Culture Editor Tom Wilmer reports from the Big Island of Hawaii where he discovers a romantic dining destination at the Mauna Kea Beach Hotel on the Kohala Coast. Everyone I’ve ever met who’s stayed at the legendary Mauna Kea Beach Hotel on the Big Island of Hawaii —invariably speaks in reverential tones about the place, […]
360 Culture Editor Tom Wilmer met up with Georgia Durante, the author of the best-selling book, The Company She Keeps–chronicling her amazing life journey from the most photographed woman in America to mobster’s wife to Hollywood stunt driver. Georgia Durante grew up in Rochester, New York where her modeling career commenced when she was […]
Culture Editor Tom Wilmer reports from the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, Tennessee The Lorraine Motel where Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated on April 4, 1968 serves today as the powerful anchor of the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, Tennessee. Cick here to listen to the KCBX/NPR podcast with Culture Editor, Tom Wilmer and […]
Culture Editor Tom Wilmer visits with child star in film classic “It’s a Wonderful Life” Back in 1946 six year-old Jimmy Hawkins played the role of Tommy in It’s a Wonderful Life. Decades later the film was voted the most inspirational movie of all time by the American Film Institute. When It’s a Wonderful Life […]
Culture Editor Tom Wilmer reports from the Big Island of Hawaii– The Lim family Luau has been performing at the Mauna Kea Beach Hotel since Laurance Rockefeller opened the resort in the mid-1960s. Today the luau is the oldest, continuously operating show on the Big Island of Hawaii. Lorna Lim talks story about her family’s passion (3rd generation) for performing […]
