THE LEFT LANE
Hula's Sonny Ching goes pin-up punk

Advertiser Staff and News Services

Sonny Ching, kumu hula of Halau Na Mamo 'O Pu'uanahulu, has a modern side. He goes punk, with spiked hair, earrings, and chains, for a photo in a 2004 calendar designed by graphic artist Stacey Leong Mills.

Ching, a perennial contender and past winner of the Merrie Monarch Festival, will be the April figure in the calendar, photographed by Jon Mozo, a North Shore shooter and surfer.

Mills has won a design award from the American Institute of Graphic Arts' Honolulu chapter, for Ching's Web site, www.sonnyching.com.

Kids Day extra

What do children want their parents to know? Find out in tomorrow's Kids Day benefit edition of The Honolulu Advertiser, featuring essays, drawings, poems and suggestions from students in grades one through 12.

For the fifth year in a row, celebrities will be out in the streets hawking the papers for $1 apiece. Proceeds go to Parents and Children Together, a non-profit service agency.

Among those selling papers around the island: Gov. Linda Lingle and Lt. Gov. Duke Aiona near the capitol; the Society of Seven in front of the Outrigger Waikiki Hotel; UH athletic coaches, radio and TV personalities all around town.

Life's a beach

Beach Week programs, airing through Saturday on the Travel Channel, roll out the towel at the nation's sand traps and define what a great beach should be.

Today's segment in this beach blitz will feature the "Top Ten Hawaiian Beach Resorts," at 2 p.m. and 5 p.m.

The show also will be aired at noon Saturday on the Travel Channel.

When the sand settles, the experts will announce Travel Channel's list of the top 10 American beaches. Sizzle, sizzle!

Correction: The Travel Channel's show on the "Top Ten Hawaiian Beach Resorts" shows at 2 p.m. and 5 p.m. today. An previous version of this column gave an incorrect time. The show also will be aired at noon Saturday on the Travel Channel.