Hawaii
By Dave Donnelly
Friday, September 20, 1996
Sydney 3-dotter votes
for Swindle
THE headline over 69 faces in yesterday's Star-Bulletin is clearly labeled, "Hawaii's Republicans Today." I wonder in how many states they can run photos of all of them on one page? Meanwhile, the three-dot column in the Sydney Morning Herald (which appears on Page 1, incidentally) acknowledges "that Hawaiians are being asked to vote for a man with just the right name for the job." That would be Swindle (as in Orson) who's running against incumbent Neil Abercrombie. The Herald failed to note that the other member of Hawaii's congressional delegation, Patsy Mink, is up against a Crabbe (as in Nolan) in her race. As you might expect, Crabbe is nonpartisan ...
Kekoa Kaapu
EQUAL time for the Demos: Kekoa Kaapu is a candidate for the state Senate from Moiliili and Manoa, but seemed more interested in campaigning to become a finalist in Sam Choy's poke contest. He succeeded in that endeavor and on Oct. 6 will whip up his recipe, "David of Punaluu's Grass House Poke," consisting of only pre-Captain Cook ingredients, according to Kaapu. There are two types of spiny lobsters, a raw octopus, sea urchin roe, various seaweeds and condiments in the concoction. Kaapu likes the name he's chosen for his dish, spurning my suggestions of "Hokey poke" and "Slow poke." He's holding a preview and tasting session of his creation at the Columbia Inn Round Table, hoping to raise enough to pay his way to the Big Isle ...
AND speaking of Sam Choy, the Wall Street Journal recently ran a story on the massive portions of his "unorthodox cuisine," which writer Suein L. Hwang equates to a Maalox moment. Chef Sam is called in the headline a "Hawaiian Paul Prudhomme," a reference to the equally large New Orleans Cajun-cooking chef. Sam's new book, "Choy of Cooking," hits bookstores next month ...
End of Canlis' (as we knew it)
SOME of us are of an age when we remember visiting Canlis' Broiler for a thick, juicy steak or double-cut lamb chops with a huge, buttery baked potato - hearty fare that filled our stomachs, rib cages and cholesterol passages simultaneously. Alas, soon it'll no longer be possible to do that - at least at Canlis'. First to go was the Canlis' in the Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco, which was transformed into trendy Masons. Then the Waikiki restaurant just closed down entirely and now is a sub-station for cops. Still, the original Canlis' in Seattle remains, only my Northwest correspondent Bob Sevey, ex-Channel 9 anchorman, reports that owner Chris Canlis has decided "the current format appeals primarily to old (folks) like us who won't be around much longer." And so it is that on Oct. 1, he's closing for refurbishing and will reopen with a new menu aimed at Baby Boomers and Generation X'ers. The end of another era is upon us, and the movement you just felt was patriarch Pete Canlis turning over in his grave ...
Douglas Yee
IF Ferrante and Teicher were dual pianists, what do you call three keyboardists playing together? Trial pianists? In any case, Trio Fontenay, a prize-winning piano threesome from Germany will be playing trios by Shostakovich, Brahms and Mendelssohn on Oct. 19 at Orvis Auditorium ... Douglas Yee of Dean Witter Reynolds is investing in the future. He's just been elected to the national board of directors of the American Lung Association, just one of two dozen nationwide ...
No, it's not the football Rainbows
THE TV series "Men Behaving Badly" finally premiered this week on NBC and Rob Schneider pretty much saves the show. It does indeed show men behaving badly: self-absorbed, slovenly, beer-swilling sexists. Their behavior will get nods of approval from most guys as well as loud, vocal cries of "Yes!" from women. But the opening of the show intrigued me. Superimposed was the following: "All men are dogs. They really are." If such a show were about women and expressed derogatory, all-encompassing judgments, there'd be an outcry heard 'round the world! So I guess that means men at least have a sense of humor ...
Dave Donnelly has been writing on happenings in Hawaii for the Star-Bulletin since 1968. His columns run Monday through Friday. Contact Dave by e-mail at donnelly@kestrok.com.
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