Tickets go on sale today for the Original Kapena 40th Anniversary Celebration — a reunion of Kapena founding members Kelly “Kelly Boy” De Lima, Tivaini “Tiva” Tatofi and Teimomi “Timo” Tatofi — Aug. 31 at the Tom Moffatt Waikiki Shell.
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Four veterans of the Hawaii music industry — Raiatea Helm, Sean Na‘auao and the groups Ekolu and Waipuna — are front- runners with nominations in major categories as the Hawai‘i Academy of Recording Arts announces finalists for the 47th annual Na Hoku Hanohano Awards.
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View the complete list of finalists for the 47th Annual Na Hoku Hanohano Awards.
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Walter James Smith Jr. — known to family, friends and colleagues as “Freckles” — died April 19 at his home in Kapahi, Kauai. He was 89.
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As television fans were counting down the days to the official announcement of CBS Entertainment’s fall 2024 season, a fourth season for “NCIS: Hawai‘i” seemed like a slam dunk.
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Over four decades, Waterson entertained Hawaii audiences as a showroom vocalist, a film and television actor, a recording artist and a karaoke bar host.
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The series finale is set to air May 6.
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The festivities start at 5:30 p.m. with cocktails on the Ocean Lawn followed by dinner at 7 p.m.
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Dave Benson, a co-founder of First Night Honolulu and the Honolulu Symphony Fun Run fundraiser, Race Director of the Honolulu Marathon from 1980 to 1984, and 30-year veteran of the Honolulu Police Department, died April 2 after a short battle with ALS. He was 82.
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With the help of her daughter, Hallman continued working until the age of 92.
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Tomimbang Burns gave back to the community by establishing and overseeing endowments and scholarships for underserved groups.
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Sterling Robert Cale, a Pearl Harbor survivor who served the United States throughout World War II, and also in Korea and Vietnam, and then met thousands of visitors as a volunteer at the Pearl Harbor National Memorial, died Jan. 20 at his home in Aiea. He was 102.
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The challenges faced and overcome by the United States’ first African American astronauts will be celebrated Thursday when the 13th annual Honolulu African American Film Festival opens with a gala screening of “The Space Race” at the Honolulu Museum of Art’s Doris Duke Theatre.
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Roland Hung Chew Leong was born in May of 1944 at Queen’s Hospital and grew up on Pacific Heights. Auto racing became his passion at an early age.
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The greatest legacy of teachers, school counselors and sports coaches are the young lives they shape and guide toward gainful productive lives.
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Nicholas Lum — one-third of the Na Hoku Hanohano Award-winning trio Keauhou — aims to challenge how Hawaiian music is defined with his new solo album, “Pewa.”
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Kit Samson, a Philippine-born pianist who played a 23-year engagement with his band, Kit Samson’s Sound Advice, at the Kalaha Hilton Hotel, died Dec. 20 after several years of declining health. He was 89.
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Kamaka was less than two months short of what would have been his 99th birthday when he died July 23.
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Dean Otsuki — co-founder of the all-volunteer nonprofit Beach Environmental Awareness Campaign Hawai‘i (B.E.A.C.H.) and an avid surfer and swimmer — died Dec. 8 after a 14-year battle with leukemia. He was 61.
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A new coffee-table photography book captures intimate and behind-the-scenes moments of several rock musicians who have performed at drummer Mick Fleetwood’s restaurant, Fleetwood’s on Front St., in Lahaina.
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