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On the Scene: Samantha Neyland
Samantha Neyland was born while her father was stationed at Fort Benning, Ga. She’d lived in several states, and in Spain and Japan, by the time her dad was transferred to Hawaii. Read more
Samantha Neyland was born while her father was stationed at Fort Benning, Ga. She’d lived in several states, and in Spain and Japan, by the time her dad was transferred to Hawaii. Read more
Dean Taba was committed to the French horn until the McKinley High School music program started an after-school big band. The band couldn’t use a French horn but needed someone to play bass. Read more
Michael Chock has been known since the 1970s as a member of the Top 40 nightclub band Greenwood. Read more
Eden Lee Murray grew up in Kansas City, Mo., watching her mother perform with the Community Childrens Theatre. Murray was 4 when her mother asked her to pull the curtain open to start a performance. Read more
Works by 15 Hawaii-resident playwrights go on display Tuesday when the PlayBuilders of Hawaii Theater Company presents its ninth annual PlayBuilders Festival as a virtual theater event through Sept. 30. Read more
Amy Hill was born in South Dakota, graduated from high school in Seattle, and established herself as a stage actor with the Asian American Theater Company in San Francisco. Television audiences discovered her in 1994 when she played Grandma Kim in Margaret Cho’s landmark sitcom, “All-American Girl.” Hill has worked steadily in television and film ever since. Read more
Magnolia Basoc was 12, the youngest of three sisters, when her parents — Adelfa and Nicomedes Basoc — moved their family of five from Davao City in the southern Philippines to live in a single rented room in her uncle’s house in Honolulu. Read more
The final field of nominees for the 2020 Na Hoku Hanohano Awards is now official as the Hawai‘i Academy of Recording Arts (HARA) announces the finalists for favorite entertainer of the year — the only Hoku Award category where the finalists and the winner are determined by public vote. Read more
The 2020 Made in Hawaii Festival opens as planned on Friday but this year it’s virtual. Read more
Kimo Alana Keaulana grew up in Honolulu speaking Hawaiian at a time when most Native Hawaiians outside Niihau only spoke English. Read more
Diamond Head Theatre received a pace-setting 21 awards in 15 categories as the Hawaii State Theatre Council announced the recipients of the 2020 Po‘okela Awards for excellence Monday evening in a virtual awards show that was streamed on Facebook and YouTube. Read more
Rolando Sanchez was a teenager when his grandmother completed the paperwork required to bring him and his family to join her in the United States. Read more
Singer/songwriter Kolohe Kai celebrates the wonder of finally finding true love with this download-only single that previews his next EP. Read more
The COVID-19 pandemic has forced the cancellation of many annual events island residents enjoy, but Milton Lau is keeping his promise to the people of Hawaii that the slack-key festivals he produces will happen as scheduled. Read more
Hawaii born and raised, a graduate of McKinley High School and the Univeristy of Hawaii at Manoa, Brent Anbe decided early that he wanted to work in the film industry. Read more
Siena Agudong was 7 years old when she auditioned for a production of “Willy Wonka, The Musical” by the Hawaii’s Children’s Theatre on Kauai. Read more
Four members of the Hawaii Youth Symphony were chosen to go to New York for Carnegie Hall’s NYO2 program before the coronavirus pandemic ended the trip. Read more
Tony Ruivivar — founder and leader of the Society Of Seven, the most successful show band in Waikiki entertainment history — died Friday at his home in Las Vegas. Ruivivar had battled cancer and heart and kidney problems in recent years. He was 79. Read more
Roger Bong was 8 years old when the Veterans Administration brought his father to Hawaii to do design work at Tripler in 1995. Read more
Saxophones were prominent in hapa haole music through the end of the Big Band Era, and the electrification of the steel guitar in the early 1930s gave the instrument the volume it needed to join the sax and all the other instruments in the dance bands that played in the major hotels of Waikiki. Read more
With visitor numbers reportedly down by 99% from this time last year, places that have been the domain of visitors in recent years now have room for local folks. Read more
