Photos: Double Grooves & Dirty Menudo, Honolulu.

Double Grooves and Dirty Menudo with Julio César Morales and Eamon Ore-Girón. (Photos by San Suzie.)
Photos from a wrap party for the annual Starlight Ball at the Honolulu Academy of Arts, held at the Thirtynine Hotel in Honolulu’s Chinatown. Featuring a show by Los Jaichackers, a collaborative installation between Julio César Morales, from S.F., and Eamon Ore-Girón, of L.A. Also included: images of some truly resplendent cocktails.
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Drawing of Perez Prado by Julio César Morales.

The Kai Vodka girls were serving up a lychee-vodka-lime-lavender concoction. We slurped down three. It was the strangest sensation: like eating a sweet oyster that made you drunk.

World famous molecular mixologists Christian and Jennifer Self at work: dropping the lychee-vodka puree into the algar.

Drawing of heavy metal boys rocking out, by Morales.

The space, shortly before the lychee vodka slurping crowds arrived. The posters—an image of a stack of LPs blow-torched to form a cake-like mass—were wheatpasted to the wall by Ore-Girón.

Thirtynine Hotel curator Trisha Lagaso-Goldberg, right, with her husband, art critic David Goldberg.

Art lover holding a Papaya Dream: truly dreamy drunken lemon-lavender with vodka foam in a papaya shell.

Cut album sculpture by Ore-Girón.

The party was so hot, even the Burberry-clad pugs were in attendance.
Posted by San Suzie.