Category Archives: Featured

Kauai’s Hidden Treasure: Garden of the Gods

You've most likely heard of the term tree-huggers. Well right here, at the Garden of the Gods, that's specifically just what you do. You hug the trees. Do not worry - you won't be the only one. Visitors every day do it. A few hours at Kauai Aadheenam, by the winding, greenish-blue waters of the…
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Men in Floral Shirts? Say It Ain’t So!

This story was originally published on D'Marge. If you're the fashion-forward kind of man who doesn't mind sporting a bit of bold colour or an intricate pattern, you're in luck this season. Florals are back – and not in the cheesy Hawaiian shirt kind of way, but in a cool, contemporary, dramatic way that's been…
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The Aloha Shirt: The New Cool

This ain't your dad's Hawaiian shirt. Gone are the days of those old fuddy-duddy aloha shirts. Local Hawaiian fashion designers have made the aloha shirt look cool. I’ve been living without aloha. Well, aloha shirts, at least. Although I grew up in the Islands and consider myself at least kind of local, I currently own…
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Tiki Gods From Ancient Hawaii

Long ago in Hawaii, from fire ejecting volcanoes as well powerful plunging surf, ancient Hawaiians filled their incredible land as well as their past with tiki gods. Ancient oracles of Hawaiian kahunas perched on volcano cliffs, carved wooden tikis peering with the jungle, mystic caves along the coast and great tiki god temples of sacrifice…
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