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How To Become A Cheese Whiz :: Sara Vivenzio’s The Cheese School, San Francisco If Pink is the new Black, then Cheese is the new Wine, and Sommeliers will have to make room for Affineurs*. And if you don’t know what an Affineur is, then Sara Vivenzio’s The Cheese School of San Francisco will make…

A travesty of justice? A litmus test for the class hierarchy in America? Is this discussion only feeding the fires of faux celebrity? Paris Hilton’s jail sentence has been the judge’s gavel heard round the world. Diva Nation, what are your thoughts? * A Little History  What got her here in the first place? According…

Richard Louv, author of Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder has coined the term "nature-deficit disorder." In April 2005, The New York Times published an article describing Louv’s concern that children these days are Growing Up Denatured.  In light of this, I’d like to take this opportunity to tell you…

Hello Fellow Divas! I just wanted to say a quick hello and thank the women of Tango Diva for giving me the opportunity to share some eco-friendly tourism options with their Diva-licious readers. Over the last few months, I have been researching and compiling some great info. on Green Travel and I can’t wait to…

Women made great strides this spring! Venice welcomed its very first female gondolier, Alexandra Hai, a German in her late thirties. Although she is only allowed to ferry guests of a single hotel, the fact that Alexandra, a foreigner AND a woman, could jump in where laws since the eleventh century have held chauvanist sway,…