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IN THIS ISSUE: 2. OUT & ABOUT:

Top picks for the week

3. COMEDY:

Augie T

4. TUNES:

Thomas Gausepohl

5. MOVIES:

‘Bridge of Spies’

6. BOOK REVIEW:

‘Good Omens’

7. CHECK DA SCENE: Hot Kauai Nights

OUT & ABOUT: TOP PICKS FOR THE WEEK FRI SAT SUN BOOK SIGNING 5 TO 8 P.M. TALK STORY BOOKSTORE

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KAUAI MARATHON EXPO 9 A.M. TO 4 P.M. GRAND HYATT KAUAI Gear up for the Kauai Marathon with this expo for fitness enthusiasts and families. THIRD ANNUAL KEIKI RUN 9 A.M. GRAND HYATT KAUAI $20. Different distances for age groups. CARBO LOAD PARTY 5 AND 6:30 P.M. POIPU BEACH ATHLETIC CLUB $34.99. Kids under 6, free ART KAUAI KSA GALLERY, KUKUI GROVE CENTER Entries for the 2015 Art Kauai exhibit is due today. RUMMAGE SALE 8 A.M. TO NOON CHURCH OF THE PACIFIC Help the church raise funds during this community rummage sale. Space rental available. 652-2202 DISCOVER KAPAA 12 TO 5 P.M. KAPAA NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER First book signing for “Discover the History of Kapaa,” by Marta Hulsman.

‘PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN’ 5 P.M. NATIONAL TROPICAL BOTANICAL GARDEN, MCBRYDE GARDEN Movie night featuring “Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides.” $10 donation KAUAI MARATHON 6 A.M. START POIPU BEACH ROAD About 1,600 runners are entered in the 26.2-mile marathon and 13.1-mile half marathon. POTLUCK 12:30 P.M. KAPAA NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER Vegan potluck and lecture. Bring a dish and eat free, otherwise $5. 337-9977

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CONSERVATION PLAN 6 TO 7:30 P.M. PRINCEVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY Dr. Christian Vlautin will be speaking about the Kauai Nene Habitat Conservation Plan that is under development. JOB FAIR 10 A.M. TO 2 P.M. KAUAI COMMUNITY COLLEGE, OCET BUILDING, ROOM 106C/D. Rural Hawaii 1 Project is hostingthe job fair.

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is full name is Augusto Tulba, but everyone knows him as Augie T. And there’s good reason for that. “Because,” Aguie, a professional comedian for 25 years, explained. “Augusto is too sexy.” Laughs aside, did you know some of the best comedy can come from serious, sometimes dark topics? “I share a really honest story,” said Aguie T, who, growing up, became a teen parent and watched a brother perish to ice. “I get really deep and personal.” Augie T. will be emceeing the inaugural “Laugh With The Stars,” a family-friendly comedy and music show that’s part of a two-island swing. Kauai’s performance will be 7 p.m. Sept. 11 at the Kauai War Memorial Convention Hall and feature comedians Frank DeLima and Ed Kaahea, along with music from

three of Kauai’s own: Shar Carillo, Shilo Pa, and the Greenstone Project. Proceeds will go toward the B.R.A.V.E. Hawaii Foundation, a nonprofit organization started by Augie T’s daughter, Mahea Sims-Tulba, that encourages school-aged youth to be respectful and value everyone. Mahea Sims-Tulba faced the issue of bullying growing up before she decided at age 12 to change her negative experiences into helpful ones and create the foundation. Together, the father-daughter duo has reached over 3,000 students on Oahu and Hawaii Island through B.R.A.V.E. presentations. “Surrounding yourself with the right people in high school is important,” Augie T said about one of their messages. Now, they’re trying to raise money to travel to more schools across the state without having to be

TOM HASSLINGER TGIFR!DAY reliant on the Department of Education or applying for grants. As emcee of the event, Augie T said he’ll mostly moderate, but throw in his jabs and jokes like any good host would. “It’s very personal,” Augie T said about his comedy style. “A lot of my comedy comes from family. I talk about my kids a lot, I talk about my mom and dad a lot and I talk about the struggles about being a local comic.” Tickets cost $15 or $20 at the door. They’re on sale at Kmart Lihue and online at AugieT.com. VIP seats are available for $25 and include a free Augie T CD. “I think comedy is therapeutic,” Augie T said. “You just forget. Anything painful. Laughter lets out the endorphins and can make people forget any pain in their life.”

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2009 KAPAA HIGH SCHOOL VALEDICTORIAN RECORDS RAP TAPE

veryone thought Thomas Gausepohl would one day become a lawyer or a doctor. The Kapaa High School Class of 2009 valedictorian was a scholar. But Gausepohl had a different vision. “Growing up on Kauai, I was always kind of ashamed to rap,” said Gausepohl, who is 24 and lives on Oahu. “So I never really did it in public or made an effort to express that rap music is a passion of mine, except for with a few people. “I played the piano, people knew that, but that’s different. You’re pressing keys and making sounds. It’s less personal. You’re not saying

stuff from you soul.” Gausepohl is no longer ashamed to chase his dream. On Aug. 19, he celebrated not only his birthday but also the release of his first rap mixtape, “The Process.” “It’s time to pursue my passion, and this is the first step to doing it,” Gausepohl explained. He released the mixtape under the stage name Scholar. The mixtape’s 15 tracks are dedicated to themes straight out of Gausepohl’s life. Falling into drug use. Cynicism. Feeling helpless. The struggle to be your authentic self. Coming to believe in something bigger

than yourself. Learning to switch your way of thinking. Gratitude. Self-improvement. Allowing yourself to be happy. Gausepohl said the mixtape’s lyrical content traces the stages of his own life. “The last four songs are more positive, and it’s like figuring out what’s really important,” he said. “I kind of believe in happily ever after. A lot of people don’t, but I do.” Gausepohl wrote the majority of the songs over the course of this year. In May, he took out a loan to cover the cost of renting out a Honolulu studio. He recorded the songs over 12 back-to-

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back hours. The pressure was heavy, Gausepohl said, knowing that some of rap music’s stars have recorded there, such as E-40, Too Short and Mos Def. “I was scared,” Gausepohl said. “I couldn’t really try to have fun with it because it was like, ‘Oh, my God, I’m already in debt and time is ticking and I’ve never been in a professional studio before.” But he pulled it off. Three months later, he hosted a mixtape launch party in Honolulu that drew a crowd of 200 people. Next on the agenda, he said, is recording a music video. “Music is definitely the path I want to go,” Gausepohl said. “Releasing the album, it’s been a journey. The response has been pretty positive. A lot of people from home are just stoked that somebody’s done it. There’s definitely room for improvement, but I’m trying. I tried.”

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REVIEW: Spielberg plunges into the Cold War NEW YORK — The nearly three year wait since Steven Spielberg’s last movie (2012’s “Lincoln”) comes to an end this October with the spy thriller “Bridge of Spies.” Good news for moviegoers: There won’t be another gap like that for a while. Having just locked “Bridge of Spies,” Spielberg is already editing his next film, Roald Dahl’s “The BFG,” and is in pre-production on “Ready Player One,” a sci-fi adventure from Ernest Cline’s best-seller. It’s a pace that Spielberg, 68, says he plans to continue. “I’m doing a long stretch of directing over the next several years,” Spielberg says. “We put our last child into college. Number seven went to college last week and (wife Kate Capshaw) and I are enjoying the empty nest. It gives her a chance to get more involved with her art — she’s a wonderful painter — and it gives me a chance to direct movies back to back now.” “Bridge of Spies,” due out Oct. 16, is a new chapter in history for Spielberg and one

he knows personally: the Cold War. Tom Hanks stars as James Donovan, a lawyer the CIA recruited to rescue a spy pilot downed in the Soviet Union. In a recent interview while taking a break from editing “The BFG,” the director spoke about making the true-life tale, the unexpected success of “Jurassic World” and his distaste for superhero movies.

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these cycles have a finite time in popular culture. There will come a day Continued from page 5 when the mythological stories are supplanted in the ‘50s. Our story is by some other genre also about the shooting Spielberg that possibly some down of Gary Powers’ U2 young filmmaker is just and the apprehension thinking about discoverAP: You caused a stir of a Soviet spy working ing for all of us. two years ago when you in this country for over a predicted Hollywood decade: Rudolph Abel. AP: Were you surAnd the negotiator — a was headed toward an prised by the success “implosion” because of fish-out-of-water — an of “Jurassic World,” on the over-abundance of insurance attorney who which you were an mega-budget movies. used to be the associexecutive producer? Do you still feel that ate prosecutor at the Spielberg: I’m back in way? Nuremberg war-crime the dinosaur business, Spielberg: I do. I trials who was called it appears. We promised still feel that way. We upon to defend an them more teeth and were around when the alleged Soviet spy, and they rewarded us for it. I Western died and there the kind of charged would have been ecstatwill be a time when the atmosphere he was ic if we had done what superhero movie goes willing to endure to see justice served. It’s a story the way of the Western. the town was expecting, which was a $100 milIt doesn’t mean there about a very righteous, lion three-day weekend. won’t be another occaprincipled individual — That would have just sion where the Western and for Tom Hanks, it’s made my whole year. comes back and the right up his alley. superhero movie some- But the fact that it did over twice what the AP: This is your fourth day returns. Of course, prognosticators were right now the superhero film with him. predicting, it just blew movie is alive and thrivSpielberg: Every colme away. ing. I’m only saying that laboration is better than

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f you need a vacation, “Good Omens,” by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, will take you away from wherever you are right now! The ultimate vacation? Armageddon! And the end of the world has never been so righteously fun! It’s happening all in accordance with the divine plan, with the armies of good and evil readying for the final battle … except for one demon and one angel (mortal enemies, of course). Heaven and Hell had left the whole Earth business in the hands of these two caretakers: Crowley, the demon (who drives a handsome 1926 Bentley) and Aziraphale, the angel

(who doubles as a rare-book dealer … BTW that makes him awesome according to these two book sellers!). These two caretakers have actually been quite comfortable with their jobs, overlooking their charges on Earth since its creation, and aren’t too keen on the idea of losing their cushy positions, so they decide to join forces to save humanity. Good Omens is a hysterically funny book that is intelligent and lampoons everything, from Elvis sightings to televangelists to the destruction of all intelligent life (and who does that leave?).

Good Omens is the only time these two best-selling internationally renowned authors co-wrote a book together. And what a treat! Terry Pratchett’s satirical zaniness combined with Neil Gaiman’s morbid sense of humor provides a wonderful tale with a scathing wit that hits all the right spots! The plot is quick, with well written laugh-outloud humor, a bounty of esoteric and well-known religious references, all tied together in a grandiose apocalyptic entertaining romp. Good Omens is timeless fun, and is a book that keeps getting better after each reading. It has continued to be one of our favorite recommendations that never disappoints! We look forward to you telling us how you enjoyed this book! ••• Ed and Cynthia Justus are owners of The Bookstore in Hanapepe.

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