On Tuesday, October 14, I just happened to be driving at 6:40 pm. I turned on the radio and suddenly the sounds of pidgin filled my car. I thought, "Who…
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Ten o’clock on an already hot Saturday morning, only the start of what’s going to be a hot hot hot summer in Hawaii. Lots of parking at City Hall, but…
Around one hundred people came to UH’s Campus Center Ballroom to hear stories from from issue 91. I suspect many of them came for Gerry Lopez, the surfer pictured on…
On Tuesday, March 11th, at 7:00 P.M., I was at the Manoa Valley Theatre, marveling at the size of the crowd. Bamboo Ridge’s 30th anniversary "roast and toast" was about…
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…
from my notes at the most recent Bamboo Ridge meeting: Keep March 11th, 2008 open. Just in case. I’m not sure why the term "Mango Season" came up (I was…
Carnegie Mellon Professor Randy Pausch, who is dying from pancreatic cancer, gave his last lecture at the university Sept. 18, 2007, before a packed McConomy Auditorium. In his moving talk,…
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…