THE LEFT LANE
'Ukulele music's best
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| Herb Ohta Jr. and Herb "Ohta-san" Ohta are part of the lineup at Saturday's 'ukulele festival.
Advertiser library photo • July 23, 2001 |
Among the performers are Herb "Ohta-san" Ohta, Herb Ohta Jr., Lyle Ritz, Byron Yasui and the Opihi Pickers. Admission is free. (808) 886-8811.
— Wayne Harada, Advertiser entertainment editor
Tying the knot later
Marriage is better late or never for American women, the latest Census Bureau figures indicate.
The median age for women getting married for the first time is now 25.1 years, up from 20.8 years in 1970.
And in the past 30 years, the proportion of American women who have never been married has doubled for women ages 20 to 24 (from 36 percent to 73 percent). The proportion has more than tripled for women ages 30 to 34 (from 6 percent to 22 percent).
— Tanya Bricking, Advertiser staff writer
Celebs at GQ Lounge
If you're heading to Hollywood this week, the place to see stars is the GQ Lounge — a short-term nightclub in the Sunset Room restaurant created by GQ magazine, itself a celebrity vehicle.
Among the celebs to grace the GQ Lounge so far: March cover boy Tobey Maguire, Sean "P. Diddy" Combs, Jesse Jackson, Minnie Driver, Angela Bassett, Owen and Luke Wilson, Tara Reid, Vince Vaughn, Jennifer Love Hewitt and Jamie Foxx. It closes Saturday, but the magazine plans to create a similar lounge in New York in September, to celebrate its 45th anniversary.
— USA Today
Published at last
A new book by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings is being released this month after being lost, forgotten and fought over for 74 years. Rawlings wrote "Blood of My Blood" in 1928. The author, who died in 1953, also wrote "The Yearling" and "Cross Creek."
The \publisher, the University of Florida Press, said the volume contains details about Rawlings' upbringing in Washington, D.C., and Wisconsin.
— Associated Press
