Entries tagged 'celebrities'
Celebrity Hawaii Weddings - James Gandolfini (Sopranos) Marries Local Girl
Sopranos star James Gandolfini took his local girl girlfriend Deborah Lin back to Oahu for an intimate wedding last weekend. We love celeb weddings out here and think all celebrities should get married in Hawaii. No word on where they...
Hawaii Concerts: Jack Johnson @ Kokua Fest 2008
Kokua Festival -- perhaps the least-known, best music festival in the country. Best of all, you can take surf breaks between (musical) sets -- the Waikiki Shell was a five minute walk from big surf during the 2008 fest....
Hawaii Celebrities: David Beckham Has Bad Trip in Paradise
The much swooned over Brit sports idol David Beckham arrived in Hawaii two days ago with his L.A. Galaxy teammates to participate in the Pan Pacific Championships, playing pro club teams from around the rim and the globe. Beckham and...
Anthony Bourdain in the House: Does Honolulu Taping
Bad boy chef Anthony Bourdain airdropped into Honolulu to tape a segment of "No Reservations." The Honolulu Star-Bulletin's Betty Shimabukuro gots the goods and chatted with Big Tony as he chowed down on Colin Nishida's choice grinds at Side Street...
Another "Lost" DUI: Good Thing the Show Is Ending
What is it about Oahu that encourages actors to drink and drive? Particularly actors from the cast of "Lost"? First it was former cast members Michelle Rodriguez and Cynthia Watros, busted for DUI in 2005. Then, last week Daniel Dae...
Hawaii Hotels: Kahala Resort Richard Dreyfus Ripoff
As if the Kahala Resort hadn't had enough bad press lately. Apparently, famed stage and screen has-been actor walked on a $3,000 room charges tab from the Kahala after stealing the show in a local charity theater performance in Honolulu,...
Hawaii Celebrities: Sean Penn Buys North Shore Lot
As if Hawaii didn't have enough celebs. Then again, we can understand why Penn would love the North Shore enough to buy. It's is wild enough to still feel real, edgy enough to be a bit primal, yet quiet enough...
Deniro at Nobu in Waikiki
I blogged it two days ago. Here's the pic. Image via Halekulani Corp....
Hawaii Restaurants: Tony Soprano Dines at "Epic"
Apparently James Gandolfini was in Hawaii last week, in Honolulu, to be precise. Accompanying him was his lovely girlfriend Lin. Gandolfini, natch, dined on pork chops at Epic, a newish restaurant in Chinatown in Honolulu on the island of Oahu....
Hawaii Celebrities: Harrison Ford's 65th Birthday in Hilo -- What to Feed Steve Speilberg and George Lucas for Dinner
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He's Back! Speilberg Shooting Indiana Jones IV on Big Island Right Now!
The lure of Hawaii is apparently quite strong for filmmaker Steven Spielberg. He's chosen Hawaii yet again as a primary scene location for the latest and greatest Indiana Jones flick, the forth in the series. Apparently, Spielberg and company have...
Hawaii Nightlife: Partying With Owen Wilson
The lovable low-brow comedy star was spotted in June cutting the rug at an afterhours club event in the Hanohano Room at the Sheraton Waikiki. Apparently, Wilson showed up for the extremely popular and still red hot after two years...
Paris Hilton: Get Out of Jail, Go to Maui!
Maui is a wonderful place to relax after prison. At least, that must be why Paris Hilton, the recently sprung from the slammer heiress, has come to the islands. You kinda feel bad that even in Hawaii the photogs hound...
Hawaii Celebrities: "Lost" Cast Eating at Cassis: Can you Cassoulet?
The Honolulu Advertiers entertainment columnist Wayne Harada tells us that multiple "Lost" cast members have dined at Cassis, Chef Mavro's new downtown eatery helmed by his protege Ben Takahashi. Among those spotted was the popular with the worse-half Evangeline Lilly....
Oahu -- The Most Dangerous Island (For "Lost" Cast Members, that is)
Call it the curse of the "Lost". During seasonal filming on Oahu, the cast has endured a home invasion, speeding tickets, stalkers, DUI busts. Now Evangeline Lilly's rented home in Kailua burns to the ground! The Honolulu Advertiser has a...
Where Andy Irons Grinds: North Shore Surf Pros Chow Alert
Want the low-down on some of the best eats on Oahu’s North Shore? No better sources than the world’s best surfers, who, after shredding the massive winter waves along this famed coastline stretch, surely work up the appetites to match...
Hawaii Condos: The Donald Does Waikiki Quite Nicely
UPDATE: THE ENTIRE TRUMP TOWER PROJECT SOLD OUT IN A DAY. THAT'S RIGHT, ONE DAY. THIS IS NUTS! The Donald is apparently a perfect fit for Waikiki. So far, according to this article in the Honolulu Advertiser, Trump's planned 462-unit...
Cool Shops: Maggie Coulombe in Lahaina
She's a free spirit and it shows in her wearable creations. Maggie Coulombe's silky, diaphanous pareos and slinky dresses hang in the closets of bad girl debutante Paris Hilton and bad mommy Teri Hatcher. How a designer can concentrate in...
Kooks Crash "Lost" Set: Send Us Your Lost Sightings!
Hilarious Flickr pix of two random guys who stumbled upon an unguarded "Lost" set somewhere on Oahu (I think). They took many pix and apparently had a good time. And they got blogged. I ran into film commissioner Donne...
Special Filiming Unit for iPod on "Lost"?
A friend who works closely with some of the film production in the islands told me something very interesting the other day -- which has nothing to do with Hawaii except that it pertains to "Lost", the show filmed here...
Pure Kauai: Pure Luxe
Katherine Nichols is one of my favorite local writers. Due to the dearth of quality writing gigs in Hawaii, the local in-flights often get top-notch scribes and the quality of the pubs is quite high. In fact, often the in-flights...
Hawaii Celebrities: Britney Does the Hula-La!
Britney blog Breathe Heavy (among others) brings us thumbnails from this month's "People" mag of the diva cavorting in Miami Beach with hubby and baby sporting a Hula-la bikini by Hawaiian Hula Girl, a very cool swimwear company based...
