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IN THIS ISSUE: 2. OUT & ABOUT:

Top picks for the week

4-5. ENTERTAINMENT: Carnival

6. REVIEW:

Kauai Chorale

7. TUNES: CD release

8. MOVIE REVIEW:

OUT & ABOUT: TOP PICKS FOR THE WEEK TODAY SATURDAY NIGHT OF HOPE 7 P.M., ALOHA CHURCH Night of hope, healing and miracles with Evangelist David Herzog. 6450111 ‘THE RAINMAKER’ 7 P.M., PUHI THEATRICAL WAREHOUSE Kauai Community Players performance of “The Rainmaker.” $20 tickets. SLACK KEY GUITAR 4 TO 6 P.M., HANALEI FAMILY COMMUNITY CENTER $20 tickets, $15 children and seniors.

‘CARNIVAL’ 7 P.M., KCC PERFORMING ARTS CENTER Kauai Community College Music Department presents “Carnival.” SPA DAY 9:30 A.M., ESTATE ON KALIHIWAI RIDGE IN KILAUEA Zonta Club of Hanalei’s 9th annual Luxury Ladies Spa Day. $125 includes facial or massage, lunch, silent auction, entertainment, art and exercises. www.zontaclubofhanalei.com

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SUNDAY NIGHT OF HOPE 7 P.M., ALOHA CHURCH Night of hope, healing and miracles with Evangelist David Herzog. 645-0111

MON COMMUNITY YOGA 6 TO 7:30 P.M., NAWILIWILI YACHT CLUB Hosted by the Kauai Sailing Association, weekly on Monday. Bring your own yoga mat or towel. 346-7671

‘CARNIVAL’ 4 P.M., KCC PERFORMING ARTS CENTER Kauai Community College Music Department presents “Carnival.” ‘THE RAINMAKER’ 4 P.M., PUHI THEATRICAL WAREHOUSE Kauai Community Players performance of “The Rainmaker.” $20 tickets.

TUE NATURE OF SEEDS 5:30 P.M., KAUAI COMMUNITY COLLEGE CAMPUS CENTER Free lecture on the nature of seeds by NTBG and KCC. 332-7324, ext 225

KHS GALA 5:30 P.M., LAVA’S OUTDOOR RESTAURANT AT KAUAI SHERATON Kauai Humane Society’s Paws for Celebration annual gala featuring entertainment by Makana, auction and buffet. $95. 632-0610 ‘CARNIVAL’ 7 P.M., KCC PERFORMING ARTS CENTER Kauai Community College Music Department presents “Carnival.” ‘THE RAINMAKER’ 7 P.M., PUHI THEATRICAL WAREHOUSE Kauai Community Players performance of “The Rainmaker.” $20 INTERACTIVE COMEDY & KOMBUCHA 8-9:30 p.m., Potions Kombucha Bar, Wailua Shopping Plaza, 4361 Kuhio Highway. Join Rod Soderstrom for improv scenarios. $7.50, including pint of kombucha.

WED SLACK KEY GUITAR 6 TO 8 P.M., ALL SAINTS’ SANCTUARY IN KAPAA $20 tickets, $15 children and seniors.

ANINI BEACH CONCERT 1:30 to 5 p.m. Anini Beach Pavilion #1 Group Therapy (Rick Robbins, Al Overton, Stuart Hollinger, Jerome Camposeo and Debra Drayton) with special guest, Alden. Family, friends, bring a pupu or dessert to share. KAUAI MARCH 10 A.M. TO NOON, KAPAA Kauai rallies in solidarity with the March Against Monsanto. FUN RUN 9 A.M. TO NOON, KAPAA BEACH PARK Miss Garden Isle 5K fun run, walk and/or bike. Food vendors, entertainment and prizes. $10 donation with proceeds donated to Children’s Miracle Network. 82-2496

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“Carnival” takes the audience to France in the 1920s and follows the comingof-age story of an orphan girl who joins the circus and finds romance. It’s the tale of people looking for love and searching for a sense of home, and of people who have been roughed up by life. “These characters have a little bit of damage to their psyche, but I think we can all relate,” said Greg Shepherd, director. Shepherd said he’s been waiting to produce this particular musical for just the right combination of voices and timing, and he thinks he’s hit gold.

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“It’s a good musical for solid voices and it’s a real challenge for the actors,” Shepherd said. “Plus, it’s wholesome for families without insulting the audience’s intelligence.” He said the musical is full of witty humor and the character development delivers the portrayal of real human beings with real problems and real lives to the stage. “It’s been a challenge to create that chemistry of real life and of people’s interactions in this musical,” Shepherd said. “It hasn’t been easy, but it’s been fun for the most part.” The last musical to grace the stage from KCC was “Man of La Mancha” in 2008. “Musicals take a huge amount of time and effort with the orchestra and the voices, as well as the rest of the performance,” Shepherd said. “We had to wait until the right time.” This time around,

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May 27 and 28 at 7 p.m. Curtain opens at 4 p.m. on May 22 and 29. Tickets are $15 for adults, $8 for keiki under 12 and can be purchased at Kmart, Scotty’s Music, KCC Bookstore, or Island Soap & Candleworks. Tickets are also available online at www.thecarnival.brownpapertickets. com and at the door. Info: Rick Randolph at 652-3008 or at rsrandol@ hawaii.edu.

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concert review

THERE’S NO FORGETTING MUSIC BY KAUAI CHORALE K

hen you attend a Kauai Chorale concert, you know the music will be terrific. You know the singing will be outstanding. You know the accompanist and the musicians will be excellent. And you know you’ll leave humming and smiling and looking forward to their next performance. Sure enough, that’s how it went for the group’s spring concert Saturday at the Kauai Performing Arts Center and Sunday at the St. Regis Hotel Ball. “Music is Forever” was every good as one could expect. Nearly 80 powerful voices sharing the spotlight. They poured their hearts and soul into each and every tune, from the opening number, “Let There Be Music!” to “Oceans” to “Over the Rainbow” to the closing number, “Don’t let the Music Stop.” Directed by Lois Ricciardi, these shows were bright, fun, lively and entertaining, 90 minutes of delightful songs, each with a twist to give it a sound and perspective unlike any versions before it. It never dragged. Never reached a point where you wondered if they were done. Just a crisp, engaging evening. But it was the unexpected, per-

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Kauai Chorale Director Lois Ricciardi walks across the stage near the conclusion of the group’s performance Saturday.

haps what you might call the little things, that gave these performances a bit of magic. Let’s start with the guys moving the chairs. You had to be there, but who would have ever thought three or four men setting up a few chairs and stands for musicians, or removing them for dancers between some songs, could gain such applause and become a fan favorite. Each time they rose, with

some hints from Ricciardi (“Guys?”) the crowd chuckled. Great fun. And then there was the dance. That’s right, the dance. Tim and Marsha Bradley were sure and light on their feet during their moves around the floor to “Sway.” It was simple, sweet and beautiful. And the kiss at the end, the stuff that makes even the coldest of hearts melt. Speaking of dancing, the hula

by Darlene Kaui to “Beautiful Kauai” was mesmerizing and Kaui got the curtain call she deserved. And then, there was the goodbye to Derrick Vander Meulen, Kauai Chorale president, who is leaving the island. Derrick is also a Baptist pastor and he’s been called to a new church. He and his wife, Debbie were also soloists for “Beautiful Kauai.” Derrick has been a wonderful addition to Kauai, and he will be

missed. He will bring smiles — and music — wherever he goes. The farewell he and Debbie received, along with the leis, was heartfelt. Finally, kudos to Ricciardi. She’s the perfect director for Kauai Chorale. Genuine and joyful, her easy demeanor brings out the best of each singer and it’s easy to see they were having the best of times. Yes, let there be more music from Kauai Chorale. Lots.

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challenges and a major glitch in several parts of the song was detected after recording,” he said. After more than six years of trying fix the flaw, Umezu said they were finally able to make it “acceptable but certainly not perfect.” “So, I ask of your forgiving hearts when you hear ‘Watching Over You,’ to please remember the joyful and compassionate voices of the many voices of the many singers who sang their hearts out for this endeavor,” Umezu said. The CD is dedicated to the late Ernie Pasion, co-founder and past president of the Kauai Filipino Chamber of Commerce. To purchase the CD, contact Bobby Ayonon, KFCC president, at 639-6556.

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t’s hard not to have a few biases going into “The Angry Birds Movie .” In the most cynical view of what gets made in Hollywood, an addictive app might just be at the bottom of the pile, languishing there in suspicious squalor with movies adapted from board games and amusement park rides. Comic books get away with the “it’s really about characters” justification. Even some video games have an essential story behind them. A puzzle game, though? You can’t even pretend. The clever ones use this starting point as a blank slate on which to create something that is maybe cool, unexpected, or just not terrible. Phil Lord and Christopher Miller are the current masters of this, implausibly crafting compelling stories out of the bleakest source material. “The Angry Birds Movie” doesn’t quite achieve the relative superiority of “The Lego Movie,” but it’s definitely not terrible and even

surprisingly fun and heartfelt at times. It’s the directorial debut of veteran animator Clay Kaytis (“Frozen,” ”Tangled”) and storyboard artist Fergal Reilly (“Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs,” ”The Iron Giant”), who are working off a script from “The Simpsons” alum Jon Vitti. The concept is simple: how did the angry birds get so angry? The short answer is they’re not angry by nature, more by circumstance. And at first, the angry ones are sort of the outcasts of this happy, bright little society of flightless birds and endless avian puns (“pluck my life”). The story is centered on Red (Jason Sudeikis), a loner bird who is consistently aggravated by the minor inconveniences and annoyances of life on Bird Island — like someone sneezing close to his popcorn, or a kid kicking a ball against his house. His bad luck and short temper land him in group therapy for an-

pesky pigs. Red is suspicious of their intentions, but everyone else is buying the snake oil. It’s only when the pigs abscond with the town’s unhatched eggs that the masses realize they’ve been had. The beginning is definitely the strongest, as we explore the humor and oddities of Bird Island and its quirky inhabitants. It starts to go downhill when the pigs arrive, although there is a fairly enjoyable diversion when Red, Chuck and Bomb go off in search of the mythical Mighty Eagle (Peter Dinklage) for help. By the final showdown, the plot has lost most of its narrative steam, but that’s more a disclaimer for the parents than the tots who will likely delight in the unruliness. Ultimately, “The Angry Birds Movie” does a decent job exploring the merits of anger. It’s no “Inside Out,” but it has heart and life, which isn’t too shabby for any film — app or not.

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Character Red, voiced by Jason Sudeikis, in “The Angry Birds Movie.”

ger management alongside some other volatile types like the manic Chuck (Josh Gad), the dimwitted Bomb (Danny McBride), and the bruiser Terence (whose grunts are supposedly the work of Sean Penn — an even more dubious distinction than Vin Diesel as Groot). And they all try to work through their issues with the free spirit instructor Matilda (Maya Rudolph). Meanwhile, some pigs arrive by ship.

Even typing that sentence feels about as inorganic as the actual plot development, but, “Angry Birds” has to get to a place where the birds are fighting pigs, so why not make it a colonialization parable? At first it’s just a few pigs, led by Leonard (Bill Hader) — they’re fun and have gadgets and fire and party supplies. Then more come and then even more, and suddenly Bird Island is overrun by

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hat a rousing way to wake up Saturday morning! A vigorous zumba warmup led by Anna Velasco, the familiar strains of KQNG Radio’s Ron Wiley and they’re off! More than 1,700 walkers took off on a nearly three-mile loop around Lihue, starting and ending at the Historic County Building, to raise $250,000 to

support Kauai’s nonprofits and charities. The Hawaii Lodging and Tourism Association, Kauai Chapter, led by Christina Gabriel of the Marriott’s Waiohai Beach Club, hosted the 38th annual walk around town greeted at the end by breakfast prepared by some of the island’s finest resorts. These culinary whizzes got

help from Kauai Community College, which dispersed culinary arts students into the food tents and nursing students throughout the aid stations along the course. George Thronas of the Grand Hyatt Kauai Resort and Spa served as this year’s walk chairman, turning the reins over to Jim Braman of Castle Resorts for next year’s event.

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