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Week of Friday, February 6, 2015 | Vol. 3, No. 6

Grinds & Da Kines For Your Weekend

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KISS CONCERT • ‘THE IMITATION GAME’ • LASER LIGHT TRAIN Island Calendar and much, much more!

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IN THIS ISSUE: 2. OUT & ABOUT: Top picks for the week

3. NIGHT LIFE: Laser Light Train

4-5. DINING OUT KAUAI: Valentine’s Day

6. FLICKS: ‘The Imitation Game’

7. TUNES: Harlem Quartet

8-9. CHECK DA SCENE: Cheer for Hulali

10. TUNES: KISS concert

11. FAMILY FUN: Miss Keiki Hawaii Pageant

OUT & ABOUT: TOP PICKS FOR THE WEEK FRI SAT SUN JAZZ FESTIVAL 7 P.M. ST. MICHAEL AND ALL ANGELS EPISCOPAL CHURCH Ukulele virtuoso Jake Shimabukuro and popular vocalist Amy Hanaialii open the Festival with “A Tribute to Hawaii.” $40 advance, $45 door.

BOOK SIGNING 5:30 TO 9:30 P.M. TALK STORY BOOK STORE Paula McGinnis will be signing her book “The Road of Life.”

EAT DESSERT FIRST 5:30 TO 7:30 P.M. KAUAI BEACH RESORT The Zonta Club of Kauai Foundation the 22nd annual Eat Dessert First signature Valentine’s event. $25 advance, $30 door.

WAIMEA CARNIVAL 6 TO 10:30 P.M. WAIMEA HIGH SCHOOL, FRONT LAWN

Entertainment, food booths and more.

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‘BEYOND THERAPY’ 5:30 P.M. HUKILAU LANAI RESTAURANT Women In Theatre presents a dinner theater production of Beyond Therapy. $60 SLACK & BLUES 7 P.M. COURTYARD KAUAI AT COCONUT BEACH Ledward Kaapana and Taj Mahal, along with other artists will be performing Slack Key and Blues. $50 HOIKE HULA 5 TO 8 P.M. KAUAI WAR MEMORIAL CONVENTION HALL Hoike Hula concert

by Leilani Rivera Low and Halau Hula o Leilani. $20 adults, $15 keiki, $25 at door.

ARTISTS SALE 10 TO 2 P.M. WAILUA HOMESTEADS Wailua artists Valentine’s Day sale with handmade gifts.

Call for directions, 822-1558

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JAZZ AND BLUES 4 TO 8 P.M. KAUAI BEACH RESORT Jazz and blues jam with some of the island’s jazz musicians. 346-7095 WHALE WATCHING 9 A.M. PORT ALLEN Hawaii Children’s Theatre is having its annual whale watching fundraiser with Captain Andy’s Sailing Adventures.

Call to reserve a spot, 639-2437. $80 SEX WRITING 1 TO 6 P.M. KILAUEA Experienced writing workshop leader, Laura Lentz will be bringing examples of sexuality in modern literature, and using those works of art as inspiration. $50, call for location, (310) 613-6798

WEIGHT WATCHERS NOON & 5:15 P.M. KAUAI MEDICAL CLINIC AND ST. MICHAEL’S ALL ANGELS CHURCH Weekly Weight Watchers Meetings held same time on Thursday.

Wailua artists Valentine’s Day sale tomorrow 10 to 2 p.m.

MON TUE WED E KANIKAPILA KAKOU 6 TO 9 P.M. KAUAI BEACH RESORT E Kanikapila Kakou program’s weekly workshops with Beamers Aloha Music Camp Instructors.

DIFFICULT PEOPLE 1 TO 4 P.M. KAUAI COMMUNITY COLLEGE, OCET Learn to define difficult people, communicate in a positive way, actively listen, and show empathy. $45

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KUPUNA GROUP 10:45 TO NOON PRINCEVILLE COMMUNITY CENTER Bring together the kupuna the second Tuesday of each month. There will be snacks, bingo, prizes and more.

212-8874 HULA CLASS 4 P.M. KOLOA NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER Halau Hula O Leilani is having hula classes for ages 4 to 12. 651-0682

HARLEM STRING QUARTET 7 P.M. KAUAI COMMUNITY COLLEGE Kauai Concert Association presents The Harlem Quartet. $25 adults, $10 students.

245-7464 NUTRITIONAL PROGRAM 7 P.M. Short film followed by samples, talk with certified-nutritional adviser Jane Riley. Free. Ongoing event, call for location. 212-1451

KUGA DANCE CLASS 5 P.M. ISLAND SCHOOL Learn hip-hop, drop-in fee is $10. kuga808.com

‘CHOICES’ 4 TO 5:15 P.M. LYDGATE BEACH PARK CSL Kauai, a new and growing spiritual community is reaching out to teens ages 13 through 17 with their youth program “Choices.”

Its purpose is to nurture your teen’s emotional, intellectual, creative and spiritual life through art, theater, literature, community sharing and physical activity. Choices will meet weekly on Thursdays. 755-9177

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Chris Link, right and Scott Johnson next to Paulo the train.

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Laser Light Train Night!

All aboard Grove Farm’s ‘Tren del Amor’

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ebruary is often considered the month of love and since Valentine’s Day is right around the corner, Grove Farm wishes to celebrate such a special occasion with “Tren Del Amor� on Friday.  “It’s a great family event,� said Chris Link, owner of Link’s DJ Production which is setting up the event. “We do this laser light show to let people know about Grove Farm. We’re trying to make it nice and safe for the community and the kids to ride. All the little kids ride the train and learn the history of Grove Farm.�

Festivities run 5 p.m. to 10 p.m. featuring train ride on Hawaii’s oldest locomotive “Paulo,� also known as “The Train of Love.� The event will also feature a laser light show, music, live entertainment and food booths.

“It was a dream of Ms. Maple Wilcox to restore the train so the people of Kauai can see what the trains are like,� said Johnson. “It’s the only place on Hawaii where original trains are running on the same railways by the company that ran them when they were hauling sugar cane.� Music and multicolored lights will envelope the train and track as it travels across the old employee parking lot on Holeka Road across from the old sugar mill. The trees surrounding the train will also be wrapped in lights for guests to enjoy. During the last festival on Jan, 4, over 600 people enjoyed the festivities and 800 train rides were given. This year, organizers are expecting over 1,000 people for the celebration. Guests are welcome to enjoy the rain rides as many

times as they wish.  The free event is open to the public, however donations for Grove Farm will also be accepted. “We have donation bottles all around and donations will go to the train,�

Link said. “We use proceeds to make the train better and get the tracks down.�

DJ Production features this train ride once a month in agreement with Grove Farm. It has been working with Scott Johnson, stream engine operator for Grove Farm, to make the celebration a success. “It’s an awesome opportunity. It actually started as a way to make it up to the community for the Halloween train night (which was rained out),â€? said Johnson. “The whole point of it is to show people the history that Grove Farm has been preserving for Kauai and the world.â€? Â

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Love is in the air — and on the menu, too

Kauai restaurants offer unforgettable Valentine’s Day settings, food, service

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auai is known as a romantic getaway, but not just for its beaches and beauty.

Its many restaurants offer wonderful opportunities to fan those flames of passion.

Of course, there’s great food and drink. There’s also more than enough ambiance, sunsets and candlelight dinners to go around, especially on Valentine’s Day. The Garden Isle’s options for dining out with your loved one are diverse and many, from eateries with views of a glistening blue ocean, majestic mountains or some delightful decor.

So, guys or gals, if you’re looking for a place to take

your partner on Feb. 14, here are some of Kauai’s best places to enjoy a romantic dinner and get a feel for what gives this island it’s loving aloha spirit. This Valentine’s Day, take time to remind the one you love how special they are by taking them on a romantic dining experience. Let’s start with the North Shore and Tahiti Nui, one of Kauai’s oldest restaurants (opened in 1963) and bars with boundless spirit and character. No place, perhaps, reflects Kauai’s spirit better than Tahiti Nui in Hanalei. It offers a mix of good beers, drinks and, of course, its famous mai tais. On the dinner

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Cafe Portofino employee Austin Keough sets a table on Tuesday at the Nawiliwili restaurant.

menu, you can count on Valentine’s Day specials, but you can’t go wrong with any of the selections from the regular menu while enjoying

the live music. Be it barbecued ribs, fish, (caught fresh in Hawaiian waters) chicken or salad, you’ll leave feeling full of food and spirits.

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Just down the street from Tahiti Nui at Ching Young Village is Kalypsos. An open, welcoming atmosphere with an expansive bar offering an array of beers and mixed drinks. The outside seating is wonderful to feel the North Shore air and atmosphere.

The range of dinner selections, from the steaks to

pasta to fresh fish, salad and burgers, is more than enough to satisfy all palates. Mix in the friendly service and fun atmosphere, and youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got a happy Valentineâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Day. BOUCHONS

Bouchons Grill and Sushi Bar is also at Ching Young Village. The upstairs setting with wide open views is one of the best places to enjoy the lush mountains and admire the town of Hanalei. The ribs, sushi bar, seafood entrees and pasta dishes are just a few of the highlights offered at one

of the North Shoreâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s favorite dining locations.

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Talk about romance, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got it at the Grand Hyatt. Try dining at its many restaurants featuring inspiring backdrops for the delectable culinary creations of its talented chefs.

A not-to-be-missed stop is Tidepools, which is set in a tiki-torch lit tropical gardens and koi-filled lagoons. The thatched roof bungalows at the base of a waterfall are the quintessential Hawaiian dining experience and an unforgettable dinner.

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A unique setting at the Kauai Coconut Resort in Kapaa. Just start with the pupus of Swiss Chard and mushroom tart or sweet potato ravioli and you canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t go wrong. Dinner choices includes island grilled seafood and sugar cane skewered shrimp, prime rib, macadamia nut chicken or char-grilled center-cut beef tenderlion. The service is fast and friendly, the setting is cozy and comfortable with open-air seating and the

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There are views of KUKUI’S torch-lit waterfalls, The poolside restaurant fishponds, sparat the Kauai Marriott Resort kling pools, and the is outstanding choice to ocean. The plantaexperience the creative Pation-style Kauai restaurant cific Rim and island-inspired features creative Hawaiian cuisine masterfully prepared in a fresh oceanside contem- and Pan Pacific cuisine, Asian inspired dishes, fresh island porary setting at this Lihue restaurant. At night, when the catch, aged beef, salads, pastas and delightful desserts. torches light up the path, it’s a magical time to take a stroll MERRIMAN’S after dinner, hand-in-hand, Located in Poipu at Kukuiwith your valentine and count ula Shopping Village is the your lucky stars. heart of Merriman’s. There are NAUPAKA TERRACE

When it comes to romantic settings, it doesn’t get much better than Naupaka Terrace restaurant at the

two dining establishments to choose from, Merriman’s Fish House upstairs or Merriman’s Gourmet Pizza and Burgers downstairs. Diners at the Fish

House can enjoy mountain or ocean views over looking Kukuiula Village. On the menu, there’s fresh fish appetizers and entree options with a variety of dessert, wine and cocktail selections. At Gourmet Pizza and Burgers, the menu consists of salads, sandwiches, burgers and pizzas.

BAMBOO GRILL AND SUSHI

You can’t miss out on stopping by at Bamboo Grill and Sushi. Located in Lihue on Rice Street awaits an eatery which will feel like home. With ocean views, live entertainment and many

STEVENSON’S sushi & spirits Poipu’s luxury nightspot.

With live music nightly, traditional style sushi & sake, martinis, tropicals, aged whiskies, cognacs & ports.

Open 5:30-midnight.

Sushi 6-10pm. Music 8-11pm.

local favorites on the menu you will be running back for more. Bamboo Grill and Sushi has a wide selection of pupus, entrees and sushi.

LA SPEZIA RESTAURANT

Take a drive to Old Koloa Town and let your mind and appetite enjoy every moment at La Spezia Restaurant and Wine Bar. La Spezia is a city in Italy, and this restaurant brings Italy to you. Indulge in the tastes that make Italian such a favorite. With low romantic lighting and a homestyle Italian fare, diners will feel at ease with each bite. Enjoy a classic caesar or kale salad, lasagna, or try many other Italian appetizers and entrees.

MARIACHI’S AUTHENTIC MEXICAN CUISINE

Take a trip to Mexico by heading over to Mariachi’s Authentic Mexican Cuisine.

With are two locations to serve you, in Kapaa town and at Harbor Mall in Lihue, diners can enjoy a Mexican meal without leaving town. There is a wide selection of Mexican dishes to choose from, rice and beans, quesadilla, taquitos, chili verde and more.

water breeze while you savor every bite. Desserts featuring Lappert’s Coffee and Ice Cream leave your taste buds wanting more.

CAFÉ PORTOFINO

Over looking Kalapaki Beach in the heart of Nawiliwili is a Kauai’s authentic Italian cuisine, Cafe Portofino.

With an owner born and raised in Italy, you’ll be sure to get a real feel of the taste.

Diners can enjoy ocean and sunset views while indulging BULL SHED RESTAURANT their favorite Italian meals.

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Choices include steak, chick- Italian dishes and salads, the en and fish entrees, and be restaurant also has fish, steak, sure to take a trip to the salad chicken and veal entrees. Try bar. Enjoy ocean and sunset the dessert menu. You’ll be views, with a gentle salt glad you did.

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Cumberbatch shines as wartime codebreaker

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is clearly the season for Oscar-worthy performances by British actors playing mathematical geniuses facing daunting personal odds.

Sound overly specific?

Consider: A few weeks ago we had “The Theory of Everything,” starring Eddie Redmayne as the brilliant physicist Stephen Hawking.

And now we have Benedict Cumberbatch in “The Imitation Game” as Alan Turing, the man chiefly responsible for cracking the vaunted Enigma code used by the Germans in World War II. But even though Turing literally changed the course of history — Winston Churchill said he’d made the greatest single contribution to the Allied

victory — and, by the way, ALSO created one of the first modern computers, you may well have never heard of him.

That would be reason enough to applaud the arrival of “The Imitation Game,” directed by Morten Tyldum and written by Graham Moore based on a 1983 book by Andrew Hodges.

But though it often feels like your basic high-brow British biopic, the film also happens to boast impeccable acting, especially by Cumberbatch, who masterfully captures the jittery, nervy brilliance of a man whose mind could bring down an enemy yet couldn’t process simple human interactions.

Was Turing autistic, or did he have Asperger’s

syndrome? Who knows — today we’d probably say he was “on the spectrum.” He’s a man who can’t coherently answer whether he wants a sandwich for lunch. At the same time, he’s conceiving a machine that will somehow defeat the Germans’ own cipher machine, the Enigma, which uses code that changes every 24 hours, rendering traditional decrypting methods useless.

As we learn about this painful duality in Turing’s life, we also learn he was gay, in an era when homosexual activity was criminalized in Britain. After the war, he was prosecuted for indecency.

Given a choice of “chemical castration” or prison, he chose the former. He committed

suicide at 41, a cyanide-laced apple by his bedside.

Oddly, though, the film addresses Turing’s death only with a quick line in the postscript, and no word on the method. It’s a strange omission — particularly given that Turing was said to have been fascinated by the “Snow White” story.

We begin after the war, with the police investigating a mysterious break-in at Turing’s home and wondering what this fellow’s about (they don’t yet know about his role in the war). Soon we flash back to 1939, and younger Turing’s job interview with the commander running the secret codebreaking program (a nicely crusty Charles Dance). Given Tur-

ing’s dreadful personal skills, it doesn’t go well. But he’s hired, and immediately starts alienating his colleagues, especially the charismatic Hugh Alexander (Matthew Goode, excellent and also perhaps the best-looking mathematician ever portrayed onscreen). (Well, at least until Keira Knightley makes her entrance in this film.)

Turing is ridiculed for insisting on building his machine, taking up time and money while soldiers are dying.

Denied funding, he makes a direct plea to Churchill, who puts him in charge. That’s when he hires Joan Clarke (an appealing Knightley), the only woman on the team and his eventual fiancee.

Still, things go badly,

until an offhand remark by a woman in a bar makes Turing realize a way to speed up the machine’s activity. Eureka!

The story gets more interesting as the team realizes it must keep its huge breakthrough a secret, lest the Nazis figure it out and change their code. They enter into a painful calculus: Which information can be used, and hence which lives saved?

There are surely numerous narrative shortcuts taken here. There’s also one of those slogan-type lines that seems far too tongue-trippingly clunky to be uttered by one character, let alone two: “Sometimes it’s the people no one imagines anything of who do the things that no one can imagine.”

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Harlem Quartet takes KCC stage Wednesday

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he Kauai Concert Association is gearing up to welcome the Grammy Award-winning Harlem Quartet to the Garden Isle.

“We’re excited to have them,” said Jason Blake, KCA’s president.And the group is equally as enthusiastic about coming, according to founding member and violinist Melissa White.

“This will be the Hawaiian debut for Harlem Quartet,” she wrote in a text message while boarding a plane in Michigan on Tuesday.

White said Wednesday’s performance will be a combination of standard classical and jazz repertoire.

“The audience can expect an exciting show that’s personal and spontaneous,” she wrote.

Formed in 2006, the New York-based ensemble has performed throughout the U.S., as well as in France, the U.K., Belgium, Panama, Canada and in South Africa.

“They have never played Kauai and they worked with us for KCA to be able to afford it, for which we are grateful,” Blake said.

The concert begins at 7 p.m. at the Kauai Community College Performing Arts Center in Puhi and is the first of five shows around the islands.

The band will also be conducting educational outreach earlier in the day with a presentation and performance at Chiefess Kamakahelei Middle School.

Jim Bray, KCA’s vice president, described the quartet as “top-notch” and said Wednesday’s program will include everything from classical composers Franz Joseph Haydn and Alexander Borodin to Wynton Marsalis, Billy Strayhorn and Chick Corea.

The Harlem Quartet, according to its website, “advances diversity in classical music while engaging new

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audiences with varied repertoire that includes works by minority composers.”

The versatile ensemble has performed with such distinguished performers as

Itzhak Perlman, Ida Kavafian, and Paquito D’Rivera. And their most recent recording, “Hot House,” with jazz master Corea and percussionist Gary Burton, was a

2013 multi-Grammy Award winner.

Members of the Harlem Quartet are White; violinist Ilmar Gavilan, a native of Havana, Cuba; violist Jaime

Amador, a native of Puerto Rico; and American cellist Matthew Zalkind.

Tickets are $25 for adults, $10 for students.

Info: kauai-concert.org.

Watch whales, support Hawaii Children’s Theatre Fundraiser set for Sunday

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whale watch/snorkel tour benefit for Hawaii Children’s Theatre is set for 9 a.m.

Sunday with Captain Andy’s Sailing Adventures.

The trimaran boat will leave from Port Allen in Eleele for a four-hour sail. It offers a terrific opportunity to view humpback whales, enjoy the majestic scenery, hang out with friends and best of all, support HCT,

the folks who brought you “The Wizard of Oz,” “Avenue Q” and “Shrek the Musical” in 2014.

Tickets are an $80 donation and support their scholarship funds. Food, drinks and hopefully lots of whale sightings will be provided. Only 49 tickets are being sold for the whale watch tour and they are going fast.

Debra Blachowiak, HCT secretary, said the tour is an important fundraiser so the theater can continue its efforts “to enrich the lives of

young people, their families, and the community by addressing their unique needs through live theatre, formal education in the performing arts and high quality entertainment.”

“So we have performing arts education for Kauai youth and we also have outstanding productions for the Kauai community,” she said.

The funds raised with this whale watch tour are for tuition assistance for Summer Stars in June, the Ethan Shell Scholarship and other programs.

“We cannot run our organization with just tickets sales or we would have to triple our ticket prices and then no one could afford to come and see the plays,” she said. “This particular fundraiser is such a fun time and since the boat is donated, all participants can write off their entire ticket price.”

Anyone planning to attend is asked to check in at least a half hour early.

For tickets, Call Blachowiak, 639-2437 or go to www. hawaiichildrenstheatre.com

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CHECK DA SCENE

Andrea Vega, Rafaela Sanchez - Peru

Cecilia Lorenz, Alanna Fernandez

Susanna Salvador, April Layne, Joseph Figaroa, Sally Cravens

Drake Apao, Natasha Arruda, Mike Acoba, Isaiah Dosono, Lance Delos Reyes

Helen Santiago, Isaiah Aguinaldo

Nick Seau, Anolani Higashi, Serena Kahaunaele, Ronald â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Braddaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Rivera, Noeau, Leilani Seau, Rusty Rivera, Hulali Kiyoko Rivera, Kelo Rivera, Wes Henderson, Dustin Telles, Cherisse Henderson, Cindy Rivera, Simon Texeira

Tiuda Langi, Malia Wailase, Priscilla Wailase, Heulupe Langi, Nane Masaniai

Travis Haumea, Makaiwa Gunn, Gabby Sakai

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Helping Hulali

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H Helen Santiago, Nichole Morris, Alanna Fernandez, Cecilia Lorenz

Phil Tacbian, Catharine Cummings

ulali Kiyoko Rivera has been fighting for life for almost all of her 4 years.

When she was 8 months old, she was diagnosed with bilateral retinoblastoma, a rare cancer of the retina.

The community responded with garage sales, bake sales and car washes to help the infant, the daughter of Anolani Higashi and Kelo Rivera, to travel to California for chemotherapy over a four-month period.

With the cancer at bay, Hulali, on a routine eye check, discovered it had returned at an even more aggressive state. This resulted in the loss of her right eye.

Adding to this, tumors

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ith only eight days till Valentineâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Day, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hard to not find signs that love is in the air. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s funny that Valentineâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Day is that one day out of the year when everybody focuses on love,â&#x20AC;? Kauai Island Singers Showcase co-founder Melissa Mojo said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Well, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got to focus on love every day of the year.â&#x20AC;? To stay in line with that holiday spirit, the KISS singers will host a concert, aptly themed, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Feel the Love,â&#x20AC;? at 7 p.m. Feb. 15 at Ha Coffee Bar in Lihue. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This is the kind of thing, where if people go out on

Valentineâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Day, they can prolong it and have two nights of love,â&#x20AC;? Mojo said with a laugh. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We have quite a few people who come to every concert, and Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m just really appreciative, so this is a way for us to show our appreciation and love for our audience.â&#x20AC;? Ten KISS singers will perform 20 songs, including â&#x20AC;&#x153;Letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Fall in Loveâ&#x20AC;? by Ella Fitzgerald, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Star Dustâ&#x20AC;? by Nat King Cole, â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Man I Loveâ&#x20AC;?

by Ella Fitzgerald, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Love Me Like a River Doesâ&#x20AC;? by Melody Gardot, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Killing Me Softlyâ&#x20AC;?

by The Fugees and â&#x20AC;&#x153;All About That Bassâ&#x20AC;? by Meghan Trainor. The free event will feature Mojo, Erik Hagen, Mike Kobayashi, Diana Leone, Barbara Pendragon, Dhyana Dunville, S. Kamal Salibi, Trishana Star, Fran Nestel, and Karen Tilley. Hank Curtis on the grand piano and Laine Griffith on saxophone, flute and clarinet will provide the instrumental accompaniments to each song.

In advance of the post-Valentineâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Day concert, the KISS singers, along with Curtis and Griffith, will also perform 7 to 9 p.m.

Thursday at The Mahiko Lounge at Gaylordâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Restaurant (Kilohana Plantation) in Lihue. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s kind of an experience for the singers to feel out what itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s like to do lounge singing,â&#x20AC;? Mojo said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the whole thing about KISS â&#x20AC;&#x201D; weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re always trying to create new experience for the singers so we can get used to being in the spotlight.â&#x20AC;?  Info: Mojo, 822-0545

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TOM HASSLINGER TGIFR!DAY

Tyra Koerte-Llego

Savannah Faith Miranda

Tomorrow’s center stage Inaugural Miss Keiki Hawaii Pageant Sunday

C

ome see tomorrow’s stars.

The inaugural Miss Keiki Hawaii Pageant kicks off at 10 a.m. Sunday at the Waimea Theater, offering future beauty queens their first chance at experiencing center stage.

And the first-time event

Sirrah Apilado

has drawn a packed field.

“We’ve had a big turnout,” said program director Shandell Lau of the 24 contestants. “Usually, you’ll get three girls in each division but we have four or five girls in each division, so we have a lot.”

Lau is also the director for Miss Teen Hawaii Internation-

The contest is expected to al, which sends a winner to Florida for a national competi- go until 2 p.m. Doors open at 9:30. Live entertainment will tion every year. The pageant also be on hand to keep the decided to start a nonprofit show lively. Tickets cost $10 version for younger kids to raise money for a good cause, for adults and $5 for kids. They are available at the door. while getting their feet wet “It’s a chance to get before they enter more highthem more affiliated with stakes competitions. Entry is pageants, some of the free for the contestants, who girls are looking to get then sell tickets and donate the revenue to charities of the into modeling and this is a chance girls’ choosing. to give them a “The girls pick,” Lau platform and said. “This year’s charity see which of choice is breast cancer direction they awareness.” want to go,” Age divisions include 0-23 months, 2-3 years old, 4-6, 7-9, Lau said.

Info: Lau, and 10-12.

337-1213 Contestants from 0-6 will ext. 3 compete in the categories aloha wear, picture perfect, which is an 8 by 10 head shot, gown wear and a character wear, which is when the keiki dress up as their favorite characters.

In the age groups from 7-12, they’ll compete in the same categories but they won’t have to dress up as characters, instead they’ll be judged in a healthy/fit Kinohi Naihe category.

Kaizey Castillo

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