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Wine Lovers Can Sip And Swirl At Their Favorite Wineries Again

Wineries Forced To Go Virtual With Their Tastings During The Pandemic, Slowly Are Opening Tasting Rooms As Summer Begins by Heather Cassell Wineries rushed to prepare to open their tasting rooms as the State released new guidelines giving wineries the green light to start pouring again earlier this week. California’s wineries were promptly shuttered in […]

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Valley view in Yosemite National Park, California

Happy Campers Can Head Back To Into The Wild At Yosemite

Yosemite National Park Reopened Today With Some Modifications Due To The Coronavirus, Other Parks Are Also Opening by Heather Cassell Summer vacation might not be quite canceled, that is if you are a camper, a glamper, or a cottage in the woods type, that is if you are one of the lucky few who are […]

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Desperate To Get Home In The Pandemic

Two Lesbian Couples Stuck Abroad And Trying Desperately To Get Home In The Middle Of The Novel Coronavirus Pandemic Outbreak Tell Their Stories by Heather Cassell Silicon Valley lesbian couples traveling abroad are trying to get home amid the global coronavirus pandemic. Two couples, Leslie Bulbuk, 57, and her wife, Marta Donayre, 50, and Karin […]

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Gilroy Garlic Festival Shooting

Mass Shooting At Gilroy Garlic Festival

Shooter Kills Three People, 15 People Injured. Police Killed Shooter. Alleged Second Suspect At Large. by Heather Cassell Festivalgoers at the Gilroy Garlic Festival are stunned, shocked, and terrified after a shooter opened fire on a crowd as a band performed its encore song. Four people — 6-year-old male victim, an unidentified 13-year-old female victim, […]

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Yumi Kobori Othello San Francisco Shakespeare Festival

Staging An Actor’s Life With Utopia Theatre

Bay Area Actor Anne Yumi Kobori Creates Her Own Life On The Stage by Heather Cassell Theater has been in Anne Yumi Kobori’s blood since childhood. She was always performing along with her sister who was a dancer. It was perhaps inherited by her mother’s birthmother who was who was an actress, singer, and dancer […]

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Agency Promotes Women’s Work And Play With Luxury Maui Escape

“Divorce is not the end, it’s just a new beginning,” said Carlos Cymerman, founder of Recruiting for Good, in the release.

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Gender-Bending Designs Will Strut Down LA’s Catwalk This Week

The First-Ever Equality Fashion Week Launches At The Opening Of The Newly Redesigned Montrose Hotel West Hollywood by Heather Cassell Los Angeles will see it’s first-ever Equality Fashion Week featuring local designers October 5 – 9. Gender-bending and ethnically diverse models will kick-off the weeklong popup gender-bending fashions strutting down the catwalk atop the newly […]

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Paradiso Restaurant San Leandro California

Paradiso Serves Up A Warm And Inviting Dining Experience

One of my girlfriend’s and my favorite salads to start off with is the crab and avocado. We share the salad served with crab stacked on top of a perfectly round mound of fresh avocado with slices of mangos, tangerines, and grapefruit and garnished with a dash of pepper.

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Catelli's The Ultimate Burger

The Messiest And Tastiest Burger In Sonoma

Catelli’s Burger Tops The Menu When Dropping Into This Charming Local Restaurant in Geyserville, California by Super G We were hungry. That simply goes to say after wine tasting in the hot late summer sun deep in California’s wine country. We had to find something to eat. So, we stopped in at Catelli’s Restaurant in […]

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Let There Be Laughter At The Wine Country Comedy Fest In Sonoma

Comedy is “what keeps you happy” it is “the spice of life,” said Wine County Comedy Fest co-founder Lisa Pidge who has “the ultimate standup comedy experience in wine country” happening this weekend.

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Comedian Julie Goldman

Queer Comedians Take On The Bay

“I appreciate comedians who don’t take themselves too seriously, have a dash of inappropriateness, and don’t pander or shy away from pushing the envelope,” wrote Julie. “I think both Belinda and Jeffrey add a spice of these elements to their acts and that’s why I have fun watching them and continue to want to work with them.”

“Plus, I just genuinely like them and want to hang out with them,” she added.

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Madame Gandhi

Madame Gandhi Set To Mesmerize The Dinah Crowds

“I want music to make feminism culturally relevant. I want my music to make gender equality culturally even more relevant,” said Madame Gandhi, who writes music that elevates and celebrates the female voice.

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