Tikikiliki Productions and Tiki Road Trip Productions bring you….The official 30th anniversary celebration for Trader Vic’s Atlanta! April 28 & 29, 2006

Trader Vic’s Atlanta is located in the Downtown Hilton Hotel, Atlanta, GA
To make hotel reservations for this event call the Atlanta Hilton (404-659-2000) directly for the outstanding rate of $89 per night and use the group code of “PR”.

Friday - April 28th, 2006
Venue:
Starlight Drive-In
2000 Moreland Ave. SE
Atlanta, GA 30316
Phone: 404-627-5786
$10 cover per person at the door, no pre-sale

Enjoy the festivities under the stars! Arrive early and deck out your vehicle as your own roaming Tiki paradise. Prizes for best dressed, best Tiki carving, and best mobile tailgate Hawaiian display!
Bring your own picnic dinner, stop by Johnny Knox’s Trailer Vic’s (Tiki Bar in a trailer!) for some peculiar cocktail surprises, Tiki Torch Marshmallow Roast and bring your ukuleles for singalongs!

MC’d by Los Angeles’ King Kukulele!

6:30pm
Gates open (arrive early to avoid the line)

7:30pm
Rock-a-Hula to the pickin’ of Atlanta rockabilly legends Johnny Knox & Hi-Test!

8:30pm
The big screen lights up with Vintage Trailer Shows followed by feature film (TBA)!

Saturday - April 29th, 2006
Venue: Trader Vic’s - Downtown Atlanta Hilton
404-659-2000
Cover $10 per person without dinner reservation.
Those dining will need to make their own reservations, and we recommend you do so ASAP. It *will* sell out.

7:00pm - until?
The true highlight of the weekend is celebrating the anniversary of Atlanta’s own Polynesian paradise! Opened in April 1976, this location has luckily never suffered from renovation nor alteration to it’s original decor, most of which was supplied by Oceanic Arts of Whittier, CA.

Diners will enjoy exclusive roaming entertainment in the dining rooms as they feast upon Trader Vic’s amazing cuisine.

All guest will enjoy Trader Vic’s door prizes all night long, and $4.50 Mai Tais - a Trader Vic original!

Entertainment includes:

From Illinois - The Cocktail Preachers!
From Florida - the Haole Kats!
From California - King Kukulele!
From Atlanta - the area’s only hula troupe - Hula Halau Kapilialoha
with special guest, Richard Klaunan!

Artist Derek will be on hand signing prints of this year’s event poster and creating special works of art before our eyes!

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Dollar Tree stores now carry a line of luau themed party invitations, napkins, plates and cups featuring a tiki. The store I was in also had an assortment of plastic leis.

The illustration on the items is surprisingly nice from a store that tends to smell like my grandmother’s closet (maybe that’s just the location I visited).

Most of the items cost, you guessed it, $1.

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I was noodling around looking through some of Adobe Illustrator CS2’s menus the other day looking for new stuff and made a discovery: there is now a collection of Tiki symbols included in the symbol library!

There are 20 symbols in all that are obviously knock off’s inspired by the artist Shag. Besides the hut pictured here, there is also a tiki, a palm tree, a cocktail, and some non-tiki stuff too like a French poodle. I’m not familiar enough with the licensing agreement that came with the software to know if they can be used royalty free, but now that the cat is out of the bag, you can bet I’ll be seeing them everywhere.

To access the symbols, go to Window > Symbol Libraries > Tiki

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If you’re looking for a fob to hold the keys to your very own tiki room (or at least your car), then this will fit the bill.

The Tiki Palace keychain features a bikini-clad redhead with a paper umbrella in a tropical tiki glass.

Designed by artist Michael Landefeld, the it measures 1.75″ x 2.5″ and sells for $4.49.

Link | Caution: Non-work safe products appear below the keychain

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The grandson of famed explorer Thor Heyerdahl, who sailed the Pacific Ocean in a balsa raft to prove his theory that the South Pacific was populated by voyagers from South America, is preparing to recreate the feat six decades later.

While the design of Olav Heyerdahl’s ship, Tangaroa, is primitive, it’s outfitted with satellite navigation and communications and solar panels to generate electricity. The ship’s sail has also be redesigned to more closely match prehistoric Peruvian designs that have been unearthed since Thor’s voyage in 1947, which will give the sailors far more directional control than Kon-Tiki had.

The voyage will be filmed for a documentary.

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Here’s a odd one — a gambling gaming company based out of New Zealand runs a tiki-themed online bingo parlor.

Tiki Bingo is apparently one of the most popular online casinos. It specializes in bingo, but also has scratch cards, slots, multi-line, multi-reel progressives and video poker, as well as live chat with other players.

The branding is cute, but I didn’t venture much further past the homepage. It looks like it may be for Windows-computers only.

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Catalina TikiFest 2006

August 18, 19 & 20 2006
Avalon - Catalina Island, CA

Catalina Tikifest 2006 is a new event honoring island lifestyle and heritage. This event will be featuring several live “Tiki” bands, a full Hawaiian Luau and show (“Island’s Embrace Luau Explosion”) by Westwind Productions. The show will consist of more than fifty Hawaiian and other Polynesian dancers choreographed to the music of Gregg de Castro and the Many Nations Band.

Over the course of the three day event, there will be cultural workshops featuring artisans from all over the Pacific Rim, exhibitors displaying tiki related merchandise and three fully stocked bars, musicians, and ‘talent’performers (magician, juggler, etc.).

Schedule
Friday, August 18th:
- 4:00pm Vendor, Exhibitor and cultural workshop set up
- 6:00pm BBQ Cook-off
- 6:00pm – 9:00pm Live entertainment featuring Smokin’ Menehunes (vintage
classic music), ‘Ugliest Hawaiian Shirt’ Contest, Various live performers
– Comedy, Talent etc.

Saturday, August 19th:
- 10:00am Doors open for General attendance
- 10:00am – 4:30pm Cultural workshops to include: Lei Making, Tiki Carving,
and Hula dancing lessons. Exhibitors and vendors are present in their booths.
Live entertainment featuring they Dynotones with King Kukulele and Crazy Al as
Emcee’s.
- 4:30pm Vendor Breakdown
- 4:30pm – 6:00pm First seating for Luau meal
- 5:30pm – 7:00pm Second Luau seating for meal
- 6:30pm Seating for performance begins
- 7:00pm – 8:30pm Show begins with Blue Hawaiians performing
- 8:30pm – 9:00pm King Kukulele and Crazy Al perform at intro to Luau
- 9:00pm – 10:30pm Island’s Embrace Luau Explosion by Westwind Productions

Sunday, August 20th:
- 10:00am Doors open for General attendance
- 10:00am – 4:00pm Cultural workshops to include: Lei Making, Tiki Carving,
and Hula dancing lessons. Exhibitors and vendors are present in their booths.
Live entertainment featuring the Friki Tiki’s with King Kukulele and Crazy
Al.
- 4:00pm Vendor Breakdown

Tickets available on-line at www.catalinatikifest.com

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