Portraits!

Ok. So you may or may not know that I have a bit of a thing for portraits. Portraits and trees. If I was any good at photography you can bet that I would be chasing all of you down to sit for a cw-style portrait. Look for my faves one day, but for now you can look forward to the new exhibit at Thirtyninehotel this Friday. I know, right. First Friday. A.k.a. When-Downtown-turns-into-ZOO day.

date: Friday, September 7
event: First Friday Opening Reception
time: 6pm-9pm & 9pm-2am
admission: FREE (21+ w/valid ID)
6pm-9pm, opening reception for Portraiture Revisited: thirtyninehotel's First Annual Juried Exhibition.
Artists: Mandell Andres, Dana Forsberg, Jaqueline Hegarty, Erika Johnson, Wendy Kawabata, April Lee, Mark Maresca, Lori Ohtani, Jessica Oshita, Ryan Kerns.
Juror: Gaye Chan, Artist and Chair, Department of Art and Art History at the University of Hawaii at Manoa.
After the reception, stick around for DJ Harvey and Chittom. Global cult hero DJ Harvey joins Double Joy’s Mark Chittom for an evening of left-field classics, nu-disco, and wall-to-wall revelry.

Sounds SUPER exciting to me. I won't miss this for the world. TONIGHT you can actually head over there for some chill music and yummy fruit drinks. It's also Kaleidoscope so tonight is Around the World w/Cherry Blossom Cabaret, Black Square, Malcognitas, & Scrabbel (from SF!). Wait. Cherry Blossom?! I'll go around the world with YOU! HAWT.

ONLY If you have a minute....

....or twelve. You can go ahead and see what the hell I got up to this weekend. Trying to stay busy. Distracted. It's fun coming to work on Monday and getting the e-mails. Word.

Highlights.... well. First Friday art walk and the photo issue at Mercury bar


house party for grown ups meaning valet, bartenders, go go dancers, and cops that are invited


a very naughty and nice show by the birthday girls at cherry blossom


a very naughty and nice skyline


and of course... kiesha's jello shot eye shadow


It's going to be another one of those weeks, by the way. Sarah Honda's birthday week, Next Door's birthday week. Leos galore.

Mmmm Cherry Blossom Bottoms....

...Happy Birthday ladies!


I would suggest everyone go down to Next Door tonight and catch the cabaret. The girls are pro and since its their birthday there will be all kinds of special treats. Including one of my fav local acts the Malcognitas. Delish!


It's also a SKYLINE night people. Let me know who wants to come. You know how I do it.

Freaky Saturday....

...with a few random events:

Monday means it's time...

...to talk about the WEEKEND!!!

No serious. Start making plans now to be at Don Ho's on the 23rd. I'll already be downtown for a fashion event at Thirtyninehotel around 6 but NOTHING will make me miss this:

Main reason? Cherry Blowwom Burlesque is TOTALLY pro you guys! they are amazing. The only thing I can ever say bad about them? Their acts aren't LONG ENOUGH!

The Week before the Weekend...

...is ready in photos for you to crawl through. Highlights? The strip tease goodness that is the Cherry Blossom Burlesque, Anton killing it at O lounge, niceness in Waikiki wtih Der including a teensy bit of the Louis Vuitton copycat white party, Ryan Laskey's spared-no-expense going away party at the presidential suite, first Friday's art walk in Chinatown AND the Enterprise dancedancedancedance party that was the most fun ever ever ever.

The pics are up. Look.

Friday Picks....

....well I'm totally going to meet 30 Seconds to Mars. In, like, 4 hours. Excited? Somewhat. I have a lot of respect for this band. Not going to get in to it, but J. Leto reminds me of Dave Grohl as far as motivation to make his vision a reality. Nothing but love for them.

After the show I'm making my way to Chinatown. Duh. I would do anything to see that one burlesque danceerrrr:



and hello?!?! Have you seen the new "stuff to do" website here yet? TOTALLY loving them right now: Do Something Tonight.

Thursday is my Friday...

...so my evening is looking a little bit like so:

5pm Celebration drinks with Monica Ivey and sneek peak at First Friday art walk stuff

7:45pm First Thursday Poetry Slam Finals

10Pm NewJass Quartet and half-price pupus at Sansei


10:45pm Malcognitas and At Sea at O Lounge


11:30pm Next Door for Tempo Valley and Cherry Blossom Burlesque!




call me call me text me text me. I'm on phone hiatus for now so don't expect to hear from me. I'll take your call tho :)