THE LEFT LANE
Jimi Hendrix, dolled up

Advertiser Staff and News Services

Jimi Hendrix's estate has teamed up with McFarlane Toys to produce an action figure of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame guitarist and singer.

In stores next month, the six-inch figure, to be sold by music retailers and some toy merchants, comes with accessories, including a guitar, amplifiers, guitar pedals, microphone and stand.

A standard version will sell for $12 to $15, while a deluxe boxed set will go for about $20. Matches and lighter fluid for the guitar presumably are sold separately.

Festival heralds fall

Festival-goers can feast on oishii (delicious) Japanese/local style cuisine, including various types of musubi, donburi, nishime and soba. Admission is free.

For more information, call 945-7633, or see www.jcch.com.

Sweet, but don't eat

Guys, you can forget the See's this time. All she needs is a tempting piece from Boucheron's latest jewelry collection, called "L'Eau a la Bouche," meaning "mouthwatering."

Metallurgists for the jeweler, with its elegant Honolulu outpost at 2100 Kalakaua Ave., have created a gold that's the color of melted chocolate and are offering rings, bracelets and necklaces in the unique alloy.

The designs offer a tongue-in-cheek chocoholic treatment: A ring that looks like luscious lips parted open, a tiny square with a bite out of it, a swirl with "chocolate" dripping down the sides.