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Portland’s Chefs & Taste Makers Talk About Their Favorite Eateries
- Heather Cassell
- September 27, 2015
Check out where these four Rose City Cuisiniers And Taste Makers Become Gourmands By Heather Cassell Portland is a chef’s and foodies paradise with the local farms and vineyards and breweries all within reach, within the city and just a few miles from the edge of its borders. So we ask Feast Portland’s co-founder Carrie […]
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Feast On This: Feast Portland Gives Chow Hounds Something to Feast On
- Heather Cassell
- August 30, 2015
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 World Through Lisa Kristine’s Lens
- Heather Cassell
- January 5, 2015
Humanitarian and fine art photographer Lisa Kristine chats with Girls That Roam about photographing cultures around the world, modern day slavery and seeing it all through the lens of her camera
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Belinda Carroll’s Knack For Being Funny
- Heather Cassell
- September 25, 2014
The café in the Pacific Northwest coastal town was shaking with laughter as Portland-based comedian Belinda Carroll delivered the laughs straight up (so-to-speak) during the first annual EDEN Pacific Northwest.
This year the Portland-based comedian is back as a part of the comedic crew – that includes Julie Goldman and D’Lo – to deliver those punch lines that will leave the women doubled over in laughter during the all-girl weekend getaway in Seaside, Oregon, October 2 – 5.
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D’Lo Knows No Boundaries In Comedy and Travel
- Heather Cassell
- September 24, 2014
It doesn’t hurt having friends in many places, especially if your life consists of being on the road much of the time, at least that’s what comedian D’Lo has found.
Knowing artists and activists in different cities allows the queer Tamil Sri L.A.nkan-American to not feel like such an outsider, he says.
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Julie Goldman Loves Making the Ladies Laugh
- Heather Cassell
- September 4, 2014
Comedian Julie Goldman is coming to women across the US live. All summer long she’s been making women laugh at the plethora of women’s weekends that have sprung up alongside longstanding favorite women’s summer getaways.
If you haven’t gotten a chance to Julie this summer, it’s not too late! Julie loves the summers with all of the women’s weekends that get kicked off by The Dinah in Palm Springs, California and flow through the US, Europe and beyond the northern hemisphere to the beginning of fall.
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Iconic Sheila E Beats To Her Own Drum
- Heather Cassell
- August 30, 2014
Sheila Escovedo, better known as Emmy and Grammy nominated Sheila E, is singing her own songs and drumming to her own beat these days.
Sheila E hit it big in the 1980s with songs “The Glamorous Life,” “A Love Bizarre,” and her collaboration with her friend and former lover Prince, “Erotic City.”
The Oakland native, who currently lives in Los Angeles, is following up the released her latest album, Icon, at the beginning of the summer with her tell-all memoire, The Beat of My Own Drum: A Memoir, available September 2.
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Hawkers Asian Street Fare Gives A Taste of Asia
- Heather Cassell
- July 20, 2014
Last night, I went to Asia. I was in another world as soon as I stepped through the threshold of Hawkers Asian Street Fare (1103 North Mills Avenue, 407-237-0606, , HawkersStreetFare.com), a new Orlando favorite dining spot that serves up the flavors of Asia’s tasty street foods under one roof.
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4 Non Blondes Reunite for One Night at “An Evening with Women”
- Heather Cassell
- May 7, 2014
4 Non Blondes are reuniting to perform for the first time in two decades for one night only at the “An Evening with Women” benefit gala for the Los Angeles Lesbian and Gay Center.
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You Are the Star at In-Symmetry Wellness Spa
- Heather Cassell
- April 21, 2014
Celebrity service without the price, seriously, that’s what clients get at a Mission District spa In-Symmetry Wellness Spa, along with warm welcomes, a pleasant environment and making peoples’ bodies feel good in San Francisco.
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A Retreat Just for You at Good Commons
- Heather Cassell
- April 21, 2014
A country retreat was exactly what Tesha Buss needed after following her passion to the lights of Broadway.
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Get Your Dinah On!
- Heather Cassell
- March 31, 2014
Thousands of queer women and their friends will head to Palm Springs for the infamous and largest lesbian party on the planet: The Dinah.
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