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Culture, Hawai‘i Island, Kauaʻi, Lānaʻi, Maui, Molokaʻi, Oʻahu

And the Hawaiian music Grammy goes to “Slack Key” … again

Can you say “three-peat?”The live, vocal and instrumental multi-artist compilation Treasures of Hawaiian Slack Key Guitar has won this year’s Grammy award for best Hawaiian music album.The win was the third consecutive in the category for a compilation from the production team of Daniel Ho, George Kahumoku Jr., Paul Konwiser and Wayne Wong. The four received Grammys last […]

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Culture, Hawai‘i Island, Kauaʻi, Lānaʻi, Maui, Molokaʻi, Oʻahu

Who gets a Hawaiian music Grammy on Sunday?

You’re reading my final post about this year’s Best Hawaiian Music Album Grammy. My final post, that is, before the actual Grammy ceremonies on Sunday. Promise.Nothing new to report. The nominees haven’t changed:• Keola Beamer’s Ka Hikina O Ka Hau (The Coming Of The Snow)• Tia Carrere’s Hawaiiana• Raiatea Helm’s Hawaiian Blossom• Cyril Pahinui’s He‘eia• Treasures of Hawaiian Slack Key Guitar,

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A wet weekend in Hilo finally ends

29 inches.That’s the amount of rain that fell on Hilo, my former hometown, between Friday evening and yesterday. Overloaded streams flooded more than a hundred homes in the Waiakea Uka suburb upslope of town. Flood control channels overflowed into Hilo’s picturesque bayfront area. Landslides closed highways and roads along the Big Island’s Hamakua Coast. Schools closed on

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Historic Hawaii volcano video

Look at this vintage film I found—eruptions at Kilauea volcano in 1959 and 1960.Both eruptions were significant. The first half of the video shows the Nov. 1959 eruption at Kilauea Iki crater, which produced fountains of lava up to 1,400 feet high. Because of its convenient location near Kilauea’s summit, near the visitor center and volcano observatory, the

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Hawai‘i Island, Travel Tips

Want more coral? Go Big Island

The Big Island has more coral in the waters near its shores than any other major Hawaiian island.New maps from a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration coral reef studyshow that live coral covers 57 percent of the waters surrounding the Big Island.  That’s more than 29 square miles of living reef.The NOAA findings support previous studies

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Hawai‘i Island

Kilauea lava flow advances toward Big Island homes

A finger of lava from Kilauea’s quarter-century old eruption crept to within a mile of the Big Island’s Royal Gardens subdivision this morning.You might remember the now largely-abandoned subdivision east of Kilauea as the epicenter of Hawaii eruption news from 1983 to 1990. Over the years, flows from Kilauea’s Puu Oo vent have claimed 189

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Hawai‘i Island, Kauaʻi, Lānaʻi, Maui, Molokaʻi, Oʻahu, Travel Tips

16 Hawaii hotels among the world’s best

Travel + Leisure Magazine’s 2008 list of the world’s 500 best hotels features 16 properties from Hawaii.The annual list is determined from a poll of T+L readers, who graded their experiences at hotels and resorts worldwide.The highest ranking Hawaii resort this year?The Big Island’s consistently top-ranked Four Seasons Resort Hualalai, which broke into the T+L list’s Top

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Hawai‘i Island

San Francisco Mayor Engaged in Hana?

San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom got engaged in Hawaii last weekend—to actress Jennifer Siebel.  Newsom’s a colorful figure, best known for issuing 4,000 marriage licenses to gay couples, and for having an affair with his campaign chair’s wife.The Big Question, according to California’s Sen. Dianne Feinstein, was: When? When she asked him in public, Newsom declined

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Hawai‘i Island

Still flowing after all these years

It’s the 25th anniversary of the Kilauea volcano eruption on the Big Island.Just after midnight on Jan. 3, 1983, molten lava began pouring from a freshly-opened crack in a thick ohia forest a few miles east of Kilauea’s summit. It hasn’t stopped since. Then just kids from nearby Hilo, a bunch of us packed into a

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Hawai‘i Island

The Woes of Mauna Kea

When will the Mauna Kea Beach Hotel open again?  Not soon.The Mauna Kea shut down after the October 2006 Big Island earthquake caused serious structural damage and safety concerns.  According to itsWeb site, the 43-year-old resort is promising a December 2008 re-opening, after  $150 million worth of work.Why a two-year delay?According to a Honolulu Star-Bulletin story, the

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