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In The Wake Of Scandal, The Dinah Rises To Empower Women In The Arts
The longest-running women’s film and music festival in the world, The Dinah stepped up its commitment to help promote and raise women’s visibility in films/TV & on the web, whether in front and/or behind the camera partnering with Outfest, Revry, and Tello Films.
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Holly Golightly Can Finally Have Breakfast At Tiffany’s
You will feel like the jewel inside the Blue Box Café at Tiffany and Co., the luxury jeweler’s new restaurant at its iconic store in New York.
Just like that amazing proposal you dreamed of and waited for or are dreaming of. The wait is worth it for Tiffany’s new café that opened November 10.
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Oh The Audacity! Date Night That Will Make Both Of You Happy In San Jose
On our weekly date night, I dared to venture out and suggest something new. Babes was up for it. We hadn’t explored San Pedro Square in San Jose, California beyond the San Pedro Square Market, so, I made a reservation at the Firehouse No. 1 Gastropub (69 North San Pedro Street, 408-287-6969, , firehouse1.com).
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Sensational California Experience At Lexington House
Modern Northern California cuisine meets classic inspired cocktails in a welcoming atmosphere at The Lexington House (40 North Santa Cruz Avenue, 408-354-1600, thelexlg.com) in Los Gatos, California.
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Island Urban Chic and Beaches This is the Santo Domingo Experience
Can you name the largest city in the Caribbean? It’s not San Juan, Havana, or Kingston. It’s an often-overlooked municipality in an often-overlooked country: Santo Domingo, the capital of the Dominican Republic.
Many visitors skip right over this city of 1.5 million and fly into Punta Cana, which is the gateway to the country’s eastern resorts. This is a shame, because while the city can be a little challenging (starched and pressed Nassau, it is not), Santo Domingo offers some of the best dining, nightlife, and sightseeing in the West Indies.
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Mexican Soul Food A Hit In San Diego’s South Park
Life has been good for restauranteurs Lauren Passero and Kate Grimes in San Diego’s South Park neighborhood.
The duo has created a series of neighborhood restaurants that have become a destination for locals and visitors.
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Ethical Travel in the Digital Age
Talk about a buzzkill.
I’m in the middle of a trip to the Dominican Republic. It’s a lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and intersex-themed trip, part of a program called Tolerance Through Tourism. The idea is that by simply being an openly gay person and traveling in the developing world, you help people living in traditionally homophobic cultures to see that LGBTQI people are not so strange.
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Breaking Free: Diana King Is Free To Be Herself
“Shy Guy” singer Diana King has been rocking the world with her reggae fusion melodies since the 1990s, but it hasn’t been until the last five years that she’s truly fell freedom.
It doesn’t matter that she’s lived in the United States since she was 26-years old when she signed a deal with Sony Music and her music career took off.
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Visitors To Olympia Can Now Create Their Own Tasting Tour Of The Region
There’s more to Washington than Seattle and Walla Walla, there’s Olympia. Birthplace of the Riot Grrrls of the 1990s, Washington’s capital city poised at the southern end of Puget Sound on Budd Inlet is celebrating its roots that have little to do with indie girl punk rock music.
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For The Love Of Ice Cream! Churn Urban Creamery Scoops Up A Healthy Summer Treat
Ice cream is always called for in the summer. Who can forget the delight of licking the creamy goodness of your flavor or flavors of choice while holding it all in a crunchy graham cracker cone as fast as you can before it begins to drip onto your hand as a kid or an adult?
I mean, there’s a reason why ice cream is everyone’s favorite treat. It certainly is Rica Sunga-Kwan, 31, owner and ice cream maker of Churn Urban Creamery, a boutique pop-up ice cream cart that has been appearing around San Francisco and San Mateo since April, favorite food.
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Being Funny In A Man’s World, Desi Women Comedians Speak Out
It’s still a man’s world in the standup comedy. There’s no joking about it. Then factor in being South Asian. What’s the immediate image that comes to mind? If you are in America, which we are, it might be a nerdy computer engineer who speaks English with a heavy accent. Yeah, no. Mix up the gender what image do you have now? You draw a blank, well you used to until Mindy Kaling arrived in American homes through television shows, “The Office” and then her own show “The Mindy Project.”
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Shucks To You! Willi’s Seafood and Raw Bar Has The Oysters & Great Food To Boot
The best spot to get oysters in Healdsburg is at Willi’s Seafood & Raw Bar (403 Healdsburg Avenue, 707-433-9191, starkrestaurants.com/willis_seafood.html) in California.
Ms. H. and I bellied up to the bar to watch our expert oyster shucker, Kayla, work her magic on the Beau Soleil, Blue Point, Drakes Bay, Kumamoto, and a bevy of other oysters after a morning of wine tasting.
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