New Highlights 2010

Music We Missed: Waitiki 7 : NPR

NPR - Dec 24, 2010
President Obama is spending Christmas in Hawaii, so it's possible to imagine the First Family — or at least some of their Hawaiian neighbors — listening to music that sounds like Waitiki 7. The septet's album New Sounds of Exotica recalls… 

Childhood memories spurred 'Tiki'
Honolulu Star-Advertiser December 12, 2010
Five questions for "Waikiki Tiki" author Phillip "Slash" Roberts, collector of antique aloha shirts and connoisseur of exotic music. ...

Taking tiki to the riverfront
StarTribune.com
, December 9, 2010
Exotica is back. Popular during tiki's heyday of the 1950s, exotica is a form of jazzy lounge music spiked with jungle noises (think: shrieking chimps and ...

Gina Haase's passion for Polynesian culture and cuisine...
nj.com, Oct 13, 2010
Pupu platters? Not so much. Yet here, in a refurbished attic some 6,000 miles from the South Seas, a paradise has been propagated. Gina Haase has transformed the third story of the house where her father was born into her own private tiki…

The Way We Ate: Too Old to Tiki? - NYTimes.com
nytimes.com - Jan 20, 2010
In 1994, Ruth Reichl announced that New York had outgrown tiki bars...  

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