Tiki Bar
Review Pages
Started
off as the "Tiki FAQ" in 1994, became a web
site in
1995, and was mothballed in 2006.
Arguably the largest, most widely read, and most influential Tiki web
site during the late 1990s.
Read the story of the site here.
Visit the archive of the site here.
Tiki
Central
and Critiki
have risen since 2002 and 2004 - respectively - to take the place of
(and far, far exceed the scope of) the TBRP.
Since 2003, I have spent more time posting to Tiki Central (user name
is tikibars)
than the TBRP. It is an excellent source for information.
Tiki
Road Trip
This book
was inspired by - and has basically replaced - the TBRP web
site.
Published by Santa
Monica Press in 2003.
The second edition will be
available beginning in late May of 2007.
Tiki Road Trip 2 also has a
MySpace page!
Signings:
2003: Mondo Tiki
event in Las Vegas, 8-Ball
booth at Viva Las Vegas (with Sven
Kirsten
and Shag), La Luz de Jesus Gallery in Los
Angeles, Trader Vic's in
Emeryville,
CA, Rock-A-Tiki in Chicago, IL, Quimby's
books in Chicago, IL, Wizard
World in Chicago, IL, Hukilau
in
Fort Lauderdale, FL.
2004: Trader Vic's,
Atlanta, GA, and Trader
Vic's in Chicago, IL (with Sven
Kirsten and Duke Carter).
2005: DvA Gallery
in Chicago, IL.
2007: June 15: Hukilau,
Fort Lauderdale, FL
Press:
reviews: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
interviews: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
television
appearances: (to be catalogued)
Additional
interviews appeared in at least 20 newspapers and magazines in
the USA and Canada, mainly in the spring and summer of 2003.
Big
Stone Head
This book explores Easter
Island,
it's history, it's people, it's mysteries, and the pop culture
phenomenon that has spread world wide from the island. To be
published soon.
Interested publishers are invited to email me.
More Writing
I have written on the subject of Tiki for Playboy, Tiki Magazine, Re-Vue, AAA World, Road
Trip America, Forces of Good, American
Heritage, and other esteemed
publications.
Lectures and Readings:
Doing readings from Tiki Road Trip
doesn't make much sense (it s a travel guidebook, not so much a
narrative), but I will be giving a presentation called The Making of Tiki
Road Trip - in Technicolor at Hukilau, on June 15, 2007.
The public debut of the book (signing) will follow the multimedia event.
I have also put together a lecture/slide presentation based on Big Stone Head.
The presentation had it's premeire at the Tiki Torch Nights
event in
Atlanta, GA in April of 2005, and has been presented several times
since. It is a fun and educational look at Easter Island, its
history, its people, and the pop culture phenomenon that has sprung up
around its famous monolithic carvings. This entertaining and
educational show can be presented anywhere from a
school to the kick-off of a Tiki weekender. Please email for details.
Fundraiser
Legendary Exotica composer Robert Drasnin was our
guest of honor at Hukilau 2005 (see below).
He plans to follow up his masterful 1959 Voodoo LP with a new
recording (titled "Voodoo II") in 2007.
For music this good, forty-eight years is by no means too long to wait
for a second installment!
In order to fund the very expensive recording process, Mr. Drasnin was
assisted by myself and Hanford Lemoore (head kahuna at Tiki
Central) with a fundraiser
(now over - it was a success!).
Events
Exotica 2000 was a group art
show
and a big party held in the
back room of Right
On Futon in Chicago.
I participated. The concept expanded and...
Exotica
2003
was a huge 4-day festival held in several
locations around Chicago.
I was one of the organizers.
(I had nothing to do with Exotica 2005,
although I
attended).
Hukilau 2002 was created by Christie White and Tim
Glazner
in Atlanta. I was unable to show up, but I did attend Hukilau 2003 in Fort
Lauderdale as a guest (signing copies of Tiki Road Trip).
For Hukilau 2004,
Christie and Tim asked me to use my experience in concert production to
help them organize and stage manage the live music parts of the
show. This went well enough that after Tim stepped down from Hukilau 2005, Christie
asked me to put together the entire event with her. It was a
tremendous success, and I went on to work with Christie on early
development
and planning for Hukilau 2006. I'll be coming full circle in
2007, debuting Tiki
Road Trip 2 at Hukilau on June 15.
In 2004, Trader
Vic's
asked me to plan a
monthly event at the Chicago Trader Vic's.
From July 2004 through June 2005, we reveled in Tabu
Tiki Night.
Trader Vic's in Chicago sadly closed in December of 2005, just shy of
their 49th
anniversary.
However, the Trader
Vic's in Atlanta turned 30 in 2006, and Christie White (of Hukilau
fame) and I assembled the anniversary party
as part of her Tiki
Torch Nights
series!
More events:
I attended the Hot Rod Hula Hop
in Columbus, Ohio in 2005, and plan to go again in 2007.
This event is organized by the good folks at the Fraternal Order of Moai.
Whew!
That's a lot of Tiki!
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