This summer, sculptor Anson Tsang and his wife, Franny, launched Nine Tail Fox Studio, a jewelry design firm. Tsang has a great eye for color when combining semiprecious stones for earrings and necklaces, but we like best his mini silver sculptures on a ring, like this giraffe (you can forget the mace and martial-arts moves with this baby on your finger) and a pirate pig. Nine Tail Fox designs are at Bamboo Sky (1700 Kapi'olani Blvd.), Cupcake (Ward Centre) and www.9tailfox.blogspot.com.

— Lesa Griffith

CAT'S PEOPLE

Forget People and US Weekly — you want to know Advertiser reporter Catherine Toth's take on the 50 most interesting people of 2006. Sort-of local boy Barack Obama made the biggest impact on la Toth. Read her take on other local lights (Erin Watada, Kim Coco Iwamoto) along with international train wrecks like Brangelina at her addictive Daily Dish blog at http://blogs.honoluluadvertiser.com/index.php?blog=5.

—Advertiser Staff

STACK 'EM HIGH

Watch out, Wailana Coffee Shop. There's a new 24-hour breakfast-all-the-time joint in town. At MAC 24/7, in the remodeled Waikiki Prince Kuhio Hotel, an order of pancakes can feed a family of four (it has really happened). The Frisbee-size discs are as thick as the Sunday paper, and you get three of them. They come topped with things like a pile of fresh blueberries. We're partial to the Elvis — peanut butter and bacon. Perhaps best of all, the restaurant is the creation of hotel restaurant gurus CB5 (they redid 44 in Manhattan's Royalton Hotel). The retro-sleek, Jetsons-meets-diner space is a stylish place to end a nightcrawl. 921-5564.

— Lesa Griffith