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Lei Chic’s guide to the weekend’s best events.

Golden Opportunity
What: The Gold dinner at E&O Trading Company with gold-themed cocktails (what’s in the Fort Knoxx after all?), hors d’oeuvres and a dinner menu inspired by the precious metal, and entertainment from bellydancer Willow Chang and her Devadasi troupe.
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You’ve always had dreams. Not the one where you have cocktails with Christian Bale, but more like the one you shared with all island girls growing up—life in a big city, trotting past sky-rises and artsy neighborhoods, all while wearing fabulous shoes as comfy as your familiar rubbah slippahs.

Sao Paulo-based shoe label Melissa’s Plastic Dreams lets you live out that fantasy, by teaming up with famous architects and designers from around the globe to create plastic shoes that are a totally modern and high-fashion riff on your old-school jellies.

Recently they teamed with furniture and... Read more »

If they made a movie of the mealtime portion of your life, it would be a Gone with the Wind-worthy marathon – filled with scenes of you scrambling through the pantry for yet another bachelorette meal like Scarlet dug for rotten potatoes. It was a sad day at the end of the month when you tried to make dinner from the remnants in your fridge (salad dressing and a dried-up onion), all because you couldn’t find time to shop.

Since you’re not getting any less busy (and Rhett’s not around to help), use someone else’s time and muscle to stock your fridge,... Read more »

Before you bought your first car, you researched, compared, and only after five test drives signed the papers. And when you met “the one,” you didn’t jump in with both feet until you took him for a test drive, too. All of which is to say: You take contracts very seriously.

That’s why Jason Dow is the one to trust with your one-of-a-kind, personalized wedding ring.

He’s the only custom jewelry designer on O‘ahu to utilize state-of-the-art computer modeling during the design process, and his wide selection of stones and phenomenal level of detail – Read more »

You’ve always been the model of safety. You wear your seatbelt religiously (and would even if it weren’t the law), unplug appliances to prevent fires, and use personal protection every time (except when your children were conceived, but that was planned, right?)

Now that you’re Safety Mom, the key to keeping baby safe isn’t locks on cabinets and constant supervision – it’s teaching them how to survive in the water.

Good thing Hawai‘i now has four certified Infant Swimming Resource (ISR) instructors to individually teach water survival skills... Read more »

Lei Chic’s guide to the weekend’s best events.

The Stain Event
What: Dirty Laundry T-shirt exhibit and sale features T-shirts used as a canvas by 25 artists who stained the shirts with everything from basil to Skittles to red dirt and built a graphic design around the stain. See one you like? They’re all for sale, with a portion of proceeds benefitting the local Boys and Girls Club.
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You’re a Blackberry-wielding, email-checking, blog-reading, Twitter-following machine. But that doesn’t make you an information junkie – just a content consumer with a healthy appetite.

 But being Ms. Know-It-All can get a little, well, consuming. So click over to Alltop.com. The brainchild of Guy Kawasaki – the Kalihi boy turned Silicon Valley venture capitalist – Alltop is sort of an RSS reader on steroids.

The site collects articles and tracks sites on “all the topics” (hence the name) on the web and sorts them into categories that range from ADHD to Tourette’s... Read more »

Another weekend, another baby shower or baby luau. And another last-minute trip to the giant big-box baby store to search for a suitable gift. (Then cross fingers someone else doesn’t buy the same thing!)

 Next time, forget the traffic, parking and gift duplication, and click over to the locally owned and operated online boutique Modern-Mommy.com . Each and every one of the shop’s unique and contemporary items is handpicked, giving Modern Mommy’s selection the cohesive feel of shopping in a sleek, well-edited on-land boutique.

The... Read more »

You’ve had them all: short ones, tall ones, dumb ones, nerd ones, distant ones, smothering ones, too-perfect ones and wish-I-could-forget-that-one ones. But in all your breakup experiences, you never wrote songs about them.

Maybe that’s because you weren’t as witty, talented or frank as Linda Robertson, or just never had a boyfriend (or in her case, husband) as crazy, sex-obsessed, drunk, sweet, mean, and unforgettable as hers.

In her new memoir, “What Rhymes with Bastard: A Memoir and Love Story About the Worst Boyfriend Ever,” Robertson not only writes songs about Jack and life after moving from England to... Read more »

You’ve had them all: short ones, tall ones, dumb ones, nerd ones, distant ones, smothering ones, too-perfect ones and wish-I-could-forget-that-one ones. But in all your breakup experiences, you never wrote songs about them.

Maybe that’s because you weren’t as witty, talented or frank as Linda Robertson, or just never had a boyfriend (or in her case, husband) as crazy, sex-obsessed, drunk, sweet, mean, and unforgettable as hers.

In her new memoir, “What Rhymes with Bastard : A Memoir and Love Story About the Worst Boyfriend Ever,” Robertson not only writes songs about Jack and life after moving from England to... Read more »