While he was attending UH Manoa’s Hawaiian Studies program, my younger brother spent a semester abroad in Tahiti. We were all very excited for him, me especially, and were eager to hear about his experiences and adventures across the Pacific. We expected the usual post-cards and trinkets upon his return, but when he stepped out of the airport [...]
We’re right in the middle of Merrie Monarch week! The entire festival runs from April 4th to the 10th with craft and culture events all week long culminating in a hula competition that starts today at 6:00 pm HST. You can become a fan on their Facebook page for live updates and photos.
Most of the material [...]
Whew! March was a busy month for us and this last week there seemed to be a void in motivation on my part. But it’s only the 31st so it’s not quite over yet and I have one more day to squeeze in a post! March is (was) arts and crafts month and aside from [...]
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I hope everyone has had a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday! Having imbibed on various treats and now sufficiently out of my food induced coma, I thought it might be nice to talk a little bit about makahiki the Native Hawaiian equivalent of a harvest celebration not unlike Thanksgiving, Octoberfest or solstice. However, unlike [...]
posted by M.L. Sanico
As you may have read in HBB’s “About” section, we began this site over a year and a half ago because we felt that Hawai’i’s literary achievements deserved a bigger spotlight on the interwebs. We wanted to help share Hawai’i’s books with the world! Over the past year we’ve seen/found other blogs (like Susan [...]
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Our trip to Vegas wasn’t exactly filled with fear and loathing. My goodluck rituals didn’t pay off since Alex was much luckier than I was and he only did half of the rituals. At least lady luck wasn’t so fickle with him and we were able to get back most of what we [...]
posted by D. Sueoka
Westlake: Poems by Wayne Kaumualii Westlake compiles poems written between the late 1960s and 1984, when Westlake was killed in a car accident on the Big Island. It includes translations of Han Shan, concrete poems, a manifesto, and the series “Down on the Sidewalk in Waikīkī.”
These are poems about bugs, dogs, sex, [...]
posted by M.L. Sanico
We’ve already begun reading books for the “Support Public Libraries” challenge that we signed up for on JKaye’s blog. But as I mentioned in this previous post, simply checking out, reading and reviewing 25 books by December 31st isn’t enough of a challenge for us. We REALLY want to support Hawaii’s Public [...]
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