THE LEFT LANE
Choy makes it fun
Advertiser Staff and News Services
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Among the many hotel ballroom dinner-and-auction events each year, it stands out because it's smilingly hosted by Sam Choy, who brings in an interesting chef friend or two, plus pals from the entertainment world; because it's less formal and more Hawai'i-feeling than many; and because the auction table is particularly eclectic and sometimes offers bargains.
For the 10th annual event April 19 in the Hilton Hawaiian Village Coral Ballroom, Choy is bringing back former Islanders pastry chef Stanton Ho, who last year built a display of desserts that was a wonderland of fruit, chocolate, pastry cream and all manner of other tempting things. (He's now executive pastry chef at the Las Vegas Hilton.) Tickets are available at $200 each. Phone 521-3811.
50 Cent to rap here
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The "Get Rich or Die Tryin'" guy — that single is No. 2 this week on the Top 200 chart — will release his DVD "The New Breed" on April 15, with concert footage, video clips, and interviews with jailed rapper Tony Yayo. Details on prices and ticket outlets have yet to be announced.
Chevy to the levy
Still haven't filed your income taxes? You aren't alone.
"When the map of human genes is completed, I'm expecting to hear about the income-tax gene," says Don Silver, author of "The Generation X Money Book" and "Baby Boomer Retirement. "Chances are a normal gene will be one that causes tax procrastination."
Silver says most tax procrastinators are those who expect to owe money, because "no one wants to hear bad news."
The same psychology operates when investors avoid looking at their mutual fund or 401(k) statements.
But he argues that now is the time for a serious, long-term review of your tax and investment situation: Do you need to have more taken out of your paycheck? Is it time to weed out losing investments?
