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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 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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Rising Star: Goapele Sings A Happy Tune
The Bay Area has been producing some of the most original artists for decades, Oakland native Goapele’s star is rising fast as the most recent to break out of the East Bay’s independent music scene.
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4 Non Blondes Reunite for One Night at “An Evening with Women”
4 Non Blondes are reuniting to perform for the first time in two decades for one night only at the “An Evening with Women” benefit gala for the Los Angeles Lesbian and Gay Center.
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Get Your Dinah On!
Thousands of queer women and their friends will head to Palm Springs for the infamous and largest lesbian party on the planet: The Dinah.
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Get Happily Drunk on “Tipped and Tipsy”
Super G and I looked down to the right of the stage where we heard the crinkling of paper bags and the pop of beer bottles being opened. A portion of the audience brought their own props passing the covered bottles around to their friends just before the show began.
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Blue is the Funniest Color: Experiencing Orlando’s Blue Man Group
When is Orlando mentioned in the same breath as New York, Chicago, and Berlin? When people are talking about the wild and wacky Blue Man Group.
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Untitled Feminist Show: A Play without Words that Speaks Volumes
I didn’t know what to expect when I walked in, but I knew that it had changed me when I walked out.
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Priciest Cities to Celebrate NYE Revealed
Who would think that Miami would trump New York City with being the most expensive place in the U.S. to celebrate ringing in 2014?
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WorldPride 2014 Toronto Opens for Business
Pride Toronto is pulling out all of the stops to produce WorldPride 2014, a 10-day international lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender celebration June 20 – 29, 2014.
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Entertainment Tourism Generates More Than 2 Billion British Pounds for the U.K.
6.5 million tourists that love music, carnivals and concerts spent more than 2.2 billion British pounds in the United Kingdom in 2012.
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Women Shake, Rattle and Roll Litquake SF 2013
Seismic activity of the literary sort will top the Richter scale this week as women seem to be shaking up the Bay Area’s literary landscape as Litquake 2013 hits San Francisco, Oct. 11 – 19.
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