What started as a pastime collecting shells on the beach in Sydney, Australia, has turned into a jewelry line featured last year in the pages of Sports Illustrated’s famous swimsuit edition. Marylea Conrad, founder of the line called , is still in shock. “Being featured in the magazine was a huge turning point for the company,” says Conrad, who launched it in Hawaii in 2008. Conrad moved to Oahu nine years…
Corbett Kalama sits in his one-man outrigger canoe six miles off Kailua Bay, surrounded by porpoises dancing on their tails. For most people, it’s a fantasy, but, for Kalama, it really happens. “At a young age, my father showed me how to interact with the dolphins in a special way,” he says. “If you’re out there on the ocean and run into a pod, the bull porpoise will usually dart at your canoe from a…
The Art of Learning Back when it was The Contemporary Museum, it was an idiosyncratic destination in the hills above Honolulu, a place where you could walk the gardens, grab lunch in the cafe and see intriguing contemporary art that played outside the sandbox. Now that it has become Spalding House, the education-led arm of the Honolulu Museum of Art,…
Imagine buying a home without visiting it. That’s what a California buyer did to a Waikiki penthouse listed by Realtor Margaret Murchie, thanks in part to a video the buyer first saw on YouTube. Such videos, unlike a virtual tour, tend to have more features, such as background music and multiple views of the property. The videos are professionally produced…
Name: Rob Hemsher Job: Scuba diving instructor and owner of Ocean Eco Tours Years of Experience: 17 years as a certified dive instructor Background: Hemsher made his first pool dive when he was 6 while growing up in Boynton Beach, Fla. He arrived in Kailua-Kona in 1996 as an officer on a cruise ship and instantly fell in love…
A report by UH’s College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources compared 12 newly introduced crops in Hawaiʻi and found figs way ahead of the pack.
ver wondered what the people down the street paid for their house? Who owns that office building on the corner? Whether your home is in the flood plain? Which city council member to complain to about that pothole? All that information – and much more – is available with the click of your mouse at the Honolulu Land Information System…
Question: I am the founder of our family business and five years away from formally retiring. My daughter has been in the business for 12 years, but I feel she lacks the commitment and work ethic to run the business. Any suggestions? Answer: The baby boomer generation is notorious for its 80-hour workweeks and “do whatever it takes” attitude. Not…
Loreto “Lorie” Obra and her husband, Restituto “Rusty” Obra, were unlikely coffee farmers. They had emigrated from the Philippines to New Jersey in 1972 to begin their careers, Rusty as a chemist and Lorie as a medical technologist. However, while visiting his parents in the late 1990s in the Kau District of Hawaii Island, Rusty and Lorie were inspired to…
Wednesday, 2:34 PM Love’s Bakery, Kalihi Photographer David Croxford >> Nenita Ramos, oven infeed operator, checks the quality of the loaves heading into the 400-degree oven. This batch of Hawaii’s Hearth 100 percent Whole Wheat bread is one of 276 varieties of bread products produced by the Kalihi bakery. Founded in 1851, Love’s Bakery produces 65,000 pounds of bread each…
This month’s feature on the “Best Advice I Ever Got” suggests a complementary article, “The Worst Advice I Ever Ignored.” Every successful person has followed lots of good advice to get where he or she is, and, along the way, they rejected plenty of bad advice, too. The key to success may be discerning the difference, but the challenge isn’t…
Why did Alexander & Baldwin andMatson stick together so long, and why did they finally decide to separate? There was always a great story about why these companies ended up together. A&B was a landowner and an agricultural company, and needed a way to get its sugar from its operations to the West Coast. What investors always said was, “Yes, that’s interesting, but…
In our lives, we’re probably given more than a million words of advice. Almost everyone feels free to dispense it, even if we don’t ask for it, but much of it is trivial and soon forgotten. The advice that resonates and sticks is worth sharing. We asked a wide range of prominent people about the best overall advice or the…
A rich history and equally interesting cast of tenants make this century-old building one of a kind If you like modern glass and steel towers, Bishop Street has plenty of office locations to choose from. But if your taste runs to something with historical character and a bohemian mix of tenants and businesses, then you only need to walk a…
Sources: Hawaiian Electric Co. and Blue Planet FoundationPhoto: Thinkstock The sun and wind create clean, local energy for Hawaii, but they’re intermittent. They come and go on a schedule that doesn’t follow the Islands’ demand for power. Here are nine ways to ensure Hawaii’s energy supply and demand match. In the field of power delivery, load balancing – matching supply…
These bacteria are a key part of UH’s plan to double the money it collects from federal grants over the coming decade “Micro-organisms dominate this planet,” says David Karl, director of C-MORE, the UH-based Center for Microbial Oceanography, Research and Education. “Even though we don’t notice it, because we can’t see them, we can see their activities: They produce the…