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The Honolulu Advertiser
Posted on: Wednesday, March 7, 2007

ISLAND LIFE SHORTS
Return of the King

Advertiser Staff and News Services

When Elvis Aron Presley sailed into Honolulu Harbor on the Matsonia in October 1957, hundreds of fans met him dockside, and thousands more stormed the King's two Honolulu Stadium shows. It was a 20-year love affair that would last well beyond Presley's death in 1977. Fifty years after that first visit, Jerry Hopkins, a 20-year veteran of Rolling Stone magazine, describes the Elvis-Hawai'i connection in "Aloha Elvis" (Bess Press, $14.95), a pocket-size hardback with more than 100 photographs of the rock 'n' roll icon with people and places in Hawai'i, some never published before.


— Chris Oliver



BIG ISLAND



GRILL AND GROG

Outdoors and outstanding, "Grilling Under the Stars: A Brewers' Pa'ina" is 6 to 9 p.m. tomorrow at the Outrigger Keauhou Beach Resort, featuring fine beers for food pairings. Taste stations will serve salads, grilled foods and desserts that either incorporate beer as an ingredient or pair well with a brew. Lucy Saunders, author of "Grilling With Beer," will be on hand. The event is a prelude to this weekend's 12th Annual Kona Brewers Festival. Tickets are $45. Information: (808) 331-3033, www.konabrewersfestival.com.


— Advertiser staff



FINAL WORD

"If true art is to conceal art, then in my book, the American manner wins. On the other hand, effete, emotionally constipated academics are just so much more fun.

Stephen Fry | the British actor, who plays a shrink on Fox network's "Bones," in TV Guide