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Week of Friday, June 30, 2017 | Vol. 5, No. 27

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POI POUNDER Joshua Fukino keeps treasured Hawaiian tradition alive

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TOP PICKS FOR THE WEEK FRIDAY

Spiritual cinema: 6:30 to 9 p.m. Center for Spiritual Living Kauai.

An insightful look at faith and belief. A provocative social experiment-turned-documentary, “Kumare” follows American filmmaker Vikram Gandhi as he transforms himself into a wise Indian guru, hoping to prove the absurdity of blind faith. Popcorn is served and an optional group discussion follows the movie. 4-1579 Kuhio Hwy., Suite 101 in the East Kauai Professional Building, across from the Kapaa Neighborhood Center.

Donations accepted. Info: 755- 9177 or www.cslkauai.org.

Slack key guitar and ukulele concert: 4 to 6 p.m. Hanalei Family Community Center.

Tickets $10-25. Proceeds support Hale Halawai Ohana O Hanalei.

SATURDAY

Heaven on Earth health fair: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Dolphin Touch Wellness Center, Kapaa. Free.

Community Caring Day: 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Lawai International Center.

Nurture the grounds, polant orchids. Bring gardening tools, gloves. If you plan to be there, email LM@hawaii.rr.com or call 639-4300 JULY 4

Celebration Kekaha ‘Fay’ Ballpark: 10 a.m to 10 p.m.

Free entertainment, music by ”Still Watah.” Water slide. Games, food booths, cultural activities, plantation museum, arts, crafts, game booths. Fireworks. Presented by E Ola Mau Na Leo O’ Kekaha.

28th annual Concert in the Sky Kauai Hospice Independence Day Friendraiser: 4 to 9:30 p.m. Vidinha Soccer Field, Lihue.

Music by Kapena. 3D fireworks show. Funzone with bounce units, water slides, inflatable zipline, face painting, novelties. $10 adults, $5 children in advance, free for keiki 5 and under. At the gate, $15 adults, $7 children 6-12. Win a trip for 2 to Las Vegas.

Veterans Roundup: 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Kauai Veterans Center Promote veterans benefits and foster the veterans ohana celebrating America’s birthday.

THURSDAY

Early learning storytime: 9:30 a.m. Waimea Public Library.

FRIDAY

Community meeting: Hosted by the Hawaiian Cultural Awareness subcommittee of the Kauai County Tourism Strategic Plan 2016-2018, 5:30 to 7:30 p.m., Hilton Garden Inn in Wailua. Free.

Hear the latest on the County of Kauai’s Tourism Strategic Plan and learn about goals and objectives of the Hawaiian Cultural Awareness subcommittee. Participate in an active dialogue around tourism and its relationship with the community.

FRIDAY

Community meeting: Hosted by the Hawaiian Cultural Awareness subcommittee of the Kauai County Tourism Strategic Plan 2016-2018, Waimea Plantation Cottages from 9 to 11 a.m. and Kauai Community College Office of Continuing Education and Training building from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. Free.

Wounaan Rainforest Basket Show & Sale: 11 am. to 6 p.m. Princeville Center.

Finest baskets woven in the world; Woven by the Wounaan and Embera indians from the Darien Rainforest in Panama; Baskets from one inch to 20-plus inches in black and white and colorful geometric design, and rainforest design; first show in Kauai.

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Reverend Patrick Feren, who along with Rita, prepares for Center for Spiritual Living Kauai’s evening of cabaret — “Love Notes II: How Do You Keep the Music Playing?” — on July 13 and 14 at 6:30 p.m. at CSL Kauai in Kapaa.

‘Love Notes II’

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enter for Spiritual Living Kauai will present an evening of cabaret — “Love Notes II: How Do You Keep the Music Playing?” — on Thursday and Friday, July 13 and 14 at 6:30 PM at CSL Kauai in Kapaa.

Starring Rita Andriello-Feren and her husband Patrick Feren, the spiritual directors of Center for Spiritual Living Kauai, Love Notes II will explore the question: How Do You Keep the Music Playing? — in all areas of life, including health, wealth, career and love. “Our goal is to take the audience on a musical journey of discovery through a variety of songs and genres — including standards, Broadway and pop — as well as a lot of fun, laugher and playful banter,” said Andriello-Feren.

“Our mission in life has always been to elevate consciousness and inspire,” said Reverend Patrick, who along with Rita, has more than 20 years in background in theater, music and production. As the talented couple pursued their theatrical careers, they also studied the works of the great mystics and spiritual teachers of New Thought.

“We realized that we could combine our talents — singing, acting, writing, teaching, directing, and producing with our spirituality.

When the ministerial path called us to Kauai four years ago, we followed it,” noted Reverend Rita.

The cabaret’s live accompaniment and musical direction will be provided by pianist Barbara Stamm-Davis. In addition to the performance, audience members will enjoy a pupu buffet and drinks, which are included in the ticket price.

Tickets are $45 each and must be purchased in advance; seating is limited.

Doors open at 6:30 p.m.; the show starts at 7:30 on both Thursday, July 13 and Friday, July 14. CSL Kauai is located at 4-1579 Kuhio Highway in the East Kauai Professional Building, Suite 101. For tickets or more information visit www. cslkauai.org/love-notes or call 431-1700.

The Center for Spiritual Living Kauai is a 501c3 nonprofit organization, which practices the Science of Mind and Spirit — a New Thought philosophy founded by Ernest Holmes in 1927.

Affiliated with the global network of Centers for Spiritual Living, CSL Kauai offers individuals spiritual tools to assist them in experiencing a more peaceful, prosperous, healthy, love-filled life in a world that works for everyone in harmony, peace, community and abundance. Its mission is to help awaken humanity to its magnificence.

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A STORY OF LIFE

would not bear to undergo.

“Trans,” for being a book about a complex subject of experience, reads very easily, almost conversationally. We found, as we went through the book, the universality of being human is what comes to the fore in how the author tells this part of

their life’s story.

“Trans” is a memoir that gives us new insight into people in our community who are truly, inside, just like anyone else.

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rans: A Memoir,” by Juliet Jacques, is a timely book.

In today’s world where gender identity, gender politics, and transgender rights are in the forefront of many national media stories, this memoir of a person’s experience in making the full change between genders provides us with a frank and candid personal view of what it is like to be transgender (or “mahu” as it has been referred to in the Hawaiian culture).

While nearly all of us know not what it is like to be transgender, since they are a slim minority of the population, “Trans: A Memoir” is a really great way, regardless of whatever one feels or thinks they know about the transgender experience, to become informed in the first-person perspective — the human perspective.

The book is certainly bold, honest, and nothing held back from the daily experiences of Juliet. With the things she follows

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with great interest, such as music and sports, we learn of how a person can be viewed or treated when our inherently traditional expectations fail us, and “Trans” does a great job in conveying those feelings. As the transition of her gender reassignment surgery goes through its phases, culminating in the final transformation, the internal mental and emotional roller-coaster that she experiences until settled with her new self is both fascinating, challenging, and touching — an experience most probably could not or

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auai Community College is a center for Hawaiian learning. But just across from the One Stop Center lies a tent with beach chairs, poi boards and poi pounders.

It’s the ultimate course in Hawaiian studies that isn’t taught in a classroom.

It’s instructor, Joshua Fukino, is a 37-yearold Hawaiian man from Waimea. He is setting up his poi boards like he does every Tuesday afternoon, regardless if anyone else shows up to participate.

“I just feel like keeping it going,” he said.

“I like to eat kalo every week, so I can see myself doing it every week. If I can, I leave it open for everyone to come.”

With assistance from his apprentice and two-year-old son, Kualau Rossi-Fukino, Fukino isn’t just using a pohaku (sacred Hawaiian stone) to pound poi to eat, he’s also keeping Hawaiian tradition and culture alive.

When asked why he pounds poi every

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Kualau Rossi-Fukino gets help from his dad Josh Fukino in using a pohaku to pound out a batch of poi, Tuesday at the Kauai Community College lo‘i.

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“Just having that background, that connection with the aina and stuff. When I was younger, I used to fish and whatever. It’s a pride thing,” he said. “Going back to eating traditional foods is a way of getting back our independence, our sovereignty or whatever. If I can plant the kalo and get water for it, then I can grow the kalo and feed my family. I can really have no dependence on anything except that.”

Although Fukino admits that he still shops at grocery stores because of convenience, he feels like he is doing his part for his culture, which became his mission more than seven years ago.

In 2010, Fukino began studying and learning about kalo. An interest turned into a hobby and then into an apprenticeship under Jerry Konanui, a cultural practitioner

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who specializes in Hawaiian kalo varieties.

“I started to ku’i kalo (pound poi) more often through that, then I found that I really enjoyed how to do it,” he said. “It was a lot different from the regular poi that you get at the stores. Then I started sampling the other varieties and that’s kind of when I got really into doing it like this.”

At first, pounding poi was what Fukino did to put food on the table at home. Before long, Fukino was getting requests to put on demonstrations.

“The first time I got asked to do it was at a clubhouse in Kukui’ula for Koloa plantation days,” Fukino said. “And then I was just doing it for a month regularly because I just liked to do it, but then I found a connection with Kealia’s Farmers Market where they cook and clean Kalo.”

Working with Kealia Farmers, Fukino would pick up kalo on Mondays and then pound it on Tuesdays.

“I started doing it by myself, but then figured that I might as well open it up to people on campus — any of the students and the community,” he said.

Throughout the semester, KCC students would notice Fukino and his family from across the way and join in not just to make food, but to learn firsthand, rather than read about it

◗ Poi is made from the popular taro plant: the 14th most cultivated crop on earth. ◗ Although taro is eaten around the world, only Hawaiians make poi. Traditionally they cooked the starchy, potato-like taro root, or corm, for hours in an underground oven called an imu. Then they pounded the taro corms on large flat boards called Papa ku’i’ai, using heavy stone poi pounders called pohaku ku’i ’ai. The taro was pounded into a smooth, sticky paste called pa’i’ai, then stored air tight in ti leaf bundles and banana sheaths for storage or future trading. By slowly adding water to the pa’i’ai, which was then mixed and kneaded, the perfect poi consistency was created. Poi was traditionally enjoyed with fresh fish, seaweed, breadfruit and sweet potato — an incredibly tasty and nutritious meal. And when it came to eating poi — fingers were the utensil of choice.

in a textbook.

“A lot of older students get their kids from Kawaikini (Public Charter School) and Punana Leo (O’ Kauai). So they pick them up and stop over here and ku’i kalo,” he said.

Fukino began a workshop in February in collaboration with Kauai Historical Society and began to notice some students beginning to bring some friends from work along.

He said that students working part-time jobs would bring co-workers and managers along to pound poi.

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“I thought it was kind of cool because businesses came and made this a team-building type of thing with employees,” Fukino said. “They work together and make food. What you make is your food. You eat that after. We usually have a grill after when we eat the kalo and have fellowship and talk story.”

While he understands that pounding kalo is a part of the past and present of Hawaiian culture, Fukino recognized that it has to become an integral part of the future: not just to keep tradition alive, but to be there for his son.

“For Hawaiians, kalo was the center of the meal. That was the main dish, and it’s healthy,” he said. “Everything else was just sides. We’re just trying to bring that back. But it’s also a health thing for me. I recently had a son, he’s going to be three so that’s putting things into perspective.”

The poi boards and pohaku are brought by Fukino and his family from home.

“If you can get one in each household and have people just doing it, we can keep that tradition alive in that sense,” he said. “It’s like how some Mexican families still grind their own tortillas, because they get that kind stuff. They get that thing to grind and smash ‘em up. If we get poi boards and stones into people’s houses, they’ll make poi more.”

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A thrilling epic in ‘War for the Planet of the Apes’

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pparently all the new Planet of the Apes films needed to do to really hit a home run was take the humans out of the equation.

It’s what this whole trilogy has been leading to, really, as we dipped our toes into the rise, dawn and now war of this burgeoning civilization of apes and the humans who are desperately and often dishonorably fighting for their survival.

“War for the Planet of the Apes “ is a riveting and surprisingly poignant epic that’s a shade above the rest of the franchise dreck populating every multiplex in the country.

It’s as though director Matt Reeves, screenwriter Mark Bomback and the production actually put care and thought into what they were doing with their characters.

Reeves wastes no time getting the action started with a gripping opening battle. We

enter the world through the eyes of some terrified intruders. A group of human soldiers walk through the woods in search of Caesar (Andy Serkis).

They don’t know whether he’s still alive, but their leader is hell-bent on exterminating the apes.

Caesar and his followers have been operating from a secret hideout in the woods — a gorgeous little Eden tucked away behind a thundering waterfall. When the soldiers find them, the apes fight back swiftly and effectively and nearly take out all of the combatants. Caesar spares the lives of the few survivors to send a message back to their leader that the apes are not savages and just want to live in peace separately from the humans.

Of course the message inspires exactly the opposite reaction and the beautiful and harrowing and nearly

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silent nighttime raid that comes soon leaves the apes no choice but to abandon their home and hit the road in search of safety. Caesar, however, decides he must go off alone and avenge his community by destroying the Colonel (Woody Harrelson), a deranged Kurtz figure who is truly one of the best true villains we’ve had in quite some time.

A few of Caesar’s comrades follow him on his journey to find the Colonel. Along the way they pick up a young, mute girl (Amiah Miller) and a tiny, manic and adorable zoo ape voiced by Steve Zahn who has the same sort of comic energy as Yoda on Dagobah (without all the force stuff and Jedi training). When they arrive at the Colonel’s base, they find a much bleaker and more complicated situation than they could have ever expected.

To say too much more about the plot would probably be a mistake and part of the greatness of Bomback’s script is how even in following a pretty standard exodus story, it still manages to surprise and captivate throughout, and with minimal dialogue too. At times, it even feels like “War for the Planet of the Apes” is essentially a silent

movie with the mute girl and the majority of the apes communicating in sign language.

Despicable Me 3

One of the many — and we mean many — subplots in “Despicable Me 3” is about a girl’s obsession with finding a unicorn. The adorable tot spends her waking hours wishing and hoping and dreaming, and she comes close — but in the end what she finds is a sweet little goat. It’s very cute, and it does the trick — but it’s still, you know, a goat.

One could say that this third installment in Illumination’s “Despicable Me” series, directed by Pierre Coffin and Kyle Balda, shares something with that little goat. When “Despicable Me” first came out in 2010, introducing the world to those squishy, chattering Minions and the gloriously weird pseudo-Slavic deadpan of Steve Carell, it was a unicorn: fresh, inventive, unique. But this third one, leaning on an endless litany of ‘80s pop culture references to entertain parents and a whole lot of noisy, forgettable action to please the kids, feels more like that goat. It still does the trick — for now. But it ain’t no unicorn.

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by Carell of course.

The Big Sick

That two people could overcome centuries-old cultural obstacles, the perils of modern dating and a critical illness and end up together is a great story. That those two people also managed to adapt their own great story into a great movie is a miracle.

It’s the wonder of “The Big Sick ,” the must-see romantic comedy of the year. Sweet-natured, funny and genuine, you’re not likely to have a more pleasant time at the cinema this summer.

At the center is Kumail Nanjiani, the deft comedian who audiences might know from HBO’s “Silicon Valley.” He actually uses his full, real name in the film, which he co-wrote with his wife, Emily Gordon and based on their wild courtship. Emily has ceded her part to an actress, Zoe Kazan, who continues her very persuasive campaign to be the rom-com dream girl for those who fancy themselves better than rom-coms.

Kumail is a struggling stand-up comedian who pays the rent for his awful Chicago apartment by driving for Uber.

When he’s not on the stage, or in the car, he’s at home with his family in the suburbs.

They’re Pakistani and Muslim and have all had arranged marriages and expect Kumail

to do the same. He’s managed to live a bit of a double life for a while — dating who he wants while also holding up the pretense of being a good Pakistani son. But everything changes when he meets Emily, the white grad student who he falls for and then loses when she realizes that he’s been hiding her from his family.

Baby Driver

There’s nothing like an epic getaway chase to kick a movie into high gear, and the first five minutes of “Baby Driver “ are pure movie magic.

A driver named Baby (Ansel Elgort) sits coolly in a car — black Ray-Ban style shades on his face, earbud headphones in place and a jacket that’s, fittingly, somewhere between Ferris Bueller and Han Solo.

His tough-looking passengers (Jon Hamm, Eiza Gonzalez and Jon Bernthal) exit with comical menace, assault weapons in hand. Baby sits back, cranks up “Bellbottoms” by the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion and air guitars his way through the sequence while the others rob a bank and exit in a hurry.

That’s when things really get going as Baby steps on the gas and maneuvers away from the cops with heart-pounding, exhilarating polish. It’s a car chase for the ages.

It should be no surprise then that what comes after doesn’t quite live up to that initial jolt of adrenaline. Nor should it, really — it would be brutal to sustain something like that for the duration of a film (and we already have “Mad Max: Fury Road”).

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he emphasis is on fun, said Bev Brody of Get Fit Kauai at the 9th annual Kauai Mayor-a-thon hosted at the Kapaa Beach Park.

More than a thousand people registered for the event offering a bike, run, or walk along Ke Ala Hele Makalae with distances reaching a maximum of eight miles.

Following the workout, Mayor-a-thon participants were treated to a healthy breakfast from Mark’s Place and Contemporary Flavors Catering embelished with a generous longan contribution from the Kauai Grown and Kauai County Farm Bureau. Kauai Coffee provided the wake-up juice.

Patrons, some of whom arrived via The Kauai Bus special runs, could donate to either the Hawaii Foodbank, Kauai Branch, or the Kauai Independent Food Bank, and get their share of information from a number of organizations focusing on healthy living and lifestyles.

“Next year is the 10th Mayor-a-thon, and the last one for Mayor Carvalho,” said Brody. “He terms out after that. The next Mayor-a-thon is already penciled in for June 30, 2018.”

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