Ace Palm Springs by A Floral Frenzy.

Gothic Tropic plays this weekend at Ace Hotel & Swim Club in Palm Springs as part of Cutty Sark’s Stay True weekend showcase. It’s gonna be rad.

Photo by Joseph Guzman

Our new Palm Springs Kids’ Pullover Robe is a shout-out to all of our pint-sized people worldwide — who couldn’t use a head start on a lifetime of laid-back loungeability? It’s made from soft cotton flannel, and sports the familiar Ace Palm Springs Moroccan black stripes design with an oversized hood and knotted cord toggles. Sportier than the full-length version, this robe is suitable for playtime or arts and crafts in flannel-ly comfort. Grab it on our online shop, and check out all of our stuff for kids.

Pages of Florencio Zavala’s sketchbook — Flo’s teaching an illustration workshop this weekend at Summer School starting today, our semi-biannual art-making-while-imbibing situation at Ace Palm Springs. School Night Los Angeles is bringing down a bunch of great people to give workshops by the pool. All of this is going down during AfterFest, our concomitant nightly fête running throughout the Palm Springs International Film Festival. Making things is really fun, and so is watching things — it all begins this evening. Let us join together in holy lounging.

Stills from Blancanieves, a silent, monochromatic re-invention of the Grimm fairytale Snow White by director Pablo Berger. The film is set in 1920s Spain and brings to life a gored matador, a wicked nurse, a band of dwarves and a phosphorescent poisonous apple. Blancanieves breaks its mesmerizing message in a champagne bottle over the hull of the Palm Springs International Film Festival tomorrow at the festival’s opening night. Standby tickets are available at the door only. Join us afterward for Afterfest — running throughout the festival — where you can catch late night festivities, good food and some tipsy armchair film criticism by the hot tub. We still have some rooms open this weekend, and you can try your hand at winning two nights from Kiehl’s — who are also working with us to support the Desert AIDS Project during the festival — at Ace Palm Springs if you enter by noon PST Thursday. ¡Olé!

We’re excited to partner with Kiehl’s during the Palm Springs International Film Festival in donating $5,000 to support the Desert AIDS Project — December 1 was National AIDS Awareness Day and we share a passion for carrying our support for DAP’s important work into the new year. Join us during AfterFest at Ace Palm Springs throughout the festival — book with code FILMFEST and get $25 toward food and drinks and $25 toward any treatment at the Feel Good Spa. You can also enter to win two nights from Kiehl’s here. Raunchy bingo, good music and new friends await you.

An educational poster during Rise Up’s heyday.

Now may be a good time to embrace any dormant or robust strains of agoraphobia in you and your loved ones. Hold each other close, and do it in a nice robe. Our Ace Palm Springs Long Robe and Pullover Robe are available for last minute and fashionably late elves looking for a good gift for just about anyone. Order on our shop with overnight delivery by 4pm PST today and it’ll get there in time. In other words, it will hurry up and get there fast so the recipient can lay around in it as soon as possible.

This could be you Monday — rooms at Ace Palm Springs start at $69 that night. Get your mind outta the gutter! Or don’t.

Photobooth at Ace Hotel & Swim Club in Palm Springs, captured by Leah Bergman of Freutcake.