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What I do is minimum effort, but maximum pleasure. That’s part of being Hawaiian, brah. —Israel Kamakawiwo’ole If you’re reading this, you’re either from Hawaii and know Israel Kamakawiwo’ole or you’ve heard the film/TV/wedding rehearsal staple “Somewhere Over the Rainbow/What A Wonderful World.” (And if you’ve heard neither—get down to the bottom of this review, […]
Welcome to this week’s Book End, highlighting the weekend’s literary and library events here in Hawaii. Saturday, April 3 09:30am – At the Spring 2010 Taste of Waialua festival at the Old Sugar Mill in Wailaua, Author and “Dr. Coffee” Shawn Steiman of Coffea Consulting will present a short seminar on coffee roasting and how […]
Happy St. Patrick’s Day to all of our readers of Irish descent, and everybody else in the world who celebrates this fine feasting day. At least, that’s what I would have said if I actually wrote this review when I originally intended. Unfortunately, after that first bottle of Guinness right after work…I reserved myself to […]
Welcome to this week’s Book End, highlighting the weekend’s literary and library events here in Hawaii. It’s been a crazy month for Misty and I, but now that a lot of the big events we’ve to are out of the way, we can finally say we will concentrate on finishing up a few things and […]
Wow, what a busy time we had the last week. We arrived back from Japan on Tuesday of last week, had all kinds of personal and organizational commitments to attend and then worked hard on our annual Rec-Fest on Saturday. It was a lot of fun, and we hope you enjoyed the reviews. But the […]
HONOLULU—The Polynesian Tattoo Today is a compilation of over 200 detailed images of the beautiful and unique tradition that is Polynesian tattooing. In addition to the photographs of the artwork, thirty of today’s top tattooists are featured in this collection. They share not only their personal histories, but the philosophical approaches that guide their work. […]
March is ‘Women’s History Month’ and there’s a bunch of educational and entertaining material out there to explore. The Hawaii State Library often puts together very useful reading lists and I stumbled upon this collection/ bibliography of books on the extraordinary women of Hawai’i. It’s basically a recommended list of materials by or about notable Hawai’i women […]
Well we’re wrapping up our Rec-Fest and First Book-Oahu will be here until 4:00 pm… but remember, you can say “First Book” at any Barnes & Noble Hawaii ANYTIME this weekend to help them raise money to buy new books for children in the community. The last book review is one of my own picks. […]
Moʻomanaʻo Moʻokalaleo Pūnaewele o Hawaiʻi
Moʻomanaʻo Moʻokalaleo Pūnaewele o Hawaiʻi
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