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Week of Friday, March 6, 2015 | Vol. 3, No. 10

PRINCE KUHIO’S

Grinds & Da Kines For Your Weekend

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SEED EXCHANGE • KOREAN BBQ RESTAURANT • OLD TIME GAMES • ‘SEVENTH SON’ Island Calendar and much, much more!

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IN THIS ISSUE: 2. OUT & ABOUT: Top picks for the week

3. COMMUNITY: Seed Exchange

4-5. DINING OUT KAUAI: Korean BBQ Restaurant

6. FLICKS: Seventh Son

7. FUNDRAISER:

Grove Farm Old Time Games

8-9. CHECK DA SCENE: Kilauea Art Night

10. CELEBRATE: Prince Kuhio celebration

11. REVIEW Matilda’s Waltz

OUT & ABOUT: TOP PICKS FOR THE WEEK FRI SAT SUN BOOK SIGNING 5:30 to 9:30 p.m., Talk Story Book Store Paula McGinnis will be signing her book “The Road of Life.”

MATILDA’S WALTZ 7 p.m., Puhi Theatrical Warehouse Kauai Community Players presents “Matilda’s Waltz” a continuation of the saga of “Emma’s Last Dance.” Sold out.

MISSION YES 6 to 9 p.m., St. Michael’s and All Angels Church New evening youth organization to provide youth with life skills, education, art and more. 6511927 BUDDHI YOGA PARTY 4:30 to 7:30 p.m., Koloa Neighborhood Center Organic Functional Fitness instructors will lead a 75 minute Blacklight Hot Buddhi Yoga Class with live DJ, prizes, and a silent auction.

All proceeds will benefit the American Cancer Society’s Relay for Life. $20, 635-4287

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WILD WILD WEST BOWL 6 to 8:30 p.m.

Kauai Bowl Big Brothers Big Sisters of Kauai is having a bowling fundraiser for companies, friends and families.

NURTURE DAY 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Lawai International Center Nurture the grounds of Lawai International Center and plant orchids.

639-4300 THE SPIRIT THAT HEALS 8:30 to 3:30 p.m.

St. Michael and All Angels Episcopal Church An island event to nourish healing in spirit, mind, body and relationships. $30 advance, $35 door

MATILDA’S WALTZ 4 p.m., Puhi Theatrical Warehouse.

Kauai Community Players presents “Matilda’s Waltz” a continuation of the saga of “Emma’s Last Dance.” Sold out.

USED BOOK SALE 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Lihue Library conference room

LIHUE LIBRARY USED BOOK SALE starting Tuesday.

TUE WED THU USED BOOK SALE 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Lihue Library conference room

KHS BAND 6:30 p.m.

Kauai Convention Hall Kauai High School Symphonic Band, Jazz Band, Ukulele Band and Chorus Pops Concert.

AARP MEETING 11 a.m.

Piikoi Building Guest speaker Jim Jung.’ 823-0502

BOOK SALE 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Princeville Public Library PRINCE KUHIO CELEBRATION 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

Kauai Museum A celebration of Prince Kuhio’s life in the year of his 144th birthday.

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STORIES OF LIHUE 6 to 7:30 p.m.

Princeville Public Library Author Pat L. Griffin will speak about her new book, ‘Lihue: Root and Branch of a Hawaii Town.’

USED BOOK SALE 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Lihue Library conference room

EWASTE COLLECTION 7:45 a.m. to 4:15 p.m.

Kauai Resource Center All brands of electronics from businesses and residents accepted.

SPIRITUALITY AND DEATH 7 to 9 p.m.

Golden Lotus Bodhi Be will speak about practices, contemplations, teachings and dialogue on overcoming the death of a loved one. $15

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SEEDS OF EXCHANGE

Kauai residents connect through agriculture

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aul Massey has always had a deep love for plants.

It’s a love he wants to share at Kauai’s 15th bi-annual Community Seed and Plant Exchange. “It’s really about putting the power into the hands of the growers to have the access to the plant variety they want to grow,� said the director of the Regenerations Botanical Garden.

People can meet and exchange seeds and plants at the Anaina Hou Community Park at 5-2723 Kuhio Highway in Kilauea from noon to 5 p.m. March 22. “It’s a lot of fun, it’s really rewarding to be able to share seeds and plants that you’ve grown,� Massey said. “Sharing the passion of gardening is something that’s hard to explain if you haven’t done it but if you

have, you’ll know what we mean.�

The guest speaker will be Diane Massey Ragone, director of the Breadfruit Institute. She will speak about establishing one of the largest breadfruit institution in the world and how people can be a part of the solution to end hunger. “I feel inspired because she demonstrates that one person with a strong decision and commitment to follow through can make a big difference in the world,�

Massey said.

Guests are welcome to bring the seeds, cuttings and plants they wish to exchange to the park at noon and will be supplied with a card to place information

about each variety of plant they have brought to share.

The Community Seed and Plant Exchange began in 2008 when Regenerations Botanical Garden teamed up with GMO Free Hawaii to promote the importance and benefits of plants throughout Kauai. “This kind of stewardship of plant diversity at the local scale is really an important,� Massey said. “So, we’re happy to play a small part of what’s happening all over the world. We’re playing a small part in a very big story, which is the culmination and domestication of plants which has happened over thousands of years.�

The event is free but donations are accepted.

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Korean BBQ a local favorite for 20 years

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orean BBQ Restaurant in Kinipopo Plaza is now in its 20th year.

Owners Ms. Hyun Kim and Mr. Chi Lee took over from a relative who ran the family business for a few years, who in turn took over from the original owner of more than 10 years.

“My husband is the cook,” Kim said. “I cook for him.”

As new owners, they added the BBQ Special — sliced kalbi short ribs by themselves or with shrimp tempura, chicken katsu, meat jun, or BBQ chicken.

The special is a thinner cut, so the price range is $11.50

The Korean B-B-Q restaurant in the Kinipopo Shopping Village in Wailua.

to $15.75.

The thick strip kalbi is the main entree of the restaurant and rangers from $16.75 to $24.50 with shrimp tempura.

Kim said their soups are

also meals by themselves.

The man doo kook is a beef broth with somen noodles and vegetables.

“It is like a saimin but the noodles are softer,” Kim said.

There is also spicy stew

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The kalbi dinner special also includes meat jun, shrimp tempura, fried mandoo, vegetable and rice for $19. It could probably feed two, the portions are so generous.

The menu includes 50 items. Options run from hamburger steak to bi bim bap steamed vegetables and rice; to breaded fish katsu, a seasoned Korean pollock; to fried or steamed madoo Korean-style beef and vegetable dumplings.

The restaurant is popular with the locals, she said.

Tom LaVenture/TGIFr!day They have plans to expand Korean BBQ Restaurant the menu but business owner Ms. Hyun Kim with the is good and they do all lunch special plate. they can to keep up at the

Chi Lee prepares grilled beef for a dish at the Korean B-B-Q. BELOW: Stir fry.

kimchi soup, and the chicken or beef tofu soup.

The most popular item is the sliced kalbi short ribs, Kim said. It is a boneless ribeye that is marinated overnight.

The most popular of the stir fry items is the shoyu seasoned fried squid with vegetables, Kim said. They also have a chop chad long rice noodle stir fry.

moment.

The lunch, dinner and family specials offer good prices, and a lot of the business is takeout, party trays and catering.

It is easy to see why the locals support Korean BBQ so much with such friendly owners, a modest but inviting dining room.

The visitors also chime in on Korean BBQ with posts online praising the food and service at travel websites.

Korean BBQ is at 4-356 Kuhio Highway, Kapaa. It’s open Wednesday through Monday from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m., and closed Tuesdays.

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REVIEW ASSOCIATED PRESS LINDSEY BAHR

Deadly fantasy wears out its welcome

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here’s a fine line between charm and cheese in fantasy epics, and movies as silly and overwrought as “Seventh Son” only help to illustrate just how hard it is to hit the right tone when balancing action, romance, (attempted) wit, and the creation of the world.

For every “Princess Bride” or “Lord of the Rings,” there are 10 “Jack the Giant Slayers,” and as studios cram more and more CG spectacle into each final product, it seems that storytelling and character are the consistent casualties. “Seventh Son,” directed by Sergei Bodrov, is no exception.

Based on Joseph Delaney’s novel “The Spook’s Apprentice” (the first in a series), “Seventh Son” tells the story of Master Gregory (Jeff Bridges), a skilled witch hunter (or, “spook”) who must train a new

apprentice after the evil witch Mother Malkin (Julianne Moore) escapes her imprisonment. He takes on Tom Ward (Ben Barnes) because Tom, you see, is the seventh son of the seventh son which makes him especially suited to the job of killing supernatural beings.

Bridges is as marble mouthed as ever and barely comprehensible as the hard-boiled spook. He’s trying something here that is not quite working and actually makes it difficult to become emotionally invested in his relationship with the apprentice.

It’s entirely possible that he and Barnes have some sharp exchanges and witty banter, but when you’re not straining to decipher exactly what nonsense exposition was mumbled, they’re dolling out such sitcom-level gems as “I’m

starting to wish I was the sixth son.”

Moore, who is riding high on her stellar, Oscar-nominated “Still Alice” performance, doesn’t fare much better as the scorned, shape-shifting witch, who aims to unleash vengeance on humanity because of one betrayal. Mother Malkin teams up with her sister (Antje Traue) and “half witch” niece Alice (Alicia Vikander) to carry out her wishes At first it seems like there might be an epic battle of the sexes brewing. For Master Gregory, death is the only option for a witch. You almost start to feel bad for Mother Malkin and her kind, wishing for a final showdown between the two warring forces. But “Seventh Son” swerves into something much more conventional and expected in that there’s no real subversion

happening at all: The craziest characters are the women with the broken hearts.

All of this could be forgiven if “Seventh Son” was at least entertaining. Nearly every piece of dialogue sounds like a parody of the genre and the attempt to alternate between humor and action falls flat on all fronts. As painstakingly designed and choreographed as the fight sequences are, they just never manage to excite or thrill and the actors couldn’t seem more disconnected from one another.

The promise of seeing Bridges and Moore reunited on screen (they were in “The Big Lebowski” together) was another possible highlight, but their interactions are fleeting and full of plot-heavy ceremony.

When it finally hits theaters, Friday, it will have been just under two

years since “Seventh Son” originally intended release, and perhaps it should have stayed on the shelf.

It’s not evil that this film exists in the world. With three screenwriters, a formidable cast and two extra years to tinker, it’s just more of a mystery as to how all the elements fail to coalesce into something enjoyable.

Far stranger fantasy movies have inexplicably worked their way into the culture’s goodwill. “Seventh Son” tried to play it too safe, when it should have made the choice to either be camp or sincere.

“Seventh Son,” a Universal Pictures release, is rated PG-13 by the Motion Picture Association of America for “intense fantasy violence and action throughout, frightening images and brief strong language.”

102 minutes. One star out of four.

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BLAST FROM THE PAST DARIN MORIKI TGIFR!DAY

Grove Farm Old Time Games set for March 28

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efore the advent of television, much less smartphones, life was a just a little simpler.

At the turn of the 20th century, young fairgoers were greeted with games like coconut shy, hoop and stick, and tick tac toe — a far cry from the mechanized amusement rides or roller coasters found at many modern day carnivals.

It’s a change of pace that Grove Farm Homestead and Sugar Plantation Museum officials are hoping to revive through their annual Grove Farm Old Time Games fundraiser, slated from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday, March 28 at the museum, 4050 Nawiliwili Road in Lihue.

“It’s another way for fami-

lies to spend the day together, hopefully put away their phones, iPads, or what have you, be able to enjoy what life was like 100 years ago, and really feel the calmness and joy of the day,” said Grove Farm Museum SecretarJulie McLeod, who is helping organize the event.

Bygone games that will be featured include coconut shy (throwing), tick

tac toe, knock ‘em down, hoop and stick, horseshoe throwing, potato sack races, pie-eating contests, three-legged races and jump rope contests.

One of the newest additions is a 10-act vaudeville show, featuring a mixture of specialty acts like comedy, song and dance performed by adult volunteers and creative arts students from

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“They’re going to do different kinds of acts based, hopefully, on vaudeville, but we’re leaving the creative side of it up to them,” McLeod said.

The vaudeville show is slated to begin at 1 p.m. on the front porch of the original plantation main house. A puppet show, meanwhile, will be performed throughout the day underneath the big kamani tree.

Other additions to the

lineup are the expansion of the Grove Farm Museum’s Sweet Shoppe, featuring crafts and food items from local artisans, and the in-house construction of a high striker, or strongman, game.

“The feel of the era is what we’re trying to recreate,” McLeod said.

Entry to the event is $2, or $8 for families of four or more. Games cost $2, and races and contests are $1.

No admission is required to watch the puppet and the

vaudeville shows.

Money raised will benefit The Waioli Corporation, a Lihue-based nonprofit charged with preservation, conservation and education efforts for the Grove Farm, Waioli Mission House and Mahamoku Museums on Kauai.

In all, about 400 people attended last year’s games, where Grove Farm Museum volunteers raised about $2,500 for The Waioli Corporation.

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CHECK DA SCENE

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ooling showers could not dampen the spirits at Kilauea Art Night, which attracts hundreds of people from 4 to 8 p.m. on the last Saturday of each month at Kilauea Dispensary Park.

Around two dozen vendors and local artisans came out for the event.

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A PRINCELY AFFAIR

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Kuhio celebration March 21-29 on Kauai’s South Shore

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elebrating Hawaii’s beloved Prince Jonah Kuhio Kalanianaole’s birthday can’t be done in a day.

Honoring the prince is better served spread out.

There’s just too much to do and learn.

“Come for a lot of education,” said George Thronas, director of Hawaiian culture, Grand Hyatt Kauai Resort and Spa, on the upcoming eightday Prince Kuhio celebration that will focus on one of Kauai’s favorite sons. “There will be a lot of opportunity for education, to learn about the culture and the practices that are still done and, of course, live music and hula.”

The fifth annual event kicks off at 10 a.m. Saturday, March 21 with commemorative ceremonies with the Royal Order of Kamehameha at Prince Kuhio Park on Lawai Road, west of Poipu.

All events center around Poipu, where the prince was born. In line for succession of the Kingdom of Hawaii when it was overthrown in 1893, Kuhio later became a politician to the Territory of Hawaii and served as a delegate in the U.S. Congress.

Among his many achieve-

ments, Kuhio wrote the first Hawaii Statehood bill in 1919 and won passage of the Hawaiian Homes Act that created the Hawaiian Homes Commission, which many Hawaiians still benefit from.

He helped reserve 200,000 acres for Hawaiian homesteaders.

“His legacy is still living on for many generations,” Thronas said.

Up to 2,500 people are expected to take part in the celebration. A bulk of the events are free and take place at the Grand Hyatt Kauai Resort and Spa as well as other South Shore locales, such as Marriott’s Waiohai Beach Club, the National Tropical Botanical Garden, Prince Kuhio Park and Kukuiula Village.

And there are plenty of activities.

From 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Sunday, March 22, the Prince Kuhio Rodeo will unleash at CJM Stables, hosted by the Kauai Keiki and High School Rodeo Association.

On Wednesday, March 25, a talk story session from kupuna versed in the Native Hawaiian culture will convey the traditional oral history and stories of Kauai’s south side. It will run from 9

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County officials, including George Costa, Kaleo Carvalho, Kamuela Cobb Adams and Mayor Bernard Carvalho Jr. watch as attendants from the Royal Order of Kamehameha raise the county’s lei hookupu to the bust of Prince Kuhio during the 2014 services at the Prince Kuhio Park, a location close to where Prince Kuhio was born.

The Royal Order of Kamehameha and its women’s auxiliary, caretakers of the Prince Kuhio Park, offer the traditional salute to Prince Kuhio to start the protocol of offering hookupu which are lined neatly next to the bust of Kuhio, described as the people’s prince.

to 10 a.m.

Looking for more?

Tour Makauwahi Cave at Makauwahi Reserve: 9 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. on Thursday,

March 26 — Kuhio’s birthday.

It’s the richest fossil site in the Hawaiian islands and it’s just east of Poipu. The 17-acre area serves to both interpret

ancient history of Hawaiian plants, animals and human activity. Tours cost $10 and can be booked at 651-2479.

Hawaiian cultural demonstrations and hands-on learning sessions will take place Friday afternoon, while the Prince Kuhio Celebration Luau kicks off at 5 p.m. that evening at Smith’s Tropical Paradise, 3-5971 Kuhio Highway in Wailua.

Learn about the cooking style known as Kalua in the imu (underground oven) ceremony before enjoying a bounty of food, drinks and dances from Hawaii and around the Pacific. Tickets are $88 and reservations are required. 821-6895 or www. smithskauai.com.

On Saturday, March 28, the 44th annual Prince Kuhio Long Distance Canoe Race launches. At 8 a.m., the men’s

division will paddle from Kalapaki Beach to just outside Kukuiula Harbor. At 10:30 a.m., the women’s teams will paddle to Salt Pond Park, where an awards ceremony will take place.

The fifth annual Anahola Prince Kuhio Day Celebration will be from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. that Saturday at Anahola Beach Park in Koolau. Syliva Cole of Anahola will be honored for her contributions and commitment to educational and cultural resources in the community.

The festivities wrap up with a ceremony at 8:30 a.m. Sunday, March 29, followed by Taiko drumming at 9 a.m. at the Grand Hyatt Kauai Resort and Spa. Info: Thronas, (808) 2406369, george.thronas@hyatt. com or visit http://princekuhio.net.

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Play Review

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HOPE, LOVE SHINES THROUGH IN ‘MATILDA’S WALTZ’

here are reasons why “Matilda’s Waltz” sold out its first nine shows.

There are reasons why it was extended an extra weekend, three more shows were added, and they sold out.

It’s not too hard to figure out.

The play written by Kauai’s David Penhallow Scott is good. The cast is good. Add in the Puhi Theatrical Warehouse that puts patrons in the seats up-close-andpersonal with those on stage, and it adds to a wonderful experience and a memorable evening. It is community theater at its best. This is how such stage stories should be done. It is not over acted. It is not complicated. It is not splashy.

It comes from the heart.

Matilda’s Waltz is well BILL BULEY told, paced and acted.

TGIFR!DAY First, to recap, Matilda’s Waltz is a sequel to last Jennifer Cullen plays Eudora Whitney and Rod Green plays General Justin Patterson in “Matilda’s Waltz.” year’s popular “Emma’s ironically, though, it is the few lationship that’s kept secret for fear her fears and her divided loyalty Last Dance,” also written tender moments with her brother, between her ill husband played it won’t be accepted. There’s the

by Scott. Set in Oahu, it centers coming out of a military son who, by Steve Whitney and the dashing Lowry, played by Kaina Allard-Maaround the Whitney family and General Justin Patterson played by honey, where she shows she does the changes facing them brought much to the dismay of his father, have a heart and you sense she is gay. There is a fatal crash. There’s Rod Green. Cullen takes over this on by World War II. It reflects in has a gentle spirit. But that spirit is a self-serving daughter who cares role. It is hers. She is not acting. part Scott’s experiences as a boy not allowed to come out and by for herself more than she seems to Despite the difficulties, Eudora growing up on Kauai during the Whitney stays strong and you find the end, her character in the final war. It is a time, as the play makes care about anyone else. scenes is practically demon-posAt the center of all this turmoil is yourself cheering for her. clear, that changed Hawaii forever sessed, her sweet, sunny smile reAverie Soto (who also is a Eudora Whitney, played by Jenniand characters often wish they placed with a furious frown. Soto, fer Cullen. While there are 10 roles, reporter at The Garden Island) could go back to the Hawaii of in her first stage performance on it’s her performance that makes or commands the stage well and if old.

Kauai, displays great range. breaks Matilda’s Waltz. She’s almost there is a second actor this play Let’s talk about the story and Steve Whitney, who plays Whit, hinges on, it is her. Her character, always on the stage, and this is a characters.

Peggy, is pretty much completely spends much of the first scenes It’s a compelling story with chal- good thing because she rises to languishing in his bathrobe and the challenge. She holds the story unlikeable, a pouting brat with lenges and conflicts and colorful pajamas, mostly bed bound and together as it transitions from one a mile-long mean streak who characters. Consider, there’s an suffering from an illness. However, believes she deserves whatever affair outside of a marriage. There’s scene to the next. She is the conshe wants and delights in tossing late in the play he becomes a stant, from start to finish. You can an ailing husband. There’s an ancentral figure. His rage toward his insults at her mother. Perhaps gry father. There’s an interracial re- sense her frustration, her doubts,

son’s sexuality is a powerful scene.

He delivers his lines with authority and kindness as he comforts and defends his wife (unaware of her affair) and welcomes a single mom and baby into his and Eudora’s home. By the end, he is Matilda’s Waltz unexpected anchor, a man set in his ways, beliefs and actions. Eudora and Whit, despite wave after wave of setbacks, find strength in each other’s arms.

Cast members Issac Worth and Tani Ishino are the star-crossed lovers Dan and Miyako. They don’t get a lot of stage time, but when they do, it is the best of scenes. The play opens with these two, so it’s important they draw the audience in early. They do.

Other cast members, Green, Allard-Mahoney, Chad Dellatan as Mr. Tanaka and Claudia Cowden (who played Emma in Emma’s Last Dance) as Mrs. Tanaka, hold the spotlight when asked to do so. Emily Thronas, as Julie Thronas, appears in the final scene, but her glance and comment make it clear what she thinks of Peggy and earns a chuckle from the audience.

And finally, credit must go to director and writer Scott for sharing such a story with the community.

The overall theme, a family faced with a changing Hawaii because of the war, hits close to home for many on Kauai.

They would rather go back in time, but can’t, so they push ahead. Scott wants us to know that hope and love can win out.

And at the end of Matilda’s Waltz, they do.

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