Where are the HAWAII Magazine photo contest winners for 2008?If you’re checking back into this site after a week or so away, you may be wondering: Where’s the print magazine?Yes, we used to put up a few articles each issue on our web site. Now, the whole magazine is here, every page, even every advertisement.Just click […]
Mahalo to HAWAII Today reader Joel Muraoka of Tokyo for his diligence.Muraoka dropped us a thank you e-mail for posting a truncated YouTube clip of Israel Kamakawiwoole’s “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” playing over Times Square just after 2008 began. Better yet, he found us a full version of the clip.Sadly, someone (Dick Clark Productions?) had already
Honolulu wasn’t the only city feeling the effects when head football coach June Jones departed for Southern Methodist University.In Honolulu, the dailies speculated when University of Hawaii athletic director Herman Frazier would get the boot for letting Jones get away. The Honolulu Advertiser even provided regular updateson Frazier’s job status throughout the day. Meanwhile, a couple of other
Will the troubles facing television’s Duane “Dog the Bounty Hunter” Chapman ever end?In November, the A&E television network put his Hawaii-filmed television series “Dog the Bounty Hunter” on hiatus after his son leaked a private phone conversation in which Chapman used a racial slur.Now comes this bit of weirdness out of Honolulu involving Dog’s partner in bounty
University of Hawaii football coach June Jones is now a Mustang.The Warrior coach resurrected the UH football program from an 0-12 cellar-dwelling season in 1998 to an undefeated 12-0 current season. Today he formally accepted an offer from Southern Methodist University to lead its own long-suffering football team.Jones’s hire was officially announced by SMU brass today.We
Safe travels to University of Hawaii football coach June Jones, who’s apparently leaving on a jet plane to Dallas tomorrow (01/05/08) morning. The reason? An interview with Southern Methodist University brass, which are hunting for a new head football coach.With SMU reportedly hanging a that-ain’t-kukui-nuts annual salary of between $1.7 million and $2 million in front of Jones, UH-Warrior
Yes, that was Hawaii’s own Israel “Iz” Kamakawiwoole’s singing “Somewhere Over the Rainbow,” as the ball dropped in New York City’s Times Square for the 100th year in a row.The million-plus revelers in midtown Manhattan and millions more watching on TV around the world got to hear the late great vocalist about 8 minutes after
A HAWAII magazine reader asked us for some tips on buying one of Hawaii’s most iconic instruments: Where can we find ukuleles and banjo ukuleles (new & used) being produced or sold in Kauai? You ask, we answer. And we answered the question for all the Islands, not just Kaua‘i. Standard ukuleles are far easier
