Year: 2016

The view of Florence from San Mineato al Monte. (Photo: Nicole Clausing)

A City With A View: Florence

In the 1985 film A Room with a View, we are memorably introduced to two of the main characters—both born to England’s Edwardian-era upper class—as they are in the middle of an epic sulk. The pair, played by Helena Bonham Carter and Maggie Smith, are aggrieved at discovering that the rooms they have been assigned at their pensione do not have the view they felt they were promised.

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Lindsay Davenport gives New Jersey's Lisa Webber a high five after Webber's put-away at the net at the Wailea Fantasy Camp clinic Friday morning. (Photo: Courtesy of the Four Seasons Maui)

Four Seasons Maui’s Pro Tennis Camp Marks 10 Years

Tennis Enthusiasts Will Enjoy Learning From Some Of The World’s Leading Tennis Pros During A Four Day Intensive Clinic At The Four Seasons Maui In Wailea by Heather Cassell Top tennis pros Justin Gimelstob, Tracy Austin, Lindsay Davenport and Tom Gullikson will teach avid tennis players how to improve their game at 10th Annual Wailea […]

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Models walk the runway in Hawaiian style at the HONOLULU Magazine Fashion Week 2015 Manuhealii Fashion Show. (Photo: Courtesy of Honolulu Fashion Week / Ross D. Hamamura)

Honolulu Fashion Week 2016 Celebrates Island Style

The Hawaiian Islands’ got style and its ready to show it off and say aloha at the third annual Honolulu Fashion Week announced September 15.

Designers from around the world and the islands will descend upon Hawaii’s cultural center in Honolulu, November 10 – 13.

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Debra Lee, left, and Mary Bush, right, board directors at Marriott International, Inc. (Photo: Courtesy of Marriott International, Inc.)

Marriott Directors Named Most Influential Black Corporate Directors

Global Hotelier Marriott International, Inc.’s Board Members Mary K. Bush and Debra L. Lee Named Two Of Savoy Magazine’s 2016 Most Influential Black Corporate Directors

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Wake up and walk out onto your own lanai with the perfect view of the Pacific Ocean in Maui. (Photo: Courtesy of the Ritz-Carlton Kapalua)

Ritzier Than Ever In Maui

The Newly Transformed Ritz-Carlton Kapalua Takes A World Class Stay Up A Notch by Heather Cassell If seclusion and romance is what you are seeking, The Ritz-Carlton, Kapalua (1 Ritz Carlton Drive, 808-669-6200, ritzcarlton.com/en/hotels/kapalua-maui) might be exactly the place you want to escape to. The AAA Five-Diamond luxury resort is far away from the crowds […]

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IGLTA Lesbian Travelers

Young LGBT Travel Professionals Scholarship Application Opens For 2017

The International Gay & Lesbian Travel Association announced that it is accepting applications for the Building Bridges Scholarship Program for young lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender travel professional.

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Entering into Cosy’s Apartments Cadet courtyard, where there is a garage near the front entrance of the hotel’s courtyard, before the pathway into the lobby. (Photo: Hotel)

Feel Almost Like A Parisian At Cosy’s Apartments Cadet

Arriving in the dead of night, the tiny street that makes up one side of a triangle on sections of Rue la Fayette and Rue du Faubourg Montmartre in the Grands Boulevard neighborhood we would have been lost and confused upon arriving at our hotel.

Approaching the building it looked like all of the other businesses along the quite street, closed for the night, rather than a hotel or apartment building, which is what we were expecting. The metal roll down door was closed. This was our introduction to Cosy’s Apartments Cadet (7 Rue Cadet, +33 1 75 00 18 44, . cosys-residences.com) in Paris, France.

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Girls motor race at She’z Moto Camp in Petaluma, California. (Photo: Courtesy of She’z Moto Camp)

Girlz MotoCamp Changes Name To She’z Moto Camp

“To me, She’z Moto means she is everything motorcycles, she’s her own person, she’s strong, she’s awesome, and she’s ready to ride. It really encompasses what I think of as a female motorcycle rider,” says Shelina, in She’z Moto Camp’s August 25 news release.

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Corinne Erni appointed as curator of special projects at the Parrish Art Museum in Long Island, New York. (Photo: 27East.com)

Corinne Erni Appointed Parrish Art Museum’s Curator Of Special Projects

Corinne Erni was appointed as curator of special projects at the Parrish Art Museum announced in Long Island’s East End.

Corinne takes over from her predecessor, Andrea Grover September 1.

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Reggae fushion artist Diana King (Courtesy of Diana King)

Breaking Free: Diana King Is Free To Be Herself

“Shy Guy” singer Diana King has been rocking the world with her reggae fusion melodies since the 1990s, but it hasn’t been until the last five years that she’s truly fell freedom.

It doesn’t matter that she’s lived in the United States since she was 26-years old when she signed a deal with Sony Music and her music career took off.

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LezWrites! 2015 at 3Girls Theatre Company's New Works Festival (Photo: Courtesy of 3Girls Theatre Company)

Jewelle Gomez To Present New Play At New Works Festival At LezWrites! 2016

Author, Playwright, and Activist Jewelle Gomez [LINK] is thrilled to be co-curating the LezWrites! 2016 reading at this year’s fifth anniversary 3Girls Theatre Company’s New Works Festival Friday night.

Jewelle along with resident playwright Margery Kreitman will present 13 pieces – some solo and others with small casts – each piece being up to 10 minutes long to audience members August 26 at 7:30 p.m. at the Thick House (1695 18th Street, 415-746-9238, thickhouse.org) in San Francisco, California.

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Pro-Choice rally in Washington, DC (Photo: Courtesy of Twitter.com)

New Pro-Choice Generation Has A Stage To Voice Themselves

In a perfect world, women would have control of their bodies.

However, the war on women continues and has rebounded stronger than ever within recent years thanks to the U.S. House and Senate currently “under anti-choice control,” says Jennifer Roberts, co-founder and producer of ReproRights! Theater.

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