Hawaii
Smokin’ Dave gets down
with rap kick-ashTHERE have been some radical events happening at the World Cafe, but a movement that can best be described as "kick-ash" takes place there tomorrow night. It marks the opening of REAL, "Teens Fighting Big Tobacco," and it's funded, appropriately enough, by the State Department of Health and Hawaii Community Foundation with Master Tobacco Settlement funds. And talk about targeting an audience, the State Department of Health funded the classic rap TV commercial, "Leave 'em where they at." It's probably the first rap message that ever totally got through to me and, one hopes, the targeted youth audience as well ...
L.A. LAKERS owner Dr. Jerry Buss prescribed dinner at Sergio's in the Hilton Hawaiian Village for his party the other night, much to the pleasure and delight of restaurant owners George & Wini Vandeman, who divide their time between L.A. and Honolulu. Dr. Buss knows a winner when he sees one -- his team has been NBA champs for three years in a row, and the unstoppable Shaquille O'Neal told Jay Leno on the "Tonight" show that he plans to add a fourth ring to his hand next year. Don't bet against Shaq ...
Wanna play Kino?
FIRST, Jeff Kino was fired from his radio program-director position; then he fell down a flight of stairs and wrenched his back severely; a week later he slipped and fell at Foodland, hit his already damaged head, re-wrenched his back and looked helplessly as the grocery cart fell on him. The worst is yet to come. While visiting Jesse Gamiao of the Krush in the hospital, he mentioned to the nurse that his arm felt funny since he got up, and asked her to take his blood pressure. She did and it was very high, so much so that he was subsequently admitted to Queen's for a few days of tests, thinking perhaps he'd had a stroke. He also underwent an angiogram. Things checked out OK, but Kino plans to make some changes in his life, hoping (like the Dow Jones) for a positive turn-around ...BOTH Kristin McEntee and Mona Wood agreed that "My Big Fat Greek Wedding" was their favorite movie of the summer -- looking forward to their own, perhaps? McEntee mentioned that she met the film's leading man, John Corbett, when she worked on "Baywatch Hawaii," and that he was just as sincere and nice as the character he plays in the movie. "He has no trace of ego," McEntee revealed, and then lapsed into girl talk: "And he's a babe, of course." ... Wood's 8-year-old nephew, Shawn Ikaika Vicente, had earlier asked if she'd seen "My Big Fat Geek Wedding," because it sounded like fun. Wood broke up and had "a giggle fit" over that one ...
Eine kleine wassersportmusic
YOU think Honolulu Symphony Pops conductor Matt Catingub looks cool waving a baton? Well, sure he does, but you haven't lived until you've seen him at Hawaiian Waters Adventure Park. He and wife Vicki, assistant to Lezlee Kapono at her husband's Aloha Tower Marketplace club, are season-pass holders and during the summer can be found there several times a week with Vicki's kids visiting from L.A. ...
Dave Donnelly has been writing on happenings
in Hawaii for the Star-Bulletin since 1968.
The Week That Was recalls items from Dave's 30 years of columns.Contact Dave by e-mail: ddonnelly@starbulletin.com