
MIDWEEK
COVERSTORY
Prominent Honolulu business men and women embrace a new plan, Learning Point Rewards, that could provide local schools with millions of dollars. Look inside to see who makes up this composite image.
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MIDWEEK
FEATURE STORY
Born from a beer ad, dachshund racing is a growing sport among dog lovers who embrace the combination of friendly competition and comedy. With a height of several inches and legs looking short and stiff
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Walter Komatsubara’s green thumb turns patches of dirt and rocks into true fields of dreams
FASHION
FOOD

Job Title: Chef de Partie, Alan Wong’s Restaurant.
What started your interest in cooking? I’ve always loved eating and I literally grew up in restaurants.
TRAVEL
THE EX-DANCING WITH THE STARS and ex-Peep Show dancer Mel B celebrated her birthday last week at WET REPUBLIC, the ultra-pool party at the MGM Grand. That’s right, hundreds of people paid a cover charge just to say they shared chlorine with Scary Spice ... Now that’s scary.
SPORTS/FITNESS
POLITICS


ENTERTAINMENT
MUSIC
MOVIES

Dan And Sandra Olson
Owners of Women’s Surf Style Magazine
Overall what did you think of the movie? Sandra: I thought it was great. A lot of great laughs, and it was very entertaining. Dan: I did not get bored, so it was pretty good.
On a scale of one to four stars, what would you rate the movie? ★★★
BUSINESS

By Charlie Longhi
Owner of Longhi’s - Ala Moana Center
My dad, Bob Longhi, opened the now-iconic Longhi’s in Lahaina in 1976, with a simple philosophy: “Cook with love, eat with passion!” I live those words each and every day here at Longhi’s at Ala Moana Center. My father traveled around the world, hosted huge parties in Washington, D.C.
EXPERT ADVICE
LIFESTYLE

Pro golfer and Hawaii’s own Dean Wilson currently resides on Hawaii’s “ninth island,” Las Vegas - his home away from home while not on tour. Busy as ever, Wilson competed in the PGA Tour St. Jude Classic in Memphis, Tenn., last week and previously played in the Crowne Plaza Invitational at Colonial Ft. Worth, Texas, to name a couple.
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Did you know that the cheetah is the only big cat that can purr? How ‘bout that the king of hearts is the only king in the deck without a mustache? If you do, then congratulations on knowing a bunch of random facts. You should try your luck on Jeopardy. (And if you happen to win the big bucks, remember who always supported you way back when, hint, hint.) But if you don’t know useless trivia - or that, in America, car horns beep in the tone of F - don’t feel too down. “Who counts that, you know?” says Micah Hirokawa of the laughable-but-true
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