Lei Chic’s guide to the weekend’s best events.Bellini of the BallWhat: 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…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Lei Chic’s guide to the weekend’s best events.Gone To HeavenWhat: 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…
Lei Chic’s guide to the weekend’s best events.Gone To HeavenWhat: 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…
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…
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Lei Chic’s guide to the weekend’s best events.Turning JapaneseWhat: Taste the new Echigo Stout beer, plus other Japanese brews like Sapporo, Kirin Light, Orion, and Echigo Koshihikari. Both Echigos are just $5 a bottle, or pick any three to make…
The spring forecast for fashion: buckle up for a long season of belt tightening. So you’ll be wearing your closet’s current dresses a few months longer – and needing some way to make your old favorites feel new. The new…
You used to know all the ways to tell if he was just not that into you. And a couple giveaways that he was. First clue: he made you a mix tape. It was the ultimate love letter. Ten or…
Things you love to catch a whiff of: the neighbor’s plumeria tree in full bloom, fluffy towels fresh out of the dryer, cupcakes in the oven. Things you don’t: department store spritzers armed with Eau de Britney Spears or Paris…
You’ve been there before. Two hours shopping, and still nothing you like. The dresses are too long (or short), the fabric isn’t soft, the color washes you out. If only you could just make exactly what you wanted. That’s what…
Lei Chic’s guide to the weekend’s best events.A Sweetheart EelWhat: The first look at Fighting Eel’s new spring collection at a one-time trunk show. Check out the Warhol-inspired banana print, plus other pieces from the collection designers Lan Chung and…
Are you what you eat? Better hope not. That would leave you pale, soft and puffy from all those malassadas. Clean up your act and head over to Hale, the brand new organic, vegan, macrobiotic restaurant that just opened yesterday.…
A rose is a rose is a rose. Except when it isn’t. And the thorn in most bouquets of a dozen long-stemmed red ones is that they don’t last more than a week in a vase. So much for symbolizing…
You aced the holiday gift test – found that perfect, thoughtful, useful, fun gift for your sweetie. And now, you’re fresh out of original gift ideas for V Day. So stick with the old stand-by: chocolate. It’s easy. And these…
