By Dennis Oda, Star-Bulletin
Lights! Camera! Action! Studio 1 Hawaii - a nightclub nestled at the base of Aloha Tower - opens Friday night.It's Israel's 49th birthday on Sunday, and we don't mean Kamakawiwo'ole. The Jewish nation's anniversary will be celebrated from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday at Kapiolani Park Bandstand. Jewish holiday Sunday
Entertainment includes the Royal Hawaiian Band, Abe Weinstein, the Pleasant Peasant Band and the Klezmatical Dry Bones, as well as the charming Israeli custom of bopping strangers on the head with patishim, or little plastic squeaky hammers.
Food booths will serve Middle Eastern and Jewish dishes such as shwarmah, houmous, baba ghanoush and falafel. Free. Call 595-5218.
Singer Keali'i Reichel has a late-night concert with O'Brien Eselu today at the Polynesian Cultural Center. The show begins at 10:15 p.m. and ends at midnight. Late date at Cultural Center
Reichel has won several Na Hoku Hanohano awards and signed a four-record deal with Atlantic/Time Warner.
Eselu is a singer who is performing in the weeklong Fifth Annual World Fire Knife Dance Competition and We Are Samoa Festival at the center.
Doors open at 10 p.m. Admission is $10. Information: 293-3333.
"Salute to the Military" is a luau event sponsored by the Army's Hale Koa Hotel and Pacific Harley Davidson and Cycle City to celebrate Military Appreciation Week, and it occurs at 6 p.m. today at the hotel. A biker's luau
The dinner show entertainment is Danny Couch, who hosts hula, fire-knife dancing, jokes, songs and story-telling. Harley Davidson will display motorcycles and "biker beauties." The food is standard luau fare, including lomi lomi salmon, mahimahi, pork, haupia and other Hawaii dishes.
Admission is $20.95. Information: 955-0555.
Burl Burlingame, Star-Bulletin
