Author: Heather Cassell
Naturally Awestruck at Yosemite
Fall is finally making an appearance. The trees are turning colors and the last gasps of summer are gripping California. Now is probably one of the best times of the year to slip away to Yosemite National Park (209-372-0200), which is located in the northeastern part of the Golden State, about a three hour drive from San Francisco.
October kicks off Yosemite’s celebration of 125 years since it officially became a national park. Next year also marks the centennial of America’s national parks.
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Wendy Gavinski Designs Divas SnowGear for the Snow Girl in You
How many times has this happened to you: You’re going out snowmobiling and you realize you don’t have a thing to wear?
Okay, maybe it’s never happened to you. It’s never happened to me, either. But it could: over 1.4 million snowmobiles (“sleds,” to those in the know) are registered in this country, and the numbers are growing. Women are making up an increasing percentage of the total, and so every year, more and more women find themselves ready to hit the trails with almost literally nothing to wear.
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Women are ‘Born to be Wild’
In August, when the Highway Runaways roared into San Francisco on their Harley’s from Brooklyn, I suddenly started to think about Scarlett, our Ninja 500R Kawasaki, in the garage and hitting the road down the coast or up to wine country with Super G as her “back seat Betty.”
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Pom Pom Girl: Orlando’s Greatest (and Edgiest) Cheerleader
One day last year, a man in Seattle took delivery of 20 turkey sandwiches. What’s so remarkable about that? Well, they weren’t delivered by a college student in a beat-up car. They came via FedEx overnight delivery. And they weren’t made in the Emerald City. They came from a sandwich shop in Orlando, Florida.
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LGBTQ Travel Gets Personalized
It’s an exciting new world for LGBTQ travelers seeking their next big adventure.
Will it be a vacation in one of California’s famed wine regions? Cooking classes in Tuscany? A river cruise through Europe? A gay or lesbian party weekend in Spain or Thailand? A family beach getaway? What will we do? … or better yet, Where will we go?
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Dance Until You Drop: DJ And Club Promoter Page Hodel
Page Hodel is legendary in the San Francisco Bay Area as a fixture of its nightlife. For 35 years she has been spinning the hits at nearly every San Francisco nightclub – gay and straight – as well as being a lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer party promoter. Many people recall two of her legendary dance clubs, the BOX and club Q, to name a couple and she has no plans on stopping.
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LUNAFEST Celebrates 15 Years
LUNAFEST kicks-off its 15th year of its women’s film festival with the world premiere today in San Francisco, California with the screening of six short films and the release of a new study about the barriers women filmmakers face.
San Franciscan women and their friends will be the first to see the films made by, for, and about women hosted by representatives of Luna Bar on October 8 at the Herbst Theater (401 Van Ness Avenue; 415-392-4400; SFWMpac.org/Herbst-Theatre) in San Francisco, California at the festival’s opening event.
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It’s An All Girl Competition For The First-Ever Glorious Bites Challenge
Gloria Ferrer Caves & Vineyard is hosting its first-ever Glorious Bites Challenge with two women wine and food stars this Saturday.
The and sparkling wine tasting will be hosted by award-winning wine expert Leslie Sbrocco and the cooking challenge will be judged by guests and Season 10 Finalist of Bravo’s Top Chef Brooke Williamson, October 10, 11 a.m. – 2 p.m. at the famed vineyard on the hill (23555 Arnold Drive; 707-933-1917; GloriaFerrer.com) in Sonoma, California.
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Nepal’s First Transgender Woman To Fly Using New Passport Denoting ‘Other’
Bhumika Shrestha tests out her new passport denoting “other” as her gender at Tribhuvan International Airport in Kathmandu, Nepal by Heather Cassell Looking at Bhumika Shrestha as she makes her way through Tribhuvan International Airport in Kathmandu, Nepal, an average onlooker would only notice that she’s a beautiful young woman. What onlookers don’t know is […]
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Hitting The Great Pink Road In October
The travel industry is going pink for Breast Cancer Awareness Month giving travelers reason to take to the air or hit the road and book a room during October.
National Breast Cancer Awareness Month was established 30 years ago in 1985.
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Access Denied: Strip Club’s Ungentlemanly Behavior Toward Two Ladies
It wasn’t a happy hour when a couple was denied entry into Miami’s “ultimate gentleman’s club” during a recent vacation to the Sunshine State.
The reason? Gigi Otálvaro-Hormillosa and Heather Cox were denied entry into Dean’s Gold strip club in North Miami Beach by a hostess and a manager because they were unaccompanied “by a man” recently while on vacation, according to multiple media reports.
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Willard Hicks Refashions the Steakhouse and New American Cuisine
There must be crack or something going on in the kitchen at Willard Hicks (280 East Campbell Avenue; 408-374-5000; WillardHicksGrill.com) in Campbell, Calif., that the chef is putting into the food, that’s all I gotta say.
Since my first experience right after they opened several months ago my friends and I have been going back over and over again and dragging our friends and partners with us. We can’t get enough of what they call “New American Fare,” which is a twist on favorite American comfort foods with Southwest and Southern influence. It doesn’t matter, the shit is good, I mean extraordinarily good.
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