Minding biz
hazardousAS local dentist Dr. Ken Cardoza was coming out of his downtown office, he saw a young cop yelling at a female delivery truck driver who was temporarily in a "no parking" zone and, feeling sorry for her, he tried to reason with the officer. It's just for a minute, he told the policeman, and she was just trying to do her job, and anything we can do to bring more business to downtown Honolulu, the better off we'd be. The cop, according to Dr. Cardoza, told him basically to mind his own business, and the dentist replied that helping build up downtown was his business and should be that of the cop's as well. With that, he stepped into the street, angling his way from where he was standing to the crosswalk. "Hey," the cop yelled, "come back here." He then hit Dr. Cardoza with a ticket for jaywalking. The dentist then proceeded, minding to use the crosswalks, to the police substation at Hotel and Nuuanu where the officer in charge was interested in one thing and one thing only. Had he jaywalked? Yes. End of interview. I wouldn't want to be the next cop in Dr. Cardoza's chair ...
ONE of Honolulu's most respected hotel men, Bob McEleney, G.M. of the elegant Ihilani Hotel in Ko Olina, is reluctantly pulling up stakes in Hawaii and moving to the East Coast where he's accepted a position as Senior V.P. of the American Skiing Co. In that position he'll operate seven hotels and five golf resorts. You can bet the owners of the Ihilani tried to get him to stay, especially in light of the fact that word in the hotel industry is that the Ihilani is about to join the Halekulani as the only AAA "Five Diamond Award" winning property on Oahu. But this opportunity was just too great ...
SIMPLE, but good. That's the motto of Donaldo Soviero, owner/chef at Casa Donaldo, the new Italian eatery in Restaurant Row. Besides whipping up his own recipes, many of which he brought back from the old country where he was founder and director of The Cooking School in Umbria, Italy, Soviero created the paintings that adorn the walls. He has a background in music as well, having owned the Music Inn in the Berkshire Mountains of Massachusetts in the 1960s, presenting first jazz, then folk and eventually rock artists to thousands who attended concerts there. An interesting and charming gent, Donaldo also ran a talent agency representing some major names in showbiz -- Ray Charles, for example -- and before deciding to relocate in Honolulu was padrone in Hong Kong of La Trattoria in the Landmark Hotel. But it all goes back, says he, to "Semplice ma Buono." ... Semplice ma Buono
IT just dawned on me that downtown Honolulu might be a nice place to stage a gymnastic competition. There are already parallel bars at Nuuanu and Merchant: Murphy's and O'Toole's ...
AFTER magician Franz Harary held aloft a copy of the Star-Bulletin at the preview of his magic show to benefit Shriners Hospital, he poked fun at the "solution" it reported on how he'd made Mayor Jeremy Harris disappear on the lawn of the Blaisdell. He then restaged the illusion using a local disc jockey, with three kids lying on the floor behind the platform on which he stood looking out for the "mirror" the photo caption said was used. After Harary made the D.J. disappear, he then did the same with the Star-Bulletin, slipping it into the bottom of his rabbit's cage. Hey Franz, that's cruel! ... Lying down on the job
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