LAURIE FOSTER has put together a $4 million package to open Brew Moon Hawaii, a restaurant and microbrewery at the former Monterey Bay Canners site in Ward Centre this fall. Laurie is a Punahou and Stanford grad who also earned her MBA at Stanford. Her mom, Mary Foster, is Hawaii Theatre vice chairwoman ... Isle Brew Moon
rises this fall
IF YOU like rhythm and blues, you'll love "Blues Brothers 2000." After watching some of the best R&B performers in the world cut loose again with Dan Aykroyd at Pearlridge, I immediately went to Sam Goody's and bought the soundtrack CD. The music, by people such as Aretha Franklin, James Brown, B.B. King, Junior Wells, Lonnie Brooks, Jonny Lang, Wilson Pickett, Eric Clapton, Jon Faddis, Lou Rawls, Bo Diddley, Isaac Hayes, Josh Redmond and Steven Winwood, is worth the price of admission ...
McManus says aloha
IRELAND'S Seamus McManus, wearing a green derby, ruffled shirt, bow tie and knickers, looked as Irish as he could be at his and wife Simone's aloha party at where else but Murphy's Saturday night. McNamus is departing as Kahala Mandarin G.M. to run Claridge's in London. A highlight of the evening was when Seamus danced an Irish jig with Nery Heenan to the music of bagpiper Larry Coleman and hot fiddler Lisa Leung. Lisa and guitarist Dr. Larry Levin played Irish music most of the night. Speakers, including Waialae head golf pro Greg Nichols, joked about teammates McManus and Ken Sandefur failing to bet on themselves in the Francis Brown Waialae tourney, which the pair won. Had they placed a $10 bet on themselves, they would have won more than $1,500. Sandefur organized the farewell party. Don Murphy's Irish stew was delicious ...DEAN HYRY is acting Mandarin G.M. until McManus' replacement is named. Mandarin chef Oliver Altherr has moved up to food and beverage chief. But Oliver will still be a key part of the Hoku's culinary scene ... Golf stars Fred Couples, Tom Watson and Paul Azinger were spotted in the Kahala Mandarin's Plumeria Cafe this week ...
CECILIA KANE celebrated her 87th birthday Sunday night with family and friends at Swiss Inn. Cecilia looks years younger ... Alicia Antonio, popular manager of the Bali Restaurant in the Hilton Village, marked a birthday Tuesday ... Nick's Fishmarket maitre d' Sammy Taulealea is beaming over son Sammy Jr.'s signing a letter of intent to play football at U. of Colorado. The St. Louis High defensive tackle is 17, stands 6-feet-4, weighs 285 and wears a size 16 shoe ...
IT'S FITTING that Laurence Paxton, starring in Diamond Head Theatre's "Nine," is decked out in clothes from Italy's Ermenegildo Zegna, as the Tony Award-winning musical is based on Fellini's film "8-1/2." In the show, Paxton is surrounded by such beauties as Devon Guard, Yvonne Filius, Suzanne Boyd, Stefanie Smart, Ulrike Cutter and Veronica Kelley. The show was to close Feb. 22 but has added performances on Feb. 27 and 28 ...
Smythe gets his ace
TIM SMYTHE scored his first hole-in-one using a 5-wood on Ala Wai's tough 180-yard 11th hole. Smythe, an 11-handicapper, shot 76. He was teamed with Jimmy Borges and Rosie Jaber against Rosie's husband, Charley, Bob Swan and Lewellyn Luke. Tim's game has come a long way since we learned golf in UH phys ed class from 'Bow basketball coach Al Saake in 1950-51. We would grab old wooden-shaft clubs and play Ala Wai barefoot, after paying green fees of a couple bucks and walking right on ...