New season of CabaRAE show is in the works, manager says

The CabaRAE Showroom at the Hilton Hawaiian Village is dark this week, but a spokes­woman for the Cirque-style extravaganza denied the show had closed for good.

"We performed our ‘season finale’ last night to a well-attended audience," General Manager Anna Young said Monday.

She described it as the "last show for Season 1," with plans in the works for a second season.

CabaRAE opened last year, featuring dramatic aerial acts, physical comedians, celebrity impersonators and other acts.

Creative producer Alan Goldberg said at the time of the opening that CabaRAE would have a changing roster of entertainers.

No dates have been announced for the second season.

Female workers in isles lose $8,070 a year due to wage gap

Women employed full time in Hawaii are paid 83 cents for every dollar paid to men, amounting to a yearly gender-based wage gap of $8,070, according to a report released Monday by the National Partnership for Women & Families.

Collectively, Hawaii women lose more than $1.6 billion a year that could pay for basic goods and services that strengthen the state’s economy, the organization said in a press release.

More than 52,000 Hawaii households are headed by women — 18 percent of which currently live below the poverty level, the report said.

The analysis said if the gap between men’s and women’s wages were eliminated, a full-time working woman in Hawaii could afford food for one more year, mortgage and utilities for four more months, rent for nearly six more months or 1,800 more gallons of gas.

Nationally, women working full time year-round are paid 78 cents for every dollar paid to men, with significant disparities for women of color. The state-by-state analysis based on data from the U.S. Census Bureau is available at NationalPartnership.org/Gap.