Posts Tagged ‘Honolulu’
Hawaii Slam!
Henry Kapono has a new music project going — it’s called the Wild Hawaiian. You can read up on the whole thing here — there’s music and video and photos. I caught the show in Seattle. I thought the way he started it was a little weird — he showed video footage that talked about [...]
Postcard from Hawaii: The Aloha Festival
I’m sitting at my desk in my ordinary house on the ordinary mainland, listening to Israel “Iz” Kamakawiwo’ole’s “Wonderful World” disc, a gift from the Hawaii Convention and Visitors’ Bureau. They invited me to visit Honolulu last weekend for the 63rd Annual Aloha Festival, and lucky me, I was able to go. A week later, [...]
Time Travel to Honolulu
It’s politically incorrect, not entirely accurate historically, and oddly, the producers chose to intersperse “Aloha Oe” with “The Skater’s Waltz” in the sound track. But the boards are huge, the leis are fluffy and plentiful, and the footage of Waikiki Beach? Wow, it looks nothing like what I saw last year:
A caveat: The film [...]