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2007
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ILLUSTRATION ABOVE: SHANNON WEAVER |
Art with Aloha
Art with Aloha
Aloha Airlines flight attendant Shannon Weaver paints distinctive Hawai‘i images, mainly hula dancers, and then makes 11-inch-by-14-inch prints of them that she sells for $20. They make beautiful gifts and memories of the Islands. Contact Shannon at 258-3435 or e-mail her at artbyshannonweaver.com |
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| PHOTO: COURTESY OF MADE IN HAWAI‘I FESTIVAL |
Made in Hawai‘i
Everything you can imagine that is made in Hawai‘i will be on display at the 12th annual Made in Hawai‘i Festival, held Aug. 17 to 19 at the Blaisdell Exhibition Hall and Arena. This year, 400 exhibitors will feature their food, books, gifts, fashions, plants, art, crafts, produce and much more. On stage will be Grammy and Nā Hōkū Hanohano award-
winning musicians. Three
dollars gets you in all day long. More information at
www.madeinhawaiifestival.comm
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A to Z, Hawai‘i Style
A new alphabet book, with secret doors on every page, is the latest keiki book by local publisher Bess Press. If we have a vested interest in From Aloha to Zippy’s, it’s because each page depicts objects and activities from Hawai‘i, and, yes, in this book, Aloha Airlines is the “A.” . |
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Bali Hai, Revisited
Prolific writer James A. Michener didn’t publish his first book until he was 40, and that one—Tales of the South Pacific—won the Pulitzer Prize. Little did he know that the play based on the book would became more famous than the book. South Pacific, the musical, has played and played, and now it’s playing again as part of the 2007 Summer Season of the Hawai‘i Opera Theatre, sponsored by Louis Vuitton. This time the Best Musical on Broadway in 1950 plays at the Blaisdell Concert Hall with top Hawai‘i and international artists on July 27, 28 and 29, then Aug. 3, 4 and 5. Ticket information at 596-7858. |
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A Hundred Years of Honolulu Revisited
Not only Waikīkī has changed over the years, so has Honolulu. Now, Honolulu the way it used to be (before there were video recorders and DVDs) is a matter of impressive record with rare archival footage on a new DVD produced by KGMB9, the Bishop Museum and the Mountain Apple Co. Honolulu: 100 Years in the Making shows how the island city evolved, its illustrious movers and shakers and its now-and-again visitors (like Elvis Presley). It even includes a film of Hawai‘i made at the turn of the last century by Thomas Edison. All in all, 90 minutes of history, drama and celebration, in a portable format. Learn more from
www.mountainapplecompany.com
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Win a $25 Gift Card from Crazy Shirts!
Between July 1 and August 31, all passengers on every Aloha Airlines Hawai‘i-bound flight from the Mainland have a chance to win a $25 gift card from Hawai‘i Crazy Shirts in our continuing family-friendly onboard game. Sometime during the trip, flight attendants will pass out a printed game piece with three questions. The answers are found in this issue of SPIRIT OF ALOHA. Answer the questions correctly, write your name and seat number on the game piece and return it to your flight attendant. A winner will be announced before landing, and awarded the gift card.
All passengers will also receive a coupon good for 10 percent off at any Hawai‘i Crazy Shirts outlet. So, let the game begin! |
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Art Pacific
The only gallery in Hawai‘i that specializes in museum-quality
vintage art from all the Pacific islands has opened in the historic and appropriately named McCully Chop Suey Building, on South King Street in Honolulu. Mauna Kea Galleries is full of paintings, engravings, old books, Hawaiiana, hula lamps, aloha attire and surfing memorabilia (including the Duke Kahanamoku brochure pictured here). The gallery sells, but also buys your collections, too. Contact the Mauna Kea Galleries director at 941-4901 or visit
maunakeagalleries.com
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MUSIC:
Listen Up
• Tony C.—Nā Hula Punahele: Created with the hula dancer and teacher in mind, this 20-track CD contains four original compositions and other new songs by noted composers Alice Johnson, Sam Bernard and Alfred Alohikea. Brickwood says, “Tony’s got a lot of musical history, and this is one of the CDs you really ought to have if you’re a hula dancer. He’s always been a popular musician, and now he has progressed to the point where he’s a true leader in the Hawaiian music scene.” Tony now teaches his own hālau, Hālau Nā Wainohia. (Mountain Apple Co.)
• Mānoa DNA—Follow Me: Intriguing father-sons trio offers a varied song list (“as varied as their hapa heritage”), with dad Lloyd Kawakami on 12-string guitar, son Alex on guitar and ‘ukulele, and son Nick on ‘ukulele. Voices soar in great harmony with tunes by Alex, Graham Nash, Jay Kauka and others. “This is music for all the generations,” says Brickwood, “and it cuts across a lot of different genres. It’s a good musical gene pool, and, hence, the title.” (Roy Sakuma Productions, Inc./AMI Aloha Music International)
• Pekelo—Hāna by the Sea: A rare local Hāna musician who made it big, Pekelo’s first release in 1993 was voted the year’s No. 1 Hawaiian album by radio station KCCN. His new CD of self-taught slack-key guitar and master falsetto voice is a worthy successor, and, according to Brickwood, “is reminiscent of the young Gabby Pahinui. It’s a beautiful voice and this is a beautiful collection of his original music.” (Pekelo Cosma Music)
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Books
• Hāna’s New
Love Story
- Love Story
The poet George Kinder has long had a love affair with the town of Hāna on Maui and now he has written the story in which Hāna is used as a metaphor for the Earth. A Song for Hāna (Serenity Point Press, Littleton, Ma., 2007) is, in the author’s words, “a poem of my own daily journey for many years across these landscapes, searching for the present moment, trying to understand what it means not to get lost … Part of my work involved getting to know the history and stories of the ancient ones, the ancestors of the Hawaiian people who walked the same stretch of coast before me.”
The spirit of Hāna is superbly photographed and described in this paperback spiritual journey.
• A Hotel’s Love Story - Arguably, more fun has been had over the years at the Coco Palms Hotel on Kaua‘i than any other place in Hawai‘i. David P. Penhallow’s merry account (The Story of the Coco Palms Hotel, Rice Street Press, Līhu‘e, Kaua‘i) of the years when the resort was run by the legendary Grace Buscher Guslander (1953-1985) tells most of the stories, describes the celebrations, the luminaries who came to visit, the legends that endured. It’s a local book, oversized, with scores of unique and historic photographs, a testimony to a time long gone, but, obviously, never forgotten in Hawai‘i.
• Come Fly with Me From the collection of 1,400 aeronautical posters at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, curator Joanne Gernstein London has chosen the rare and most dramatic for the book Fly Now! (National Geographic, 2007). The volume is a graphic and historic delight: It not only describes the beginnings of aviation advertising and publicity, but shows how brilliant design imagery is forever linked with the role of air travel in our lives.
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