Blogs
American Airlines Reacts Swiftly To Baby Stroller Incident
- Heather Cassell
- April 23, 2017
American Airlines launched an investigation and suspended the flight attendant accused of nearly hitting an infant with a stroller sending its mother into hysterical crying Friday, April 21.
Part of the incident was caught on video and posted to Facebook by Surain Adyanthaya with the caption: “OMG! AA Flight attendant violently took a stroller from a lady with her baby on my flight, hitting her and just missing the baby,” she captioned the clip.
Read MoreEthical Travel in the Digital Age
- Heather Cassell
- April 16, 2017
Talk about a buzzkill.
I’m in the middle of a trip to the Dominican Republic. It’s a lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and intersex-themed trip, part of a program called Tolerance Through Tourism. The idea is that by simply being an openly gay person and traveling in the developing world, you help people living in traditionally homophobic cultures to see that LGBTQI people are not so strange.
Read MoreSouth America’s Only LGBTQI Surf Camp Makes Rainbow Waves
- Heather Cassell
- January 24, 2017
Surfing in one of the hottest surf spots for amateurs to pros in one of the world’s top 40 most beautiful bays among other LGBTQI surfers in South America, sounds like a dream.
It’s not though. This year marks the third annual Gay Surf Brazil, an LGBT surf camp in Santa Catarina at the famed Praia do Rosa (known as Rosa by locals) in Southern Brazil, March 25 – April 1.
Four Seasons Maui’s Pro Tennis Camp Marks 10 Years
- Heather Cassell
- November 1, 2016
Tennis Enthusiasts Will Enjoy Learning From Some Of The World’s Leading Tennis Pros During A Four Day Intensive Clinic At The Four Seasons Maui In Wailea by Heather Cassell Top tennis pros Justin Gimelstob, Tracy Austin, Lindsay Davenport and Tom Gullikson will teach avid tennis players how to improve their game at 10th Annual Wailea […]
Read MoreHonolulu Fashion Week 2016 Celebrates Island Style
- Heather Cassell
- September 15, 2016
The Hawaiian Islands’ got style and its ready to show it off and say aloha at the third annual Honolulu Fashion Week announced September 15.
Designers from around the world and the islands will descend upon Hawaii’s cultural center in Honolulu, November 10 – 13.
Read MoreBreaking Free: Diana King Is Free To Be Herself
- Heather Cassell
- August 26, 2016
“Shy Guy” singer Diana King has been rocking the world with her reggae fusion melodies since the 1990s, but it hasn’t been until the last five years that she’s truly fell freedom.
It doesn’t matter that she’s lived in the United States since she was 26-years old when she signed a deal with Sony Music and her music career took off.
Read MoreVisitors To Olympia Can Now Create Their Own Tasting Tour Of The Region
- Heather Cassell
- August 24, 2016
There’s more to Washington than Seattle and Walla Walla, there’s Olympia. Birthplace of the Riot Grrrls of the 1990s, Washington’s capital city poised at the southern end of Puget Sound on Budd Inlet is celebrating its roots that have little to do with indie girl punk rock music.
Read MoreFor The Love Of Ice Cream! Churn Urban Creamery Scoops Up A Healthy Summer Treat
- Heather Cassell
- August 16, 2016
Ice cream is always called for in the summer. Who can forget the delight of licking the creamy goodness of your flavor or flavors of choice while holding it all in a crunchy graham cracker cone as fast as you can before it begins to drip onto your hand as a kid or an adult?
I mean, there’s a reason why ice cream is everyone’s favorite treat. It certainly is Rica Sunga-Kwan, 31, owner and ice cream maker of Churn Urban Creamery, a boutique pop-up ice cream cart that has been appearing around San Francisco and San Mateo since April, favorite food.
Read MoreBeing Funny In A Man’s World, Desi Women Comedians Speak Out
- Heather Cassell
- August 14, 2016
It’s still a man’s world in the standup comedy. There’s no joking about it. Then factor in being South Asian. What’s the immediate image that comes to mind? If you are in America, which we are, it might be a nerdy computer engineer who speaks English with a heavy accent. Yeah, no. Mix up the gender what image do you have now? You draw a blank, well you used to until Mindy Kaling arrived in American homes through television shows, “The Office” and then her own show “The Mindy Project.”
Read MoreFirst-Ever Wife-Wife Teammates Compete At The Gayest Olympics Ever
- Heather Cassell
- August 8, 2016
Wife team Kate and Helen Richardson-Walsh might have had their eyes on diamonds when they married in 2013, but now they have their eye on the gold at the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.
This is their fourth Olympics together, but their first as a married couple walking out onto the field to compete for the United Kingdom.
Read MoreBreaking Records And Fierce Competition As Women Roar In Rio
- Heather Cassell
- August 8, 2016
This is a historic year for women competing at the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, which kicked off Friday, August 5.
Zika and pollution aren’t holding these women back from going for the gold. A record number of women athletes, 45%, qualified to compete in the games in Brazil.
Read MoreIt’s A Whole Other World Flying Delta One
- Heather Cassell
- August 7, 2016
Girls That Roam Recently Experienced A First Class Flight to London Aboard Delta One And Learned Perhaps It’s The Only Way To Take To The Air When Going Abroad by Heather Cassell & Super G If flying first class is on your bucket list, definitely bump it up toward the top of your list, especially […]
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