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All that Jazz on Kauai (and Blues too!)

May 20th, 2012

Don’t miss the fifth annual Red Clay Jazz Festival June 27-30: four days of jazz and blues and an outdoor concert on the oceanview lawn of the Kauai Lagoons Resort. This event just gets better every year. This year’s headliner is the winner of numerous blues awards, soul singer Miss E.C. Scott. She’ll be joined by the Venissa Santi Sextet…

Second Annual Kauai Plein Air Invitational

May 15th, 2012

If you appreciate beauty – and you wouldn’t be vacationing on Kauai if you didn’t – check out the second annual Kauai Plein Air Invitational June 9-16. Sixteen of Kauai’s most talented artists will participate in this week-long event, which concludes with an art sale to benefit the preservation of three of Kauai’s most historic buildings. Whether you’re an artist,…

Shake Your Booty: Kauai Polynesian Festival May 24-27th

May 6th, 2012

Tahitian, Maori, Samoan and Hawaiian dance, arts, crafts, food and workshops? Woo-hoo: it’s time for Kauai’s annual Polynesian Festival this Memorial Day weekend. The event kicks off with “A Polynesian Evening of Stars” at 6 pm on May 24 at the Kauai Community College Performing Arts Center. Besides the opening ceremony, music, and entertainment, there will be a talent show…

Two Blondes. Two Workouts.

April 30th, 2012

Need a workout or a personal trainer while you’re on Kauai? You can’t go wrong with Sandi O’Shaughnessy of Iron Lotus Core Fitness, a new air-conditioned studio in beautiful up-country Kapaa. Specializing in kettlebells, Ropes Gone Wild, Bosu, TRX Suspension Training and Pilates, Sandi will teach you “how to move weight, as opposed to lifting it” – which results in…

Entertainment on Kauai: “God of Carnage” May 4-21

April 20th, 2012

Theater buff alert: mark your calendars for Kauai Community Players’ production of “God of Carnage,” winner of the 2009 Tony Award for best play, opening May 4th. Directed by Kauai’s very talented Laurel Petterson-McGraw, “Carnage” tells the tale of two professional New York couples who meet to discuss a playground altercation between their eleven-year-old sons. As the meeting progresses (and…

Historic Hanalei: the Perfect Kauai Vacation?

April 11th, 2012

A hundred years ago, a few privileged Kauai residents built summer homes on large beachfront lots on Hanalei Bay. Today, many of the large estates are gone – but the historic Faye house, on an expansive green lawn sloping to Hanalei’s white crescent beach, retains the expansive feeling of days gone by. This is the kind of home you can…

New Kauai Restaurant: A Feral Pig?

April 1st, 2012

“Feral pigs” are hairy beasts with big snouts that end up in a luau pit—so I’ve gotta admit, I did not think this was a particularly great name for a Kauai restaurant. But what a surprise. This new restaurant/pub at Nawiliwili Harbor is a great addition to our local dining scene (and a nice alternative to the higher priced restaurants…

#1 Rated Golf Course in Hawaii: Kauai’s Prince Re-opens

March 23rd, 2012

The Prince, the Prince, the beautiful Prince Golf Course on Kauai has just re-opened after a $5 million renovation overseen by the original architect, Robert Trent Jones, Jr. All the greens and practice areas have been replanted with Seashore Paspalum, the tee boxes are either new or renovated, and the bunkers now have buff-colored sand—to blend better with the environment….

Kauai’s Fauna

March 18th, 2012

Like much of the flora flourishing on the island Kauai’s animal and mammal species have arrived via sea and air along with their human counterpart as far back as Captain Cook (possibly even further) and we’ve come to embrace their presence on the island as one of our own. There are very few places on Kauai that won’t be startled…

Kauai Flora

March 16th, 2012

Aptly named the Garden Isle, Kauai, the oldest of the Hawaiian island chain has taken advantage of it’s “ripe old age” and an average 400 plus inches of rain a year pouring down onto Mt. Waialeale, to develop Kauai’s flora into one of the most bountiful, lush, tropical environments in all the United States and some say in the western…