Wednesday June 30 CLASSES Nordic Walking Kauai Community College, registration due today for Thursdays, July 8-Aug 12, 5-6:30 p.m., $45. Learn Nordic Walking for health, fitness and fun with Esti Grinpas. Easy group class, walking poles available for use. (245-8318, NordicWalkHawaii.com) Tahitian Dance Class Green Light Creative Arts Center, 4-941A Kuhio Hwy., Kapaa, Wednesdays, now-Aug. [...]
This week Chef Todd Matsumoto from Matsumoto’s Okazuya and Restaurant shows off some of his delicious offerings. This show aired originally in November 2006. OYAKO DON * 1 boneless, skinless chicken thigh * 1/2 ounce sliced round onion * 1/2 ounce bamboo shoots * 1/2 ounce reconstituted, sliced shiitake mushrooms * 1 cup Matsumoto’s On [...]
Over the past few weeks, I’ve received more and more comments about the recent maneuverings in college conferences – some questions quite facetious and some very serious. “How will all this movement among the conferences affect Hawaii?” “How will it affect schools outside the so-called super-conferences?” “Will this eventually lead to a Division I football [...]
For a little more than three decades, Charlie Wedemeyer lived through a disease that was supposed to take his life just a few years after he was diagnosed with it. ALS, or Lou Gehrig’s disease, changed Wedemeyer’s life forever, but he also changed many other lives in the process, including mine. Growing up as a [...]
Like most people these days, I’m penny-pinching for just about everything. After months of doing this, it starts to get to you, and you kind of yearn for an occasional splurge. The problem is that if your cash flow hasn’t improved, neither have your chances for that sparse luxury buy. So the other week I [...]
Two years after the release of their Na Hoku Hanohano award-winning debut album Pili O Ke Ao, Kupaoa delivers another powerful contribution to Hawaiian music with English Rose. The duo, comprised of Kaua’i’s Kellen Paik and Oahu’s Kalikolihau “Lihau” Hannahs, unveils their love for the Hawaiian language and their passion for original music in this [...]
In ‘The Boys of Autumn,’ Pat Sajak and Joe Moore tell a tale much like the one they share I want to set the record straight. I was never the weeping ninny Mark Twain made me out to be in his novel The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. I knew Samuel Clemens before he was “Mark [...]
I had to buy a cell phone recently for someone in my family who isn’t really technologically savvy. He insisted that the phone had to play music, and it must be able to sync with iTunes so he could listen to all his songs. Within his existing cell phone plan’s parameters, there were a lot [...]
WELCOME TO Kimo’s Vegas … The Player’s Edge! HOLLY MADISON donned a Swarovski-covered Playboy bunny costume to deal some 21 at the 50th anniversary of the Playboy Club at the Palms last week … that’s a big nanny, nanny, boo boo to those who didn’t think the reality star could count that high – hit [...]
My family and I had an experience with a local business recently that represents why some are successful and others are not. It is rare that an owner, when his/her product is deemed unacceptable, will engage in a confrontation with a customer. However, it happened to us in front of our children, and it was [...]
