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?uestlove and Keren Ann will be performing live Sunday at the Philadelphia International Festival of the Arts.
They got together for a rehearsal Thursday, April 14 at the Kimmel Center.
?uestlove of the ROOTS performs with Keren Ann Sunday, April 17 at 8pm at the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts.
(Due to technical difficulties, we had to temporarily remove the audio links. Check back later for a link to a video.)
Tickets/info: http://pifa.org/events/980190973
Madrid Pride — July 1-3, 2011 — is quickly gaining the reputation as most fun Pride in Europe (and among the best in the world). See it with the gay travel experts at Zoom Vacations.
You’ll stay in an old palace, truly one of the best hotels in all of Europe, and get invited to private parties and events, in addition to the public celebrations happening all over the city. You’ll even go to Toledo, one of the most historically and architecturally important cities in the world.
With stunning plazas, impressive architecture, world-renowned museums, great restaurants, and an incredibly vibrant gay scene, Madrid has its finger on the pulse of everything cool at the moment.
During Madrid Gay Pride, hundreds of thousands of gay people come to Madrid to celebrate their pride in a magnificent setting with fellow gay travelers from all over the world. Zoom Vacations really puts you in the heart of all of it.
Now through Mother’s Day, May 8, super LGBT-friendly hotel group Kimpton is offering a mother’s day special.
Kimpton’s LGBT employee committee (KPRIDE) and PFLAG National (Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays) will celebrate the special relationship the LGBT community has with our Moms. With Kimpton’s first ever Queen for A Day (And We Mean Your Mom) promotion, Kimpton is encouraging travelers to treat their mothers like the queens they really are with special stays, meals and lots of pampering.
Gay Planet Holidays is organizing, in cooperation with Cityjet and the City of Antwerp, a first “Sparkling Queer Flight” from both Manchester and London to Antwerp from June 23 to 26, 2011 for Antwerp Pride Weekend.
A fully chartered gay-only flight will take the participants to Antwerp where they will stay in Hotel Les Nuits which has been turned into an exclusively gay hotel especially for this occasion. During this weekend all guests are also culinary pampered in Restaurants Preud’Homme and Flamant Dining, and – the cherry on the cake – even Michelin Star Chef Roger Van Damme will cater for them in his lunch lounge “Het Gebaar.”
Price: £ 850,00 per person; for more information e-mail philip@gayplanetholidays.com
By Dennis Hensley
If you’re a fan of the circus arts or just enjoy looking at Spandex-clad beautiful bodies that can do amazing things, then the Philadelphia International Festival of the Arts is the place to be.
The three-week French-themed festival is already underway and along with the musicians and artists of every stripe, high-flying acrobats and aerialists are playing a major role. This weekend on the rooftop Hamilton Garden at the spectacular Kimmel Center, the Philadelphia School of the Circus Arts will present a variety show of comedy, juggling and acrobatics entitled The Green Fairy Cabaret. Daytime shows are family-friendly, while the nighttime show “has its own rewards,” according to the brochure. We can only hope that means nudity.Continue reading “It’s a Bird. It’s a Plane. It’s a Hot Guy Without a lot of Clothes on!”
Lesbian travel writer and passionate globe trotter LoAnn Halden spoke recently at the New York Times Travel Show about travel opportunities for gay women. LoAnn shared her top picks below.
For more gay and lesbian travel info, also check out www.LGBT.travel
Group Trips
http://www.DiscoverSweet.com – Isla Mujeres Resort late April and late September
http://www.Olivia.com – Various tours
Undersea Expeditions: Annual For Women Only scuba vacation, May 7-14 on Isla Mujeres, off Cancun, Mexico:
Women’s Weeks
Parties/Events
Resources
By Ivan Quintanilla; photo by Felix Becerra
This week, Miami Beach gets a little gay(er).
It’s raining men.
Hallelujah! On Saturday, April 16, it’s time to celebrate the 3nd Annual Miami Beach Gay Pride Parade, now the city’s largest single-day event.
Following the fun-in-the-sun of the Parade and Festival, bop over to The Official Gay Pride Closing Party at Ice Palace Studio West on 71 NW 14th Street, featuring music from DJs Abel and Paulo. The party starts at 10 p.m. and goes well into the next morning.
All the single ladies can whip their hair back and forth alongside the hot Go-Go-Girls of the MEGA Dance Ladies Party at Score on 727 Lincoln Road from 10 p.m. to 4 a.m.
If we took a holiday… took some time to celebrate.
Want more? The official Pride at Sea sets sail on a four-night cruise to the Bahamas on Monday, April 18. Relax, unwind and dance the last dance aboard Norwegian Cruise Line’s “Norwegian Sky.”
More Miami info. Originally published in GPS.OutTraveler.com.
Sail from Rome to Venice September 3-10 with the great folks from Source Events on their 10th aniversary cruise aboard a luxurious, intimate five-masted, 617-foot long msy Wind Surf.
By Dennis Hensley
One of the most surprising factoids that I learned when I toured the Louvre Museum in Paris a few years back is that Leonardo Da Vinci’s masterpiece, the Mona Lisa had been stolen back in 1911. As heists go, that’s quite a prestigious booty but then what do you do with it once you’ve nabbed it? It’s not like you can display it in your hoMe…unless you tell visitors it’s a fake and where’s the fun in that?
Maybe you could sell it to some egomaniacal super-villain to hang in his lair but anyone else you approach would probably report you, which is exactly what happened to the real thief, a Louvre employee named Vincenzo Perrugia, when he tried to return the painting to Italy and sell it to a gallery in Florence.
The theft of the Mona Lisa plays a role in two separate events at this month’s Philadelphia International Festival of the Arts, a three-week smorgasbord of everything cool, cultural and retro-French (the event’s theme is Paris 1910-20.) On April 9 at 11:00 AM in the Kimmel Center’s Perelman Theater, Astral Artists will present the family-friendly multimedia show Who Stole the Mona Lisa? featuring musicians, storytellers and an animation set to Stravinsky’s Firebird.
Meanwhile, across town, the prestigious Arden Theater is presenting a new play created especially for the festival called Wanamaker’s Pursuit. Set in 1911, the year the Mona Lisa was stolen, the play tells the story of an American department store owner’s son who travels to Paris to buy dresses and has his horizons broadened by Gertrude Stein, Pablo Picasso and designer Paul Poiret. The show runs through May 22. Learn more about both events at http://www.pifa.org (Supported by PIFA). Follow FIFA at http://www.twitter.com/PIFAPhilly
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Amid South Beach’s Art Deco hotels–pastel princesses that parade their facades along the main drag of Collins Avenue—one establishment crowns itself with gold: Lords South Beach, a newcomer to the scene.
If there are any lingering doubts, Lords’ proximity to Equinox gym (free for Lords guests), the gay section of the beach, and gay bars like Twist should convince you that you’re in the right place. For gay men, Lords rules the scene.
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