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Week of Friday, May 13, 2016 | Vol. 4, No. 20

Kauai All-Island Band

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IN THIS ISSUE: 2. OUT & ABOUT:

Top picks for the week

3. CONCERT:

Kauai All-Island Band

4. PERFORMANCE: Spring concert

6. BOOK REVIEW: ‘Ghostbusters’ HCT Summer Stars

7. BOOK REVIEW:

New movies this week

OUT & ABOUT: TOP PICKS FOR THE WEEK TODAY SATURDAY BOOK SIGNING 6 TO 8 P.M., TALK STORY BOOKSTORE Book signing with Barbara Lazar on her book “The Pillow Book of the Flower Samurai.” barbaralazar.com

MAY DAY PROGRAM 8:30 A.M., KING KAUMUALII ELEMENTARY SCHOOL May Day program, open house and book fair.

CHARITY WALK 7 TO 11 A.M., HISTORIC COUNTY BUILDING Join the annual Visitor Industry Charity Walk in a 2.9-mile walk through Lihue.

WORLD INNER MOTION 4 TO 6 P.M., KAUAI MARRIOTT RESORT Kauai Dance Center annual dance extravaganza with over 80 dancers. $25 at door, $20 advance. 823-9588

MOVIE IN THE PARK 7:45 P.M., POIPU BEACH PARK Rotary Club of Poipu Beach kicks off Movies in the Park with “Minions.”

There will be refreshments for purchase.

NORTH SHORE DANCE PARTY 7 TO 10 P.M., CHURCH OF THE PACIFIC From 7 to 8 p.m. enjoy tango music and 8 to 10 p.m. there will be a variety of swing, ballroom and Latin music. $5, kauaidancing@gmail.com

CRAFT FAIR 9 A.M. TO 4 P.M., POIPU BEACH PARK Paradise craft fair with handcrafted products, local foods and entertainment.

MUSIC IS FOREVER 7:30 P.M., KCC PERFORMING ARTS CENTER Kauai Chorale spring concert. $15 door, $12 adults in advance and $5 students. 332-9356

‘THE RAINMAKER’ 7 P.M., PUHI THEATRICAL WAREHOUSE Kauai Community Players performance of “The Rainmaker” opens tonight. $20 tickets.

MAY DAY BY THE BAY 10 A.M. TO 5 P.M., WAIOLI BEACH PARK Community event featuring music, hula, cultural practitioners, Kauai-made products, displays by community groups, silent auction and food. $5

‘SPAMALOT’ 2 TO 4 P.M., PUHI THEATRICAL WAREHOUSE Auditions for HCT After Dark’s “Spamalot.” The award-winning Broadway musical adaptation of Monty Python’s Holy Grail.

8. ENTERTAINMENT: Disney movie magic

9. FILM REVIEW: ‘Love & Friendship’

10-11. CHECK DA SCENE: Charity Walk

SUNDAY CAVE HIKE Join the Sierra club during a Mahaulepu and Makauwahi Cave hike. 212-3108 ‘THE RAINMAKER’ 4 P.M., PUHI THEATRICAL WAREHOUSE Kauai Community Players performance of “The Rainmaker” opens tonight. $20 tickets.

CHINESE REFLEXOLOGY 2 TO 4 P.M., LIHUE NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER Learn techniques and points for ears and hands.

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ALL-ISLAND BAND CONCERT 3 P.M., HISTORIC COUNTY BUILDING LAWN Free concert by the Kauai All-Island Band to help raise money for their Washington, D.C. event.

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RALLY FOR REVOLUTION 5:30 TO 10 P.M., CHURCH OF THE PACIFIC Help raise funds to send outer island delegates to the state party convention in Honolulu. Entertainment, food and more. $10-20 donation, kids free.

WEIGHT WATCHERS 5:30 P.M., ST. JOHNS EPISCOPAL CHURCH Weekly Weight Watchers meetings held same time on Tuesday.

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

POOL CLOSED 10 A.M. TO 2 P.M., WAIMEA SWIMMING POOL The pool will be closed today and reopen Thursday.

JOY IN TROUBLED TIMES 7 TO 9 P.M., ST. MICHAELS CHURCH Tibetan Buddhist teacher Khentrul Lodro Thaye Rinpoche will talk about true mindfulness and how it can change our lives. Free. 822-4599

‘SPAMALOT’ 5 TO 6 P.M., PUHI THEATRICAL WAREHOUSE Dance auditions for HCT After Dark’s “Spamalot.”

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The Kauai All-Island Band is having a free concert on Sunday to raise funds to travel to Washington, D.C. for a Memorial Day concert.

PLAYING FOR WASHINGTON, D.C. Kauai All-Island Band free concert Sunday

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he Kauai All-Island Band is hosting a free concert on Sunday to raise funds for a trip to Washington, D.C. to perform in front of thousands of people in the National Memorial Day Parade and Concert Series.

The fundraiser is set for 3 p.m. at the Historic County Building lawn. Bring something to sit on and prepare for good tunes.

The band is made up of 64 students, from seventh-graders to college students. It will be the first band from Hawaii to participate in the National Memorial Day Parade.

“It has been very rewarding,” Kauai All-Island Band

I cannot believe it is almost here,” Tochiki said.

The band will offer three performances.

It will be in the National It has been very Memorial Day Concert Serewarding.” ries and perform in front of the Air Force Memorial on Sarah Tochiki Sunday, May 29. The NationKauai All-Island Band al Memorial Day Parade is Director in the afternoon on Monday, May 30, Memorial Day. It will also be performing at the Gettysburg Visitor’s Center on Director Sarah Tochiki said about the upcoming perfor- June 1.

“The students and our mance. wonderful band parents have “To see the students collaborate with their peers worked so hard to make this and to watch the older stu- happen. We are grateful to the entire Kauai community for dents mentor the younger helping us make it happen,” ones. We have been planning and fundraising for this Tochiki added.

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DANCING THROUGH HISTORY

Saturday concert takes audience through civilization’s story

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he thrill, magic and mystery in the history of known civilization will be captured in the Kauai Dance Theatre’s 30th annual Spring Concert on Saturday at Kauai War Memorial Convention Hall.

The 90-minute performance begins with an interpretative dance piece entitled “Genesis.” The piece has no music and dancers are costumed in gray leotards. The purpose is to recreate prehistoric Earth, before humanity, animals, or plants populated the planet.

“Genesis means beginJESSICA ELSE ning and that piece repTGIFR!DAY resents the ancient times,” said the theatre’s owner Janie Crane. “We’re reprePhotos courtesy Janie Crane senting the circle of life and This group will perform "Rock Around the Clock." Front row from left: Vivien Colcol, Caidyn the history of life with this Robinson, Karlie Goldberg. Back row from left: Amaya Kali, Natalie Etrata, Jada Lau, Ilikea Valmoja. concert.”

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some of her students will tap dance to a piece of music from the movie, “The Flintstones.”

The rest of the first act will take the audience through monks singing a Gregorian chant, the era of The Crusades, and the Renaissance.

After intermission, Crane’s students will dazzle the audience with performances to rock and roll music, the This group will perform sounds of the big band, and "Vogue." On the ground from left: Dru Myerson, pop. Song titles include “In Alea Hardie. Standing from the Mood,” John Lennon’s left: Zsa Zsa Dubose, Napua “Imagine,” Madonna’s Canales, Allison Etrata.

“Vogue,” and “Uptown Funk.”

The performance then “This is something people transitions to the pre-ballet will enjoy, with a variety of girls, who will be portraying dance styles and music,” little sprouts and flowers, Crane said. “It goes by Crane said — because quickly and we use music plants were some of the that both the students and first life to spring up on the audiences will enjoy.”

Earth, and because sprouts Every year, the Kauai are a symbol of growth.

Dance Theatre’s Spring “Hopefully they’ll float on Concert is a benefit concert, stage,” Crane said. “Then afwith much of the proceeds ter that we’ll go into animals going toward student scholpopulating the Earth, so we arships. have three of our more adThere will be perforvanced dancers with jungle mances at 2 p.m. and 5 p.m. type music.”

Tickets are $10 at the door.

After a bit of “comic relief,” Concessions will be availthe subject matter of which able, with proceeds going Crane is keeping to herself toward the “Loaves & Fishes” until the curtain opens, food pantry.

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Hawaii Children’s Theatre is offering three Summer Programs for kids.

New this year is “Keiki at Play!” for kids ages 5-7. Children will create their own mini-musical; acting, singing and dancing under the direction of the staff. Workshops in stage make-up, set design and more round out their theatre fun.

“I’m thrilled to pass on my knowledge and love of theater to the next batch of potential thespians through the fun of Summer Stars,” Keiki At Play! teacher Corrissa Barrett said.

The morning program, Rising Stars for kids ages 8-15, will have kids building their theatre skills. It includes singing, dancing, acting and theaer craft like stage makeup and set building.

Students will perform and show off their skills at the gala performance on July 7 at Kauai Community College Performing Arts Center.

HCT’s afternoon program announces the production of “James and the Giant Peach, Jr.” In this fun, classic Roald Dahl tale, a young boy

travels in a giant peach with his new friends centipede, spider, grasshopper and ladybug getting help along the way from some familiar characters like Willy Wonka and his Oompa Loompas.

This program is open for enrollment to kids ages 8-15 who have previously participated or are enrolled in the Summer Stars morning program or have participated in an HCT show.

It is important to have some previous theater experience.

Performances of “James and the Giant Peach Jr.” will be June 8 and 9 at 7 p.m. and Sunday June 10 at 3 p.m. at the KCC Performing Arts Center.

Veteran directors Bailey Hutton and Rebecca Hanson will be at the helm of their morning and afternoon programs.

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MOVIE MAGIC

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he Magic Kingdom finally seems to be getting the hang of Hollywood magic.

Once upon a time, Disney just couldn’t get a handle on the movie business. For every few “Iron Man”-style blockbusters, the studio had to dig itself out of the crater left by at least one “Lone Ranger” bomb.

But it brought in new studio management in 2012, pared its misfires — it hasn’t declared a film write-down in three years — and revved up its multibillion-dollar acquisitions Pixar, Marvel and Lucasfilm. Just eight years ago, it was dead last in box office receipts among the six major Hollywood studios; this year, it’s on pace for a record-breaking No. 1 spot. It’s expected to get big assists from movies like “Captain America: Civil War,” which kicked off the sum-

mer season last weekend, and “Rogue One,” a second installment in its reinvigorated “Star Wars” series due this winter.

Disney’s studio profits neared $2 billion last year.

Some expect the studio to post nearly $3 billion in profit this year.

The momentum was evident Tuesday, when The Walt Disney Co. reported $2.1 billion in net profit, boosted by a 27 percent gain in studio profits to $542 million. Although the results fell short of analyst expectations, partly on poor performance of its soon-tobe-shuttered Infinity video game line, CEO Bob Iger touted “our studio’s unprecedented winning streak at the box office.”

The movie business has long gotten the cold shoulder on Wall Street because its frequent ups and downs

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A scene from “Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens.”

make it tough to value. The pay TV business has been a much bigger and steadier source of profits, underpinning the stock price of entertainment companies from Time Warner Inc. to 21st Century Fox. Cord-cutting, however, has media investors wary, particularly when it comes to Disney’s ESPN sports empire , which has lost millions of pay TV subscribers. Those industrywide fears over consumers abandoning traditional TV for online video makes Disney’s movie success even more important.

“It helps theme parks, it helps consumer products,”

said Jeffrey Logsdon, managing director of research firm JBL Advisors.

But while Disney’s studio may be on a roll — even somewhat doubtful movies like “Jungle Book” and “Zootopia” have made a killing — the creative cycle can be cruel.

Box Office Mojo’s box office editor, Brad Brevet, points out the “worst to first” cycle for studios mimics the typical five-to-eight-year span of an economic cycle.

And where there’s boom, there’s bust.

Universal was dead last in 2010 before surging to first last year on the heels of “Jurassic World” and “Furious

7.” This year it’s running fifth — one possible reason it decided to purchase smaller animation studio DreamWorks Animation SKG Inc. last month.

Fox took seven years to climb out of the gutter in 2007 to beat all comers in 2014 with movies like “X-Men: Days of Future Past” and “Dawn of the Planet of the Apes.” Last year, it came fourth.

Meanwhile, Viacom Inc.’s laggard Paramount, whose profitability has trailed other big Hollywood studios for three years running, is looking to take on new investors.

Brevet says Disney is on track to set a record for any

studio in domestic ticket sales this year; it’s already commanding a 29 percent share of the market, which no studio has ever attained for a full year, according to Box Office Mojo records going back to 2000.

Its slate is looking good, too. Even before the next “Star Wars” installment, summer moviegoers can see Johnny Depp reprise the Mad Hatter in “Alice Through the Looking Glass,” watch the Pixar sequel “Finding Dory” and catch the Steven Spielberg-directed adolescent tale “The BFG.” Yet another Marvel hero, “Doctor Strange,” hits theaters this fall.

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REVIEW: ‘LOVE & FRIENDSHIP’ DELIGHTS IN LANGUAGE, SCHEMING

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t was the comedy, not the romance, in Jane Austen’s work that drew writer-director Whit Stillman to her unfinished novella “Lady Susan.”

Stillman spent years adapting the collection of letters into “Love & Friendship,” a talky tale centered on the manipulative, self-serving ways of an attractive young widow.

Romance is but a trifle for Lady Susan Vernon, considered “the most accomplished flirt in all England,” and her callousness breeds comedy, briskly delivered here in stylized language.

The wit comes so quickly, the film demands a second viewing.

The heartlessness of the central character, though, makes that option unappealing. It’s a testament to the performance, writing and direction, and she should be so odious, but sometimes hanging out with a sociopath can be a drag.

“Love & Friendship” (the title borrowed from a different Austen story) reunites the stars of Stillman’s 1998 film, “The Last Days of Disco.”

Kate Beckinsale and Chloe Sevigny again play friends obsessed with relationships and reputation, except this story takes place at least 100 years earlier (Austen’s novella was set in 1790).

Sevigny is Alicia Johnson,

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Chloe Sevigny, left, and Kate Beckinsale in a scene from the film, "Love & Friendship."

the only remaining friend of the elegant, unscrupulous Lady Susan, played by Beckinsale, commanding and effortless in every scene.

In opulent costumes by

Eimer Ni Mhaoldomhnaigh and a mountainous tumble of curls, Beckinsale’s Lady Susan is immaculate in her appearance and delivery of Stillman’s well-crafted prose.

She leads an ensemble cast that includes Jemma Redgrave, Tom Bennett, Xavier Samuel, Morfydd Clark and Stephen Fry. After her flirtations stir up drama at home, Lady Susan escapes to the country for an extended visit with some distant relatives.

She foists herself on Charles (Justin Edwards) and Catherine (Emma Greenwell), her brother-in-law and his wife, and immediately begins looking for a husband — the richer the better, naturally — for both herself and her reluctant daughter, Frederica. Susan chooses kooky Sir James Martin (Bennett) for her

daughter, and sets her own sights on Catherine’s handsome and significantly younger brother, Reginald DeCourcy (Samuel). Both situations create upheaval for all involved.

Lady Susan may be a progressive woman — especially in the 1700s — but she’s so steely and cold, any feeling person would have trouble connecting. Is she completely invulnerable?

Does nothing warm her heart? The film makes clear that neither lover nor kin even come close to the pleasure she derives from her own self-satisfaction, and that’s hard to laugh at for long.

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he Visitor Industry Charity Walk, hosted by the Hawaii Lodging and Tourism Association, Kauai Chapter is a go.

Registration, safety briefings and warm up exercises take place from 6:30 a.m. Saturday at the Historic County Building, and the trump-trump of taiko from

Hundreds expected for Saturday’s visitor industry charity fundraiser

the Joyful Noise at 7 a.m. signals the start of the 2.9-mile walk around Lihue.

George Thronas and organizers of the largest fundraising effort gathered at the Kukui Grove Center for a final push for registrants to the entertainment of the Joyful Noise ensemble and

Ryleigh Hernando, Skye Tadani, Elijah Guirao, Tyka Chihara

the Excel Dance Studio. Proceeds go toward the $250,000 goal.

Kauai’s nonprofits who benefit from the proceeds were also available to talk about their programs and the impact funds from the charity walk has on their services for the people of Kauai.

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*Annual Percentage Rate. The introductory APR is accurate as of 04/01/2016. 1.50% Annual Percentage Rate is good through 12/31/2016. After that, we will determine the APR as follows. We start with an independent index plus the margin based on your credit worthiness.

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