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This Week in TGIF: Journey

Journey’s global popularity has skyrocketed

Conversations about the current incarnation of Journey usually start with two facts: The band discovered its lead singer from the Philippines on YouTube, and this singer sure sounds an awful lot like Steve Perry, the band’s lead singer during Journey’s prime.

• 8 Flavahz will star in an exhibition at the Blaisdell Arena
• Riley Newton steps into the role, and under the red wig, of ‘Annie’
• Do It! Hanaialii, Mark Foster (the People), Schubert sonata, and Reel Big Fish
• Quick Bites: Miso & Ale shares its take on old favorites today at Taste
• Best of Our Web: ‘Xscape,’ Mai Tai Rumble, Shwayze, KTUH and ‘Troika’
• At the Movies: ‘Playing for Keeps,’ ‘End of Watch,’ ‘I Do Bidoo Bidoo’ and more
• Holiday: ‘Christmas in Polynesia,’ Santa in Waikiki, ‘The Nutcracker,’ and more
• Out ‘N About: Mauli Ola benefit, Historic Pearl Harbor, First Friday, and more
• To Do! The Knocks, Pepper, John Prine, Gabriel Iglesias and Don Tiki
• Calendars: Music, Nightclubs, On Stage