Hawaii
Jazz, the Hawaiian connection
JAZZ, Hawaiian style: Hawaii producer Stephen Reed (who did "Hawaii, Songs of Aloha") is also the producer of "Newport Jazz Festival 2002." It'll air at 10 p.m. Saturday on Hawaii Public Television. Incidentally, the Newport Jazz Fest (and others around the world) were produced by George Wein, who founded the Newport fest in 1954. Wein is now 77 and has an autobiography coming out next year, and the writer who helped him on the project is Hawaii's own Nate Chinen, perhaps better known as the son of entertainers Nancy & Teddy Tanaka ...
SPEAKING of jazz, when Wynton Marsalis was in town with the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra at the Blaisdell Concert Hall, Isle jazz figure Abe Weinstein sought out musician Victor Goines, who played solo clarinet and saxophone at the concert and who runs the jazz department at the famed Juilliard School of Music. Weinstein and Goines put their heads together and there may be a budding relationship between the two at the upcoming 10th annual Hawaii International Jazz Festival ...
Thar she blows
THEY'RE still smiling at Wild Side Specialty Tours, an outfit run by Tom & Armin Cullins specializing in marine-life-focused sailing charters. The two had the first documented humpback whale sighting on Oahu on Nov. 5. Maui, which usually has the first sightings, as they did again this year a day earlier on Nov. 4. But the Cullinses are happy since Oahu sightings usually follow Maui's by a few weeks, and not but a single day. The whale they saw was young but performed many entertaining breaches for the lucky sightseers ...AN incorrect phone number ran with the Star-Bulletin review of Hawaii Pacific University's "Death of a Salesman." The correct number to call for tickets is 375-1282. Despite the wrong number, the show has been selling out nightly ... Former KITV newsman Kelly Dean has to be beaming with pride these days. Hand Properties has announced that Dean's 3-bedroom, 3 1/2-bath home at the Peninsula in Hawaii Kai was the 2001 Parade of Homes grand prize winner, taking home more awards - eight - than any other entry in the history of the competition ...
IT was his first Mainland flight on Hawaiian Airlines says Ray Sweeney of Sweeney Communications and on the way home he found himself watching a Hawaiian video featuring entertainment by Jake Shimabukuro, Makaha Sons, Tihati Productions and beautiful shots of the Windward side. The video was narrated by Paula Akana and as he watched, Sweeney realized "it was the first time I ever felt homesick on the way home." ...
She gave a hoot
IT was one of those occasions when you admit to giving a hoot. Sandra Au Fong, of Market City Shopping Center was awarded the "Outstanding Woman of the Year -- Private Sector" award from the Organization of Women Leaders or OWL. (They have no connection with Hooters.) Fong continues to be active in the community and is currently co-chair of a group trying to raise $18 million for the Palolo Chinese Home ...
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