HAVE YOU BEEN TO SALT?

Today is September 1, 2023.  Before I get into SALT, let me send you back to my posting of exactly a month ago, alerting you to Super Blue Moons in the month of August, for here are some global photos from Time of the recent Blue Moon.  The summit of Piestewa Peak in Phoenix by Rob Schumacher:

The Pyramids of Giza, Egypt, by Mohamed Eishad:

So by now you've figured out why the color of the Blue Moon is not blue.  But if not, go back to my 1August2023 posting.  From David Gray, behind a ferris wheel at Stokes Hill Wharf, Darwin, Australia:

A photo by Izhar Khan from Sydney, Australia:

As seen by Tariq Zewahi from Liberty State Park, New Jersey:

Over the Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco, by Tayfun Coskun:

Photo behind the Marin Bay Sands in Singapore by Roslan Rahman.

No Blue Moon, but my photo of the Marina Bay Sands when I was there last year.

Alexander Zemlianichenko's photo in Red Square, Moscow, with St. Basil's Cathedral to the right.

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Ten years ago, Honolulu magazine reported that dramatic changes are coming to Kaka'ako, to debut in 2014.  Supposedly, the aesthetic of Salt at Our Kaka'ako is a return to old Hawaii, preserving the neighborhood's history and culture.  Did they accomplish that?  Nope.   For example, they were supposed to pay homage to the natural salt ponds that once dotted this wetland area.  Didn't see any evidence of ponds. Doesn't remind me at all about my youth growing up in this once notorious part of Honolulu.

Two years later in 2016, Honolulu magazine wrote about Bevy.  Here is a photo of what it looks like today.

In 2018 Honolulu magazine ran a review of Moku Kitchen, the largest restaurant at Salt.

• Said this was a family restaurant, by award-winning chef Peter Mirriman.
• There are 300 tables with happy hour from 3-5:30 daily, featuring live music from 5-7PM.
• 36 beers on tap, and a 46-foot long bar.
• Their theme is Upcountry Downtown.
• Their expo-rotisserie roaster is a featured centerpiece.
• Pizzas are a source of pride.

This where we went for lunch.  We were dropped off by the 15 Craigside van at the entrance.

Of course we were greeted by a Blue-Bar Pigeon and his friends.

Here are the Salt franchises.

Moku's was mostly crowded.  We ordered a dish of green beans, which was excellent, a lamb shank, which was not hot enough, and truffle/garlic fries, which were terrible.  Lamb was sent back and returned in hot condition.  However, they deleted this $38 cost from my bill, which was extraordinary, for it was fine when okay.  I told the manager that this might have been the worst french fries I ever had.  He looked shocked, for he said that was one of their favorites.  So he brought us another batch, and it was fine, if not good.

Then we walked around the place.  I was here before the pandemic, and I would say Salt has declined from those days.  Pitch Sports Bar.

Butcher and Bird, a take-out.

Redfish, a poke take-out by Foodland.

Dessert and departure.

Watch a walking tour of Salt.  But whoops, just a few weeks ago there was a crime spree here.  Apparently a lot homeless people wander about here, and vandalism is common.  You know, there was almost no crime in Kakaako when I lived here.

If you are watching too much television, and have a bunch of productions you have on your waiting list, here is what Netflix will begin offering this month to complicate your future.  Also, at the end of this list, a large number of series and films to be discontinued by the end of September.

Available September 1

A Day and a Half

Disenchantment: Part 5

Friday Night Plan

Happy Ending

Love Is Blind: After the Altar: Season 4

Available September 3

Is She the Wolf?

Available September 5

Shane Gillis: Beautiful Dogs

Available September 6

6ixtynin9 The Series

Infamy

Predators

Reporting For Duty

Scout’s Honor: The Secret Files of the Boy Scouts of America

Tahir’s House

Available September 7

Dear Child

GAMERA - Rebirth

Kung Fu Panda: The Dragon Knight: Season 3

Top Boy: Season 3

Virgin River: Season 5

What If

Available September 8

A Time Called You

Burning Body

Pokémon: To be a Pokémon Master: Ultimate Journeys: The Series: Part 1

Rosa Peral’s Tapes

Selling The OC: Season 2

Spy Ops

Available September 12

Class Act

Freestyle

Wrestlers

Available September 14

Ehrengard: The Art of Seduction

Once Upon a Crime

Thursday’s Widows

Available September 15

The Club: Part 2

El Conde

Inside the World’s Toughest Prisons: Season 7

Love at First Sight

Miseducation

Surviving Summer: Season 2

Available September 18

My Little Pony: Make Your Mark: Chapter 5

Available September 19

Available September 19

Kountry Wayne: A Woman’s Prayer

The Saint of Second Chances

Available September 20

Hard Broken

Available September 21

KENGAN ASHURA: Season 2

Scissor Seven: Season 4

Sex Education: Season 4

Available September 22

The Black Book

How To Deal With a Heartbreak

Love Is Blind: Season 5

Spy Kids: Armageddon

Available September 25

Little Baby Bum: Music Time

Available September 26

Who Killed Jean Dando?

Available September 27

Encounters

Overhaul

Street Flow 2

Available September 28

Castlevania: Nocturne

Love is in the Air

The Darkness within La Luz del Mundo

Available September 29

Choona

Do Not Disturb

Love Is Blind: Season 5 (new episodes)

Nowhere

Power Rangers Cosmic Fury

Here are the TV shows and movies coming to Netflix in September 2023

Available September 1

8 Mile

Arrival

Baby Mama

Couples Retreat

Fast Times at Ridgemont High

Fences

Field of Dreams

Hacksaw Ridge

Jaws

Jaws 2

Jaws 3

Jaws: The Revenge

Kung Fu Panda 2

Land of the Lost

Matilda

Miss Congeniality

National Security

One Piece Adventure of Nebulandia

One Piece Episode of East blue - Luffy and His Four Crewmates' Great Adventure

One Piece Episode of Skypiea

One Piece Film: Gold

One Piece Heart of Gold

One Piece: 3D2Y - Overcome Ace's Death! Luffy's Vow to His Friends

Public Enemies

S.W.A.T.: Season 6

Stand by Me

Superbad

U-571

Up in the Air

Vice

Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit

Woody Woodpecker

Available September 2

Love Again

Available September 3

Crank

Crank 2: High Voltage

Available September 5

Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy

Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues

Available September 14

Barbie - A Touch of Magic: Season 1

Available September 15

Ancient Aliens: Seasons 6-7

Band of Brothers

Intervention: Season 22

The Pacific

Wipeout Part 1

Available September 16

My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2

Available September 20

New Amsterdam: Season 5

And if you were so blasé as to what you were planning to watch for free in the future, this same article from Netflix has a list of those films they will be discontinuing in September.  I'll only show you the movies departing on September 30:

Leaving September 30

60 Days In: Season 3

A League of Their Own

Are You Afraid of the Dark?: Season 1

Clear and Present Danger

Doom

Hatfields & McCoys: Season 1

Kick-Ass

Lawless

Nanny McPhee

Rocky

Rocky II

Rocky III 

Rocky IV

Rocky V

Snow White & the Huntsman

Star Trek

Star Trek Into Darkness

Titanic

Warm Bodies

If you were planning to binge on the Rocky series, you will need to do this in September.

Incidentally, we board the Pride of America tomorrow for a week-long fling around the Hawaiian Islands.  Because of the Lahaina Apocalypse, Maui has been shut down for cruises....but will reopen this weekend.  We'll be there in Kahului for two nights.

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