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KAUAI VOICES ROCKS 7:30 p.m. St. Michael and All Angels Episcopal Church Lihue Randy Leonard, director, Monica Chung, accompanist. Tickets are $15 in advance, $20 at the door. Info: kauaivoices.org HAWAIIAN SLACK-KEY GUITAR AND UKULELE CONCERT 4 to 6 p.m. Hale Hanawai Hanalei Family Community Center $10 to $25.

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ANNUAL MISS KAUAI FILIPINA SCHOLARSHIP PAGEANT 7 p.m., Kauai War Memorial Convention Hall Proceeds benefit the Kauai Filipino Womens Club scholarship program.

KAUAI VOICES ROCKS 7:30 p.m. St. Michael and All Angels Episcopal Church Lihue Tickets $15 in advance, $20 at the door. Info: kauaivoices.org SUNDAY

UKULELE CONCERT 5:30 to 8 p.m. Ha Coffee Bar, Rice Street, Lihue Cynthia Lin performs as part of her nationwide tour. $10.

OHANA SLACK-KEY GUITAR AND UKULELE CONCERT

3 to 5 p.m. Hale Hanawai Hanalei Family Community Center $10 to $25.

ISLAND GROWN ARTISAN FAIR 1 to 6 p.m. Princeville Community Association clubhouse Lots of local grown and local made crafts and other goods for sale.

KAUAI VOICES ROCKS 3 p.m. St. Michael and All Angels Episcopal Church Lihue Tickets $15 in advance, $20 at the door. Info: kauaivoices.org TUESDAY

SLACK KEY CONCERT WITH JEFF PETERSON 6:30 p.m. Kapaa Public Library Free, 45-minute program suitable for all ages.

HAWAIIAN SLACK-KEY GUITAR AND UKULELE CONCERT 6 to 8 p.m. Princeville Community Association clubhouse $10 to $25.

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KAUAI CHAMBER OF COMMERCE BUSINESS AFTER HOURS 5 to 7 p.m. at Gaylord’s at Kilohana Info: 245-7363 HAWAIIAN SLACK-KEY GUITAR AND UKULELE CONCERT 6 to 8 p.m. All Saints Church, Kapaa $10 to $25

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Featuring her album Continued from page 2 “Ukulele Days,” the tour will combine concert and festival performances with As a singer-songwriter, fan “meet and greets” plus Cynthia has released six ukulele workshops and jam album recordings indesessions. Ukulele Days is pendently and performs being made available for regularly solo, with a jazz the first time on vinyl and combo, and with her CD in addition to digital acclaimed Bay Area band, download.

Cynthia Lin and the Blue Beginning in Reno, Moon All Stars. She encourNevada, the tour has passed ages everyone to follow through Old Town Lansing, their passion.

The ukulele diva, teacher Michigan; New York, New and YouTube star, Lin hosts York; and will soon be on Kauai before heading to one of the top five most popular ukulele channels on Honolulu (June 23) and San YouTube. She is well known Francisco (July 14).

“There’s a palpable especially in Hawaii. With electricity in the room over 20 million views on when ukulele players come her YouTube channel, she together to sing and make shares ukulele tutorials in her approachable teaching music. During this tour, I am especially excited to visit style. Sunday she will be communities that I don’t playing a concert and will often have the opportunity also engage the audience to engage with in person,” with an interactive jam said Cynthia Lin. session.

Since 2013, Cynthia Lin All are invited to bring a has shared free ukulele tuukulele and strum along. torials and arrangements on The event will be from YouTube in order to spread 5:30 to 8 p.m. and is $10 at

the joy of ukulele and help people grasp the basics of the instrument with her approachable teaching style.

Her YouTube channel has been viewed over 20 million times and she has more than 189,000 subscribers.

She is supported by over 1800 patrons on Patreon, leads the San Francisco Uke Jam community and founded the first San Francisco Uke-tober Festival.

Ukulele Days was originally released in July after Cynthia participated in #The100DayProject with the goal of playing a ukulele song and recording a video for YouTube every day for 100 days.

The album is a collection of fan favorites from her #100DaysofUkuleleSongs project and includes classic songs such as La Vie En Rose, Hawaiian and jazz standards, as well as hits from the Beatles and Beyoncé. Ukulele Days hit #13 on the World Billboard Charts and #15 on the Jazz Billboard Charts (alongside

FANTASTIC NEGRITO HAS GREAT SEQUEL TO GRAMMY WINNER which moved from Massachusetts to Oakland when PABLO GORONDI he was 12, around 1980. He ASSOCIATED PRESS released an album (“The X Factor”) as Xavier in 1996 antastic Negrito has but a debilitating car crash an incredible, inspiring in 1999 — the theme of this backstory but it would album’s cover — contributed be a shame to unwittingly allow it to overshadow the is- to a prolonged interval. The sue at hand, the truly fantas- debut of this new career tic blend of blues, funk, rock phase was the 2014 EP “Fantastic Negrito” and “The and R&B created on “Please Last Days of Oakland,” which Don’t Be Dead” by the man won the Grammy for best born Xavier Dphrepaulezz. contemporary blues album As Negrito’s songs feed on his personal experiences, last year. “Please Don’t Be Dead” pulverizes any fears you should at least know of the dreaded sophomore that he grew up with 13 slump. siblings in a Muslim family

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If album opener “Plastic Hamburgers” sounds like a Chris Cornell/Lenny Kravitz mashup, “Dark Windows” is a heartfelt tribute to the former, whom Negrito toured with extensively. “Bad Guy Necessity” sounds like Al Green as the Hulk, all hurt bravado and aggression.

“The Suit That Won’t Negrito puts himself in the middle of the fray with “Please Don’t Be Dead” — such a contemporary title — and offers his songs for the soundtrack of the lives of those who won’t give up and are willing to carry on.

Diana Krall and Norah Jones) in its first week of sales.

“Like many creative projects, I didn’t know where the 100 Days of Ukulele Songs project would lead,”

Lin said. “I loved hearing from my fans how surprised they were by the ukulele’s versatility across musical genres, and how the project changed their perceptions

of ukulele and even inspired them to pick it up as their first instrument.”

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Holo Holo Charters of Port Allen has become the first floating eatery to earn an Ocean Friendly Restaurant certification from Surfrider Kauai.

auai’s Ocean Friendly Restaurants has expanded to include its first floating eatery as Holo Holo Charters has jumped on board and gotten the certification from Surfrider Kauai.

It’s a program designed to reduce the amount of single-use and polystyrene plastic that’s going into the ocean and dozens of Kauai restaurants are getting certified through Surfrider.

Some of those restaurants include Little Fish Coffee and Kalaheo Coffee on the south and west sides; Aloha Aina Juice Café and The Greenery in Lihue; The Local and Tiki Taco in Kapaa; and Opakapaka Grill and Bar in Hanalei.

Now, the first tour boat charter company has joined the mix.

“Holo Holo Charters has been doing its part in

cutting down single-use plastics for quite some time and has been proactive in creating less overall debris that could end up in our ocean,” said Kit Furderer, spokesman for Holo Holo Charters.

It was Surfrider’s Ocean Friendly Restaurant state of Hawaii co-chair Anny Barlow who suggested the company get the certification after learning about some of those steps the company has taken to help keep the oceans clean.

“Holo Holo Charters uses biodegradable cups and reduces single-use throw away items by using reusable dishes on board its vessels,” Furderer said. “Holo Holo Charters has long been a part of the global movement to clean up our environment and believes the smallest steps have the potential to make the biggest impact.”

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‘SUPERFLY’ REMAKES A BLAXPLOITATION CLASSIC JAKE COYLE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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from Harlem streets to suburban Atlanta mansions, flips Curtis Mayfield’s soul

score for Future’s hip-hop soundtrack and forsakes the original’s politically charged grit for shallow music-video indulgence.

“He’s got a plan to stick it to the man,” went the ads for Gordon Parks Jr.’s “Super Fly,” with Ron O’Neal as Youngblood Priest, the suave cocaine dealer trying to make one last score.

Coming a year after “Shaft” (directed by Parks’ father), “Super Fly” was a post-civil-rights-era time capsule oozing anti-authoritarian fury and ‘70s style.

“The Man” is mostly MIA in this “Superfly,” which takes more after Brian De Palma’s “Scarface” and familiar hip-

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Lex Scott Davis, left, and Trevor Jackson party down in a scene from “Superfly.”

hop fantasies than anything channeled by the earlier Blaxploitation films. If snorted lines of coke were copious in the original, Director X’s “Superfly” is packed with scenes of slow-motion booty shaking — imagery the filmmaker is well versed in as the director of (some very good) music videos for

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Use of biodegradable products, reusable utensils and other environmentally respectful practices helped Holo Holo Charters become an Ocean Friendly Restaurant as certified by Surfrider Kauai.

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not a typical restaurant, but being on the frontline, they have chosen paper cups Continued from page 4 and reusable utinsels for their guests,” said Rebekah Since the Ocean Friendly Magers, Ocean Friendly Restaurants program offers Restaurants coordinator. restaurants an easy way to She also pointed out show their commitment to making sustainable choices Holo Holo has been a big for our ocean it made sense supporter of Surfrider’s Net Patrol campaign, which for Holo Holo Charters to removes fishing nets from become certified, Furderer local beaches. explained.

“We feel its our kuleana An Ocean Friendly Restau(responsibility) as a company rants certification requires to do our part in helping the an eatery use no expanded community and environpolystyrene and follows ment through education, proper recycling practices. action and dedication,” Only reusable tableware is Furderer said. “Anytime we used for onsite dining and disposable utensils for take- see large trash, fish nets or animals endangered; we out food are provided only stop to assist in the best upon request. way.”

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Those who work with the company say Holo Holo understands that a large amount of plastic pollutants end up in our water and can create a toxic environment for the fish and anything that consumes the fish.

“We must change the way we consume and package single use products and change to purchasing biodegradable and earth-friendly products,” Furderer said.

The tour company also has a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Dolphin Friendly designation.

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Drake, Rihanna, Jay-Z and Kanye West.

This Youngblood Priest (Trevor Jackson) is a polished businessman who runs a well-established, clandestine drug business with his partner Eddie (Jason Mitchell). Financially SEE ‘SUPERFLY,’ PAGE 6

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JOURNALIST TAKES READERS ON TRIP TO REMEMBER CYNTHIA LYNN & ED JUSTUS SPECIAL TO TGIFR!DAY

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Planning to take a trip? We have always found memoirs inspiring to read that are about other

‘Superfly’ Continued from page 5

score for Future’s hip-hop soundtrack and forsakes the original’s politically charged grit for shallow music-video indulgence.

“He’s got a plan to stick it to the man,” went the ads for Gordon Parks Jr.’s “Super Fly,” with Ron O’Neal as Youngblood Priest, the suave cocaine dealer trying to make one last score.

Coming a year after “Shaft” (directed by Parks’ father), “Super Fly” was a post-civ-

peoples’ trips to what most of us would consider exotic destinations! We ourselves have been to every continent except Africa! So it was very exciting to have Jeffrey at the bookstore to do a book signing here last Friday!

And he sold a lot of books! Even better!

Jeffrey Gettleman, is a Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times journalist and a seasoned war correspondent, For the past decade, he has served as the East

Africa bureau chief for the New York Times. He has had a following for quite some time as a journalist so this book was an exciting acquisition for his many followers. This book takes place in one of the most challenging places to visit in Africa but it is an account of his own personal life while he was there. It may very well challenge your own perspectives and standards, but it is a very honest account of his own experiences.

His book has been compared to another book we have reviewed which was “Barbarian Days”, which was also a very personal tale of love, changes as a man growing into his own while exploring his own passions which, for William Finnegan, was the world of surfing.

“Love, Africa” covers Jeffrey being torn, not only between two women that found himself in love with, but also challenged by his experiences of seeing a torn Africa at the beginning

of change, much like himself. He was experiencing all of it for the very first time.

Having met him in person, it is interesting to see this author come away from his experiences still with a positive attitude and a twinkle in his eye.

Worthy read!

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Lynn are owners of The Bookstore in Hanapepe.

il-rights-era time capsule oozing anti-authoritarian fury and ‘70s style.

“The Man” is mostly MIA in this “Superfly,” which takes more after Brian De Palma’s “Scarface” and familiar hiphop fantasies than anything channeled by the earlier Blaxploitation films. If snorted lines of coke were copious in the original, Director X’s “Superfly” is packed with scenes of slow-motion booty shaking — imagery the filmmaker is well versed in as the director of (some very good) music videos for Drake, Rihanna, Jay-Z and

Kanye West.

This Youngblood Priest (Trevor Jackson) is a polished businessman who runs a well-established, clandestine drug business with his partner Eddie (Jason Mitchell). Financially savvy, deeply connected all over town and never rattled by the most lethal interactions, Jackson’s slickly coifed Priest is almost as much superhero as super fly.

Having risen well above the streets, Priest senses his good fortune can’t last.

He wants to get out, along with his two girlfriends

(Lex Scott Davis, Andrea Londo), before fate comes for him. There are already signs that his even-keeled lifestyle is about to get rocky. A squabble threatens the peace with the rival crew dubbed Snow Patrol, a white-dressed gang of dealers who drive white cars, shoot white guns and pretty much look like the ATL chapter of the Storm Troopers.

With one last score in mind, Priest does what few ready to give up a life of crime would do: He goes to great lengths to prove him-

self to a powerful Mexican cartel. “Don’t let the pretty hair fool you,” Priest pleads to the cartel boss (Esai Morales) after circumventing his regular supplier and mentor, the karate master Scatter (Michael Kenneth Williams).

Williams’ presence begs the question: Wouldn’t “Superfly” be better — and carry more of a sense of danger, of real threat — if Williams was starring in it?

Jackson comfortably carries the film with a smooth panache, but his Priest — like the movie — doesn’t make

much of an impression.

Yet “Superfly” is also a generally entertaining movie, with good things in it. Mitchell (“Mudbound”) is predictably excellent as Priest’s less scrupulous partner and friend; he’s the film’s high point. And any movie that casts Big Boi as the mayor of Atlanta has done some things right. (“Superfly” would be better if there was more of him in it.) And Jennifer Morrison, one of the two crooked police detectives in the film, is unexpectedly terrific in a usually stereotypical role.

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r. Joel Punzal had to work, but his family, including Brity, who works at Punzal Vision, couldn’t resist getting an early morning treat from Daylight Donuts while saving space on the sidewalk fronting Ace Hardware.

When the 2018 edition of the King’s Parade and Celebration started to unfold, some of the Ace Hardware ohana spilled onto the sidewalks to view the pagentry and horses decked out in lei and floral decorations presented by the King Kamehameha Day Commissison in the area between Vidinha Stadium and the Historic County Building.

This was Mayor Bernard Carvalho Jr.’s final parade as mayor, and the County of Kauai unit went all out, said Sarah Blane of the Mayor’s Office. Carvalho mounted a horse in his paniolo heritage and was joined by many of the county associates atop horses, and on foot, to present an impressive show on the island’s moku.

More celebrations awaited at the Historic County Building as food booths unwrapped offerings along with craft vendors and a day of entertainment to the delight of hundreds of visitors’ cameras.

Nohiu Flores, Kauilani Rivera, Makamae Rivera, Robbi-Lynn Contrades, Rose Kaui, Tia Kaui, Ehukai Goias-Medeiros, Sean Asquith

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