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It’s Game On with Tennis Pro Lindsay Davenport at the Wailea Tennis Fantasy Camp
Three-time grand slam singles champion and former World #1 ranked Lindsay Davenport celebrates five years teaching fans how to hit the tennis ball like a pro at the eight annual Wailea Tennis Fantasy Camp.
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DJ WildFire Gets Women Into The Groove
Blending music together creating an eclectic energy throughout the dance floor is what got Jennifer “Jenn” Davis, better known as DJ WildFire, hooked on spinning for any party.
It’s a meditative practice that resonates in her soul and inspired her to be a DJ nearly 20 years ago.
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Miss Fit Adventures is Fit for the Journey
Growing up on the southern Oregon coast, Nikki Becker, owner of Portland-based Miss Fit Adventures, found solace in the natural landscape and being outdoors.
“Nature saved me. It saved my life. It was a place that I found solace. It was a place where I found strength being on the river. It’s just a place that I was able to get away and take care of myself,” says Nikki.
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Belinda Carroll’s Knack For Being Funny
The café in the Pacific Northwest coastal town was shaking with laughter as Portland-based comedian Belinda Carroll delivered the laughs straight up (so-to-speak) during the first annual EDEN Pacific Northwest.
This year the Portland-based comedian is back as a part of the comedic crew – that includes Julie Goldman and D’Lo – to deliver those punch lines that will leave the women doubled over in laughter during the all-girl weekend getaway in Seaside, Oregon, October 2 – 5.
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D’Lo Knows No Boundaries In Comedy and Travel
It doesn’t hurt having friends in many places, especially if your life consists of being on the road much of the time, at least that’s what comedian D’Lo has found.
Knowing artists and activists in different cities allows the queer Tamil Sri L.A.nkan-American to not feel like such an outsider, he says.
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A Fashionable Adventure: American Fashion Travel: Designers on the Go
Who says women like to keep it safe by staying at home? They haven’t met these women fashion designers who are intrepid traversing the world searching for the best textiles, fabrics and ideas to bring to the runway … oh, and along the way they learn so much more about our humanity that enriches them and their designs for the clothes we wear.
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Rummaging Through Sonoma’s Antique Trail
Recently on a lazy Sunday, my roommate, Mel, and I ventured up to Sonoma for a little antiquing and vintage shopping.
The fog still hugged the hills as we drove across the Golden Gate Bridge from San Francisco and up Highway 101, always a beautiful and mystical scene, especially among the vineyards.
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Lorie Moore Is Ready For More #HardWork
Music and football have been Lorie Moore’s life, but you won’t see her on the sidelines cheering on her team in a skimpy outfit. She’s on the field as a semi-pro female football player who also by the way is often tapped to sing the US National Anthem during the half-time entertainment.
Last year, she took her music career up a notch wowing audiences in NBC’s The X Factor and started working with TV star Tisha Campbell-Martin performing with the songstress on “Tisha Tuesdays” at the Xen Lounge (10628 Ventura Boulevard; 818-505-3513; ; XenLounge.com) in Studio City, California.
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Beverly McClellan Returns To Her Roots
Beverly “Bev” McClellan hushes her birds and dogs as she looks out onto the porch and up into the sky at the swirling clouds threatening another thunder and lightning storm at her new home in Ashville, North Carolina.
After 20 years living in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, the Gate City, Virginia native has returned home, settling in a log cabin in the Blue Ridge Mountains about an hour and a half from where she grew up on the border of Virginia and Tennessee.
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Teysha’s Global Style
It’s been another summer filled with fashion and music as Sophie Eckrich and Travis Breihan make their way across the US popping up their festival store to sell their Central American designed fashions, Teysha.
“[It’s] just amazing to meet people and get in front of customers and spread the word,” says Sophie, co-founder and CEO of Teysha, about traveling and meeting the estimated 6,000 subscribers on its email list and about 14,000 followers on social media.
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Iconic Sheila E Beats To Her Own Drum
Sheila Escovedo, better known as Emmy and Grammy nominated Sheila E, is singing her own songs and drumming to her own beat these days.
Sheila E hit it big in the 1980s with songs “The Glamorous Life,” “A Love Bizarre,” and her collaboration with her friend and former lover Prince, “Erotic City.”
The Oakland native, who currently lives in Los Angeles, is following up the released her latest album, Icon, at the beginning of the summer with her tell-all memoire, The Beat of My Own Drum: A Memoir, available September 2.
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Top 5 Women’s Music Festivals
Get into the groove with these five women’s music festivals. We can’t promise that you will fall in love, but we do promise you will have a great time and memories to last a lifetime.
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