Wednesday, February 22, 2012
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ITV News Director Genie Garner packed up her office and left her job at the station Friday.
Andrew Jackson, KITV president and general manager, said Garner will be "seeking future opportunities on the mainland."
The islands and all their lovely attributes continue to curry favor with travel publications and websites, which of course have to find all manner of ways to lure travelers through their online portals to book travel and make them money.
Hawaii-born Clyde Caminos and his Virginia-based KA Grafix Custom Printing & Designs LLC won the first-place 2011 Impressions Award in the direct-to-garment apparel decoration category for his "Legends" design, seen here.
The Hawaii State Farm Fair will relocate to Kualoa Ranch this year, to commemorate a half-century of supporting agriculture in Hawaii. It also will cast its gaze toward the future.
Long known for the quirky attitude conveyed in its advertising, Jack in the Box restaurants started serving bacon-flavored milkshakes on Feb.
The grand opening of DASH — Gastropub at 1018 McCully St. begins at 6 p.m. today and stretches until 2 a.m., following the soft opening of the watering hole and eatery several weeks ago.
Super Bowl commercials went beyond water-cooler conversation as the American Marketing Association Hawaii Chapter and American Advertising Federation-Hawaii joined forces to present the second annual Super Bowl Ad Critique Tuesday.
Adega Portuguesa opened Friday in Chinatown for bar service and plans to roll out its menu of Portuguese and Brazilian cuisine in three weeks, according to owner Antonio Da Silva.
Renowned chef Ludovic "Chef Ludo" Lefebvre and his wife, Krissy, will be bringing their touring pop-up restaurant LudoBites to Hawaii, specifically to Hualalai Grille at the Four Seasons Resort Hualalai on Hawaii island, in March.
Travel + Leisure magazine's lists usually feature Hawaii, or aspects of the 808 State, rather prominently — until now.
Muddy Waters Cafe has returned to Aikahi Park Shopping Center under new ownership.
Jin Din Rou has closed after just under one year of lunch and dinner service at the corner of South King and Kaheka streets.
Ko Olina Golf Club has won its second consecutive ranking among the PGA of America's Top 100 Performers in its "Play Golf America" program. "It involves several initiatives, such as Women's Golf Week, Family Golf Month, Take Your Daughter to the Course Day, Patriot Golf Day" and others, said Greg Nichols, PGA general manager and director of golf at Ko Olina.
Talk about topical and timely, Luxury Row at 2100 Kalakaua Ave. has launched a Chinese-language option for viewers within its website at www.luxuryrow.com.
They like us, they really like us. Hawaii hotels and resorts made repeated appearances in the TripAdvisor 2012 Travelers' Choice Awards, its 10th annual listing as voted upon by site users.
"The Mike Buck Show" is back on the air, on KHNR-AM 690, after a brief spate of corporate-ordered, downsizing-related unemployment. His show resumed Monday in the 6-to-9 a.m. weekday time slot, and the phones "blew up" with tons of calls, he said.
Honolulu-based Seawind Tours & Travel Inc. is exploring a new way to set itself apart from the industry's big players — with small, intimate, celebrity chef-led tours.
Waikiki Magazine will debut Jan. 25 in Hawaii's most iconic visitor destination. Published by the Star-Advertiser, the magazine will focus on entertainment, shopping, dining and recreation and will be printed in English and Japanese.
The Perry and Price Saturday morning breakfast show will move to the Jade Dynasty Seafood Restaurant at Ala Moana Center on Feb. 11.
The debut of a new Hawaiian music radio show will bring isle tunes to new audiences starting today.
The mom-and-pop-and-son owners of a new popcorn store on Sand Island Access Road hope the shop will become a destination. It's not conventional wisdom but crazier concepts have succeeded.
A 113-year-old Hawaii-based company is expanding with the announcement of its ninth store on Oahu, to be built in Ewa Beach in the new Laulani Village Shopping Center. Thus, "TheBuzz" begins 2012 continuing its tradition of focusing mostly on positive business news.
Local folks and fortunate travelers will be able to rub elbows with renowned celebrity chefs and sample cuisine the culinary rock stars carefully craft with Hawaii's bounty of local ingredients at the Mauna Lani Bay Hotel & Bungalows next month.
Martin & MacArthur has jumped into the iPhone case craze and will debut its "iKoa" koa wood cases for the iPhone 4 and 4S on Friday at all 10 stores around the state as well as online.
Three new radio stations have hit the Honolulu airwaves using some high-tech methods and a high-powered, 100,000-watt transmitter. The new stations mean rare radio job opportunities for a few local residents.
David G. Kim and Dede Howa, owners of ‘Oiwi Ocean Gear, are shifting focus, having weathered the economy's tumultuous tides of the last few years.
Victoria Inn will close for good at 2 p.m. Sunday, after more than 30 years of serving home-style Japanese, American and other local-style favorites in Kaimuki.
Chef and restaurateur Fred DeAngelo and his family, immediate and extended, are expanding their food-and-beverage business with The Grove, a new restaurant in Kailua.
ALTRES Inc. has purchased Maui-based KilaKila Employer Services Inc., but both entities will move forward from the Jan. 1 effective date as if the deal were a true merger, officials said Thursday.
The opportunity to buy tickets early and reserve seats for a night at the movies is being expanded at Consolidated Theatres Ward Stadium 16.
Hokkaido-based Five Star lnternational plans to open the Five Star International Buffet on the third floor of Building C at Royal Hawaiian Center around the end of the month with a hard date of Jan. 19 set for a private grand-opening celebration.
Buried amid the hubbub and traffic snarls of APEC Leaders' Week, Hawaiian Airlines turned 82 years old Friday, the much-ballyhooed 11/11/11.
An unauthorized APEC website mentioned in this column Monday has been taken offline by California-based InMotion Hosting Inc. A message on the page instructs the account holder to contact customer service and also indicates InMotion Hosting "cannot disclose any information regarding this account if you are not its owner or authorized party."
Anti-APEC voices are masquerading online as that which they disdain. At least one site with a Web address almost identical to the official APEC site's has been operating, offering mostly inactive links but with one leading to stories mocking the organization.
Smack in the middle of APEC week, all broadcast radio and television, cable and satellite companies and Hawaiian Telcom's Internet protocol TV service are going to carry a long-planned, nationwide Emergency Alert System test.
Windward Mall in Kaneohe has launched a free mobile application and a new customer loyalty program well ahead of Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving that marks the official start of the Christmas shopping season.
Kenny Choi has disappeared from "KITV4 News This Morning." Worry not, he remains employed at the station with a focus on the other end of the day as part of a realignment of the news team's MO (modus operandi, method of operation, whichever translation you prefer).
Hawaii residents and visitors will get an early look at 10 of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation leaders — sort of — at Teddy Bear World Hawaii at 2155 Kalakaua Ave.
Panasonic of Japan has brought a production crew to Hawaii to put its Evolta robots, its batteries and its newly developed battery charging pads to the test -- the Ironman Triathlon test.
Interactive signage has made it possible for thousands of Chicagoans to hold alluring Hawaii images in the palms of their hands while at the Windy City's Clark & Lake train station this month.
We said "ciao" to Ciao Mein on April 30, and now it's time to greet Japengo at the Hyatt Regency Waikiki Beach Resort and Spa. It is Japengo No. 4 for Hyatt Hotels Corp., the others being on Maui, in La Jolla, Calif., and in Aruba.
A one-of-a-kind bar will open at Turtle Bay Resort Nov. 12 following renovation of the hotel's Bay Club space. Surfer (The Bar) reflects the first known pairing of a magazine (Surfer) and a permanent food-and-beverage venue in Hawaii.
A Toys R Us Express store has opened for the holidays at Ward Centre, on the first floor of the former Borders Books, Music, Movies & Cafe.
Martin & MacArthur opens its 10th retail store today at the Sheraton Waikiki as the company marks 50 years of making drool-worthy koa furnishings. It is the eighth store the company has opened since the new ownership took over Aug. 8, 2008.
A locally produced application for the iPhone and iPod Touch (and possibly the iPad) will serve as a free, personalized, pocket-sized tour guide for visitors to Oahu.
The building that housed the storied Club Hubba Hubba in Chinatown has been renovated by its owners and will be the site of a pau hana fundraiser for the Chinatown Improvement District, a nonprofit organization. The nonprofit’s mission is to improve conditions in Chinatown while preserving the area’s cultural, ethnic and historical character.
Front Street in Lahaina is one of the 10 Great Streets in America for 2011, according to the American Planning Association, a nonprofit educational organization.
Oceanic Time Warner Cable customers with iPads can finally download a TWCable TV app that will work in Hawaii.
A restaurant will close today after dinner service, as Violet, Dennis and Randy Yim hand the keys of Waimalu Chop Suey to new owners.
Simply Organized LLC, which opened its first store in Kapolei in 2008, will expand to Kahala Mall next year.
KJ's Local Grindz in Kaneohe is famous for its crispy, savory fried chicken and for its furikake chicken — and the fowl fame is both a blessing and a burden.
Visitors and local residents who traipse 'round town aboard any bright red, double-decker AlohaBus are likely to disembark with more knowledge of Hawaii than they had before boarding — as well as a mental soundtrack to accompany the memories.
Not a single Hawaii company is listed among the 2011 Working Mother 100 Best Companies.
This year’s very lucky nonprofit organization, selected to receive around $1 million worth of free marketing services from Ad 2 Honolulu, is Hawaii Heart Foundation Inc.
Hawaii remains among the costliest states in which to stage a hometown wedding.
Hawaii chef and restaurateur Roy Yamaguchi, a James Beard Foundation Award winner, will open another Hawaii location before the end of the year.
The KZOO Radio Shirokiya Studio will mark its grand opening on Sept. 26 with a media event and on-air interviews.
Hawaii nonprofit groups, schools and school clubs are invited to join the “Festival of Giving” fundraisers at Ward Centers and Windward Mall this fall and keep 100 percent of the money they raise.
Seeds of future group travel to Hawaii will be sown on the Valley Isle later this month as the Sheraton Maui hosts "Destination Maui," staged by sister publications Successful Meetings and Meetings and Conventions magazines.
For the first time, winners of next month's annual U.S. National Sake Appraisal, staged by the Honolulu-based International Sake Association, will bear gold or silver emblems trumpeting their success from store shelves in Japan and the U.S.
After nearly 60 years in business, Kanai Tofu will shut down at the end of the month.
Another restaurant at Restaurant Row has been vacated, and the site might cease to be an eatery. Stonegrill closed July 25 after about 2 1/2 years in the spot.
Kauai’s family-owned Brick Oven Pizza restaurant, a Garden Isle favorite established in 1977, is coming to Oahu. It is projected to open in December at Crossroads at Kapolei, anchored by the Simply Organized retail store and Chun Wah Kam restaurant.
Three high-profile chefs from Starwood Hotels & Resorts in Hawaii are going to Mecca next month. Not the literal Mecca, but the James Beard House often is referred to as the mecca of the culinary industry.
Oceanic Time Warner Cable has announced the opening of 10 authorized retailers on Oahu and Maui. Meanwhile, the last of Hawaiian Telcom's familiar Phone Mart stores closed on Wednesday.
Child care services for little ones 4 and younger at the posh Kahala Hotel & Resort are now being provided by the Aloha Sitters unit of KeikiSitters.
The Maui-based parent company of 31 Ben Franklin Crafts and Ace Hardware stores in Hawaii and three mainland states is marking its 60th anniversary this year.
Gail Ann Chew, the face of the Hawaii Restaurant Association for nearly eight years, is wrapping up her tenure with the Sept. 19 annual Hall of Fame gala, which will celebrate the 20th anniversary of Hawaii Regional Cuisine Inc.
Hawaii is the second-healthiest state in the nation, according to metrics tabulated by Foursquare. The application allows mobile-device-wielding users to quickly post their whereabouts online, or “check in” to a location.
The islands and all their lovely attributes continue to curry favor with travel publications and websites, which of course have to find all manner of ways to lure travelers through their online portals to book travel and make them money.
Hawaii-born Clyde Caminos and his Virginia-based KA Grafix Custom Printing & Designs LLC won the first-place 2011 Impressions Award in the direct-to-garment apparel decoration category for his "Legends" design, seen here.
The Hawaii State Farm Fair will relocate to Kualoa Ranch this year, to commemorate a half-century of supporting agriculture in Hawaii. It also will cast its gaze toward the future.
Long known for the quirky attitude conveyed in its advertising, Jack in the Box restaurants started serving bacon-flavored milkshakes on Feb.
The grand opening of DASH — Gastropub at 1018 McCully St. begins at 6 p.m. today and stretches until 2 a.m., following the soft opening of the watering hole and eatery several weeks ago.
Super Bowl commercials went beyond water-cooler conversation as the American Marketing Association Hawaii Chapter and American Advertising Federation-Hawaii joined forces to present the second annual Super Bowl Ad Critique Tuesday.
Adega Portuguesa opened Friday in Chinatown for bar service and plans to roll out its menu of Portuguese and Brazilian cuisine in three weeks, according to owner Antonio Da Silva.
Renowned chef Ludovic "Chef Ludo" Lefebvre and his wife, Krissy, will be bringing their touring pop-up restaurant LudoBites to Hawaii, specifically to Hualalai Grille at the Four Seasons Resort Hualalai on Hawaii island, in March.
Travel + Leisure magazine's lists usually feature Hawaii, or aspects of the 808 State, rather prominently — until now.
Muddy Waters Cafe has returned to Aikahi Park Shopping Center under new ownership.
Jin Din Rou has closed after just under one year of lunch and dinner service at the corner of South King and Kaheka streets.
Ko Olina Golf Club has won its second consecutive ranking among the PGA of America's Top 100 Performers in its "Play Golf America" program. "It involves several initiatives, such as Women's Golf Week, Family Golf Month, Take Your Daughter to the Course Day, Patriot Golf Day" and others, said Greg Nichols, PGA general manager and director of golf at Ko Olina.
Talk about topical and timely, Luxury Row at 2100 Kalakaua Ave. has launched a Chinese-language option for viewers within its website at www.luxuryrow.com.
They like us, they really like us. Hawaii hotels and resorts made repeated appearances in the TripAdvisor 2012 Travelers' Choice Awards, its 10th annual listing as voted upon by site users.
"The Mike Buck Show" is back on the air, on KHNR-AM 690, after a brief spate of corporate-ordered, downsizing-related unemployment. His show resumed Monday in the 6-to-9 a.m. weekday time slot, and the phones "blew up" with tons of calls, he said.
Honolulu-based Seawind Tours & Travel Inc. is exploring a new way to set itself apart from the industry's big players — with small, intimate, celebrity chef-led tours.
Waikiki Magazine will debut Jan. 25 in Hawaii's most iconic visitor destination. Published by the Star-Advertiser, the magazine will focus on entertainment, shopping, dining and recreation and will be printed in English and Japanese.
The Perry and Price Saturday morning breakfast show will move to the Jade Dynasty Seafood Restaurant at Ala Moana Center on Feb. 11.
The debut of a new Hawaiian music radio show will bring isle tunes to new audiences starting today.
The mom-and-pop-and-son owners of a new popcorn store on Sand Island Access Road hope the shop will become a destination. It's not conventional wisdom but crazier concepts have succeeded.
A 113-year-old Hawaii-based company is expanding with the announcement of its ninth store on Oahu, to be built in Ewa Beach in the new Laulani Village Shopping Center. Thus, "TheBuzz" begins 2012 continuing its tradition of focusing mostly on positive business news.
Local folks and fortunate travelers will be able to rub elbows with renowned celebrity chefs and sample cuisine the culinary rock stars carefully craft with Hawaii's bounty of local ingredients at the Mauna Lani Bay Hotel & Bungalows next month.
Martin & MacArthur has jumped into the iPhone case craze and will debut its "iKoa" koa wood cases for the iPhone 4 and 4S on Friday at all 10 stores around the state as well as online.
Three new radio stations have hit the Honolulu airwaves using some high-tech methods and a high-powered, 100,000-watt transmitter. The new stations mean rare radio job opportunities for a few local residents.
David G. Kim and Dede Howa, owners of ‘Oiwi Ocean Gear, are shifting focus, having weathered the economy's tumultuous tides of the last few years.
Victoria Inn will close for good at 2 p.m. Sunday, after more than 30 years of serving home-style Japanese, American and other local-style favorites in Kaimuki.
Chef and restaurateur Fred DeAngelo and his family, immediate and extended, are expanding their food-and-beverage business with The Grove, a new restaurant in Kailua.
ALTRES Inc. has purchased Maui-based KilaKila Employer Services Inc., but both entities will move forward from the Jan. 1 effective date as if the deal were a true merger, officials said Thursday.
The opportunity to buy tickets early and reserve seats for a night at the movies is being expanded at Consolidated Theatres Ward Stadium 16.
Hokkaido-based Five Star lnternational plans to open the Five Star International Buffet on the third floor of Building C at Royal Hawaiian Center around the end of the month with a hard date of Jan. 19 set for a private grand-opening celebration.
Buried amid the hubbub and traffic snarls of APEC Leaders' Week, Hawaiian Airlines turned 82 years old Friday, the much-ballyhooed 11/11/11.
An unauthorized APEC website mentioned in this column Monday has been taken offline by California-based InMotion Hosting Inc. A message on the page instructs the account holder to contact customer service and also indicates InMotion Hosting "cannot disclose any information regarding this account if you are not its owner or authorized party."
Anti-APEC voices are masquerading online as that which they disdain. At least one site with a Web address almost identical to the official APEC site's has been operating, offering mostly inactive links but with one leading to stories mocking the organization.
Smack in the middle of APEC week, all broadcast radio and television, cable and satellite companies and Hawaiian Telcom's Internet protocol TV service are going to carry a long-planned, nationwide Emergency Alert System test.
Windward Mall in Kaneohe has launched a free mobile application and a new customer loyalty program well ahead of Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving that marks the official start of the Christmas shopping season.
Kenny Choi has disappeared from "KITV4 News This Morning." Worry not, he remains employed at the station with a focus on the other end of the day as part of a realignment of the news team's MO (modus operandi, method of operation, whichever translation you prefer).
Hawaii residents and visitors will get an early look at 10 of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation leaders — sort of — at Teddy Bear World Hawaii at 2155 Kalakaua Ave.
Panasonic of Japan has brought a production crew to Hawaii to put its Evolta robots, its batteries and its newly developed battery charging pads to the test -- the Ironman Triathlon test.
Interactive signage has made it possible for thousands of Chicagoans to hold alluring Hawaii images in the palms of their hands while at the Windy City's Clark & Lake train station this month.
We said "ciao" to Ciao Mein on April 30, and now it's time to greet Japengo at the Hyatt Regency Waikiki Beach Resort and Spa. It is Japengo No. 4 for Hyatt Hotels Corp., the others being on Maui, in La Jolla, Calif., and in Aruba.
A one-of-a-kind bar will open at Turtle Bay Resort Nov. 12 following renovation of the hotel's Bay Club space. Surfer (The Bar) reflects the first known pairing of a magazine (Surfer) and a permanent food-and-beverage venue in Hawaii.
A Toys R Us Express store has opened for the holidays at Ward Centre, on the first floor of the former Borders Books, Music, Movies & Cafe.
Martin & MacArthur opens its 10th retail store today at the Sheraton Waikiki as the company marks 50 years of making drool-worthy koa furnishings. It is the eighth store the company has opened since the new ownership took over Aug. 8, 2008.
A locally produced application for the iPhone and iPod Touch (and possibly the iPad) will serve as a free, personalized, pocket-sized tour guide for visitors to Oahu.
The building that housed the storied Club Hubba Hubba in Chinatown has been renovated by its owners and will be the site of a pau hana fundraiser for the Chinatown Improvement District, a nonprofit organization. The nonprofit’s mission is to improve conditions in Chinatown while preserving the area’s cultural, ethnic and historical character.
Front Street in Lahaina is one of the 10 Great Streets in America for 2011, according to the American Planning Association, a nonprofit educational organization.
Oceanic Time Warner Cable customers with iPads can finally download a TWCable TV app that will work in Hawaii.
A restaurant will close today after dinner service, as Violet, Dennis and Randy Yim hand the keys of Waimalu Chop Suey to new owners.
Simply Organized LLC, which opened its first store in Kapolei in 2008, will expand to Kahala Mall next year.
KJ's Local Grindz in Kaneohe is famous for its crispy, savory fried chicken and for its furikake chicken — and the fowl fame is both a blessing and a burden.
Visitors and local residents who traipse 'round town aboard any bright red, double-decker AlohaBus are likely to disembark with more knowledge of Hawaii than they had before boarding — as well as a mental soundtrack to accompany the memories.
Not a single Hawaii company is listed among the 2011 Working Mother 100 Best Companies.
This year’s very lucky nonprofit organization, selected to receive around $1 million worth of free marketing services from Ad 2 Honolulu, is Hawaii Heart Foundation Inc.
Hawaii remains among the costliest states in which to stage a hometown wedding.
Hawaii chef and restaurateur Roy Yamaguchi, a James Beard Foundation Award winner, will open another Hawaii location before the end of the year.
The KZOO Radio Shirokiya Studio will mark its grand opening on Sept. 26 with a media event and on-air interviews.
Hawaii nonprofit groups, schools and school clubs are invited to join the “Festival of Giving” fundraisers at Ward Centers and Windward Mall this fall and keep 100 percent of the money they raise.
Seeds of future group travel to Hawaii will be sown on the Valley Isle later this month as the Sheraton Maui hosts "Destination Maui," staged by sister publications Successful Meetings and Meetings and Conventions magazines.
For the first time, winners of next month's annual U.S. National Sake Appraisal, staged by the Honolulu-based International Sake Association, will bear gold or silver emblems trumpeting their success from store shelves in Japan and the U.S.
After nearly 60 years in business, Kanai Tofu will shut down at the end of the month.
Another restaurant at Restaurant Row has been vacated, and the site might cease to be an eatery. Stonegrill closed July 25 after about 2 1/2 years in the spot.
Kauai’s family-owned Brick Oven Pizza restaurant, a Garden Isle favorite established in 1977, is coming to Oahu. It is projected to open in December at Crossroads at Kapolei, anchored by the Simply Organized retail store and Chun Wah Kam restaurant.
Three high-profile chefs from Starwood Hotels & Resorts in Hawaii are going to Mecca next month. Not the literal Mecca, but the James Beard House often is referred to as the mecca of the culinary industry.
Oceanic Time Warner Cable has announced the opening of 10 authorized retailers on Oahu and Maui. Meanwhile, the last of Hawaiian Telcom's familiar Phone Mart stores closed on Wednesday.
Child care services for little ones 4 and younger at the posh Kahala Hotel & Resort are now being provided by the Aloha Sitters unit of KeikiSitters.
The Maui-based parent company of 31 Ben Franklin Crafts and Ace Hardware stores in Hawaii and three mainland states is marking its 60th anniversary this year.
Gail Ann Chew, the face of the Hawaii Restaurant Association for nearly eight years, is wrapping up her tenure with the Sept. 19 annual Hall of Fame gala, which will celebrate the 20th anniversary of Hawaii Regional Cuisine Inc.
Hawaii is the second-healthiest state in the nation, according to metrics tabulated by Foursquare. The application allows mobile-device-wielding users to quickly post their whereabouts online, or “check in” to a location.
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