The Ticket
Get the latest entertainment and hot spots for a good time featuring festivals, theater, and more around the globe.
IdafLO Takes Flight
- Heather Cassell
- June 29, 2013
Raised on the sounds of world beats, San Francisco’s IdafLO is about to break out of the Golden Gate on a musical journey.
Read MoreA Sister Trip in “BOOM!”
- Heather Cassell
- June 2, 2013
It’s a musical trip down memory lane circa 1960s and 70s with the Calloway sisters in “BOOM!” at Feinstein’s at the Nikko in San Francisco.
Read MoreThe Ticket: “Arcadia” at American Conservatory Theater
- Heather Cassell
- May 29, 2013
Tom Stoppard’s “Arcadia” was a huge hit when it opened in London in 1993. A couple of years later, the American Conservatory Theater’s then-newish artistic director Carey Perloff staged it at the nearby Stage Door Theatre in 1995, after a lengthy struggle to acquire the production rights.
Read MoreSultry and Sweet Foster Opens Feinstein’s at the Nikko Hotel
- Heather Cassell
- May 14, 2013
San Francisco doesn’t know anything about a woman’s desperate need for air conditioning in a sweltering New York summer, but Sutton Foster heats up the room causing a need for a burst of cool air at the new Feinstien’s at the Nikko Hotel in San Francisco.
Read MoreBig Fun on the Big Gay Wine Train
- Heather Cassell
- May 6, 2013
My girlfriend leads they way with her karaoke rendition of “Copacabana” in the lounge car. No, this isn’t some post late-night snack dream sequence, but the real deal as we revel in laughter and wine on board Big Gay Wine Train.
An after dinner crowd gathers around the piano breaking out into their own favorite songs in a lounge car sing-a-long and chatting with each other about dinner and the four unique wines paired with the gourmet meal designed just for the guests.
This isn’t our first time on the wine train, but it is our first time with a bunch of gays… and it makes for a much livelier experience.
Read MorePalm Springs Welcomes the first Women’s Jazz Festival
- Heather Cassell
- April 6, 2013
A different sound is resonating from Palm Springs this weekend at the first annual Women’s Jazz Festival April 4 – 7.
Women will enjoy four-days of female jazz performances at eight different venues and clubs throughout downtown Palm Springs.
Read MoreL.A. Vibes for Boobs
- Heather Cassell
- September 21, 2012
For one night West Hollywood will be about the boobs when Beats for Boobs Los Angeles takes off in Tinseltown October 10.
Read MoreGive Me a Beat
- Heather Cassell
- September 21, 2012
When Ashley Davidson left San Francisco for Seattle she didn’t leave her heart with the city she left it with Beats for Boobs.
Read MoreGrooving for Boobs
- Heather Cassell
- September 12, 2012
Nearly a decade ago, while traveling through Australia, Juliana Cochnar got news from her mother that she was diagnosed with breast cancer. Her first instinct was to immediately run to her mother’s side to see her through her medical treatments and hopefully back to health, but her mother, Barbara Cochnar, told her no.
Read MorefiveTEN Shows Pride in Oakland
- Heather Cassell
- August 31, 2012
Showing pride in Oakland, two producers kick off Oakland Pride weekend with the launch of fiveTEN, a host of events throughout the weekend, starting today Friday, August 31 and ending with a dance party on Sunday, September 2, that aim to go beyond LGBT Pride celebrating the East Bay city.
Read MoreFive Fabulous Years of Fabulosa Fest
- Heather Cassell
- July 16, 2012
Hundreds of women will head to the fifth annual Fabulosa Fest to camp out and frolic in the sun listening to great music, check out crafts and attend workshops, swim in the creek, and maybe even partake in a little mud wrestling at Walker Creek Ranch in Sonoma County, CA on July 20 – 22.
Read More5th Annual Running of the Rollergirls … ahh Bulls
- Heather Cassell
- July 6, 2012
What better way to wrap up a week of partying in New Orlean’s French Quarter than being chased by women on roller skates wearing read horns and armed with waffle bats for the fifth annual San Fermin in Nueva Orleans?
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