I was contacted late last week by Nick Beck, who was trying to track down my father. Nick is a paddler who was part of the Waikiki Surf Club team that won the 1966 Molokai-Oahu canoe race despite monstrous waves in the Molokai channel that swamped their canoe three times. Beck, retired principal of Hanalei [...]
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I have to admit that my pizza making is nowhere near as refined as Ernest Murphy’s, spelled out in his fabulous Pizza Essay. But I do my best. Homemade crust, mostly whole wheat with a little white flour and a handful of cornmeal. Homemade sauce. Last night topped with low fat pepperoni, chopped black olives, [...]
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Sometimes headline writers can get carried away. Case in point. A story head in today’s Advertiser online editioin reads: Hawaii hotels post weakest summer ever Wow! Weakest ever! We’ve been through a lot. WWII, Vietnam, the 1970s gas rationing, a series of recessions, all kinds of things, and this is the worst ever, they say. [...]
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Honolulu Prosecutor Peter Carlisle got a decent amount of news coverage last week when he publicly criticized a Hawaii Supreme Court decision striking down a conviction in a case involving alleged excessive speeding. Both the Advertiser and Star-Bulletin ran stories quoting Carlisle, who called the decision “another example of the law of rules rather than [...]
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