Author: Heather Cassell
It’s a World of Laughter with Comedian Dana Goldberg
For the past 10 years, comedian Dana Goldberg has created a laugh track around the world and she ready to do it all again for the next decade.
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California Cheese Gets Smart with New Cheese Trail App
by Heather Cassell Cheese lovers visiting California now have access to 150 cheeses made by 56 artesian cheese makers and creameries through a new free smart phone app by the California Cheese Trail. The new app available for iPhone offers easy access to farm tours and in-depth information about cheese makers throughout California along with […]
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A Sister Trip in “BOOM!”
It’s a musical trip down memory lane circa 1960s and 70s with the Calloway sisters in “BOOM!” at Feinstein’s at the Nikko in San Francisco.
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The Ticket: “Arcadia” at American Conservatory Theater
Tom Stoppard’s “Arcadia” was a huge hit when it opened in London in 1993. A couple of years later, the American Conservatory Theater’s then-newish artistic director Carey Perloff staged it at the nearby Stage Door Theatre in 1995, after a lengthy struggle to acquire the production rights.
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Sultry and Sweet Foster Opens Feinstein’s at the Nikko Hotel
San Francisco doesn’t know anything about a woman’s desperate need for air conditioning in a sweltering New York summer, but Sutton Foster heats up the room causing a need for a burst of cool air at the new Feinstien’s at the Nikko Hotel in San Francisco.
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Big Fun on the Big Gay Wine Train
My girlfriend leads they way with her karaoke rendition of “Copacabana” in the lounge car. No, this isn’t some post late-night snack dream sequence, but the real deal as we revel in laughter and wine on board Big Gay Wine Train.
An after dinner crowd gathers around the piano breaking out into their own favorite songs in a lounge car sing-a-long and chatting with each other about dinner and the four unique wines paired with the gourmet meal designed just for the guests.
This isn’t our first time on the wine train, but it is our first time with a bunch of gays… and it makes for a much livelier experience.
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Gay Ski Week Queenstown organizers raise funds for New Zealand AIDS Foundation
Queenstown’s annual gay and lesbian pride festival is back again and for the first time the event will raise funds for charity.
Attracting crowds from all over New Zealand, Australia and further afield, DNA Gay Ski Week QT is the Southern Hemisphere’s largest Winter Pride event, held in Queenstown from August 31 to September 8, 2013.
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Hotels are Joining the Free WiFi Wave, but there are Still Some Wipe Outs
How many times have you checked into a hotel, especially while on business, and grinded your teeth about not having free internet, or paying nearly $10 a day to get online for only one device?
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Threads: Dream Wedding Gowns that Fight Breast Cancer
by Heather Cassell Getting hitched? Feel a little extra special on your wedding day walking down the aisle in a gown that not only saved a bit of green for your honeymoon, but also helped save another woman’s life. What? Is that possible? Yes it is with Brides Against Breast Cancer, the breast cancer organization makes it […]
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SF Lesbian Philanthropists Tour LGBT South Africa
Anyone who knows Jody Cole, owner of Wild Rainbow African Safaris, know she’s passionate about Africa and loves sharing knowledge about the continent, but this time she wasn’t leading the tour, she was being led.
Jody, along with 17 other European and U.S. LGBT philanthropists – including San Franciscans Tracy Gary and her partner Inka von Sternenfels – participated in a first-of-its-kind donor trip to South Africa focused on LGBT issues in January. The trip was organized through Atlantic Philanthropies.
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Olivia Travel Joins a Global Coalition for a LGBT Rights
by Heather Cassell Olivia Companies, the lesbian luxury travel company, announced that it joined forces in a coalition of government and nonprofit organizations to form a new LGBT Global Development Partnership on April 5. “We are thrilled to be a part of this historic partnership with the U.S. government and the four other founding partners, and to once […]
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Go Girl: The Natural Adventures of Kim Powell
by Heather Cassell Every day is an adventure for Kim Powell, owner, operator and head naturalist of Blue Water Ventures in Santa Cruz, Calif. Take for example, late last month when she and a group of her kayakers saved a young sea lion that found refuge on one of the kayaks in the Moss Landing Harbor from what […]
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