Category: Interviews

Spun Paradise: Making Good Sugar
Posted by Neens on December 1, 2021
It all started at Whole Foods. I was at checkout with just the items that were on my list, trying to get out of there before something that I wasn’t intending on buying called my name. (We’ve all been there.) So far so good. I was in line, I didn’t browse outside of my borders…

Posted by Neens on July 31, 2021
Loa Greyson is known for projecting his rich soulful voice to Island Style and Motown like melodies. Loa has been found strumming his guitar at this year’s I Love Poke events, and is also a regular fixture at…

Posted by Neens on July 8, 2021
Many of us grew up eating poi. Some of our parents fed it to us when we were babies. As children, we’d sprinkle it first with a bit of sugar before dipping our fingers in it. As we got older and acquired a refined taste for it, we’d move on to…
Poke Made Fresh to Order, North Shore Poke Co. - HB
Posted by Neens on June 18, 2021
Back in April I blogged about the opening of a new restaurant that was strictly about “Poke”. Two months later I head over to the North Shore Poke Co. in Huntington Beach to give you the full report. I hope you enjoyed the photos above and I hope they made you salivate all over your…
Kona Brewing Co. Releases New Beer
Posted by Neens on February 9, 2022
Kona Brewing Co. is releasing a new toasted coconut infused beer named “Koko Brown”. We hung out with the Kona crew and their president, Mattson Davis, in Hermosa Beach at the studio and art gallery of Bo Bridges. Poke and some other delicious munchies were provided by Watermans. Not being from Hermosa, I didn’t know…
Posted by Neens on September 3, 2021
I met Tito Ortiz the other night. He was talking to our crew (most of them from Hawaii and training for an upcoming fight) and I think I heard him say that he as originally from Hawaii. Regardless, here he is flying the shaka. He was super cool and just cruised and talked story. He’s…