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Exotica - A Musical Perspective on Tiki by Darin Mecher

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Exotica - A Musical Perspective on Tiki Polynesian Pop, Punk and Phonographs By Darin Mecher      Every culture and lifestyle has music surrounding it.  It is just a human fact that music is joined to everything we do and aspire to.  Just like with any culture, Tiki culture has its own music and its own sound. There are many crossovers and some people in Tiki culture might not listen to specifically Tiki music, but there are some albums and some bands that just need to be mentioned for one to have a fuller experience and knowledge of what it means...

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Hang Ten - Buying into Tiki Culture by Darin Mecher

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Hang Ten - Buying into Tiki Culture Ten Bucks / Twenty Bucks / Don’t Break the Bank!   By Darin Mecher [caption id="attachment_296" align="aligncenter" width="720"] Tiki Room by Darin Mecher[/caption] Whenever I show a friend my Tiki Room, the conversation always leans toward some version of “how did you afford all this stuff?”  Now, I don’t show the Tiki Room off to impress anyone with my stuff, I show it off to show them what Tiki is all about to me.  I usually laugh and tell them that it is actually a very affordable hobby and that it is a...

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Let's Welcome Darin Mecher... Our first Associate Blogger and writer for Mahalo Tiki

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When the Glass Globe Light Came On My Personal Discovery of Tiki By Darin Mecher      I have been a bona fide card carrying member of the retro lifestyle for as long as I can remember.  I came to it from the rockabilly music scene and branched out from there to include beautiful old cars, beautiful rat rods, beautiful pin ups, and of course, beautiful art.  My interest in artwork from the golden era of swank, or what I like to call the “mythological swanky life” came not only from my interest in tattoos, but from my boredom with today’s...

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Event UPDATE! Tiki Marketplace at Don the Beachcombers in Long Beach

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Mark your calendar fans!  September 1st is the next Tiki marketplace at Don the Beachcombers restaurant in Long Beach. The event runs from 11am to 4pm and is always a packed house.  If you want to see some of the best of the Tiki world, then you got to stop by. COME GET YOUR TIKI STYLE with Mahalo Tiki! [caption id="attachment_281" align="aligncenter" width="494"] Mahalo Tiki will selling at the Tiki Marketplace at Don the Beachcombers on September 1st.[/caption]

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Tiki Kon 2012 in Portland, Oregon

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Last weekend Mahalo Tiki was up in Portland at Tiki Kon. This was a regional e vent for the Pacific Northwest and it was awesome. This was our first year but we both saw great things for the event in the future. Only bad was that we must have brought the Cali heat with us because it set a record high of 102 degrees on the day of the event.  Two days prior the high temp was 78.  What gives? Next year we plan on getting up there earlier so we can enjoy more of the event and the city...

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