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At this year’s Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, End Overdose, a Burbank-based organization, had a booth near the festival’s EDM stages offering naloxone training, free doses and a variety of swag.

For Palm Springs and other desert cities of the Coachella Valley, live comedy has traditionally meant names like Chris Rock or Ron White filling the area’s numerous casino showrooms, or Kathy Griffin and Wanda Sykes stopping in at the McCallum Theater.

“The comedy scene in the Coachella Valley has grown tremendously in the last year. To some people, the desert is a place where nothing beautiful can grow. But smaller venues are helping talent find their voice and giving audiences a glimpse of what the desert has been cultivating.”

Dacoda Miracle’s annual Coachella Valley Comedy Festival recently followed suit for its fourth incarnation, moving from Thousand Palms to just down the block.

A Coachella Valley district is plugging away at developing its own program, which could get off the ground next spring.