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Brooklyn’s Queer-Owned Restaurant, Superfine, Is The Definition Of A Good Time
Superfine Blends Art, Food, And Music For 25 Years. by Heather Cassell, originally published by Gay City News A quarter century ago, the perfect ingredients came together to create Superfine, the queer- and woman-owned restaurant and live music venue located in Brooklyn’s Dumbo neighborhood under the Manhattan Bridge. This week music lovers can get down at […]
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The Dinah Takes Over Palm Springs This Week With Thousands Of Women
The Dinah Founder and Producer Mariah Hanson Reflects on the Festival’s Cultural Impact and Meaning. by Heather Cassell This week thousands of queer women and gender-diverse people will take over Palm Springs for the biggest queer women’s music festival in the world: The Dinah. Tickets and rooms are still available for 32nd annual The Dinah, […]
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Chicago’s BoHo Appoints New Artistic Director Elizabeth Swanson
Award-winning international nonbinary theater production professional Elizabeth Swanson named Chicago’s BoHo Theatre’s new artistic director by Heather Cassell Chicago’s BoHo Theatre announced the appointment of Elizabeth Swanson as the theater company’s new artistic director earlier this month. “While producing theater looks different these days, I am reassured knowing we have Elizabeth as our new artistic […]
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The Dinah 30 Energizes Palm Springs With Sensational Women Rockers
The Dinah Returns To Palm Springs For A 5-Day 30th Anniversary Celebration With New Dates And A Knock-Out Roster Of Grammy-Winning Entertainers by Heather Cassell You only turn 30 once, and The Dinah knows it. Grammy artists Macy Gray and Yung Baby Tate headline the largest all-women’s party in the world next month. The Dinah returns […]
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New Festival Celebrates Bi Art And Culture
The Unicorn pARTy Aims To Highlight Bi Creativity And Stories In Los Angeles by Heather Cassell A new festival celebrating the love of more than one gender is coming to Los Angeles this weekend with the launch of the Unicorn pARTy. “There’s a lot of excitement about it which is awesome,” said Kai Hazelwood, lead […]
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Women To Rock Chicago
The Veronicas And Jessica Cruz And More Women Musicians To Take The Stage At Back Lot Bash This Weekend by Heather Cassell Pride Weekend kicks off today, but not everyone is in New York celebrating Stonewall 50 at the combined NYC Pride/WorldPride celebration. The Midwest is throwing down for its largest queer women party in […]
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Women Flock To Ibiza For An All-Girl Getaway
Velvet Ibiza Turns Five With A Sold Out Crowd by Heather Cassell Five years ago, DJ Carine de Mesmaeker didn’t know she was first making history and second building one of Europe’s largest all-women’s festivals. “To my big surprise Velvet Ibiza was the first-ever woman event on this island,” said Carine, founder and producer of […]
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Europe Will Celebrate Its Pride In Vienna For EuroPride
Vienna Is Ready To Roll Out The Rainbow Carpet Along Its Famed Boulevard For EuroPride 2019 by Heather Cassell Rainbows will fill Vienna’s Ringstrasse as more than an estimated 200,000 people will parade through the Imperial City’s main boulevard to its Town Hall for EuroPride in June. “Once a year this boulevard is ours,” said […]
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Staging An Actor’s Life With Utopia Theatre
Bay Area Actor Anne Yumi Kobori Creates Her Own Life On The Stage by Heather Cassell Theater has been in Anne Yumi Kobori’s blood since childhood. She was always performing along with her sister who was a dancer. It was perhaps inherited by her mother’s birthmother who was who was an actress, singer, and dancer […]
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‘Every Day Alice’ Thought-Provoking Look At Creativity And Mental Health
The Characters Of “Alice In Wonderland” And “Peter Pan” Are Reimagined In An Original Modern Play by Heather Cassell Wander down the rabbit hole into an artist’s mind as she struggles to balance living creatively and sanely in order to function in the world. This is Alice’s (Anne Yumi Kobori) world in Every Day Alice, […]
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Vegas To London ClexaCon Travels Across The Pond
The World’s Largest Queer Women’s Multi-Media Conference, ClexaCon, Lands In London In November by Heather Cassell Perhaps it is premonition or simply a desire to see more positive queer women characters on the silver screen that prompted Keira Knightley’s spontaneous response to a question about a lesbian twist to “Bend It Like Beckham.” “Fuck yeah!” […]
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California Will Soon Be Able To Party All Night Long
“Nightlife is crucial to our culture and our economy,” Wiener said in a statement from his office. “California’s one-size-fits-all closing time doesn’t make sense. When it comes to nightlife, you can’t compare downtown Los Angeles or San Francisco to a small town.”
“Local communities should be able to size up their own nightlife needs and decide their own closing time. This bill allows for local control over nightlife – granting flexibility to nine cities to allow bars to stay open later in certain neighborhoods or for special events if that’s what the community decides is best,” he continued.
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