Author: Heather Cassell
Jake’s A Charming Palm Springs Lunch Spot
It’s simply charming. That was the first thought that flashed through my mind when Girls That Roam walked up to Jake’s Palm Springs (664 North Palm Canyon Drive; 760-327-4400; ; JakesPalmSprings.com) in Palm Springs, California, for lunch.
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Derogatory Words Against Women Explored By Anna Friemoth
Have you ever thought about the words used to describe certain women?
Fine Art Photographer Anna Friemoth has. The result is Words for Women her first solo show in New York at the Gallery 151 (132 West 18th Street; ; Gallery151.com) in New York’s Chelsea neighborhood on display until March 18.
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The Dublin Pass Adds New Attractions To Celebrate Centennial Of The Easter Rising
Dublin visitors can experience more of what the capital of Ireland has to offer with new additions to The Dublin Pass.
The additions the bundled site seeing pass come as Ireland celebrates the 100th anniversary of the Easter Rising in 1916, which lead to the creation of the Republic of Ireland.
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Exhibit Of Rare Womynist Posters Opens In San Francisco
Second to third wave feminists (womynists) of color are being celebrated with an exhibit “Feminists to Feministas: Women of Color in Prints and Posters” in San Francisco, California.
The exhibit opens with a reception, 7 to 9 p.m., at the San Francisco GLBT History Museum (4127 18th Street; 415-621-1107; GLBTHistory.org/Museum) tomorrow in the Castro.
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Pioneering Historic Railroad CEO Georgiana P. Clark Dies
Georgiana P. “Georgie” Clark, chairman of the board and president of Roaring Camp Railroad, died Wednesday, March 2. Her cause of death and age weren’t reported.
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Ancient Japanese Capital City Nara Seeks To Attract LGBTQ Visitors
Japan’s ancient capital city Nara is preparing to roll out the rainbow carpet joining a host of other Japanese cities opening its doors to LGBTQ travelers starting April 1.
The decision comes several months after the International Gay & Lesbian Travel Association completed a successful outreach campaign with the Japan Association of Travel Agents in Japan and solidified a partnership with the Pacific Asia Travel Association late last year.
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Bride Pride Sets Out To Make History In Provincetown This Fall
Provincetown is hoping to break a record by marrying at least 100 brides for Bride Pride on October 15 during Provincetown’s legendary Women’s Week, October 10 – 16.
Award-winning political humorist and LGBTQ icon who is a Provincetown, Massachusetts resident Kate Clinton will perform the nuptials.
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5 Women Take On Australia’s Nullarbor Plain In A Road Trip Adventure To Remember
Michaela Boland is always up for an adventure, whether it’s a three-month “Australian odyssey” with her husband and children or hitting the road on a cross-country adventure with four of her friends, she’s game.
So, when one of her friends suggested a trip from Adelaide to Perth along the Nullarbor Plain on the search for sculptor Sir Antony Gormley’s Salt Lake Sculptures at Lake Ballard in Western Australia she jumped at the opportunity.
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OUTsider Festival Keeps Austin Weird And Innovative
Austin is getting hot and heavy this weekend as queer artists pour into the capital of Texas for its second annual OUTsider Festival and Conference, themed “Sex in Public.”
The four-day festival and conference brings together LGBTQ and ally artists from all artistic disciplines from around the world to talk about their work, projects, and to inspire each other opened last night, but it runs through Sunday, February 21.
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Top 5 Romantic Wine Getaways
It’s hard not to be romantic in wine country. Vineyards simply give off that aura of love, natural beauty, whispered sweet nothings between the rows of plump burgundy and purple hue of grapes. No matter what time in the day – well ok dawn and dusk are a little bit more magical – wine country is just oozing with love.
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Real Love’s Fairytale
Love doesn’t have a formula and neither do relationships, says best-selling lesbian romance novelist K’Anne Meinel.
Unfortunately, relationships and love aren’t a romantic comedy or a dramatic love story that are neatly wrapped up in a happily ever after ending in your favorite lesbian love movie flickering before you in real life, but may be a little closer to “Fried Green Tomatoes.”
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Steamy Night Out At The Theater Valentine’s Day Weekend With ‘Reveal All Fear Nothing’
What if you could act out all of your dirtiest, deepest, sexiest secrets before an entire audience? Sound scary? Sound titillating?
Madison Young is doing just that in her adaptation of famed porn and sex educator Annie Sprinkle’s “Post Porn Modernist” performance piece in her show, “Reveal All Fear Nothing: A Journey in Sex, Love, Porn and Feminism.”
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