The Hawaiian Lei Ceremony is truly a reflection on the local way of life and can incorporate as few or as many loved ones as you like. Lei are forms of appreciation, love, and aloha so you should feel free to give them out at any occasion you feel incline
The Wedding Café (TWC) spills about the best ways to get your dream gown across the Pacific Ocean. For brides planning their dream wedding in Hawaii, there are a million and one things to do, especially since you’re doing everything overseas! Findi
The following is a guest blog by Melanie Kosaka of Share Your Table and What Chefs Eat iPhone app. Just a 10-minute ride from Waikiki, Kaimuki is the antithesis of mall culture. An eclectic mix of street front shops and restaurants, it’s one of the few pl
The following is a guest blog by Jennifer Holcomb. Welcome to our world. Here at Destination 3° challenges do not go uncontested and dreams are never not mostly reality. At least in our heads. When we sent our channel crossing idea out into the world, we
The following is a guest blog by Melanie Kosaka of Share Your Table and What Chefs Eat iPhone app. Chef Bev Gannon is the grand diva of Maui’s culinary scene. More than 20 years ago she had the vision to take a neglected neighborhood general store and tu
The following is a guest blog by Melanie Kosaka of Share Your Table and What Chefs Eat iPhone app. Recently named as a 2010 James Beard Award Rising Star Chef semi-finalist, Colin Hazama knows good food, so when he shared with me his favorite local restau
For the Keiki and Ohana by: STA As summer has arrived, occupying our children’s time is becoming more and more difficult. If you are running out of activities for your keikis, consider the Pacific Aviation Museum on Ford Island, now a National Historic La
Hawaii’s Fads and Mainstays by Jan Being in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, trends and fads come to us slowly here in Hawaii. But when they do, boy, do we fall hard! Obsessing over new and must try foods, games and stores—fads hook us with their wo
Things that Entertained Us by Jan Some of the people and events featured in this series offer a nostalgic look back to Hawaii’s past. However, a few long standing acts in Hawaii not only entertained us “back then”, but continue to entertain us today…Cecil
Doggie heads will turn when they see their friends wearing this customized Hawaii Traditions Groovy doggie t-shirt. Even their human’s will want to know where to get one for their dog so they can by styling with the rest of the canine community. Th
Wes Zane’s newest departure on Kapahulu called Sake Street is a japanese style restaurant that serves food and sake of all kinds. Sake Street’s selection of sake is not only delicious but also an educational experience for a range of palates,
With such a diverse mix of peoples living here in Hawaii, our Aloha State is known across the globe as a “melting pot” of cultures. This notion is perhaps most hilariously celebrated on Frank De Lima’s comedy stage. Born Frank Wilcox Napuakekaulike De Lim
The Honolulu Star-Advertiser strives to make its news report fair and accurate. If you have a question or comment about news coverage, call Ed Lynch, managing editor/news, at 529-4758.
A state judge dismissed a murder charge yesterday against a man accused in the 2008 execution-style murder of Jermaine Duckworth, whose body was found at the bottom of a cliff near Yokohama Bay with a gunshot wound in the back of his head.
After winning a special election in September, Mayor Peter Carlisle had just two years to convince voters that his skills as city prosecutor would translate into being the chief executive officer for the City and County of Honolulu.
Coaches and friends of Kameron Steinhoff described him as quiet, humble and dedicated, and completely devoted to being a student-athlete.
Synthetic marijuana, known on the street as Spice, can cause a lengthy bout of psychosis in some users, according to research presented at the American Psychiatric Association annual meeting.
I obsessively sign up for every site or service that I find. But if I measure my level of enthusiasm for a site based on how much time it takes away from the other sites I love, then Namesake is definitely my latest favorite shiny new thing. Namesake is t
The first ever (and hopefully annual) Eisa Drum Festival took place on Saturday on the Great Lawn of Kapiolani Community College. It was a great event, and lead organizer Shari Tamashiro — along with advisors Norman Kaneshiro and Derek Ichiro Shiroma, and
The sixth annual Hawaii Book & Music Festival takes place this weekend, Saturday and Sunday, May 14 & 15, on the municipal grounds between Honolulu Hale and the Fasi Building. It’s a great event for kids and families, for sure, but also for
Be still my geeky heart. If I had a bucket list, I would have crossed off a big entry yesterday, as I was a guest on “FourCast,” a show on Leo Laporte’s TWiT network. I was honored to be on the show alongside local developer Brian Dote,
In Hawaii, we’re surrounded by clean energy projects. We’ve got solar farms, wind farms, biofuel producers, geothermal and wave energy experiments… researchers are branching out, venture capitalists are moving in, and federal funds are f
Less than a week before Hawaii social worker and social media stalwart Ryan Suenaga lost his life, he posted to Twitter: “One of my life goals is to leave 10 percent of my estate to a scholarship for Buddhists from Hawaii studying social work.”
It is a bad morning. My primary computer, a 15″ MacBook Pro that is just a month short of a year old, has died. Again. It happened after following Apple’s advice and upgrading the system software. Now it will no longer boot. I get either an in
It was dark and threatening when we go down to the beach yesterday morning. The wind was very light, and the ocean’s surface still and glassy. It was raining off in the distance towards Kaneohe. Unfortunately, that rain reached Kaaawa just about the
Once again, I noticed the mainstream reporting on the federal lawsuit filed last week challenging the environmental impact statement for the Honolulu rail project didn’t include links to the complaint itself. Hawaii News Now had the only story I saw
Here’s the link: Honolulu Civil Beat – ‘Affordable’ Housing Shouldn’t Be Sold Off. In a nutshell, I live in an affordable housing project where the remaining unsold units (after a series of obscure “public” meeti
With Linda Lingle and Charles Djou (temporarily?) hunkering down into post-political East Honolulu bunkers, and with Senator Sam Slom, i.e. the entire Senate Minority Caucus, quixotically presenting himself as the desperate rhetorical bomb-thrower, and wi
I suspect that many, if not most, of you that found your way here after listening to Ben Markus‘ piece on Hawaii Public Radio have never visited my blog before. My blog never enjoyed a lot of traffic, and now it doesn’t even get the modest tr
Mirabile dictu, I am finished with the cataloging, scanning, and uploading of records! I thought that I still had hundreds of records to go, until I realized that the remaining pile consisted only of the records for measures which had been vetoed and subs
At this point, I estimate that I have dealt with about two-thirds of the records provided to me. This is another batch of records pertaining to legislation from 2009 that became law without the Governor’s signature. The document index continues to e
Well, well, well. Kudos to KITV and KHON for reporting about a community meeting where a presentation was made by a company that is in the business of helping law enforcement agencies locate the source of gunshots and other noises made by illegal activity
by Larry Geller An order filed in a US Department of Labor case in Loa Angeles against Global Horizons, a company that is also involved in what has been described as the largest human trafficking case in US history, also mentions the involvement of Hawaii
by Larry Geller Kolea suggested in a comment to my followup article on undergrounding the utility wires near Waikiki that there are other ugly spots. I have seen a few, and it’s really easy these days to get at least a passable picture by snipping from Go
By Henry Curtis On May 16, 2011 Kanu Hawaii sponsored a filmed called “Carbon Nation” at Bambu Cafe on Bethel Street, Honolulu. Followed the film there was an hour long panel discussion with Richard Ha (Ku`oko`a; Hamakua Springs Country Farms), Brian Go
by Larry Geller I promised in yesterday’s article (APEC improvements merely cosmetic…, 5/17/2011) to track down the cost of the undergrounding of power lines from Ala Moana to Waikiki. I couldn’t find the info on the web, so I called the state Department
by Larry Geller The Star-Advertiser editorial today (OIP has public duty to issue opinion, 5/17/2011) is right on the money, and perhaps a bit restrained. All the Office of Information Practices can do is issue an opinion. It has no power, under the statu
by Larry Geller So how will Nimitz Highway look for APEC delegates in November? I suspect it will look slightly better with the palm trees that the state is planning to install (and just why could that not have been done before?), but still will look like
Could the unabomber be implicated in a tainted Tylenol scare that killed seven people?
Agencies from the United States and Japan are teaming up to demonstrate smart grid technologies on Maui.
The Shanghai event brought in teams from the United States, France, Italy, and Canada.
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I have come to realize that the degree of proficiency in anything, including songwriting, guitar playing, engineering and producing is in direct correlation with usually high amounts of time spent improving the skill. Once acquired, it needs to be additi
HAWAIIAN SACRED PLACE GONE WITHOUT A TRACE ON VOICES OF TRUTH – ONE-ON-ONE WITH HAWAI`I’S FUTUREIt was one of those places you drive by all the time and never notice.Overgrown and completely hidden, Hawea heiau sat there for hundreds of years until develo
President Obama issues proclamation for Kamehameha Day BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION Two hundred years ago, King Kamehameha the Great brought the Hawaiian Islands together under a unified government. His courage and lea
Categorized | Entertainment King Kamehameha Day Parade in Kona (June 12) Posted on 6:20 pm, Tuesday, June 8, 2010. Tags: halau kalaakeakauikawekiu, king kamehameha day parade MEDIA