Aaron Rutledge, owner of Star Beachboys, the company turning over surf instruction on the Waikiki sands, says the city’s new contract with competitor Dive Oahu threatens to end the beachboy tradition.

Some would say the real tradition ended decades back. Beachboy jobs used to mean lifestyle as much as livelihood for those who plied the trade, starting a century ago. Jet travel expanded tourism to include those on a more limited budget, and hotel ownership changes altered the landscape, too. Still, nostalgia lingers and it’s hard to imagine Waikiki without them. Here’s hoping Dive Oahu can carry on.

Magnum swaggers back to isles, sans mustache

“Magnum, P.I.” is coming back to the islands. In the reboot recently picked up by CBS, Jay Hernandez, known for his role in “Suicide Squad,” will play lead character Thomas Magnum, a former Navy SEAL turned private investigator. While Hernandez may have swagger appeal on par with Tom Selleck’s P.I. in the 1980s series, don’t expect a matching mustache. A recently distributed photo of Hernandez, seated in the same red Ferrari convertible that Selleck drove, features a somewhat more clean-shaven look.

The series will air sometime during the 2018-19 broadcast season, either as part of the fall lineup or as a midseason show replacement.