Day: August 30, 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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