Charlie Chan Mystery Tour to hit downtown locales

To mark the 130th anniversary of the birth of mystery writer Earl Derr Biggers, historian Steven Fredrick will host "The Charlie Chan Mystery Tour" in downtown Honolulu during August.

After vacationing in Waikiki in 1920, Biggers created the Chinese-Hawaiian detective Charlie Chan for his Honolulu 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 Honolulu police Detective Chang Apana, the inspiration for the fictional character. Stops include the old police station, coffee shops, gambling houses, movie theaters and the residence of "Number One Son."

The tours will be held Aug. 2, 9, 16, 23 and 30. Start time is 3 p.m. with a 30-minute meal break included. The cost is $40 ($30 with military ID).

For information, call 395-0674 or email filmguy54@hotmail.com.

Choose your favorites for Honolulu Pulse Awards

Sunday is the last day to choose the winners in the first-ever Honolulu Pulse Awards. Nominees were collected earlier this month, and now you can vote for one of five finalists in more than 45 categories, including best bar, best nightclub, best local band, best pizza and best Instagram.

Since its launch in 2010, HonoluluPulse.com has become Hawaii’s top online source for news, reviews and blogs covering Honolulu’s arts, entertainment, food and night-life scenes. More than 200,000 unique visitors access the site every month for the latest news and photo coverage of events, and more than a dozen regular weekly features provided by a team of veteran journalists and bloggers.

Go to honolulupulse.com/pulseawards to vote. Winners will be announced during a special VIPcelebration later this summer.

Exhibit at Queen’s explores health and native cultures

The Queen’s Medical Center is hosting a new exhibit, "Native Voices: Native Peoples’ Concepts of Health and Illness," that examines the concepts of health and medicine among contemporary American Indians, Alaska Natives and Native Hawaiians.

The exhibit in the Queen’s Historical Room was produced by the National Library of Medicine to explore "the connection between wellness, illness, and cultural life" through a combination of interviews, artwork, objects and interactive media, according to a news release. Topics include native views of land, food, community, earth/nature and spirituality as they relate to health; the relationship between traditional healing and Western medicine; economic and cultural issues that affect the health of native communities; and the role of Native Americans in military service and healing support for returning native veterans.

The "Native Voices" exhibit will run until late September. An online version is available at www.nlm.nih.gov/nativevoices.