GETTING SUDSY: The suds were flying, and Zana Tsutakawa, left, almost got some in her eyes, as she cooled off with DJ Maleko, Sondra Barker and Hawaiian Ryan at the IMF Visions Hawaii Sunset Office Party on Thursday. "Empress" Jennifer Vo also attended the event but declined an invitation to join the partiers in the tub.

READY TO RACE: Fred Piluso was joined by Scruples Girls Kona Surento, left, Kara Morgan, Gina Arengo and Anna Ingall as Scruples welcomed drag race photographer Bob McClurg for a book-signing party on Friday. The car is Piluso's fully restored 1966 Shelby Mustang G.T. 350-H. He brought it back to original specs with McClurg's advice and assistance.

WELCOMING THE "BABIES": Joni B. Redick, center, enjoyed a preview of the Honolulu Broadway Babies' "Broadway Mixed Plate 2004" at the VIP pre-opening party at Chieng Mai on Wednesday. Marc G. Dalio, left, Audri Dalio, Joan Amadelia, Stephen "Tubie" Raynor, Kristian Lei and Trisha Mae Banquerigo performed at Leeward Community College over the weekend.

AN EMOTIONAL MOMENT: Marlene Sai, left, was overwhelmed when her daughter, Mahela Ichinose, was named winning vocalist in the 2nd Annual Hapa Haole Hula, Music and Film Festival at the Royal Hawaiian Hotel on Wednesday. Hula Records honcho "Flip" McDiarmid will produce Ichinose's next album and she'll introduce it at next summer's hapa haole festival.

STRIKE A POSE, THERE'S NOTHING TO IT: Pamela Young got dramatic with Diamond Head Theatre artistic director John Rampage as DHT celebrated its 90th anniversary with an intimate party at the Oahu Country Club on Thursday. An elite group of DHT's "Shooting Stars" entertained. DHT's 90th-anniversary season opens with "Anything Goes" on Sept. 24.