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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
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
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
Kimo Alana Keaulana grew up in Honolulu speaking Hawaiian at a time when most Native Hawaiians outside Niihau only spoke English. 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
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
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
Roy Sakuma discovered his days as a Roosevelt High School student were over when the principal told him, “One of us has to go, and it’s not me.” Read more
Jason Zambuto begins his new position as Reyn Spooner’s Hawaii-based head of retail sales Monday. Read more
Although Terri Madden and her husband built successful full-time careers in real estate, she’s enjoyed a parallel career in theater as an actor, director, playwright and stagehand. Read more
Sara Ackerman’s newest novel, “Red Sky Over Hawaii,” will be officially released on Tuesday. Read more
Nito Larioza was the stunt coordinator and dance choreographer for “Breakarate” (2017), which premiered May 22 on Amazon Prime. Read more
The coronavirus pandemic forced Penny Pence Smith to cancel the book release party she had planned for the end of April, but “The Last Legwoman” is now available at amazon.com. Read more
Eduardo “Eddie” Joaquin’s model gallery is still currently on the floor in one of the rooms of the life-size gallery, which remains closed. Read more
Kapena De Lima reveals an entirely different side of his repertoire with his second solo album, “Island Beyond the Stars,” a collection of original songs written and sung in the style of the hapa haole music of the 1930s. Read more
Born and raised in Hawaii, the youngest child of pianist Rene Paulo and his wife, vocalist Akemi Paulo, Gail-Anne Paulo was 8 when she joined her older brothers and sisters on stage at her parents’ nightclub, Opus One. Read more
Forty-six years after he founded his first local company, Paul Diller, 82, is a visitor-industry marketing consultant. Read more
