palm Springs restaurants do – like “Frank Sinatra once tipped his waiter $20,000 here…

  • Topophilia Au Jus

    Matthew Wilkinson

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    Topophilia Au Jus

    I’ll begin with the title of this post. “Topophilia” comes from the Greek topos meaning ‘place’ and philia meaning ‘love of’ – so it literally means the love of a place and is usually mixed with the shared sense of cultural identity that people in that place develop.  It’s why people from New York City…