Author: Heather Cassell

3Girls Theatre Company co-founders (left to right) Lee Brady, Suze Allen, and AJ Baker (Photo: Courtesy of 3Girls Theatre Company)

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.

Medicine Creek Tasting (Photo: Courtesy of Olympia-Lacey-Tumwater Visitor & Convention Bureau)

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.

Chad Deverman, playing Rob, and Madeline H.D. Brown, playing Emma, in AJ Baker’s "Entanglement.” (Photo: Jim Norrena)

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?

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.

Rica Sunga-Kwan scoops up Chai Chocolate Cardamom at Churn Urban Creamery’s pop-up ice cream cart. (Photo: Heather Cassell)

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.

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.

Comedian Priya Prasad (Photo: Courtesy of the Zee TV Desi Comedy Fest)

Being Funny In A Man’s World, Desi Women Comedians Speak Out

It’s still a man’s world in the standup comedy. There’s no joking about it. Then factor in being South Asian. What’s the immediate image that comes to mind? If you are in America, which we are, it might be a nerdy computer engineer who speaks English with a heavy accent. Yeah, no. Mix up the gender what image do you have now? You draw a blank, well you used to until Mindy Kaling arrived in American homes through television shows, “The Office” and then her own show “The Mindy Project.”

The DoubleTree – Westminster (Photo: Courtesy of DoubleTree-Westminster / Hilton Worldwide)

Luxury All The Way At The DoubleTree – Westminster

The bellmen were at our Uber van door and they were already loading up our luggage onto a cart and guiding us to be checked into the DoubleTree – Westminster (30 John Islip Street, +44 20 7630 1000, , doubletree3.hilton.com/en/hotels/united-kingdom/doubletree-by-hilton-hotel-london-westminster-LONWMDI/index.html) in London before we knew what was happening.

Comedian Mona Shaikh performing at the Comedy Club.

Desi Women Storm The Stage At Desi Comedy Festival

This year’s Zee TV Desi Comedy Fest features the most women comics to date in the festival’s three year history.

The festival features 16 women comedians out of the lineup of 50 comedians who are descending upon the Bay Area from all over the world for the two week festival.

The festival kicks-off today (August 11) and runs to August 21 throughout the San Francisco Bay Area.

History-Making Transgender Opera, ‘Lili Elbe,’ Stars Lucia Lucas

Pink Rickshaws: Women-Owned Vehicles To Hit The Streets Of Some Indian Cities Soon

JetBlue Taps Woman In A Historic First To Lead A Major US Airline

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