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Darrell and Mavis
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The crowd at Wine and Words.
One of those combinations you thought was impossible. Not at bambooridge.com! Last Thursday I saw Los Lonely Boys at Aloha Tower. I believe it was the Advertiser (TGIF?) that said they were great live, so I went in with very high expectations and was still blown away. Near the end, the guitarist Jojo played drums…
Picture Darrell Lum and Eric Chock starting Bamboo Ridge Press … at age 2. Terribly talented toddlers, wouldn’t you agree? Just ask Darrell; he insists this is so. Thirty years and ninety issues later, they introduced Mavis Hara to her audience at KCC last Thursday. The author of Bamboo Ridge’s latest issue, An Offering of…
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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…
Exactly what accent would you have if you lived on the mainland? Being that most people here in Hawaii sound nothing like their fellow Americans on the continent anyway, especially for those of us who get by and bus out da pidgin all da time, this cool little quiz offers a bit of insight. What…
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…
Mavis Hara’s ‘An Offerring of Rice’ at Wine and Words; For the Love of BR; and Hawai’i Book and Music Festival coverage.