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Week of Friday, January 9, 2015 | Vol. 3, No. 2

Grinds & Da Kines For Your Weekend

WELCOMING THE WHALES

PFLAG CABARET • ‘THE LAST FIVE YEARS’ • ‘UNBROKEN’ • KAUAI RAMEN Island Calendar and much, much more!

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IN THIS ISSUE: 2. OUT & ABOUT:

Top picks for the week

3. THEATER:

‘The Last Five Years’

4-5. DINING OUT KAUAI: Kauai Ramen

6. FLICKS:

‘Unbroken’

7. CASTING:

‘Prodigal Father’

8-9. CHECK DA SCENE:

Go For Broke

10. ART:

PFLAG Cabaret

11.

Welcome the Whales

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OUT & ABOUT: TOP PICKS FOR THE WEEK FRI SAT SUN ‘THE LAST FIVE YEARS’ 7 TO 9 P.M. PUHI THEATRICAL WAREHOUSE A performance by Kauai Community Players, a two-character musical that chronicles a complete cycle of a relationship. The male character starts the story from the beginning and the female from the end until they meet in the middle. $15 to $25 MUSIC WORKSHOP 5 P.M. KAUAI COMMUNITY COLLEGE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER Kauai Concert Association is having a free music workshop.

‘The Buddha and Jesus’ Lecture: 7 p.m., St. Michael and All Angels Church. Talk on “The Buddha and Jesus.” Speaker will compare key experiences in the life stories of these two extraordinary religious founders.

PFLAG CABARET 6:30 P.M. KAUAI COMMUNITY COLLEGE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER Talent show, live music, dance, drums and more. Come support Kauai’s PFLAG chapter. $20 adults, $10 student, military and seniors.

245-5959 AARP DRIVING SAFETY CLASS 8 A.M. TO NOON LIHUE NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER Class fee is $15 for AARP members and $20 for non-members. 245-4138 ‘THE LAST FIVE YEARS’ 7 TO 9 P.M. PUHI THEATRICAL WAREHOUSE A performance by Kauai Community Players, a two-character musical that chronicles a complete cycle of a relationship. The male character starts the story from the beginning and the female from the end until they meet in the middle. $15 to $25

THU LOVELAND 7:30 P.M. CHURCH OF THE PACIFIC Ann Randolph’s award-winning solo show, “Loveland” plays in Princeville for one night only. $20

WHALE CELEBRATION 4 P.M. KEALIA LOOKOUT Kohola Leo annual Welcome Home Whales Celebration.

BERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC 4 P.M. KAUAI COMMUNITY COLLEGE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER Presented by Kauai Concert Association performance will highlight the winners of the Berklee College of Music Steelgrass Faculty Resident Contest. This show helps with music scholarships for Berklee’s Summer Program. $30 AUDITIONS 6:30 TO 9 P.M. PUHI THEATRICAL WAREHOUSE Kauai Community Players is hosting auditions for ‘Prodigal Father.’

A light-hearted comedy about sailor/novelist father who locates his son whom he hasn’t seen in years. Dottie Bekeart 822-7842

Berklee College of Music will have its performance 4 p.m.

Sunday. Here is the Women of the World group.

MON TUE WED COMMUNITY YOGA 6 TO 7:30 P.M. NAWILIWILI YACHT CLUB Hosted by the Kauai Sailing Association, weekly on Monday.

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346-7671 ADVISORY MEETING 10 A.M. GROVE FARM Red Cross advisory council meeting.

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BALLROOM DANCE CLUB 7 TO 8 P.M. HANAPEPE NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER The Hanapepe Chapter of the Kauai Ballroom Dance Club will have first quarter registration for beginning dances, Rumba, Tango and Intermediate East Coast Swing.

AARP MEETING 11 A.M. PIIKOI BUILDING, CONFERENCE ROOM B Guest speaker Marty Collins, Wilcox Hospital Trauma Program, “Injury Prevention and Awareness.”

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Erin Gaines and Kamerion Fort will be performing in the play, “The Last Five Years.�

‘The Last Five Years’ Kauai Community Players to host new play

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hroughout the years, people experience numerous emotions and relationships, with none more beautiful than the beginning of love, and none more painful than heartbreak.

The Kauai Community Players will journey through the life and death of love in their latest play, “The Last Five Years,� which opens tonight. “I think what it speaks to, very clearly, is how hard it is to be in love; how difficult it is for two people to be in tune with each other,� said the play’s producer, Dottie Bekeart. A two-person musical, the play dives into the minds of a writer, Jamie, and an actress, Cathy, as they both relive how their relationship came together and how

it fell apart from their own points of view.

As the man looks at their relationship from beginning to end, the woman will be looking from end to beginning, thus the two lovers’ thoughts meet only once in the middle at their wedding. “It’s quite sad because it (the relationship) doesn’t work out,� said Bekeart. “I think that it will move them (audience members) ... and the music is really wonderful.

It’s an opportunity to see the play on Kauai, which is quite different.�

Bekeart also said that she would like the audience to understand the importance and difficulty of love and to treat love as it truly is: a wonderful, fragile gift.

The play will star Erin Gaines as the struggling actress and Kamerion Fort as

the successful writer.

Actors Alexandria Taogoshi and Chris Aldrete will also star in the production as the characters. Their performances will take place on Sunday and Jan. 22. Directed by Jennifer Downs, the play opens at 7 p.m. and will run for three weekends, ending on Jan. 25.

Tickets cost $25 with $5 off opening weekend.

There are also discounts for seniors, Kauai Community Player members and students The play will take place at the Puhi Industrial Warehouse, 4411-E Kikowaena Road in Puhi. Sunday shows begin at 4 p.m.

Online reservations may be made up to two hours before the show begins at kauaicommunityplayers.org.

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Kauai Ramen is a welcome soup shop

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f you’ve ever had those moments where you don’t know where you want to eat and you keep driving around aimlessly — then write down Kauai Ramen as the place to go when that happens.

There aren’t many places that can beat the variety of noodles, soups, rice and gyoza dishes. The soup prices range from $6.95 to $8.50, making it enjoyable and affordable.

Kauai Ramen is inside the former Ichiban Sushi at the Eleele Shopping Center. Its owner, Jimmy Lin, also operates the adjoining Chinese

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Kauai Ramen is a refreshing change from the buffet-style dinner. It’s served hot and heaping, making your wallet and tummy happy but be careful of the calories piling up.

The shopping center is a bustling place with a steady flow of customers. The modest dining room has plenty of booths and large tables.

The menu includes the Sapporo Ramen, which is a pork stock soup. The sapporo ramen variety includes the misu, curry, shoyu, shio, gomoku, chicken katsu, spicy seafood and vegetable.

The Chuka Ramen menu is a chicken and port stock soup. They include the same varieties in addition to a cold noodle and seafood crispy noodle.

The menu lists the “Friend” menu with “Noodle/Rice/ Udon.” From there, I ordered the chicken katsu curry rice, which is a plate and not a soup, along with pork gyoza that came browned and tender.

The chicken was breaded and I worried that with just a fork it might be a tough

it still had to become an acquired taste.

I enjoyed the ramen from the first bites into the fresh pea pods, tender fish, and large shrimp. The noodles were solid and real. It was not like the instant ramen that is so often starchy and full of sodium.

Finally, when I had picked up everything I could with my chopsticks, I went to the broth with my spoon. How would it taste on its own?

A minute later I was lifting the bowl up and drinking the last drops.

There are separate udon bowls of chicken katsu, curry, miso and shoyu.

Fried Gyoza Chicken Katsu plate with rice.

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REVIEW ASSOCIATED PRESS LINDSEY BAHR

‘Unbroken’ is beautiful, but impersonal

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nbroken” is a story about Louis Zamperini that seems to have little interest in Louis Zamperini. The film painstakingly details his harrowing wartime experience and every brutal assault against his person. But don’t expect to walk away with a deep understanding of the Olympic athlete who survived not only 47 days in a raft in the middle of the Pacific but also two years as a POW in a Japanese detention camp.

“Unbroken” floats on the surface.

And it’s fine. “Unbroken” isn’t a bad movie; it’s just safe to a fault.

Director Angelina Jolie has made a beautiful film based on Laura Hillenbrand’s best-selling book. Her respect for Zamperini’s story is evident from the start. By the end, though, the gaze turns reverential and distant as his experiences become more

foreign and obscured.

“Unbroken” kicks off with a bang. A gorgeous air battle places the audience in the middle of World War II, not caring to introduce you to the boys in the B-24 bomber.

In fact, Jack O’Connell is such a newcomer and looks so different in this film with his distractingly jet black hair that the first few minutes are a little disorienting as you try to figure out just who is the star of the movie. That’s a strange handicap when you cast an unknown.

From there, the film fades in and out of flashbacks to Zamperini’s Torrance, California, childhood and his unlikely ascent to athletic greatness. There, in “Godfather” sepia, we see a very young Zamperini smoking, drinking, looking up girls’ skirts and not paying attention at church. But his brother pushes him to focus, and soon enough, his family

realizes they’ve got a star on their hands.

Zamperini, before enlisting in the Air Force to fight in the war, was a track star who ran in the 1936 Olympics in Berlin. Though fairly straightforward, his racing scenes are among the most exciting of the movie. He’s a guy who saves his best for the final moments. It’s immediate and thrilling.

The wartime “present,” however, has the feel of a lengthy montage, especially when Zamperini and his

in on the men in various stages of decay. It strips the experience of any arc or thrill. Jolie even plops us down in the middle of a violent storm. This should be electrifying to watch and experience along with Zamperini. Instead, she shows him bobbing up and down in the black waves, making a plea with God to get him out alive. For such a high stakes scene, it’s oddly fellow mates are stranded lifeless. after their plane crashes There’s also a missed opin the Pacific. He and two crewmates survived on a raft portunity for an emotional at sea for 47 days, only to be gut punch when Zamperini is separated from his friend. captured by the Japanese and put into a brutal prison- It seems like Jolie was possibly aiming for subtlety here. er-of-war camp.

Early on in the first ordeal, Instead, we just feel robbed.

When he gets to the POW we get a glimpse of Zamperini’s selfless leadership as camp, we’re introduced to a sadistic prison guard (played he tries to calm a panicked peer and tend to a wounded by Japanese rock star Miyavi) whose sole purpose seems other, but it’s fleeting. to be to beat Zamperini at Then it becomes a series every possible moment. But of moments — flashes of misery on a boat as we peek again, without any inquiry

into what inspired Zamperini to endure, the endless brutality falls flat.

O’Connell’s performance is strong and steadfast with moments of greatness and deep vulnerability, but it fails to inspire an emotional response from the audience.

Jolie hasn’t done a disservice to Zamperini’s life, but it’s hard to know what she was trying to tell. It’s Zamperini’s story in fact and circumstance, but somehow, he feels like an enigma.

“Unbroken,” a Universal release, is rated PG-13 by the Motion Picture Association of America for “war violence including intense sequences of brutality, and for brief language.” Running time: 137 minutes. Two and a half stars out of four.

MPAA definition of PG-13: Parents strongly cautioned.

Some material may be inappropriate for children under 13.

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Casting call Kauai Community Players looking for men and women to star in ‘Prodigal Father’ Auditions will be held from 6:30 to 9 p.m. Thursday at the Puhi Theatrical Warehouse, 4411-E Kikowaena he Kauai Community Road.

Players is looking Peck, who wrote “Prodigal for a few good men Father,” will also be directing and women to star in a the production, which will light-hearted comedy be playing for three weekabout occasionally dysends in a row beginning on functional family dynamics April 9. and the journey that comes “I grew up in the Midwest with mending them. and it’s frigid in personality This play, called the “Prodas well as temperatures,” igal Father,” centers around Peck said. “My father never a free-spirited novelist and said he loved me, though I sailor who finally locates his Richard Peck had no doubt that he did, estranged son, a straightdo-well” who abandons his but that’s not something laced attorney, whom he that most American men are family. hasn’t seen in years. comfortable doing, certainly The man’s son, as a “It’s about their relationconsequence, never forgave not to other men, but to ship and trying to bridge women, sure, it’s perfectly his father’s shortcomings the rift that developed fine. From the way the play and becomes “a straightover the years, but it’s all sounds, it seems dreary, laced lawyer type” to avoid extremely funny,” Kauai but it’s actually a very funny Community Players Treasur- becoming like his father.

The comedy, Bekeart said, play.” er Dottie Bekeart said. “We In all, Kauai Community underscores the inability of loved it because it’s a very Players are searching for five some men to express their light comedy and that’s people to play five characlove. what we needed in our ters in the play, including “The writing is just season.”

In the three-act comedy, really excellent and it’s very two women and a man in their 20s or 30s, and a man entertaining,” Bekeart said. written by Philadelphia and a woman in their 40s “We just thought it would author and playwright be very good for our season and 50s.

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d Kawamura, commander of the Kauai Veterans Council, said he knows of at least two people — Sen. Billy Fernandes and Hiroshi Azeka — who would be happy. “When we were building this Kauai Veterans Center, we said we needed something great to go along with the building,� Kawamura said. “This (Go for Broke exhibit) is it. It’s a great exhibit for the building.�

The free “Go For Broke: Japanese American Soldiers Fighting on Two Fronts,� chronicles the Japanese-American soldiers during World War II and the beneficial socioeconomic changes which occurred in America because of their service.

Bynes Yamashita of the Nisei Veterans Legacy Center, which has an office on Oahu, said the exhibit is made possible due to the

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Cabaret

and art in all forms

Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays unite artists, performers

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t’s art in all its forms.

A diverse cross section of artists and performers will crash Kauai Community College Performing Arts Center Saturday when PFLAG’s Cabaret takes the stage at 7:15 p.m.

How diverse is diverse? There will be jazz, punk rock, paintings in the lobby and more.

“Anyone who has an eclectic taste for art, they’ll love it,” said Renae Hamilton, event coordinator.

The show is being put on by the nonprofit, Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays, as a fundraiser. The group educates and promotes the health and well-being of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender persons, their families and friends.

But more than raising funds, the show is sure to entertain.

It will feature 12 acts over the course of just over two hours — including intermission —

that play piano, rock, dress in drag and aerial acts from the acrobatic.

“I really do think the level of talent is going to surprise people,” Hamilton said. “We have a range.”

Doors open at 6:30 p.m. A local art show in the lobby, where paintings, photographs and other displays, will give guests something to view. Light snacks will be served.

Emma Palumbo will act as

mistress of ceremonies, emceeing the dozens acts.

“It’s going to be fun going from jazz piano to punk rock,” said Matthew Houck, who is also coordinating the event.

All performers are volunteers.

PFLAG hosted a cabaret three years ago, which it called a success and is happy to bring back.

Tickets are $20 for adults and $10 for students, seniors and military. All tickets are a suggested donation.

Tickets are available by calling the YWCA of Kauai at (808) 245-5959 or by visiting: Deja Vu in Kukui Grove Center in Lihue, Talk Story Bookstore in Hanapepe, Progressive Expressions in Koloa, Kauai Music and Sound in Kapaa, Strings and Things in Hanalei.

Tickets are also available at the door and from members of PFLAG Kauai.

Info: Hamilton and Houck at 245-5959.

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Welcoming the whales Sunday

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umpback whales have returned to their winter playground and Kauai residents and visitors are invited to help welcome them back.

Organized by Kohola Leo (Whale Voice), the fifth annual “Welcome the Whales Ceremony” will be held at 4 p.m. Sunday at Kealia Lookout, just north of Kapaa.

The free event will include music, poetry and chants.

Kohola Leo Chair Kalasara Setaysha said what started James Yamamoto / Contributed photo off as a few community Mike Kano, site leader for the Ninini Lighthouse site, points out whales to observers during members coming together the Sanctuary Ocean Count in a February 2014 file photo. to welcome the whales celebrate their ancient The largest density age to the humpback’s seahome has grown signifijourney and presence cantly. Last year, more than sonal migration from Alaska of whales in Hawaiian here,” Kohola Leo wrote. waters occur in February to Hawaii, a 3,000-mile trip 100 people turned out.

“We come together to offer and March, however, they in just over a month, so “It’s open for anyone to begin appearing as early as our gratitude, prayers and they can breed and deliver share stories,” she said. “It’s blessings for their health November. their young in warm tropalways different. They can and well-being and to feel “This is a community ical waters, according to a say a prayer, read a poem.” a connection with our event to join together and release.

The occasion pays hom-

cetacean family. This is a co-creational event made special by all those who attend.”

Adult humpbacks grow to up to 60 feet and weigh up to 40 tons. The gray and white mammals have a life span of about 50 years and consume up to 3,000 pounds of food per day.

Kohola Leo is a nonprofit whale advocacy organization with a goal to ensure protection of whales and their ocean world.

Through education and public outreach, the volunteers work to generate concern and action to help protect what they call “intelligent, conscious, sentient and gentle beings” that are endangered and in need of help.

According to the National Oceanic and Atmospher-

ic Administration, the population of North Pacific humpback has climbed to 20,000 whales since its lowpoint of fewer than 1,400 whales in 1966.

Some of the leading issues that affect whale habitats are the threat of entanglement, sonar and acoustic impacts, vessel and propeller strikes, chemical pollution, over fishing, ocean acidification, plastic garbage ingestion and reef destruction.

Those planning to attend Sunday’s event are encouraged to bring blankets and low chairs to sit on, and umbrellas if necessary.

For more information, visit www.whalevoice.org or facebook.com/KoholaLeo. Or contact Kalasara Setaysha at 639-3289 or email Koholaleo@gmail.com.

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