Hawaii
Memorials for 9/11
and ‘ER’ sell out IzWATCH for another run on CDs by the late Israel Kamakawiwo'ole next month. The day after the 9/11 memorial day of terrorism is marked in New York and throughout the country, "E.R." is rebroadcasting the "On the Beach" episode in which Dr. Greene dies while listening to Iz singing "Over the Rainbow/ What a Wonderful World" in a vacation cottage in Hawaii. With 9/11 so much on peoples' minds, that might be enough to cause another run on Iz's CDs of "Alone in IZ World" and "Facing Future," much as happened to them after the initial showing. It also prompted stories on Iz in People and Parade magazines. The "On the Beach" episode will immediately precede the new "E.R." season ...
THE beautiful and talented Traci Toguchi, a former Miss Hawaii, is keeping busy with her singing career. Tonight she's judging (and also singing) for fellow former Miss Hawaii Lani Stone Ka'a'a and her Miss Oahu Pageant, a preliminary to the Miss Hawaii Pageant at Mamiya Theater. Then tomorrow, Traci will be performing music of the 60s and 70s at Brew Moon in Ward Centre, and is inviting other singers and musicians to sit in with her and her quartet ...
Big Duke
Sure, there's a statue of the late legendary Duke Kahanamoku at Waikiki Beach, but how'd you like to see a bronze statue six times life-sized? Dave Erdman of PacRim Marketing has a 36-foot bronze likeness of the Duke, given him by his father, Ken Erdman, who'd discovered the dusty statue in an artist's studio near Philadelphia, one of several sports statues created by renowned sculptor Joseph Brown. The elder Erdman bought the statue of his hero, hoping to find a place of honor for it in Hawaii. Except for a six-month display of the statue in the lobby of the New Otani Kaimana Beach Hotel when Steve Boyle was G.M. there, it's remained in the PacRim offices. Now Dave is fulfilling his late father's wishes by displaying the statue at the opening of the Hawaii International Surf Museum at the Outrigger Waikiki this week, and tomorrow being the first day issue of the Duke Kahanamoku stamp, it can be viewed at the Tropics Room of the Hilton Hawaiian Village. It's appropriate, given its proximity to Duke Kahanamoku Beach ...KIPO is running a story about the Duke on Monday from 11 a.m. to noon. "The World," a daily, hour-long international news magazine co-produced by the BBC and Public Radio International will have a piece on the Duke which will feature retired Sen. Hiram Fong, surfing promoter Randy Rarick, Duke's biographer Sandra Kimberly Hall and writer Grady Timmons ...
Musica de Italia
LA PIETRA school for girls is located in the Florentine mansion that was once the home of Walter Dillingham and his wife, so it seems an appropriate place for the Honolulu Symphony to present an evening of Italian music. "Musica de Italia at Villa La Pietra" will feature Stuart Chafetz conducting the orchestra and soprano Vicky Gorman singing light classics by the likes of Puccini, Verdi and Rossini on Sept. 8 from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. Tickets are $45 and include coffee and dessert.
Dave Donnelly has been writing on happenings
in Hawaii for the Star-Bulletin since 1968.
The Week That Was recalls items from Dave's 30 years of columns.Contact Dave by e-mail: ddonnelly@starbulletin.com