Daughter takes first steps toward adulthood
December 10, 2006Editor's note: Mike DeMattos' wife, Francesca, again commandeered the word processor for a special addition to the Family Album.
'Life is better when we are together'
December 10, 2006Marlo Nishimoto tells her single girlfriends to keep an open mind: That guy you think isn't your type, she tells them, might be the love of your life.
Wisdom chic
December 10, 2006T-shirts with an 'aina message all too often look like education posters on boxy Hanes Beefy T's. Kealopiko alters the local shirtscape with its stylish designs on soft cotton, slim-cut vintage-finish T's. The contemporary designs highlight native species such as the 'enuhe hamui'a, pictured, Hawai'i's only endemic caterpillar. The new company is the brainchild of three hard-working wahine. Ane Bakutis and Hina Kneubuhl are botanists, while Jamie Makasobe works at Paepae o He'eia and all are Island-stylish. "We want people in the taro patch and downtown to feel comfortable," says Bakutis. Not yet in stores, Kealopiko will be at the Honolulu Gift Fair at Blaisdell Center on Friday and Saturday.
Multiple personalities
December 10, 2006Local improv player Elizabeth Wolfe debuts a passel of characters all inhabitants of the fictional town of Forrest Glenn in her one-woman show "Lone Wolfe and Company." Wolfe makes up the entire play on the spot," says director R. Kevin Doyle, who is part of the Loose Screws troupe. "She'll sometimes have five, six characters talking to each other at the same time." Inspired by the cult British TV comedy "League of Gentlemen," "Lone Wolfe" takes the stage at 8 p.m. Saturday, The ARTS at Marks Garage; $5. 550-8457, www.honoluluboxoffice.com.
Profiling Hawai'i's cultural figures
December 10, 2006It's been a rich year for books that capture the Islands' social fabric. Here are two that profile inimitable people whose lives are intertwined with Hawai'i's history:
A longing for home
December 10, 2006Exile is nothing new. Nor is art about exile's torments. Ancient Roman poet Ovid's stated desire in "Poems of Exile," written two millennia ago, hardly seems antiquated: "If one already lost could be unlost." If only.
Vaccination opinion seems unanimous
December 10, 2006What's a mother to do?
HPV questions, answers
December 10, 2006The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends that all women and girls ages 9 to 26 receive a new vaccine against human papillomavirus. That is generating questions to physicians.
Dark dates set for Vegas showrooms
December 10, 2006During December, many Las Vegas shows go dark to allow cast members to take extended holiday vacations.
Austin kids' museum offers special taste of Texas
December 10, 2006AUSTIN Leo Tolstoy once said that all happy families look alike, which is also something that can be said about most children's museums. There are the obligatory, though wonderful, hands-on activities and crafts, the puzzles, the computers, the magnifying glasses and the bubble-making machines.
Cervical cancer fighter
December 10, 2006About a year ago, Mandy Ki'aha heard about a new cervical cancer vaccine for women.
Bits of Hawai'i history go on the block at Sotheby's
December 10, 2006Kamehameha III, in a double-breasted military jacket with gold epaulets, stands nobly, his doe eyes unflinchingly meeting the viewer's. In the double portrait, he stands next to his mother, Keopuolani, widow of Kamehameha I.
Ralya's seductive art comes back to earth
December 10, 2006Artist Richard Earl Leong Ralya, who grew up in Virginia and the San Francisco Bay area, works from the opposite direction of the artists in The ARTS at Marks Garage show "The Sun Never Sets." Four years ago, he moved to O'ahu his parents' homeland for the proverbial roots search.