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Feast On This: Feast Portland Gives Chow Hounds Something to Feast On
Portland’s newest food festival is about to enjoy it’s most bountiful year kicking off harvest season for the fourth annual Feast Portland.
Upward of 12,000 foodies will descend upon the Rose City, September 17 – 20.
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The Last Song for Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival Begins
The final song has started for the Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival this week.
The festival’s, also known as Michfest, producer, Lisa Vogel, announced in April that this would be its final year for the festival that has been an institution dubbed as “the Original Womyn’s Woodstock” promoting women musicians and performers for 40 years.
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The Search is on for New Luxury (Secret) Service Inspectors
It’s an elite team in an elite world that is suave and stealth at checking out the crème de la crème of boutique, independently-owned hotels that form Small Luxury Hotels of the World’s collection.
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More Turbulence Heading Toward United Airlines as Flight Attendants Take Action
United Airlines is about to experience turbulence yet again with a system-wide Day of Action on July 16th.
The Association of Flight Attendants-CWA (AFA) has called for the Day of Action in support of negotiations for a fair contract as the major United States airline company reports record profits this Thursday.
The airline has failed to reach a unified labor contract with its 24,000 flight attendants or complete its merger with Continental, which have been happening simultaneously since 2010, reports eTurbo News. Union contracts were supposed to be completed by the end of 2011.
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Sophia Anna Bush’s Uganda is Fashion with a Cause
One Tree Hill star Sophia Anna Bush journeyed to Northern Uganda at the end of June to promote ethical fashion brands: 31 Bits, Akola Project, and Sseko Designs developed by Ugandan women.
The now 33-year old Sophia stared as Brooke Davis on the popular 20-something drama that aired on The CW from 2003 to 2012.
“I’m leaving Uganda today with a full heart, an inspired mind, and an activated spirit,” Sophia writes in a June 27 Instagram post about her recent trip to Northern Uganda. “The women we spent our time with will forever be stitched into my heart.”
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It’s Not Worth Paying Less with Payless Car Rental
If you want to maintain your sanity, have a sense of peace of mind or security, or simply to keep your relationship intact, avoid Payless Car Rental. In spite of it being dirt cheap, you “get what you pay for” which amounted to difficulty contacting the company in the first place, no communication, and agents who simply don’t care about the customer.
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Delta Air Lines Gets Employee Domestic Partner Benefits in Line for Tax Season
Just in time for filing taxes, Delta Air Lines takes over tax burdens of its LGBT employees’ married or in registered domestic partnerships health benefits package.
The new policy effective immediately is retroactive to January 1 of this year, according to an April 2 news release from the Atlanta-based Delta.
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Girls Catch A Curl At South America’s First-Ever Lesbian Surf Camp
It’s no wonder Praia do Rosa attracts not only the under-40 jet set crowd, but is also popular among gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender travelers and surfers alike.
It is a perfect location for South America’s first-ever lesbian surf camp May 9 – 16.
“It is the best in Brazil,” says Marta responding to Girls That Roam’s question about how the surf is. “Lots of Brazilian pro-surfers come from here or train here.”
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One World Game: Gay Games and Outgames Bring the Game Together
Gay Games and World Outgames organizers announced holding a single LGBTQ sporting tournament in 2022, announced in a blog post on the Federation of Gay Games website March 4.
Gay Game X is set for Paris, France in 2018 and the next Outgames is set for Miami, Florida in 2017.
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A Rummymoon at Sea
Do you hate cruising? For years, I thought I did, too. I went on a transatlantic cruise as a teenager, and by about the fourth overcast, 50°F day, I was scanning the horizon for icebergs, because an emergency evacuation would at least have been something to do.
Years later, I went on a booze cruise out of Los Angeles. That jaunt didn’t include much time on land, either. When we did disembark, it was in Ensenada, Mexico, which is essentially a dusty, tequila-soaked suburb of San Diego whose name, I’m pretty sure, means “three-day hangover” in Spanish.
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Pop. Boom. Dinah 25 Does it Again.
The Dinah 25, the world’s largest women’s event showcasing breakout female talent adds Bebe Rexha and Ivy Levan to the lineup. by Heather Cassell What women’s event features the most emerging female performers about ready to bust open the music billboards? If you answered The Dinah, you are correct. This year won’t be any different […]
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Thanksgiving Opening for New ‘BART to OAK’ International Airport Connection
San Francisco Bay Area travelers will have a reason to rejoice and give thanks as the Bay Area Rapid Transit is set to open its latest airport connection to Oakland International Airport.
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