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Week of Friday, August 7, 2015 | Vol. 3, No. 32

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‘KAUAI SHORTS’ TONIGHT AND SATURDAY AT KCC PERFORMING ARTS CENTER

E hele mai a e pili pu kakou (Come join us) Four days of Family, Farming, Food and Fun!

Kauai Coffee Chef Cookoff for Charity

21-24 August 13-16 Vidinha Stadium

Friday August 14th, 6pm, Entertainment Tent $30 to sample a variety of prepared items with Kauai Grown ingredients Vote for your favorite dish!

Winning Chef Earns $2000 for Their Charity of Choice Advance Tickets are available at www.kauaifarmfair.org

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OUT & ABOUT: TOP PICKS FOR THE WEEK IN THIS TODAY

‘KAUAI SHORTS’ 7 P.M., KCC PERFORMING ARTS CENTER Women in Theatre presents “Kauai Shorts,” a series of 16 10-minute plays. $20 advance, $25 door, $35 for two YOUTH RALLY 5:30 P.M., KAUAI CONVENTION HALL Kauai Island Ministries Youth 10th annual Islandwide Youth Rally featuring guest speaker Pastor Patrick McFall from New Hope Hawaii Kai. There will be a free chili dinner, prizes, music and performances.

SUNDAY Friday Nights • 5:30-9:00pm Adults $51 • Children $29 (12 and under) ENTRÉES Lobster Tail - 6oz North Atlantic Lobster Tail served with drawn butter and lemon (1 per guest) Slow Roasted Prime Rib Pineapple Chicken Kalua Style Pork Mahi Mahi with Lemon and Capers Sea Food Pasta SALADS Fresh Local Greens, Vegetables, Cheeses and a selection of Salad Dressings, Cucumber Green Papaya, Sweet Potato, Potato Mac APPETIZERS AND SIDES Hawaii Poke, Lobster Bisque, Peel-and-Eat Shrimp, White Rice, Stir Fried Rice, Mashed Potatoes, Stir Fried Vegetables, Fresh Fruit DESSERTS Dobash Cake, Coconut Pie, Red Velvet Trifle, Cookies, Bread Pudding, Apple Crisp

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246-8985 SLACK KEY GUITAR 3 TO 5 P.M., HANALEI FAMILY COMMUNITY CENTER $20 adults, $15 keiki/seniors MUSIC AND MANGO FESTIVAL 11 A.M. TO 5 P.M., HALULU FISHPOND Waipa Music and Mango Festival with live music, activities, mango tastings, crafts and more. $10 adults, $1 keiki (ages 3-18) CLASS OF 1970 Kapaa High School Class of 1970 is having their 45th class reunion. 651-1040

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2. OUT & ABOUT:

BON DANCE 7:30 P.M., LIHUE HONGWANJI MISSION Food, music, games and entertainment.

Top picks for the week

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

Roger McGuinn

4. DINING OUT KAUAI:

SAND FESTIVAL 11 A.M. TO 4 P.M., HANALEI BAY Sand festival with a free lesson in sand creation and sand castle contest. 639-8379

‘Kauai Shorts’

SIERRA CLUB HIKE Join the Sierra Club in hiking Kuilau Kuilau Trail on the Eastside. Meet at the arboretum parking lot, bring snack, water and hat.

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5. ARTS & THEATER: 6. BOOK REVIEW:

‘The Name of the Wind’

7. CHECK DA SCENE: Heiva i Kauai

MON TUE WED THU BLOOD BANK 8:30 A.M. TO 1 P.M., GRAND HYATT KAUAI, KAUAI BALLROOM Donate to the Blood Bank of Hawaii and help save a life.

(800) 372-9966 FARMER MARKETS Koloa Sunshine Market at noon at Koloa Knudsen Ball parking lot off and Monday Market at 3 p.m. in the parking lot behind Kmart at Kukui Grove Center.

WEIGHT WATCHERS 5:30 P.M., ST. JOHN’S EPISCOPAL CHURCH Weekly Weight Watchers meetings held weekly.

BLOOD BANK 7:30 A.M. TO 3 P.M., KAUAI WAR MEMORIAL CONVENTION HALL Donate to the Blood Bank of Hawaii and help save a life.

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AARP MEETING 11:30 A.M., LIHUE CIVIC CENTER Join AARP at their monthly meeting and potluck. Michael Newgent will talk about grants for income qualified homeowners.

BLOOD BANK 8 A.M. TO 1:45 P.M., KAUAI WAR MEMORIAL CONVENTION HALL Donate to the Blood Bank of Hawaii and help save a life.

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COUNTY FAIR 6 P.M. TO MIDNIGHT, VIDINHA STADIUM Kauai County Farm Bureau Fair with farming, games, rides and fun. $5 adults, $2 children, $4 seniors START A BUSINESS 5:30 TO 8:30 P.M., LIHUE PLANTATION BUILDING Learn about entrepreneurship, organization and more. $20, 241-3148

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oger McGuinn just turned 73 years old, but he’s not kicking back and taking life easy. He’s rocking and rolling and he’s headed for Kauai.

The 1991 Rock and Rock Hall of Fame inductee is scheduled to perform Aug. 15 at the Kauai Community College Performing Arts Center.

It will be part of a six-show solo tour that’s bringing him to Kauai for the first time in 37 years.

“I’m very excited to be back,” he said. “I absolutely love it.”

McGuinn is the founder and leader of The Byrds, a popular band

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Sheraton to host RumFest

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heraton Kauai Resort presents its third annual RumFest at RumFire Poipu Beach in advance of National Rum Day from 5:30 p.m. Friday, Aug. 14.

The event will be held in the resort’s open-air Ocean Courtyard and will feature a variety of rums, island music from Pono Breez and Pure Harmony and locally inspired plate lunches from Starwood Kauai.

The cost of entry is free, and the event is open to all ages. Patrons must be 21 or older for the rum tasting.

Event goers will enjoy socializing around the Ocean Courtyard’s fire pits and connecting with global and local premium rums at RumFest at RumFire’s tasting stations. A variety of rums will be available, and guests are welcome to try pre-set flights of five rums for $5 per flight. A cash bar will be available for rum-based cocktails.

Tastings are complemented by locally inspired plate lunches from the RumFire Poipu Beach kitchen at Sheraton Kauai Resort, St. Regis Princeville and The Westin Princeville Ocean Resort for $10 each.

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McGuinn

show, he’s confident they will.

“What I’m doing is kind of theatrical, ” he said.

Continued from page 3 And Camilla, by the way, is Roger’s stage manager so from the late 1960s into the early ‘70s, and is known for his she’ll be joining him on Kauai.

“She does everything off 12-string Rickenbacker guitar stage and I do everything on sound. He plans to deliver stage,” he said. some of the hits he’s closely McGuinn’s solo career associated with, including “Mr. Tambourine Man,”“Eight Miles began in 1973 and has yielded 10 albums, a Grammy nominaHigh,” and “Turn! Turn! Turn!”

“I’m not one of those artists tion and other awards.

Arista records released “Back who neglects their old mateFrom Rio” in 1991, a rock alrial,” he said during a phone bum that included his friends, interview from his home in Tom Petty and The HeartOrlando, Florida. breakers, Elvis Costello, Chris The concert will mix music Hillman, David Crosby, Michael with storytelling as McGuinn Penn and John Jorgensen. Afshares tales of a legendary ter touring extensively to supcareer and the songs that led to his success in a demanding port the album he returned to industry. It’s essentially a two- his roots — folk music.

He has toured extensively. hour, one-man play about his life that he and his wife Camilla Last year, he went on a fourmonth tour in Europe and he created. plans to tour in Japan later this While he can’t guarantee year. the audience will love his

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I’m not one of those artists who neglects their old material.”

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Roger McGuinn

As he’s aged, McGuinn has but one rule of the road: theaters only.

“I used to take anything that would come in, he said. “Now, I just do theaters. We want to play in nice theaters with comfortable seats for people.”

Mr. Tambourine Man became a big hit for the Byrds in 1965 and McGuinn was their leader, known for his fearless sense of experimentation.

He was on the leading edge, combining the rock beat of the Beatles with the folk sensibilities of Bob Dylan, to create the

genre known as “folk-rock.”

One of the Byrd’s biggest hits, “Turn! Turn! Turn! was written by McGuinn’s friend and fellow musician Pete Seeger. The lyrics, like “to everything there is a season,” are based on the book of Ecclesiastes 3:1-8.

Seeger was a big influence on McGuinn’s career.

“He made me want to play the guitar,” McGuinn said.

He and Camilla love life in Florida, where they enjoy walking, listening to classical and jazz music and swimming in their pool.

Doors open at 7 and the show begins at 7:30 p.m.

Advance tickets are $50 (first five rows) and $40. They are available at Small Town Coffee (Kapaa); Kauai Music and Sound (Kapaa); Scotty’s Music (Lihue); Progressive Expressions (Koloa) ; Kalaheo Music & Strings (Kalaheo); Hanalei Strings and Things (Hanalei).

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Kauai Shorts

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arly this year, Romey Curtis and Women in Theater announced they were looking for a few good plays.

They got them. Try 125.

And some were “absolutely opus.”

The best of those submissions will be on display this weekend as WIT presents its fifth biennial “Kauai Shorts 10-Minute Play Festival.”

There will be 16 plays by 16 playwrights put on at 7 tonight and Saturday at Kauai Community College Performing Arts Center — eight plays each night.

Curtis, the festival’s chair and WIT director, promises a wonderful time for guests, who not only get to watch creative plays, but vote for their favorite play via an applause meter. The louder the cheers the better for that play.

“Of course, it will be a comedy,” Curtis said. “It’s always a comedy.”

The new and original plays range from hilarious to serious, evocative to provocative. Some cast members and directors are involved in

Women in Theater showcases 16, 10-minute plays Friday and Saturday BILL BULEY TGIFR!DAY

Photos courtesy Romey Curtis

The cast of “A dream Come True,” by Andrew Melamed is David Gardener and Moe Sharpe. Right: The cast of “Bone Peddlers,” by Leslea Kroll, from left, Lorraine Marshal, Claudia Cowden, Valerie Wise.

more than one play.

Playwrights had the green light to write about any subject suitable for a general audience. Topics included love stories, spy stories and murder mysteries — anything goes. Each carries distinct themes, plots and thoughts.

“One of the things I like

about this year is the variety,” Curtis said.

A panel of judges will choose the best drama and the best comedy, and the audience will vote for their favorite play.

There will be plenty of choices.

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Shorts

Continued from page 5

“You might not think much of one, but the next one coming up is just your cup of tea,” she said.

Some of the plays in Kauai Shorts promise to take viewers on a captivating ride. There’s “At Least I Got Out of My Pajamas,” by Sheila Rinear; “A Dream Come True,” by Andy Melamed; and “A Murder of Crows,” by Lee Richard Lawing.

One is a story about the dreams and lives of a husband and wife. Another “mixes macabre with a dash of humor.” The “Bone Peddlers” by Leslea Kroll is a “cautionary tale” that takes place in a world when all the fossil fuels have run out and the only fuel left is bones.

This year’s submissions were judged by an English professor, a college drama professor and a stage director.

A few submissions, she added, were well written and had interesting characters, “but they didn’t go anywhere. They were just people talking.”

A hook is helpful, something that will quickly engage and hold the attention of the audience.

“It’s good if the end The cast of “At least I Got gives you a little twist,” out of my Pjamas” by Sheila Curtis said.

Rinear is Alison Miller and The festival is held Jessica Pryon. every other year. It’s a popular community event “With great restraint, I because it involves many excluded myself from the locals who appreciate the process, although I read support of their friends every play with relish,” and neighbors and look Curtis wrote. forward to their applause WIT has ironed out and perhaps winning the process of turning the coveted favorite play screenplays into short stage productions. For the according to audience screams.

10-minute plays to work, ”It’s a long time coming,” they must have a few characters, a simple set, usually Curtis said.

Tickets are available at a table and two chairs set www.womenintheatre.org in a home, office or cafe, and a story that pulls in the and at the door. They are $20 in advance; $25 at the audience. door; $35 in advance for “But it needs to go both nights. somewhere,” Curtis said.

Step into the world of fantasy

CYNTHIA & ED JUSTUS SPECIAL TO TGIFR!DAY

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n the last 10 years, the genre of fantasy novels has gained a vast newfound popularity with the influence of the Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter films, and the Game of Thrones television series.

Readers have been thrilled to see their favorite books come to life and to be able to share their favorite genre with the rest of the world.

In turn, the readership of these fantasy stories has grown immensely and the demand for new authors and high-quality in-depth storytelling has grown with it. One of these wonderful new award-winning authors

is Patrick Rothfuss and we are featuring the first installation of his multi-part saga, “The Name of the Wind (Book One of the Kingkiller Chronicle).”

Readers will become absorbed in this excellently written saga with complex characters and brilliant plot twists in his skillfully realized setting in which the story takes place.

The story follows in the first person narrative of a

mysterious young man, Kvothe, who grows to be the most notorious magician his world has ever seen. Kvothe’s story begins with him as a destitute vagabond child and we follow him as he recalls the incredible events of his life.

Through brilliant cunning he learns to fend for himself, and then soon is drawn to a highly secretive school of magic where he finds a way to be accepted and begins to learn secrets and talents he could not have imagined. The path he starts on will take him (and you the reader) into wild places and stunning events.

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o Manea of the Heiva i Kauai Ia Orana Tahiti steering committee said the two-day celebration of Tahitian culture that centered around dance, song and drumming is the perfect venue for halau practicing Tahitian to showcase its achievements and accomplishments.

Halau from Honolulu, Maui, the Big Island, and Kauai brought life to the Kapaa Beach Park with a showcase of skills enhanced by the solo and group competitions.

Hundreds of people flowed through the park,

capitalizing on shopping through the wares of crafters, many of whom come with Pacific Island and Tahitian wares.

The festival was enhanced with the food offering of local-style Hawaiian grinds as well as exotic Bali cuisine.

A silent auction featuring contributions from the community as well as vendors in the craft tent livened up the action along with cultural demonstrations ranging from fire knife dancing, lauhala weaving, and Tahitian and Pacific Island woodworking.

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