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Author/playwright Lee Cataluna and director Keith Kashiwada work on the BR production of "Folks You Meet in Longs."
The program for March 2nd,7 pm at Atherton Studio, Hawaii Public Radio Local actors will read the following selections: D. Mahealani Dudoit’s MY FATHER’S GARDEN Aria Soyama’s CONFESSIONS OF A PORN STORE CLERK A bunch of Wing Tek Lum’s short poems: “An Image of the Good Times” “Childhood Memories” “Kids Do Tings They Don’t Mean”…
It’s film festival time and Wayne Wang has two new films based on short stories by Yiyun Li from A Thousand Years of Good Prayers. Two independently financed films in one year is quite amazing…story is that he came in under budget after the first one so he just kept on going. Bamboo Ridge has…
Ho, chicken skin…the last taping of Aloha Shorts featured music by Paul Hanna and Follow No Trends, mellow songwriter/singer social commentary…nice sound with the addition of a twelve string player and standup bass. CDs available at Borders I think online. Poetry by Kathy Phillips read by Julia Steele. Gary Tachiyama’s stuff was read by…
Nice mention of Mavis Hara’s book in last night’s Star Bulletin: http://starbulletin.com/2007/09/11/features/story02.html Looking forward to the "rice tasting" at Wine and Words on Thursday at KCC. The task is to try to figure out the differences between four different white rice: from a $28 for a 5 lb bag of premium Japanese rice to your…
If you’ve been listening to Aloha Shorts on Hawaii Public Radio (KIPO 89.3)the airtime has been moved to Tuesdays at 6:30 pm. This is a fun half hour of stories and music and it’s nice to hear pretty much an entire story. We try to do very little editing of the work presented. Mark Lutwak…
We’ve been lucky that local actors at various points over the years have selected work from BR to perform as storytelling pieces or as readings in libraries or on Aloha Shorts (the KIPO radio show). A couple of years ago we did a couple of benefit performances of "Folks You Meet in Longs" and unfortunately…