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Week of Friday, August 14, 2015 | Vol. 3, No. 33

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AUG. 21 AT CHURCH OF THE PACIFIC IN PRINCEVILLE

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IN THIS ISSUE: 2. OUT & ABOUT:

Top picks for the week

3. ENTERTAINMENT: Raqs Tiki

4-5. DINING OUT KAUAI: McDonald’s

6. BOOK REVIEW:

‘Go Set a Watchman’

7. CHECK DA SCENE: Congress of Visayan

OUT & ABOUT: TOP PICKS FOR THE WEEK TODAY SATURDAY HCT AFTER DARK 7 P.M., PUHI THEATRICAL WAREHOUSE Hawaii Children’s Theater After Dark presents the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning musical drama, “Next to Normal.” 246-8985

CRAFT FAIR 8 A.M. TO 2 P.M., KAUAI VETERANS CENTER HCT AFTER DARK 7 P.M., PUHI THEATRICAL WAREHOUSE Hawaii Children’s Theater After Dark presents “Next to Normal.” 246-8985

SLACK KEY GUITAR 4 TO 6 P.M., HANALEI COMMUNITY CENTER $20 adults, $15 keiki/seniors COUNTY FAIR 6 P.M. TO MIDNIGHT, VIDINHA STADIUM Kauai County Farm Bureau Fair with four-days of food, farming, games, rides and fun. $5 adults, $2 children, $4 seniors RUMFEST 5:30 P.M., RUMFIRE ON POIPU BEACH Rum tasting, live music and plate lunches. Following the tasting there will be dancing and live entertainment from 10 p.m. to midnight.

NORTH SHORE DANCE PARTY 7 P.M., CHURCH OF THE PACIFIC YMCA North Shore Dance Club and Kauai Parks and Recreation monthly dance party with tango music, and learn a variety of swing, ballroom and Latin music dancing. All levels and singles welcome, $5 METAL FINE ART 6 TO 9 P.M., JAMES COLEMAN GALLERY New release party and meet the artist Dennis Mathewson.

SUNDAY HCT AFTER DARK 7 P.M., PUHI THEATRICAL WAREHOUSE Hawaii Children’s Theater After Dark presents “Next to Normal.” 246-8985

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SIERRA CLUB HIKE Join the Sierra Club on a hike along Mahaulepu and Makauwahi Cave. 4 miles round trip, 212-3108 COUNTY FAIR NOON TO 11 P.M. VIDINHA STADIUM Food, farming, games, rides and fun. $5 adults, $2 children, $4 seniors

CLASS REUNION NOON, NIUMALU PAVILION Kauai High School class of 1990 is having a 25th class reunion family picnic. cnagao@twc.com COUNTY FAIR NOON TO MIDNIGHT, VIDINHA STADIUM Food, farming, games, rides and fun. $5 adults, $2 children, $4 seniors ROGER MCGUINN 7 TO 9 P.M., KCC PERFORMING ARTS CENTER An evening with Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Roger McGuinn. $40.

WALK AROUND THE BLOCK WITH A DOC 7 TO 8:30 P.M., WILCOX MEMORIAL HOSPITAL LOBBY Walk one-mile around the Wilcox campus with KMC pediatricians. 245-1198 DOG FANCIERS OF KAUAI 10 TO 11 A.M., KUKUI GROVE CENTER Dog Fanciers of Kauai is having their fall class orientation and registration. Do not bring your dog to this event. A copy of vaccination is required. 246-6889

MON TUE WED THU FARMER MARKETS There is a Koloa Sunshine Market at noon at Koloa Knudsen Ball Park side parking lot off Maluhia Road and a Monday Market at 3 p.m. in the parking lot behind Kmart at Kukui Grove Center.

OPEN HOUSE 5 P.M., KAUAI HIGH SCHOOL Parents and guardians, Kauai High School is introducing a new format for our open house and grade level orientation meetings this school year.

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HULA CLASS 5 P.M., KAUAI MUSEUM Kauai Museum and Daughters of Hawaii hula class with Kumu Puni Patrick.

Must be a Kauai Museum or Daughters of Hawaii member.

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BOOK CLUB 5:30 TO 7 P.M., KAUAI MUSEUM A celebration of Aunty Noelani Moahoe and her new publication of Hoahu Ana o Na Mele, a collection of songs, stories and pictures.

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Raqs Tiki

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showcases dance talent

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Workshop features hula, hip hop, African, modern performances

$48 (Adult), $25 (kids)

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ust the name of the dance conjures fantastical images. Abdomens in serpentine motion. Exotic instruments. Women with veils wriggling sequined hips to the delight of spectators at outdoor festivals or inside cozy, dimly lit dining rooms.

Belly dancing is one of the most recognizable dance forms, and perhaps one of the most elusive. And on Friday, Aug. 21, the art form will be on display at the Raqs Tiki Showcase at Princeville’s Church of the Pacific. The 7 p.m. show will feature renowned dance teachers Ranya Renee and Rose Harden as well as part-time Princeville resident Talia Soleil, who’s organizing the show.

“This is my first event I’m producing on the island,” said Soleil, owner of Red Door Dance Studio in Brentwood, California. “I’m planning on making my big move here within

the next couple years, so I’m trying to bring my interest and my love for belly dancing to the island. I want to share my love for the island with our dancers, too.”

In addition to belly dancing, Soleil has studied jazz, ballet, hip hop, hula, African and modern dance. She is a multi-award winning belly dancer, choreographer and fitness champion.

The Raqs Tiki Showcase — Raqs is the word for dance in Arabic and Tiki is a nod to island culture — is part of a two-day belly dancing workshop that will bring together dance students of all abilities, experience levels for technique and training seminars.

Many of the students who’ve signed up hail from Kauai, California and New York, Soleil said.

The showcase will feature dances by the workshop students as well as the talent flying in to teach them.

Several different styles of belly dance will be on display at the showcase including tribal fusion and Above, Ranya Renee and top, Talia Soleil.

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“It’s a social dance in the Middle East,” she said. “People are doing it at parties and people are doing it in the street. Men belly dance. When I was in Egypt the little kids would be belly dancing on the table tops when they were 3 years old.”

Soleil, who has studied belly dancing in Egypt, Turkey and Greece as well as the Mainland, said the beauty of the dance is that it’s social in nature and that women of all shapes, sizes and experience SEE TIKI, PAGE 9

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Beat the heat with McDonald’s frozen treats Popular burger, salad back on summer menu

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ith summer in full swing, McDonald’s Kauai offers the perfect combination of delights and that will quench your thirst, fill your belly and put a smile on your face.

“We just want to make sure we can provide the customer service and make sure the product customers order is high quality,” said McDonald’s Kauai General Manager Brandon Yoshimoto. “In the food industry, I feel more of ‘How can we help you?’ not so much of ‘What can I sell you?’”

A local favorite back for a limited time is the McTeri sandwich, Yoshimoto said.

“McTeri is a very local favorite. It probably rivals that of the McRib in terms of the local palate,” he said.

“Everyone loves teriyaki, so when McDonald’s combined teriyaki sauce with our beef patties, it was just a good combo.”

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Above: McDonald’s Kauai owner Darlene Chung and GM Brandon Yoshimoto say being able to work in Hawaii is a big plus.

Right top: A medium frozen McCafe, $2.69, comes in two flavors: lemonade and strawberry. Right bottom: Back for a limited time, the McTeri sandwich combo, $7.99, comes with medium fries and a medium drink.

With medium fries and a medium drink, the McTeri combo meal is $7.99.

In the mood for something refreshing and tasty for a change? The Asian Salad,

$6.99, comes with soybeans, mandarin oranges and bell peppers.

“It’s also a new salad blend: It has kale, romaine and baby spinach,” Yoshimo-

to said. “We have that fresh greens. We also have that summer flavor that the mandarin orange compliments.”

To wash it all down, several frosty McCafe drinks are

perfect to beat the heat this summer.

“With the McCafe, you notice that we have the real strawberries, the real lemonade, frozen strawber-

ry lemonade, the over ice lemonades,” Yoshimoto said.

“That one is really popular, especially with the heat right now: It’s hot and humid; it’s hurricane season. The weather with those types of beverages helps to quench the thirst.”

A medium frozen McCafe comes in two flavors: lemonade and strawberry. The McCafe over ice also comes in lemonade and strawberry.

If you’re looking for something sweeter, try the Oreo Frappe a blend of mocha, coffee and delicious Oreo cookie pieces.

Also launching in August, Yohsimoto said, are 24 local words and phrases printed on limited edition medium and large fountain drink cups.

“It’s only happening in McDonald’s restaurants in Hawaii,” he said. “Aunty, howzit, Kauai are some of the local words our customers can expect.”

McDonald’s will distribute over 4 million Hawaii-style “Share a Coke” cups during the eight-week promotion.

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“Our collection of 24 words and phrases is unique to the state, and it will be fun to see who can discover all of them,” said Melanie Okazaki, McDonald’s Restaurants of Hawaii regional marketing manager.

“Whether you Share a Coke with your Aunty or Ku‘uipo, it’s one more way to celebrate the summer in Hawaii.”

The “Share a Coke,” program was first introduced in Australia in the summer of 2011-12.

Since then, the company has helped people Share a Coke in more than 70 countries around the world.

McDonald’s also offers customers free Wi-Fi service in dining locations, with the exception of its Kukui Grove Shopping Center restaurant.

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the key differences between “Mockingbird” and “Watchman” is that “Watchman” is set roughly 20 years after the events in “Mockingbird,” which is why the story is being touted as a sequel.

CYNTHIA & ED JUSTUS If you desire to read SPECIAL TO TGIFR!DAY “Watchman” as a sequel, understand that since it was written before “Mockingbird,” his week’s review is the the characters, storyline, much anticipated, and and continuity are different controversial, “Go Set in many regards. And yet, Set a Watchman” was the a Watchman” by Harper Lee, author of the famous “To Kill a original manuscript submitted if read as a sequel, “Watchin 1957. At the time, the pub- man” can remind us that our Mockingbird.” fictional human heroes, as in lishers felt the story itself was We chose “Watchman” not groundbreaking enough, real life heroes, are just really for one reason: This is a rare human beings that have which is why Lee’s editor opportunity to see how an helped her, over the course of done something wonderful author’s original manuscript a few years, to reshape the sto- despite who they are (or and ideas were changed to ry and characters, altering the aren’t). We suggest, with create a bestseller of its time, and yet see the same original original submission into what all issues of continuity and unaltered manuscript become became “To Kill a Mockingbird.” controversy aside, “Go Set a Watchman” should be read The editing and suggesta bestseller in this time. and appreciated as the book ed rewrites were brilliantly Harper Lee’s “To Kill a that it is.

Mockingbird,” released in 1960, effective to create a hero for the story. Harper Lee did ••• changed the way generanot originally write heroes, tions viewed segregationist Ed and Cynthia Justus are but wrote men and women owners of The Bookstore behavior which plagued the true to their time. One of southern United States. “Go in Hanapepe.

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levels can enjoy and excel in stage productions.

“I’m drawn to belly dancing because it encompasses every woman,” Soleil said. “I think a lot of women stop dancing at a certain time in their life because they can’t go professional.

But if you go to a festival you might see brand new belly dancers on the stage.

You don’t have to be in any particular shape and you don’t have to be any particular size.”

The dance’s inclusiveness she said, is what makes it so empowering.

“I love the femininity of it and that we’re allowed to be flirty and strong and sassy and sexy and whatever we decide to be,” she said. “It does bring out the strength of a woman.”

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Edelia Edurise, Aurea Laymon, Hernando, Juanita Tan (Honolulu)

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Rose Narito, Rina Pascual, Edelia Edurise, Marissa Weddell, Elsie Ramos

Precy Raquel (Philippines), Monty, Celia Nishie

Zosimo Mata, Edgar Alquisalas, Elsie Ramos, Rodilio Baring, Alfonso Afos

here are 5,000 members of Visayan organizations spread over Hawaii, the Mainland, and the Philippines, said Rhoda Libre, hostess of the 28th annual state convention of the Congress of Visayan Organizations.

The convention on Kauai culled several hundred people from throughout the state and some from the Philippines at King Kaumualii Elementary School and the Kauai Beach Resort.

“This is in preparation for the convening of the 2016 state Legislature,” Libre said. “We need to get everything in order for the next Legislature.”

During the convention, Sen. Ron Kouchi, Senate president, did the honors of installing next year’s leaders. A play depicting Lapulapu, a Visayan warrior, was presented to the audience.

Libre said the people from the Visayas were at the head of fighting off Spanish rule in the Philippines, and on Kauai, the Hanapepe battle with the unions was led by Visayans.

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