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Manoa DNA’s guests at E&O put on a mini-hula recital
The versatile family group
Manoa DNA drew a packed house on a recent Thursday night at E&O Trading Company. Managing partner
Kenwei Chong should consider giving
Lloyd Kawakami and his sons
Nick and
Alex the stage more than one night a week. The Thursday I popped in turned out to be a mini-hula recital. Dancers
Sarah Noyle, Terrianne Butac, Carrie Tandal, Nani Kamalii, Barbaranelle Eli and
Lloyd's sister
Pat Kawakami all displayed fine moves. Sitting in with DNA were bassist
Ron Quong and keyboarder
Cary Matsushige. Among those enjoying were
Cal Lui,
Mavis Seto, Sandy Granger, developer
Bert and
Susan Kobayashi with son
Patrick, E&O investor
Colin Ayat, and a table made up of
Valerie Scatchedt, Jeanne Anderson, Joan Kirley, Maryann Brady, Ann Clarkin and
Carol Lin. Carol's 7-year-old granddaughter
Amber Chong danced a hula for her table. Kenwei and
Florence Chong are Amber's parents. Kenwei's partners are
Chris Hemmeter Jr. and
Rodney Loo. Lloyd heads Iolani Sportswear, a Kawakami family company that will showcase its mother-daughter designs at Macy's Pearlridge Island Attitudes at noon today. Manoa DNA will perform ...
Spotted cruising in Waikiki on a Segway recently was Jeanne Datz Rice, who used to run Hilton Hawaii public relations. Jeanne is now director of communications for Hilton Hotels Corp. World Headquarters in Beverly Hills. She came here for a visit and to help her husband Alan Rice promote his Segway of Hawaii operation. Alan is happy to say that more disabled people are using Segways ...
Kim Gennaula gets caught up in aloha attire
KGMB anchor
Kim Gennaula, at
Alan Wong's recent "Back to the Roots" party, saw a man in a green and yellow aloha shirt she liked. She thought it would look good on husband
Guy Hagi, KGMB's weather guy. Then she saw another man in the same shirt. And then she saw a woman wearing the identical print. She figured it must be a popular print by
Mamo Howell. But she found she was admiring clothing worn by the party's musicians, made by
Nakeu Awai. Kim was chided for not knowing that because she used to take hula from
Alicia Smith, next door to Nakeu's Kalihi shop ...
Ben Wood, who sold the Star-Bulletin in the streets of downtown Honolulu during World War II, writes of people, places and things every Wednesday and Saturday. E-mail him at
bwood@starbulletin.com