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Shane Co., Zales Engage Same-Sex Couples

Love won and now mainstream jewelers Shane Co. and Zales are eyeing to attract lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender individuals seeking to pop the question and tie the knot into their stores.

Rica Sunga-Kwan scoops up Chai Chocolate Cardamom at Churn Urban Creamery’s pop-up ice cream cart. (Photo: Heather Cassell)

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.

Hotel Credit Card Hack Puts A Damper On Summer Vacation

At least 20 big name hotels in the HEI Hotels & Resorts family are known to have been hacked.

The hotelier that has some Hilton, Hyatt, IHG, Independent, F&B Operations, Marriott, and Starwood hotels throughout the United States in its portfolio, announced on its website today.

Comedian Priya Prasad (Photo: Courtesy of the Zee TV Desi Comedy Fest)

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.”

The DoubleTree – Westminster (Photo: Courtesy of DoubleTree-Westminster / Hilton Worldwide)

Luxury All The Way At The DoubleTree – Westminster

The bellmen were at our Uber van door and they were already loading up our luggage onto a cart and guiding us to be checked into the DoubleTree – Westminster (30 John Islip Street, +44 20 7630 1000, , doubletree3.hilton.com/en/hotels/united-kingdom/doubletree-by-hilton-hotel-london-westminster-LONWMDI/index.html) in London before we knew what was happening.

Comedian Mona Shaikh performing at the Comedy Club.

Desi Women Storm The Stage At Desi Comedy Festival

This year’s Zee TV Desi Comedy Fest features the most women comics to date in the festival’s three year history.

The festival features 16 women comedians out of the lineup of 50 comedians who are descending upon the Bay Area from all over the world for the two week festival.

The festival kicks-off today (August 11) and runs to August 21 throughout the San Francisco Bay Area.

The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence take to the Nunway. (Photo: Jana Asenbrennerova / theguardian.com)

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.

Filed hockey players Kate, left, and Helen, right, Richardson-Walsh, are the first-ever wife team competing for Olympic gold in Rio. (Photo: Ady Kerry)

First-Ever Wife-Wife Teammates Compete At The Gayest Olympics Ever

Wife team Kate and Helen Richardson-Walsh might have had their eyes on diamonds when they married in 2013, but now they have their eye on the gold at the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.

This is their fourth Olympics together, but their first as a married couple walking out onto the field to compete for the United Kingdom.

British Field Hockey teamd celebrate. (Photo: NPR)

Breaking Records And Fierce Competition As Women Roar In Rio

This is a historic year for women competing at the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, which kicked off Friday, August 5.

Zika and pollution aren’t holding these women back from going for the gold. A record number of women athletes, 45%, qualified to compete in the games in Brazil.

Delta One, first class flying on Delta Air Lines. (Photo: Courtesy of Delta Air Lines )

It’s A Whole Other World Flying Delta One

Girls That Roam Recently Experienced A First Class Flight to London Aboard Delta One And Learned Perhaps It’s The Only Way To Take To The Air When Going Abroad by Heather Cassell & Super G If flying first class is on your bucket list, definitely bump it up toward the top of your list, especially […]

Blue Point and Kumamoto oysters served up at Willi’s Seafood & Raw Bar in Healdsburg, California. (Photo: fattyshaddy.blogspot.com)

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.

Miami battles Zika virus. (Photo: Associated Press)

CDC Issues Historic Travel Warning For Miami

The Zika numbers starting to climb prompted the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to issue a precedent travel warning to pregnant women and couples for Miami on Monday.

This is the first time that a federal health agency has issued a travel warning within the United States CDC officials believe, Tom Skinner, spokesperson for the agency told the media.