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Yahoo
25-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Here's how Memorial Day impacts the city of Honolulu's hours
HONOLULU (KHON2) — Memorial Day is on May 26, and the holiday is sure to bring closures to the island. All City and County of Honolulu offices will be closed on Memorial Day, with essential operations adjusting their schedule as seen fit. Residents try to catch glimpse of mystery animal at UH Manoa TheBus will operate on its Sunday schedule, which can be found online. The Skyline will also be on a different schedule, running from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. Skyline riders can find more information on their website. The Neal S. Blaisdell Center's box office will be closed on Memorial Day, as well as all satellite city halls and driver licensing centers. The People's Open Markets will also not be held. Parks, botanical gardens, municipal golf courses and the Honolulu Zoo will remain open for the holiday. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Boston Globe
02-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Boston Globe
Betsy Arakawa, a classical musician and the wife of Gene Hackman, dies at 65
'If in fact I have a style, it came from repeated edits, friends' suggestions, and my wife's unwavering, specific read-throughs,' he told the 'Writer's Bone' podcast in 2014. Advertisement Hackman would write his books with pen and paper, and Ms. Arakawa would type them up on a computer, making edits or sharing thoughts on characters with him, according to Barbara Lenihan, a friend of the couple for nearly 35 years. Get Starting Point A guide through the most important stories of the morning, delivered Monday through Friday. Enter Email Sign Up 'She was very involved with what he did,' Lenihan said. 'She made it very possible for him to do it.' Betsy Machiko Arakawa was born Dec. 15, 1959, and grew up in Honolulu. She began playing the piano at a young age. At 11, as a sixth-grader at Kahala Elementary School, she performed in front of thousands of students at the Honolulu International Center Concert Hall, now the Neal S. Blaisdell Center. She later performed with the Honolulu Symphony Orchestra, now the Hawai'i Symphony Orchestra. After moving to Los Angeles, she attended the University of Southern California from 1981 to 1983, graduating with a degree in social sciences and communication. During that time, she was a cheerleader for the Los Angeles Aztecs, a professional soccer team, and worked as a production assistant on the television game show 'Card Sharks,' according to The Honolulu Star-Advertiser. She graduated with a master's degree in liberal arts from St. John's College in New Mexico in 1991. She met Hackman in the 1980s while she was working part time at a fitness center in Los Angeles and trying to make it as a classical musician. Hackman had three children from a previous marriage, and in 1991 he and Ms. Arakawa married and settled in Santa Fe. Her survivors include her stepchildren, Christopher, Elizabeth and Leslie, and a grandchild. Advertisement In 1989, when she was dating Hackman, she gave a concert to residents at the retirement home that was used as a German nursing home in his film 'The Package.' After they married, she largely stopped performing in public. Ms Arakawa kept her life private, avoiding interviews and staying off social media. She would appear at awards shows with Hackman, and was often on the set of his movies, but avoided the limelight. 'She had to do a lot of Hollywood things, but she was very private,' Lenihan said. 'I think she could keep the parameters of their life together very well, and he appreciated that.' In 2001, Ms. Arakawa, who had an eye for interior design, opened Pandora's, a linens and home furnishings store in Santa Fe, with Lenihan. The longtime friends were running the store until her death. This article originally appeared in
