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Home : A&E Section
August 4 - August 10, 2000
Guilty Verdict for Edmund Ko
(in National News)
Retired Asian American Judge to Fill Insurance Post
(in Bay Area News)
Streaming Media--Primetime and Online
(in Business)
The Big Bang of Bay Area Butoh
(in A&E)
Emil Amok: A Sudden Eraption
(in Opinion)
On the Scene
Events Galore
By Gerrye Wong
SUMMER CELEBRATIONS: San Franciscan Shaw Pang knows how to celebrate life. He usually celebrates his birthday by treating a couple hundred friends to golf, dinner and overnight stay at Rancho Canada Resort in Carmel. This year, when he turned 85, his old friend, Rancho Canada owner, Nick Lombardo did the treating and hosted Shaw and 300 friends to dinner and golf. The retired San Francisco grocer and wife Edna’s 125 great nieces and nephews from Mississippi entertained the guests with niece Sally Chow welcoming all in true southern dialect style. Dr. Ben Yuke delivered his original poem dedicated to old friend Shaw.
Oakland’s Mae and Al Chan celebrated their 50th Anniversary with a Silver Dragon Restaurant banquet dinner for 300 guests. A slide show chronicling their half century love story was presented by their children, Ron and Luci Chan, and Willie and Melanie Soo. I led their many friends in a song I wrote and dedicated to the happy Chans.
Former Marin County teacher Phyllis Shuck welcomed her son, Keith and new bride, Wendy Ting, home from Singapore with a dinner reception to herald their recent wedding at Gabbiano’s Restaurant on San Francisco’s shoreline.
Congratulations to newlyweds Karl and Claire Wong, who were recently honored at a banquet in Oakland’s Peony Restaurant by parents Mrs. Su Hing Yu Huang and Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Wong. Beaming grandparents Dr. Clifford and Susan Chang dressed their whole family in red to celebrate the births of the two latest grandchildren at an Empress of China Restaurant buffet in San Francisco. So honored were David Michael Chang, son of Dr. David and LuAnne Chang and Katelyn Susan Wang, daughter of Dr. Stephen and Lori Wang.
HOORAY FOR HONDA: Silicon Valley Congressional candidate Mike Honda has been greeted by many of his supporters as he campaigns before the November election.
Honda met over 200 friends at Milpitas Square’s Mayflower Restaurant at a fund-raising dinner organized by Gordon Chan and Yosh Uchida. Thirty women sponsors likewise welcomed over 300 female supporters at the former San Jose Mayor Susan Hammer’s home, to show the women’s vote is definitely out for the popular young California Democratic Assemblyman. Mike and his school teacher wife, Jeanne, were on hand to welcome the voters and donors.
GOOFY FOR GOLF: The exclusive Olympic Club of San Francisco will be the scene of the Sixth Annual Chinese Hospital Golf Tournament on Oct. 9 where golfers can dine on lunch and dinner and vie for prizes and awards, all in the name of charity. Proceeds will support the 24-hour Treatment Center of the Chinese Hospital, which has served San Francisco’s Chinese community since 1925. Ocean Course individual entry fee is $500 with $5,000 entry fee for parties of four on the spectacular Lake Course. For info: 415-677-2490.
Another good cause, the renovation of San Francisco’s Chinatown YMCA, will benefit if you join in their annual Golf Tournament Sept. 9 at Harding Park. A crab feed Awards Dinner at the Four Seas Restaurant will round out a full fun day of golf and grub. Check with YMCA Capital campaign supporter Mel Lee 415-441-8988 for details.
Golfing in Hawaii is an experience in itself. Becoming a latent gung-ho golfer in my doddering old age, I found dodging the lava beds alongside oceanfront Mauna Lani North Course most challenging, but agree with the Resort Public Relations Director Donna Kimura that their two courses are the most beautiful. Invited by Ed Honda, CEO of Design Build, Inc. to join him on course at his private Oahu Country Club overlooking Honolulu, I was met by typical Hawaiian weather conditions—one moment, torrential rain, the next, humid and hot sunshine.
GOOD NEWS: Through the efforts of California Assemblyman and Majority Leader Kevin Shelley to secure funding for the Chinese Historical Society of America, the new state budget for 2000-2001 includes $200,000 for the establishment of the Chinese-American National Museum and Learning Center in San Francisco. The CHSA, to be located in the former Chinatown YWCA, is projected to open in April, 2001.
Louise Davies Hall in San Francisco held sold-out crowds with San Francisco Symphony’s Summer in the City series. Old favorites Rosemary Clooney and Johnny Mathis as well as diva newcomer Audra McDonald won over the audiences with their own inimitable singing styles, and not a soul was silent during the Rogers and Hammerstein sing-along evening with the San Francisco Chorus.
Good work, San Francisco Symphony!
Ran into Jan Yanehiro, former Evening Magazine television star, in Hawaii, her home state, where she was vacationing with husband Rob Eaves and their five children at Waikoloa Hyatt Resort in Big Island. Jan’s new show on Home and Garden TV station, Appraise It, is such a hit, it is now aired five days a week.
Yanehiro says she has great fun on the appraisal show where typically over 200 people show up hauling their treasures to be appraised. She exclaimed, “You never know what will turn up at our twice weekly S.F. Butterfield and Butterfield evaluation sessions, and more often than not, people are pleasantly surprised how valuable their personal items are.”
AUGUST UPDATE: Finish out the summer with some wonderful entertainment.
- Foothill Music Theatre presents West Side Story at its Los Altos Hills. Smithwicke Theatre until Aug. 13. Info: 650-948-4444.
- New Musical and Tony winner Titanic opens Best of Broadway series at Orpheum Theatre in San Francisco.
- San Francisco Opera presents its 42nd Annual Merola Grand Finale at War Memorial Opera House Aug. 20. Info: 415-565-3236.
- Cameron Mackintosh’s legendary musical Les Miserables stays in San Francisco’s Curran Theatre until Sept. 16 due to popular demand. Don’t miss its great return performances. Info: 415-551-2020.
- Palo Alto’s TheatreWorks presents The Old Settler, a play set in 1940’s Harlem, in the newly air-conditioned Luci Stern Theatre. Info: 650-340-7860.
Home : A&E Section
Guilty Verdict for Edmund Ko
(in National News)
Retired Asian American Judge to Fill Insurance Post
(in Bay Area News)
Streaming Media--Primetime and Online
(in Business)
The Big Bang of Bay Area Butoh
(in A&E)
Emil Amok: A Sudden Eraption
(in Opinion)
On the Scene
| Guilty Verdict for Edmund Ko (in National News) Retired Asian American Judge to Fill Insurance Post Streaming Media--Primetime and Online The Big Bang of Bay Area Butoh Emil Amok: A Sudden Eraption |
Events Galore
By Gerrye Wong
SUMMER CELEBRATIONS: San Franciscan Shaw Pang knows how to celebrate life. He usually celebrates his birthday by treating a couple hundred friends to golf, dinner and overnight stay at Rancho Canada Resort in Carmel. This year, when he turned 85, his old friend, Rancho Canada owner, Nick Lombardo did the treating and hosted Shaw and 300 friends to dinner and golf. The retired San Francisco grocer and wife Edna’s 125 great nieces and nephews from Mississippi entertained the guests with niece Sally Chow welcoming all in true southern dialect style. Dr. Ben Yuke delivered his original poem dedicated to old friend Shaw.
Oakland’s Mae and Al Chan celebrated their 50th Anniversary with a Silver Dragon Restaurant banquet dinner for 300 guests. A slide show chronicling their half century love story was presented by their children, Ron and Luci Chan, and Willie and Melanie Soo. I led their many friends in a song I wrote and dedicated to the happy Chans.
Former Marin County teacher Phyllis Shuck welcomed her son, Keith and new bride, Wendy Ting, home from Singapore with a dinner reception to herald their recent wedding at Gabbiano’s Restaurant on San Francisco’s shoreline.
Congratulations to newlyweds Karl and Claire Wong, who were recently honored at a banquet in Oakland’s Peony Restaurant by parents Mrs. Su Hing Yu Huang and Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Wong. Beaming grandparents Dr. Clifford and Susan Chang dressed their whole family in red to celebrate the births of the two latest grandchildren at an Empress of China Restaurant buffet in San Francisco. So honored were David Michael Chang, son of Dr. David and LuAnne Chang and Katelyn Susan Wang, daughter of Dr. Stephen and Lori Wang.
HOORAY FOR HONDA: Silicon Valley Congressional candidate Mike Honda has been greeted by many of his supporters as he campaigns before the November election.
Honda met over 200 friends at Milpitas Square’s Mayflower Restaurant at a fund-raising dinner organized by Gordon Chan and Yosh Uchida. Thirty women sponsors likewise welcomed over 300 female supporters at the former San Jose Mayor Susan Hammer’s home, to show the women’s vote is definitely out for the popular young California Democratic Assemblyman. Mike and his school teacher wife, Jeanne, were on hand to welcome the voters and donors.
GOOFY FOR GOLF: The exclusive Olympic Club of San Francisco will be the scene of the Sixth Annual Chinese Hospital Golf Tournament on Oct. 9 where golfers can dine on lunch and dinner and vie for prizes and awards, all in the name of charity. Proceeds will support the 24-hour Treatment Center of the Chinese Hospital, which has served San Francisco’s Chinese community since 1925. Ocean Course individual entry fee is $500 with $5,000 entry fee for parties of four on the spectacular Lake Course. For info: 415-677-2490.
Another good cause, the renovation of San Francisco’s Chinatown YMCA, will benefit if you join in their annual Golf Tournament Sept. 9 at Harding Park. A crab feed Awards Dinner at the Four Seas Restaurant will round out a full fun day of golf and grub. Check with YMCA Capital campaign supporter Mel Lee 415-441-8988 for details.
Golfing in Hawaii is an experience in itself. Becoming a latent gung-ho golfer in my doddering old age, I found dodging the lava beds alongside oceanfront Mauna Lani North Course most challenging, but agree with the Resort Public Relations Director Donna Kimura that their two courses are the most beautiful. Invited by Ed Honda, CEO of Design Build, Inc. to join him on course at his private Oahu Country Club overlooking Honolulu, I was met by typical Hawaiian weather conditions—one moment, torrential rain, the next, humid and hot sunshine.
GOOD NEWS: Through the efforts of California Assemblyman and Majority Leader Kevin Shelley to secure funding for the Chinese Historical Society of America, the new state budget for 2000-2001 includes $200,000 for the establishment of the Chinese-American National Museum and Learning Center in San Francisco. The CHSA, to be located in the former Chinatown YWCA, is projected to open in April, 2001.
Louise Davies Hall in San Francisco held sold-out crowds with San Francisco Symphony’s Summer in the City series. Old favorites Rosemary Clooney and Johnny Mathis as well as diva newcomer Audra McDonald won over the audiences with their own inimitable singing styles, and not a soul was silent during the Rogers and Hammerstein sing-along evening with the San Francisco Chorus.
Good work, San Francisco Symphony!
Ran into Jan Yanehiro, former Evening Magazine television star, in Hawaii, her home state, where she was vacationing with husband Rob Eaves and their five children at Waikoloa Hyatt Resort in Big Island. Jan’s new show on Home and Garden TV station, Appraise It, is such a hit, it is now aired five days a week.
Yanehiro says she has great fun on the appraisal show where typically over 200 people show up hauling their treasures to be appraised. She exclaimed, “You never know what will turn up at our twice weekly S.F. Butterfield and Butterfield evaluation sessions, and more often than not, people are pleasantly surprised how valuable their personal items are.”
AUGUST UPDATE: Finish out the summer with some wonderful entertainment.
- Foothill Music Theatre presents West Side Story at its Los Altos Hills. Smithwicke Theatre until Aug. 13. Info: 650-948-4444.
- New Musical and Tony winner Titanic opens Best of Broadway series at Orpheum Theatre in San Francisco.
- San Francisco Opera presents its 42nd Annual Merola Grand Finale at War Memorial Opera House Aug. 20. Info: 415-565-3236.
- Cameron Mackintosh’s legendary musical Les Miserables stays in San Francisco’s Curran Theatre until Sept. 16 due to popular demand. Don’t miss its great return performances. Info: 415-551-2020.
- Palo Alto’s TheatreWorks presents The Old Settler, a play set in 1940’s Harlem, in the newly air-conditioned Luci Stern Theatre. Info: 650-340-7860.
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