Hawaii
SOMETIMES you wonder if you're in the wrong business. Don't get me wrong -- I love writing this column, but scarcely a night goes by on TV news shows without the announcement, "So and so has the night off." The latest was KGMB's weathercaster, Kuualoha Taylor, who is preparing for a market move to San Diego. I've never met Taylor, but have long had a crush on her and am still trying to work out what Erika Engle meant in her column, "The Buzz," that Taylor is "unmarried but not single." ... Other isle beauties have been popping up on the tube. A tiare-wearing Liane Mark, Miss Waikiki, was in the outdoor audience on the "Today" show this week to help raise awareness of the disease that has affected her ... And Alana Paulo-Tamashiro, our 2001 Miss Hawaii Teen USA, heads for South Padre Island, Texas, later this month for the contest, which will be telecast on NBC Aug. 22. She's the granddaughter of musician Rene Paulo, and her mom is entertainer Charlene Paulo ... Miss Waikiki appears
in ‘Today’ audienceJOVIAL brewmaster and restaurateur Dan Gordon, one half of Gordon Biersch, was in town for the garlic festival, appropriate since his eatery's garlic fries are so popular. He came up with the dish while attending brewing school in Germany. Though born in California, Gordon loves to claim he was "made in Hawaii." His parents assured him he was conceived here before they went to California. It's kind of like S.F. columnist legend Herb Caen always claiming he was a native San Franciscan, though born in Sacramento, because his parents conceived him in the City by the Bay ...
FORMER isle DJ Kamasami Kong, now in Osaka, Japan, says he's learned not to keep all his pills in the same container. "You know what you get when you confuse your sleeping pills with your Viagra?" he asks. "Nothing! However, I did wake up refreshed" ...
Feng Shui it is
IT'S no guarantee the Publisher's Clearinghouse people will beat a path to your door with a huge check, but feng shui does have its followers. One is Michael Colgan of the Hawaii College of Design, and he'll be sharing some practical hints and ideas about feng shui in home design in the Hawaii Public Television studio Sunday at 6 p.m. Not exactly coincidentally, the featured program airing on the PBS station that night is "Feng Shui: Creating Environments for Success and Well Being" ... Slack key guitarists Led Ka'apana and Cyril Pahinui are spreading the slack-key word for the next month and a half throughout Europe and the mainland ...
Turbin-powered
IF you go to attorney Rich Turbin for help, are you then Turbin-charged? More than likely. But lawyer Turbin really revs up when talking about his dad, Bill Turbin, a k a "The Great Turbino." Dad is billed as "the oldest practicing magician," and unless you know one over 92, he's probably right. The elder Turbin has performed locally at such venues as Punahou, Kahala Elementary and the Variety Club and is still going strong. He was recently awarded the "Distinguished Service Award" by the Blinking Ring, a major magician society. Bill should be proud of his son, too -- at least he makes one's money disappear ...
Dave Donnelly has been writing on happenings
in Hawaii for the Star-Bulletin since 1968.Contact Dave by e-mail: ddonnelly@starbulletin.com