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Rock and Roll Hall of Famer, Dave Mason, is performing Feb. 9 at Kauai Beach Resort in Lihue.

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ne Rock and Roll Hall of Famer will be “Feelin’ Alright” in Kauai on Feb. 9 during “The Very Best of Dave Mason” tour.

Dave Mason will be performing hits from his illustrious career, including classics like “Feelin’ Alright,” among other favorites, at Kauai Beach Resort.

“It’s what I love doing, it’s my passion,” Mason said. “I’ll be basically doing it until

I can’t do it anymore, or until nobody comes to the shows.”

Mason founded the legendary band, Traffic, with Steve Winwood in 1967 while still a teenager before establishing himself as a successful songwriter,

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“It’s just something I decided to do when I was 15 years old,” Mason said.

While a teen, the Worcester, England native penned the Traffic hit Feelin’ Alright

that became a global rock anthem recorded by dozens of artists including Joe Cocker, who had a huge international hit with the song.

After extensive touring

throughout the UK and Europe, Mason struck international gold with his debut solo album, Alone Together, which has sold SEE ALRIGHT, PAGE 5

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Annual fundraiser features a handmade soup bowl, available in traditional, fluted, or a saimin variety

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usan Pittman of Clayworks at Kilohana cannot believe how fast the year passed.

“It’s that time of the year, again,” Pittman said. “The National Football League Super Bowl LII is already on Feb. 4. That means we will be hosting our 23rd Souper Bowl Sunday to benefit the Lihue Lutheran Church Mobile Munchies.”

The annual fundraiser features a handmade soup bowl, available in traditional, fluted, or a saimin variety with built-in chopstick holders filled with a soup created by Gaylord’s executive chef Mark Sassone, the bowl going home with the diner.

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millions of copies since its original release. Five successful albums for the CBS/ Sony label followed, four of which received gold album certification in the states.

Mason has performed in Hawaii on and off since the 70s, developing a close connection to the islands with his part-time home on Maui.

“I’m happy to have a little footprint over here,” Mason said. “It’s a beautiful place to enjoy. It’s a little paradise, and I think everybody understands that. I don’t surf, but we’re all pretty much here for the same reasons.”

He was asleep during the ballistic missile threat alert, but said, “If it was real I would have probably gone

added. “I still have the same band, and it’s a great band.”

Dave Mason’s work and career remain linked with numerous other members of rock and roll elite, including Eric Clapton, Stevie Wonder, Michael Jackson, Fleetwood Mac, Graham Nash, Stephen Stills, Rita Coolidge, Leon Russell, Ron Wood, Jim Capaldi, Mama Watchtower,” features Mason Cass Elliot and The Spencer to the beach to watch it.”

Davis Group.

In addition to performing playing the acoustic guitar According to Mason, before Hendrix’s soaring to sold-out audiences and being a permanent staple in entrance onto the track. The things are a lot different for young musicians now than song is a favorite he perrecord collections, Mason’s forms in nearly every one of when he was growing up, unique guitar work can be with more bands, people his live shows. heard on landmark songs “I have really good players and competition. by artists such as the Rolling “If you have a passion for Stones, George Harrison and that are passionate about what they do, and we have what you’re doing and that’s Paul McCartney. a mixture of stuff that’s Dave “I’ve played with a numMason and also some Traffic ber of great people, one songs in there,” Mason said. being Jimi Hendrix,” Mason “So it’s a cool little show.” said.

“I think we were in Kauai Hendrix’s major rock about two years ago,” he standard, “All Along the ••• WANNA GO “The Very Best of Dave Mason” Tour WHEN: 7:30 p.m. Saturday WHERE: Kauai Beach Resort’s Jasmine Ballroom MORE INFO: Tickets are $45 General Admission; $65 Gold Circle.

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your dream, all you can do is pursue it.” Mason said.

“There’s no record industry any more per say, so it’s a little different in that respect.”

“But I guess, you just take a shot and go after it in hopes you get lucky and get the right breaks,” he added.

“Some people have, but it’s a crap shoot.”

The 71-year-old artist’s career spans several eras and encompasses his work as a producer, performer, songwriter and guitarist. In 2004, Mason was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for his work with the groundbreaking group, Traffic.

He says he has no idea

what makes his music so popular except that “people seem to like it.”

“I got lucky,” he said. “I just write what I feel, and whatever it was that I feel, people like.”

The concert starts at 7:30 p.m. at Kauai Beach Resort’s Jasmine Ballroom in Lihue.

Tickets are $45 for general admission and $65 for Gold Circle admission. Ticket outlets include Kauai Music & Sound in Kapaa, Hanalei Music & Strings in Hanalei, Progressive Expressions in Koloa, Scotty’s Music in Lihue, and Jacqueline On Kauai in Hanapepe.

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CONTINENT OF PAN: IS IT LEGEND? CYNTHIA & ED JUSTUS SPECIAL TO TGIFR!DAY

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airly often in our bookstore, we get asked for books (which we have) about the lost continent of Mu (or Lemuria, as it is also commonly known),

the once-proposed large landmass in the Pacific Ocean that could have connected seemingly disparate places such as Hawaii, New Zealand, Japan, Mexico, Peru, Easter Island, and many others.

The idea theorizes that at some point this massive body of land (the Pacific tectonic plate) sunk into the ocean tens of thousands of years ago, dividing up a vast and advanced culture that used to reside there, the remnants of which are

our modern-day Polynesian cultures and edges of Asia and Central/South American cultures.

Fascinating idea, right?

Author and anthropologist Susan M. Martinez, Ph. D., has penned a very interesting book entitled “The Lost Continent of Pan: The Oceanic Civilization at the Origin of World Culture”.

At 501 pages, this work is chock full of information which ties together many intriguing connections between distant societies,

and is full of illustrations and photos of artifacts of ancient history which aid in her explanations. Her proposition is that this legendary pacific continent may have a name common to many cultures: Pan! The concept of such a place having existed is tantalizing! In fact, King Kalakaua was an avid proponent of such a place having existed, he himself being a chronicler of Hawaiian myths and legends.

Cultural similarities,

religious and mythological similarities, linguistic similarities… Dr. Martinez highlights and explains them all, and even tackles the question of what might

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he lead character of Sebastian Lelio’s film “A Fantastic Woman “ is named Marina. She is a nightclub singer and a waitress. She has a boyfriend, Orlando, who is much older

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planning a trip together. She’s moving in. Life is moving along nicely it seems.

Marina is also a transgender woman, portrayed by a transgender actress, Daniela Vega. If you’ve heard of “A Fantastic Woman,” which recently picked up a best foreign language film nomination for Chile, you’ve likely heard this fact. It might even be the only thing you know about it.

What’s astonishing about the actual experience of watching “A Fantastic Woman” is how small of “a thing” it really is, and in that way perhaps one of the truest expressions of modern transgender life that we’ve ever seen in a fictional film. Marina is just Marina. She has a delicate beauty, and a cool choppy Alexa Chung-like haircut and style. On stage, she’s performs with a sultry confidence.

Off stage, she’s quieter and almost reserved, but very present, especially around

becomes an issue with a cop (who an uncomfortable doctor calls when she leaves the scene after he’s pronounced dead). A social worker, too, becomes obsessed with checking on Marina, which she continues to explain is just a matter of procedure and to ensure that she was not abused or a sex worker, but which feels nothing but Sony Pictures Classics / Associated Press invasive and inappropriate Daniela Vega in a scene from, from Marina’s perspective.

“A Fantastic Woman.”

Orlando’s family, too, is unconscionably cruel to her Orlando (Francisco Reyes).

— save for his brother, Gabo But one night, Orlando (Luis Gnecco), who seems to dies suddenly and Marina’s be the only person in the film tranquility is thrown into a empathetic to the fact that tailspin — not just from the death of her love, but from all Marina is just a human who the unnecessary and often ri- has lost a loved one.

Every day is filled with diculous complications, some the ever-present threat that bureaucratic, some purely emotional, that emerge and someone is going to be uncomfortable with her. Marina seem to stem from the fact is gracious and accommodatthat she is transgender. ing almost to a fault, both to At the hospital where the insidiously subtle kinds Orlando dies, the fact that of judgment and the more her legal name is still her outward violence and hatred. birth name and not Marina

cause such a continent to recede into the depths of the ocean.

Whether or not a lost continent existed, the notions put forward in Dr. Martinez’s book are fascinating reading!

Certainly, history has shown that many things once assumed to be too unbelievable sometimes become everyday fact!

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Orlando’s ex-wife tells her in no uncertain terms that she is not welcome at the funeral or wake. His grief stricken son is disgusted by her and makes no attempt to hide. And all Marina wants to do is grieve in her own way.

Lelio’s film occasionally delves into some magical realism as Marina struggles to maintain her composure amid such callous inhumanity from so many people, which is a beautiful if jarring disruption in a film that’s otherwise so committed to reality.

It’s Vega’s extraordinary performance, full of grace and depth, that keeps “A Fantastic Woman” in check from becoming something either too campy or too sanctimonious. It’s one that has the power to make an audience really understand and internalize why it is an act of bravery to simply live life as herself, and perhaps even change some minds in the process.

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he Kauai Filipino Chamber of Commerce formally inducted its 2018 board and leaders, and presented recognition awards to community individuals and organizations for their respective efforts Saturday during the gala at the Koloa Landing Resort.

Laurie Yoshida was sworn in as the new KFCC president, taking over from Bobby Ayonon who led the group since 2015.

More than a hundred people took advantage of the gala with a buffet dinner and ample time for networking and getting to know business organizations. Entertainment was provided by Fasey Kamakane.

Bobby Ayonon, Laurie Yoshida

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