Thanks to crowdfunding service Kickstarter, and a lot of hard work and community support, two local projects met their fundraising goals last week and took a solid step toward reality. The delightfully simple Juicies project, which I profiled on Earth Day, blew past its $5,000 goal in only three days, and ended up with over [...]
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Two More Hawaii Projects Kickstarted
May 23rd, 2011 · 3 Comments · Events, Gadgets, Music, The Web
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Video: Eisa Drum Festival
May 16th, 2011 · 1 Comment · Events, Music, Video
The first ever (and hopefully annual) Eisa Drum Festival took place on Saturday on the Great Lawn of Kapiolani Community College. It was a great event, and lead organizer Shari Tamashiro — along with advisors Norman Kaneshiro and Derek Ichiro Shiroma, and countless other volunteers and performers — deserves a standing ovation for pulling it all [...]
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Hawaii Book and Music Festival This Weekend
May 13th, 2011 · 1 Comment · Art, Books, Events, Family
The sixth annual Hawaii Book & Music Festival takes place this weekend, Saturday and Sunday, May 14 & 15, on the municipal grounds between Honolulu Hale and the Fasi Building. It’s a great event for kids and families, for sure, but also for any voracious reader. I look forward to it almost as much as [...]
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Eisa Drum Festival on May 14
May 5th, 2011 · 2 Comments · Events, Family, Music
Lovers of Okinawan drums won’t want to miss the first Eisa Drum Festival next Saturday at Kapiolani Community College. This special, evening event is bringing together several groups that practice and perform a variety of dances and drumming styles unique to Okinawa… plus a touch of Japanese taiko. Participating eisa groups are Chinagu Eisa Hawaii, [...]
Mahalo, Honolulu, for Another Great Twestival!
April 7th, 2011 · No Comments · Events
The third annual Honolulu Twestival has come and gone, and once again, I completely failed to blog about it throughout the whirlwind of activity before and after the event. Fortunately, this year’s Twestival brought a local cause into the limelight, and Honolulu’s social media community once again stepped up to make it a success. If [...]
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“Eat the Street” Draws Thousands
February 28th, 2011 · 2 Comments · Events, Food
Friday brought Honolulu’s second “Eat the Street” Food Truck Rally, held in Kaka’ako. The first, organized by StreetGrindz.com, drew a dozen vendors and over 1,000 people to a small lot on Kapiolani Boulevard. For this second event, Kamehameha Schools hosted everyone on a four-acre parking lot on South Street, and brought significant logistical expertise to the [...]
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ONA Parachute Training
January 29th, 2011 · No Comments · Events, Media, The Web, Video
The Online News Association was founded in 1999, and I signed up pretty early in its history, full of ideas for Islenews.com (which became HawaiiNews.com which is now HawaiiStar.com). My dream of building a robust grassroots local news site is still just a dream, but fortunately, the ONA has soldiered on. Today, the group is [...]
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Electric Car Rally Next Week
December 22nd, 2010 · 3 Comments · Environment, Events
Owners and fans of electric vehicles are staging what they’re calling the first electric car rally in Honolulu next Thursday, Dec. 30. Organizers of “The EVent in the Park” are inviting the public to celebrate the start of the “Year of the Electric Car.” Now, it seems every year over the past few years has [...]
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Geek’s 24-Hour Podcast Returns
December 16th, 2010 · No Comments · Events, Technology, The Web
Todd Cochrane, local geek and nationally renown new media entrepreneur, is preparing for his annual 24-hour marathon podcast. Beginning at 6 a.m. Hawaii Standard Time on Saturday, Dec. 18, he will be streaming live video and audio from his Makakilo studio non-stop through 6 a.m. on Sunday, Dec. 19. Todd produces the regular Geek News [...]
Online News Training Offered in January
December 13th, 2010 · 6 Comments · Events
The Online News Association is hosting two days of digital journalism training at the East-West Center next month. Offered in partnership with the Hawaii chapters of the Asian American Journalists Association and the Society of Professional Journalists, the “Parachute Training” program will take place Jan. 21 and Jan. 22. The training will cover mobile production, free [...]
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