MAHALO SUNRISE' has been honored as theAward-Winning Author in the 'True Crime /Non-Fiction' category of the 2011 International Book Awards Los Angeles. MAHALO SUNRISE: Hawaii. A young woman, international student (Monique Wegmueller) accused of money-laundering, prostitution, drug-dealing and first-degree murder, chased by the FBI, fearing for her own life. Hawaii. Islands of everlasting spring, land of smoking volcanoes, where life sometimes runs on cocaine & crystal meth!
A zealous Swiss student at Hawaii Pacific University unwittingly caught in the middle of prostitution, drug-dealing and money-laundering?
A zealous woman accused of first-degree murder on American soil, fearing for her own life at the same time.
What if the FBI knew everything about you? Your lifestyle, your habits, your whereabouts at every moment? A 67 page file!
What if the FBI suddenly storms the place where you live and arrests you?
Fingerprints never lie!
Serving a life sentence behind bars in a high-security wing in Honolulu, then in Los Angeles!
Guilty or just in the wrong place at the wrong time? When paradise turns into hell!
Pathetic Poetry By Rolando Chang Barrero The book of prose, "Pathectic Poetry," by Billy Hitz is a self published volume of, well what else, pathetic poetry. Composed in blank verse, the collection is burleque at times, yet always true to the carpe diem style of which his life is a testament to.With that said, I was not given the book to reveiw; I am not qualified to do so. It was a heartwarming gift; one artist to another. I was glad he did. Truthfully, it sat at the edge of my bed waiting to be read for months. I don't get the luxury of enjoying a book to often these days.Finally, in need of inspiration I reached for it.... read more
By the early 80's he helped developed a fashion line "Dust" for the company which took them into the New York Fashion Industry and into the trendiest shops in
New York City, Hollywood, Miami, San Francisco, Chicago, and Detroit.
Today, Rolando Chang Barrero maintains his art studio and an emerging artists exhibition space called ActivistArtistA at the Boynton Bach Art District.
"As the city develops, so does it's art," said public art administrator Debby Coles-Dobay.
The Art in Public places program requires every developer to set aside a portion of their budget to bring art into the city limits.
"Art improves creativity in everyone's daily lives," Coles-Dobay said. "Public art stimulates the focus on a cultural economy and assists with economic development."
"Corporations look at quality of life when they relocate, they don't want to move to places that don't have those services," she said.
Art has become a major part of the city's development. In February, the city hosted that nation's first ever International Kinetic Art Symposium. The event attracted over 2,000 visitors from as far away as Switzerland to watch the city's art forms in motion.
Last month, Rolando Chang Barrero — the sole-organizer for Boynton's Art District, held a community project to revitalize an old industrial area into the city's Art District.
Close to 1,500 people came out to help.
"Our art is world class art, akin to any large city. There are a lot of great artists and musicians that live here that go to Key West and other markets, we had to open the door so a market could exist here," Barrero said.
The Boynton Beach Art District
404-422 West Industrial Ave., Boynton Beach, FL
contact: Rolando Chang Barrero at 786-521-1199
Debby Coles-DobayBoynton Beach Art in Public Places Enriching our Community through Public Art 561-742-6026 office 561-632-7992 cell
