Blogs
Shucks To You! Willi’s Seafood and Raw Bar Has The Oysters & Great Food To Boot
The best spot to get oysters in Healdsburg is at Willi’s Seafood & Raw Bar (403 Healdsburg Avenue, 707-433-9191, starkrestaurants.com/willis_seafood.html) in California.
Ms. H. and I bellied up to the bar to watch our expert oyster shucker, Kayla, work her magic on the Beau Soleil, Blue Point, Drakes Bay, Kumamoto, and a bevy of other oysters after a morning of wine tasting.
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Grand Canyon Names First Female Superintendent
The Grand Canyon will get its first female superintendent following a sexual harassment scandal that has rocked the world renowned park in Arizona.
Christine “Chris” Lehnertz, the superintendent of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, will take the lead at the Grand Canyon National Park, announced National Park Service Director Jon Jarvis on July 19.
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It’s The Cheese For The New California Cheese Trail App
It’s cheesy goodness along California’s Cheese Trail.
Now it’s easier than ever to find the more than 70 creameries in the Golden State with the California Cheese Trail’s new app launched July 19.
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Kellie Hines Talks About Life In Golf And Women On The Green In Hawaii
It was a great day out on the green in Kauai, not because it was a particularly good day to play golf. It was actually a soggy day as it rained and the clouds continued to lift off of the course on Kauai, Hawaii.
Hey, I was golfing in Hawaii and not only that, I was golfing with a lady expert, Kellie Hines, who was general manager of Puakea Golf Course in Lihue. In November, she moved onto become head golf professional at Hokuala Ocean Course, formerly the Kauai Lagoons Golf Club – Kiele Course, at Timbers Resorts.
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FlightCar Shutters Doors Proving Sharing Isn’t For Everyone
It was a great idea. Rent out your car while you’re away on vacation or a business trip rather than allow your car to collect dust and rack up parking fees at the airport. When you returned from your trip your car was detailed, filled up with gas, and you made a little chump change.
That was FightCar’s business model.
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Portland Is A Bountiful Feast For Carrie Welch
Driving into her office recently, Carrie Welch, co-founder of Feast Portland, pinched herself to make sure she wasn’t simply dreaming as she cruised through the quaint streets of Portland, Oregon.
“It feels like a dream. It really does,” she says. “You know how people say that expression, ‘Oh I’m living the dream,’ and a lot of times these days they say that ironically like they don’t really mean it, but I do. I truly do.”
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Green & Free Is The Fashion During Rainbow Fashion Week
Fashionistas of all stripes will delight this week with a dazzling platter of colors, patterns, prints and styles that will set the tone for the fall looks at the third annual Rainbow Fashion Week, June 17-24.
Upward of more than 25,000 fashion-forward enthusiasts will enjoy designs from celebrity couturiers to emerging designers.
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Madison Paige Makes a Big Splash with Debut
Madison Paige Delivers Pop With Soul At The Dinah Debut & Hits The Summer Girl Party Circuit by Nicole Clausing When the Goddess of Music takes something away, she often gives something back. The Dinah 2016 marks the end of a career for one longtime lesbian favorite act: Canadian band Hunter Valentine are calling it […]
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Pom Pom’s Teahouse and Sandwicheria Takes Sandwiches to New Heights
Want to impress your date in Orlando? Take them to one of the city’s many fine gourmet eateries.
Want to find out if your date is The One? Take them to Pom Pom’s Teahouse and Sandwicheria (67 North Bumby Avenue; 407-894-0865; PomPomSteahouse.com) in Orlando, Florida.
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Love & Coffee Takes These Ladies To The White House
Listening to Brooke McDonnell wax on about the notes in her espresso while sitting on the steps of Pioneer Square in Portland during the early 1990s, Helen Russell, who was enjoying her mocha with the whip cream piled high, suddenly had an idea: let’s open coffee shops in San Francisco.
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Chef Syme Delivers Fine Fare at Yaletown’s La Pentola Italian Restaurant
Chef Lucais Syme delivers an unmatched and irresistible meal at La Pentola in Vancouver, British Columbia’s Yaletown neighborhood. Situated inside the OPUS Vancouver Hotel, this rustic Northern Italian restaurant is an experience to be had – and not forgotten.
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A Profusion Of Fusion At Orlando’s Tako Cheena
When Pom Moongauklang opened her first Orlando restaurant, the eponymous Pom Pom’s Tea House and Sandwicheria (67 North Bumby Avenue; 407-894-0865; PomPomSteahouse.com), patrons were spooked by watercress and walked out when they realized American cheese wasn’t available.
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