ISLAND LIFE SHORTS
Jazz singer headlines Deep Blue at the Hyatt
Advertiser Staff
Just opened at the Hyatt Regency Waikiki is Deep Blue, a restaurant and nightclub, where jazz singer Azure McCall is the first spotlighted act.
McCall, backed by pianist Tennyson Stevens, will perform 7 to 10 p.m. Thursdays and Fridays, followed by Top 40, rock and other contemporary beats after dinner hours.
Deep Blue brings the supper club concept, popular in Europe and Japan, to Honolulu, said Chikara Yanagiya, president and CEO of club owner International Furusato, which also owns L'Uraku and Furusato Sushi Bar.
—Wayne Harada
SALUTING AMERICA'S 24.5 MILLION VETERANS
Veterans Day started out as Armistice Day on Nov. 11, 1918, to commemorate the end of World War I. In 1954, the name was changed to honor all who served the nation in wars. Here are statistics to think about while the nation's future vets are in Iraq and Afghanistan, from the Census Bureau:
—Catherine E. Toth
FINAL WORD
"It's like Ireland with the heat on."
Pierce Brosnan | on why he spends so much time in Hawai'i, as quoted in Travel & Leisure
