Melissa White, co-founder of Hifi, reports that her husband, Logan White, a consummate wood worker, will be showing his two map-inspired furniture pieces in an exhibit starting this Friday at the Japanese Cultural Center.  The exhibit is called “Going with the Grain” and features about 15 local wood artists.  The opening is this Saturday, July 2, at 11:30 am, and Melissa
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Catherine Fong and her staff at Catherine’s Closet are getting on the bandwagon for our Wear Aloha initiative. She is sending us a series of vintage Island-made pieces with ideas on how to style them for maximum effect. The first (above) is a 1970s McInerny Tropieana Hawaii lotus flower print maxi with a 1950s blood glass necklace from
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Sometimes like minds travel in the same direction but on different tracks. That’s the case for Amos Kotomori and me and our concepts for Wear Aloha. As you readers know, for the past few months I have been encouraging Islanders to wear at least one thing made by a local designer every time we step out
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A Collaboration between Allison Izu and Muumuu Heaven, an inspired example of recycling and re-design. We’ve all made bad business decisions and we’ve all had to learn to deal with them.  It’s a part of life, making lemonade out of lemons.  For one Hawaii designer, it was about finding a way to make a whole lot
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I have known artist Kandi Everett since our days at Punahou together. She has never been a conventional artist and has always been an uber-talented one. For 34 years she was a respected (one could say legendary) Honolulu tattoo artist. I then knew her as a print artist, constantly experimenting with unusual methods of getting ink
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CALLING HISTORY AND ART LOVERS TO PEARLRIDGE CENTER’S PLANET ICE EXHIBIT ON JULY 2 – Highlights include display of a carved 25,000-year-old mammoth tusk and plein air painting demonstration –       As if a 25,000-year-old mammoth tusk were not fascinating enough in its own right, the intricately carved tusk will be on special display for
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 There was a recent story in the New York Times by Nicholas D. Kristof that really struck a nerve. Writing from Niger, Kristof reported that only 9 percent of babies in Niger receive nothing but breast milk during their first six months of life. In neighboring Burkina Faso, he wrote, “fewer than 7 percent of
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I am saddened to report that Island Edge is closing its doors in Ala Moana Center tomorrow. Apparently General Growth Properties offered Pomare, parent company of Island Edge and Hilo Hattie, the opportunity to terminate the store’s lease early and the company decided to go for it. They say they are going to refocus their
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We are back home in Hawaii now (although a bit jet lagged) and have been thinking about some of our favorite things in the city. If you’ve been reading my blogs from there (thank you, thank you!) you know that we had a wonderful experience wandering the streets and learned a bit about some neighborhoods.
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