Entertainment

Things to do on First Friday when you’re broke

The venerable downtown/Chinatown celebration doesn’t have to cost much.

by Ragnar carlson | Jun 3, 2009

Dated

Tue, Jun 5

First Friday / Turner overdrive

Bethel Street Gallery celebrates one of its own-ers this weekend with a show featuring Mark Turner. The painter and gallery partner’s solo exhibition bursts with the vibrance and power befitting its summertime opening.

“I tried to take the pressure off myself in preparing for this show,” Turner says in his artist’s statement. “No title, no theme…just stuff I wanted to paint. It’s a mix of different work and is representative of what I do all the time. A few abstracts, some florals, a little tapa. I enjoy that wide swing from ultimate freedom in an abstract painting to the intricate and tedious nature of tapa and patternwork. It is that variety that continues to feed my creativity.”

Bethel St. Gallery, 1140 Bethel St, 5–9pm

Jumping fleas

Get past the ‘uku factor: Shop, Bop & Grind rocks. The dancing-shopping-eating hub, which convenes in Chaplain Lane (that’s the alley outside Mercury Bar) for the first time this Friday, is equal parts outdoor bazaar, fashion show, club event and social mixer. Miss your favorite KTUH show this week? Veteran DJs Mr. Nick, Trav15, The 5th Columnist and others will keep you dancing in the street. While moving, browse and buy among local DIY vendors such as Olde Ivory, 100% clothing, Catwings Couture, 808 Scene Zine and Black Cat Tattoo. All that bopping-shopping making you hungry? You’re just a few steps away from alleyway favorite Hole in the Wall’s stall and actual eatery. Who knows what the owners would have thought up for First Friday? When you’re refueled, pretty yourself up for posing in front of a moving photo booth for only $5.

Chaplain Lane, between Bethel and Fort streets, 6–9pm

Junk and po’

Rock Shop, the monthly art and fashion gathering organized by Honolulu Weekly style columnist Anné Au (see City Wise, page 39), is moving on again this weekend, this time to SoHo Mixed Media Bar (see Hot Picks, page 6). Featured artists this month will be Rob McG and Crystal Thornburgh, with fashion from Blackbird, DORK, Electric, Kisa Kosmos, 1979, Blaine Ashley and others. Come early for the best deals.

Rock Shop, SoHo, 80 South Pauahi St, 3:30–8pm

Dance high

The Summer Dance Showcase promises about as diverse an experience of human movement-to-music as you’re likely to enjoy, maybe ever. In addition to the familiar bellydancing charms of Willow Chang and her Sangha Dance Theater, performers include breakdance prodigy SkillRoy, the Tau Dance Theater’s keiki corps doing a ballet-kahiko-contemporary hula piece, IONA and–naturally–the Old Guard Fife and Drum Corps, one of the Army’s most celebrated ensembles, with a military salute.

Hawaii State Art Museum, No. 1 Capitol District, 6–9pm

Stay ’mad

After a decade in Chinatown, Frieda Hulse is closing up shop at Urban Nomad and heading off for new adventures in New York. We know, we know, you’ve heard it before, but this time it looks like it really is the last sojourn for the fashion institution–she even showed us her plane ticket. We’re happy for Frieda, who seems excited about the change, and sad for ourselves, but there is a bit of a silver (lamee) lining to all of this: the too-good-to-be-true boutique will go out in style Friday night with the sale of lifetime: Hulse promises that the overwhelming majority of her existing stock will be offered at $5. Five dollars, she swears, for all clothing and accessories, barring a very few exceptions. Crazy.

Urban Nomad, 1023 Smith St, 7–11pm

Celebrating Hawaii, nature, culture and wellness for over 35 years!

COMMENTS

We often print online comments in our “Letters to the Editor” section of Honolulu Weekly. While submitted letters are often edited for length and clarity, online comments we use are printed entirely as they are written for the website. If you do not wish for your comment to be used in Honolulu Weekly print issues, please write “Don’t Print” at the end of your comment. For questions, e-mail editorial@honoluluweekly.com. Thank you!

blog comments powered by Disqus

This week

Still on Board

Given the city’s crumbling infrastructure and rail controversy, it’s hard to believe anyone would want to be the next mayor of Honolulu. But a few do want the job, including the incumbent, Mayor Peter Carlisle, the former Honolulu Prosecuting Attorney who won a 2010 special election to fill the remainder of Mufi Hannemann’s term.

City Council 101

I’d never been to a Honolulu City Council meeting until a few weeks ago. Features, not politics, was my beat.

Nurturing a living culture

Victoria Holt Takamine is a kumu hula, a cultural activist and a teacher and has an impeccable pedigree to back up all these titles. Born of an alii family whose kuleana was in Moanalua, she graduated as a hula teacher under the legendary Auntie Maiki Aiu Lake and taught hundreds of students in her own halau (Pua Alii ‘Ilima) and at the University of Hawaii.

Public access

On April 25, a state judge dismissed trespassing charges against a Kauai man after finding that he had been exercising traditional native Hawaiian rights hunting wild pigs on private land. Kui Palama, 28, was arrested on Jan.

transitional Housing

The city plans to dish out $3.5 million from its Affordable Housing Fund and either purchase or renovate a structure to provide transitional housing for Honolulu’s special needs homeless population. “Our community has invested considerable effort and resources in addressing homelessness,” Mayor Peter Carlisle said in a statement, “but there remains a population whose disabilities or chronic conditions make it difficult for them to participate in traditional shelter programs.” Carlisle is referring to those homeless with mental illnesses, addictions and physical disabilities.

Poi Mill shut

Makaweli Poi faces an uncertain future after its owner, a corporate subsidiary of the Office of Hawaiian Affairs (OHA) ordered the West Kauai mill to suspend operations May 23. Mona Bernardino, chief operating officer of the corporation, Hiipoi LLC, says the move to shut down Makaweli Poi was prompted mainly by financial concerns.

Sewage study

A resolution adopted by the City Council will solidify an agreement between the City and County of Honolulu and the University of Hawaii Water Resources Research Center (UH-WRRC) to conduct an analysis of impacts from ocean sewer outfalls on the marine environments off of Oahu. The city will pay UH-WRRC as much as $2.5 million for biological and sediment studies in portions between now and June 30, 2017 .

pedaling 9-5

Along with the deep, verdant growth of spring sprouts an unyielding desire to spend more time in the open air. That’s why it should come as no surprise that National Bike Month falls in the sun-drenched time of May.

Billions of …

Of the many letters you publish against rail, how many offer an alternative that won’t send us into further economic demise? Billions of gallons of oil are imported for us from every oil-producing nation on this planet so that we can buy billions of gallons of gasoline.

Goodbye bus, hello rail?

TheBus is taking a back seat to rail. At the May 3 Downtown Neighborhood Board meeting, an audience member asked city Transportation Director Wayne Yoshioka when we could expect the bus route cancellations and changes to be reversed.

Honolulu Weekly