Month: May 2016
Girls Rule Tel Aviv Pride 2016
This week Tel Aviv is going to be filled with pride as “The City that Never Stops” gets down for Tel Aviv Pride, May 29 – June 4.
The Pride Parade is Saturday, June 3.
This year’s event’s theme is Women For A Change, celebrating queer women and their role in the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community.
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A Woman’s Spin Launches SPiN San Francisco
A hip social club that aims to bring San Franciscans of all stripes together has opened in the heart of San Francisco with a woman leading the way.
Priya Sen is SPiN Global’s first woman to head up the launch of the new pingpong social club, SPiN San Francisco (690 Folsom Street, 415-636-5995, SanFrancisco.WeAreSPiN.com) across from the Moscone Center and Yerba Buena Gardens.
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Girl On Girl Kiss & Arrest In Paradise Delivers $80,000 Payout
Was this Hawaii 5-0? The danger: Two women holding hands and kissing in a grocery store in Honolulu, Hawaii.
They will receive an $80,000 settlement the federal court in Honolulu announced May 20.
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Dana Goldberg Will Fill The Emerald City With Women’s Laughter At Seattle Women’s Pride
Comedian Dana Goldberg is going to get the women all riled up with laugher headlining the third annual Seattle Women’s Pride on June 18.
The sellout all-girl party is the event of the year bringing out more than 500 women to Capitol Hill to kick off the Emerald City’s Pride Week.
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Pom Pom’s Teahouse and Sandwicheria Takes Sandwiches to New Heights
Want to impress your date in Orlando? Take them to one of the city’s many fine gourmet eateries.
Want to find out if your date is The One? Take them to Pom Pom’s Teahouse and Sandwicheria (67 North Bumby Avenue; 407-894-0865; PomPomSteahouse.com) in Orlando, Florida.
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Celebrating Women: San Francisco’s Women’s Building Hosts 45th Anniversary Gala
Walking into the Women’s Building in San Francisco earlier this month Girls That Roam felt like we were taken back in time to the politically awakened and turbulent 1970s of the civil rights, gay rights, and women’s movements.
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Love & Coffee Takes These Ladies To The White House
Listening to Brooke McDonnell wax on about the notes in her espresso while sitting on the steps of Pioneer Square in Portland during the early 1990s, Helen Russell, who was enjoying her mocha with the whip cream piled high, suddenly had an idea: let’s open coffee shops in San Francisco.
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Off the Beaten Path in the Dominican Republic
As I dig my toes into warm Caribbean sand and take another sip from the straw sticking out of the fresh coconut in my hand, I review my trip so far: In three days in the Dominican Republic, I’ve sipped rum, eaten gourmet food, splashed in the Caribbean Sea, strolled a World Heritage site, frolicked at a rainforest waterfall, and had the chance to gamble at a casino. I take another sweet swig, lie back, and let a smug thought momentarily take over:
Good thing I’m not acting like a typical tourist.
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