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Week of Friday, January 17, 2020 | Vol. 7, No. 4

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KAUAI VOICES PREPARES A ‘MIXED PLATE’

Group serves a variety of musical genres STEPHANIE SHINNO TGIFR!DAY

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auai Voices is serving a mixed plate of five different music genres: Blues, gospel, jazz, Hawaiian and country at their “Mixed Plate” concerts. There are four concerts coming starting this weekend.

They will feature a combination of different flavors or choices on one big plate. The musical chefs are Artistic Director Randy Leonard and accompanist Monica Chung.

Liz Hahn / Special to TGIFR!DAY

Kauai Voices presents a “Mixed Plate” of songs during its four concerts this month, from Kilauea to Waimea.

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Buy Fresh & Eat Healthy for the New Year!

From Farmers Market to Farm Fair The Kauai County Farm Bureau Supports Agriculture

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NO DOUBT ABOUT WHO’S THE BOSS AT THE BOOKSTORE ••• BOOK REVIEW

CELESTE THE CAT BOSS SPECIAL TO TGIFR!DAY

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umans, pay attention.

This is “Celeste the Cat Boss” of Instagram fame writing this week’s book review. And for good reason.​ Of all the books that are

reviewed here, there is only really one that matters: the one that I wrote!​ Well… I didn’t “write” the book, but I dictated to my servants what needed to be in it, like any good boss should. Of course I did. Let the humans do the labor. I’ve got better things to do, like sleep.​ Who cares about all those New York Times “bestsellers,” Pulitzer prize-winners, ManBooger whatevers? My book’s

far superior to them all. It’s my masterwork. In fact, it is my life’s work! All 17 years of it! (And I’m still looking as gorgeous as ever — secret: it’s all that beauty rest.)​ “I Don’t Acknowledge You: The Zen of Mochi-Celeste”

is a masterpiece that will transcend all time.​ Every human who is lucky enough to be the servant of a cat will recognize the truisms contained within its pages.

To make it easy for you humans to understand, I distilled my enormous wisdom into short, Zen-like koans, such as:​ w “I am THE BOSS;”​ w “You exist to FEED ME;”​ w “Cleaning my cat box is YOUR PRIVILEGE.”​ ​Each of my enlightened sayings also feature my iconic, mochi-style version of yours

COMEDIAN ARI SHAFFIR PERFORMS AT KCC SUNDAY STEPHANIE SHINNO TGIFR!DAY

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Courtesy of HI TIDE Nation

Comedian Ari Shaffir performs a single show Sunday at the Kauai Community College Performing Arts Center.

omedy Central and Netflix comedian Ari Shaffir will be performing at Kauai Community College’s Performing Arts Center at 7:30 p.m. Sunday.

The New York comedian has never been to Kauai. He is looking forward to hiking, driving the speed limit and eating what the locals eat.

Through the grapevine, he heard and learned of the term “haole,” and promises he will do his best not to earn that title.

“I’m excited to meet the people and make them laugh, help them escape their daily troubles. I am also excited to escape the cold New York weather myself.

It is too cold. If you want to visit New York, you should come in April. It’s not cold then,” Shaffir said.

His father and grandmother were Holocaust survivors. He was born and raised in New York before they moved to different states.

Shaffir decided to become a comedian after college and made that typical move to Los Angeles, where he learned the art of comedy.

“I had two choices: One, work a 9-to-5 job. Two, do this for me and become a stand-up comedian,” he said.

He has been doing standup for 20 years. He loves connecting with audiences and making them forget their worries.

Doors open at 6:30 p.m.

Tickets are$35.50 and $39.50, available at Eventbrite.com.

••• Stephanie Shinno, staff writer, can be reached at 245-0424 or sshinno@ thegardenisland.com.

truly set in my classic pose.​ You have no idea how generous I am being, taking my time away from sleeping to share “I Don’t Acknowledge You” with the world. It is already a bestseller in my servants’ bookstore, and I don’t even try. I just lay there in my basket, being adored.​ Go read it, humans. Better yet, buy it. I need more treats.​ Now I’m going back to sleep.

••• Celeste the Cat Boss is “The Boss” at Talk Story Bookstore. She can be

messaged on Instagram at “Celeste_the_Cat_boss.”

But being a cat, there is no guarantee she will respond. Ed Justus is the owner of Talk Story Bookstore in Hanapepe.

He and his wife Yuriko (above) are usually at the store with Boss Cat.

TOP PICKS FOR THE WEEK FRIDAY

BOOK SIGNING 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. Talk Story Bookstore, Hanapepe Author Bill Fernandez will sign his newest novel, “Terrorism in Paradise,” which is set during the time of the Hanapepe Massacre in 1924.

COURSES ON HAWAIIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS 5 and 7 p.m. Kilauea Neighborhood Center By donation. Gabriel Monaghan leads the sessions on la‘au lapa‘au, or Hawaiian medicinal plants. The session from 5 to 6:30 p.m. is level two, which has the level one course as a prerequisite for participation.

The level one introductory course is 7 to 8:30 p.m. Info: hawaiiki8@ gmail.com SATURDAY

COOKIE RALLY 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Kukui Grove Center Kick-off of the Girls Scouts of

Hawaii’s cookie-sale season. Info: 245-4984 HEALING AND ANOINTING MASS AND PRAYERS 9 a.m. St. Catherine Church, Kapaa WAHINE FREE HIKE 9:30 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Free hike, meditation and picnic for women on Kauai hosted

by Float & Flow Yoga and SUP. Bring lunch and dress for muddy conditions. Wear a swimsuit for waterfall swimming. Info: floatandflowllc@gmail.com SUNDAY

FOURTH ANNUAL HO‘OMALUO FUNDRAISER 5 to 9 p.m. at Kauai Harbor House in Kekaha Dinner, silent auction, live music.

Proceeds support Kauai Resource Conservation Program’s work in native Kauai watersheds. Cost is $30 presale, $35 at the door. Info: krcp.org

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‘DOLITTLE’ WITH ROBERT DOWNEY JR. IS A DISASTER JAKE COYLE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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r. Dolittle, who favored animals and shunned humans, was on to something.

The century of human history since Hugh Lofting, in 1920, created his eccentric veterinarian character has only made Dolittle a more astute fictional figure, and a natural candidate for big-screen resurrection. Aquaman can talk to the fishes but Dolittle has the ability to converse with all fauna. But if they could speak, no realm of the animal kingdom — no penguin, parakeet or panda — would have anything good to say

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Fifty singers perform in each genre, with accompanied instruments.

“It is going to be a delicious concert, music for everyone, and the variety of music will highlight our diverse musical talents in our group,” Leonard said.

Kauai Voices will unveil a new gospel piece.

The upcoming concerts are:

global warming, or about Stephen ••• Gaghan’s “Dolittle” MOVIE REVIEW at least “Howard the Duck.” (one star out of four) It’s tempting to think: Well, a big-budget train wreck in which things go so awry that it it can’t be that bad. Who can’t even be said to be strictly doesn’t like both Downey and animals? At the very least, you for the dogs. would think, no amount of “Dolittle,” starring Robert special effects can completely Downey Jr., arrives just weeks dilute such a vibrant and clevafter the advent of “Cats,” another Universal Pictures release er actor. He was even good in likewise stuffed with computer the Marvel movies!

But perhaps the biggest disgenerated animals. “Dolittle” is a more harmless and whimsi- appointment of “Dolittle” isn’t the incoherent story line, the cal family entertainment, less suffocating CGI or the unfunny likely to provoke nightmares than the digitally furred felines stable of celebrity-voiced creatures. It’s that Downey’s of Tom Hooper’s Andrew Lloyd Webber adaptation. But, personality doesn’t come through at all, either a victim just the same, the two films of the surrounding mess or a together could be the worst party to it. setback for animalia since ◗ Kilauea, 6 p.m. Saturday, Anaina Hou Porter Pavilion; ◗ Waimea, 3 p.m. Sunday, Historic Waimea Theatre; ◗ Kauai Community College Performing Arts Center, 7 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 25; ◗ Kauai Community College Performing Arts Center, 3 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 26.

Come early to the Kilauea show and mingle with the crowd. In Waimea, you can indulge in movie snacks in the theater. In Lihue, try pies

by The Right Slice before or in-between the concert.

Featured songs include “Moonglow,”“Walkin’ After Midnight,”“Thank God I’m a Country Boy” and “Hawaii Aloha,” said Leonard.

There will be a special hula performance, too.

Tickets are $20 in advance, $25 at the door and $30 for VIP early seating.

For tickets, kauaivoices. org or 1-800-838-3006.

••• Stephanie Shinno, staff writer, can be reached at 245-0424 or sshinno@ thegardenisland.com. -

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ohn Peacock, a former maintenance worker at Kukui Grove Center, repainted the “2020” logo used for a social media contact to match the colors of the Kauai Ocean Discovery center that opened Saturday morning.

“I asked him to use the colors they used in the Kauai Ocean Discovery center to re-do the sign,” said Melissa McFerrin-Warrack of KGC. “We’ll have the sign up until after the Ocean Discovery event in February.”

Hundreds of people of all ages and places shed their footwear to flow through the doors of the center that will help fulfill a need for a community learning facility that shares the traditions and knowledge of the island’s ocean connections and inspires stewardship.

Kauai Ocean Discovery is open Tuesdays through Saturdays at KGC, next to Game Stop.

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