Thanks to Daena on Twitter I became aware of the New York Times obituary for late Mike Doyle.

Six-decade plankton study charts rise of ocean plastic waste

Jim Flora Storyboards

Westside Historic

‘Echo in the Canyon’: See Jakob Dylan, Tom Petty, Brian Wilson, More in New Trailer

Letter from New Zealand

Oceans Are Warming Far Faster Than Scientists Estimated

Mystery mud on new volcanic island baffles Nasa scientists

Flintstones-Themed Bedrock City In Arizona Quietly Closes After Nearly 50 Years

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.

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

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