PICS: ‘Lanai’s Throwback Saturdays’ at Oceans808
August 29, 2010 by Star-Advertiser Staff
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Photos by Jamm Aquino / jaquino@staradvertiser.com
Lanai Tabura flashes a shaka as the dancefloor gets down during the first night of “Lanai’s Flashback Saturdays” at Oceans808. He’s rekindling the party at the very spot where years ago, he says, there would be a line around the block to get inside what was then Studebaker’s.
Inside HILife: ‘Comedy Run at the Cupola’
November 12, 2009 by John Berger
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Well-designed comedy
 Lanai Tabura ‘COMEDY RUN AT THE CUPOLA’featuring Lanai Tabura, Shawn Felipe and Kaleo Pilanca » Where: Honolulu Design Center, 1250 Kapiolani Blvd. |
Anyone can perform a great stand-up comedy set alone in their car during rush hour traffic. Taking that act beyond the fantasy stage requires getting out in public, testing it on other people and finding out what bits work and what bits need work.
Veteran comics already comfortable working an audience also need a place to test material. Successful singers sometimes complain about fans expecting to hear the same old hits and nothing but the hits, but if a comic tells the same jokes too many times, fans might think they’ve run out of ideas.
Veteran comic Lanai Tabura addresses both sides of the issue on Wednesdays at the Hono lulu Design Center’s Cupola Theatre. Lanai — his public moniker for more than two decades — is co-headlining the local comedy showcase with two other stand-up veterans, Shawn Felipe and Kaleo Pilanca.
Newer talents also have a chance for stage time when space is available. Champ Kaneshiro, the designated host of the show, was indisposed when I stopped by last week, so Lanai was the emcee and two younger talents — David Lee and Paul Kane — got an opportunity to perform.
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Inside HILife: Barfly
May 29, 2009 by Jason Genegabus
Filed under Barfly, Featured, Latest News
Wine for Da Braddahs
Craig Kojima / ckojima@starbulletin.com
| LAUNCH PARTY
Look Me in the Eye Where: Honolulu Design Center, 1250 Kapiolani Blvd. |
Thousands of local residents have either awakened or driven home with Grant “Lanai” Tabura during his nearly 23 years on Honolulu radio airwaves.
So it came as a bit of a shock when the longtime on-air personality recently lost his job as morning host on Island 98.5. But the unplanned vacation turned into a welcome opportunity to promote his latest business venture.
“I’m not (done with radio), not done at all,” Tabura said two weeks ago over lunch at the Honolulu Design Center. “I’ve got a bunch of different offers to do different things, so I’m just going to go on vacation for the next six months.”
One of the offers he got while still employed was to formulate his own wine. Following more than two years of development and months of private tastings, Tabura is set to launch his Look Me in the Eye brand this weekend.
“The name Look Me in the Eye is derived from when kings and queens drank wine,” he explained. “When they would meet up and share with each other, they would look each other in the eye to show they weren’t poisoning each other.”
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