by Vanessa | Feb 27, 2013 | Legacy
The Hawaii Visitors and Convention Bureau (HVCB) recently launched a month-long marketing blitz in New York and Chicago, two of its largest markets, both of which they identified as being on the “East Coast” even though the one that starts with a “C” is actually in...
by Vanessa | Feb 22, 2013 | Legacy
Dining at Ramen Ya in the Queen K mall started off a little more like a double-dog dare than a promising enterprise. Ominous phrases like “noodles in dirty dishwater,” and “it’s a carb carnival and the protein isn’t invited” were tossed about, proving the dare-makers...
by Vanessa | Feb 19, 2013 | Legacy
Once again, dear friends, this has been posted in “Entertainment,” which is to say it’s meant to entertain you. Yet again, the airlift crews have been called out to the Bamboo Forest. We’re not judging the whos, whats, hows or whys of that situation, but it did...
by Vanessa | Feb 17, 2013 | Legacy
You are not an accountant. Nonetheless, despite your pledges that THIS is the year you hire a pro, there you are on April 15th: installing TurboTax, sweating bullets, rifling through mountains of paper, and drinking heavily. We’ve been there. More than once. However,...
by Vanessa | Feb 12, 2013 | Legacy
Phil G. 250 affordable housing units!? We can’t have that. Absolutely not. It’s a bait and switch if I’ve ever seen one. Let me paint the picture: do you know what they mean by ‘affordable’? They mean “projects.” You heard me right: projects. I have an inside source...
