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Week of Friday, January 16, 2015 | Vol. 3, No. 3

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

3. ART: Kauai Society of Artists

4-5. DINING OUT KAUAI: Tony’s Pizza

6. FLICKS: ‘American Sniper’

7. ART: Souper Sunday

8-9. CHECK DA SCENE: First day school

10. THEATER: ‘Beyond Therapy’

11. FAMILY FUN: Makahiki

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OUT & ABOUT: TOP PICKS FOR THE WEEK FRI SAT SUN ‘THE LAST FIVE YEARS’ 7 TO 9 P.M. PUHI THEATRICAL WAREHOUSE A performance by Kauai Community Players, a two-character musical that chronicles a complete cycle of a relationship. The male character starts the story from the beginning and the female from the end until they meet in the middle. $15 to $25 MUSIC OF THE HEART 7:30 TO 8:30 P.M. ST. MICHAEL AND ALL ANGELS CHURCH Kauai Voices, the island’s 40-voice auditioned choral ensemble presents a remarkable musical journey of love. $12 advance, $15 door

MAKAHIKI 9 A.M. TO 5 P.M. KAPAA BEACH PARK Ancient Hawaiian games, Kauai-made crafts fair, cultural demonstrations, displays, food and more. 635-9028 AUDITIONS 1 TO 4 P.M. Kauai Community Players is hosting auditions for “Prodigal Father.”

A light-hearted comedy about sailor/novelist father who locates his son he hasn’t seen in years. Dottie Bekeart 822-7842 KSA ENTRY DAY 11 A.M. TO 5 P.M. KSA GALLERY, KUKUI GROVE CENTER Kauai Society of Artists membership show entry day. artkauai@gmail.com

WE GET ‘EM 4 P.M. KILOHANA PLANTATION A concert to benefit University of Hawaii athletics. Food, music, drinks and prizes. $15 students, seniors and $25 general admission.

635-8800 CHURCH ON THE BEACH 9 A.M. SALT POND BEACH PARK Reaching our community with God’s message of hope and love.

POLIHALE BEACH Join the Sierra Club on a hike from Polihale Beach to Queen’s Pond. 3.5 miles round-trip walk. 246-9067

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Kauai Community Players “The Last Five Years” 7 to 9 tonight at Puhi Theatrical Warehouse.

MON TUE WED HOALOHA DAY 9 A.M. TO 1 P.M. NA AINA KAI BOTANICAL GARDENS Experience the formal gardens and scroll the 12 acres of tropical landscape. $10, 828-0525 E KANIKAPILA KAKOU 6 TO 9 P.M. KAUAI BEACH RESORT, JASMINE BALLROOM 2015 theme of “Music into the Community” is heralded in by the five ‘ukulele clubs from Kauai.

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BALANCE OF NATURE 5 P.M. KAUAI COMMUNITY COLLEGE, CAFETERIA. NTBG’s director of Science and Conservation Dr. Lorence will discuss Southeast Asia as a region of great ginger diversity and what is being done by botanical gardens to save these plants from extinction.

FOOD FUN 7 P.M. ISLAND WORSHIP CENTER A night of education, health and wellness awareness.

822-9273 NUTRITIONAL PROGRAM 7 P.M. Short film followed by samples, talk with certified-nutritional adviser Jane Riley. Free. Ongoing event, call for location. 212-1451

JUDY COLLINS 6:30 P.M. KAUAI COMMUNITY COLLEGE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER Lazar Bear presents Singer-Songwriter and Folk Music Icon Judy Collins. $65 gold circle, $45 general HISTORY LECTURE 6:30 P.M. ISLAND SCHOOL, MAIN HALL

History lecture by Chuck Blay on Kauai’s ancient history.

742-8305 LBA MEETING 7:30 TO 9 P.M. DUKE’S CANOE CLUB The Lihue Business Association will be talking about a creative technology center with speaker Alan Tang.

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Eve Solomon shows “Magic Carpet� which has been accepted to the KSA Membership Show.

Call for entries Jan. 30 to March 13 show at Lihue Gallery T

he Kauai Society of Artists is seeking new members via entries for its annual KSA Membership Show. “We’re all getting old, the KSA board is getting old,� R. Eve Solomon laughed. “So we’re trying to go out in the community and get younger people, people who are little shy about showing their work to the public.�

Solomon said KSA’s dream would be to get the younger, up-and-coming artists to join their group.

The 2015 show runs from Jan. 30 through March 13 at the KSA Gallery at Kukui Grove Center in Lihue. Entry day, however, is 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday. “This is where people join the organization and their dues are good for the whole year,� Solomon said.

Artists can enter one 2-D or 3-D artwork in any media,

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No work previously shown in a KSA show is eligible.

KSA member artists may enter one piece only which will be accepted and exhibited. Entry fee is $10.

Solomon said that because the show is non-juried, with no limitations or theme, artists feel they can be experimental and vibrant.

Last year, the show featured 65 pieces in various media, including paintings and sculptures. Viewers will be invited to vote for their favorite piece or pieces. The

cost is $1 per ballot and individuals are welcome to vote more than once. “It is judged by a jury of one’s peers,� Solomon said. On March 6, six People’s Choice Awards will be announced during a closing reception from 5 to 8 p.m.  Last year’s People’s Choice Award winners were: first place, Roy Scruggs, “The Promises;� second place, Louda Larrain, “La Vie en Rose,� third place, Sheadon Ringor, “Piercing�; fourth place, Robb Jones, “Gecko Stalking�; fifth place, Andrea Peeler, “A Boat without a Paddle�; sixth place, John Howard, “Free.�

Gallery hours are 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily, and 8 p.m. on Fridays.

For more information visit wwwkauaisocietyofartists. org, or call R. Eve Solomon at 822-1603 or email Revesolo@gmail.com.

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Welcome to Tony’s Pizza Lihue restaurant changes name, adds menu items

CELEBRATING 50 YEARS IN THE HEART OF HANALEI BAY

NEW DINNER ITEMS

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auai has long had Paco’s Tacos named after Paco Aguilar, co-owner.

So it makes sense that Kauai now has Tony’s Pizza, named after Tony Aguilar, Paco’s brother and co-owner of both eateries.

And the real benefit goes to island residents and visitors — great tacos and great pizza.

“We love what we do, so we’re always happy,” said Tony, the eldest brother.

The name of the cozy, clean and warm restaurant at Harbor Mall was changed last week, after 14 months of ownership, from Rocco’s Pizza to Tony’s Pizza. The reason it took so long was simply because of how busy the brothers were with the

popular Paco’s Tacos.

With both operations running smoothly, it was the right time for making the name change.

“Now, we can focus on Tony’s Pizza,” Tony Aguilar said.

The offerings are many.

Let’s start with what may be one of the best deals on the island, a $2 slice of pizza. That’s difficult to find anywhere and on a tropical island makes it that much more of a find.

Of course, there are medium and large pizzas, for an affordable $15 and $17, (toppings are another $2 each) and bread sticks for $10. For a little more money, you might want to consider ordering one of the many specialty pizzas,

too. Other choices include hot wings, sub sandwiches, salads, pasta bowls and calzones, a new addition, in the $7 to $10 range.

“My favorite is the garden pesto,” Tony said.

If you’re in the mood for dessert, they have Dave’s ice cream, too.

Tony said when he and Paco took over the pizza shop, they made some changes to the crust, the sauce and shook up the recipe a bit. They’ve added pasta items, given diners the choice of adding chicken or shrimp to the dishes, and also have gluten-free items on the menu. They recently introduced pasta Alfredo.

They try to have different daily specials, too.

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Photo by Bill Buley

Tony Aguilar, left, and brother Paco Aguilar show off one of the pizzas at Tony’s Pizza.

“It’s pretty simple, our menu,” he said.

A moonlight mural by a friend depicting a scene from Italy adds to the ambiance.

Tony and Paco have more than 20 years of experience in the food service industry.

They’ve prepped, cooked and served in restaurants, including five-star hotels, since their teenage years. They came to Kauai eight years ago from Salt Lake City to help a relative open a Mexican restaurant. After working

for him for three years, they decided to venture out on their own.

Today, they have Paco’s Tacos in Kapaa and Kilauea, with plans to change the lunch wagon in Kilauea into a lunch house like the one in Kapaa.

The brothers, Tony said, share a love for soccer and a combination of skills that allows their businesses to succeed. They work hard, provide good food and quick service for a fair price, and try to be innovative with their menus.

“Me and my brother, we get along real well,” Tony said.

He recalled when they opened Paco’s Tacos, they used the kitchen at Rocco’s Pizza to prepare some of the food. Paco, after finishing his work for the taco stand, pitched in with the pizzas.

He quickly mastered the art of tossing pizzas.

“He learned really fast,” Tony said.

Rocco’s owners were looking to sell their business and soon, Tony, a Kapaa resident, and Paco, a Lihue resident, offered to buy it and now employ seven there.

Tony said it’s hard work operating both taco and pizza businesses, but they have learned to balance their time and talents between both.

Photos by Dennis Fujimoto

Above: Cassandra Costa removes a baked pineapple and ham pizza from the oven at Tony’s Pizza. Far left: Francisco Aguilar Jr. prepares a pizza pie for an order at Tony’s Pizza.

“We work together really well,” Tony said.

Their focus, he said, is on local people and what they would like on the menu.

“We’re really grateful to be here on Kauai,” he said.

Tony’s Pizza is at 35001 Rice Street, Suite 107. It is open 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. daily and offers delivery service in the Lihue area.

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REVIEW ASSOCIATED PRESS JAKE COYLE

‘American Sniper’ is quintessential Eastwood

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mere six months after releasing the Four Seasons drama “Jersey Boys,” Clint Eastwood has again lapped his younger directing colleagues with his second film of 2014 and his best movie in years. “American Sniper” is quintessentially Eastwood: a tautly made, confidently constructed examination of the themes that have long dominated his work.

“American Sniper,” based on Navy SEAL marksman Chris Kyle’s best-selling memoir, is both a tribute to the warrior and a lament for war.

Shirking politics, the film instead sets its sights squarely on its elite protagonist (Bradley Cooper), a traditional American war hero in an untraditional war.

Here is an archetypal American: a chew-spitting, beer-drinking Texas cowboy

who enlists after the 1998 bombings of American embassies with resolute righteousness and noble patriotic duty. The once wayward Kyle finds his true calling in the Navy, and he heads to Iraq with a moral certainty that no amount of time served or kills will shake. He’s there to kill bad guys — “savages” he calls them at one point.

And kill he does. With 160 confirmed kills, Kyle is believed to be the most lethal sniper in U.S. history.

The film starts with a remarkable scene of Kyle poised on an Iraq rooftop with a young boy holding a grenade in his scope. Eastwood and screenwriter Jason Hall flashback to Kyle’s upbringing, where his father taught him about “the gift of aggression” and the honor of defending others.

It’s the first of many cuts between far-away battle

and the personal life Kyle leaves behind. Shortly before shipping out, he weds Taya, played by Sienna Miller, who gives a refreshingly lively take on a usually one-dimensional character. She’s more cynical than her husband, who returns to their growing family between tours, his head increasingly stuck in Iraq.

He’s much like a terse and weary Western hero torn from home; an early shot through the front

door of their home evokes the famous final image of John Ford’s “The Searchers.”

Instead of a Stetson, Kyle wears a baseball cap, turned backward when he takes aim. “I’m better when it’s breathing,” he tells an early instructor after shooting a snake.

Cooper is extraordinary as Kyle. He has beefed up, adopted an authentic Texas drawl and endowed Kyle with a commanding swagger. The war steadily takes

its toll on his psyche, even if he’d never admit it. When Kyle’s younger brother, passing him on a Tarmac in Iraq, curses the war, Kyle looks him at with genuine befuddlement.

Eastwood has, of course, long been drawn to stories about violence — necessary if regrettable — in meting out justice and the cost to those that carry its heavy burden. The question is if the mythical rending of “American Sniper” fits its more complex basis of reality. Kyle, who died tragically in early 2013, belies easy summary. He, for one, boasted of shooting looters in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. His clarity of mission could also be said to mirror the mistaken convictions of politicians that put him in Iraq.

But I believe Eastwood’s purpose here is to depict a

straight arrow in the fog of a questionable war. (A pivotal late scene takes place in a gathering sand storm that obliterates the frame in clouds of dust.) The soldier is true; the war — confused, bureaucratic — isn’t.

The film’s narrow perspective, centered on Kyle, is both the best and worst thing about it. “American Sniper” may be a much needed tribute to the sacrifice of American soldiers, but it’s lacking context. Few Iraqis here are seen as anything but the enemy.

When Eastwood delved into World War II in “Flags of Our Fathers,” his switch to the other side of the battlefield for “Letters From Iwo Jima” remains one of the most profound moral decisions in moviemaking.

As fine as “American Sniper” is, it’s in need of a companion piece.

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Photo by Dennis Fujimoto

Susan Pittman of Clayworks at Kilohana looks over a completed soup bowl earmarked for this year’s Souper Sunday.

Soup’s on early

Cultural Demonstrations Community Displays Ono Food Kauai Made Craft Fair Awards A Fun Family Day

Fundraiser for lunch program set for Feb. 1

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oup is early this year, said Susan Pittman of Clayworks at Kilohana, while forming a bowl on her wheel Tuesday.

“People are already starting to call in reservations,” Pittman said. “It seems like it was not so long ago that we did the last one.”

Souper Sunday, a fundraiser coinciding with the National Football League Super Bowl Sunday, is scheduled 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Feb. 1 at the Clayworks at Kilohana.

Diners can enjoy a specially created soup from Gaylord’s at Kilohana in a handmade ceramic soup bowl.

“This timing allows people time to come in and enjoy soup before the game, or pick up soup while heading to the game,” Pittman said.

“We even have people who

stay a bit and enjoy the soup.”

Approaching 20 years of serving soup and raising funds to benefit the Lihue Lutheran Church Mobile Munchies program, Pittman said this year she is offering traditional bowls and a new bowl featuring a smaller foot, taller body, and twotone clay.

“This is for those people who have a growing collection of the same style of bowls,” Pittman said. “This is new, but diners are still able to use chopsticks (via the notched “holders”).

Pittman is one of 10 core volunteers at the Lihue Lutheran Church Mobile Munchies program, which serves 400 sack lunches weekly. The lunches are distributed to Nana’s House in

Waimea, the YWCA Women’s Shelter, the Boys & Girls Club and the Salvation Army.

“Every Thursday, I go to the church and make peanut butter sandwiches before coming to the shop,” she said. “You would be surprised at how fast I can make a PB sandwich.”

She said the group usually gets help from visitors.

“This is a simple and wonderful way for people to help,” Pittman said. “Enjoy a bowl of soup on NFL Super Sunday while helping the community in a wonderful way.”

For reservations, call 246-2529 during Clayworks’ hours, which are from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday and 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday and Sunday.

Residents 5 years and older may compete in multiple events This is an alcohol/drug free event

This project is sponsored by Office of Hawaiian Affairs, working to improve the lives of the Native Hawaiian community.

If you have a disability & need assistance call Julie at 808-635-9028 or email: makahikikauai@gmail.com

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Sharon Milan, Katrina Martinez, Amiyo Parrish

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Tiffany Delgado, Cielomaiel Gano, Maundy Dasalla, Aljade Delgado, Alexandra Lontoc

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early 2,000 students hit the campus of Kauai Community College Monday for the first day of the spring semester. “One of the exciting things this semester is the expansion of the bookstore,� said Cammie Matsumoto, KCC public relations director. “The bookstore is starting to serve meals and

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Noel Mock, bookstore manager, said the store will be open from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Monday through Thursday because those are the days with night classes. Friday hours are 8 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.

The bookstore is closed on the weekends.

The meals are bento style prepared by the culinary arts department students and delivered by the cafeteria. There is an expanded offering of cold drinks and a cappuccino machine. “Everything was delivered Monday,� Mock said. “We’ll have to watch how everything goes from here.�

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“Beyond Therapy” performers during a rehearsal.

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Laughter is the best medicine Women In Theatre ‘Beyond Therapy’ opens Jan. 30 with dinner theater

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inding love can be tricky business.

Sometimes, the harder a person looks, the harder it can be to find. Therapy can help, or at least writer Christopher Durang certainly thinks so. Beginning Jan. 30, couples and singles are welcome to experience Durang’s razor-sharp comedy “Beyond Therapy,” hosted by Women In Theatre.

Taking place in 1981, the performance tells the story of Bruce and Prudence, two young individuals seeking romance through the help of their psychiatrists, who recommend personal ads for their patients. Although the doctors are tying to be helpful, it doesn’t take long to realize they are as wacky as their patients.

“It was the first play that I had ever read alone in a room by myself and laughed out loud almost continuously, it was hysterical,” said Nadya Wynd, a WIT member who is directing the play.

“It’s very universal because everybody wants to experience love and everybody wants to figure out who they are in the world.”

Having spent her life professionally helping others, Wynd said she’s enjoyed directing “Beyond Therapy” and found a strong sense of realism in the play’s acts and characters.

“I started out as a counselor, social worker and a teacher before I went into the entertainment business and I was actually doing this kind of work in the 80s and I knew people like these therapists and Wynd I knew people like these characters trying to find love and figure out life and who they are,” she said.

The event will be at Hukilau Lanai Restaurant at 520 Aleka Loop. The performance opens Jan. 30 and will be performed Jan. 31, Feb. 1, 6, 7, and 8. Doors open at 5:30 p.m., with a dinner buffet to follow at 6, which will contain Hawaiian food and desserts. The show starts at 7 p.m.

“I think people are going to come out feeling very satisfied both physically and emotionally because it’s so funny,” said WIT President Melissa Mojo. “It’s a little edgier, you might see this in Honolulu, you’d definitely see this in New York but you’re not going to necessarily see it on Kauai. So we’re offering something that’s unusual.”

Tickets are $60, which includes dinner and the show, with group seating available although seating is limited.

Tickets may be purchased at womenintheater.org. Reser-

vations are required at least 48 hours in advance and due to its adult themes, the show is recommended for audiences 16 and older.

“I’m very fortunate to have some of the best actors on Kauai and we’re having an incredibly fun time with this play,” said Wynd. “The actors; one of their challenges is not to laugh when their rehearsing because they watch their fellow actors and they’re just so good and so funny.”

Wynd is also working on “The Festival in the Sahara: A Celebration of Nomadic Culture,” a documentary about the ancestral culture of Africa’s nomadic people whose lives are threatened by globalization, climate change and environmental destruction.

“My approach to theater is that it’s a story,” Wynd said.

“Michael Mead says, ‘Stories are the oldest living school for human kind,’ so whenever we watch something on television, or a film, or read a book or a play or anything like that, we’re experiencing someone’s version of life and what their beliefs are, what their values are ... I think it puts people in touch with their own stories, with their own emotions, their own desires, their wounds, their disappointments, maybe dreams and hopes they let go.”

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Let the games begin DARIN MORIKI TGIFR!DAY

Annual event honors native Hawaiian tradition

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n the days when alii nui (rulers) and alii aimoku (high chiefs) ruled the Hawaiian Islands, the four-month long Makahiki season between November and February served as a key period of respite for most native Hawaiians.

Wars stopped. Tributes were paid. Friendly, competitive games were held. And work in the fields ceased.

“It was a time to replenish and renew and let the fields replenish themselves,” Julie Kanealii, event coordinator for Ahahui Kiwila Hawaii O Moikeha, said. “Once the season was over, the planting would begin again.”

To carry on that cultural tradition, the Kilauea-based native Hawaiian civic club will hold its free, second Ka Moku O Manokalanipo Paani Makahiki on Saturday at Kapaa Beach Park, where locals and visitors alike compete in traditional native Hawaiian games played during the Makahiki season.

Ten games will be featured, including haka moa (cock fighting), ulu maika (stone bowling), oo ihe (spear throwing), moa pahee (dart sliding), pa uma (standing arm wrestling), uma (arm wrestling), kukini (running), pohaku hooikaika (stone throwing), and hukihuki (tug-of-war).

Awards will be given for each event. There will also be cultural demonstrations, community displays, a Kauai-made craft fair and food.

“It’s a connection to the past because we’re doing the same thing that our Hawaiian ancestors did,” Kanealii said. “It also promotes a healthy lifestyle by getting out and exercising and enjoying the camaraderie of the games.”

Kanealii said her idea for the communitywide Makahiki dates back to 1991, while she served as the coordinator for the Parent-Community Networking Center at Hanalei School.

With the help of late Kumu Hula Peter “Pohaku” Nishimitsu, she organized the first Makahiki event between Hanalei and Kilauea schools in 1992 — a tradition that still continues almost 23 years later.

Her idea for a larger Makahiki for the community, however, resurfaced in 2013 when her Hawaiian civic club, Ahahui Kiwila Hawaii O Moikeha, received their

charter from the Association of Hawaiian Civic Clubs.

“We had been talking about it for a couple of years to do a bigger one for the community and we said, ‘Let’s go for it — we’ve got to start somewhere,” Kanealii said.

After receiving a Hawaii Tourism Authority grant, the civic club partnered with the Hanalei Community Center, Hale Halawai Ohana O Hanalei, to put on the inaugural Ka Moku O Manokalanipo Paani Makahiki last year.

Registration/check-in begins at 7 a.m. and gates open at 9 a.m.

Info: 635-9028

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