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Ben Wood
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Outrigger deserves praise for Waikiki Beach Walk
MY FORMER Harbor Square neighbor,
Barbara Campbell, gave me a walk-through of Outrigger's $535-million
Waikiki Beach Walk Saturday. Barbara leased all the shops and restaurants in the project that has transformed old, worn-out Beach Walk into a spanking new Waikiki showplace. Many shops are geared toward tourists but the restaurants -- Yard House, Ruth's Chris, Roy's Waikiki and others -- will appeal to any foodie. Yard House is up and running; others are under construction. One shop, Malibu Shirts, will bring back fond memories to kamaainas and will make surfers stand up and cheer. Photos of surfing greats such as
Duke Kahanamoku and surfing trophies are in the shop. A display of surfboards, from old to new, is suspended from the ceiling. Replicas of vintage T-shirts from Waikiki Surf Club, Primo Beer, Love's Bakery and more are for sale. Barbara was glowing like a proud parent as she glided through the complex, speaking with personnel in shops and with construction workers.
Red Ward, project superintendent for Pankow Builders, was on the scene.
Colleen Heyer was spotted in Yard House with her fiancé, screenwriter
Judd Klinger. Colleen is the granddaughter of the late
Roy Kelley, who founded Outrigger 60 years ago this year, and the daughter of
Dr. Richard Kelly, Outrigger chairman. ...
Slack-key guitar duel played out in Manhattan
STAR-BULLETIN entertainment editor
Gary Chun and recording producer-musician
Daniel Ho were to go head-to-head this morning on "Soundcheck," WNYC's music talk show in Manhattan, via a phone hookup. The popular radio show's senior producer,
Gisele Regatao, read
Gary's Feb. 13 opinion piece about putting an embargo on slack-key albums for the Grammy's Hawaiian music category. The Hawaiian category was introduced three years ago and slack-key albums have won each year. Gary wants America to hear the singers of Hawaii. Ho is a producer of "Legends of Hawaiian Slack Key Guitar -- Live from Maui," this year's winning Grammy album. The show is also broadcast on XM Satellite Radio and is
available on iTunes as a podcast. ...
Ben Wood, who sold the Star-Bulletin in the streets of downtown Honolulu during World War II, writes of people, places and things in our Hawaii. E-mail him at
bwood@starbulletin.com