Month: August 2014
Osteria Coppa Serves Up a Night to Remember
Hanging out at the bar waiting for our group to arrive, I watched the interactions between the bartenders and the patrons as they chatted and mixed drinks at one of San Mateo’s hottest restaurants on B Street, Osteria Coppa (139 South B Street; 650-579-6021; ; OsteriaCoppa.com).
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Be A Queen In The Queendom
Two years ago, the 30-year old spinstress found her nightlife partner in crime teaming up with Atlanta raised, TC, 34, producer of Xplosion Ent., which puts on several all-girl parties a month in Atlanta, to produce Queendom during Atlanta Black Pride, the annual Pride event during Labor Day Weekend in The A, what locals affectionately call Atlanta, that attracts up to 75,000 attendees.
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Oakland Is Girl Town
If San Francisco is the playground for gay boys, Oakland is the world of queer girls.
Oakland’s got edge, that cutting edge that is Shane, from the L Word, cool, you know what I’m saying?
Oakland is the sunnier, funkier and hipper younger sister to the posh and sophisticated San Francisco. Once considered the “Black City” or Harlem West, Oakland rebranded its coolness being dubbed the Brooklyn of the West Coast within the past decade and it has recently come into its own, but hey, the ladies – gay and straight – all knew that.
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Iconic Sheila E Beats To Her Own Drum
Sheila Escovedo, better known as Emmy and Grammy nominated Sheila E, is singing her own songs and drumming to her own beat these days.
Sheila E hit it big in the 1980s with songs “The Glamorous Life,” “A Love Bizarre,” and her collaboration with her friend and former lover Prince, “Erotic City.”
The Oakland native, who currently lives in Los Angeles, is following up the released her latest album, Icon, at the beginning of the summer with her tell-all memoire, The Beat of My Own Drum: A Memoir, available September 2.
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Amber’s Got Pride In Oakland
It’s a cause for celebration! Oakland Pride is turning the big five this weekend and is throwing its first ever Pride Parade.
The Labor Day Weekend Pride festival is the second largest Pride event in Northern California attracting up to an estimated 50,000 attendees to Oakland, Calif. and wraps up the East Bay’s summer festivals.
“We want to have a summer of amazing stuff in Oakland,” says Amber Todd, co-founder and chair of Oakland Pride.
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It’s Christiana’s World At The Womyn’s Stage At Oakland Pride
Women rule the world, at least at the Womyn’s Stage at Oakland Pride, August 31.
Oakland has such a strong lesbian community, given the fact that it has one of the highest queer girl populations per capita than any other major American city, according to the Williams Institute, so it is only fitting that Oakland Pride has a strong Womyn’s Stage to support the local community.
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Indulge Yourself At Dykeadence
If the girls are being sinful in Las Vegas, they are indulging in debauchery in New Orleans and this is the weekend to do it at Dykeadence.
Dykadence is the queer women’s event that is thrown in conjunction with Southern Decadence, a popular festive gay celebration that’s been going strong for 42 years during Labor Day Weekend in the French Quarter of New Orleans.
This year’s theme is “Sexy At Six” and the weekend is “loaded with more glittery, enthralling, sexy, titillating events” for the thousands of attendees, August 29 – 31.
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EDEN Pacific Northwest Announces Funny Girls Julie, D’Lo and Belinda Headlining the Women’s Weekend
Get ready to laugh, cry tears of joy and most importantly you will have a great time at EDEN Pacific Northwest this year with funny girls Julie Goldman, D’Lo and Belinda Carroll.
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Aqua Girl’s Foundation Head Schwartz Steps Down
Partying for a cause, Robin Schwartz, executive director of the Aqua Foundation for Women, which is the beneficiary of the famed Aqua Girl, the all-girl party in Miami’s South Beach is stepping down.
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Rev Up Your Engines: The Missouri Ozarks Offer Five Enticing Motorcycle Routes
Motorcycle enthusiasts can add a new trail to their list this fall, Missouri introduced the Ozark Hellbender.
Following in the tradition of North Carolina’s Tail of the Dragon and Tennessee’s Devil’s Triangle the ride had to have a catchy name to entice motorcyclists throughout the U.S. and the world to experience the scenic, stomach-churning roadway with plenty of sharp “twisties” and long, banked “sweepers.”
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Hot in Cleveland: 3 Sizzling Culinary Delights
Cleveland has become quite the culinary scene in recent years. Sometimes it seems like you can’t throw a chopping knife without hitting a celebrity chef.
It doesn’t hurt that preeminent Chef Michael Symon, owner of Lola Bistro (2058 East 4th Street; 216-621-5652; LolaBistro.com), appears as one of the four culinary hosts weekdays on ABC’s popular “The Chew” touts the gastronomic charms of Cleveland whenever he can.
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It’s A Victory Party: The Dinah Hosts All-Girl Party for Gay Games 9
By Heather Cassell It wouldn’t be a party without The Dinah girls! This week to celebrate the gold, silver and bronze wins Club Skirts promoter Mariah Hanson and her team in association with Aqua Girl are hosting the official all-girl bash “The Victory Party” at the Gay Games 9 in Cleveland, Ohio. “[We] plan to […]
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