Get some relief from the summer heat at the next Aloha Shorts live taping featuring spine-chilling “Spooky Stories” (shows will actually be broadcast in late October).  For this Halloween-in-July event, audience members are invited to come in their best home-made costumes*. There will be a contest and prize awarded for best costume, so start digging through your closets now!

SUNDAY, JULY 5, 2009
6:45 pm Music by Hamajang / 7:00 pm Readings begin
Atherton Studio, Hawaii Public Radio, 738 Kaheka St.
Reservations strongly recommended, seating is FREE but limited. Call 955-8821 during station’s business (weekday) hours.

The Spooky Stories line-up boasts work by some of Hawaii’s most well-known writers with tales of girls who see ghosts, messages from the grave, and bufos that go “boo!” Included are:

        “Ghost Stories” by Nora Okja Keller, read by Paris Priore-Kim;

        “Aunty Chong Sum’s Comfession [sic]” by Lois-Ann Yamanaka, read by Blossom Lam Hoffman;

        “Toads” by Darrell H.Y. Lum, reader tbd;

        “Trick or Treat” by Joe Tsujimoto, read by David Furumoto;

        “Talking to the Dead” by Sylvia A. Watanabe, reader tbd; and

        “Knock Four Times If the Phone Rings Once” by Darlene M. Javar, reader tbd.

Aloha Shorts airs every Tuesday at 6:30 pm on KIPO 89.3 FM.  Visit bambooridge.com or hawaiipublicradio.org for more information or to subscribe to the new podcasts of the shows.   Check out Hamajang at alohashortsband.com

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Aloha Shorts Producing Team:

Sammie Choy
Craig Howes
Phyllis Look

*  Some inspiration for your costume from Darrell Lum’s “Toads”:  

Me I was one shipwreck guy.  Every year I one bust up shipwreck guy.  My mahdah no buy me nutting; she no make me nutting.  I gotta wear all da rag-bag stuff.  I even rip um up so come more ugly and wind some old white rags around my head fo bandages and den get da Mercurochrome and make like get blood all on da bandages.  Den I ask my bruddah use da matches and burn one old cork….  You burn um until da stuff come all black and you can paint your face wit um…