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Donna Wolfe, left, and Carla Jolis, right, prepare their Passionfruit Shrimp On Macadamia Crackers and Fried Lobster & Goat Cheese Stuffed Zucchini Blossoms With Sweet Thai Chili Dipping Sauce, respectively, at the Glorious Bites Challenge in New York on September 12. (Photo: Courtesy of Gloria Ferrer Caves & Vineyard)

It’s An All Girl Competition For The First-Ever Glorious Bites Challenge

Gloria Ferrer Caves & Vineyard is hosting its first-ever Glorious Bites Challenge with two women wine and food stars this Saturday.

The and sparkling wine tasting will be hosted by award-winning wine expert Leslie Sbrocco and the cooking challenge will be judged by guests and Season 10 Finalist of Bravo’s Top Chef Brooke Williamson, October 10, 11 a.m. – 2 p.m. at the famed vineyard on the hill (23555 Arnold Drive; 707-933-1917; GloriaFerrer.com) in Sonoma, California.

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Southern punk band Thelma and the Sleaze (Photo: Josh Miller)

Fabulosa Fest Brings The Beats to Yosemite

Up to 500 women will flock to Yosemite for the women’s music festival to dance in the woods to R&B / Hip Hop duo THEESatisfaction, Southern punk band Thelma and the Sleaze, Jazz vocalist Greta Jane, Psychedelic Rock band Hearts of Animals and of course some festival favorites, such as Shake It! Booty Band, and more.

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Oregon Bounty Grand Tasting 2014 (Photo: Feast Portland / John Valls)

Feast On This: Feast Portland Gives Chow Hounds Something to Feast On

Portland’s newest food festival is about to enjoy it’s most bountiful year kicking off harvest season for the fourth annual Feast Portland.

Upward of 12,000 foodies will descend upon the Rose City, September 17 – 20.

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The crowds at the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival. (Photo: Courtesy of the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival)

The Last Song for Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival Begins

The final song has started for the Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival this week.

The festival’s, also known as Michfest, producer, Lisa Vogel, announced in April that this would be its final year for the festival that has been an institution dubbed as “the Original Womyn’s Woodstock” promoting women musicians and performers for 40 years.

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Premier classical guitarist Ana Vidović will perform August 7 – 9, 2015 at the Lake Tahoe SummerFest. (Photo: Courtesy of Ana Vidović)

Premier Classical Guitarist Ana Vidovic Rocks Lake Tahoe SummerFest

by Heather Cassell Ana Vidović will rock Lake Tahoe SummerFest with renditions of popular movie and TV scores as the headliner at the fourth annual summer classical music event in Lake Tahoe, July 31 – August 16. Ana is the premier classical guitarist of her generation. She tours globally taking the stages of Baltimore, New […]

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Dinah partiers around the pool at The Dinah 2014. (Photo: Peter Szabadi)

Dinah’s Sizzling Hot at 25

The Dinah, which is arguably the biggest lesbian party in the world, just keeps getting hotter year after year.

There’s a reason why an upward of more than 15,000 beautiful bikini-clad women from around the world head to sunny Palm Springs, California for a week of splashing around in the pool and partying until dawn at The Dinah.

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'All About That Bass" hit-maker Meghan Trainor

Meghan Trainor Brings That Bass to The Dinah 25

I’m sure you’ve heard the song on the radio. You know, the one about the girl, Meghan Trainor, singing about body positive curves with her hit-maker “All About that Bass,” well she’s bringing it to The Dinah 25.

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Lindsay Davenport, background, gives New Jersey's Lisa Webber, foreground, a high five after Lisa's put-away at the net at the Wailea Tennis Fantasy Camp 2010. (Photo: Courtesy of PR Web)

It’s Game On with Tennis Pro Lindsay Davenport at the Wailea Tennis Fantasy Camp

Three-time grand slam singles champion and former World #1 ranked Lindsay Davenport celebrates five years teaching fans how to hit the tennis ball like a pro at the eight annual Wailea Tennis Fantasy Camp.

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Billy Porter, who plays Lola, in Kinky Boots (Photo: Matthew Murphy)

Kinky Boots Is Fabulous!

A man kept walking past me and staring at me while I was eating dinner at a restaurant recently. Super G had left the table for a moment. In my head, I was asking myself, “Is there something wrong with me? Is he looking at me because I’m with a girl who looks somewhat masculine? Is he looking at me because I’m with a woman of color? Why is he looking at me?”

On the third pass-by the man finally stopped and asked me, “What is on your shirt?”

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Friends captured the moment with cosmos in hand at Scout, which is really O'Nieals Grand Street Bar, in New York's Noho neighborhood during the Fabulous Sex and the City Tour put on by On Location Tours. (Photo: Super G)

The Sex and The City Tour Is Sexsational!

Getting onto the bus filled with groups of best friends, one token Mr. Big and Super G, for the Fabulous Sex and the City Tour put on by On Location Tours I was flashing back to my single girl days with one of my besties and former roomie, Erica.

Every Sunday night we ordered in, had our drinks in hand and made sure we were on time for Sex and the City. Erica could always guess what Carrie’s hypothesis for the week was. I was willingly along for the ride as each story unfolded.

Each of us saw a piece of ourselves in Carrie, Charlotte, Miranda and Samantha as we played out our own SATC in the Gay Mecca dating men, women and everything in between and of course chasing our careers and fashion.

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Comedian Belinda Carroll (Photo: Wendi Kali Photography)

Belinda Carroll’s Knack For Being Funny

The café in the Pacific Northwest coastal town was shaking with laughter as Portland-based comedian Belinda Carroll delivered the laughs straight up (so-to-speak) during the first annual EDEN Pacific Northwest.

This year the Portland-based comedian is back as a part of the comedic crew – that includes Julie Goldman and D’Lo – to deliver those punch lines that will leave the women doubled over in laughter during the all-girl weekend getaway in Seaside, Oregon, October 2 – 5.

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Transgender Comedian D'Lo (Photo: Courtesy of smithsonianapa.org)

D’Lo Knows No Boundaries In Comedy and Travel

It doesn’t hurt having friends in many places, especially if your life consists of being on the road much of the time, at least that’s what comedian D’Lo has found.

Knowing artists and activists in different cities allows the queer Tamil Sri L.A.nkan-American to not feel like such an outsider, he says.

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