Statewide Bringing the Kids archive

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…

Just as I'd hoped, the new Superferry (which in light of airline costs is starting to look better and better) is now allowing rental cars to travel between islands on the boat. This is a huge boon that will not…

Hawaii-Aloha travel agency founder Bruce Fisher runs his own company blog, does podcasts, and even posts YouTube videos. He also tangles with Expedia and hotel companies on TripAdvisor. He'll be contributing to Hawaiirama shortly, if all goes well. As a…

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Ho, cuz! Barack got some kala! (That's money in Hawaii slang). So now that Barack has raised almost as much money as Hillary Clinton, me thinks he can afford a REAL NICE Hawaiian vacation at this point. Not that I…

Hawaiirama ended up featured prominently on a StumbleUpon reccomendation page pointing towards our kids coverage. Which, alas, has been sadly lagging considering how many keiki live here and how many visit. Which gives me the nudge-nudge to do what I…

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…

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.…

I was writing an article on driving the spectacular H-3 Interstate (Hawaii actually has three, all on Oahu) for a magazine and tooling around looking at images online when I stumbled across this site put together by Oscar Voss.…