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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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Sisters Exhibit Opens in Prague
Award-winning photojournalist Jana Ašenbrennerová’s exhibit, Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, opened tonight, August 8, in Prague, Czech Republic.
The exhibit explores the order of men extravagantly dressed as nuns in habits, known as the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, raising money for community organizations and educating people about issues, such as HIV/AIDS.
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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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Frost Art Museum’s ‘The Summer of Women’ Series Puts Women’s Voices On Display
Women’s voices are heard through art at The Summer of Women series presented by the Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum in Miami, Florida.
Six international and national women artists – Tracey Emin from London, Quisqueya Henriquez based in the Dominican Republic, Cuban born Beatriz Monteavaro who is Miami-based, England-born Sarah Morris who is based in New York, Aida Ruilova also based in New York, and Denmark-born Susanne M. Winterling who is now based in Berlin, Germany and Oslo, Norway – from art collector Rosa de la Cruz’s collection in an exhibit the Resonance/Dissonance: Video Works by Women Artists from the de la Cruz Collection.
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It’s The Cheese For The New California Cheese Trail App
It’s cheesy goodness along California’s Cheese Trail.
Now it’s easier than ever to find the more than 70 creameries in the Golden State with the California Cheese Trail’s new app launched July 19.
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Portland Is A Bountiful Feast For Carrie Welch
Driving into her office recently, Carrie Welch, co-founder of Feast Portland, pinched herself to make sure she wasn’t simply dreaming as she cruised through the quaint streets of Portland, Oregon.
“It feels like a dream. It really does,” she says. “You know how people say that expression, ‘Oh I’m living the dream,’ and a lot of times these days they say that ironically like they don’t really mean it, but I do. I truly do.”
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Pom Pom’s Teahouse and Sandwicheria Takes Sandwiches to New Heights
Want to impress your date in Orlando? Take them to one of the city’s many fine gourmet eateries.
Want to find out if your date is The One? Take them to Pom Pom’s Teahouse and Sandwicheria (67 North Bumby Avenue; 407-894-0865; PomPomSteahouse.com) in Orlando, Florida.
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Love & Coffee Takes These Ladies To The White House
Listening to Brooke McDonnell wax on about the notes in her espresso while sitting on the steps of Pioneer Square in Portland during the early 1990s, Helen Russell, who was enjoying her mocha with the whip cream piled high, suddenly had an idea: let’s open coffee shops in San Francisco.
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Off the Beaten Path in the Dominican Republic
As I dig my toes into warm Caribbean sand and take another sip from the straw sticking out of the fresh coconut in my hand, I review my trip so far: In three days in the Dominican Republic, I’ve sipped rum, eaten gourmet food, splashed in the Caribbean Sea, strolled a World Heritage site, frolicked at a rainforest waterfall, and had the chance to gamble at a casino. I take another sweet swig, lie back, and let a smug thought momentarily take over:
Good thing I’m not acting like a typical tourist.
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Chef Syme Delivers Fine Fare at Yaletown’s La Pentola Italian Restaurant
Chef Lucais Syme delivers an unmatched and irresistible meal at La Pentola in Vancouver, British Columbia’s Yaletown neighborhood. Situated inside the OPUS Vancouver Hotel, this rustic Northern Italian restaurant is an experience to be had – and not forgotten.
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