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Kumu hula wants 5,500 to dance on Waikiki Beach
Kumu hula
Iwalani Tseu wants to attract at least 5,500 hula dancers Sept. 22 to form a line to hula along Waikiki Beach for the Aloha Festivals. This year marks the 55th festival, so 5,500 seemed a good number. She and her group set a Guinness world record when they assembled a line of 3,500 dancers for a hula performance 10 years ago. You don't have to be a pro to join the line, just know how to hula. Those interested should call Iwalani at 623-6776 or e-mail her at iwalanihula1@yahoo.com and include the hotel beachfront on which you want to dance ...
Nice of the Hard Rock Cafe to host a fundraiser at 5 p.m. today for former lifeguard captain Ivan Harada, who has undergone a lifesaving liver transplant. There will be live music, food and a silent auction to help Ivan cover his medical costs. A donation of $50 is suggested ...
Maile Edwards, 11, is on the Kamehameha Swim Club team that trains at the Oahu Club in Hawaii Kai. The other day at practice, she saw a man sitting by the pool who looked familiar, but she just couldn't place him. So she asked her dad, Star-Bulletin copy editor Joe Edwards, 'What's the name of the actor who was in that movie 'Into the Blue?'" Dad replied, "Paul Walker?" Right about then the unassuming handsome guy by the pool lifted his sunglasses and, sure enough, it was Walker, who also starred in the "Fast and Furious" movies and "Eight Below." The swim team girls swooned and were delighted, to say the least ...
The Lodge at Koele and Manele Bay are featured in Town & Country's fall travel supplement. Although the resort has struggled to keep up its standards in recent years, the magazine says, the 2005 decision to bring in the Four Seasons to manage and refurbish the resort -- plus a $100 million investment of cash -- has brought the property back ...
Hawaii's Ivan Delaforce, Andres Fernandez, Andrew Pang and Guillaume Carreira are performing in "Stomp Out Loud," a new production from the creators of "Stomp," at the Planet Hollywood Resort and Casino ...
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