According to Christian Bowles, the kitchen always has been a special space for his family: “Our family seems to be..
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For 10 years, Dandy Ruiz worked two or three jobs at a time to support her two children while she..
Elizabeth Hata-Watanabe calls herself “the accidental baker.” But if it was an accident, it certainly was a happy one: Hata-Watanabe..
While working as an IT specialist, Ewa Beach resident Christiane Bolosan-Yee made what is perhaps the island’s most fearsome daily..
More than 15 years ago, Gigi Davidson had something of a prescient moment: “I saw that computer literacy was sorely..
Local business executive Sharon Weiner, founder of Stryker Weiner & Yokota Public Relations, recently has committed a $25,000 donation to..
About a year ago, Shell Barrett was strolling through Kailua when she noticed a young woman wandering around lost, futilely..
The annual Lemonade Alley contest teaches kids important business and leadership skills. But perhaps more significantly, it encourages them to..
Anybody with local ties who has lived anywhere but Hawaii knows that, when you’re away, there are certain things you..
While New Year’s resolutions may be broken far more often than they’re kept, a 2014 study from University of Scranton..
Venture capitalist William K. Richardson was appointed as interim director of University of Hawaii’s Office of Technology Transfer and Economic..
In 2012, former senior policy adviser Anne-Marie Slaughter wrote about her struggles as a working mother — and ultimately, her..
While presenting at various conferences about her work in creating business accelerators throughout the world, Lisa Kleissner caught wind that..
Black Friday is a big deal for a lot of retailers, but for Bubble Shack Hawaii, it was huge this..
Local software development bootcamp DevLeague recently launched a partnership with New York-based loan provider Climb to offer DevLeague students finance..
Sitting at a booth in Downbeat Diner in Chinatown, Ed Korybski tells me that much of this area was set..
In my conversations with entrepreneurs for this column, one thing that many of them seem to grapple with is something..
If you live in the Pearl City area, you’d better be ready for mother-daughter team Yumi Laney and Christina Laney..
Driving down the freeway, Prime My Body co-founder Austin Tice says, “My car runs because I put good gasoline in..
When Kharolina Lampe was growing up, her mother was a stage actress who made her own costumes. All of those..