Subject: Hawaii

• Clip Job: I Hate Baseball

  February 28, 2008

• Iran, N. Korea Prepare to Attack U.S.

  Iran claims to have launched its first homemade satellite on Monday. "With God's help and the desire for justice and peace," Iranian President Ahmadinejad announced via sophisticated Iranian television technology, "the official presence of the Islamic Republic was registered in space." Meanwhile North Korea, which is said to be preparing a test of a Taepodong-2 missile -- or at any rate a " a long cylindrical object being transported on a train through the North Korean countryside" -- which the

  February 3, 2009

• Possibly 4th Street 27: Trail of Dead

  Rob Trucks's "Possibly 4th Street" expositions, in which he invites musicians to perform live and impromptu somewhere in New York City, run intermittently here at Sound of the City. Trail of Dead headlines the Music Hall of Williamsburg on Friday, February 27 [tix] and Bowery Ballroom on Saturday, February 28 [tix] . Rob TrucksTrail of Dead in the Niagara basement Possibly 4th Street Number 27 (Part One) . . . And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead by Rob Trucks Just six days before t

  February 26, 2009

• Forgetting Sarah Marshall's Sad Sack Extraordinaire

  Jason Segel has balls, and uses them to great effect

  April 15, 2008

• Surfwise: An Alt-Family Portrait

  Parenting off the grid–and eventually off the reservation

  May 6, 2008

• THE OUTSIDERS

  August 27, 2008

• Morning Light's Squeaky Clean Disney Agenda

  October 15, 2008

• 100th Civil Liberties Safe Zone!

  June 3, 2003

• Et Tu, New Jersey?

  October 19, 2004

• 'Surf's Up'

  May 29, 2007

• More Bread or I'll Appear

  February 23, 1999

• The World Gets Lei’d

  September 26, 2000

• Trouble in Paradise

  February 7, 2006

• Free Will Astrology: April 15 to 21

  April 15, 2008

• Latinas!

  August 19, 2003

• Hawaiian Hunch

  July 7, 1998

• Rock the Boat

  March 2, 1999

• Lucky Lindy

  May 18, 1999

• Extraordinary People

  June 27, 2000

• Romancing the Republic

  June 5, 2001

• Baiting 'The Beast'

  July 17, 2001

• Military Justice Is to Justice as Military Music Is to Music

  November 20, 2001

• The Hole Truth

  April 16, 2002

• Horoscope

  May 6, 2003

• Unexpected Steps Against the Patriot Act

  May 20, 2003

• Horoscope

  May 20, 2003

• State of the Unions

  May 27, 2003

• Letters

  August 19, 2003

• Horoscope

  December 9, 2003

• Incognito

  January 6, 2004

• Misstress With the Mostest

  January 27, 2004

• The Game Of Risk

  March 30, 2004

• Through Various Lenses, Dancers and Musicians From Across the Globe

  September 21, 2004

• Horoscope

  November 23, 2004

• Perfect Worlds: Nature House

  March 29, 2005

• Trash and Vaudeville

  August 2, 2005

• Feds Crack Down on Sperm Whale Teeth Traffickers

  A Massachusetts antique dealer has been indicted by the Justice Department for illegally importing sperm whale teeth. (We didn't know this was a hot black market commodity, but then again, there's a collector's market for just about everything. Apparently the hot sperm whale teeth spots in the U.S are Nantucket, California, and Hawaii, with some dealers on Long Island.) David Place of Nantucket conspired with dealers in the Ukraine to import the teeth, which have sold in recent years for up to $

  June 1, 2009

• Letters

  December 13, 2005

• Second New, Free Bob Dylan MP3, A Phrase We're Getting Used to Typing: "I Feel A Change Coming On"

  Newsweek, of all cultural edifices, is the sole US possessor of the streaming audio to the title track of Bob Dylan's new album I Feel A Change Coming On--until tomorrow, anyway, when it hits the man's own website. The Times Online, overseas, pairs their copy of the mp3 with an inspired interview conducted by Bill Flanagan about the man who likely inspired the song. BF: You liked Barack Obama early on. Why was that? BD: I'd read his book and it intrigued me. BF: Audacity of Hope? BD: No i

  April 6, 2009

• If Diana Krall Played a Ukulele, Would She Win a Grammy?

  February 28, 2006

• Calgon, Take Us Away

  September 20, 2005

• CDC: New Yorkers' Sadness Only Mediocre

  The Centers for Disease Control did a phone survey which they say reveals the state-by-state sadness levels of citizens, and surprise, New York did not win, place, or show. Kentucky -- yes, the home of bourbon and jes' settin' on the porch -- is the winner, with a frequent mental distress (FMD) occurrence of 14.4 percent, followed by West Virginia (black lung, poverty) and Nevada (home of Las Vegas, the suicide capital of the world). The least-unhappy state you can probably guess: Hawaii, at 6.

  April 16, 2009

• It's Piragua Time Again

  As we thaw out from what seemed like the longest winter ever, warm weather foods are reemerging from hibernation, and that means that piragua vendors are heading out to peddle their Puerto Rican-style shaved ice and syrup concoctions from festive carts all over the city. The carts' big shiny blocks of ice, multicolored syrups and jaunty umbrellas make me happy just to look at them. In fact, last year, a Puerto Rican-born Brooklyn artist created an art installation out of a piragua cart; the pie

  April 29, 2009

• Sriracha, Spotted Everywhere

  While eating with my in-laws at a stodgy fish restaurant in suburban Massachusetts, I asked the waiter for Sriracha, almost just to see what he would say. But he nodded knowingly, and brought out a dish of the red, garlicky hot sauce. That's when you know that Sriracha has hit the mainstream. That, and when Applebee's is using it to flavor fried shrimp. Over at the Times, John T. Edge has a great article about the American nature of Sriracha, and the Diners Journal blog has been searching for d

  May 20, 2009

• Tonight! Beach Bums and Goatwhore

  We'll run art on Ted Leo when he busts out a floater.If Jack Johnson has taught us anything, it's to never, ever underestimate the sheer marketability of surfing. Obama's entire general election strategy in Hawaii revolved around a single photo-op at the deadly Sandy Beach (see below), just as Johnson built a rabid following by scoring niche surf films. Gentle crooner/beach bum Donavon Frankenreiter, who plays his third NYC show this week tonight at the Bowery Ballroom, was signed by Johnson to

  July 23, 2009

• Denny's Gets Sued Over Salt; Hawaii to Kick Wienermobile to the Curb

   A man from New Jersey is suing Denny's for failing to warn him that his favorite item, the Moons Over My Hammy egg sandwich, was "loaded up with the salt." [NY Daily News] Brooklyn councilman Bill de Blasio has proposed that New York follow in Chicago's footsteps and pass a green food resolution that would encourage the city to establish and promote climate-friendly food policies and programs. [NY Times] More supermarket chains are launching products under their own private label. With

  July 24, 2009

• Birther of a Nation: Poll Finds Less Than Half of Republicans Think Obama Was Born in U.S.

  Maybe you heard that top conservative magazine National Review dissed the birthers -- that is, the folks who believe Obama is not really President because he was born in Kenya or somewhere like it. But it's going to take more than that to bring this patriotic movement down! According to a Daily Kos/Research 2000 poll, only 42 percent of Republicans are sure Obama was born in the United States. 28 percent are sure he was born elsewhere; 30 "don't know." (We were at first shy about mentioning thi

  July 31, 2009

• Birther or Not, Here They Come! Rightbloggers Work the Obama Birth Certificate Angle

  As you may have heard, there is among certain people a controversy as whether Barack Obama was really born in the United States. They generally believe that Obama's certification of live birth and the confirmation of Hawaii's State Department of Health are either bogus or insufficient. When lawyer Philip J. Berg demanded better proof of Obama's citizenship before the November election, he had little evident support, but in these early months of the Obama Presidency some Republican politicians,

  August 3, 2009

• Is Obama Not a Natural-Born Citizen?

  ​The low-level debate keeps raging on as to whether President Obama was really born in Hawaii, or in Kenya, where the "birther" movement" of wacky cultists swear he actually derived. Well, it's not exactly raging on--it's actually sputtering out, with me giving it one last gasp of semi-credibility by even dissecting this conspiracy theory for medium-scale consumption.

  August 6, 2009

• How Do You Spell G-U-T-B-O-M-B? Pueblan Pata Cemita from La Fiesta in the Bronx

  ​ ​The humongous cemita from La Fiesta in Mott Haven is surely one of the world's great gutbombs. Cemitas are the signature sandwiches of Puebla in southern Mexico, the state from which many New York immigrants come. The hubcab-size round sandwich is made with a special roll that often contains cactus pulp. It is a pleasing shade of medium brown and comes well-coated with sesame seeds. The sandwich usually contains stringy white quesillio cheese, sliced avocado, astringent and arom

  October 12, 2009