Photos: Style.com, Aveda and Estée Lauder. Did you manage to get your hands on the addictively-vibrant Prabal Gurung for Target collection this past weekend? If not, you're not alone. Once the Floral Crush shorts we were coveting sold out in half an hour, we admit, we were in a dark, dark place. That's how we found ourselves once again drooling…
An interview with Britt Daniel of Divine FitsInterview by Casey IshitaniIndie supergroup Divine Fits, comprised of indie rock veterans Britt Daniel (Spoon), Dan Boeckner (Wolf Parade / Handsome Furs), Sam Brown (New Bomb Turks) and Alex Fischel burst on the scene last year with an appearance on “Late Night With Jimmy Fallon” and “The Late Show With David Letterman” just…
Honolulu’s most romantic restaurants, according to our editors and readers.
For the last three years, I’ve gone to the Hawaiian Islands Land Trust’s (HILT) big fundraiser on Maui called Buy Back The Beach. You’ve seen the blog posts about it; it’s a great event that generates awareness for protected lands around the state and helps them raise funds to do more with those places for cultural and recreational purposes. They…
Being a teen in the late ’80s, “Dirty Dancing” put a lot of pressure on dudes. Not only were we supposed to look like Patrick Swayze, but we were supposed to dance like him too. The thing was, the only straight person on the planet who looked and danced like Patrick Swayze… was Patrick Swayze. It wasn’t fair. So this…
A new food truck hit the streets two weeks ago with a cute name and interesting offerings: Whatchafillin.’ No, there shouldn’t be a question mark there; it’s their statement of a name. If you’ve ever had the Japanese obanyaki/dorayaki, or the Taiwanese chēlún bǐng, this is a riff on that pancake filled with azuki beans or custard. Here, sisters Christie…
Your daughter's latest appointment television on Monday nights: The Carrie Diaries. Who could blame her? It follows a teenage girl leading a glamorous double life in the big city. As a responsible parent, you could point out that the show is a work of fiction fueled solely by Hollywood magic. Or you could show her how those dreams become reality…
Every year, millions gather on Super Bowl Sunday to eat, drink, talk story and… watch commercials. Sure, there’s an important football game going on, but what do many of us really look forward to? Seeing which TV ads can wow us or make us laugh the most. To be honest, the level of quality and creativity of Super Bowl commercials…
You witnessed, or were at least present for, some pretty memorable showdowns yesterday. Baltimore Ravens vs. San Francisco 49ers (in case you missed it, winner: Ravens). Bar Refaeli vs. a GoDaddy computer nerd (clear winner: computer nerd). Beyonce vs. the Superdome's power grid (okay, technically, the two aren't related, but winner: Beyonce). Then there's the latest battle in the ongoing…
Zuckerberg may be buying real estate in Honolulu, but MySpace Tom was here first.
After the conclusion of the “Twilight” saga, Summit Entertainment surely was looking for another cash-cow franchise to lure young audiences back to the theaters. They may have found it in “Warm Bodies,” based on the popular Young Adult novel by Isaac Marion. “Warm Bodies” shares some similarities with “Twilight” films, including having a supernatural male character, this time a zombie…
Our table (since we had a party of 16).Chinese New Year is on February 10, but Honolulu starts celebrating this weekend with lion dances, the big Choy Cheng event, Night in Chinatown, and the big Cultural Plaza festival. It is the one time of year that I eat gin dui — always the salty one, leaving the coconut ones for…
I first met Isaac Bancaco in 2010, after he had just returned home to Maui to become the chef de cuisine at the Grand Wailea’s Humuhumunukunukuapua’a. He was on Oahu for the day to met as many media as possible, since he had been away for almost a decade.“I didn’t grow up cooking. I may have gone away to culinary…
Former pro-bodyboarder Rex Moribe creates a potent, addictive chili pepper water
Happy new year, people! Nonstop’s M&M opens the year with a girls’ night far from our usual townie haunts, out in Leeward Oahu for a look at Peter Merriman’s new Ko Olina spot.The place was buzzing on a recent Friday, weeks after its late December soft opening and just before the Feb. 1 grand opening. True to Merriman’s formula at…
Korean-American singer-songwriter David Choi is in Honolulu this week to perform at a concert on Saturday, and to shoot a music video for “Thinking About You,” a love song inspired by Hawaii. The 26-year-old YouTube sensation has nearly a million subscribers to his YouTube channel and 117 million views. This is the second time he’s performed in Hawaii. The concert,…
I’ve posted about Chinese New Year before, but for the first time since I’ve been blogging, it’s my year — the year of the snake. If you want to get technical, it’s the year of the black/water snake, in 4710 (versus 2013, for you westerners).Chinese New Year falls on February 10 this year, and that’s right around the corner, so…
While most of you were paying attention to the annual Sony Open in Hawaii (@SonyOpenHawaii) for the golf this past weekend, I — the non-golfer — checked out one of its fabulous food events … of course. The Pro-Am awards gala was held in the Hawaii Convention Center on Friday night, a much-awaited event that always features a renowned chef’s…
Photo by David Croxford. Shop Bye the Seastar What: The bad news – Seastar 8.4.23 closes in five days (owner Nana Fujise says the Waikiki boutique was always meant to be a short-term pop-up experience). The good news – you still have four days to take advantage of its massive moving sale. You'll get 40 percent off all regular-priced merchandise,…
Whenever you mention Tanioka’s to local people, they get crazy and start salivating like Pavlov’s dog. Never mind that they’re all the way out in Waipahu; people seek them out for their fried chicken, poke, musubis, and assorted plate lunch selections. Get this: they once had an outlet downtown on Bishop Street, and had to close in less than a…
Full disclosure: I only watched “Labyrinth” recently.And when I say recently, I mean less than six months ago.Now you might ask yourself, why is someone with no childhood nostalgia for “Labyrinth” writing about it? Well, I’m not alone. When the film premiered in 1986, it was lost in the summer of “Top Gun,” “The Karate Kid Part II” and “Ferris…
Scenes from the 2012 Party of the Year at Kaka’ako Waterfront Park on New Year’s Eve by Nonstop contributor Gabriel Yanagihara:
Kicking off Matt’s birthday celebrationAs I do every year at this time, I vacationed in Las Vegas — it’s a good way to escape the holidays as a singleton, and spend time with my second family, the Yoneyamas. Just two weeks prior, our twitter friend Matthew Erickson (@LhccMatt) and Rob Ola Kawaa (@RobOlaKawaa) had moved from Maui to Vegas, so…
Click the screenshot above to watch the video. Sure, George Clooney taught us a thing or two, but for holiday packing tips, we turned to the very best. We're talking about the guy Up in the Air right now, racking up an insane amount of miles delivering gifts around the world. Thanks to the latest episode of Case Studies, Tumi's…
