YOU know the old song, "Life Is a Cabernet"? Well, that's got to be the theme song for the 12th annual KHPR wine auction and tasting Sunday at the Hilton Hawaiian Village. Co-chairs of the event are KHPR G.M. Anna Kosof, and Richard Field of the R. Field Wine Co. People can bid on various luxury items and travel packages or on donations by dozens of prominent wineries. A good chance to restock your wine cellar. Among those who've donated "private stock" from their collections are Edd New, Larry Lueck and Jared Jossem. Coordinating the wines for the auction is John Doty of JMD Beverages. Dennis Foley, former rare wine consultant to Christie's, presides over the live auction -- the largest of its type in Hawaii ... Wine & dandy
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CAN Mick Jagger tote bags be far behind? The Rolling Stones have made bundles of money from their "Bridges to Babylon" tour, some of it in Hawaii, and now they're enabling public television to share the wealth. The broadcast and telecast premiere of the tour will be shown exclusively on PBS next month, as a highlight of the March pledge drives across the country. KHET's Don Robbs is already a Stones fan, being an alum of K-POI Radio in the '60s, and had to miss their concerts here because he was broadcasting baseball. So you can bet he'll be among the many watching next month. (He should get promoter Tom Moffatt to help during the pledge breaks.) The 90-minute program is being presented by the L.A. PBS station, now known as KCET/Hollywood ...
Hanging included
USUALLY when you purchase an original painting the cost doesn't include having the artist come to your home to hang it. There are exceptions, however. For example, when you purchase two huge paintings for more than $60,000 and the painter is Jan Kasprzycki. The upcountry Maui painter is back from Newport Beach, Calif., where he oversaw the hanging of two works from his NightScapes collection for a well-heeled collector. "To Market, Hong Kong" and "Venetian Masks" are now comfortably ensconced in their mainland home to the satisfaction of both artist and new owner ...THE man who introduced "Live Aloha" bumper stickers to the world, Paul Klink of AlohaDirect, spent his first Chinese New Year in China and could only comment, "What a blast." He meant it in every sense of the word since there were so many firecrackers his hearing hasn't completely come back. He's also suffering from broken ribs and an arm injury sustained in a high-speed boat ride from one meeting to another when his seat belt and seat broke. Time for a diet? ...
Lemon decision
AFTER running a suggestion that CBS is blowing it by calling the site of the Winter Olympic Games "NAG-uh-no," instead of "NAH-GAH-no," several people have called to say thanks. Then there's Jim Lemon, news director of the local CBS affiliate, KGMB. He called to say they're not just following the network's lead, though they are in fact doing that, but are pronouncing the town the way the locals there pronounce it. They plan a news feature on the pronunciation to run tomorrow. If that is the fact, let's hope the Olympics are never held in New Orleans or we'll be forced to hear Jim Nance and the CBS gang talking about "N'awlins." Not to mention "Lose-yanna." It would be nice if the other networks follow the lead of NBC's "Today" show, and pronounce the site "NAH-GAH-no," in spite of CBS, which coughed up millions to telecast the games and can call the city what it wants ...
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