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Week of Friday, Novemeber 13, 2015 | Vol. 3, No. 46

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IN THIS ISSUE: 2. OUT & ABOUT:

Top picks for the week

3. THEATER:

Garden Island Film Festival

4-5. DINING OUT KAUAI: Garden Island Grille

6. BOOK REVIEW:

‘A is for Apple’

7. CHECK DA SCENE:

OUT & ABOUT: TOP PICKS FOR THE WEEK TODAY SATURDAY MARY POPPINS 7 p.m. Kauai War Memorial Convention Hall Hawaii Children’s Theatre presents Disney’s “Mary Poppins,” the Broadway Musical. $10 advance, $12 ticket outlets, $15 door. 246-8985 NORTH SHORE DANCE PARTY 7 to 10 p.m. Church of the Pacific From 7 to 8 p.m. enjoy tango music and 8 to 10 p.m. there will be a variety of swing, ballroom and Latin music. $5, kauaidancing@gmail.com VINTAGE BOOK SALE 3 to 6 p.m Kauai Historical Society.

Veterans Day Parade

MON WHO ARE WHALES 6 p.m. Hanapepe Library Learn about whales in this lecture series. 337-9977

ON THE COVER:

Films: ‘The Haumana’ (inset) Papa Mau

“This tragedy

DATE MATE 5 to 8 p.m. Lemongrass Grill Seafood and Bar Kauai Date Mate, a speed dating event for singles age 40 and up, 5-minute date with every participant; free drinks and pupu and a freestyle mixer. $39 ticket, $70 for two. UNKNOWN ARTISTS FAIRE 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Kalaheo Neighborhood Center. THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING 6 p.m. KCC Cafeteria “This Changes Everything” is a film and an epic attempt to re-imagine the vast challenge of climate change. Free admission

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

WED BEACH CLEANUP 4 p.m. Nukolii Coastline Surfrider beach cleanup.

SUNDAY SERVICES HONORING ROYALTY 7:30 a.m., 9:30 a.m. St. Michael and All Angels Church Service honoring Queen Emma and King Kamehameha IV. HAWAIIAN SLACK KEY FESTIVAL Noon to 6 p.m. Aqua Kauai Beach Resort Hawaiian Slack Key Guitar Festival features 15 artists in the Slack Key Guitar. $10, 226-2697 OHANA MASS 11:45 a.m. St. Raphael’s Church The Kauai Vicariate will be celebrating its Ohana Mass. The goal of this mass is that those with disabilities and their families are able to celebrate mass together. There will be fellowship, potluck and refreshments following the Mass. 742-1955

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KNOW YOUR NENE 6 to 7:30 p.m. Hanapepe Public Library Dr. Christian Vlautin, coordinator of the Kauai Nene Conservation Plans will give a free lecture on the Hawaiian Nene goose.

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KAUAI FILMMAKERS SHOWCASED THIS MONTH

Three films to be shown at various venues throughout November

auai residents and visitors will have an opportunity to see feature films that highlight Hawaii, Micronesia and other parts of Polynesia in the inaugural Garden Island Film Festival. The festival will be held at various venues from Nov. 20 to Nov. 22 including the Westin Princeville Ocean Resort Villas, Kauai Community College and Waimea Theatre. The doors open each evening at 5 p.m. A pre-screening of a film by a Kauai Community College student will be presented at 6 p.m., followed by a feature film with the respective director introducing his work in person. The evening will end with a discussion about the film. The festival will open on Nov. 20 on the Great Lawn at the Westin Princeville Ocean Resort Villas with a free showing of “Papa Mau” directed by Na‘alehu Anthony. Attendees should bring a beach chair or mat. Refreshments and snacks will be available for sale.

by Keo Woolford will be shown at the Kauai Community College Performing Arts This documentary examCenter. Admission for this ines the influence of Mau film is $5. Piailug, a native of the tiny In the award-winning film, Micronesian atoll of Satawal, Jonny Kealoha is the charwho was responsible for ismatic host of a struggling reviving the art of non-inPolynesian luau show in strument navigation in Waikiki. Polynesia. To everyone’s surprise, Relying solely on his including his own, he is knowledge of celestial appointed as the successor bodies, ocean currents and to teach a high school boys’ natural markers, Mau guided hula class when his former the traditional sailing canoe kumu hula (hula instrucHokulea in 1976 on a voyage tor) passes away. Kealoha from Hawaii to Tahiti, a becomes as much a student journey that had not been as a teacher due to the high completed in over 600 years. demands of leading the For Native Hawaiians, hula dancers to a significant this expedition signaled an cultural event and, at the exodus from the cultural same time, rediscovering doldrums of the previous the sanctity of the culture he century. This remarkable previously abandoned. journey shares Mau’s story of On Nov. 22, the Waimea reinvigoration, reconciliation, Theatre will host the closing and redemption of a people night feature, “Visions in as the master Way finder and the Dark: The Life of Pinky teacher who breathed life Thompson” directed by Ty back into the sails of Polyne- Sanga. The cost of admission sia’s voyaging tradition. is $5. The following night, Nov. Pinky Thompson fought 21, “The Haumana” directed hard against the stigma JESSICA ELSE TGIFR!DAY

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of being an inferior Native Hawaiian, and felt that the key to the Hawaiians’ ultimate survival was having a multi-faceted cultural identity. He championed a health care system, created invaluable educational programs and strengthened the pride of native Hawaiians. Thompson also envisioned an ideal Hawaii that no one else saw and fought for it from the battle fields of Normandy, down the steps of the U.S. Congress to his

Visions in the Dark: The Life of Pinky Thompson

humble home in Niu Valley. His legacy lives on through his work as a social worker and community leader. Pre-sale tickets for “The Haumana” and “Visions in the Dark” are available until 2 p.m., Nov. 20, at the Kauai

Visitors Bureau in Līhue and Waimea Plantation Cottages Will-call service for tickets is also available through the Office of Economic Development. To request this service, send an email to rfrancisco@ kauai.gov by 2 p.m,, Nov. 20.

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GRILLE OF DREAMS David and Sheri Trentlage open restaurant in Old Koloa Town

he thing about creating your dream business is, well, it’s hard work. Really, really hard work. Up at dawn, last to leave, and no days off, by the way. David and Sheri Trentlage are doing just that in the heart of Old Koloa Town. The owners of the recently opened Garden Island Grille, formerly Tomkats, are knees deep in fulfilling their lifelong wish of running their own restaurant, but it’s taken a ton of commitment to get there.

TOM HASSLINGER TGIFR!DAY Artwork from the adjacent Christian Riso Fine Arts gallery entices people to the entrance of Garden Island Grille in Koloa town.

Like gutting the whole place and building it anew, for starters.

“That was the easy part, David said, “even though we thought it was hard at the

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Sheri Trentlage, manager and owner of Garden Island Grille, mixes up a mai tai using Koloa Rum Company rum in Koloa town.

time.” But after seven months of renovation, the restaurant opened Oct. 5 with a distinctly Hawaiian flair. Local maple, Purple Heart, sapala and bamboo tables, fences and bartop give off a unique outdoor feel. And you are almost outdoors, as there’s an open roof courtyard lush with greenery in the middle of the place, though you have

to get there by walking through a shopping center. “We really invested a lot in this place to make it nice and clean and fresh and new,” Sheri said. “We actually built from the dirt floor up — everything.” The menu the Michigan couple wanted was quality food at reasonable prices. Familiar staples like club sandwiches with soft bread, fish tacos, fish and chips and

burgers, cost around $20. It opens at 11:30 a.m. And dinner starts at 5 p.m. and runs until 11 p.m. Live music starts at 8 p.m. and is usually contemporary Hawaiian music played in the very courtyard that gives the locale that outdoor yet secluded feel. “We just made a decision to do it right,” said Sheri, who, like her husband, traded in their former

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Chef Robert Kanahele sautes a batch of Kauai Shrimp for an order at the Garden Island Grille in Koloa town.

professional careers to run a restaurant for the first time — his in plumbing, hers in real estate and health care. The look they went for is old Hawaii, and the menu is local, too. They buy local dmeats, Kauai Shrimp and herbs and fruit around the island as well. Hawaiian beers on tap? You bet, including Primo. The wooden bar itself is so smooth and curved it almost looks like a perfect surfboard. In the back, past the tables where the chairs from the original Coco Palms are, is a wall dedicated to all the films and TV shows filmed on Kauai, complete with photos, so it’s borderline museum-esque. “I wanted to own a restau-

rant and bar my whole life,” said David, who traded 30 years of plumbing for the opportunity in March after visiting Kauai several times. “I love to know people are having a good time and if they’re doing it in your establishment, awesome.” Tomkats was known for being a late night spot. The

Garden Island Grille will keep late night bar hours after it’s fully staffed and celebrates its grand opening later this month. It will stay open until 1 a.m. Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Meantime, the couple is logging long hours as they build their team — they have 22 on staff but are looking for three or four more, either chefs, bartenders or waitstaff. “So far, 98, 99 percent of the time we’ve been able to do that,” Sheri said of delivering a satisfying meal and experience to customers since being introduced to the Koloa community.” “We’ve met a ton of good people,” David said. The Garden Island Grille is at 5204 Koloa Road. Info: 742-8887.

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GIVE AN ‘A’ TO THIS BOARD BOOK CYNTHIA & ED JUSTUS SPECIAL TO TGIFR!DAY

appy Holidays everyone! A humorous note: this week’s review has more words in it than the book itself! In this past year, one of our resident customers requested this book, “A is for Apple,” by Tiger Tales for their toddler, and it is now one of our best-selling board books! “A is for Apple” is a fun and versatile way to start educating your young ones who are learning the alphabet. With holiday shopping here, this is a perfect gift for the toddlers on your list! Visually, this “trace-and-flip” book is pleasing to the eye with a soft sky blue painted back-

ground, as if it were created from the brushstrokes of an impressionist master, joined together with an assortment of fun and whimsical visuals to represent each letter, all illustrated lovingly by Georgie Birkett. Just look at that bee on the cover. It couldn’t be happier! And its joyful demeanor sure is contagious! What’s more is that the book also engages the tactile senses and motor skills in many different ways! The letter on each page is grooved perfectly for curious fingers, and has directional arrows that they follow showing how to make each letter. Then there is the “lift-

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the-flap” showing another wonderful picture and another word for that letter, such as “K is for Key” on the page and when you lift the flap there is a kite! This can also make for a great guessing game with toddlers before they lift the flap! And our own Bookstore cat, Celeste (a.k.a. The Boss), was thrilled that “C is for Cat” (the flap shows Car but we just didn’t show her!). In its ninth printing and still going strong, this is one board book you won’t be “board” with anytime soon! ••• ED AND CYNTHIA JUSTUS ARE OWNERS OF THE BOOKSTORE IN HANAPEPE.

aybe the Peanuts gang hasn’t been on the big screen in decades because they’ve had so much success on the small one, with specials like “The Great Pumpkin” and “A Charlie Brown Christmas” that have been annual TV traditions since the 1960s. Thankfully, “The Peanuts Movie” isn’t just a smallscreen special writ large. The filmmakers take advantage of their cinematic scope with a bigger story, more sophisticated animation and effective use of 3-D that gives new depth to the Peanuts world. But the characters loved by generations of fans — Lucy, Linus, Snoopy, Woodstock and beloved blockhead Charlie Brown — are as charming and timeless as ever. It’s been 35 years since the last Peanuts film, 1980’s “Bon Voyage, Charlie Brown (and Don’t Come Back!). The gang’s other theatrical outings were “A Boy Named Charlie Brown” in 1969, “Snoopy, Come Home” in 1972, and 1977’s “Race for Your Life, Charlie Brown.” “The Peanuts Movie,” written by the son and grandson of Peanuts creator Charles

SANDY COHEN ASSOCIATED PRESS M. Schulz, doesn’t cover new thematic territory, but it doesn’t really need to. Relying on 50 years of character development, the Peanuts gang stays true to their original selves — there’s no new edge or post-modern snark in the mix. The central concepts (be honest, be yourself, do your best) are as gentle as the curves of Charlie Brown’s silhouette. There are two simultaneous stories at play in the film: one set in the “real world” of Charlie Brown and his friends, and a more fantastical tale of Snoopy as his alter-ego, the Flying Ace. While “The Peanuts Movie” may lack the wink-wink wisdom aimed at adults often found in Pixar releases, it retains the wholesome appeal of those stalwart TV specials. The 3-D makes it look modern, but the Peanuts’ sweetness is satisfyingly old-fashioned. “The Peanuts Movie,” a Twentieth Century Fox release, is rated G. Running time: 92 minutes. Three stars out of four.

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CELEBRATING VETERANS LIHUE — Charlene Dorsey, event chair for the annual Kauai Veterans Council Veterans Day parade, said it is important that we never forget veterans. Saturday, hundreds of people turned out to honor the Vietnam veterans, this year’s theme of the Veterans Day parade which returned to Lihue and provided a “homecoming for Vietnam veterans they never got” after serving our country. Athena Abadilla, a senior at Waimea High School and

a member of the Waimea JROTC program, made her debut as Miss Kauai Veteran, another program chaired by Dorsey, and was escorted by her father, Dan Abadilla, a veteran and retired from the Kauai Police Department. Reviewing officer Brigadier General Bruce Oliveira delivered the keynote address, welcoming the Vietnam veterans and their families and friends, and commending them for never turning their back on the nation that turned its back on them.

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