A trip to Europe is costly in time and money, so instead, board your virtual flight on PBS Hawaii to Venice: City of Dreams.
On RICK STEVES' EUROPE (Sat., May 18, 2013, 7:30 pm), we'll sort through the monuments of a powerful past and trace the city's decline from Europe's most powerful city to a center of hedonism.
We'll cruise the Grand Canal, luxuriate in a café, savor fresh fish and ride a gondola under the moonlight. All within a half-hour and without getting our toes wet.
Check our PBS Hawaii characters carefully and you'll find our newest PBS Hawaii Keiki Club member, 3-year-old Suhaa!
This Honolulu resident came by the station with her mom and calabash uncle and was delighted to join her familiar TV "friends" in our lobby. She's thrilled she will be receiving fun mail and invitations from the Keiki Club addressed directly to her. After all, she's getting to be a big girl, entering pre-school!
Jessie Higa calls herself an "old soul," and she's not referring to her age. She loves the stories of elders and she has made it her life's work to learn about the people who once lived at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, in modern wartime and in ancient times. The child of parents in the service, now the wife of a military officer, Jessie is a volunteer historian at Hickam. You'll hear some of the remarkable information Jessie has collected, when you tune into the next LONG STORY SHORT (Tues., May 14, 2013, 7:30 pm) on PBS Hawaii.
So much I didn't know about Hickam's past!
I also was struck by her answer to this question: "What are you grateful for?" She spoke about her parents: "They taught us how to be resilient. They taught us how to make friends easily, no matter where we went. And I watch my mom and my dad, how they interact with people--the generosity, the sincerity. This is what I think I learned the most from my parents, and I'm just so grateful."
You can also watch LONG STORY SHORT episodes online at:
Today I was in the old News Building on Kapiolani Boulevard for what may be my last time. It happened to be a moving day for current occupants, workers who support the Hawaii Five-O show. I thought of how many times I'd walked up and down these steps as a rookie reporter for the former Honolulu Star-Bulletin.
The facade of the building will be kept; the rest will be knocked down to create a condo tower. This was a building of detail and character, show place and work horse. It was the home base of two daily newspapers, with reporters hammering out copy on manual typewriters. Back then, the law allowed smoking in buildings, and boy, did most reporters smoke! In the air there also was the nervous sweat of news deadlines. That probably doesn't sound so attractive, but I loved the work, got a kick from the adrenaline, and I enjoyed my 4-1/2 years there. Decades after leaving the job to move to TV news, I can rattle off the address without thinking: 605 Kapiolani Boulevard. Soon it'll be a lot of people's home address.
If you look closely (below) you can see two fishermen on an exposed reef during low tide this morning on Oahu's North Shore. As the ocean gentles following the big-wave season, the reef fishermen come back and find their footing, kayakers paddle out and divers once again find near-shore clarity...Summer is almost here.
They are affectionate family members, and they're intelligent, too. That's part of what we learn as NATURE The Private Life of Deer (Wed., May 8, 2013, 8:00 pm) enters the hidden world of white bob-tailed deer living near people. There are 30 million of these deer in the U.S. With night-vision cameras and GPS tracking equipment , we're able to see how dear these deer can be.
At our annual volunteers luncheon at the Willows Restaurant, our 40 special guests were presented with a handmade gift: a beautiful, long-lasting crown flower lei.
All of the flowers were picked, and the fat three-strand lei were sewn, by PBS Hawaii Board member, Gayle Harimoto (below, left).
She's with PBS Hawaii Advancement Staffer Stephanie Joe, who helped plan the recognition lunch.
Gayle is a retired administrator in the State Department of Education and an active, engaged Board member. Our volunteers were touched at the hours she put into the flower-picking and sewing of EACH lei.
Of course, our volunteers are familiar with putting in time on labors of love. They generally help out every week or every other week--answering viewer calls for "Insights on PBS Hawaii;" providing assistance at keiki educational events, the aio Hawaii State Spelling Bee and HIKI NO boot camps, and pitching in on big mail-outs.
Thank you, volunteers and staff--and mahalo to the Queen of Lei-making with Heart, Gayle Harimoto.
Steven is an older white man obsessed with marrying a stereotypical shy, obedient Asian woman. He finds his young Chinese bride, Sandy, online. She turns out to be feisty, ambitious, strong-willed. Welcome to the real world, Steven.
Debbie is the Chinese-American filmmaker who becomes confidante and translator in this precarious union. As they navigate the vast cultural and language divide through a challenging year, the three come together in INDEPENDENT LENS Seeking Asian Female on PBS Hawaii (Mon., May 6, 2013, 10:00 pm).
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