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BY MICHELE VAN HESSEN - Kaui Hart Hemmings' novel The Descendants, set in Hawaii, magnificently captures the struggle of marriage, children and family relationships. Director Alexander Payne (Alexander Constantine Papadopoulos) compliments the book wonderfully with his ability to set the film scenes vividly using Hawaii's dramatic beauty and uniqueness to depict a sense of loneliness [...]
BY J. ARTHUR RATH - Coconut Willee handed me these thoughts written on a Starbucks paper bag. The bag had tear marks and coffee stains; Starbucks outlet uses paper instead of the plastic kind which never go away and don't show wetness. "This is my response to the Governor's apparent blessing over making island high-rise buildings [...]
BY J. ARTHUR RATH III - He wrote about living in Hawaii “In A Banyan Tree, Dream House, Vagabond House, and Aloha House.” While doing so, Don Blanding (1894-1957), gained the sobriquet of “Hawaii’s Poet Laureate." Waikiki was then a one-piece bathing suit place—whereas contemporary suits give new meaning to the phrase “hanging out.” Blanding expressed external [...]
BY J. ARTHUR RATH - Being on “screen” was easier when Hawaii seemed new and you knew people welcoming sky-high dreams. “Blue Hawaii” (Elvis Presley 1961) was set here—it was a post World-War sequel to earlier movies starring Bing Crosby, Dorothy Lamour, and others who caused fantasies of Hawaii as “Paradise.” “What if” dreams still [...]
BY J. ARTHUR RATH III - I'm traveling from Waikiki to my old Upstate New York lakeside neighborhood to view flaming maples, collect memories, and rethink about Hawaii perspectives I placed at this essay's end. I'm visiting now because Nature reserves her most magnificent spectacle when the leaves are well past what, in conventional thinking, would be considered their [...]
BY J. ARTHUR RATH - "I've been practicing," Willee says to me, and I'll have a joyous message for thousands of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation who'll soon be visiting Waikiki." "Okay, Willee," I said. "You spout, I'll write. Do you have any particular setting in mind for your message?" "My choice was between Tiki's, where [...]
BY DR. RICHARD KELLEY - The shift from Chairman to Chairman Emeritus of Outrigger Enterprises Group a few weeks ago was a major milestone in my life. Not surprisingly, it has brought forth hundreds of thoughts and memories. As I go through my gigantic mental photo album, the one thing that stands out is the [...]
BY J. ARTHUR RATH III - Toward the end of the day, during a time some call "Happy Hour." I'm sitting at Lulu's of Waikiki's bar watching the New York Jets demonstrate why they'll go far this year. Nice gent to my left buys me a beer, I raise my hand (feebly) in protest and he says "No, I [...]
BY J. ARTHUR RATH II - Hearing "The Sound of Music" being performed on a solo soprano sax and trumpet harmony, floating on the trade winds, I walked slowly toward a banyan tree in Kapiolani Park. There a middle-aged female soprano saxophone player and elderly male trumpeter sat on a bench, each having a stand [...]
BY J. ARTHUR RATH - Before Portuguese families arrived, two-finger poi was the closest thing Hawaiians had to soup. Hawaiians enjoyed roasted kukui nuts and sea salt, but natural-flavor-enhancing pepper and spices weren’t here until 20,000 Portuguese families from Madeira and the Azores brought new spices to life when their men filled the critical need [...]
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