Hawaii
FEELING a bit older today than yesterday? Well, you are, and so are members of the 1972 Kalani High graduating class. Several classmates, unable or unwilling to let go of that time, have formed a band called Flashback and they'll be performing for the class reunion at the Waialae Country Club on Aug. 3. "We play oldies," reports former CNN anchor and lieutenant governor candidate Dalton Tanonaka. "Because we're old." Flashback includes an Army Reserve major on active duty, Kent Okamoto, and the financial controller at Nissan, Lance Masatsugu. Other '72 Kalani grads are KHON anchor Leslie Wilcox, Bankoh exec Donna Tanoue and attorney Mitch Imanaka, and if they still can, they'll be getting down with the music ... Where ARE those flashbacks?
IT didn't surprise me to read in the program of "Anna," which just opened this week at TAG's Yellow Brick Studio on Keawe Street, that playwright Nancy Moss has written three "romances" under a different name. The sexual tension in "Anna" is all verbal, but the story of Russian poet Anna Akhmatova welcoming British diplomat (and possible spy) Isiah Berlin to her post-war Leningrad apartment is fascinating in an evesdropping way. Frankie Enos plays Anna and her guest is Peter Webb, both excellent. So, too, were the paintings and other set pieces in Anna's apartment, on loan from the home of Natasha Owen, a leader in the Hawaii Russian community ...
Marquis, da sad
AUTHOR Traci Marquis will be at the Sheraton Waikiki's convention center next month to autograph copies of her new novel about sexual abuse, "I Can't Cry: A Journey from Shame to Redemption." It follows three women attempting a break with their former lives. It sounds from the look of their names to be one of those romance novels. The three are Kendall, Raven and Destiny. The publisher must be expecting a huge turnout because the autograph sessions run from 9 am. to noon on Aug. 5 to 7, nine hours in all ...NOW that he's no longer running for office, Mayor Jeremy Harris appears to be playing down his role in sponsoring Brunch on the Beach. The fancy invites used to be from Mayor Harris and the Waikiki Improvement Association. Now they're just from the City & County and WIA ... First Hawaiian, Hawaii's oldest bank, is tying in with a local traditional island furniture manufacturer for its new ad campaign. The commercial features Martin & MacArthur's Aloha Tower Marketplace showroom as the setting ... Irish fiddler Lisa Gomes performs from 7 to 9 tonight at Ferguson's Pub downtown ...
New visitor destination
You wouldn't necessarily think of the East-West Center as a haven for visitors, but look at the facts: Educators and other specialists from 30 U.S. states and 16 countries visited the East-West Center this summer for a variety of three- and four-week professional advancement programs. Institute topics included Korean culture, teachings of China and the U.S., ways of authority in Japanese culture, Southeast Asia studies and population and health issues. It's something of an ABC store for cultural and intellectual pursuits ...
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