Can you say “three-peat?”The live, vocal and instrumental multi-artist compilation Treasures of Hawaiian Slack Key Guitar has won this year’s Grammy award for best Hawaiian music album.The win was the third consecutive in the category for a compilation from the production team of Daniel Ho, George Kahumoku Jr., Paul Konwiser and Wayne Wong. The four received Grammys last […]
You’re reading my final post about this year’s Best Hawaiian Music Album Grammy. My final post, that is, before the actual Grammy ceremonies on Sunday. Promise.Nothing new to report. The nominees haven’t changed:• Keola Beamer’s Ka Hikina O Ka Hau (The Coming Of The Snow)• Tia Carrere’s Hawaiiana• Raiatea Helm’s Hawaiian Blossom• Cyril Pahinui’s He‘eia• Treasures of Hawaiian Slack Key Guitar,
Gung Hee Fat Choy! Be happy and prosperous!Today is the first day of the Chinese year 4705. Many of the community celebrations—lion dances, lighting firecrackers, giving of lai see (money offerings)—that go along with this most important of Chinese holidays happened last weekend. But today’s second new moon after the winter solstice marks the actual start of
Check out the YouTube video below of Hexanchus griseus. Talk about living large. It’s an 18-foot six-gill shark that University of Hawaii professors Jeff Drazen and Craig Smith caught on video off the coast of Molokai in 2006. After it hit their submersible! The duo was on a research dive, anchored more than 3,000 feet
The best parts of A DASH of Aloha occur after page 47. That’s when this new Hawaii-centric guide to healthy eating habits and physical activity—put together by Kapiolani Community College’s much-lauded Culinary Arts Department—steps out of its brief educational mode and into some very appealing recipes. Macadamia nut butter and lehua honey muffins. Tofu lemongrass curry.
Players and cheerleaders in town for Sunday’s NFL Pro Bowl turned up in downtown Honolulu today for the game week’s official kick-off celebration.They were in Bishop Square—next door to HAWAII Magazine’s offices—posing for pictures and signing autographs for a thousand-strong crowd of fans and the just plain curious. One of the latter—oddly fascinated by a
29 inches.That’s the amount of rain that fell on Hilo, my former hometown, between Friday evening and yesterday. Overloaded streams flooded more than a hundred homes in the Waiakea Uka suburb upslope of town. Flood control channels overflowed into Hilo’s picturesque bayfront area. Landslides closed highways and roads along the Big Island’s Hamakua Coast. Schools closed on
Dave Matthews will play live in Hawaii for the first time at Jack Johnson’s annual Kokua Festival benefit concerts on April 19th and 20th.The leader of multi-million-selling jam band extraordinaire Dave Matthews Band will play an acoustic set with sometime musical partner, guitarist Tim Reynolds, at the fifth annual go-round of Johnson’s environmental awareness concerts.
The end of another Super Bowl means two things to Hawaii NFL fans: a Monday morning date at the gym to drop Super Bowl party weight before it sticks, and Pro Bowl Week in Honolulu.Players from the AFC and NFC leagues begin arriving today for practices and citywide events that end with next Sunday’s annual NFL
Jack Johnson’s fifth CD, Sleep Through the Static, goes on sale Tuesday.It’s another disc of the characteristic spare, acoustic-surf-folk fare that has endeared the North Shore of Oahu native to millions. But the usual sweet real-world love songs and kicky blues-funky backyard jams have been partially replaced by darker songs with messages—the death of a loved
Indiana Jones was filmed in the “Peruvian” jungle of Kauai. Ben Stiller and Jack Black visited for the filming of their flick Tropic Thunder (Kauai), Knocked Up director Judd Apatow’s Forgetting Sarah Marshall (Oahu) was set at Turtle Bay Resort, and two of the Pirates of the Caribbean movies (Maui/Molokai/Kauai) made use of Hawaii’s gorgeous coastline. Godzilla has destroyed Waikiki Beach, and Katniss
Look at this vintage film I found—eruptions at Kilauea volcano in 1959 and 1960.Both eruptions were significant. The first half of the video shows the Nov. 1959 eruption at Kilauea Iki crater, which produced fountains of lava up to 1,400 feet high. Because of its convenient location near Kilauea’s summit, near the visitor center and volcano observatory, the
