Entering the theater in their trademark hand-on-shoulder formation, the Blind Boys of Alabama wore tuxedos with festive red bowties. But once the singing began, those ties got loosened pretty quickly
-there’s nothing uptight or restrictive about the Blind Boys’ version of gospel.
A visit to the Big Island’s luxurious Kohala Coast reveals that culture and education is very much at the heart of Hawaiian tourism these days. As one local explains in the story, “”Yea bruddah, Hawai’i isn’t just for mai tais and lava flows anymore.”
Gas-X: This long-defunct Gaviota gas station, out of commission since the ’80s, finally met its fate last month.
As the New Year approached, I found myself thinking back to all the resolutions I’ve made, and, subsequently, failed miserably to keep. To be more organized, for example. To be more responsible. To call my parents more often. To get more non-ice cream/half-and-half forms of calcium into my diet. (All these failures even led me recently to consider, albeit briefly, taking up smoking again, so that I could resolve to quit. I ditched the idea when it occurred to me I might not succeed.) These minor lifestyle tweaks are hardly impossible: I’m not resolving to run a marathon, climb Mount Everest, or get taller.
Every year, 700,000 people in the U.S. suffer a stroke; that works out to one stroke every 45 seconds. Strokes are the third-ranked cause of death and the top cause of adult disability, but, according to the National Stroke Association, about 80 percent are preventable.
The author recently had the opportunity to eat at the posh Bella Vista at the Four Seasons Biltmore. He finally got to live like the other half – well, at least the 1.3%-half who lives so opulently.
Hannah Tennant-Moore comes clean about her love affair with the Bloody Mary, and why drinking them at the Sportsman on Wednesdays and Thursdays are always recommended.
Making a mantra that matters to me.
While most of Montecito seems quietly tucked away for a long winter’s nap, Montecito Board of Architectural Review (MBAR) Chair Tony Spann has been sitting fireside this week industriously making his list and checking it twice! Spann’s list, however, is not a leftover for a tardy Santa, but, rather, a brand new, soon-to-be unveiled checklist for MBAR applicants navigating Montecito’s design review process.
Instead of resolving to do things to improve his quality of life, Barney turns it around and divulges what he will not do in 2007.
