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Your Weekend: The Best Family Events-Oct. 3, 2018

Photo: Courtesy of Honolulu Intertribal CouncilThe Honolulu Intertribal Powwow is this weekend at Ala Moana Beach Park, featuring food, crafts and cultural activities. Honolulu Intertribal Powwow Experience the cultures of Native American Indians and Alaskan Natives at a two-day powwow…

Did this: The Signature Chefs food festival

Several hundred people gathered at the Kakaako fire station last night to enjoy the third annual Signature Chefs Food Festival, a fundraiser for the Honolulu Firefighters Foundation. This was the biggest event yet, with 16 food stations showcasing creations by the…

It’s Don Quijote, not Daiei!

I must be getting older when I still refer to the site where Don Quijote sits on Kaheka Street at Daiei.And Daiei hasn’t been there since 2006.Worse yet, my mom — who’s turning 66 this summer — still calls it Holiday Mart.…

Did this: The Empty Bowl Project

Photo by Burt LumLast night, as part of Slow Art Friday, thousands of people flocked to Chinatown to support The Empty Bowl Project, a fundraiser for Hawaii Meals on Wheels and the River of Life Mission.Twenty A-list restaurants were asked…

FUUD with foodies at Side Street Inn

The other day I got an e-mail from tech-geek extraordinaire Ryan Ozawa, asking if I’d like to attend a foodie meet-up at Side Street Inn.He said one of the hosts of the wildly popular podcast “The Sporkful” — Mark Garrison — was…