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The Forgotten Story Of How Hawaiians Transformed American Music - Honolulu Civil Beat The Forgotten Story Of How Hawaiians Transformed American Music - Honolulu Civil Beat Posted: 07 Jun 2020 03:01 AM PDT Kale Kahalehili and Jean Duff needed to get home to Hawaii. Philadelphia was no place for an interracial couple in 1915. They were struggling. Their kids were struggling. The young couple met at a theater in Honolulu in 1902. Kahelehili was a dashing young musician playing in an orchestra. Duff was a model from the mainland — 10 years his senior — touring the world as a magician's assistant. They fell in love and he followed her home to Philadelphia. Kahalehili got work as a hotel porter and picked up a few gigs with local bands. Making ends meet was harder than they expected, but the young lovers had a plan. Hundreds of Hawaiian performers made a living in vaudeville in the 20th century. Wikimedia Hawaiian music was o...

The Book Trail: From ‘Kitchen’ to Short Stories - stopthefud The Book Trail: From ‘Kitchen’ to Short Stories - stopthefud Posted: 10 May 2020 11:30 PM PDT I am beginning this particular Book Trail post with a translated novel I reviewed last month, and very much enjoyed.  As ever, I have used the 'Readers Also Enjoyed' tool on Goodreads to generate this list. 1.  Kitchen   by  Banana Yoshimoto ' Kitchen juxtaposes two tales about mothers, transsexuality, bereavement, kitchens, love and tragedy in contemporary Japan. It is a startlingly original first work by Japan's brightest young literary star and is now a cult film.   When Kitchen was first published in Japan in 1987 it won two of Japan's most prestigious literary prizes, climbed its way to the top of the bestseller lists, then remained there for over a year and sold millions of copies. Banana Yoshimoto was hailed as a young writer of great talent and great pas...

Concord High students bond over shared love of learning in quarantine literature course - Concord Monitor Concord High students bond over shared love of learning in quarantine literature course - Concord Monitor Posted: 07 May 2020 01:44 PM PDT Lately, Niyanta Nepal is spending a lot of time reading on the deck of her home in Concord. With her busy schedule as president of the junior class, reading for fun isn't normally something she has much time for. But now that she's learning from home, Nepal finds herself immersed in the world of classic literature. Nepal is part of a course with six other juniors run by Concord Interim Superintendent, Frank Bass, on James Joyce's "Dubliners" and William Faulkner's short stories. It's a new remote learning course students have chosen to take in addition to their regular course load. They aren't getting grades for it – and Bass isn't getting paid to teach the cl...