Big gods came after the rise of civilisations, not before, finds study using huge historical database

Exploring Instrumental from the year 1963

In Memory of the Pan-Pacific Auditorium

Scott Walker : Scott Walker (1943-2019)

Trader Vic’s, a bastion of Tiki in Emeryville, started as a one-room beer parlor in Oakland

One Hula Of A Night: All The Best Tiki Bars In London

The New Speakeasy: Cocktails in a Stranger’s Kitchen

Seaweed Sippers

Cruising Down SoCal’s Boulevards: Streets as Spaces for Celebration and Cultural Resistance

The most dangerous climate feedback loop is speeding up

An ocean of evidence on warming is our cue to take action – now

Kelp In the Lineup? Here’s What You Need To Know

Another legend gone. So shortly after Randy Nauert of The Challengers, Michel Legrand (The Thomas Crown Affair) and André Previn. The Guardian did the best thing they could and collected some of his most famous recordings in a tribute.

Here he’s opening The Ronettes’ Be My Baby at Gold Star Recordings in Los Angeles 1963.

https://youtu.be/ZV5tgZlTEkQ

Vans Vault teams up with Modernica to honour timeless design and craftsmanship

Anatomy of a Classic: The Mai Tai Turns 75

Westside Historic

Royal Hawaiian Estates Tour at Modernism Week Is Tiki Heaven

Three reasons why plastics won’t save the oil industry

First Look: Tiki Tango brings Tiki drinks and food to Midtown

Black Panthers in the 1960s: a rare intimate look – in pictures

Ranking Hard Liquors By How (un)healthy They Are

Temperature Anomalies by Country from 1880-2017

The Lone Surfer of Norway’s Bear Island

You Spend 5 Percent of Your Day Outside. Try Making It More

Grade school children explain climate change to Trump

Exxon Is Finally Being Forced to Turn Over Docs Showing What It Knew About Climate Change

Learning How to Say Goodbye to Our Broken Planet

https://archive.org/details/swingin_six

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWKs–Xhu1g

The big lie we’re told about climate change is that it’s our own fault

‘A blemish in his sanctuary’: the battle behind Mark Zuckerberg’s Hawaii estate

polynesian surfriding : other islands

Pipeline battle puts focus on Canada’s disputed right to use indigenous land

The Cocktail Guru, Jonathan Pogash, shares a winter tiki drink recipe

Skull microphone

“Walking Through Summer” with 14-year-old Kiwi, Natt Fitt

Makaha Skateboard Team 1965

The climate emergency plan

Russell King in Mexico Beach Florida

Sixties Antipodean Pulp Fiction

Retro Rocket Decanters by Jonathan Adler

Portuguese People Score Massive Victory in Protecting Alentejo Coast from Oil Drilling

This Is Marshall McLuhan – The Medium Is The Massage (1967)

Noosa gets its first ever Greek restaurant

Tourists going crackers over pottery studio’s edible ‘teacups’

How Pollution Can Hurt the Health of the Economy

Surfriding, Canoes, and Swimming in West Africa, 1600-1940.

A 14-year-long oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico verges on becoming one of the worst in U.S. history

Celebratory Dancing, Kaduna, Northern Nigeria, 1959

With a Green New Deal, Here’s What the World Could Look Like for the Next Generation

Protecting Coral Reefs: Sustainable Scuba Diving Practices

The Forbidden Waves of Nasa

The Jetsons “Test Pilot”

This Company Will Rebuild 1960’s Ford Mustang As An Electric Car

Sean Tully slaying a little righthander in France

California’s Woolsey Fire Now Burning Malibu Went Through The Site Of A Nuclear Meltdown First

The battle to curb our appetite for concrete

Rare Surf Albums

Pop Gear [’60s Pop Dancing suits +] / Matt Monro

The Origins of Surf Music — a first-hand account by Paul Johnson

“Moai are family”: Easter Island people to head to London to request statue back

A 14-year-long oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico verges on becoming one of the worst in U.S. history

The Iceless Arctic