TGIFr!day by The Garden Island Newspaper

Week of Friday, August 15, 2014 | Vol. 2, No. 33

Grinds & Da Kines For Your Weekend

‘Chasing Ice’ One of the films featured at ‘The Best of Angkor Wat International Film Festival’ 1 p.m. Saturday at KCC

RUMFEST • WAIPA MANGO FESTIVAL • ‘THE GIVER’ Out & About, Island Calendar and much, much more!

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IN THIS ISSUE: 2. OUT & ABOUT:

Top picks for the week

3. EAT, DRINK, ENJOY: RumFest

4-5. DINING OUT KAUAI: Santa Maria Style Barbecue

6. FLICKS:

‘The Giver’

7. FAMILY FUN:

Waipa Mango Festival

8-9. CHECK DA SCENE: Monday Market

10. FILM FEST:

The Best of the Angkor Wat

11. MUSIC CALENDAR

OUT & ABOUT: TOP PICKS FOR THE WEEK FRI SAT SUN SLACK KEY & GUITAR CONCERT 4 TO 6 P.M. HANALEI COMMUNITY CENTER $20. ISLANDWIDE YOUTH RALLY 5:30 P.M. KAUAI WAR MEMORIAL CONVENTION HALL The event is planned by youth and youth leaders from a network of churches. The theme for the event is “Come As You Are.” The planning team is preparing for an awesome night that will be drug-free and smoke-free. Prizes from Kauai businesses will be distributed, including a brand new surfboard. ART NIGHT 6 TO 9 P.M. HANAPEPE TOWN Meet local artists and gallery owners, enjoy live music and food.

CRAFT FAIR 8 A.M. TO 2 P.M. KAUAI VETERANS CENTER SNORKEL FOR A CAUSE 7:30 TO 10:30 A.M. MORGAN’S POND Help keep Morgan’s Pond clean. Bring swim masks, goggles, snorkels. FILM FESTIVAL 1 to 10 p.m. Kauai Performing Arts Center Mental Health Kokua and Surfrider presents, The Best of the Angkor Wat International Film Festival. Three films, along with a talk story with Dr. Gary Greenberg. $25 all event pass. CD RELEASE PARTY 5 TO 9 P.M. NAWILIWILI YACHT CLUB, NAWILIWILI SMALL BOAT HARBOR Morningstar Blues by Terry Low CD release party. Live music, potluck. Musicians encouraged to play and participate during open mic sessions. 6525392

JILL LANDIS CELEBRATION 3:30 TO 5:30 P.M. TAHITI NUI LUAU ROOM Jill Marie Landis, New York Times and USA Today bestselling novelist, is celebrating the publication of “Too Hot Four Hula,” Book 4 of the Tiki Goddess Mysteries from Bell Bridge Books. Autographed books will be available for purchase. Pupus are free and there will be a nohost bar. PILGRIMAGE OF COMPASSION 1 TO 4:30 P.M. LAWAI INTERNATIONAL CENTER Meditative pilgrimage of peace, compassion, healing, walk the path of the 88 Shrines with Shakuhachi Grandmaster Riley Lee, Taiko Kauai drumming opens the event. ‘WHISKEY-O’ 9 A.M. CHURCH OF THE PACIFIC The Irish Band, “Whiskey-O” will be leading morning church worship.

THU FARM FAIR 6 TO MIDNIGHT VIDINHA STADIUM Music, entertainment, rides, puppet show, fruit and vegetables show, petting zoo, crafts, food booths and more. $5 adults, $4 seniors, $2 children.

Kauai’s Irish band, “Whisky-O” will be leading worship at the 9 a.m. church service at Church of the Pacific on Sunday.

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he culinary expertise of Sheraton Kauai Resort Chef Roger Liang will be on parade for a good cause Saturday. The resort will be holding its second RumFest at RumFire Poipu Beach to benefit the Kauai Humane Society and celebrate National Rum Day.Â The event will feature Hawaii-made rums, island music and heavy pupus from the resortâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s signature restaurant, RumFire Poipu Beach.Â Featured libations will include Kauaiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s own Koloa Rum and Old Lahaina, Maui Rum and Sammyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Beach Bar Rum. Over 15 varieties will be available. â&#x20AC;&#x153;When we sat around and started to brainstorm about food items that would pair perfectly with rum, the first thing that came into mind was jerk spiced chicken,â&#x20AC;? said Liang. â&#x20AC;&#x153;With its Jamaican roots, we made it our own by sourcing out local organic chicken, and using local fresh herbs for the salsa verde, and of course by pairing it with fine local rums.â&#x20AC;? He added that the explosion of flavors in the dish come from spices such as Hawaiian Red Salt, Cloves, garlic, Hawaiian Chili pepper,

brown sugar, paprika and cayenne pepper. Organizers are expecting 200 attendees who will also be offered spicy lemongrass chicken with green papaya salad, grilled pork belly with rum-spiked poha berry jam, seared ahi tataki with lilikoi shrimp salsa and blackened mahi mahi with roasted corn and heirloom tomato relish.Â Desserts provided will include Koloa Rum pineapple upside down cake, flourless chocolate cake bites with rum-spiked cherries and li hing mui pineapple fruit cups.Â Live local entertainment will be provided throughout the event by musical performers Santiago Soto and the Steps.Â A silent auction to benefit the Kauai Humane Society will also be held during the festivities. A little over $7,000 was raised last year.Â Ticket prices for the RumFire at RumFest are $50 and include a chance to win a variety of door prizes. The event,Â to be held at the resortâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s open-air Ocean Courtyard, begins at 6 p.m. Info or to make a reservation, call 742-4786 or visit www.sheraton-kauai.com.

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Original Santa Maria Style BBQ on Kauai

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he Diaz family grew up eating Santa Maria Style Barbecue and has brought the 150-year-old California tradition to Kauai. Art Diaz, his wife, Joanne, and their three children lived in Santa Maria, California. Art Jr. and Jared helped their father with his construction business. On Friday nights, the family went to Central City Farmers Market in the town center and danced to music, looked at art and ate legendary barbecue. The roots for the barbecue began in the Santa Maria Valley on the Central Coast of California. Vaqueros, or Mexican cowboys, worked on cattle ranches in the valley and were given tri-tip by ranch owners. The ranch hands slow-cooked the off-cut beef

Photos by Daniel Lane

Above: Tri-tip sandwich with caramelized onions, fresh salsa, green salad, chili con carne and rice. Right: Brandon Madeiros turns chicken while Art Jr. watches.

directly over wood coals, transforming the tough meat into smoky succulence and creating a cult following. Art and Joanne moved to Kauai in the early 1990s. Jared moved here in 2002, where he met and married Lenney. When the economy tanked in 2008, Art Jr. joined his family on Kauai. Missing the food of their home, the Diazes were inspired to open Recessions Original Santa Maria Style BBQ. The name is a nod toward the economic downturn

and the family keeps prices low so people can enjoy filling meals. “It’s our own style and something you can’t find anywhere else on Kauai,” Art Jr. explains. “We’re not Texas barbecue. We’re not Memphis barbecue. We have our own sweet style.” There is no restaurant. It’s not even a food truck. It’s a $10,000 custom made grill with wheels. For now, Recessions Original Santa Maria Style BBQ is only available at special events such as Old Town Kapaa Art Walk on the first

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Saturday of every month and the Annual Coconut Festival held this year on Oct. 4-5. I caught up with them Aug. 2 at Heiva I Kauai. Oak and hickory coals smoldered under the grill, which was topped with about 10 marinated tri-tip roasts. They have been cooking for about 45 minutes. Chicken breasts, boneless pork ribs, hot dogs, French bread and a tray of sliced onions also fill the grill, along with corn, which is in season and rows of shucked ears blister from the grill’s heat. Jared turns a hand-cranked wheel, which is attached to a heavy gauge chain, and raises one of the grill tops. There is one on each side of the trailer and this enables him to control how much heat reaches the meat. Sliced open, the tri-tip and ribs have a nice, pink smoke ring around their edges.

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Above: (Back, from left) Brandon Madeiros, Jared Diaz, Lenney Diaz, Art Jr. Diaz, Joanne Diaz holds Midori Diaz and Art Diaz (front left) Pepper Diaz, Nicole Riveira, Constance Madeiros. Below: Tri-tip roasts are marinated overnight and grilled for 45-minutes.

Art Jr. makes fresh salsa and chili con carne, which are traditional side dishes. Tri-tip Plates ($10) and Pork Plates ($10) are served with chili over steamed rice, salsa and a green salad with tomatoes, feta cheese, dried cranberries and Italian dressing. For the

sandwiches ($8), caramelized onions are put into French bread, the meat is piled on and it’s topped with salsa. Jared grabs an ear of corn from the grill with a pair of tongs. Just before serving, he dips it in a pot of melted butter and sprinkles it with their Magic Dust spice blend. I take a bite of the sweet corn with charred bits and butter gets all over my face. Warm kernels pop in my mouth. The corn, combined with tender meat that is smoky and juicy, is the best of summertime. rrr Marta Lane, a food writer on Kauai since 2010, offers farm to fork food tours and is the author of Tasting Kauai: Restaurants -

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‘The Giver’ alters book for softer tale

n agreeable young adult riff on Orwell — via “Logan’s Run” — topped with the kind of magic-transformative baloney that passes for an ending in too many otherwise-fine Hollywood adventures, Phillip Noyce’s “The Giver” greets a man-made Utopia with an eternal question: “If you can’t feel, what’s the point?” Lois Lowry’s 1993 Newbery Medal-winning source novel has been substantially altered here, mostly in ways that nudge it toward other chosen-one teen fantasies set in restrictive futuristic worlds (“Divergent” being one of the most recent). The changes, which include making the book’s 12-year-old hero old enough to make tween viewers swoon (he’s played by 25-yearold Aussie Brenton Thwaites), surely enhance marketability, even if they sand some edges off the tale. The presence of Jeff Bridges

and Meryl Streep in supporting roles will help draw some attention from grown-ups who don’t know the book, but while the film may see enough success to justify follow-ups (Lowry has written three sequels), this franchise won’t come close to competing with “The Hunger Games.” Thwaites plays Jonas, who lives in a world in which color, unpredictable weather and interpersonal conflict have been excised and members aspire to perfect Sameness. Memories of mankind’s unruly past have been erased, known only to a single Receiver of Memory (played by Bridges). Upon their ritualized graduation from childhood, the Chief Elder (Streep) doles out appointed roles to Jonas and his peers. Good buddy Asher (Cameron Monaghan) will pilot one of the many flying drones that watch over citizens and

politely inform them when they’re breaking a rule; sweet Fiona (Odeya Rush) will work in the Nurturing Center, caring for newborns. Jonas, who already secretly realizes he sees things others can’t, will inherit the

Receiver’s role, studying with his predecessor until he’s ready to advise the Elders. If much of Ed Verreaux’s production design has a deliberately generic feel, Receiver’s home office lives up to the

revelations that will transpire there. An atrium-like library in a small bunker, it’s built on “The Edge” and looks out on the cloud bank separating this world from Elsewhere, the place (ahem) that old folks go when they have reached the end of their careers. Here, Bridges’ Receiver becomes the eponymous Giver, sitting in mind-meld sessions with his pupil and allowing the young man to experience all the sensations and knowledge denied other citizens. This process of eye-opening is easily the film’s highlight, and Thwaites is appropriately awestruck by his first telepathic encounters with color, excitement and love. (In a much-hyped, flashback-ish cameo, Taylor Swift helps introduce Jonas to music.) Noyce is unsurprisingly capable in the short action sequence during which Jonas confronts his old schoolmates and makes his escape. But while Noyce is

building suspense, cutting between Jonas’ flight and the peril of his loved ones back home (Streep is wasted as the heavy, enforcing conformity on those tempted to follow Jonas), the screenplay (credited to Michael Mitnick and Robert B. Weide) is preparing to let him down. With the exception of the psychic sessions between Jonas and the Giver, everything about this scenario is grounded in the physical world; order is maintained not by some ancient magic, but by technology, pharmaceuticals and old-fashioned authoritarianism. But (no spoilers here) the hurdle Jonas eventually faces is more akin to the enchanted object that a wizard-battling hero can simply smash to break the spell enslaving his kingdom. Wham-bam, no need for feel-good scenes of the peace he has brought to his fellow peasants.

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Mangoes & music

angoes and music may seem like an odd pair, but for those at the Waipa Foundation, the combination is an organic one. The result is the organization’s Waipa Music and Mango Festival, an annual event that features food demonstrations, crafts from local artisans, and live music from local artists. The combined festival will make its second comeback this weekend beginning at 11 a.m. Sunday at the Waipa Foundation’s Halulu Fishpond. “The strong support of our island community and our shared delight in homegrown music — and mangoes — has helped to grow the festival into a major summer celebration,” said Kalen Kelekoma, special programs manager at the Waipa Foundation on the North Shore. But the two key elements of the festival, he said, matured and grew separately over time. The concept for a Mango Festival, Kelekoma said, arose from a mango grafting class that Yossi and Kuuleialoha Johnson began teaching about four years ago at the Waipa Foundation. “They wanted to do another grafting class, and Yossi and Kuulei are super crazy about mangos, so they’re like, ‘Let’s have another grafting class,

and hey, do you want to do a mango festival around the grafting class,’” Kelekoma said. From there, the seed was planted, and in 2010, the first Mango Festival was held at the Waipa Foundation. “It was super low key, and I think we had about 200 people show up — we didn’t do any advertising and it was the first time that we did an event,” Kelekoma said. “We invited a couple of our farmers … and we had a few food vendors or two in the class who did the food demonstrations.” In the years since then, Kelekoma estimates the August festival routinely attracts about 1,400 people. The festival, he said, took on another life of its own last year, when the organization canceled its Waipa Music Festival because of inclement weather and combined it with the Mango Festival.

“We decided to combine it because we were kind of on a roll, so we just renamed it the Waipa Music and Mango Festival,” Kelekoma said. “From there, it stuck — it caught on with people. It’s a great combination.” This year, the festival will feature live musical performances from Mike Keale, Na Pali, the Waipa Serenaders, Anahola native Kainani Kahaunaele and Na Hoku Hanohano Award-winning musician Jon Osorio from Oahu. Food demonstrations will also feature chefs from several Kauai restaurants, including Powerhouse Creamery, Hanalei Pasta and Black Dog Farms. A traditional recipe contest will also be held in four categories: dessert, entrée, pickled mango, and jams and jelly. Tickets are $10 for adults and $1 for keiki between 3 to 18 years old. Info: kalen@waipafoundation. org or 826-9969.

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‘Chasing Ice,” an award-winning documentary about climate change, is one of three featured films during Saturday’s ‘The Best of the Angkor Wat International Film Festival,’ which begins at 1 p.m. at Kauai Community College.

Film Festival Saturday at KCC Proceeds to benefit Mental Health Kokua, Kauai Surfrider

ilms about the environment, surfing and the world’s quietest place will be featured Saturday during a film festival in Puhi. The Best of the Angkor Wat International Film Festival, presented by Mental Health Kokua, runs from 1 to 10 p.m. at Kauai Community College’s Performing Arts Center. “There is a general interconnectedness between them all,” Robert Zelkovsky, chair of the Surfrider Foundation Kauai Chapter, said of the featured films. The festival begins at 1 p.m. with “Chasing Ice,” an

award-winning film about climate change. In the film, environmental photographer James Balog deploys revolutionary time-lapse cameras to capture a multi-year record of the world’s changing glaciers, according to the synopsis. “His hauntingly beautiful videos compress years into seconds and capture ancient mountains of ice in motion as they disappear at a breathtaking rate,” it reads. At 3 p.m., “Storm Surfers 3D” will take viewers inside the hunt for the biggest waves in the Great Southern Ocean. “Storm Surfers 3D is an epic,

character-driven adventure documentary following two best friends on their quest to hunt down and ride the biggest and most dangerous waves in Australia,” according to the film’s website. The 1 and 3 p.m. film showings cost $10 each. The final festival slot begins at 7 p.m. and features a talk by TED Talks presenter Dr. Gary Greenberg and a showing of “The Quietest Place on Earth,” a film by the award-winning filmmakers of “Bhutan: Taking the Middle Path to Happiness” and “When The Mountain Calls.” A photographer and filmmaker

with a Ph.D. in biomedical research, Greenberg creates new ways to capture the spectacular landscapes that are hidden from everyday perception inside

grains of sand, human cells and flower petals, according to his biography on Ted.com. Using high-definition, three-dimensional light microscopes,

Greenberg makes the miracles of nature tangible, exposing their hidden details. Zelkovsky said the three featured films, together, have to do with finding the quietest place inside each of us. “It has to do with nature,” he said of festival. “It has to do with, I think, the search for the value of nature, and the truth in nature.” The cost of the 7 p.m. talk/ film slot is $20 per person. All-access passes are available for $25. For more information visit www.kauai.surfrider.com or call Robert Zelkovsky at 822-4893.

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ISLAND CALENDAR

compassion, healing, walk the path of the 88 Shrines with Shakuhachi Grandmaster Riley Lee, Taiko Kauai drumming opens the event.

MONDAY 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

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4 to 6 p.m.

Hanalei Community Center IslandWide Youth Rally 5:30 p.m. Kauai War Memorial Convention Hall The event is planned by youth and youth leaders from a network of churches. The theme for the event is “Come As You Are.” The planning team is preparing for an awesome night that will be drug-free and smoke-free.

SATURDAY A Pathway Through Time

9 to 5 p.m.

Kauai Christian Academy A group of experts and trail advocates will hold a free public workshop about ancient Trails and why are they important.

RumFest 6 p.m. RumFire Poipu Beach A array of pupus, rum tasting stations, silent auctions, music and more. $50. Snorkel for a Cause 7:30 to 10:30 a.m. Morgan’s Pond Help keep Morgan’s Pond clean by joining this cleanup. Film Festival 1 to 10 p.m. Kauai Performing Arts Center Mental Health Kokua and Surfrider presents, The Best of the Angkor Wat International Film Festival. There will be 3 film showings, along with a talk story with Dr. Gary Greenberg. $25 all event pass. 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. $10.

The Kauai Farm Bureau Fair opens Thursday 6 p.m. to midnight. Enjoy food, entertainment, games, rides. Craft Fair 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Kauai Veterans Center CD Release Party 5 to 9 p.m. Nawiliwili Yacht Club Morningstar Blues by Terry Low CD release party. With live music and a potluck. Musicians encouraged to play and participate during open mic sessions. 652-5392 Hula Class 10 a.m. Hawaiian Cultural Center, Coconut Marketplace Halau Hula O Leilani is having hula classes for ages 12 and up. 651-0682

SUNDAY Jill Landis Celebration 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. Tahiti Nui Luau Room Jill Marie Landis, New York

Times and USA Today bestselling novelist, is celebrating the publication of “Too Hot Four Hula,” Book 4 of the Tiki Goddess Mysteries from Bell Bridge Books. Autographed books will be available for purchase. BIRTHDAY BOOK SIGNING 3 to 6 p.m. Birdies Cafe, Kalaheo Book signing and birthday celebration for Bettejo Dux, author of “Children of the Extinction.” Waipa Music & Mango Festival 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Halulu Fishpond Home grown live music, hands-on activities, mango tastings, local artisans and food inspired by the summer mango harvest. $10. Pilgrimage of Compassion 1 to 4:30 p.m. Lawai International Center Meditative pilgrimage of peace,

VA Rural Health Outreach 10 a.m. Kilauea Parish Hall Veterans who are not currently using VA services are encouraged to stop by and check-out what the Kauai VA Clinic can provide. Veterans are asked to bring a legible copy of their military discharge paper unless already enrolled with VA. Farmer Markets There is a Koloa Sunshine Market at noon at Koloa Knudsen Ball Park side parking lot off Maluhia Road and a Monday Market at 3 p.m. in the parking lot behind Kmart at Kukui Grove Center. 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.

TUESDAY Family Dinner 5 to 8 p.m. Common Ground 828-2192 Weight Watchers 5:30 p.m. St. Johns Episcopal Church

Hula Class 4 p.m. Koloa Neighborhood Center Halau Hula O Leilani is having hula classes for ages 4 to 12. 651-0682

WEDNESDAY Weight Watchers 6:30 p.m. Church of the Pacific Weekly Weight Watchers VA Rural Health Outreach 9:30 a.m. Hanapepe United Church of Christ Veterans who are not currently using VA services are encouraged to stop by and check-out what the Kauai VA Clinic can provide. Veterans are asked to bring a legible copy of their military discharge paper unless already enrolled with VA.

QiDance And QiForce 4 to 6 p.m. Kapaa Neighborhood Center New dance fitness and functional fitness workout classes. QiDance 4 to 5 p.m. and QiForze 5 to 6 p.m.

THURSDAY Farm Fair 6 p.m. to midnight Vidinha Stadium Music, entertainment, rides, puppet show, fruit and vegetables show, petting zoo, crafts, food booths and more. $5 adults, $4 seniors, $2 children. Business After Hours 5 to 7 p.m. Courtyard Marriott Kauai Chamber of Commerce, the fabulous 50s. Put on your blue suede shoes, get dressed in your favorite 50’s style and play and win prizes.

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