SONY DSCThis weekend is your last chance to get Chinese food and New Year items from street vendors, this time concentrated at the Chinese Cultural Plaza. Earlier this week I gave you a list of Chinese New Year essentials; today, I’m just adding a few more miscellaneous things for you to see/do/eat to ring in the Year of the Dragon….
Since last fall, Nonstop Honolulu has been helping the Clarence T.C. Ching Foundation with its second-annual “Inspired in Hawaii” contest, which yesterday awarded more than $10,000 in cash prizes to some 75 Hawaii students at a ceremony at Ala Moana Centerstage.The foundation tapped Nonstop Honolulu as a partner for this worthy statewide contest, which received more than 850 entries and…
Best film of 2011? I knew that it was getting great reviews, but always felt like the critics had seen a different movie than the one I saw.
Is it really a weekend if it happens to start on Wednesday? Those of you who know me probably know that I go out 3-4 days a week, and one of the most frequently asked questions I get is how I manage to do it. The truth is, I usually get bored and restless if I don’t. Plus, I find…
Some of the popular new low riders, a style from the 1990s.In this day of entrepreneurship, we’re used to hearing success stories about startups and the rise of new industries. What about older businesses that have weathered the economic storms for generations?Malibu Shirts in Waikiki Beach Walk is a company that features a lot of retro clothes and accessories; with the exception…
Code/Racer is a cool, challenging way to learn Web design and proper coding. This multi-player live-coding game was built by the team behind TeamTreehouse, Think Vitamin and Carsonified. The basic game is simple, you login via Facebook, wait for the rest of your competitors and, boom, you’re off. The system gives you elements that need to be coded into the page you’re creating for the…
It’s only January, but is it too early to proclaim a film the feel good movie of the year?“Joyful Noise” stars Queen Latifah and Dolly Parton as two rivals vying for a choir leader position in preparation for a national song contest. It’s a fun film that will have you walking out of the theater smiling.Parton, who’s probably known more…
Quirky indie multi-instrumentalist Andrew Bird returned to Honolulu after two years for a single night’s performance at Hawaii Theatre on Thursday night. The theater was crowded but quiet, as Bird, who began his career as a classically-trained violinist, began with a simple plucking rhythm on his violin and slowly built up layers of sound, using looping pedals to record and…
This is the 10th episode of our “Nonstop Tech Podcast, produced by the Nonstop Tech team. In this episode we discuss online cloud storage, with services like Microsoft SkyDrive, Box and DropBox @Docrock and @JeromeKoehler give you some insights on iCloud, iTunes Match and a few picks for the week. The podcast was produced our new studio location, The Green…
Honolulu condo with single-family touches
Chinese New Year comes early this year: January 23 starts the Year of the Dragon (black water dragon, to be precise), a year in which almost everyone is supposed to prosper. After a rough 2011 — or Year of the Rabbit, whichever way you look at it — I’m more than ready to embrace this new beginning and everything that…
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I love stationery.Yes, I’m one of those.I write letters, I send thank-you notes, I even have a pen pal from second grade.So of course I was thrilled to hear a new stationery boutique opened in October in Kapahulu. South Shore Paperie is owned by designer (and fashionista in her own right) Stacey Nomura. We headed there yesterday to check it…
Workflowy is quite possibly the best list-organizing tool ever made. The interface is svelte and super speedy, mostly due to its lack of complex design, trendy thingamajigs and unnecessary options. Workflowy is like a blank sheet of paper that’s meant to house your entire brain. I’ve written about task managers and note takers numerous times and talked about them in…
The Future Has Landed: Water-powered jet packs let you fly above the sea.
The start of a new year is always a time of reflection as we look to the promise of better times ahead. To quote from “The Wiz,” one of my favorite musicals: “You can’t know where you’re goin’, til you understand where you’re comin’ from.”Before this weekly video segment was a part of my blog, Russ Sumida (@Parkrat) and I…
I’ll just say it: Chances of scoring fresh durian on Oahu this winter are as remote as the Southeast Asian jungles they come from.It breaks my heart to drop this bombshell on you. It literally knocked the breath out of me, hearing one grower after another spell out this doom.“It’s been a sparse season,” said the Big Island’s Wailea Agricultural…
For my first night in Las Vegas, I figured I’d kill two birds with one stone by having dinner at the Bellagio. That way, I’d have a great meal at an award-winning restaurant, and also have a great view of the hotel’s water show. The Bellagio has several great restaurants, including Le Cirque, Todd English’s Olives and Picasso. After a…
Aloha Staged Interiors shows how it’s done
Can you believe we’re starting a new year soon? Since people are always looking for ways to change or enhance their luck, love, finances, or energy to start the new cycle, I figured I’d show you a trendy accessory for men and women that’s made by a local guy: Fresh on the Rocks shambhala style bracelets.Shambhala (also spelled shamballa or…
Only director Steven Spielberg could make a film epic about a horse work this well. Known for delivering a level of sentimentality (sometimes excessively) in nearly all his films, that earnestness and purity help create just the right tone for a film about bravery, hope and unbreakable bonds.The story starts with the birth and sale of Joey, a young horse…
A silent films about silent films? That’s exactly what “The Artist” is, and surprisingly, it works.French actor Jean Dujardin plays George Valentin, a silent film star of the 1920s. He’s handsome, charming and Hollywood’s top matinee idol. But when “talkie” films emerge as the new wave of cinema, Valentin refuses to accept the change and fights to keep silent films…
I’m headed out to Las Vegas tomorrow, so I thought I’d send my holiday wishes before the weekend starts.This year with the secret Hawaii Chinese Dinner Society (@HICDS) has been a series of heartwarming events, as the group has grown and we’ve been able to meet more people and share new experiences. I love the fact that we can keep…
David Fincher is one of my favorite directors working today, so when I learned he’d be helming the American film version of Stieg Larsson’s globally popular novel, “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo,” I couldn’t wait to see it. The dark tone of the source material was a perfect fit for Fincher’s style. Or so I thought.The film opens with…
