SPEAKING of Little, he and Holifield will join other talented performers at the "Taste of Honolulu" June 29 & 30 at Honolulu Hale. There's no entrance charge - but you pay for what you eat from among the 30 or so restaurants offering their wares for tasting ... The two will promote their Beachcomber shows and the "Taste," which benefits Easter Seals, on the Perry & Price show at the Hanohano Room Saturday morning ...
FOR most of Hawaii it was King Kamehameha Day on June 11, but for the folks at Superior Coffee, it was Al Kam Day, in honor of its president. His Royal Kona Coffee Corps. was on hand offering samples to parade-goers. Add that to the 6,000 treated to the new brew at the Visitor Industry Walk and more at the Kids Day paper sale, and you have what Kam experienced - a sellout of the product at Foodland markets where it was featured. As the Corps T-shirts proclaimed, "A Revolution is Brewing." Royal Kona is also a major sponsor of the Taste of Honolulu and is creating an old plantation house where the coffee will be sold, right next to the malassadas booth ...
IN "Hemisphere," the in-flight magazine of United Airlines, you'll find in the audio programming section under "Hawaiian Melodies" the song "Tiny Bubbles." The artists are listed as "Don Ho and the Alibis" ... Then there's Desmond Byrne stepping up with the perfect epitaph for a waiter: "God caught his eye" ...
ON her way back from New York where she accepted the 1996 Silver Anvil Award of Excellence from the Public Relations Society of America this past weekend, BHP Hawaii V.P. Andi Simpson was detained at JFK Airport. It's not that they thought she looked like a terrorist, but X-ray equipment detected something in her carry-on bag that needed to be searched. Turns out it was the four-pound, etched lead-crystal trophy she'd won from the PRSA. After asking her to open her bag, airport security people examined it, congratulated her and waved her through. Simpson won out over 605 p.r. programs with the TV spots starring actual BHP employees ...THE Kapiolani Medical Center's Crystal Ball and Auction isn't until Nov. 2, but they're already asking folks to donate old, unwearable or "politically uncomfortable" furs to be sewn into teddy bears and sold at the auction. Proceeds go toward the purchase of a life saving machine for children suffering from cardiac and respiratory disease who currently must be flown to the mainland for treatment. If you'd care to donate a fur, call 735-2411 and ask for Moe ...
REP. Cynthia Thielen's son, Dave Thielen, is again making national news. The software developer's latest game, "Enemy Nations," is spotlighted in the game software magazine "PC Gamer," and will be released in August under the Viacom label. Young Thielen, who grew up on Windward Oahu, calls his development company Windward Studios ...
SAY what you will about beauty pageants - they're still a big draw. There was a standing room only crowd at the Sheraton Waikiki Sunday night to see 28-year-old Christy Agres, an employee of the Hawaii Prince Hotel, be crowned Mrs. Hawaii 1996. In addition to winning $25,000 in prizes, the mother of three (and wife to Larry Agres) will go after the Mrs. America crown Sept. 21 in Las Vegas ...
