Fyndhawaii.com is something we contemplated for a while. At first I was doing this as a Hawaii-centric search engine but had troubled tuning it the way I wanted. Then along came Twitter. I wanted to figure out a way…

Check it out here at search.hawaiirama.com. Tell us what you think and what can be made better -- or if it totally rocks, tell us that, too. Hint -- this thing is best for detailed searches into Hawaii topics. We…

Posting from the Nuuanu Gallery at Marks Garage. This post is sponsored by Microsoft. When you see the Microsoft Mobile logo, you know I'm posting on the go. Or something like that. So, back to the subject matter at…

Pulled this off YouTube. If you plan on visiting Hawaii, you should watch this. It's akin to Hawaii's classic SNL. Rap Reiplinger was the ultimate Hawaii comic, Bill Murray, Bill Cosby and Chevy Chase all rolled into one. If…

About time and very cool. So many neat stories about what life is like out here, personalities, color, etc. Filmmaker Edgy Lee is heading the project. Emme's "Island Moments" have been nice but really could use an update and hopefully…

So we know that Barack is a literary man. He's written two memoirs before hitting 50 years of age. He was the first African-American president of the Harvard Law Review (he got his law degree there). So the man clearly…

UPDATE: The Honolulu Advertiser has an enormous and well-done package on Don Ho, a veritble primer on his life and times. Don Ho, who had been suffering from chronic heart disease, passed on today. I was fortunate to catch his…

Pacific Business News in Honolulu has a piece detailing the woes of a top-Google ranked listing, Top-10-Hawaii.com / Hawaii Travel Network. This was a popular online travel site and referral network that sold all sorts of stuff -- cruises on…

I don't usually go to luaus much. They are fun but can feel kinda forced to someone who has lived in Hawaii for a while. That said, one things I LOVE at luaus is the Samoan fire dancing. This…

Rell Sunn was one of those rare people that everyone loved, and it’s not hard to see why: not only was she a talented professional surfer, but also a wonderful mother, patient teacher, gifted cultural practitioner, and generous community activist.…

A few weekends ago at a friend’s wedding, I was sitting next to some recent mainland transplants who were lamenting the sad state of the produce at one of the major supermarkets. “Have you tried any of the local open…

And of course Sig's Blog is classy and understated, just like his designs. They don't post very often but each post comes with a gorgeous image of an endemic plant that holds cultural significance for Native Hawaiians and a really…

Hawaiian Quilting as an art form traces its roots back to Missionary Days and the New England mores the Christian arrivistes to Hawaii brought from their Northeast homes. It has survived and thrived in the islands and become something uniquely…

Browing through Digg, I found this site, called Tropical Storm, that has the lyrics to dozens of Hawaiian songs (as in, sung in Hawaiian language). Super handy for kanikapila or just for learning the words to the tunes you heard…

Call it the bluegrass or country music of Hawaii. Slack-key guitar is finger-pickin' folk music, pure and simple. It's the stuff people play at their backyard jams and it’s the music they heard their parents and grand parents playing.…