[ August 4, 2012; ] This Saturday, the Egyptian Theater will present another in its series of Tiki Nights. This evening will be extra special as it will include a showing of director Jochen Hirschfeld’s epic TIKI VOLUME 1: PARADISE LOST, which has literally been years in the making. Here’s the teaser trailer:
Teaser DVD OF TIKI – VOL.1, PARADISE LOST [...]
The Return Of Puttiki is a UK-based Tiki event featuring an art show, mini golf contest and the UK debut of the Tikitz toys. It is a small, independent event (now in its second year) that seeks to promote new art, fine cocktails and act as meeting place for the UK’s Tiki enthusiasts.
Friday the 27th [...]
I ran across this fascinating documentary (posted on YouTube in its entirety) about Hawaii’s last monarch, Lili’uokalani. Many know that the Queen was an accomplished musician, writing the Hawaiian ukulele standard, “Aloha ‘Oe,” but I had heard very little about how she came to power and would ultimately lose it to America. From PBS’ [...]
The Sophisticated Misfit, Mark Chervinsky’s film about the life and work of lowbrow artist Shag, is now available on DVD. The 65 minute documentary traces the artist’s roots growing up in Hawaii, his artistic journey in college, his early work designing album covers, to his modern day role as an art-world phenom. In addition to [...]
“To You Sweetheart, Aloha” is a one-hour documentary which follows the 94th year in the life of the colorful Honolulu-born ‘ukulele master Bill Tapia, exploring not only the charismatic musician and his unique stamp on the creation of Hawaiian jazz, but also the consummate showman and the endearing storyteller who seeks the fountain of youth.
While [...]
[ July 6, 2007 to July 8, 2007. ] After the phenomenal success of Tiki Sundays the past two summers, the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood, CA, decided to spread the exotica over a whole weekend with more fun feature films, diverting oddball shorts, vendors, food, music and more!
Beginning with an epic bang on Friday night with a rare screening of director George Roy [...]
[ April 26, 2007; ] Director Mark Chervinsky spent four years with Shag to create a 60-minute look into the artist’s life and work.