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TOP PICKS FOR THE WEEK reduced to one lane of traffic during the run, between 6:30 and 10:30 a.m. Info: 639-4048 or hanaleicanoeclub.org

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BILL FERNANDEZ BOOK SIGNING 5 to 7:30 p.m. The Bookstore, Hanapepe The author will be signing his new book, “Splintered Paddle.”

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FAMILY CAREGIVER TRAINING 2 to 3:30 p.m., Lihue Civic Center Piikoi Building near the county Agency on Elderly Affairs office The Alzheimer’s Association’s family caregiver training is designed for non-professional family caregivers. Info: bonniemickey@hawaiiantel.net or 245-2764. INTERFAITH ROUNDTABLE LUNCHEON Noon to 2 p.m., 4-1579 Kuhio Highway, Suite 101, Kapaa (East Kauai Profesional Building) The Interfaith Roundtable of Kauai’s June meeting features Al Albergate, offering “Buddhism 101.” BUILD WITH LEGOS, WATCH MOVIE 2 to 4 p.m., Princeville Public Library The film “Treasure Planet” will be shown, and children can make Lego creations. This program is for children 4 to 9 years of age. Free. Info: librarieshawaii.org SUMMER FESTIVAL Sunrise to sunset, various locations around Wailua, including Kamokila Hawaiian Village and Hilton Kauai Garden Inn Wailua Bay Info: 320-7603, 823-6000, village.kauai.com SATURDAY

“WALA‘AU” 25TH ANNIVERSARY BASH 1 to 7 p.m. Kilohana luau pavilion $25. no-host cocktails, lunch wagons available. Kupuna over 70 free. OPEN MIC SUNDAYS IN POIPU 4:30 to 7 p.m. Paco’s Tacos, Kiahuna Golf Course The open-mic night admission is free. Info: openmickauai.com JAPANESE CALLIGRAPHY LESSON 10:30 a.m. to noon, Koloa Hongwanji Mission Info: 742-6735 KAUAI HEALING ARTS FAIR Noon to 6 p.m., Princeville Community Association clubhouse Local products including crystals, healing jewelry, herbal remedies and more. Admission is free. Info: kauaifestivals.com PING PONG 3 to 5 p.m., Kilauea Neighborhood Center Tables, balls and paddles are free. Info: 503-449-7129 MONDAY

MAKE YOUR OWN GALAXY SLIME 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. Waimea Public Library Children ages 5 and up are invited to make galaxy slime with glue, food coloring, laundry starch and glitter. KAUAI LIVE POETS’ SOCIETY MEETING 6:30 p.m., Lihue Public Library To write of a first meeting with someone who became important in your life or “anything goes” poet’s choice of subject. Fifty lines max. Please bring 10-12 copies of poems to share and writing materials. Info: 241-3222

SIERRA CLUB HIKE Nounou Mountain (Sleeping Giant), Eastside Intermediate, five-mile hike over various Sleeping Giant trails. Leader: Julio Magalhães, 650-906-2594 FREE FAMILY MOVIE NIGHT 7 to 9 p.m., Coconut Market Place, Waipouli “Captain Marvel” is the movie. Info: coconutmarketplace.com HAENA-TO-HANALEI RUN 6:30 a.m. Kuhio Highway from Ke‘e Beach to Anae Road in Hanalei will be

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Ilima Rivera presents Hawaiian history through ancient chants this evening at the 10th annual Kauai Kau Wela Summer Festival at the Hilton Garden Inn Kauai Wailua Bay. ON THE COVER: Former Mayor Bernard Carvalho Jr. is accompanied by Chief Heifara on the nose flute as he renders “Beautiful Kauai” while Ilima Rivera dances, during an earlier festival at the Kamokila Hawaiian Village along the Wailua River.

KAUAI KAU WELA Entertainment, crafts, contests on tap in Wailua

celebration. It all starts off early in the morning at Kamokila Hawaiian Village with the welcoming of the canoe at about 9 a.m. The double-hulled canoe’s arrival has been a JESSICA ELSE staple of the festival every TGIFR!DAY year, and always sails into elcome the sum- Kamokila Hawaiian Village from the Wailua River to mer with danccelebrate Hawaii’s rich ing and chants, canoes and contests today culture and kick off the summer season. at the 10th annual Kauai Once the canoe has Kau Wela Festival. Hula, live Tahitian drums, landed and been welcomed, the celebration crafters and vendors, and moves over to the Hilton contests will be at the Hilton Garden Inn Kauai Wailua Bay all day for the SEE KAU WELA, PAGE 3

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Garden Inn Kauai Wailua Bay Kuhio Ballroom. Food and craft vendors will begin selling at about noon, according to organizers, but there’s going to be much more available for people of all ages. Try your hand at the hula hoop contest or the peacock contest, listen to Tahitian drums by master Tepairu Manea, and listen to live music. Keiki between the ages of 5 and 13 can enter the canoe-building contest, which is ongoing in the ballroom from noon to 4 p.m. A cash-only entry fee of $5 will be charged to enter the contest, and contestants must bring their own building materials. Those materials have to be made from natural fibers gathered from the island of Kauai, and the canoe can’t be bigger than one foot in length. Fire will light up the evening at the sunset presentation of Hawaii history by Ilima Rivera and the Wailuanuihoano Warriors. They’ll perform ancient chants and stories, dances and a presentation called “Flames of Kau Wela,” which means “Hot Summer Lights up the Evening.” Performers include Tepairu Manea, Haunani Kaui, Bev Kauanui, Tamatea Nui o Kauai, Wailana Dasalia, Randy and Primrose Naukana, Ilima and Na Kane o Wailuanuia Ho‘ano and more. Ticket prices vary. The cost for the canoe arrival is $5 per person. Admission for afternoon events at the Hilton Garden Inn is $15 for adults and $7 for children. Tickets for the evening presentation of Kauai Kau Wela and pupus at Hilton Garden Inn are $35. Info: 320-7603 or www.villagekauai.com ••• Jessica Else, staff writer, can be reached at 245-0452 or jelse@thegardenisland. com.-

DESUS & MERO SHAKE UP LATE-NIGHT TALK-SHOW UNIVERSE GARY GERARD HAMILTON ASSOCIATED PRESS

& Mero on Showtime ,” the premium network’s first latenight show. “We’re not a bunch of punaniel Baker and Joel Martinez may be hosts dits breaking stuff down. We’re of a late-night TV just like, ‘This is weird. This is talk show that attracts A-list weird. This is not how America celebrities but they don’t feel works. But wow! What’s going like they’re competing with on?’” said Desus, the stage the likes of Jimmy Fallon or name of Baker. Stephen Colbert. Part of the charm of Desus The comedians, who go by & Mero is that they don’t hide Desus Nice & The Kid Mero, their New York-ness. Most ongot their break in podcasts and air talent eliminates clothing, they fill their Showtime slot accents or vernacular that with conversation, jokes, viral could alienate different parts clips, celebrity slip-ups and of the country. But Desus and offbeat local news stories. They Mero not only embrace it, but call it “a hodgepodge of the full turn the dial up. Brian Ach / Invision via AP file day’s topics.” It’s spontaneous “When the revolution comes, Daniel Baker, better known as Desus Nice, left, jokes with Joel and less gimmicky than their we going to kill all the rich peoMartinez, also known as The Kid Mero, during a portrait session in higher-profile rivals. ple and eat them,” Desus joked New York. our podcast.” Fans will get a chance to “Other guys — shout out to an audience recently. “We’re They’re doing what they see them up close in person to them — but they have a not rich, though. We from the want on their own terms, the this summer when they hit formula,” said Mero, the stage Bronx. Being rich in the Bronx is same traits that caught the the road, visiting cities like name of Martinez. “That’s like, what, 40 thou?” eyes of Complex Media, which Houston, Los Angeles, Miami not what we wanted to do. Although they might be and more. Tickets are currently noticed their hysterical Twitter newcomers to late-night, they We wanted to come and do interaction and paired them on sale. something totally different. haven’t shied from the action. “The show is a live version of up for a podcast that quickly And even the term ‘late-night While they shoot the breeze show’ — it applies to our show the podcast,” said Desus. “At the turned to video. with everyone from actors to That led to their popular beginning of the day, it started because it comes on late at directors to recording artists, show on Viceland, and now with our podcast and at the night, but it’s not your typical they’ve hit a sweet spot with end of the day, it’s going to be Baker and Martinez host “Desus politics. late-night show.”

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ou get to make your own chocolate bar at Debbie Williamson’s shop, and you can sip on chocolate tea while you do it. Tucked away alongside Kuhio Highway, Wild Kauai Chocolate is situated in a little slice of space that smells like confection the second you walk through the door. Williamson is usually busy behind a high counter, pouring cacao into a grinder or transferring pans of liquid chocolate to and from the melter. That’s when she’s

not busy with customers, though. “The real business is the chocolate bar workshop,” Williamson said as she trimmed the edges of a 100-percent chocolate bar. She wrapped it in gold foil and then tucked it into an envelope — packaging made by a Michigan company that used to manufacture ATM envelopes. She can fit 12 people at a time into the shop, and customers get to be chocolate-makers for a day. She starts out the workshop showing how she roasts the cacao beans and then separates them from

Williamson offers co-branded bars with local companies, lessons

the husks, and grinds them with sugar — or no sugar for the 100-percent bar — until they become smooth. Then Williamson pours a pan full of chocolate out on the counter. That’s when everyone gets to dive in, moving the chocolate around on the counter until the temperature lowers. It all wraps up with customers taking two chocolate bars home. Mondays, Williamson makes chocolate herself, filling orders for retail at different locations on Kauai and online orders for chocolate Photos by Jessica Else / TGIFR!DAY bars. She also sells chocolate husk tea to the tune of about ABOVE: Debbie Williamson pours chocolate onto the table for tempering. BELOW: Bars are wrapped in golden foil paper before being packaged at Wild Kauai Chocolate in Wailua.

50, four-ounce bags a week. Cacao for Williamson’s bars is sourced from a few little farms on Kauai, including Princeville Botanical Gardens. She isn’t able to use 100 percent Kauai cacao because there isn’t enough supply, so she also sources out of Ecuador. Currently, the 100-percent chocolate bar is one of the SEE CHOCOLATE, PAGE 5

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antioxidant or magnesium content. She has some other staple varieties, and bars that she’s co-created with businesses like Eat Healthy restaurant and Imua Coffee. “I love partnering with the local businesses to

make new products. We all get so excited,” Williamson said. “I’m working on one with Papaya’s (natural food store) now.” Williamson learned the art of chocolate making in Brazil and opened Wild Kauai Chocolate in 2011. A

one person every month for a more-intensive, apprentice-type school. “Usually someone comes to the chocolate school to open their own business,” Williamson said. “We get a

certified yoga teacher, she co-owned a studio in the country at that time. She’s also studied as a raw chef. In between filling orders and teaching classes, Williamson also brings on

lot of homeschool students and local kids, though, too.” ••• Jessica Else, staff writer, can be reached at 245-0452 or jelse@ thegardenisland.com.-

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‘YESTERDAY’ TAKES A GREAT IDEA, ADDS TOO MUCH SUGAR JOCELYN NOVECK ASSOCIATED PRESS

auditions “Let It Be” for his underwhelmed family, but annoyingly they keep interrupting the song, which his mum insists on calling ack Malik (Himesh Patel) is a “Leave It Be.” soulful if brooding young man, But then Sheeran hears Jack with a very pleasant singing croon “In My Life” on a radio show. voice. But when we meet him, the He offers him the chance to open fledgling ••• songwriter for him in Moscow, where Jack pulls MOVIE REVIEW and super“Back in the USSR” out of his back market clerk pocket. He’s a hit. Sheeran is self-deprecatingly from coastal England feels stuck in the middle of a hard day’s night. If funny as a pop star who fast realizes he doesn’t get any help soon, he’ll he’s Salieri to Jack’s Mozart. (He’s end up a real nowhere man. the guy who will suggest that Jack change “Hey Jude” to “Hey Dude.”) And so, after one more desultory He challenges Jack to a 10-minute gig attended by just a few lonely songwriting contest, only to be depeople, he tells his childhood friend stroyed when Jack produces “The and volunteer manager, Ellie (Lily James), that it’s over: He’s hanging Long and Winding Road.” The room up his gently weeping guitar. is mesmerized. And honestly, so are we. Simply But then, something inexplicable hearing that Beatles classic, and happens. On a bike ride home, the imagining it’s the first time, is a street lights go out; Jack collides thrill. For some moviegoers, that with a bus. Awakening later in the may be enough. Others may feel hospital, he learns from Ellie that like they’re watching a brilliant the electricity went out — all over “Saturday Night Live” skit that can’t the world! — for 12 seconds. quite find its way to an ending. He makes a joke about being 64. Ellie has no idea what he means. And so, much energy is spent on Soon, Jack will realize the enormiJonathan Prime / Universal Pictures via AP whether, and how, Jack will find a ty of what’s happened: Nobody way to tell Ellie he loves her. And if Himesh Patel is at home on stage in a scene from “Yesterday.” remembers The Beatles, except for he does, will he choose life with her whatever it is (the movie spends are charming; there are also winhim. Incredibly, the immense Beat- 2019 without a half-century of in Suffolk, or a high-profile music ning performances from Patel and no time explaining, which is fine). les catalog is all his, to introduce to Beatles influence? career? When, depressed and recovering the luminous James, as well as a the world. Alas, these questions aren’t No offense to this sweet couple from his injuries, Jack picks up Ellie’s self-knowing turn from Ed Sheeran really explored in “Yesterday, ” which and their future, but it’s tough This is the tantalizing premise of get-well present of a guitar and as himself, and reliably eff ective instead takes its enticing premise, to care as much as the movie “Yesterday” (two and a half stars out sings a few bars of “Yesterday,” his sets it up cleverly, then resorts to a comedy from Kate McKinnon. wants us to, when there are more of four), directed by Danny Boyle gobsmacked friend asks: “When did interesting things to ponder. As But for every laugh-out-loud and starring, more than any actor, a familiar rom-com formula, assumyou write that?” No, Jack protests, moment in the smartly paced first ing that what we REALLY want to the real “Hey Jude” plays over the slew of classic Beatles tunes. What Paul McCartney wrote it. “Who?” half, there’s a sigh later as to what a great idea, and what questions it know is whether the boy will get closing credits, we’re left fascinated might have been. And in what will comes the reply. the girl. raises: Would we love those iconic but vaguely unsatisfied as we try to Jack runs home and Googles clearly be a divisive moment for This is perhaps not totally sursongs today the way we did the imagine what a pop culture landfirst time? Would they be as appeal- prising given that the screenplay is audiences, there’s a gasp-inducing The Beatles. He gets the insect. A scape untouched by the Beatles search for Sgt. Pepper gets him the would look like. ing in someone else’s voice? Would by Richard Curtis, a master of frothy scene in the final stretch that, for vegetable. A search for John and some of the tunes soar, and others (but undeniably enjoyable) fare like some, will stray way too far from But what a great song. Paul? Yup, he gets a pope. Do the “Four Weddings and a Funeral” and the comfort zone. flop? Would a post #MeToo world “Yesterday,” a Universal Studios reRolling Stones exist? Yes, but still The setup, though, is delightful, “Love Actually.” accept, for example, a song by an lease, is rated PG-13 by the Motion particularly those early moments as no Beatles. (A few other essential Curtis obviously knows how older man about a 17-year-old girl? Picture Association of America “for things are missing, too.) Jack absorbs what has happened to entertain, Boyle is an expert suggestive content and language.” And more broadly, what would In another funny scene, Jack to the space-time continuum, or director, and many elements here Running time: 116 minutes. popular music even look like in

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he dinner-and-show package was sold out, and hundreds more flowed through the doors of Kauai Fashion Weekend, described as Kauai’s signature red-carpet event, at the Kauai Marriott Resort & Beach Club. Sha Ali Ahmad of Ahmad Couture partnered with Marynel Valenzuela to coordinate the nighttime gala designed to showcase the fashion and design of Kauai performers and Kauai fashion designers. New this year was the “Budding Designers,” a trio of Kauai designers who themed their presentation to repurposing and recycling. They were joined by numerous celebrity walkers, the women displaying fashions from Coutured by Bjork and Mana’s by Grande’s Gems. Special guest artist Elizabeth “Liz” Elias, of the Nickelodeon show “Every Witch Way,” came in from Florida for a song performance as well as a walk on the runway, touting Ahmad Couture designs.

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KAUAI FOLK FESTIVAL IS COMING Grammy winner, former resident Taj Mahal headlines TGIFR!DAY

he 2019 Kauai Folk Festival celebrates two days of folk music, dance, food, drink and craft, featuring multiple-Grammy-winning artists, and more than a dozen international acts on five stages. Held at Grove Farm Museum in Lihue, the Kauai Folk Festival blends traditional music and dance from all over the world with its Hawaiian counterpart, and takes place Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 28 and 29, with continuous live music performed on multiple stages. The lineup includes Taj Mahal, Peter Rowan and Tim O’Brien, Caleb Klauder, Reeb Willms, Austin Derryberry, and Jonny Fritz, local Hawaii players Puka Asing, Kirby Keough and Wally Rita and Los Kauaianos, along with an eclectic

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Grammy winner and former Kauai resident Taj Mahal will perform at the Kauai Folk Festival in late September.

mix of acts like local blues legend “The striking similarities and Vic the Barber, African rhumba band historical connections that link Boma Bango, and French folk duo Hawaiian music with traditional The Montvales. musics of the world have yet to be

explored in full,” said Matt Morelock, festival director. “We’ve assembled some of the greatest living traditional practi-

tioners in one place to celebrate, dance, eat and drink together on the most beautiful island in the world. I can’t imagine a better party,” he said. Workshops are a unique addition to the festival format. Performers will share in workshops on guitar, fiddle, banjo, ukulele and mandolin. Dance instructors will teach hula, square dance, swing and two-step. Voice instructors will teach harmony singing, ballads and Hawaiian song. Jam stations and loaner instruments will be available. Attendees are encouraged to bring instruments. Food and drink will be from Kauai Juice Co., Ya Quddus Bagels, Po‘okela Sausage, Uncle D’s Vegan BBQ, healthy foods, and a selection of booze and beverages from local brewers and distillers. Tickets for the Kauai Folk Festival are on sale now at kauaifolk.com, available in daily passes for $60, weekend passes for $100, and VIP passes for $300 each, and offer full access to all stage performances, workshops and parking.

DIXIE CHICKS SAY NEW ALBUM IS COMING Group takes to Instagram to make announcement

group’s lead singer, Natalie Maines, took to Instagram recently to tease a new album. Using a baby filter, Maines exclaims “Dixie Chicks!” Bandmates Emily ASSOCIATED PRESS Robison and Martie Maguire then say “Album” and he Dixie Chicks took the long way around, “Coming.” Their producer, but they’re returning Jack Antonoff, says “Somewith new music soon after a day.” Their representative has 13-year hiatus. not responded to an email The award-winning

seeking comment on the upcoming album. The Dixie Chicks’ last album in 2006, “Taking the Long Way,” won the Grammy award for Album of the Year. The group received both support and severe backlash in 2003 after Maines told a London audience that they were ashamed President George W. Bush was from Texas.

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Emily Robison, left, and Martie Maguire, right, adjust Natalie Maines’ hair as the Dixie Chicks perform at the new Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles.