Old Friends gives MidWeek a chance to catch up with people who were on MidWeek’s cover before.
Below are the last 5 Old Friends columns
Dean Wilson
Wednesday - June 24, 2009
By Alana Folen
Pro golfer and Hawaii’s own Dean Wilson currently resides on Hawaii’s “ninth island,” Las Vegas - his home away from home while not on tour. Busy as ever, Wilson competed in the PGA Tour St. Jude Classic in Memphis, Tenn., last week and previously played in the Crowne Plaza Invitational at Colonial Ft. Worth, Texas, to name a couple.
Read Column>>Kim Taylor Reece
Wednesday - May 13, 2009
By Alana Folen
Renowned artist and fine-art photographer Kim Taylor Reece is taking his work to a whole new dimension - reality TV. In search of the next Kim Taylor Reece model, Dancers in Paradise is a competition featuring 12 to 13 hula dancers with various dance experience and backgrounds vying for the prestigious title. “The original idea came from John Berger of Star-Bulletin/Nite Life fame,” says Reece.
Dr. Jorge G. Camara
Wednesday - May 06, 2009
By Alana Folen
Combining medicine with music is what Dr. Jorge G. Camara does best. As an internationally renowned ophthalmologist and classically trained pianist, Camara has infused what he says are clinically proven relaxing properties of classical music with medicine to produce a recently released album, Live from the Operating Room.
Brother Noland
Wednesday - April 22, 2009
By Alana Folen
Local musician and songwriter Brother Noland Conjugacion is an iconic staple in Hawaii’s music scene. He’s been doing what he calls “this dance” of music for 33 years, and by the looks of it, he’s not stopping anytime soon. Conjugacion recently released a new album titled Hawaiian Man.
Matt Catingub
Wednesday - March 18, 2009
By Alana Folen
Matt Catingub is celebrating his 10th anniversary as conductor of the Honolulu Symphony Pops this year, and will be honored at jazz pianist and singer Diana Krall’s Toyota Pops concerts at 8 p.m. March 19 and 20 at Blaisdell Concert Hall. Ticket prices range from $45 to $125.
