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<title>Daily Smile: Thursday, June 4, 2026</title>

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Daily Smile: Thursday, June 4, 2026

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Kelli Shiroma Braiotta

Food & Dining

, known for its fresh seafood, just launched its weekend brunch.

The eatery’s new brunch menu is available from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturdays and Sundays.

The brunch menu features breakfast staples with a twist, along with seafood specialties and some of the eatery’s most popular dishes.

The eatery’s chicken and waffles ($21), steak and eggs ($28), local deluxe ($19) and daily teishoku ($26) are anticipated to be customer favorites.

The chicken and waffles features a mochi waffle crowned with fried chicken. The yuzu kosho maple syrup provides a blend of sweet and savory flavors.

The standard breakfast plate is represented through the local deluxe ($19), which includes Portuguese sausage, crispy Spam, soft scrambled eggs, mushroom gravy and white rice. If you want a carb overload, though, opt for the kimchi fried rice ($16) or gravy train ($18) instead. The latter is a savory bread pudding topped with an umami sausage gravy and chives.

Unique options include salmon ochazuke ($24) — served with yaki onigiri, genmaicha dashi and pickles — and the daily teishoku ($26), which has a little of everything. This Japanese-inspired option includes fresh poke, pickles, potato salad, miso soup, white rice and a chef’s entrée selection. During our visit, ‘ahi nuggets are featured, but ‘ahi belly was included the previous day.

Thirty Eight still offers a variety of seafood in its brunch entrees. The smoked salmon Benedict ($22) showcases an English muffin topped with miso gochugaru Hollandaise, salmon and spinach. Meanwhile, the shrimp and “grits” ($23) is a combo of shimeji mushrooms, ground pork, shrimp, chili oil and polenta, while the eatery’s rendition of shakshuka ($17) includes mahi mahi

and an onsen egg, serve with a baguette for dipping.

Guests can still enjoy some of the restaurant’s signature seafood options during brunch. Popular appetizers include fresh oysters ($24), poke tostadas ($11) and the poke trio ($16), which features shoyu ‘ahi, spicy ‘ahi and ginger scallion ‘ahi.

Seafood lovers can also opt for ‘ahi poke bowls ($16), misoyaki butterfish ($24) or the fisherman’s chowder ($10), a savory mix of clams, bacon, fingerling potatoes and the catch of the day.

Brunch from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays

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<title>New weekend brunch option at Pier 38</title>

Thirty Eight Restaurant & Bar just launched a new weekend brunch menu. You can anticipate twists on brunch classics — like chicken and mochi waffles, a savory bread pudding and more — along with seafood-centric dishes.

New weekend brunch option at Pier 38

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Christian Shimabuku

Sports

LAS VEGAS — The Rolex watch he was sporting on his left wrist. The major preseason accolades he was voted for. The large scrum that appeared at his media availability on Wednesday. Life is good for Micah Alejado, starting quarterback for the University of Hawai‘i football team. 

Alejado only started one game in his true freshman season in 2024, a five-touchdown performance against New Mexico in the season finale. Although he was 

established as the team's starter entering the 2025 season

, he was largely an unknown commodity heading into the year. 

Despite severely injuring his right leg in Hawai‘i's 2025 

, Alejado went on to play 11 games, most of them compromised. Alejado threw for 3,106 yards and 24 touchdowns to just nine interceptions, completing 66.3% of his passes. For his efforts, Alejado was named the Mountain West Freshman of the Year. 

Alejado's decision to come back for another year, despite the annual transfer portal temptations a player of his caliber demands, was the impetus of Hawai‘i's promising outlook for 2026, with 

 the Rainbow Warriors could make the College Football Playoff. 

Prior to the 2026 season, Alejado has certainly caught the attention of college football by now. On Wednesday, he was named the Mountain West Conference's preseason Offensive Player of the Year in addition to making the preseason all-conference team. Despite all the increased attention he's received over the course of a year, Alejado is trying to take it in stride. 

"It's a blessing. It's my job to go enjoy it, but it's also my job to understand that nothing has happened yet," Alejado told Aloha State Daily of the preseason accolades. "Still no stats yet, and it's our job to go win some football games. We have to go prove ourselves. If I'm gonna be tabbed preseason Player of the Year, I gotta go play like it, right? I gotta go prove myself, and that's the biggest thing, especially as a team. We're nothing yet. We haven't earned any respect. We haven't proved anything yet in 2026. It's about going out there and winning football games. It starts at fall camp next week. So, I'm very excited, ready to attack the challenge and everything that comes with it."

When the Alejado family moved to Nevada to pursue Micah's football career, it was a true family decision, and the Alejados have made the Silver State their second home. 

"I try to come back (often)," Alejado says of Las Vegas. "Just being able to go to my bedroom, driving my car. I think those are things I took for granted because that's really my home. I love the scenery here. I love the strip. You can't get the strip in Hawai‘i. It's bright lights. I went to the 

. You go to concerts, things like that. Las Vegas has it all."

Alejado has taken on an increased leadership role heading into 2026, a responsibility head coach Timmy Chang believes is a strength. 

"I think there's so much he's got going for himself," 

 said. "He knows what it takes to win at a high level and he knows that he can't do it alone. It's great to see him grow and develop and continue but his leadership is where we want him to continue to grow, but it continues to remain one of his strengths."

As he enters his second full season as UH's starting quarterback, Alejado is ready to begin anew. If he can stay healthy, he believes there's another level that can be unlocked. 

"Definitely pain free," said Alejado, who was held out of live reps in the spring in order to rehab his foot. "(

) is working really well for me. Getting back to 100% worked really well this offseason, and I feel better than ever right now. Faster, stronger, quicker than I was before I got hurt. I was just blessed to be able to go through those six months and just to rehab and get it better and get it stronger again. I'm excited to get back and show everybody in fall camp that I'm back to normal and even better."

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<title>Hawai‘i quarterback Micah Alejado embraces star status at Mountain West media days</title>

Alejado, who is set to enter his second season as UH's starting quarterback, was voted the Mountain West's preseason Offensive Player of the Year on Wednesday.

Hawai‘i quarterback Micah Alejado embraces star status at Mountain West media days

Business & Tourism

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 can be found at his red trailer — located on South King Street, between the 76 gas station and McDonald’s — on specific days of the week. He’s been in business for about 10 years serving up Tennessee-style barbecue.

“I learned how to cook from my grandfather in Tennessee,” says business owner Sean Paul Jones. He says he was one of 12 grandkids.

“My grandfather taught me how to cook barbecue,” he says. “Since I was a kid, he taught me how to barbecue and cook. For Tennessee-style (barbecue), we use a little dry rub mixed with the barbecue sauce; that’s what makes it really good.”

Jones, who previously worked as a contractor for the military, knew he wanted to start his own barbecue-centric business. He decided to name his business after his grandpa, Bozie Jones, in honor of the man who taught him how to cook.

Jones moved his red trailer around various locations on Oʻahu before settling on his current spot on South King Street.

“A lot of customers wanted me back (here); they kept asking me to come back,” he says.

Jones’ menu is simple, and comprises rib tips ($18), ribs ($24), brisket ($28), chicken ($17) and combo plates ($30). He says the ribs and brisket are the bestsellers.

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Jones prepares the meats with kiawe wood. He says it takes about three to four hours for the ribs and rib tips to cook.

All plates come with a side of baked beans and Jones’ housemade barbecue sauce.

“The sauce is my granddaddy’s special that he made in Tennessee,” Jones explains. “It’s a vinegar and mustard-based sauce.”

“It’s been a lot of work, and a lot of relationships have been built,” Jones says. “A lot of people keep coming back for the same barbecue.

“I wanted to bring part of the soul and love from Tennessee to Hawaiʻi, and infuse southern barbecue with Hawaiʻi by using kiawe wood,” he adds. “I didn’t just want to bring Tennessee here, but bring Hawaiʻi and Tennessee together.”

Jones’ trailer is open from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesdays to Fridays and Sundays. Earlier this year, he also opened a second location with Maunakea Marketplace in Chinatown; his food stall is open every day except Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

The Chinatown location’s menu is mostly the same as the one at the trailer, but it features more daily specials, according to Jones.

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<title>Where to find Tennessee-style barbecue in Honolulu</title>

Bozie Jones Barbecue — with its signature red trailer on South King Street — has been serving Tennessee-style barbecue for about nearly 10 years. Owner Sean Paul Jones learned how to cook barbecue from his grandfather in Tennessee, and now serves up brisket, barbecue ribs and rib tips.

Where to find Tennessee-style barbecue in Honolulu

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Katie Helland

Arts & Entertainment

Aloha Spirit

 is a third-generation waterman from Oʻahu, who is looking forward to seeing the short film “Haagua” head to a big screen this week as part of the Honolulu Surf Film Festival, which will be held at the Doris Duke Theatre at the Honolulu Museum of Art.

 directed by Octavio Coutiño Aceves and Marc Antony Chavez, will screen along with another short, “Ciebo,” on Friday, July 10, and Saturday, July 18. The films explore Indigenous knowledge of surfing and the ocean. 

The screening is especially meaningful for Kahoonei, who has family members on Oʻahu who plan attend.

“For me, it means a lot just because I'm from Oʻahu originally, and all my family is still out on the west side from Nānākuli all the way to Mākaha,” Kahoonei told Aloha State Daily. “I left my little print in the movie with what I ride, getting to show off a paipo board. To

 me, that’s the most basic way to ride waves. And I learned all that just being at the beach at Mākaha and seeing everybody riding all this different gear: surfboards and paddle boards and all this stuff. The people having the most fun are just on this simple cut out piece of wood. It ended up being a really cool piece of the story.”

The 15-minute short was previously featured at the 

Now, Kahoonei lives in San Diego, California. 

“Haagua” is a film for multiple audiences, he said.

“The message is for people that enjoy the water and people who have been displaced,” he said. 

The Honolulu Surf Film Festival kicks off Thursday, July 9, and runs through Sunday, Aug. 2. It starts with the soldout 

world premiere of “Increments of Fear: The Buzzy Trent Story,”

 a documentary that tells the story of the legendary Hawaiʻi surfer Buzzy Trent.

On Sunday, July 19, there will be a free screening of 

 which shares Jack Johnson’s journey from surfer to musician. This event is also soldout, although empty seats will be released five minutes before the movie starts.

Tickets are $15 for kamaʻāina and free for attendees 18 years old and younger. Follow “Haagua” on 

As part of the festival, “Haagua” will screen twice.

“Really, it's a story of reconnecting,” Kahoonei said. “We use the Indigenous lens to tell the story, but I think [it’s really for] anybody that has ever felt connected to something and then had it taken away, and then you're trying to reconnect. ... The real main takeaway is that you don't have to look very far to get answers on how to reconnect. And it can be very simple, like a paipo board. Just being on that craft is paying homage to all the people that came before me and all my ancestors.”

, a program of the nonprofit One World Bridge. Native Like Water works to reintegrate teens and young adults into ocean recreation and works with Native American populations in California, Hawaiʻi, Mexico and more.

The problems Kahoonei has seen in Waiʻanae, for instance, exist around the world, the waterman added.

“It doesn't matter where the water is, or the location, there's a lot of similarities,” Kahoonei said.

While the film festival circuit is happening now, the filming of “Haagua” started in early 2023. Catching the right conditions to film turned out to be one of the most challenging aspects of creating the piece, Kahoonei said. No waves, as well as rain and changing forecasts created complications.

In some cases, they had to wait months to get the right conditions to film certain moments.

“My favorite part is when you're watching the movie, you'll see the narration is done from a grandmother's perspective,” he said.

The first few visuals start on a replica of an early conquistador boat.

“It's knowing a little bit more history and knowing the struggle of Black and Brown people even just reconnecting with the ocean or going out for a surf,” he said.

Surf boards are not always accessible in Waiʻanae or parts of Mexico, he added.

“Just remembering there's a community of people who essentially created this sport and have great ties to it, but don't even have access,” he said. “And just noticing, ʻHey, there's a little disconnect here.’”

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Kaliko Kahoonei

<title>'Haagua' featured at Honolulu Surf Film Festival</title>

The 15-minute film features Kaliko Kahoonei, who grew up on the Oʻahu's West Side on a paipo board. The short explores Indigenous knowledge of the ocean and surfing  and will screen at the Honolulu Surf Film Festival.

'Haagua' featured at Honolulu Surf Film Festival

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A. Kam Napier

Columnists

Government & Politics

If you’re a street junkie, shooting up heroin in Chinatown, the State of Hawai‘i has your back. It’ll take our tax dollars and turn them into clean needles, so you can keep on shooting safely.

Fentanyl addict? Go for it! Chances are you’ll never get busted for public intoxication (though it’s a crime), or possession (a crime), and if you overdose, the state will once again turn tax dollars into Narcan to save your life. All your emergency rooms visits? Not to worry! “The people” have you covered with their tax dollars and inflated insurance premiums.

If you’re an alcoholic, the State of Hawai‘i just doesn’t care. Legislators drink, after all, they’re not going to go after their own Heineken and Merlot. Just don’t drink and drive, that’s the only area where we see public policy put any time and money. Everyone seems perfectly confident that ID checks at the liquor store are keeping booze out of the hands of children.

Love pot? Lucky you live Hawai‘i! Hawai‘i loves pot and Hawai‘i loves you! It’s de facto legal, based on how often you can smell pot in the open. And it’s trivially easy to go the law-abiding medical marijuana route. Tell a doctor you’re anxious, get a prescription and it’s off the pot pharmacy you go. Enjoy! After all, we’ve hashed this issue out for years now and all sensible people agree that drug prohibitions never work. You have to respect people’s choices and just legalize and tax their habit.

But if you’re a smoker who’d like to quit smoking cigarettes by going to a safer but similar alternative, this same State of Hawai‘i has just two words.

, Gov. Josh Green just signed a law that as of January 1, 2027, will ban “99.9% of disposable vapes” in Hawai‘i. Flanked by public health officials and the obligatory Child For Whom We Do This, he positively beamed with pride.

Over what, exactly? Doctor Governor Green should be aware that if harm reduction works for hard drugs, it certainly does with nicotine. The UK’s NHS (formerly known as the National Health Service), which is beloved by American Democrats as an ideal model of universal health care, has 

“In recent years, e-cigarettes have become a very popular stop smoking aid in the UK. Also known as vapes or e-cigs, they're far less harmful than cigarettes, and can help you quit smoking for good. … Many thousands of people in the UK have already stopped smoking with the help of an e-cigarette. There's evidence that they can be effective. A 2021 review found people who used e-cigarettes to quit smoking, as well as having expert face-to-face support, can be up to twice as likely to succeed as people who used other nicotine replacement products, such as patches or gum.”

Our reporter asked Green about that. He replied with skepticism, saying, “The biggest problem has been getting an entire generation … innumerable middle schoolers and high schoolers hooked,” Green said. “Society has found ways to quit traditional cigarettes through medical means, through behavioral techniques; we should lean on those.”

Does he even hear himself? He said this while signing an e-cig prohibition law. Not medical means, not behavioral techniques, no, just the ban hammer. Meanwhile, actual tobacco cigarettes, the really dangerous ones we didn’t ban, remain perfectly available.

Then Green put Lola Irvin on the spot for further comment on our question. Irvin is administrator of the state Department of Health’s Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion Division. As we reported, she said adults who have concurrently used traditional cigarettes and e-cigarettes are less likely to successfully quit smoking, while young people who begin using e-cigarettes are more likely to transition to smoking traditional cigarettes.

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Irvin seems unaware of the NHS findings I shared above about people successfully using e-cigs to quit tobacco cigarettes or reduce their intake. There are other studies.

Efficacy and Safety of E-Cigarette Use for Smoking Cessation: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials

,” for example, published in 2023 at The American Journal of Medicine. Conclusion: “Nicotine e-cigarettes were associated with increased smoking abstinence in comparison with non-nicotine e-cigarettes. Furthermore, nicotine and non-nicotine e-cigarettes increased abstinence compared with conventional smoking cessation therapies, and the absolute risk of [Serious Adverse Events] was low across all trials. Overall, these data suggest e-cigarettes appear to be more efficacious than conventional nicotine replacement or behavioral smoking cessation therapies.”

, published last November. “Nicotine e-cigarettes can help people to stop smoking for at least six months,” it concludes. “Evidence shows they work better than nicotine replacement therapy, and probably better than e-cigarettes without nicotine. They may work better than no support, or behavioral support alone, and may not be associated with serious unwanted effects.”

As for her arguments that e-cigs and vaping makes teenagers more likely to take up smoking real tobacco cigarettes, there are indeed studies that find teens given to try vices will try both vaping and smoking, sometimes in that order, sometimes the other way around. These studies find they’ll often also try pot and booze.

When you measure what youths actually do, however, the astonishing and wonderful fact is that 

peaked in 1997 at 36.4%, considerably higher than the adult rate that year of 24.7%. By 2021, the youth smoking rate dropped to just 3.8%, well below the adult rate of 11.5%.

That’s an 86% decline in just 24 years, across all ethnicities, sexes and grade levels.

And it has dropped even more since then, despite the arrival of e-cigs and vaping. As of 2024, according to the 

, just 1.4% of high school students reported any use of tobacco cigarettes.

, found that from 2022 to 2025, e-cigarette and tobacco cigarette use among youth further declined while nicotine pouch use remained low and stable.

In other words, we won the war on youth smoking, without any prohibitions at all. When our governor says that "an entire generation … innumerable middle schoolers and high schoolers" have just been "hooked" on nicotine, he is flat out lying. The exact opposite is true. 

Rather than declare victory and keep on with existing, obviously effective policies, Hawai‘i snatched a crisis from the jaws of success and enacted this ban.

Because they did so in part to “protect our keiki,” they had a student speak at yesterday's press conference, Maya Butts. The bathrooms at her school, Kalaheo High School, she said have become just “places to vape.”

That’s surely against school rules and is certainly already illegal, so this sounds like an enforcement problem to me. Except the enforcers failed to uphold existing law. Then she said:

“I’ve watched my smart, athletic friends completely lose their motivation. They got hooked on these devices that taste like candy, move on to other substances, then lose their spark altogether.”

I hate to break it to Butts, but if vaping makes her schoolmates lethargic and lazy, they aren’t vaping nicotine. They’re vaping pot.

But the ban is about more than health and protecting kids, Green said, and the text of the legislation argues. It’s about protecting the environment. In each disposable vape is a battery and these batteries are getting into the environment, they asserted, without data.

Setting aside the fact that I’ve never seen the gutters lined with thrown-away vapes the way one used to see cigarette butts, I’ll just note that this is the same state government that is forcing us to import batteries by the tons for our carbon-free solar future. A half-ton battery in every EV. Batteries the size of a Matson cargo container for the solar farms. All with no plan for their disposal or recycling.

OK, so if you dig into facts and find that there is no youth smoking crisis, and the stated rationalizations for the ban range from transparently bogus to logically inconsistent, what’s really going on here?

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Vaping nicotine is, by and large, a lower-middle class and working-class vice. Construction laborers, single moms working two or three jobs, people who ride the bus. People who rent. They have ambitions and aspirations constantly thwarted by Hawai‘i high cost of living and ridiculously unnecessary housing shortage.

They’re tired, they’re stressed. They turned, at some point in their lives, to Kool Milds and Marlboro Lights to deal with it all. They know smoking is bad, though, but quitting is hard. Smoking is a pleasure, it’s a consolation. It both calms anxiety and sharpens concentration.

Then, miracle of miracles, technology gave them a better choice. Tobacco-free nicotine they can inhale for the same soothing, sensual pleasures they got from smoking, with none of the known carcinogens, none of the pilau smell.

On the other hand, we have the upper-middle class and those who aspire to that status. Your governors, legislators, health department careerists and high school faculty. People with social capital and clout, if not vast wealth beyond the equity in their home that they own. Few to none of these white-collar, college-educated professionals ever smoked, or quit years ago. They know better.

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That’s it. That’s the whole mindset. All the people who pushed this ban won’t say it, because they know how it sounds. No one wants to be seen as a snob and a Karen, they want to hide that. So they prop up children as human shields, gin up a non-existent crisis and use health and the environment as fig leaves.

All those smiling faces at that press conference? That’s the look of people gloating in triumph.

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That’s all that happened yesterday, and Hawai‘i is a better place as a result. For them.

A. Kam Napier is editor in chief of Aloha State Daily. His opinions in Pipikaula Corner are his own and not reflective of the ASD team.

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<title>Pipikaula Corner: Hawai‘i's fraudulent vape ban</title>

On Tuesday, Hawai‘i Gov. Josh Green signed into law a ban on "99.9% of disposable vapes." It's a move totally at odds with the harm reduction strategies the state uses for all other vices, argues ASD Editor in Chief A. Kam Napier. And it's in response to a non-existent crisis, in that teen smoking and vaping is the lowest it's ever been in a quarter century.

Pipikaula Corner: Hawai‘i's fraudulent vape ban

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Stephanie Salmons

Tuesday marked the filing deadline for prospective political candidates to submit their nomination papers to run for office in the 2026 elections. 

, city and county council seats are up for grabs across the Islands this year, along with mayoral races in Maui and Kaua‘i counties. These races are nonpartisan. Here's who filed as of June 2, according to information from the state 

The 2026 primary election is set for Aug. 8 with the general election following on Nov. 3. Here's who filed:

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(Portions of Kakaʻako, Downtown Honolulu, Chinatown, Punchbowl, Papakōlea, Pauoa Valley, Nuʻuanu, Iwilei, Liliha, ʻĀlewa Heights, Kalihi and Kalihi Valley)

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