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Del Sur Mexican Cantina’s enchiladas (Photo: Courtesy of Del Sur Mexican Cantina)

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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The Discover L.A. app’s scavenger hunt for ice cream (Photo: Courtesy of Discover Los Angeles)

The Great Ice Cream Hunt Hits L.A.

I will scream. You will scream. We all will scream for ice cream!

Summer has just begun and ice cream, the favorite treat of the season, is on everyone’s mind again. So, what better way to kick off the launch of a new travel app than to have a scavenger hunt for ice cream?

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Singer-songwriter Melissa Etheridge (Photo: Courtesy of © 2017 Melissa Etheridge)

Melissa Etheridge’s Cuban Journey

It’s a dream come true for musician Melissa Etheridge. Later this month Melissa will journey to Havana, Cuba.

The mysterious and forbidden island nation in the Caribbean has intrigued the 55-year old artist since childhood, she tells the New York Times.

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Cynthia Tom’s “Cloud Walkers: Tied to Intuition” (Photo: Courtesy of Cynthia Tom)

Women Rise Again With Cynthia Tom’s Latest Exhibit “Awakening the Feminine”

Artist Cynthia Tom celebrates feminine power in her new solo exhibit “Awakening the Feminine” at the Founders Gallery in Marin.

Attendees can meet Cynthia and speak with her about her work that is intuitively inspired by the women’s community and the recent Women’s March at a reception at tonight, Friday, May 12.

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Girls get giddy in the Sprinkles Pool at the Museum of Ice Cream. (Photo: Pintrest)

A Sweet Treat. The Pop-Up Museum of Ice Cream Opens in Los Angeles.

Dive Into Sprinkles. Be The Banana Split. Get A Sugar High at The Museum of Ice Cream. by Heather Cassell Life is a bowl of ice cream with sprinkles on top, at least for the Museum of Ice Cream, which opens in Los Angeles, California April 22. The museum allows attendees to dive into a […]

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Young LGBTQI participants of Proactividad learn about the hospitality industry during an intensive introduction to hospitality and tourism during a job-training seminar at Villa La Pasarela at Casa de Campo in the Dominican Republic. (Photo: Nicole Clausing)

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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The view of Florence from San Mineato al Monte. (Photo: Nicole Clausing)

A City With A View: Florence

In the 1985 film A Room with a View, we are memorably introduced to two of the main characters—both born to England’s Edwardian-era upper class—as they are in the middle of an epic sulk. The pair, played by Helena Bonham Carter and Maggie Smith, are aggrieved at discovering that the rooms they have been assigned at their pensione do not have the view they felt they were promised.

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Girls motor race at She’z Moto Camp in Petaluma, California. (Photo: Courtesy of She’z Moto Camp)

Girlz MotoCamp Changes Name To She’z Moto Camp

“To me, She’z Moto means she is everything motorcycles, she’s her own person, she’s strong, she’s awesome, and she’s ready to ride. It really encompasses what I think of as a female motorcycle rider,” says Shelina, in She’z Moto Camp’s August 25 news release.

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Corinne Erni appointed as curator of special projects at the Parrish Art Museum in Long Island, New York. (Photo: 27East.com)

Corinne Erni Appointed Parrish Art Museum’s Curator Of Special Projects

Corinne Erni was appointed as curator of special projects at the Parrish Art Museum announced in Long Island’s East End.

Corinne takes over from her predecessor, Andrea Grover September 1.

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Reggae fushion artist Diana King (Courtesy of Diana King)

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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LezWrites! 2015 at 3Girls Theatre Company's New Works Festival (Photo: Courtesy of 3Girls Theatre Company)

Jewelle Gomez To Present New Play At New Works Festival At LezWrites! 2016

Author, Playwright, and Activist Jewelle Gomez [LINK] is thrilled to be co-curating the LezWrites! 2016 reading at this year’s fifth anniversary 3Girls Theatre Company’s New Works Festival Friday night.

Jewelle along with resident playwright Margery Kreitman will present 13 pieces – some solo and others with small casts – each piece being up to 10 minutes long to audience members August 26 at 7:30 p.m. at the Thick House (1695 18th Street, 415-746-9238, thickhouse.org) in San Francisco, California.

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Pro-Choice rally in Washington, DC (Photo: Courtesy of Twitter.com)

New Pro-Choice Generation Has A Stage To Voice Themselves

In a perfect world, women would have control of their bodies.

However, the war on women continues and has rebounded stronger than ever within recent years thanks to the U.S. House and Senate currently “under anti-choice control,” says Jennifer Roberts, co-founder and producer of ReproRights! Theater.

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