Birthday kids Russell Tanoue and Sky Rea. For 19 years, celebrity photographer Russell Tanoue has morphed his birthday celebration into a high-profile benefit event. Saturday night, a portion of the proceeds from the celebration held at M Nightclub went to…
Beautiful people came out in force Saturday night for Russell Tanoue’s 18th Annual Birthday Project Celebration. The celebration at M Nightclub benefited Project Shine Hawaii, which helps local at-risk teens. The event featured a silent auction, raffle prizes, photo shoot…
Promotions veteran, philanthropist and well-known local glam photographer Russell Tanoue hosted a more intimate birthday party at the new Buho de Cocina y Cantina in Waikiki Wednesday evening. Friends from all corners of the island dressed up and came to…
Russell Tanoue hosted another NINES at Chai Friday with drink specials, happy hour appetizer specials from 9-11 p.m., DJ Dana Kruse and a well-dressed crowd. NINES @ Chai ◄ Back Next ► Picture 1 of 20 jQuery(function($) { new NggPaginatedGallery('dbbc18b1e26d5f5bf59c869cc6ff5eb1', '.ngg-imagebrowser');…
The October edition of Russell Tanoue’s NINES party at Chef Chai on Kapiolani was a black/masquerade theme, with partygoers coming dressed in masks, black attire or their Halloween costumes. Ultra Black Masquerade Party ◄ Back Next ► Picture 1 of…
Russell Tanoue and Chef Chai celebrated the grand opening of a new party at Chef Chai on Kapiolani Friday evening, with a beautiful crowd “dressed to the nines” coming out to enjoy cocktail and beer specials, mingling and dancing to…
Russell Tanoue and Pearl Ultralounge celebrated the winter holidays with a special edition of Beautiful, called BLISS, on Saturday. Members of the fashion industry and some of Honolulu’s VIPs and most beautiful people came out for the sexy holiday soiree.…
Glam photographer, party promoter and philanthropist Russell Tanoue held another one of his famed birthday bashes at Pearl (this one with a hat theme) on Saturday night, with the funds raised going to benefit HUGS Hawaii, a nonprofit that serves…
Whether you know him as a photographer, a philanthropist or simply a really fun person to be around, few people have done as much for the Honolulu fashion and beauty scene as Russell Tanoue. Every year on his birthday, Russell…
Pearl Ultralounge and Russell Tanoue’s new weekly Friday night party, Zero11, kicked off in style with the club going dark at 11 p.m. and switching over from Top 40 to electronica music with DJs The Ignition Switch and Soundsex on…
If you’ve somehow managed to miss it in the last several months, Honolulu has been undergoing an art revival. Thursday’s unveiling ceremony for the huge Water Writes mural done by Estria and 808 Urban really drove that home for me,…
