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Manoa DNA’s guests at E&O put on a mini-hula recital

The versatile family group Manoa DNA drew a packed house on a recent Thursday night at E&O Trading Company. Managing partner Kenwei Chong should consider giving Lloyd Kawakami and his sons Nick and Alex the stage more than one night a week. The Thursday I popped in turned out to be a mini-hula recital. Dancers Sarah Noyle, Terrianne Butac, Carrie Tandal, Nani Kamalii, Barbaranelle Eli and Lloyd's sister Pat Kawakami all displayed fine moves. Sitting in with DNA were bassist Ron Quong and keyboarder Cary Matsushige. Among those enjoying were Cal Lui, Mavis Seto, Sandy Granger, developer Bert and Susan Kobayashi with son Patrick, E&O investor Colin Ayat, and a table made up of Valerie Scatchedt, Jeanne Anderson, Joan Kirley, Maryann Brady, Ann Clarkin and Carol Lin. Carol's 7-year-old granddaughter Amber Chong danced a hula for her table. Kenwei and Florence Chong are Amber's parents. Kenwei's partners are Chris Hemmeter Jr. and Rodney Loo. Lloyd heads Iolani Sportswear, a Kawakami family company that will showcase its mother-daughter designs at Macy's Pearlridge Island Attitudes at noon today. Manoa DNA will perform ...

Spotted cruising in Waikiki on a Segway recently was Jeanne Datz Rice, who used to run Hilton Hawaii public relations. Jeanne is now director of communications for Hilton Hotels Corp. World Headquarters in Beverly Hills. She came here for a visit and to help her husband Alan Rice promote his Segway of Hawaii operation. Alan is happy to say that more disabled people are using Segways ...

Kim Gennaula gets caught up in aloha attire

KGMB anchor Kim Gennaula, at Alan Wong's recent "Back to the Roots" party, saw a man in a green and yellow aloha shirt she liked. She thought it would look good on husband Guy Hagi, KGMB's weather guy. Then she saw another man in the same shirt. And then she saw a woman wearing the identical print. She figured it must be a popular print by Mamo Howell. But she found she was admiring clothing worn by the party's musicians, made by Nakeu Awai. Kim was chided for not knowing that because she used to take hula from Alicia Smith, next door to Nakeu's Kalihi shop ...