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Edgy Lee’s ‘Hawaiians’
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Smithsonian
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Edgy's Lee's "The Hawaiians -- Reflecting Spirit" will be screened Sept. 24 in Washington as part of the opening festivities for the Smithsonian's $200 million National Museum of the American Indian. Edgy's new documentary informs the American public of the concepts and beliefs that form native Hawaiian cultural values. It will be part of the First Americans Festival. Winona Rubin is narrator. Nainoa Thompson, Sen. Daniel Akaka, Kealii Reichel, Puakea Nogelmeier and Isabela Abott make it clear that Hawaiian culture is alive and well. Talks with Niihau elders are included ...
the Kahala Mandarin's Plumeria Beach Cafe will undergo renovation starting Monday. From now until Sunday, select menu items are priced at what they were during the Mandarin's first year of business in 1996. The Plumeria will be closed for up to two months during the upgrade, according to daytime manager Jose Perez. Among the staffers at the Plumeria even before '96, when it was the Kahala Hilton, are: Susan Campos, Rita Ikeda, George Leong, Ian Lau, Sharon Tam and Windy Ginoza ...
Kalani Simpson wins Football Writers' award
Star-Bulletin Sports Columnist Kalani Simpson won first place in the Football Writers Association of America Features category. Kalani's winner was a column about spending an all-access day with the Kalani High football team -- in the locker room, on the sideline, riding home on the team bus -- as it went through its 24th straight loss ...The Academy of Arts Operations Manager Robert White has had strange requests for exhibitions, but this one really takes the cake -- or rather, the pie. In preparation for the building of a clay and straw replica of the Hindu goddess Durga, White has to get pies of the animal variety. That's right, cowpies. It seems the animal dung, which is used to fuel the fire for the kiln that gives the Durga her lovely shade of color, is on the list of needed materials sent by the craftsmen coming from India to create the structure. The men will work in Central Court in view of museum-goers from Tuesday through the Bank of Hawaii Free Sunday Festival celebrating Indian culture on Oct. 17. White also had to find a rare kind of straw from the rice fields of Sacramento and more than 850 pounds of a special kind of clay. The cowpies are from Mountain View Dairy. It's a tough job but somebody's got to do it, says good soldier White ...