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The fact that we treasure our freedom of speech does not make all speech a treasure.
An episode at the Democratic National Convention made that patently clear. As the Hawaii contingent announced its minority tally for Hillary Clinton, Chelsea Lyons Kent, a delegate for Bernie Sanders, flashed the middle finger. That’s the international symbol for … nothing printable.
Sure, Hawaii went for Sanders in a big way, and Kent has a right to her political passions. But that gesture relayed more the sense of a sore loser than a loyalist to the Sanders revolution.
No aloha, for sure.
‘Street food’ has gone main street
It used to be that street food was fast, cheap and undistinguished. But a booming tourism industry has changed all that.
Witness the fancy adaptations of Japanese alley-style food booths to the visitor industry — the Shirokiya “food village” at Ala Moana Center; the Waikiki Yokocho Gourmet Alley, in the basement of the Waikiki Shopping Plaza, to feature 16 new restaurant spots; and Waikiki’s new International Market Place, which will include a Michelin-starred restaurant and and a new place by Roy Yamaguchi. There will be street food, too — in a space called The Street, described as a gourmet food hall. That doesn’t sound undistinguished, or cheap.
