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It’s a World of Laughter with Comedian Dana Goldberg

For the past 10 years, comedian Dana Goldberg has created a laugh track around the world and she ready to do it all again for the next decade.

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California Cheese Gets Smart with New Cheese Trail App

by Heather Cassell Cheese lovers visiting California now have access to 150 cheeses made by 56 artesian cheese makers and creameries through a new free smart phone app by the California Cheese Trail. The new app available for iPhone offers easy access to farm tours and in-depth information about cheese makers throughout California along with […]

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A Sister Trip in “BOOM!”

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.

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The Ticket: “Arcadia” at American Conservatory Theater

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.

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Go Girl: The Natural Adventures of Kim Powell

by Heather Cassell Every day is an adventure for Kim Powell, owner, operator and head naturalist of Blue Water Ventures in Santa Cruz, Calif. Take for example, late last month when she and a group of her kayakers saved a young sea lion that found refuge on one of the kayaks in the Moss Landing Harbor from what […]

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Palm Springs Welcomes the first Women’s Jazz Festival

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.

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Pillow Talk: MontBleu Casino and Resort

We were excited to stay at the MontBleu Casino and Resort (55 Highway 50, Lake Tahoe, NV 89449, 800-367-4554, , MontBleuResort.com).

A year and a half had passed since the former Cesar’s Palace was taken over by the new ownership. The new owners promised to transpose this resort into an affordable chic lodging option at the end of the row of budget to high-end hotels and resorts lining South Lake Tahoe Boulevard before the highway turns the corner to head to the north shore of the lake.

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Dinah-licious

Oh, how sweet Dinah is with thousands of women playing golf, swimming, and having fun under the desert sun. Dinah Shore Weekend just keeps getting sweeter.

This year an estimated 20,000 women from around the world will descend on Palm Springs for five days and nights of fun in the sun, partying all night and much more at the 23rd Dinah Shore Weekend, April 3 – 7.

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Backstage: Fortune Feimster is Sooo Silly

If you don’t know Fortune Feimster you will soon. The “Chelsea Lately” writer is rapidly becoming a comedy star in her own right.

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Pillow Talk: Hilton Palm Springs

It was first class service with an air of classy casual friendliness from the moment I arrived at the Hilton Palm Springs (400 E. Tahquitz Canyon Way; 760-320-6868; PalmSprings.Hilton.com).

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Palm Springs She Bops for the Girls

My Auntie has been talking up Palm Springs for quite some time. It is her next dream destination, so on this girlfriend getaway weekend to get to know why “The Springs” is so good to us girls I was wide-open to soak in all of the wonderfulness of this desert oasis.

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Go Girl: U.N. Guides 60 Years of Being a Guide to the World

I was 13 years old when my Auntie took my grandma and me to the United Nations Headquarters in New York City. That was more than 25 years ago, it was my first trip to the Big Apple, so we were of course doing all of the touristy things. But out of Broadway and Times Square, Central Park, the Statue of Liberty, the museums and shopping the U.N. captured my imagination and remained in my memory the most.

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