Mad About the Plaza A fortune to chase, a desert highway and a spectacular shortage of good judgment: Hollywood gave the Coachella Valley quite a close-up in It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World. Now the laughter is heading back to Palm Springs—with an invitation to dress for the madness. Stanley Kramer’...

Musk’s Louisiana Spaceport Elon Musk is expanding his bid to dominate commercial spaceflight with plans for an enormous new SpaceX launch center on Louisiana’s Gulf Coast. SpaceX announced that it intends to invest $100 billion in “Starbase Louisiana,” a 125,000-acre complex near Pecan Island in Ver...