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Comedian Mona Shaikh performing at the Comedy Club.

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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Celesbian Comedians Rosie O’Donnell, left, and Lea DeLaria, right (Photo: rosie.com)

LPAC Hosts Night of Celebrities and Comedy at Levity & Justice For All

Tonight a powerhouse of lesbian entertainers are coming out are packing a powerful political punch to this election season at LPAC’s first-ever celebrity comedian gala benefit, Levity & Justice For All, in New York.

Rosie O’Donnell, Lea DeLaria, Kate Clinton, and Cameron Esposito and friends tennis legend Billie Jean King and special musical guest BETTY are headlining the special event, June 16.

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Dej Loaf performing on the Yahoo! stage at Brazos Hall at South by Southwest 2015. (Photo: David Tait / South by Southwest)

SXSW Gets Queer For Its 30th Year

Art, intellectuals, and technology create a perfect storm for cool confabs, like the wildly popular South by Southwest Festival, which turns 30 this year, and kicked off in Austin, Texas on Friday.

The annual indie festival and conference, taking place March 11-20, attracts upward of 72,000 attendees from around the globe to check out hundreds of musicians, artists, innovative thought leaders, and new technologies.

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Photo Caption: The Napa Valley Wine Train will hold its inaugural Pride Ride this month. (Photo: Courtesy Napa Valley Wine Train)

Hit The Rails Or The Bay For LGBT Wine Events

This year LGBTQ oenophiles can wine and dine on the rails and on San Francisco Bay with two different inaugural events – the Napa Valley Wine Train’s first-ever Pride Ride and Out in the Vineyard’s first-ever Big Gay Wine Cruise.

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Ecosexuals Annie Sprinkle, left, and Beth Stephens, right, create queer environmental art and film to save the planet. (Photo: Courtesy of Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens)

OUTsider Festival Keeps Austin Weird And Innovative

Austin is getting hot and heavy this weekend as queer artists pour into the capital of Texas for its second annual OUTsider Festival and Conference, themed “Sex in Public.”

The four-day festival and conference brings together LGBTQ and ally artists from all artistic disciplines from around the world to talk about their work, projects, and to inspire each other opened last night, but it runs through Sunday, February 21.

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Performance artist Madison Young is sure to steam up Valentine’s Day weekend with the world premier of her multi-media one-woman show “Reveal All Fear Nothing: A Journey in Sex, Love, Porn and Feminism” at the Armory, February 12 - 14. (Photo: Courtesy of Madison Young)

Steamy Night Out At The Theater Valentine’s Day Weekend With ‘Reveal All Fear Nothing’

What if you could act out all of your dirtiest, deepest, sexiest secrets before an entire audience? Sound scary? Sound titillating?

Madison Young is doing just that in her adaptation of famed porn and sex educator Annie Sprinkle’s “Post Porn Modernist” performance piece in her show, “Reveal All Fear Nothing: A Journey in Sex, Love, Porn and Feminism.”

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The 2016 Festival del Sole season will be dedicated to advocate of the arts, philanthropy and the Napa Valley, Margrit Mondavi. (PRNewsFoto/Napa Valley Festival Association)

Napa’s Festival Del Sole Dedicates 2016 Season To Wine Signora Margrit Mondavi

The legendary Margrit Mondavi is cause for celebration which is why the Napa Valley Festival Association is dedicating its Festival del Sole’s 2016 season to the wine signora.

Margrit, 89, the widow of the wine legend Robert Mondavi, is a longtime arts advocate and philanthropist as well as a board member of the festival’s association, according to a news release October 23, 2014 announcing the dedication of the season.

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Tony award-winning Idina Menzel sings about redesigning the cityscape and streets of New York as much as her character, Elizabeth’s, life in If/Then. (Photo: Joan Marcus)

What If We Didn’t See If/Then?

If/Then is a pensive musical that explores the choices we make, missed opportunities, and perhaps a bit of fate. What if we could see the divergent paths that our lives go on based on a single pivotal or little decision we make and a chance meeting that happens?

Through the musical, audiences get to indulge this philosophical question in the Sliding Doors for the stage exploring two different paths taken by Elizabeth, going by Beth in one life and Liz in another life, played by Tony award-winning Idina Menzel. A complete chick musical with double the processing!

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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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