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A City With A View: Florence
In the 1985 film A Room with a View, we are memorably introduced to two of the main characters—both born to England’s Edwardian-era upper class—as they are in the middle of an epic sulk. The pair, played by Helena Bonham Carter and Maggie Smith, are aggrieved at discovering that the rooms they have been assigned at their pensione do not have the view they felt they were promised.
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Honolulu Fashion Week 2016 Celebrates Island Style
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.
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Breaking Free: Diana King Is Free To Be Herself
“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.
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A Stage Of Our Own
When you open up your Playbill how many plays are actually by women? The sad fact is that there is a dearth of women playwrights’ works being produced by mainstream American Theater Companies.
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New Works Festival Celebrates 5 Years
How would the story have been different if William Shakespeare or Christopher Marlow were women? Would their plays have made it to the stage? Would the world celebrate their works with reiterations of new interpretations of performances? Or would they have been forgotten with time, like Aphra Behn, before Virginia Woolf and feminist scholars resurrected her memory and plays?
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For The Love Of Ice Cream! Churn Urban Creamery Scoops Up A Healthy Summer Treat
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.
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Being Funny In A Man’s World, Desi Women Comedians Speak Out
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.”
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Desi Women Storm The Stage At Desi Comedy Festival
This year’s Zee TV Desi Comedy Fest features the most women comics to date in the festival’s three year history.
The festival features 16 women comedians out of the lineup of 50 comedians who are descending upon the Bay Area from all over the world for the two week festival.
The festival kicks-off today (August 11) and runs to August 21 throughout the San Francisco Bay Area.
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Kellie Hines Talks About Life In Golf And Women On The Green In Hawaii
It was a great day out on the green in Kauai, not because it was a particularly good day to play golf. It was actually a soggy day as it rained and the clouds continued to lift off of the course on Kauai, Hawaii.
Hey, I was golfing in Hawaii and not only that, I was golfing with a lady expert, Kellie Hines, who was general manager of Puakea Golf Course in Lihue. In November, she moved onto become head golf professional at Hokuala Ocean Course, formerly the Kauai Lagoons Golf Club – Kiele Course, at Timbers Resorts.
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One Black Mom & Her Kids On An Outdoor Adventure Of A Lifetime
It’s officially camping season. We are dead heat in the middle of summer fun camping, hiking, and splashing around in lakes, which includes a tour of the United States’ National Parks. After all, the National Park system is celebrating its 100 year anniversary.
To beat the summer crowds, one adventurous mom, Christina Benton, packed up her three kids: Joshua, 13, Averie, 10, and Nathaniel, 6, on a 64-day, 5,704 cross-country winter adventure of the National Parks. Her goal was not only educate her children, but to promote diversity in the U.S.’s natural wonders.
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Portland Is A Bountiful Feast For Carrie Welch
Driving into her office recently, Carrie Welch, co-founder of Feast Portland, pinched herself to make sure she wasn’t simply dreaming as she cruised through the quaint streets of Portland, Oregon.
“It feels like a dream. It really does,” she says. “You know how people say that expression, ‘Oh I’m living the dream,’ and a lot of times these days they say that ironically like they don’t really mean it, but I do. I truly do.”
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A Southern Road Trip With Reese Witherspoon
The Academy-Award Winning Actress Gives A Road Trip Tour Of Her Favorite Spots In Throughout the South from Tennessee To West Virginia by Heather Cassell It’s that Southern warmth and charm that inspires Academy-Award winning Reese Witherspoon to escape the lime light of Los Angeles back to her roots in Tennessee. Reese, 40, chatted with […]
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