Luck Beach a Lady

Nia Peeples turns 38 this week and the best surfers in the world will celebrate by riding the big one.

Fitted for a King

Fitted Hawaii celebrates 50 years of uneasy aloha with Kamehameha and Kalākaua dynasty apparel. Pick one up here. Elsewhere, author and resident Paul Theroux pens a loving editorial to the islands he "wouldn't mind dying on." Having spent a good deal of my childhood eating rice cakes from the back of ice cream trucks in Pearl City, discovering, then rediscovering the secret coordinates to the location of Cobra Command (incidentally a fortress hidden in Kalihi Valley), and avoiding the furor of the Sisters at St. Elizabeth's in Aiea, I completely agree.

Aloha from North Korea

Ballistic missile launch? Please. The only threat Hawaiians take seriously is a shortage of Spam.