Nadine Kam photos Hayden Panettiere flashes a shaka sign at the Royal Hawaiian Hotel grand opening gala Saturday night. Guests had a date with history when The Royal Hawaiian Hotel celebrated its grand reopening with a fundraising gala Saturday night for The Rehabilitation Hospital of the Pacific Fo...

Nadine Kam photos “Lost’s” Michael Emerson on the red carpet. OK, OK, so it’s been a while. Can’t a person just recover from Sunday’s Oscar Night America festivities at the Royal Hawaiian Hotel? The event was once again presented by the Hawaii International Film F...

Nadine Kam photos Members of the outgoing 56th Cherry Blossom Festival Court, from left, are Miss Congeniality Keri Haitsuka, Princess Dawn Yonamine, First Princess Ashley Kaneshiro, Queen Trisha Tamaru, Princess Stacey Fukuda and Miss Popularity Jamie Lyn Migita. They’re wearing designs by An...

Touchstone Pictures Isla Fisher, in magenta, stars as shopaholic Rebecca Bloomfield in “Confessions of a Shopaholic,” opening Feb. 13. As a reporter I try not to make assumptions about people and situations until talking to parties involved, but sometimes when you see a person’s wo...

Associated Press Designs by Jean-Paul Gaultier. Really enjoyed seeing the photos come in from the Paris couture shows last week. The designers appear to have worked hard to avoid the suggestion of recession. Fashion is about appearances after all and putting one’s best effort forward as if by ...

Nadine Kam photos The mood was relaxed and the setting perfect at the Inaugural Gala at the Royal Hawaiian Hotel. Hawaii residents didn’t have to be in D.C. to dress up to party with Barack. I started the evening at the Royal Hawaiian Hotel, where the Democratic Party of Hawaii’s Inaugural Gala ...

Nadine Kam photos The moon shined over Saturday night’s Starlight Ball and one of its go-go dancers in the Henry R. Luce Pavilion. Stars were hidden by a layer of clouds during the 2009 Starlight Ball Saturday, but the full moon was out and the afternoon’s rains stopped just in time for ...

Nadine Kam photo Models Connor Lane and Michelle Vawer. She’s wearing Cosabella. Sorry I haven’t added to my blog in a week but the new year has been off to a fast start. Adding to the regular January mix of stories is the added “bonus” of inauguration activities surrounding ...

Nadine Kam photos Oh Susanna! Before we headed to the concert, we had dinner at Sergio’s at the Hilton, where the bartender professed his love for the Bangle and wished he were going to the concert too. Twenty years after their biggest hits, she still looks great and is a 16-year-old kind of t...

Guy Kawasaki photo The signs are the same wherever you go, so I’m sure Guy won’t mind if I borrow one off of his blog taken at Stanford Shopping Center the week after Christmas. Yes, I’m afraid that this is one of the signs of the times. Like any addiction, I don’t think that...