Eric Haskell is a professor of French and humanities at Scripps College. He also works in the field of garden history and landscape aesthetics, and has curated over a dozen exhibitions including Privileged Precincts: The Pavilions and Gardens of Marly, The D-sert de Retz: A Late Eighteenth-Century French Folly Garden, Transcending Mimesis: The French Illustrated Book, and Picturing Wonderland: Illustrations for Carroll's Alice. On Wednesday, April 22, he will give a talk at the Bing Theater at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art for the Decorative Arts Council, on -Sites of Seduction: The French Garden and its Influence on European and American Style-
Paul Tollett is founder of Coachella Music and Arts Festival, which takes place on Saturday and Sunday, April 26 and 27 at the Empire Polo Field in Indio.