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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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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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Lauren Bedford Russell Is A Beauty With A Cause
A beauty with a cause, Lauren Bedford Russell is a rebel fighting for causes near and dear to her heart one bracelet at a time.
Most women know Lauren from the Showtime’s “Real L Word” and of course her rocker girlfriend Kiyomi McCloskey, who is the frontwoman of Hunter Valentine, but she’s also a talented jewelry designer creating edgy, chic accessories with a cause or shall I say causes, as she supports LGBT equality and President Obama’s re-election and voting rights and she most recently added multiple sclerosis.
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Groove: Famous, Not! Katy Tiz is about to be a Pop Sensation
You might wonder where did this girl come from with her song, “Famous”? The song, while a joke, is only the beginning of British songstress Katy Tiz, trip up the charts.
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Palm Springs Welcomes the first Women’s Jazz Festival
A different sound is resonating from Palm Springs this weekend at the first annual Women’s Jazz Festival April 4 – 7.
Women will enjoy four-days of female jazz performances at eight different venues and clubs throughout downtown Palm Springs.
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Girl Beats with Havana Brown
Grooving to her own beat, Australian-born Havana Brown has followed the music to London and around the world touring with Britney Spears, Katy Perry, Lady Gaga and the Pussycat Dolls and she has worked with Rihanna, Chris Brown, Enrique Iglesias and Pitbull us to name a few.
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Threads: Boyish Style Takes the Catwalk
Butch fashion has been hitting the runway this past year from Russia to the U.K. to the U.S.
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Backstage: Fortune Feimster is Sooo Silly
If you don’t know Fortune Feimster you will soon. The “Chelsea Lately” writer is rapidly becoming a comedy star in her own right.
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Ski Diva’s Vermont Mysteries Take Readers for a Wild Spin
Self-described ski bum Stacey Curtis flees to a small ski resort in Vermont to get over a bad breakup, but ends up finding a corpse with a chainsaw chain wrapped around his neck in an empty condo. She covertly ends up investigating his murder. Within the first few pages of Double Black (Ski Diva Mystery), Wendy Clinch’s gripping debut mystery novel, we realize we are in the hands of a tough and unsentimental writer who knows this small New England town terrain all too well.
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UN-Backed Team Celebrates International Women’s Day Atop Mount Kilimanjaro
An all-female climbing team supported by the United Nations reached the summit of Africa’s tallest mountain, Mount Kilimanjaro, in Tanzania, in celebration of International Women’s Day on March 5.
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