Author: Heather Cassell
American Airlines Bestows Hero Award To Presad Rennie
Envoy Lead Passenger Service Agent Presad Rennie didn’t think twice when she saw a toddler gasping for air and someone called out, “Does anyone know the Heimlich maneuver?”
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American Airlines Reacts Swiftly To Baby Stroller Incident
American Airlines launched an investigation and suspended the flight attendant accused of nearly hitting an infant with a stroller sending its mother into hysterical crying Friday, April 21.
Part of the incident was caught on video and posted to Facebook by Surain Adyanthaya with the caption: “OMG! AA Flight attendant violently took a stroller from a lady with her baby on my flight, hitting her and just missing the baby,” she captioned the clip.
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A Sweet Treat. The Pop-Up Museum of Ice Cream Opens in Los Angeles.
Dive Into Sprinkles. Be The Banana Split. Get A Sugar High at The Museum of Ice Cream. by Heather Cassell Life is a bowl of ice cream with sprinkles on top, at least for the Museum of Ice Cream, which opens in Los Angeles, California April 22. The museum allows attendees to dive into a […]
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Ethical Travel in the Digital Age
Talk about a buzzkill.
I’m in the middle of a trip to the Dominican Republic. It’s a lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and intersex-themed trip, part of a program called Tolerance Through Tourism. The idea is that by simply being an openly gay person and traveling in the developing world, you help people living in traditionally homophobic cultures to see that LGBTQI people are not so strange.
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A Wonderful World For Families At Disney’s Coronado Springs Resort In Orlando
Girl Roamer Nicole Discovered Families And Women Experience Well Deserved Luxury At Disney’s Coronado Springs Resort By Nicole Clausing Although Disney’s Coronado Springs Resort (1000 West Buena Vista Drive, 407-939-1000, disneyworld.disney.go.com/resorts/coronado-springs-resort) is not the perfect spot for a single gal, I have to acknowledge that the staff there did me two of the greatest kindnesses […]
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Orlando’s Unexpected Pleasures
Orlando looms large in the national conscience, attracting an outsized number of visitors every year—depending on who’s counting, it’s sometimes ranked as the most-visited U.S. city, and it’s always right there in the conversation with New York and Los Angeles.
What makes Orlando different from those places, though, is that while people visit New York for its sightseeing and cultural offerings, and are attracted to LA by an expectation of tasting the sunny lifestyle that is so much a part of the city’s character, Orlando is best known for what’s most unreal about it.
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Young World Traveler Found Strangled in Panama
A Columbia University graduate was found strangled to death in a popular Caribbean island destination off of Panama.
Catherine Johannet’s body was found along a wooded trail on Bastimentos Island, known as a tourist destination for its wildlife, beaches and hiking trails, February 5. Forensic analysis determined that she was strangled by someone with the strings of her pink pareo beach cover-up she had been wearing, reported Ensegundos.com.
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The Dinah: Empowering, Raising Women’s Voices Through Art & Music
The world’s largest women’s music festival, The Dinah, hits Palm Springs, California at the end of Women’s History Month and promises to bring glass shattering all-girl entertainment.
The party that attracts more than 15,000 women to the California desert kicks off March 29 – April 2.
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South America’s Only LGBTQI Surf Camp Makes Rainbow Waves
Surfing in one of the hottest surf spots for amateurs to pros in one of the world’s top 40 most beautiful bays among other LGBTQI surfers in South America, sounds like a dream.
It’s not though. This year marks the third annual Gay Surf Brazil, an LGBT surf camp in Santa Catarina at the famed Praia do Rosa (known as Rosa by locals) in Southern Brazil, March 25 – April 1.
New Leadership At The Charlie Palmer Group’s Northern California Hotels
Independent hotel marketing and sales expert Tamara DeMars and international revenue management and distribution expert Parul Suri will lead the group’s new marketing and sales initiatives at the Harvest Inn and Mystic Hotel, both by hotelier, restauranteur and chef Charlie Palmer, according to the January 17 news release from the group.
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Lone Gunman Opens Fire at Playa Del Carmen Nightclub
Five Dead, 15 Injured At A Playa Del Carmen Beach Nightclub by Heather Cassell Five festival goers were killed and nine others were wounded when a lone gunman opened fire at a music festival at a popular gay-friendly night club in one of the Yucatan Peninsula’s popular resort towns January 16. Electronic music lovers were […]
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A Nonchalant Encounter At The Cromwell International Hotel In London
It Wasn’t A Budget Nightmare At The Cromwell International Hotel in London, But It Wasn’t Thrilling Either by Heather Cassell You know you aren’t in a luxury hotel when you are greeted with a dirty entry way, sad close to sagging couches circling a scratched up coffee table, and the staff are only halfway happy […]
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