Month: March 2013

Chow: Latin fusion at Casa de Frida

Stepping into Casa de Frida (450 South Palm Canyon Dr., Palm Springs, Calif. 92262, 760-459-1681, , CasadeFrida.com) is Latin elegance at its best. The recently opened upscale Latin restaurant in Palm Springs, Calif. is a dining experience that shouldn’t be missed by travelers venturing to the desert oasis.

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Pillow Talk: MontBleu Casino and Resort

We were excited to stay at the MontBleu Casino and Resort (55 Highway 50, Lake Tahoe, NV 89449, 800-367-4554, , MontBleuResort.com).

A year and a half had passed since the former Cesar’s Palace was taken over by the new ownership. The new owners promised to transpose this resort into an affordable chic lodging option at the end of the row of budget to high-end hotels and resorts lining South Lake Tahoe Boulevard before the highway turns the corner to head to the north shore of the lake.

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Girl Beats with Havana Brown

Grooving to her own beat, Australian-born Havana Brown has followed the music to London and around the world touring with Britney Spears, Katy Perry, Lady Gaga and the Pussycat Dolls and she has worked with Rihanna, Chris Brown, Enrique Iglesias and Pitbull us to name a few.

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Dinah-licious

Oh, how sweet Dinah is with thousands of women playing golf, swimming, and having fun under the desert sun. Dinah Shore Weekend just keeps getting sweeter.

This year an estimated 20,000 women from around the world will descend on Palm Springs for five days and nights of fun in the sun, partying all night and much more at the 23rd Dinah Shore Weekend, April 3 – 7.

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Alternative country rock singer Brandi Carlile

Sweet Rocks the Hard Rock Vallarta

It’s another Sweet adventure to Mexico. Listening to Shannon Wentworth, CEO and founder of the do-good eco-friendly lesbian travel company Sweet, the company’s forthcoming trip to Hard Rock Vallarta simply sounds like paradise.

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Girls That Roam is now a Certified Travel Ambassador of Sonoma

It is yet another beautiful day in Sonoma County especially in the spring with its rolling hills neatly lined with springtime vines starting to bloom.

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Go Girl: Red Rock Sky View with Arizona Helicopter Adventure

If you’ve never been on a helicopter tour, I highly suggest it. Yes, it’s a splurge, but if you are a view seeker the sights are out of this world.

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Pillow Talk: L’Auberge de Sedona

Sedona, cradled among the famed Red Rocks of Arizona’s Red Rock State Park, this charming small town is known for its romantic, serene and spiritual location as well as its optimal outdoor adventures.

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Threads: Boyish Style Takes the Catwalk

Butch fashion has been hitting the runway this past year from Russia to the U.K. to the U.S.

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Backstage: Fortune Feimster is Sooo Silly

If you don’t know Fortune Feimster you will soon. The “Chelsea Lately” writer is rapidly becoming a comedy star in her own right.

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Pillow Talk: Hilton Palm Springs

It was first class service with an air of classy casual friendliness from the moment I arrived at the Hilton Palm Springs (400 E. Tahquitz Canyon Way; 760-320-6868; PalmSprings.Hilton.com).

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Ski Diva’s Vermont Mysteries Take Readers for a Wild Spin

Self-described ski bum Stacey Curtis flees to a small ski resort in Vermont to get over a bad breakup, but ends up finding a corpse with a chainsaw chain wrapped around his neck in an empty condo. She covertly ends up investigating his murder. Within the first few pages of Double Black (Ski Diva Mystery), Wendy Clinch’s gripping debut mystery novel, we realize we are in the hands of a tough and unsentimental writer who knows this small New England town terrain all too well.

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