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
