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All in Good Taste

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What do rock band The Foo Fighters, actor Neil Patrick Harris and the writers of Lost have in [...]

August-September 2009 | Don Chapman | 0 comments | Continued
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Give It To The Man

To paraphrase the hit song I Enjoy Being a Girl from Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Broadway musical Flower Drum Song (also later covered by Peggy Lee), I enjoy being a guy. What’s not to like, especially in the month of June when we celebrate Father’s Day? No matter a guy’s age, it’s understood that he requires [...]

June-July 2009 | Don Chapman | 0 comments | Continued
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It Don’t Mean A thing If It Ain’t Got That Swing

One of our goals at HILuxury magazine is keep readers ahead of “the cool curve,” to fill each issue with cool new things you wouldn’t find anywhere else. So when i saw the recent news coverage of a new White House swing set and jungle gym for first daughters Malia and Sasha Obama, it looked [...]

April-May 2009 | Don Chapman | 0 comments | Continued
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Of Music and Movies

Life without music,” the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche said, “would be a mistake.”
Boy, would it.
I must get it from my father, who had a large collection of big band record albums and listened to a country-and-western radio station in the car, and my mother, who loved classical music and Broadway show tunes. And it was pure [...]

February-March 2009 | Don Chapman | 0 comments | Continued
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Editor’s letter

It is the season, and at HILuxury we’re in the holiday spirit. Not to mention spirits. But we’ll get to that in a moment.
Like everything else in Hawaii, the holidays are different here, starting with our own holiday songs, from Mele Kalikimaka to The Hawaiian 12 Days of Christmas. And going to the beach on [...]

December-January 2009 | Don Chapman | 0 comments | Continued
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Editor’s Letter

To quote the old gospel standard, Daniel Dae Kim was Lost, but now he’s found – right here on the cover of the autumn issue of HILuxury.
When I first contacted Daniel about appearing on our cover and dressing him up for a fashion shoot, he was enthusiastic. “I’m always so grubby on Lost,” he said, [...]

October-November 2008 | Don Chapman | 1 comment | Continued
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Business minded

In this issue of HILuxury, we’re all business.
We’re all business starting with the cover story on John Paul Dejoria. Said to be “richer than Trump,” the Paul Mitchell hair products co-founder started out as a homeless single father, living out of his car. His story is another version of the Great American Dream, proving it’s [...]

August-September 2008 | Don Chapman | 0 comments | Continued
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It Ain’t EASY

From venturing into winemaking to speaking out on autism, Ernie Els extends his game beyond the golf course
They call him the Big Easy, an admiring nod to the 6-foot-4 champion golfer’s swing that flows like warm cream over smooth rocks, and it may be the most accurate nickname in sports.
But an even more apt alter [...]

June-July 2008 | Don Chapman | 0 comments | Continued
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Surf and Sentiment

With this issue of HILuxury, we celebrate two things dear to our hearts: mothers and the beach.
And there’s a connection. Really.
Peggy Buchwach, wife of former Advertiser editor Buck Buchwach (the guy who brought me to Hawaii to write a daily column back in 1979, bless him), recalls her teenage son Buzzy asking her when Mother’s [...]

April-May 2008 | Don Chapman | 0 comments | Continued
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Of Love & Luxury

It’s that time of year when a man’s thoughts turn to … chocolates and jewelry and roses.
Or at least they do if there is a woman in his life and he has even half a mollusk’s brain.
Happy Valentine’s Day!
But the great thing about America’s holiday dedicated to romance is that modern ladies also gift their [...]

February-March 2008 | Don Chapman | 0 comments | Continued
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