Library hosts presentation on internment
A special program about Hawaii’s internment story will be held from 6:30 to 8 p.m. Thursday at Manoa Public Library, 2716 Woodlawn Drive.
The free presentation is part of the "Right from Wrong: Learning the Lessons of the Honouliuli Internment Camp" exhibit on display at the library through Sept. 19. Included in the event is a short film, personal testimony, slide show and question-and-answer session.
Sponsors are the library and the Japanese Cultural Center of Hawai‘i. For information, call 945-7633 or visit www.jcch.com.
Explore the real sites behind Charlie Chan
In honor of the 128th anniversary of the birth of mystery writer Earl Derr Biggers, historian Steven Fredrick will host "The Charlie Chan Mystery Tour" in downtown Honolulu on Aug. 25.
After vacationing in Waikiki in 1920, Biggers created the Chinese-Hawaiian detective Charlie Chan for his Honolulu-based mystery novel "The House Without a Key." Five additional Chan novels and a Hollywood film series followed.
The four-hour walking tour will hit Chinatown sites related to police detective Chang Apana, the inspiration for the fictional character, including the old police station, coffee shops, gambling houses, movie theaters and the residence of "Number One Son."
The tour, which covers two miles, starts at 1 p.m. and includes a 30-minute lunch break. The cost is $35 ($25 with military ID). Call 395-0674 or email filmguy54@hotmail.com.
Headed to Burning Man? Let us know
Burning Man, the annual do-it-yourself camping fest that is an ode to creative destruction and survival, will take place Aug. 26 through Sept. 4 in Black Rock Desert, Nev.
The event has grown from a gathering on the beach in San Francisco to an annual desert festival in a temporary city 100 miles north of Reno. It does not actively publicize itself, but has grown by word of mouth and especially via the Web.
This year, after tickets sold out almost instantly, the U.S. Bureau of Land Management gave permission to bump up the number of people allowed at the site. The biggest crowd yet — an estimated 60,900 people, 10,000 more than last year — will be on the "playa," as Burning Man calls it.
Are you going? If you’ll be at Burning Man and are from Hawaii or have other local ties, email TGIF editor Elizabeth Kieszkowski at ekieszkowski@staradvertiser.com.
She will attend Burning Man for the first time and will blog from the event at honolulupulse.com.
