Week of Friday, May 15, 2015 | Vol. 3, No. 20
Grinds & Da Kines For Your Weekend
WOMEN IN THEATRE
‘ON GOLDEN POND’
ISLAND CALENDAR • BOOK REVIEW • OKINAWA FESTIVAL
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IN THIS ISSUE: 2. OUT & ABOUT: Top picks for the week
3. BOOK REVIEW: ‘Nana I Na Loea Hula’
4-5. DINING OUT KAUAI: Courtyard Kauai
OUT & ABOUT: TOP PICKS FOR THE WEEK FRI SAT SUN ‘WHO’S AFRAID OF VIRGINA WOOLF’ 7 P.M. PUHI THEATRICAL WAREHOUSE Kauai Community Players performance of “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf.”$20-25
6. ART & THEATER: ‘On Golden Pond’
7. CHECK DA SCENE: Okinawa Festival
SLACK KEY CONCERT 4 TO 6 P.M. HANALEI COMMUNITY CENTER Hawaiian slack key guitar and ukulele concert. $20 FLASH CONCERT 7:30 P.M. HANAPEPE STORYBOOK THEATRE Flash concert by Cellist Matt Haimovitz. 245-2733 LAWN AND GARDEN EXPO 9 A.M. TO 3 P.M. KAWAMURA FARM ‘ON GOLDEN POND’ 7 P.M. CHURCH OF THE PACIFIC Women in Theatre present “On Golden Pond.” $12 advance, $15 door. 635-3727
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‘HEART AND SOUL’ 7:30 P.M. KAUAI COMMUNITY COLLEGE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER Kauai Chorale Spring Concert with 70 voices featuring music that inspire, give hope and celebrate love under the direction of Millie Curtis. $12 advance, $15 door. STRINGS AND THINGS 5:30 P.M. KAUAI MARRIOTT RESORT AND BEACH CLUB, GRAND BALLROOM Kauai Philippine Cultural Center 4th annual fundraiser. 246-0147 CHARITY WALK 6:30 A.M. HISTORIC COUNTY BUILDING A chance to raise money for Hawaii’s charities. Walk with the Hawaii Lodging and Tourism Association and their allied members to help build a better, healthier Hawaii.
SLACK KEY CONCERT 3 TO 5 P.M. HANALEI COMMUNITY CENTER Multi-award winning traditional Hawaiian slack key guitar and ukulele concert. $20 JAZZ AND BLUES 4 TO 7 P.M. SHUTTERS LOUNGE, KAUAI BEACH RESORT House band includes Amit Heri, world-renowned Indian Jazz Guitarist, Paul Foti on Bass, Chris Bush on Sax and Ron Margolis, drums. 346-7095 CHURCH ON THE BEACH 9 TO 11 A.M. LUCY WRIGHT PARK Reaching the community with God’s message of hope and love. Live band playing contemporary praise and worship, entertainment, lunch and children activities.
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MON TUE WED INTERACTIVE EVENT 6:30 P.M. CHIEFESS KAMAKAHELEI MIDDLE SCHOOL BAND ROOM Matt Haimovitz performance lecture and Luna Pearl Woolf on Composition. 387-6772 FARMER MARKETS Koloa Sunshine Market at noon at Koloa Knudsen Ball Park side parking lot off Maluhia Road and Monday Market at 3 p.m. in parking lot behind Kmart at Kukui Grove Center.
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BIRD LECTURE 5:30 P.M. KAUAI COMMUNITY COLLEGE CAFETERIA Join Dr. Lisa “Cali” Crampton, leader of the Kauai Forest Bird Recovery Project, as she discusses how the evolutionary path of native birds has led to one of the world’s most distinctive and fragile animal populations. WEIGHT WATCHERS 5:30 P.M. ST. JOHNS EPISCOPAL CHURCH
SPRING CONCERT 6:30 P.M. KAUAI WAR MEMORIAL CONVENTION HALL Kauai High School Symphonic Band, Jazz Band, Ukulele Band and Chorus Spring Concert. BASKET WEAVING 8:30 A.M. KAUAI MUSEUM 90-minute basket weaving classes with Uncle Onio weekly on Wednesday. Class fee is $25 which includes admission to Museum. Reservations required. 245-6931
KICK-OFF MEETING 5 TO 7 P.M. KAPAA NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER General plan update community kick-off meeting. WOMEN LEADERS 5 P.M. COURTYARD MARRIOTT YWCA of Kauai presents 7th annual Na Wahine AlakaI O Kauai (Women Leaders of Kauai). Honorees are Donna Apisa, Carol Ann Davis, Laola Lake, Toni Torres. There will be dinner, silent auction and entertainment. 245-5959 QI GONG GOLDEN 8 1 TO 2 P.M. LIHUE NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER A beginning qi gong class on Thursdays. Free for all ages. This class promotes balancing the body for greater health, increasing vitality and radiating more energy.
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Book review: Hula, art and history of hula, from all over the islands, are presented as recipients of an art form with roots reaching back to the ancient origins of Hawaii. These contemporary artists are committed to preserving their art form CYNTHIA & ED JUSTUS through future generaSPECIAL TO TGIFR!DAY tions. Each Kumu Hula tells of their history and their ana I Na Loea involvement in the continHula (Look to the uation of the hula tradition Hula Resources Accompanied by in their own unique style. ‚ Volume II)‚“ is stunningly eloquent black and white Some speak of how they visual and rare vital cultural images of each Kumu Hula were first introduced to resource! It is a book created portrayed within the conby Kalihi-Palama Culture and text of their rich indigenous the art of hula while others share the philosophy of hula Arts Society to document culture by renowned phoand why it is necessary and tographer Shuzo Uemoto, and identify present-day still vital in preserving the hula exponents in order to “Look to the Hula Resourcvalues of Hawaii. provide a comprehensive es‚“ contains 57 interviews Some of their stories are hula resource for cultural with these living treasures of humorous, while others are and educational purposes. Hawaii. These practitioners
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very touching, but what we found the most rewarding was to see the passion, hard work, and dedication that each one of them put into their art for decades. Even some of Kauai’s own are featured, such as Leilani Rivera Bond, Oddetta Kaohikukapulani Kinimaka-Alquiza, Beverly Healani Sun Lan Apana Muraoka, and Pohaku Nishimitsu. Getting this in our bookstore is a real treat for us! So many people have shared stories of their own Kumu Hulas in this book and have been so happy to find this extraordinary treasure of a book! ••• Ed and Cynthia Justus are owners of The Bookstore in Hanapepe.
What’s coming out this week in theaters Here is a list of movies that are set to be released today in theaters: Pitch Perfect 2: The Barden Bellas enter an international a cappella competition which no American team has ever won. Pitch Perfect 2 sings in sweet comedic harmony, even if it doesn’t hit quite as many high notes as its predecessor. PG-13 Mad Max: Fury Road: Filmmaker George Miller gears up for another post-apocalyptic action adventure with Fury Road, the fourth outing in the Mad Max film series. Charlize Theron stars alongside Tom Hardy (Bronson), with Zoe Kravitz, Adelaide Clemens, and Rosie Huntington Whiteley heading up the supporting cast. R Good Kill: Thought-pro-
voking, timely, and anchored by a strong performance from Ethan Hawke, Good Kill is a modern war movie with a troubled conscience. R Time Lapse: Explore the possibilities of time travel through a machine that is
capable of taking pictures 24 hours into the future. Realizing the potential impact of the machine three friends attempt to cash in on their discovery. Unrated Where Hope Grows: Calvin Campbell is a former professional baseball player
sent to an early retirement due to his panic attacks at the plate. Even though he had all the talent for the big leagues, he struggles with the curveballs life has thrown him. PG-13 ••• Source: RottenTomatoes
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during dinner hours from 5:30 to 9 p.m. the Voyager restaurant in Kapaa is offering the Flying Lobster Buffet, which is named as a tribute to the Voyager restaurant’s former name. Each diner gets one 6-ounce North Atlantic lobster tail, and then it is an all-you-can-eat buffet featuring slow roasted prime rib, pineapple chicken, Kalau-style pork, mahi mahi and seafood pasta entrees, plus appetizers, side dishes and dessert. The price is $51 for adults, $29 for children under 12. If you haven’t been to
Voyager in a while, you’ll be excited to find that the dinner and breakfast menus are all new. The seafood options are the most popular: grilled ono, mahi mahi topped with sauteed prawns, garlic crusted ahi tuna. Edana Harrel has worked as a server at the restaurant for more than two years, and now she loves fish even though she never did before moving here. “I never used to eat sea food,” she said. “Now I love it. Everything is so fresh!” If you aren’t in the mood for seafood, Edana recom-
mends the stuffed chicken breast with boursin cheese, a 16-ounce rib steak or the pasta carbonara. Portions are large, the pasta carbonara comes in a giant bowl and can easily be shared by two. Be warned: If you ask Edana for suggestions, her enthusiasm for the menu makes it even harder to pick. “Everything is so organic that sometimes when we get our arugula, there are pieces of grass with it,” she said. The kitchen, of course, makes sure none ends up in your Kula Strawberry Salad. One thing you’ll want to
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are in Hawaii while dining at the Voyager. The dining area blends seamlessly from the outside to the upscale inside, but you could just as easily believe you are eating in a high-end restaurant in downtown Chicago. Softly-glowing pillars bathe the room in orange light and divide the room, providing a quieter, intimate experience. The hotel’s Makai Lounge offers a happy hour from 3 to 6 p.m. Drinks include the Roasted Habanero Margarita or the Lava Flow. Heineken is most popular with locals. The Voyager’s breakfast buffet is a hit, especially
with the after-church crowd. It’s $22.95 and includes and omelet station, or you can order a la carte. Try the Loco Moco – a hamburger patty on top of stewed rice with an egg sunny-side up or over-easy, topped with mushroom gravy. Or go for the Hawaiian French Toast with banana pineapple chutney. Breakfast is served from 6:30 a.m. to 10 a.m. weekdays; it is open until 11 a.m. on the weekend. The Voyager restaurant is located inside the Courtyard Kauai at Coconut Beach, 650 Aleka Loop, Kapaa.
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Golden oldie WIT’s ‘On Golden Pond’ begins tonight in Princeville
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first thought of reviving “On Golden Pond� by Earnest Thompson during the time that Women In Theatre were desperately attempting to deal with all the costumes, lighting equipment, properties, archives and etceteras that had to be lodged somewhere when Coconut Marketplace began renovations and WIT’s little theatre, Wit’s End, was dispossessed. I was packing play scripts into box after box, loathe, I have to say, to throw out any which documented the history of Women In Theatre over the more than 10 years. There were poignant reminders of past production and their successes, misadventures, friendships, and also some plays that we had thought we might
someday attempt. And there it was: just one green booklet amongst so many, but it caught my eye. Here was a play that WIT had never produced despite its enormous popularity. A play that, even in straitened circumstances, we could take “on the road� and with a strong script and a strong cast, we would once more make an audience laugh and sigh and remember — and see that Women In Theatre is still in show business! And so, Arnold Meister — well known on Kauai for his distinguished contributions to music and the theatre; Sandi O’Shaughnessy, beloved and remembered for her many fine performances, Steve Landis and Romey Curtis, refugees from the theatres of California and the U.K, and Luke Reynolds, a drama stu-
dent from Island School, will revive one of the standards of American drama, a human comedy that is always fresh, funny and faithful to the truth. “On Golden Pond� will never be relegated to the musty top shelves where forgotten plays go to molder out their existence. It remains our favorite because it so skillfully uses humor to reveal — rather than conceal — the sinews of a family. This is the love story of Ethel and Norman Thayer, who are returning to their summer home on Golden Pond for the 48th year. He is a retired professor with heart palpitations and a failing memory — but still tart-tongued and engaged with life. Ethel is the perfect foil for Norman: a happy soul, firm enough to deal with her
husband’s vagaries. They are visited by their only child, a divorced daughter, and her new boyfriend; they leave his 14-year-old son with the elderly couple. The boy quickly fits into life on Golden Pond and Norman revels in teaching him to fish, and while he introduces young Billy to the classics, Billy introduces him to teenage mores. In the final moments of the play, Norman and Ethel are brought even closer together by the incident of a mild heart attack. Time, they know, is now against them, but the years have been good ones, and, perhaps another summer on Golden Pond still awaits. Generations of theatre goers have laughed uproariously at cantankerous Norman and ruefully recognized their own families in the Thayers,
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The cast of Women In Theatre’s “On Golden Pond.� From left: Steve Landis, Arnold Meister, Sandi O’Shaugnessy, Romey Curtis and Luke Reynolds.
as they join them for a summer stay on the lake. Here is a sense of how moments of time can seem to pass slowly day by day, but also speed faster than counting, gone before we can grasp all their sweetness. See the play and seize the moment.
“On Golden Pond� will be performed as a dramatic reading at The Church of the Pacific on May 15, 16 and 17 – Friday and Saturday at 7 p.m., Sunday at 4 p.m. Tickets are available through www. brownpapertickets.com at $12; or $15 at the door. Info: 635-3727
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yrus Tamashiro, the past Hawaii United Okinawa Association president and host for the Okinawa Festival, said the theme of this year’s event is “Sumiti,” or to make an imprint. “An imprint is a time when we see what our ancestors did,” Tamashiro said. “And an imprint is what we do for our future.” The Okinawa Festival, hosted by the Hui Alu, or Kauai’s Okinawa club, opened two days of free Okinawa entertainment, including sanshin performances and
the shishimai, or lion’s dance, food, crafts, and cultural displays at the Kauai Veterans Center in Lihue. “We had the huli huli pig,” said Bev Pang, retired as the vice principal at the Kapaa Middle School. “We’re coming back for the shoyu pork Saturday.” On the menu in addition to the specials, andagi, champuru, or stir fried vegetables, Okinawa soba, yaki soba, shoyu chicken, and the pig’s feet soup beckoned attendees. The Okinawa Festival returns in two years.
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