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The Week in Tiki (April 13-19, 2015): Miami Rum Festival and Cocktail Week,...
This week’s highlights are Miami Rum Fest Cocktail Week and Miami Rum Renaissance Festival. We also have a preview of Tiki Mondays With Miller’s Spring Equinox Edition, plus news on June’s Ohana: Luau...
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The Week in Tiki (April 20-26, 2015): Rum fest invades Miami, South Florida’s...
As expected, the Miami Rum Festival dominated the news this week, but an unlikely story about giant Easter Island-style moai being sunk off the coast of South Florida certainly piqued our interest....
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The Week in Tiki (April 27-May 3, 2015): Trader Sam’s Grog Grotto grand opening
The arrival of new signature Tiki mugs marks the official opening of Trader Sam’s Grog Grotto at Disney’s Polynesian Village Resort this week. Also in the news is a seminar at Trader Vic’s in Atlanta,...
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The Week in Tiki (May 11-17, 2015): Robert Drasnin, master of exotica, dead...
Sad news this week with the passing of Robert Drasnin, the exotica pioneer who composed the seminal Voodoo album. Other news includes special cocktail flights at The Mai-Kai, Tiki Kon’s Iron...
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The Week in Tiki (Sept. 7-20, 2015): Ohana: Luau by the Sea and Mod Palm...
The summer may be ending soon, but there’s no shortage of Tiki events, including Ohana: Luau by the Sea in Fort Lauderdale and Mod Palm Springs in California coming in early October. Check out previews...
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The Week in Tiki (Oct. 5-18, 2015): Tiki Mondays with Miller 2015 finale,...
This week’s Tiki update has a New York City and Halloween bent. Get the latest on Tiki Mondays with Miller, Hulaween at The Mai-Kai, and find out which Tiki establishments are among the world’s 50...
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The Week in Tiki (Dec. 14-31, 2015): Preview new Tiki bars coming in 2016,...
After an exciting year that saw many new Tiki bars open across North America, lots more are in store for 2016. Preview what’s coming, plus get a quick New Year’s event guide. We have news on a new...
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The Week in Tiki (Feb. 16-29, 2016): Rum and Tiki event roundup, new Tiki...
We have lots of news from February on upcoming spring and summer events: Miami Rum Renaissance Festival, Tiki Caliente, Tiki Kon, and Hot Rod Hula Hop. Tiki bars continue to open across the country –...
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Week in Tiki (March 16-31, 2016): Lost Lake fire and more Tiki bar news,...
Late March was punctuated by upheaval in the Tiki bar world, including a fire at Lost Lake in Chicago and the confirmed closing of Trader Vic’s in Portland. We also have updates on the upcoming...
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Gone but not forgotten: Surf guitar pioneer Dick Dale, 1937-2019
We knew him as the “King of the Surf Guitar,” the 1960s rocker whose version of Miserlou in the film Pulp Fiction revived both his career and the entire instrumental surf genre in the 1990s. But he was...
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