Month: August 2016
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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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 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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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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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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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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A Stage Of Our Own
When you open up your Playbill how many plays are actually by women? The sad fact is that there is a dearth of women playwrights’ works being produced by mainstream American Theater Companies.
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Visitors To Olympia Can Now Create Their Own Tasting Tour Of The Region
There’s more to Washington than Seattle and Walla Walla, there’s Olympia. Birthplace of the Riot Grrrls of the 1990s, Washington’s capital city poised at the southern end of Puget Sound on Budd Inlet is celebrating its roots that have little to do with indie girl punk rock music.
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New Works Festival Celebrates 5 Years
How would the story have been different if William Shakespeare or Christopher Marlow were women? Would their plays have made it to the stage? Would the world celebrate their works with reiterations of new interpretations of performances? Or would they have been forgotten with time, like Aphra Behn, before Virginia Woolf and feminist scholars resurrected her memory and plays?
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Shane Co., Zales Engage Same-Sex Couples
Love won and now mainstream jewelers Shane Co. and Zales are eyeing to attract lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender individuals seeking to pop the question and tie the knot into their stores.
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For The Love Of Ice Cream! Churn Urban Creamery Scoops Up A Healthy Summer Treat
Ice cream is always called for in the summer. Who can forget the delight of licking the creamy goodness of your flavor or flavors of choice while holding it all in a crunchy graham cracker cone as fast as you can before it begins to drip onto your hand as a kid or an adult?
I mean, there’s a reason why ice cream is everyone’s favorite treat. It certainly is Rica Sunga-Kwan, 31, owner and ice cream maker of Churn Urban Creamery, a boutique pop-up ice cream cart that has been appearing around San Francisco and San Mateo since April, favorite food.
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Hotel Credit Card Hack Puts A Damper On Summer Vacation
At least 20 big name hotels in the HEI Hotels & Resorts family are known to have been hacked.
The hotelier that has some Hilton, Hyatt, IHG, Independent, F&B Operations, Marriott, and Starwood hotels throughout the United States in its portfolio, announced on its website today.
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