February 2009

Lei Chic’s guide to the weekend’s best events.

Bellini of the Ball
What: Free bellini cocktails, special discounts on jewelry from the 1940s and 50s and other vintage finds at the new Cloth Vintage shop's Friday Finale event called Baubles, Brooches and Bellinis.
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Your search for the fountain of youth has taken you to Whole Foods for a strict regimen of green tea and salmon and to Neiman Marcus for top-of-the-line night creams.

But maybe you’ve been looking in all the wrong places.

Try a trip to a Korean sauna. It’s a secret guarded as closely as the special family kimchee recipe, and it’s the key to soft, dewy skin. Regular sweat-and-scrub sessions reveal baby-smooth skin, and can get rid of sluggishness after a long week at work or a hard weekend of partying.

Head to Aloha Sauna and Spa to sweat out... Read more »

You want to kick it up a notch this Mardi Gras. But you’re no Emeril in the kitchen.

Susan and Dillard Faulk, owners of the island’s only Cajun/Creole restaurant, A Taste of the Bayou on Kapahulu Avenue, offer this easy take on the New Orleans staple, red beans and rice. Add shrimp or chicken if you like and − bam! – it’s a fast meal.

A Taste of the Bayou’s Red Beans and Rice
Serves 8 -10

1 lb red beans (not kidney beans)
2-1/2 cups onion, chopped
1-1/2 cups green bell pepper, chopped
1 cup celery,... Read more »

It’s only Monday, and you’re already feeling like you need to get away. But a vacay is clearly out of the question these days.

Instead, head to the Sullivan Estate Spa on the North Shore. The multi-million-dollar estate overlooking Pupukea has long been available as a retreat, but it recently started offering day spa bookings.

There’s a two person minimum to make treatment appointments, but when you reserve your time, you’re actually reserving the entire estate – no other guests will be booked, giving you total privacy.

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Turns out, laughter is the best medicine.

For stress, for low energy, and even for an out-of-shape body.

Yes, laughing can be a good workout.

It’s no joke. It’s called laughter yoga, and classes mix deep breathing and yoga poses with laughter. After some warm-up stretching, instructors get the giggling going by having the class picture themselves in funny situations. One person starts and the laughing spreads like a contagious yawn through the class.

Laughing till your belly hurts works... Read more »

Turns out, laughter is the best medicine.

For stress, for low energy, and even for an out-of-shape body.

Yes, laughing can be a good workout.

It’s no joke. It’s called laughter yoga, and classes mix deep breathing and yoga poses with laughter. After some warm-up stretching, instructors... Read more »

Lei Chic’s guide to the weekend’s best events.

Gone To Heaven
What: All the vintage pieces Mu‘uMu‘u Heaven has collected that are just too cool to cut up and recycle into new dresses are on sale. More than 10 years of serious vintage hunting built this collection, and nothing is more than $100.
When: Friday and SaturdayRead more »

Lei Chic’s guide to the weekend’s best events.

Gone To Heaven
What: All the vintage pieces Mu‘uMu‘u Heaven has collected that are just too cool to cut up and recycle into new dresses are on sale. More than 10 years of serious vintage hunting built this collection, and nothing is more than $100.
When: Friday and SaturdayRead more »

 
There was that night you watched a western instead of a chick flick just to please your ex. And the time you settled for on-sale brown flats instead of sexy stilettos.

Fine, but your compromises stop when it comes to food. Harry can call you high maintenance all he wants, but this Sally wants to eat what she wants, just the way she likes it.

Thank god someone finally understands. Just... Read more »

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