Macario is publishing a new online magazine and you should have a look. Wow. It’s eye-popping.

His photography is always great, and in this new magazine, called Macario’s Big Island, he combines his photos, interviews and commentary to illuminate some of the Big Island’s most interesting people in the world of arts, food, music and more.
He just put up what is only his third post there. It’s a feature on the Waimea architect Clemson Lam, and in a stunning turn of events - I’ve just now been able to get my jaw …

Enter the Hamakua Springs caption contest! A nice little prize if you’re local; a pat on the back if you’re not. Mostly just for fun. Are you clever?

We went to Hilo Bay Cafe for dinner the other night while my mom was here visiting. That is such a great restaurant - inside it’s really got the ambience happening, in spite of its unlikely location in a strip mall adjacent to Wal-Mart, and the food is always so fresh and good.
While there, I talked with them about getting some recipes for an author I’m working with. Stephen Grogan, a Las Vegas author of a previous book called Vegas Die, is, interestingly enough, writing a culinary/mystery novel set here on the …

We are about to announce the winners at our On The Cheap websites. We had several contests — 14 in all — to celebrate our big launch. Did you enter?
Andy Bumatai is choosing names out of a hat for the Honolulu On The Cheap contests, and he’s doing it live and on the air today. Watch it at 1 p.m. HST; it will also be posted on The Andy Bumatai Show’s website after it airs.
Tomorrow our good friends at Hilo’s ‘Imiloa Astronomy Center are going to pick winners for our Big …

This blog is now part of a brand-new network of blogs, all from the Big Island and called FBI Blogs — get it? From Big Island?
It’s the brainchild of prolific blogger Damon Tucker, and a terrific idea. I have to say, I learn more about what’s going on this island over at FBI Blogs than I do anyplace else.
Twenty-something bloggers, all with different interests and access to different information — it’s an incredible resource to learn what’s happening on the Big Island, and also to “meet” some Big Island characters. 
I …

Have you had a look at Big Island On The Cheap and Honolulu On The Cheap? These are my new ventures, with my partner and fellow freelance writer Kris Bordessa, and we are really having a lot of fun with them.
We’ve had free giveaways every day for a week, and are just about at the end. There are still two contests open:
Click here and enter to win a signed copy of my book Exploring Historic Hawai‘i.
Click here and enter a signed copy of Mauna Kea. Also (co-written, this one) by …

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“On The Cheap” Websites Highlight Best Bargains on the Big Island and in Honolulu
Hilo, HI – March 6, 2009 – Tuesday, March 10th is the official launch of two new online sites – Big Island On The Cheap and Honolulu On The Cheap – which are dedicated to bringing Big Island and O‘ahu residents and visitors up-to-the-minute information on free, discount and cheap things to do and other local deals.
Motivated by the current coupon-clipping climate, Big Island …