This past weekend blew me away. I didn’t even make it out Saturday night even though I got a ticket to DJ Krush.
Yes, that was Daniel Dae Kim you saw at Apartment3, outside Tsukiji’s, at Pearl Ultralounge and The Standard on Friday night. I happened to be with the Five-O star and friends and it was bar hop city.
“I went from vodka Red Bull to vodka soda to vodka water to sauvignon blanc,” my stylish writer friend was saying as she ordered an espresso at The Manifest on a Wednesday night before the music got too loud. It made all of us laugh because she was so right.
After years of receiving e-mails from an assortment of colorful individuals who reach out via my website, I have to say this past month has been the most rewarding. It’s not usually the case that I engage someone who is asking for help with random companies and such, but on a whim I decided to believe another “producer” that was “making a reality show in Hawaii.” At least this time it was a network I had actually heard of so I decided to help them out.
Electronic dance music (EDM) has come along nicely in the last decade. I remember ta dirty garage music sound I was into when I lived in the UK–a genre that’s since made love with some drum ‘n’ bass to conceive the beautiful hapa dubstep babies this new generation is having so much fun with.
One of the most significant things that will probably ever happen to me in my adult life happened this past weekend. I spent all of First Friday thinking about it and it might’ve even ruined my Saturday night because nothing really seemed that interesting or exciting afterwards.
My face still hurts from smiling all night last week watching Pro, K-LUV and Big Mox on the stage. Usually, at a show the ratio between watching people walk in the door, watching people dance and watching what’s happening on the stage for me is about 60-20-20.
I’m savoring these last few days of the year. Everyone is home, the energy is alive and so much more accepting because people are already happy, instead of looking for other people to make them happy.
Check it out [thestandardhonolulu.com] [dissizit.com] If you’ve ever worked in sales the saying “Under promise, over deliver” has probably been uttered somewhere near your cubicle or in the pit. It’s a pretty good dictum to keep in mind when dealing with clients.
I remember when I used to live in Newquay we’d get so excited for the Association of Surfing Professionals to come to our little town. Cornwall, about 250 miles west of London, wasn’t the most eventful place to live, although we did appreciate the cider, the Manic Street Preachers, scones with clotted cream.
I love a good partnership in the nightlife. The best is when the people partnering up don’t have too much overlap in their reach.
Social Lite / With so many random celebrities and public figures being tagged “Style Icons” (Hayden Panettiere?), the actual meaning of the word has become somewhat irrelevant. Style Icons really depend on what your own personal style is.
Hello, winter. You’re pretty much my favorite time of year here.
I’m not going to lie, APEC was rough. Even after looking through all the road closures and following the multiple (and often redundant) APEC traffic Twitter accounts for rolling traffic updates, I found myself among the hundreds getting stuck more than once.
After many in the nightlife got to know the un-knowable Vane Russo and Nathan Nutter, they were taken from us, creating a void in both personal-style icons and late night where-to options when The Edition shut down. This past weekend the nightclub at The ModernHonolulu quietly opened its doors in preparation for the December 1st Grand Opening.
It was probably a blur, but if any of you had a chance to go inside thirtyninehotel these past few weeks, something might have felt different. The walls on the entire Ewa side are completely black.
Hype. I love that word.
Oh, Kakaako. It’s already happening I can feel it.
In a money-is-the-bottom-line world, the distractions needed to restore calm are almost always art or music for me. Investing the time needed to soak up culture comes and goes, but I can always appreciate the “in your face” approach some artists have taken to create discussion or force awareness and basically pull my head out of the foggy day-to-day.
The countdown to Hawaii International Film Festival has started! It’s in merely weeks!
I don’t try to deny it when someone says I hardly ever get out of Chinatown. They’re right.
Some of you might remember Kevin Koga. One of the earlier DJs at the Wave and Hula’s when they were both pretty much rocking the face off this island, he was also one of the many musicians that needed to get the hell out of here and see what the rest of the world was all about.
“Mark! Mark!
“I saw the whole thing,” I was telling the HPD officer in Fort Street Mall as a bloody villain was being put into an ambulance right behind us. I had spent the entire day in a holding pattern to tell the story and yes, I definitely saw the whole thing.
Welcome back to school, people in school. I would give you the spiel about how I barely notice what month it is save for you guys, but I’m pretty sure you’re sick of hearing that.
There’s a quiet revolution happening in the dirt, being waged with shovels, patience and purpose. It’s a rebellion against a broken and destructive industrial agriculture system, a reconnection to community and long-term productivity.
As Hawaii struggles to feed and fuel itself, agricultural lands are becoming increasingly critical. In 2008, the legislature passed a law requiring each county to identify and preserve its choicest farm lands.
A recently introduced bill in the state Senate would require businesses in Hawaii to impose a 10 cent fee for single-use bags provided to customers upon checkout. The bill, SB2511, was heard last Thursday, Feb.
In order for Hawaii to reach the Renewable Portfolio Standards (RPS) of 40 percent renewable energy by 2030, big changes must be made. A number of bills proposed this year seek to knock Hawaii Electric Industries (HEI) off of its energy monopolizing pedestal.
Year after year, residents of Honolulu–and cities all over the world–open up their doors to find an unsought pile of wood pulp that has become increasingly obsolete over the years: the yellow pages. A small percentage of people may continue to make use of the phone book (the elderly, people stuck in business waiting rooms and pay phone frequents), but, as internet culture has evolved, so has the way that people get their information.
Hawaii People’s Fund will be holding a workshop entitled “Community Organizing 101” to help clarify goals, strategy and tactics of community organizing. Studio 909, Musicians Hall, 949 Kapiolani Blvd., Sat., 2/18, 9am-1pm, $40.
[Feb. 8: “Game Changer”] Let’s elect Ben.
I am grateful that former Gov. Ben Cayetano is willing to run for Honolulu mayor to address the escalating problems with noisy, ugly, overly expensive–and increasingly unpopular–heavy rail.
You are worried with outward beauty. You don’t want to ruin the aesthetics of the island?
After reading Ben’s interview, I am going to vote for him regardless which way the rail issue ends up. I travel to Bangkok every year and have seen how they did their rail, which makes a lot of sense to me.
I find it very interesting that Cayetano is so determined to kill the rail transit project. Back in the mid-1990s, the state had an oil industry insider as a witness against Big Oil’s fixing of gas prices and appeared to be poised for a big win in the courtroom.
[Feb. 8: “Stop Stalling”] Someone told me once that we have at most three days of food stock on island at any given time, meaning that we have enough food shipped here to feed everyone for three days.
On Feb. 7, I wrote Rep.
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