On the Scene
RUSSELL ROUGHS IT: Celebrity photographer and Electric Piranha Room creator Russell Tanoue shares a chair with pals Jackie Teixeira, left, Mayumi Kato, Tara Fuller and Malia Song at the Ocean Club in preparation for this month's Piranha event on Saturday. Tanoue will also be there Sunday to support Billie Takaki's fund-raiser for the American Heart Association.
GREAT JOB, DARYL: Rick Smoot, left, congratulates Daryl Kitagawa, center, and Denny Ono during the Fuji's Market Softball Club fund-raiser that packed Kapono's. Kitagawa organized the event; Ono's band, Thick Tubes, was one of several that played for the near-capacity crowd.
GUTEN ABEND AND ALOHA: Bandmaster Aaron Mahi, left, talks with Dr. Niklaus Schweizer and Ed Michelman at the 24th annual Friends of the Royal Hawaiian Band Membership Meeting and Luau. Mahi will receive the German Federal Service Cross in April for his success in renewing the RHB's Germanic heritage.
John Berger has covered the local
entertainment scene since 1972. Contact
him at jberger@starbulletin.com.
