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IN THIS ISSUE: 2. OUT & ABOUT:

Top picks for the week

3. ENTERTAINMENT:

Kuana Torres-Kahele concert

4-5. DINING OUT KAUAI:

Anahola Cafe

6. BOOK REVIEW:

‘All About China’

7. CHECK DA SCENE:

Cultural Exchange Festival

OUT & ABOUT: TOP PICKS FOR THE WEEK TODAY SATURDAY FINANCIAL EMPOWERMENT 8:30 A.M. TO 3:30 P.M., SHERATON POIPU Financial empowerment for women conference to learn about the psychology of wealth, budgeting, starting a business and more. 245-5959, $25 registration free includes breakfast and lunch BIRTHDAY ASSEMBLY 8:30 A.M., WILCOX GYMNASIUM, ISLAND SCHOOL Song and dance will commemorate the 39th birthday celebration for Island School.

HANAPEPE ART NIGHT 6 TO 9 P.M. Enjoy this town’s culture, meet artists, enjoy food and visit the bookstore. This is a Friday night not to be missed.

SUNDAY WELLNESS EXPO 9 A.M. TO 5 P.M., KAUAI WAR MEMORIAL CONVENTION HALL Learn about being your best and being inspired to feel fantastic. $5 or $7 for both days PAINTING PARTY 3 TO 5 P.M., PATRICK CHING’S KAI OCEAN ART SHOW, CHING YOUNG VILLAGE Paint a small acrylic painting. Free.

COMMUNAL GARDENING 4 TO 6 P.M., ST PAULS EPISCOPAL CHURCH, KEKAHA Join the Kekaha Community Garden membership for two hours of food, fun and health.

KEIKI DAY 9 A.M. TO 1 P.M., NA AINA KAI BOTANICAL GARDENS Play in Jack’s fountain, explore the jungle tree house, and many kid-friendly features of our Children’s Garden. Cost is $10. 828-0525 WELLNESS EXPO 9 A.M. TO 5 P.M., WAR MEMORIAL CONVENTION HALL Learn about being your best and being inspired to feel fantastic. $5 or $7 for both days MISS GARDEN ISLE SCHOLARSHIP PAGEANT 6:30 P.M., KCC PERFORMING ARTS CENTER Six young ladies vying for the 2016 Miss Garden Isle crown. The title earns eligibility for its wearer to advance to the Miss Hawaii pageant on Oahu later this year. $30/door, $25 advance

MON TUE AEROBICS CLASSES 8:30 A.M., ALL SAINTS GYM Carol Yasutake is having aerobics classes on Monday, Wednesday and Fridays. Class fee is $12. 822-3817

TAX PREPARATION 8:30 TO 10:30 A.M., LIHUE NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER AARP TaxAide begins its season of preparation of 1040 tax forms. Bring all documents, first come, first serve.

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UNCORK YOUR CREATIVITY 5 TO 7 P.M., PATRICK CHING’S KAI OCEAN ART SHOW, CHING YOUNG VILLAGE Painting class with Patrice Pendarvis. $50.

KAUAI BUILDING AND DESIGN TOUR 8 A.M. TO NOON Several custom homes in Poipu and Kukuiula will be open to the public. Meet experienced building professionals who will answer questions on buying, building and designing.

AWARDS AND INSTALLATION GALA 5:30 p.m., Kauai Marriott Resort and Beach Club Kauai Filipino Chamber of Commerce awards and installation gala with speaker Captain Bruce Hay of PMRF. 651-9139

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MARRIAGE BUILDING CLASS 7 P.M., CALVARY CHAPEL LIHUE AND HANAPEPE LIBRARY Love and Respect free classes can help good marriages become better and struggling marriages become good.

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UNDERSTANDING YOUR BUSINESS FINANCIALS 5:30 TO 8 P.M., KAUAI COMMUNITY COLLEGE, OCET BUILDING #105 The workshop is designed for business owners and managers who are not bookkeepers/accountants to better manage their business. $25.

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‘Our culture will live on’ Kuana Torres-Kahele to perform Feb. 5 concert

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fresh lei making, ukulele and guitar to over 200 students in Tokyo, Kyoto and Osaka.

“I want to know our culture will live on, after the Hawaiians are gone,” he said.

Teaching and performing hula is one way Kahele is perpetuating Hawaiian culture.

“It’s the interpretation of the people’s heart,” he said.

Originally from Hilo, Kahele got his start in hula when he was 6 years old.

“My parents put me in a class, and I’ve been performing hula ever since,” he said.

But when he was 13, Kahele took a break from the dance floor to try his hand as a halau musician.

In 1995, Kahele and fellow Hilo native Kehau Tamure formed the group, “Na Palapalai,” which JENNA CARPENTER is considered to TGIFR!DAY be one of the G most popular Hawaiian music Contributed photo groups to date.

Kuana Torres-Kahele will perform at the Kauai Museum Feb. 5. uana Torres-Kahele’s mission is to preserve Hawaiian culture.

“I want to make sure it stays pristine,” he said. “Hawaii is popular beyond the shores, but people only know what they see on TV and YouTube.”

Kahele, who tours the world performing hula songs, also owns

several international schools that highlight the true culture of Hawaii. He teaches voice, haku mele, mele hula,

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Almost 20 years later, Kahele released his first solo album, “Kaunaloa,”which won

“Album of Year” and “Song of the Year” at the Na Hoku Hanohano Awards that same year.

Kahele has performed on the Mainland, Europe and Asia. He spends a small part

of his year on his native Hilo, he said.

Of all the places he’s been, Kahele enjoyed Japan the most.

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‘Best in backyard dining’ Pizza just one addition at Anahola Cafe

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n Tuesday, there will be a new place to get your pizza and you’ll have it in your hands in just a few minutes.

Anahola Cafe is right off the highway in Anahola Marketplace, which makes it an easy stop for passersby.

The cafe closed its doors in December to add a new pizza oven, and now it’s gleaming in the corner of their certified kitchen. It zaps full pizzas with 600 degrees of heat and in three-and-a-half minutes — which can produce

about 35 pizzas in an hour.

They might need that speed if the turnout for their pizza practice night last week is any indication of how the public feels about the new addition to the cafe.

That night, kitchen staff members were polishing up the skills they’d learned from an Alaskan pizza professional Robin Danner, executive director of the homestead community development corporation, brought in to teach them the trade.

“We were learning how to make

it and I just decided to post something to Facebook letting everybody know, hey, free pizza,” Danner said. “Everyone was excited.”

In no time, they had about 50 community members gathered in their new outdoor seating space, which they affectionately have coined “The Anahola Lounge.”

That space has been added since December as well, and will be debuting a jam stage for local bands.

“It will be a practice stage, open Photos by Robin Danner to any bands that want to practice,” Laci Norbriga tests her skills at the Anahola Cafe, where more than 30 pizDanner said. zas were given away to community members.

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JESSICA ELSE TGIFR!DAY While witnessing some original island music-making, diners can take advantage of the cafe’s original menu, with saimin and local favorites, or dive into one of the café’s new 10-inch pizzas, with traditional toppings.

“We’ll be adding special pizzas, like the Anahola Supreme, which is basically your meat lovers’ pizza, once we’ve got everything down,” Danner said.

The plan is for Anahola Cafe to be a place to grab a slice after a beach day with no need to kick the sand off your feet before sitting down. Basically, Danner said the cafe is aiming to be “the best in backyard dining.”

Anahola Cafe is operated by the homestead community develop corporation,

which is the nonprofit arm of the Anahola Hawaiian Homestead Association.

Their goal is to be a training center for the food and beverage industry, Danner said. Once they open on Tuesday, the cafe’s operators will be bringing on 12 young people who want to learn how to work in the industry.

The cafe’s certified kitchen is also open for area vendors.

“We bring in interns who learn how to work in the restaurant industry, but for those that are eating here, it’s no different than any other restaurant,” Danner said.

Cafe hours are 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. Tuesday through Sunday, with pizzas served hot and fresh from 4 p.m. until closing.

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book is presented in a manner that is accessible to practically everyone. It is also visually appealing to little ones while an adult reads to or along with, and yet is still filled with enough substance that adults will find themselves interested as well.

Upon our first perusal, there were CYNTHIA & ED JUSTUS facts we had no idea about. Each SPECIAL TO TGIFR!DAY colorful page offers something fun, exciting and educational. Not only appy New Year … again! Chiare there songs to sing and crafts to nese New Year is just around make as the title promises, but we the corner, Feb. 8 to be exact. also learn about both ancient and Living in 2016 may sound futuristic, modern Chinese history, their myths, but for the Chinese calendar 2016 building methods, many festivals, sounds very archaic! For those followtheir language, health practices, art, ing their calendar, it will soon be the games, cuisines, family life and tradiyear 4714! So, with a culture whose tions, and even recipes you can make! modern calendar has been around Especially here in Hawaii, where nearly three millennia longer than ally brought us her books. Her book Chinese influence has had a lasting our Gregorian calendar, it can make is a very attractive and engaging inimpact in the history and culture of one wonder what other fascinating troduction into the basics of Chinese the islands, this book is a great Chidifferences does this long-established culture and history. It is excellently nese New Year gift for those special culture have to offer? illustrated by Lin Wang and published someones who love to learn! by the high-quality company Tuttle.

We were fortunate to meet the Even though her target market is author of “All About China: Stories, ••• young people around late-elemenEd and Cynthia Justus are owners Songs, Crafts and More for Kids,” Allitary through middle-school, the of The Bookstore in Hanapepe. son Branscombe, when she person-

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available at the gift shop, she added.

Continued from page 3 Kahele, whose mother lives on Kauai, is no stranger “The delicious food, the to the island. He has hospitality of the people, performed at the Kauai Muthere’s nothing to not like seum four times and comes about it,” he said. to Kauai twice a month to Kahele will return to teach halau. He has also Hawaii for a Valentine’s Day released a hula album dediconcert. On Feb. 5, 5:30 p.m. cated to Kauai. The album is to 6:30 p.m., Kahele will be part of a six-part series, and performing a “Love is in the each CD is dedicated on an Air” concert at the Kauai individual island. The project Museum on Rice Street. started in 2014 with the Tickets are $15, and can release of “Hawaii Keawe,” inbe purchased at the Kauai spired by Hawaii Island. The Museum. Seating is limited, final CD, called “Oahu,” will be and tickets will be sold un- released in September. til the day of the concert, “I went to the islands said Lyah Kama-Drake, and enabled myself to be education and event coor- inspired by the culture,” he dinator. said. “There’s no traditional Proceeds go to the songs-everything on the museum, and CDs will be albums are brand new.”

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ponsored by the Hawaii Minyo-Buyo Association in cooperation with the Japan Minyo-Buyo Renmei, the USA-Japan Minyo Cultural Exchange Festival took place on Kauai over the weekend.

Todd Takahashi of Honolulu said the festival brings together minyo dance groups from around the country and Japan to learn from Japanese instructors as well as each other.

“Our farthest group comes from Minnesota, and

we have groups here from California, and other states,” Takahashi said. “Additionally, we have minyo groups from Oahu and Maui coming to Kauai. This is the first time we have had everything take place on Kauai.”

Pearl Shimizu of the Kauai East Minyo Kai said the groups gather each year, but it’s usually on Oahu. The festival included performances at the Kukui Grove Center, workshops, and a gala at the Kauai Marriott Resort and Beach Club.

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