Holly Jolly Garments! It’s an unwritten rule: Buy someone clothing, be sure it comes with a gift receipt.
Holly Jolly Garments! It’s an unwritten rule: Buy someone clothing, be sure it comes with a gift receipt.
Cheers Couture Diane Von Furstenberg, Aloha Rag, milk & honey The occasion: “The Cocktail.” In this economy, it’s natural for someone to want to get glam and Occupy Bar once in a while, right? Go all out in high fashion style with haute shops like the new Diane Von Furstenberg or the exclusive boutique collections at milk & honey and Aloha Rag that are sure to turn heads (they did on the Parisian runways, anyway).
Soak Up The Sun Local Motion, Pualani, Hawaiian Island Creations The occasion: “The Beach.” Okay, living in Hawaii, it’s something of a strain to consider going to the beach an “occasion.” That’s why getting dressed for it is akin to slipping on a pair of socks. Going to the beach is like any other thing.
Sweat Some Style Lululemon, HNL Fight Shop, American Apparel The occasion: “Da Gym.” Between treadmills and bench presses, they won’t really need you to look good, thankfully. But you can still help them in the process.
Philanthropic gifts are those that truly keep on giving. They can’t break, go out of style or be exchanged for a different size.
Explore. Enjoy.
Walk the Walk Honolulu Aids Walk Volunteer with the Life Foundation, a local organization that provides services to those living with HIV/AIDS, (as well as free HIV testing and education), during the 21st annual Honolulu AIDS Walk at the Kapiolani Park Bandstand on Sunday, April 15, 2012. Performances, food, prizes and family fun follow the 5K.
Clean a Beach Local Foundations Take your family and friends to participate in a beach cleanup: There is a cleanup almost every weekend if you explore opportunities with the Surfrider Foundation, Sustainable Coastlines Hawaii, Adopt-A-Beach Hawaii and Beach Environmental Awareness Campaign Hawaii (B.E.A.C.H.). Surfrider’s offering a Holiday Gift Member Package that includes a one-year membership, a bar of Matunas natural wax, a bamboo wax comb and six issues of Making Waves.
Gift Guide / There are many amazing local non-profits. Here are just a few inspirational organizations that could use your physical or financial gifts.
J Salon / It seems as if nearly everyone buys his or her Christmas presents at the mall. This year, break away from the herd and visit the Kakaako area for an abundance of small businesses with big-time quality.
The Wedding Café / One of the sweetest parts of Christmas is exchanging baked goodies with your neighbors. Unfortunately, not everyone was born to be a pastry chef.
Hawai‘i Doggie Bakery / While you’re busy shopping for all your human friends, take a minute to remember your most loyal friend of all–your little dog. The Hawaii Doggie Bakery creates ridiculously epicurean treats that’ll be sure to get your canine barking.
Honolulu Chocolate Company / The Aztecs believed chocolate to be the food of the Gods. This is especially true in the case of the Honolulu Chocolate Company, where the handmade chocolates are a celebration of the bean’s freshness and natural goodness.
Sedona / Sedona at Ward Warehouse carries an award-winning collection of rocks (as well as other so-called “supernatural” products) with a knowledgeable staff to help you find just what you need. For example, the ancient Greeks believed that amethyst fought off intoxication.
Nohea Gallery / Available at the Nohea Gallery, artist Marian Fieldson’s handmade lava platters are beyond exquisite. Shimmering with mermaid-like colors, a first glance at these delicate glass works are mesmerizing.
Laka Skincare and Spa / Laka Skincare and Spa takes pampering to the next level. Using the finest products from Laka, Grace Kelly’s island of Monaco, they are exclusively European in style, where natural health services are highly valued.
Ultimate Fight School / Typically, people open their Christmas presents, feel happy and that’s the end. The truth is that the situation is pretty predictably depressing.
24 Hour Fitness / Gingerbread cookies, peppermint bark, moose munch… With goodies like these to grind when Christmas comes around, most people can’t help but deep six their diets. But when the holidays are over, and the chubby Santa look is no longer so eye-catching, give your loved one a remedy for his/her seasonal love handles.
Hawaii Opera Theater / Due to the recession, most people can no longer afford an actual trip to Italy. So bring something stereotypically Italian to them.
University of Hawai‘i men’s basketball / Nothing compares to actually being at the real game, where you can smell the sweat from the players as they dribble away to victory! Okay, so maybe you can’t smell the sweat, but you can definitely catch a whiff of the stadium’s hot dogs and California Kitchen pizzas.
Edible Hawaiian Islands / For your hardcore foodie friend, (a stereotype that applies to me), a subscription to the Edible Hawaiian Islands magazine will be more than appreciated; it will become an obsession. This quarterly publication features elegantly written articles on local foods and food culture in the spirit of the Slow Food Movement.
Wet 'n Wild / What’s more fun than a day at the water park? Going everyday!
ARTafterDark / A membership to the Honolulu Academy of the Arts is the artistically perfect gift for that renaissance soul. With its rustic architecture, the museum is an entirely serene place to experience an international, culturally enriching experience…especially for the hyperactive keiki who finds the basic “observation” of art unengaging and a complete drag.
Olomana Gardens / In a concrete jungle, green dreams are made of aquaponics. How it works: Aquaponics combines aquaculture (fish farming) and hydroponics (soil-less farming in nutrient-rich water).
Given the city’s crumbling infrastructure and rail controversy, it’s hard to believe anyone would want to be the next mayor of Honolulu. But a few do want the job, including the incumbent, Mayor Peter Carlisle, the former Honolulu Prosecuting Attorney who won a 2010 special election to fill the remainder of Mufi Hannemann’s term.
I’d never been to a Honolulu City Council meeting until a few weeks ago. Features, not politics, was my beat.
Victoria Holt Takamine is a kumu hula, a cultural activist and a teacher and has an impeccable pedigree to back up all these titles. Born of an alii family whose kuleana was in Moanalua, she graduated as a hula teacher under the legendary Auntie Maiki Aiu Lake and taught hundreds of students in her own halau (Pua Alii ‘Ilima) and at the University of Hawaii.
On April 25, a state judge dismissed trespassing charges against a Kauai man after finding that he had been exercising traditional native Hawaiian rights hunting wild pigs on private land. Kui Palama, 28, was arrested on Jan.
The city plans to dish out $3.5 million from its Affordable Housing Fund and either purchase or renovate a structure to provide transitional housing for Honolulu’s special needs homeless population. “Our community has invested considerable effort and resources in addressing homelessness,” Mayor Peter Carlisle said in a statement, “but there remains a population whose disabilities or chronic conditions make it difficult for them to participate in traditional shelter programs.” Carlisle is referring to those homeless with mental illnesses, addictions and physical disabilities.
Makaweli Poi faces an uncertain future after its owner, a corporate subsidiary of the Office of Hawaiian Affairs (OHA) ordered the West Kauai mill to suspend operations May 23. Mona Bernardino, chief operating officer of the corporation, Hiipoi LLC, says the move to shut down Makaweli Poi was prompted mainly by financial concerns.
A resolution adopted by the City Council will solidify an agreement between the City and County of Honolulu and the University of Hawaii Water Resources Research Center (UH-WRRC) to conduct an analysis of impacts from ocean sewer outfalls on the marine environments off of Oahu. The city will pay UH-WRRC as much as $2.5 million for biological and sediment studies in portions between now and June 30, 2017 .
Along with the deep, verdant growth of spring sprouts an unyielding desire to spend more time in the open air. That’s why it should come as no surprise that National Bike Month falls in the sun-drenched time of May.
Of the many letters you publish against rail, how many offer an alternative that won’t send us into further economic demise? Billions of gallons of oil are imported for us from every oil-producing nation on this planet so that we can buy billions of gallons of gasoline.
TheBus is taking a back seat to rail. At the May 3 Downtown Neighborhood Board meeting, an audience member asked city Transportation Director Wayne Yoshioka when we could expect the bus route cancellations and changes to be reversed.
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