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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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Lake Arrowhead: Southern California’s Lake and Mountain Escape
On a hot summer day, my girlfriend and I were ready to ditch the concrete jungle and get back to nature with a quick weekend escape to the lake and mountains in the San Bernardino National Forest in southern California.
The lobby was buzzing with travelers checking in to the elegantly appointed Lake Arrowhead Resort and Spa (27984 California 189; 909-336-1511; LakeArrowheadResort.com) in Lake Arrowhead, California when we arrive on a busy Friday evening.
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Girls In Wine Country: Sonoma’s Women’s Weekend Revival
It’s a reboot for the women’s weekend at the Russian River in Guerneville this fall with headlining acts and excursions among the vines in Sonoma’s wine country at Women’s Weekend 2.0.
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Julie Goldman Loves Making the Ladies Laugh
Comedian Julie Goldman is coming to women across the US live. All summer long she’s been making women laugh at the plethora of women’s weekends that have sprung up alongside longstanding favorite women’s summer getaways.
If you haven’t gotten a chance to Julie this summer, it’s not too late! Julie loves the summers with all of the women’s weekends that get kicked off by The Dinah in Palm Springs, California and flow through the US, Europe and beyond the northern hemisphere to the beginning of fall.
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Oakland Is Girl Town
If San Francisco is the playground for gay boys, Oakland is the world of queer girls.
Oakland’s got edge, that cutting edge that is Shane, from the L Word, cool, you know what I’m saying?
Oakland is the sunnier, funkier and hipper younger sister to the posh and sophisticated San Francisco. Once considered the “Black City” or Harlem West, Oakland rebranded its coolness being dubbed the Brooklyn of the West Coast within the past decade and it has recently come into its own, but hey, the ladies – gay and straight – all knew that.
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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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Slam Girls Rhyme and Rhythm
The girls got their say when they began spitting their fierce words in a rhyme and rhythm at poetry slams at bars and cafes around San Francisco in the late 1980s.
Soon after slam poetry nights took on a life of its own spreading across the nation culminating in the first-ever National Poetry Slam! in 1990 in San Francisco.
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Slam Nation Hits Oakland
Get ready. A fierce spat of dueling words is coming to Oakland, California for the first time ever and the city will never be the same.
It’s been 25 years since the National Poetry Slam! started across the bay in San Francisco and the poetry competition hasn’t been back to the bay since the 1990s.
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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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Parks, Paddles, And Playtime: Fun In Orlando With The Whole Family
What’s the greatest place in the United States to bring the kids on a vacation? Washington, D.C., with all that history and all those cool museums, is certainly in the running. Sunny, star-studded Southern California is always going to get a few votes. New York City, I see you raising your hand, but when it comes to picking the best family vacation spot, the place that’s going to leave the kids with the happiest memories while rewarding grown-ups, too, Orlando stands head, shoulders, and mouse ears above the rest.
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Chasing Georgia
There is something about Georgia, Georgia O’Keeffe that is, that has kept people following her art work and seeking her out in the places she lived and created throughout her life nearly 30 years after her death at the ripe age of 98.
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Harry Potter Star Emma Watson To Champion Women Globally
British actress Emma Watson has a new role as the United Nations’ women goodwill ambassador, representatives of the UN Women announced July 8.
UN Women is the arm that fights for gender equality and the empowerment of women.
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