By Wayne Harada
Advertiser Entertainment Editor
HOMECOMING: Martin Nievera, the Philippines-based Island singer, will return for a concert, "Martin Nievera ... Up Close and Personal," at 8 p.m. March 16 at the Hickam Officers’ Club. Jeannette Trevias will be on keyboards (she’s normally with Honolulu but serves as Nievera’s musical director whenever he’s here); H3 will be the opening act. Doors open at 6:30 p.m., with pÂp service from 7 p.m. Tickets: $40 through March 1, $45 thereafter. Call 449-1998, ext. 11...
Nievera’s been mentioned as a likely co-star of a yet-to-be-announced fund-raiser at the new DFS Galleria in Waikiki. Stay tuned for details ...
MOSTLY MAGIC: Mai Tai Sing, the hostess and public relations ace at the Hyatt Regency Waikiki’s Ciao Mein restaurant, remembers magician John Hirokawa from the days when he did tableside magic between Jimmy Borges’ show sets at the old Trappers club, which she used to manage. Over the years, as Hirokawa emerged as a showroom star, she’s always been working and never had the opportunity to see the youngster - now a married family man and father of three - until this week, when she took a night off to catch his "Magic of Polynesia" at the Waikiki Beachcomber Hotel. "You’re wonderful," she cooed, when they had a long overdue reunion after a 15-year period. "You still look the same," he told her ...
Sing also had her first visit to Keo’s in Waikiki and marveled at the brisk business Keo Sananikone has been enjoying since moving to KÂhiø Avenue. It was her first taste of Thai cuisine ...
David Copperfield, his girlfriend and his parents did take in Don Ho’s show at the Beachcomber ... where Ho hauled up his mom and dad during the Anniversary Couple segment. Afterward, they dined at the W Hotel’s Diamond Head Grill.
ITEMIZATIONS: Over on Maui, Keali‘i Reichel stages his annual Kukahi 2001 concerts at 7:30 p.m. today through Sunday at the Maui Arts & Cultural Center’s Castle Theatre. Tips: Watch for a high-tech opening, which has become a Reichel signature, as well as a preview of new material from his next CD (though release date is not yet set) ...
ABC sports commentator Al Michaels, the former Islander, had a pre-Valentine’s dinner at the new Ruth’s Chris Steakhouse at The Shops at Wailea ...
The Pipeline Cafe is earning national exposure via The Learning Channel’s "The Secret World of Hawai‘i" show. And 98 Degrees ("My Everything," "I Do (Cherish You)’’) and Rob Schneider ("Saturday Night Live," "Deuce Bigelow"). Schneider, decked out in a black-and-white striped zebra suit, also checked out Wave Waikiki, staying until 4 a.m. ...
Sansei Seafood Restaurant & Sushi Bar has launched a Tuesday "Sansei’s Unplugged Island Band Concert Series." Coming next Tuesday: Kahua and Col÷n.
Former Miss Hawai‘i Melissa Short is off to Paris for a soiree expected to attract unnamed royal families as well as film execs. The gig was arranged by Jerry Harrison, president of Gold Herringbone Productions and Fishbone Talent. Short remarked, "Singing in a palace in Paris ... what’s not to love? But don’t I need to have a French-made gown for the occasion?" Harrison said, "For what you’re being paid, you certainly can afford it" ...
Pat Bowlen, owner of the Denver Broncos and Nick’s Fishmarket, took his wife Annabel and daughter Amie and Amie’s husband, Dr. Howie Klemmer of Queen’s Medical Center’s ER, out to dinner on his last night here. You guessed it - he chose Nick’s ...
And that’s Show Biz ...
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