Saturday, 11 a.m. Honolulu’s Chinatown Photo by Rae Huo Students study lion dance movements at Gee Yung Chinese Martial Arts Dragon and Lion Dance Association. They are preparing for Lunar New Year festivities, in which performers ages 5 to 17 will move the lion and create accompanying sounds with drums, gongs and cymbals. Categories: Media, Parting Shot
Hawaii’s known for a unique blend of cultures and tastes, and that is evident in the wide variety of foods and products available in the Islands’ many ethnic markets. These markets go far beyond the typical Japanese, Chinese and Korean markets that are well known to locals. Martha Sanchez Romero’s story is typical of those who have brought new foods…
Matthew Sirp Enterprise Architect Hawaiian Telcom hawaiiantel.com Question: I keep hearing that small businesses can benefit from cloud services. Can cloud solutions help my company increase productivity and save money? Answer: With cloud services, small businesses can access enterprise-level services at an affordable cost. Your first step should be to define your specific business needs and then interview service providers…
CEO, Girl Scouts of Hawaii Girl Scouting runs through Shari Chang’s veins. Her grandmother and mother were both scouts. While growing up, she was a scout in four different states and a foreign country. Her two daughters, who grew up in Hawaii, were also scouts. In October, Chang assumed the CEO spot at Girl Scouts of Hawaii, after leading sales,…
Once you’ve had gelato, you may never go back to plain ol’ ice cream. Gelato is Italian-style ice cream, made with less butterfat and less air, which make it denser and more flavorful, usually with less fat and fewer calories than ice cream. Oahu’s oldest maker of gelato is La Gelateria, which means ice cream parlor in Italian, and was…
Did you know that some of Hawaii’s best acting goes on at UH’s schools of medicine and nursing? At UH-Manoa’s School of Nursing and Dental Hygiene, a creative partnership with the Theatre Department has aspiring actors practicing their improvisational skills – playing patients with everything from cancer to depression – while student nurses hone empathy, bedside manner and patient care….
A fiscal crisis this past fall, coming on the heels of the Wonder Blunder and other missteps, is forcing UH and its flagship Manoa campus to reform its flawed budget process. For decades, UH allocated funding to individual departments and programs using a “historical” method: Each department got a budget based on what it was allocated the previous year. Those…
If 2015 is like most years, fitness goals are at the top of most people’s resolutions list. Fitness instructor and author Tony Rodriguez Larkin offers this guide for you to succeed: 1. Take measurements Keep data on everything you want to improve. Want to lose weight? Step on the scale every day. Want to feel better? Ask yourself how you’re…
Ryan Delaney had been teaching at Waianae High School for two years when he received an offer he couldn’t refuse: Return to UH-Manoa’s Speech Department to get his M.A. at a discounted price. While earning that degree, he served as a teaching assistant for Public Speaking 251, a position he calls “the most hands-on TA I’ve heard of in college.”…
A walk around Honolulu nowadays can seem like a visit to an open-air art gallery. Murals are reinvigorating communities with vibrant colors while celebrating Hawaii’s natural beauty, culture and people. Mark Brown, an artist and art teacher at the UH, has been painting murals since 1988. One of his first was for the Hula Bowl at Aloha Stadium: A boat…
Online marketing and meditation are not an obvious combination, but Kit Wynkoop incorporates both into his life. As CEO of Hoi ka Ha LLC (“breathing life back into”), he helps clients, such as Honolulu Community College, the Hawaii Restaurant Association and the Hawaii Association for the Education of Young Children, implement online marketing strategies. In his spare time, Wynkoop offers…
Ricard Muszynski loves to create chocolate treats by hand and wants to show you how to do it, too. At his Waikiki shop, Kokoa Bar by Ricard Chocolat, you have many choices: You can ogle and taste artisanal confections such as champagne truffles with Hawaiian chili pepper ganache; you can watch as chocolates are being made; or you can be…
Name: Sandy Tsukiyama Job: Radio show host Experience: Six years Profile: Tsukiyama has lived an interesting life: She trained on the koto, a traditional Japanese stringed instrument; worked as a tour guide for Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking visitors to Oahu; taught Spanish in public schools; sung in flamenco, salsa, mariachi, Brazilian and Latin jazz groups; and now breeds rabbits. But…
If you are keeping score on whether technology makes our lives better or worse, put this in the plus column: Technology has dramatically cut the number of stolen cars in Hawaii over the past decade. In 2003, 9,651 motor vehicles were reported stolen in Hawaii; in 2012, that number was down to 3,865 – a 60 percent decline, even though…
The Manoa community gardens sit in the center of the valley, with the Koolau rising around them like the sides of a deep, green bowl. On one bright, blue morning, Katherine Carreira dug up nut grass, turned clods of clay and exposed red earthworms in a 10-by-20-foot plot filled with rows of kalo, basil and chives. “There is something about…
Soon after NextEra Energy stirred up debate in the local energy community by announcing plans for a $4.3 billion takeover of Hawaiian Electric Industries, Ted Peck called us to put in his two bits. Like other media outlets in town, Hawaii Business scrambled to put the proposed merger into perspective. We sat down with executives from the two companies to…
I was at a meeting and listening to one of the most powerful women in Hawaii when something astonishing happened. Her recently promoted male deputy interrupted her. Not once, but several times. Many studies tell me that I shouldn’t have been surprised, because women – even powerful women – are interrupted much more than men. An article last month in…
Creator: Scott Jennings has degrees in civil engineering and 25 years of experience in the construction industry. He owns construction businesses in Hawaii and Washington that produce roughly $20 million in sales a year. Runjob Software is his first program, designed to meet a need he said hadn’t been filled: affordable and easy-to-use software tailored for small and medium construction…
When you walk into Honolulu vitamin stores, the first things you notice are the Chinese characters. Above the bottles of fish oil, joint lubricant and multivitamins are signs that list the name of each product in Chinese, English and, occasionally, Korean or Japanese. The same Chinese tourists who splurge on quilted Chanel handbags and other luxury items in Hawaii are…
LinkedIn is a powerful mashup: “Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon” meets “I can bring home the bacon.” With nearly 300 million business professionals using the social media platform, it may be the most effective job hunting tool out there. “View it as your personal Rolodex to everyone who is working and is in a position to help you,” says Dan…
Reif Tauati got the idea for his startup after visiting Hawaii Volcanoes National Park for the first time since the second grade. “I remember walking through the lava tube and hearing about how ancient Hawaiians stored poi and water there. But, when I returned recently, nobody was sharing those stories anymore. In Hawaiian, we call it wahi pana – the…
In the 24/7 global marketplace, where the game changes overnight and social media amplifies your message and your mistakes, here come the Millennials, the generation raised to thrive in this world. Just about everyone has strong feelings about Millennials. The generation born roughly between 1980 and 2000, whose oldest members will turn 35 this year, has been derided as “The…