Saturday Showdown...

[photo by rich kim]

...it IS, after all, the second Saturday. I got the text for this competition's theme but totally forgot what it was. I know that brilliantairre Maui artist Joe Pa'a'hana is participating, and since the LOST people are back on island working they might have whipped something up too. Shane Cross? You in? Who else... Gerard? Rob? Well, in any case I always enjoy these. Get there early to get a good spot-- this thing fills up.

Also tonight-- Terren Zorne and Chris Cano are debuting their new party at Longhi's. Very posh stuff. Body painting, bottle service (recommended-- the booths at Longhi's are rad), checkered floor. Should be right.... and you always want to be at the first anything, right? Always always always the best one.

First Friday. You know the Deal.

Some special events are happening though. Mainly the "official" launch of Alex and Corey's site that you've heard me mention here and there. It's called "DoSomethingTonight" and it's pretty good. Most times the faces behind anything web or technology driven are NOT like this:


I don't know how they get anything done with it since they're always out partying but whatever man. It's the best resource that I've seen and totally unbiased. If you do any events and you haven't sent them the info go ahead and do that. Come by their launch party tonight too. They're really nice guys. They probably won't be sober tho. Just saying.


Later you can see the first ever MC battle at O Lounge at FLOW. Or see the portrait thing at Thirtyninehotel that I mentioned earlier this week. Or just stay at Next Door and check out Doc Martin. That's always a nice crowd.


Enjoy!

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.

Stuff to Do, starting now.

SO ya ya ya summer is over. Come on you guys. Is it REALLY that bad? Maybe I'm just clueless since I live alone and have no associations with anything seasonal (including the weather-- it's always nice here) or educational (unfortunately), but I REALLY could care less that it's Labor Day. You shouldn't either. The year is winding down, that's sort of odd. It went by fast. I'm not sure what makes time go by fast anyway. I mean-- it's always going at the same pace, it's just when we actually stick our head up and notice it.
Well whatever. It's just Labor Day. Not like the craziest milestone. Let's talk more about time and legacies at the end of December, K?

Meanwhile-- DON'T get overwhelmed for this weekends activities!!! Let's just take it one day at a time. It's always better to have 7 things on your plate that way when you only make it to 4 or 5 it's still a very successful weekend. I'll take it one day at a time for your weekend suggestions on here anyway. With the exception of Skin, because you need to plan for that one. The rest? Eh. Just do what I do and have one drink at each event. I swear one day I'll make a party hopping pop-up book. For now, here:

Lunch at the Contemporary Museum today would be a good idea. Get up there! They are debuting the new exhibit and it's supposed to be HELLA dope. All smoke and mirrors. I already mentioned something about this. I'm hella excited to see the Phantasmagoria.... and eat an avacado wrap. [photo by c. russell -sb]


Whirl away from the office and right into the lovely property of the Honolulu Academy of Arts for "Endless Summer" and see Keoki make surfboards. These are always fun and overflowing with interesting people. Lurk the photo galleries from past events to see what I mean on their website.


Go to Art After Dark early. Like, right at 6pm. Do a whizz-through-whirlwind tour of everything and then get your ass over to UH for Jake's Onthe1. He does these regularly and knows what he's doing. ALLLLL college students are free so get there before its over at 10:30


NEXT!! More Hip Hop because that's the best stuff to dance to. Let's just dance dance dance tonight ok? Check out the Nomasterbacks album release at Tropics over by Ward:


If, for some reason, you aren't down with that then you can't go wrong at Soul Clap. That's Esake's deal so you know it goes off, and when I say "off" I mean very good vibe, you can dance if you want to, you can chat if you want to, and guaranteed there will be a nice chill place to kick it if you want to. Nocturnal Sound CREEEW!

Two times Thirty Five...

...equals two years of Bar35.

Remember when Gelareh opened her spot? She just called it the address...only a cooler way. Thirtyninehotel. 39 Hotel Street. Well Dave Stewart knows a good idea when he sees one, and along comes even more options for the scensters that dwell in Chinatown with the addition of Bar35. TWO years we're celebrating that venture. Tonight. I'll be there at 7pm to gulp down those yummy raspberry beers before the opening night of the Honolulu Symphony. Sarah Chang is gonna KILL it on that Sibelius, but I have to admit I'm really looking forward to the Wagner. He knows what's up as far as brass and percussion. I totally remember actually getting numb from so much chicken skin playing his that damn Tannhauser Overture. Ya, his full operas were pretty cool too. If you're in to that. I mean. The Flying Dutchman. Come on.

Here's some other Saturday picks, paying special attention to the barely legals. They gotta party too.

First, a special guest DJ at Thirtyninehotel. Saturdays there are fun.


Some barely legal options:

WHAT!? A myspace party here again? Interesting. It won't be as fun as the ones I got to help host. But I'm sure there's still people out there that are stoked on Tom.


And finally, Miss Lisa Shaw is at Lotus tonight. That's worth trying to stay up.

Happy Birthday Cut n Sewn...

...or is it actually your birthday Dan? I'm so confused! Well, I'm sure I'll figure it out at some point. Celebrate!

Ctrl Alt Del is playing! Those guys are so good. This should be a pretty fun event.

My brother Chris is back on island to help classy Lauren celebrate her birthday up at Sunset beach. They've been celebrating all week and, judging from Chris's voicemails, they are having a blast. Boo. I'll do everything I can to get up there you guys!

Saturday will be a bit much. Russell Tanoue's "real" birthday celebration is happening. Skyline is going to feature BELLY DANCERS! There's also something going on far away somewhere. Eh.

Twighlight Summer Concert....

...has such a nice ring to it, no? How about a nice harp ensemble? A blanket, a loaf of bread and some cheese and some of the world's most amazing tropical botanicals. The cannonball tree is there. WHAT THE! Seriously one of the most stunning things I've ever seen in real life... but I'll let you in on a little secret: I'm really in to trees. So majestic they are! And lovely...

So anyway! A free concert in a lovely setting. Why not? Tonight's show is pipes and drums. DRUMS! Woo. I remember trying out for a pipe and drum thing. It was so cool, man. You get to totally twirl your sticks all crazy before you hit the drum each time. It was definitely a cool technique but I'm glad the sticks were attached to my wrists with a leather strap, haha.

So anyway, Thursday activity..... Foster's Botanical Garden! Right in the heart of near-downtown. A fabulous setting... with the concert at 5:30pm. Nice pau hana. Dare to be different!
...and you can go see this plant. Part of the Pea Family. *snicker*


ALSO LATER: Another budget-friendly option is Swampa ZZ at Indigo. It's free cover and some amazingly refreshing funk music.

One of the Seven Wonders....

...of the town, Miss Jeela Ongley and Ten are celebrating tonight. As are the rest of us. There's one heck of a lineup:
Paula Fuga
The Spacifics
Creed Chameleon
Giinko Marischino
Tassho Pearce
G-Spot
DJ Skid
Redeye Jedi (b-boys)
E.T. - SoulShifters, Circle of Fire
BassX
45 Revolver
NoMasterBacks
Siq Records
Kids Klub
VJ Clintone
Seeko
Jamal Kilowattz the Mongoose
B-boy Reunion
Enemy Anomaly
Angstwoebots
Kavet the Catalyst

Not to mention the circa '97 slideshow at 8pm. How amazing that these folks are going to take us back to that time with them. It's a journey I know I'll be taking for the first time, as I didn't 'necessarily' find my home here until like 6 years after that. This is going to be one special night people. See you there.

Everyone is talking about ....

...it.
...and there's a reason why. Quadmag has been around longer than any nightlife website in hawaii. back before any social network there were these things called fourms. threads man. that's hella old school.



but if you're reading this then you know how far we've come as far as interacting with each other in our underwear via spaces where you can portray yourself as whoever you want to be.

[ten with ted. uber talent face off. by lacycam.]

so ya as far as hawaii is concerned, ten is a pioneer... and he's celebrating hardcore this saturday. it's the 10th anniversary of quadmag.com.


It's a fundraiser so budget out some of your hookers and support the guy who's brought Honolulu's nightlife community together for a decade. It's only $10 man. Paula Fuga is performing. Jamal is hosting. It's going to be epic.

PS: Everything to do on a Thursday....

...since for some of us it's the sorta Friday:

[where i'll be for SURE]

[how the hell do you wear shorts with no slippers? what the...]

[new spot. where the old reign is. think osake meets o lounge]

[because tourists and military can be fun sometimes.]

[late night goes off. OFF. get there by 1am stay til 4. dance dance dance.]

[this is at lotus. interesting. late night as well.]

Not a lot of love for both whippy and split?

That's cool man. I think it's better to just have one or the other too. Keep voting, let's see who has more by the end of the week.

I just wanted to chime in and interrupt the voting to let you know the weekend's pics are done. Highlights for the ADD'ers? Ya I got those:

first fashion friday.

first friday art walk. and dave wilkie's moo cards.


muskabeatz saturday.

and bam margera is totally not a celebrity prick like we thought.

artist's rendition makes a reappearance.

and russell will always be a big deal.

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.

Thursday Hip Hop

Swampa ZZ is also at Indigo...

AND! a barely legal rock show at Sound House the old Detox. Scream!

In National News....

...it seems like ol Stevo and Danny are winding down their Laverne & Shirlee tour with a gig in New York. Now how on earth did I miss this one when I was in SF...esp since it was sponsored by Sidekick. WHA??

So ya. Tonight? Make it to Waikiki before sunset to sit in the lounge and drink SUPER cheap martinis and watch the sun go down. Shit is amazing. The view... well. Here:

Later since you're already in Waikiki hit up Lotus for this Brazilian bikini fashion show thing. I love Lotus. Just make sure you validate your parking and it's only $3. NOT $10 like what I friggin paid. Grrr.

AND! Don't forget, never forget, barely legals at O Lounge wtih Vertical Junkies... 80's night at Next Door... Makana at indigo... and stuff.
Happy Hump Day!