Springs

Last summer, Giddens was making her new album of traditional banjo and fiddle tunes with Justin Robinson, “������ Did the Blackbird Say to the Crow,” and they were recording a few songs at Mill Prong House in Red Springs, N.C.

In Palm Springs, temperatures peaked at 117 degrees.

“That was the hottest temperature of the year by a good margin” for Palm Springs, said Sebastian Westerink, a National Weather Service meteorologist in San Diego.

Monday was forecast to again hit 117 degrees in Palm Springs, while the Inland Empire and some L.A.

Paul Bradley Carr, a tech journalist turned Palm Springs bookstore owner and novelist, takes that possibility a step further in this provocative thriller by centering the action on StoicAI’s LLIAM, an AI algorithm that has become indispensable in everyday life.