Jake Shimabukuro is a ukulele master who will demonstrate his "jumping flea" skills in Hong Kong on June 30, with a performance at Sha Tin Town Hall as part of the Jazz World Live Series. The Honolulu native (pictured) claims to have a local role model. "I owe a lot to Bruce Lee … all he wanted was to express himself as honestly as he could," he says. "Jiu-jitsu or karate or kung fu, to him it was all human expression. If you look at music that way … it's the language of human emotions." Shimabukuro lent four-stringed accompaniment to the album , by Jamaican musician Ziggy Marley …
The 84-year-old visionary is one of the most influential architects of modern times and recently revealed his latest imprint on the Hong Kong skyline: the first Maggie's Cancer Caring Centre to be built outside Britain, at Tuen Mun Hospital. Rather less opulent than Gehry's first residential project in Asia - the super-luxury apartment building Opus Hong Kong, on The Peak - the centre's pavilions overlook a pond and grounds partly inspired by the gardens of Suzhou. In the 1950s, Gehry's sergeant in the United States Army was the "half Vulcan" Leonard Nimoy …
