"Cold and damp" best describes the past couple weeks in Las Vegas, so, from now until just before NYE, I’ll be writing from sunny Waikiki Beach - where I’ve hunkered-down, en-suite at the newly remodeled Royal Hawaiian Hotel (but more on that in a future essay).

Through the end of 2011, you can look forward to some 2011 Best of…-type essays, a shout-out to one of the columnists whose style made an indelible impression on a prep-school aged me, some reviews of the scene in Hawaii, and a preview of my picks for where you should go to ringing-in 2012 with style.

E Komo Mai, my darlings, and join me as I soak-in the Spirit of Aloha.

Mahalo!

Get into it!