Tony Ciola and Tammy Shaklee stopped by to talk about a big Charity Event at Kahuna’s Tiki Bar & Grill on Parmer and McNeil 

Announcing:

Kahuna’s Tiki Bar & Grill Hosts “First Day of Summer” Surf Bash

Benefitting Austin Make-A-Wish Kid

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DATE/TIME:    Sunday, June 21, 2009, 4-7 p.m.

LOCATION:     Kahuna’s Tiki Bar & Grill, 6301 Parmer Lane, Austin (Parmer & McNeil)

DESCRIPTION:   Locally owned and operated Kahuna’s Tiki Bar & Grill hosts its second in an “Endless Summer” trilogy of surf-inspired parties to benefit a local Make-A-Wish teenager, Bridget, diagnosed with a brain stem tumor, whose wish is “to travel to Hawaii.”  Kahuna’s is now searching for Austinites to cook Conch Fritters for the summer menu competition.  Offerings and activities will include:

·        Conch Fritter Cook Off with Celebrity Judges & Conch Shell Blowing Contest

·        Complimentary Conch fritters, Kalua Pulled Pork Sliders and select beverages

·        Roll out of Kahuna’s Specialty Summer Drink Program – the Flaming Scorpion Bowl, Pura Vida shot, and tall Mai Tai, served in traditional Tiki glasses that you can take home and collect

Island fare of Conch fritters, slow-cooked Kalua Pulled Pork Sliders, Tiki Fish Tacos, and the Kahuna Tuna sandwich.

·        Island Drinks in Tiki Glasses to take home.

·        Surf Shack décor with TVs inside and out, showing the owner’s collection of surfing videos, as well as requested cable programming.

Tony Ciola and Tammy Shaklee stopped by to talk about a big Charity Event at Kahuna’s Tiki Bar & Grill on Parmer and McNeil 

Announcing:

Kahuna’s Tiki Bar & Grill Hosts “First Day of Summer” Surf Bash

Benefitting Austin Make-A-Wish Kid

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DATE/TIME:    Sunday, June 21, 2009, 4-7 p.m.

LOCATION:     Kahuna’s Tiki Bar & Grill, 6301 Parmer Lane, Austin (Parmer & McNeil)

DESCRIPTION:   Locally owned and operated Kahuna’s Tiki Bar & Grill hosts its second in an “Endless Summer” trilogy of surf-inspired parties to benefit a local Make-A-Wish teenager, Bridget, diagnosed with a brain stem tumor, whose wish is “to travel to Hawaii.”  Kahuna’s is now searching for Austinites to cook Conch Fritters for the summer menu competition.  Offerings and activities will include:

·        Conch Fritter Cook Off with Celebrity Judges & Conch Shell Blowing Contest

·        Complimentary Conch fritters, Kalua Pulled Pork Sliders and select beverages

·        Roll out of Kahuna’s Specialty Summer Drink Program – the Flaming Scorpion Bowl, Pura Vida shot, and tall Mai Tai, served in traditional Tiki glasses that you can take home and collect

Island fare of Conch fritters, slow-cooked Kalua Pulled Pork Sliders, Tiki Fish Tacos, and the Kahuna Tuna sandwich.

·        Island Drinks in Tiki Glasses to take home.

·        Surf Shack décor with TVs inside and out, showing the owner’s collection of surfing videos, as well as requested cable programming.

  This week, three songs went to the top of the singles charts by three very different artists/groups. 

  In 1994, the group All 4 One scored a number 1 hit with “I Swear”, a song that became quite popular for weddings, and began an 11-week run in the top spot for them.  The song was also a number one hit on the country chart by John Michael Montgomery. 

  David Bowie went to number 1 in 1983 with “Let’s Dance”.  It was the second U.S. number 1 for him. 

  In 1977, Stevie Wonder reached the top of the singles chart with “Sir Duke”.  It was his tribute to music in general, but to jazz legend Duke Ellington in particular, and it remained number one for three weeks. 

  Enjoy the music!

Ladies how would you like a free bra?  Soma Intimates is having their Grand Opening in the Barton Creek Square Mall and if you spend $50 you get the bra of your choice absolutely free!  They have so many to choose from including two of my favorites, the Soma Wash and Go Bra,  you simply wash it and throw it in the dryer, and it looks like new and fits like new every time!!  They also have a bra called the Bridgette bra.  This one has a built in camisole at the top so you don’t have to add an extra layer under your clothes!  Such a great idea!  I was in NYC a few weeks ago for Mother’s Day and all I wore was Soma!  It is the most beautiful and comfortable clothing I have ever worn.  Come and see me this Saturday at the new Soma Intimates at the Barton Creek Square Mall and see it all for yourselves!  Soma is located on the first floor new Nordstrom and across from Talbot’s.   I will be there from 3pm til 5pm!  Below is a picture of me with some of the wonderful ladies who work at Soma, you are going to love everything in the store…trust me!  See you Saturday!

  It was this week in 1988 that Gloria Estefan and Miami Sound Machine scored their first U.S. #1 hit,   “Anything For You”. 

  That song was one of four Top 10 hits from “Let It Loose”, which went triple-platinum that year.  “Rhythm Is Gonna Get You” “Can’t Stay Away From You” and “1-2-3″ were the other Top 10 hits.  That particular album was the first under the billing “Gloria Estefan and Miami Sound Machine”. 

  Before 1985, the group recorded several Latin-language albums.  Their first English-language LP, “Primitive Love”, produced three Top 10 songs: “Conga” “Words Get In the Way” and “Bad Boy”. 

  In 1989, Estefan recorded “Cuts Both Ways”, the first album to be credited to her name alone, and it gave her “Don’t Wanna Lose You”, her second U.S. #1 single.  On March 20, 1990, while touring in support of the album, she was involved in a serious accident when her bus was hit by a tractor trailer.  The accident left her with a broken vertebrae which kept her off the road for more than a year and required extensive surgery. 

  However, Estefan, her husband Emilio, and their son all recovered, and in 1991, her album “In To the Light” gave her another chart-topper, “Coming Out of the Dark”, a song inspired by that serious accident. 

  Enjoy the music!

The next Susan Boyle? Er, maybe not.  Simon compares him to a dog meowing:

Mean Moms     
     Someday when my children are old enough to understand the logic that motivates a parent, I will tell them, as my Mean Mom told me: I loved you enough . . . to ask where you were going, with whom, and what time you would be home.
     I loved you enough to be silent and let you discover that your new best friend was a creep.
     I loved you enough to stand over you for two hours while you cleaned your room, a job that should have taken 15 minutes.
     I loved you enough to let you see anger, disappointment, and tears in my eyes.  Children must learn that their parents aren’t perfect.
     I loved you enough to let you assume the responsibility for your actions even when the penalties were so harsh they almost broke my heart.
     But most of all, I loved you enough . . . to say NO when I knew you would hate me for it.
     Those were the most difficult battles of all.  I’m glad I won them, because in the end you won, too.
     And someday when your children are old enough to understand the logic that motivates parents, you will tell them.
     Was your Mom mean?  I know mine was.  We had the meanest mother in the whole world!  While other kids ate candy for breakfast, we had to have cereal, eggs, and toast.
     When others had a Pepsi and a Twinkie for lunch, we had to eat sandwiches.
     And you can guess our mother fixed us a dinner that was different from what other kids had, too.
     Mother insisted on knowing where we were at all times.  You’d think we were convicts in a prison.       She had to know who our friends were, and what we were doing with them.  She insisted that if we said we would be gone for an hour, we would be gone for an hour or less.
     We were ashamed to admit it, but she had the nerve to break the Child Labor Laws by making us work.   We had to wash the dishes, make the beds, learn to cook, vacuum the floor, do laundry, empty the trash and all sorts of cruel jobs.  I think she would lie awake at night thinking of more things for us to do.
     She always insisted on us telling the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.  By the time we were teenagers, she could read our minds and had eyes in the back of her head.  Then, life was really tough!
     Mother wouldn’t let our friends just honk the horn when they drove up.  They had to come up to the door so she could meet them.  While everyone else could date when they were 12 or 13, we had to wait until we were 16.
     Because of our mother we missed out on lots of things other kids experienced.  None of us have ever been caught shoplifting, vandalizing other’s property or ever arrested for any crime.  It was all her fault.
     Now that we have left home, we are all educated, honest adults.  We are doing our best to be mean parents just like Mom was.
     I think that is what’s wrong with the world today.
     It just doesn’t have enough mean moms!
- Author Unknown, but right on!

Mean Moms     
     Someday when my children are old enough to understand the logic that motivates a parent, I will tell them, as my Mean Mom told me: I loved you enough . . . to ask where you were going, with whom, and what time you would be home.
     I loved you enough to be silent and let you discover that your new best friend was a creep.
     I loved you enough to stand over you for two hours while you cleaned your room, a job that should have taken 15 minutes.
     I loved you enough to let you see anger, disappointment, and tears in my eyes.  Children must learn that their parents aren’t perfect.
     I loved you enough to let you assume the responsibility for your actions even when the penalties were so harsh they almost broke my heart.
     But most of all, I loved you enough . . . to say NO when I knew you would hate me for it.
     Those were the most difficult battles of all.  I’m glad I won them, because in the end you won, too.
     And someday when your children are old enough to understand the logic that motivates parents, you will tell them.
     Was your Mom mean?  I know mine was.  We had the meanest mother in the whole world!  While other kids ate candy for breakfast, we had to have cereal, eggs, and toast.
     When others had a Pepsi and a Twinkie for lunch, we had to eat sandwiches.
     And you can guess our mother fixed us a dinner that was different from what other kids had, too.
     Mother insisted on knowing where we were at all times.  You’d think we were convicts in a prison.       She had to know who our friends were, and what we were doing with them.  She insisted that if we said we would be gone for an hour, we would be gone for an hour or less.
     We were ashamed to admit it, but she had the nerve to break the Child Labor Laws by making us work.   We had to wash the dishes, make the beds, learn to cook, vacuum the floor, do laundry, empty the trash and all sorts of cruel jobs.  I think she would lie awake at night thinking of more things for us to do.
     She always insisted on us telling the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.  By the time we were teenagers, she could read our minds and had eyes in the back of her head.  Then, life was really tough!
     Mother wouldn’t let our friends just honk the horn when they drove up.  They had to come up to the door so she could meet them.  While everyone else could date when they were 12 or 13, we had to wait until we were 16.
     Because of our mother we missed out on lots of things other kids experienced.  None of us have ever been caught shoplifting, vandalizing other’s property or ever arrested for any crime.  It was all her fault.
     Now that we have left home, we are all educated, honest adults.  We are doing our best to be mean parents just like Mom was.
     I think that is what’s wrong with the world today.
     It just doesn’t have enough mean moms!
- Author Unknown, but right on!

From the Onion

Vice President Biden ditched a day of presiding over the Senate to “give the twin cannons some sun.”