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Spiritual Cinema, “The Truth is in the Stars”: 6:30 to 9 p.m. Center for Spiritual Living, Kapaa. Free, donations accepted.

In this 2017 documentary, William Shatner sits down with scientists, innovators and celebrities to discuss how the optimism of “Star Trek” influenced multiple generations. Popcorn is served and an optional group discussion follows the movie.

Na Lei Pua Ole — Flowerless Lei Contest 10 a.m., Kauai War Memorial Convention Hall part of the Kauai Mokihana Festival.

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Hanalei River Healing

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Aloha Juice Bar

Hanalei Strings

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Ohana Shop

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Village Variety

Mahelona Hospital’s Fifth annual Breast Cancer Walk 9:30 a.m. Ke Ala Hele Makalae, behind the Kapaa Neighorhood Center. Refreshments, roses, entertainment.

Mini-magic show 5:30 p.m. Kauai Beach Resort. Shu “Mr. Magic” Igari, from Kauai’s sister city of Iwaki, Japan, will perform.

Lihue modern architecture presentation and talk story 5 to 7 p.m. Lihue Civic Center, Mo‘ikeha Building first-flor conference room, 4444 Rice St. Registration: kauaimodernevents.eventbrite.com.

Solo Auana Hula Competition noon, Kauai War Memorial Convention Hall, part of the Kauai Mokihana Festival.

Jesus Reigns 1 p.m., starting at Wilcox Elementary School.

Walk to Historic County Building for 2 p.m. prayer and worship. Open to all faiths.

Pop-up shop 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Hanapepe Public Library.

Right Plant, Right Place 9 to 11 a.m. Kauai Nursery and Landscape, 3-1550 Kaumualii Highway. Free workshop.

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SATURDAY, OCT. 7

Matsuri 2017: 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Kauai War Memorial Convention Hall.

Mochi making, Tea ceremony, singing, Japanese dance. Orizuru Peace Tree, Soba noodle making, Iris folding, crafts, Benot, Kendo, Bonsai, Taiko drumming, Torao Hikariyama and Chinami Kaminishi.

Walking Tour: 3 to 5 p.m.

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‘SHINING’ BRIGHT

ierce Bivens is already one JOHN STEINHORST of the most in-demand TGIFR!DAY performers on Kauai.

And he’s 16 years old.

Bivens’ new album, recorded and produced at Bandwagon Music Center in Lihue, will be released today.

His collection of 10 original songs, entitled “Shining,” is the first full-length album for the young virtuoso. The production showcases his passionate vocals, guitar skills and insightful lyrics.

“The album is really good and has taken a ton of effort and time,” Bivens said. “Anyone who likes rock music should check it out, because it’s a lot of fun and is full of cool new musical ideas.”

The project was produced and recorded by Na Hoku and Grammy Music Teacher Award nominee, Jeremy Hartshorn, and is the first full-length album to be recorded by a member at Bandwagon Music Center.

“Bandwagon is a huge part of why my album is out,” Bivens said. “They’ve been very helpful and supportive, and Jeremy is doing a really good thing for the island by providing an easy way for kids to learn how to play music in a supportive environment with good teachers.”

The music center provides a supervised environment of music equipment where youth, ages 8 to 17, can explore playing instruments and learn about the recording process.

“I kinda helped him get started on that path of becoming a song writer instead of just a shredder,” said Hartshorn, Bandwagon Music Center director. “I can’t take credit for teaching him how to play though.”

Bivens won praise for his role as Dewey Finn in Hawaii Children’s Theatre’s production of “School of Rock.” His song “Make It Through” was also featured in an anti-suicide, public service announcement created by Pono Players.

When he was 12, he released his first CD, “Listen to Me.” He plays several times a month with his band, The Search, and is a regular on the music team at Kauai Christian Fellowship, where Hartshorn serves as worship pastor. Bivens is sponsored by Kamoa Ukuleles, in addition to Bandwagon Music Center, where he recently accepted an internship.

“His new album is a lot of fun, it’s a decidedly retro kind of sound on this album,” Hartshorn said. “There’s lots of classic rock influence with a little bit of ’80s new wave in there as well. It’s pretty impressive, because there’s some great all-time riffs on there that I think are up there with the best.”

“Shining” will drop at an album release party 6 to 8 tonight at Bandwagon Music Center. There will be pizza, drinks, ice cream and live performances by Bivens and friends.

The album will be available for purchase at Bandwagon, Ha Coffee Bar, Kauai Music & Sound, and Hanalei Strings as well online streaming services.

Kilauea teen Pierce Bivens releases new original album

Photo by Keani Andrade Kilauea’s Pierce Bivens recorded his first full-length album at the young age of 16.

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Invasives dinner for

Venison, apple snails, guava all on menu for Saturday

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AIPA — The best way to get rid of invasive species is to make them taste good.

That’s according to chef Mark Noguchi, one of four who will be showcasing some of Hawaii’s pesky plants and animals at “MAKANA Waipa: Eat The Invasives” fundraiser dinner for the Waipa Foundation.

“Growing up, we were always taught ‘use what get,’” Noguchi said. “That’s how I cook.”

The Oahu-based chef’s main gig is with Pili Group, an organization that promotes sustainable, gourmet Photo courtesy Amanda Corby Noguchi food production through catering, events and eduChef Mark Noguchi prepares a dish using Kona Brewing Company’s Hanalei IPA, in cation. preparation for Saturday’s Eat The Invasives event at Waipa Foundation.

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“This is our gift, that’s why it’s called MAKANA,” Chang said.

The partnership between Kona Brewing Company and Waipa Foundation was celebrated when the brewery launched the Hanalei IPA in August 2016. Then, Kona Brewing Company cut Waipa Foundation a $2,000 donation check.

It’s not just sustainability and holistic ahupua’a management that caught Chang’s eye at the Waipa Foundation. He said the company wanted to branch out with brand ambassadors and sponsorships.

“I really wanted to reach out into music, art, culture and food,” Chang said. “So like for this, we’ll have really

cool chefs donating their time and doing dishes that spread a really good message about appreciating where your food is from.”

In addition to the food, practitioners will be partnering with the chefs to lend local knowledge, including fisherwoman Kimi Werner, hunters and mahia’ai from the Waipa Foundation.

Entertainment will be provided by Waipa serenaders and Keale.

The event begins at 5 p.m. with VIP cocktails and pupus. General admission attendees will be welcomed to the Waipa Foundation’s Grand Lawn at 6 p.m. with a blessing.

Tickets are $125 for VIP, $75 for general admission. Group ticket packages with table reservations for eight people are available.

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auai Japanese Cultural Society still has tickets for Matsuri Kauai Aloha dinner reception on Friday, Oct. 6 at Kauai Beach Resort in the Jasmine Ballroom from 5:30 to 8:30 pm.

A special dinner menu is prepared for the reception with more than 36 dignitaries and guests from Kauai’s sister city of Iwaki and Suo Oshima with special guest, Mr. Katsukuni Tanaka of US Japan Society of Hiroshima.

Mr. Tanaka who is a Hiroshima bomb survivor, was responsible for coordinating Kauai Yankees’ Little League team’s goodwill games in Hiroshima in July 2017.

He also brought the first hula halau from Kauai to Hiroshima to perform at the famous Otagawa Firework Festival in July 1987. State of Hawaii and Hiroshima Prefecture are celebrating its 20th anniversary as Sister State program which started in 1997.

The dinner will include a mini-magic show by Shu Igari, Iwaki’s Mr. Magic and performance by Torao Hikariyama, a winning enka singer from Honolulu as well as other Japanese cultural music and dance performances.

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The reception is a prelude to the 32nd Matsuri Kauai Festival which will be held Saturday, Oct. 7 at the Kauai War Memorial Convention Hall in Lihue from 9 am-3 pm. The festival is free and open to the public.

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You can believe some statistics recommend it”, “the average income is…”, “highest crime rate since…”, “43% approval rating”.

Many are inclined to assume these statements are accurate. Why would they tout these statistics otherwise?

CYNTHIA & ED JUSTUS But looking at the methSPECIAL TO TGIFR!DAY odology used to derive n a daily basis, media, these statements, the fact is not all statistics are “true”. businesses, govThough some of these biasernment agencies, mislead in order to favor a es are unintentional, there non-profit groups and are many statistics which are desired outcome so it can others, toss out loads of be presented as a “scientifstatistics: “4 out of 5 doctors designed to intentionally

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Yep! And from all ideological leanings, too!

“How to Lie with Statistics”,

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by Irving Geis, is a very fun, quick and entertaining read which examines the world of statistics in our daily lives and how those numbers we hear may not always be correct!

Originally printed in 1954, it is amazing how incredibly relevant this book continues to be!

Check out some of these chapter titles: The Sample

with the Built-In Bias, The Well-Chosen Average, The Little Figures That are Not There, Much Ado About Nothing, The Gee-Whiz Graphic.

This is a great book for everyone, because it helps us to take an objective viewpoint when we hear or read statistics, allowing us to unpack their methods and discover the truth for ourselves.

Critical thinking—can’t ask for better!

Plus, the illustrations,

albeit of the era, are fun and whimsical, helping the author express his points, especially about “visual” statistics—some of the more dubious ones!

As the historical figure Benjamin Disraeli once said: “There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.”

Enjoy and look at the world in a whole new way!

••• Ed and Cynthia Justus are owners of The Bookstore in Hanapepe.

Review: In ‘American Made,’ a new (but the same) Tom Cruise

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here are basically two kinds of Tom Cruise performances, and both can look pretty similar on the surface. Each likes sunglasses, going fast and smiling big.

He never exactly loosens up or slows down — the

most unfathomable thing of all in Cruise’s world. But most of Cruise’s best and most interesting performances (“Magnolia,”‘’Jerry Maguire,” ‘’Collateral,”‘’Eyes Wide Shut”) have allowed some chink in the well-tanned armor, some hint of darkness under-

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Cruise’s latest is the smart, zippy “American Made,” a movie that plays very much like your type-A Tom Cruise movie before it yanks the rug out from beneath you and reveals the B-movie Cruise we’ve been missing. It’s a fiendishly perfect vehicle for Cruise that returns him to the cockpit, 31 years after “Top Gun,” and it simultaneously reminds us of his preternaturally winning movie-star charisma while subtly deconstructing it.

Doug Liman, the film’s

director, has shown a rare knack for intelligently packaging A-list personas in kinetic kaleidoscopes. He did it in “Mr. & Mrs. Smith” with Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, in “Bourne Identity” with Matt Damon and in his last film with Cruise, “Edge of Tomorrow,” the time-warped science fiction that proved a movie maxim: You just can’t kill Tom Cruise.

In “American Made,” a loosely true tale set in the late ‘70s and early ‘80s, Cruise plays Barry Seal, a TWA pilot whose on-the-side smuggling of Cuban cigars brings him into the orbit of the CIA. An officer named Shafer

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“We’re building nations down there,” says Shafer, giddy.

Seal, eyeing his own plane and eager to permanently switch off “auto-pilot,” jumps at the chance and doesn’t stop giggling at his good luck. “I do tend to leap before I look,” he says in a video diary that plays occasionally through the film. “Maybe I should have asked a few more questions.”

Blithely, even charmingly ignorant of the dangerous and ethically questionable terrain he’s entering, Seal is soon cheerfully smuggling enormous amounts of cocaine back to Arkansas for Pablo Escobar’s Medellin Cartel. On both sides of the law, things escalate quickly.

Seal and his family (Sarah Wright Olsen plays his wife), can’t spend their money fast enough. They run out of clos-

et space and backyard holes for all the cash coming in.

The CIA’s missions grow more audacious, too. Seal becomes the government’s clandestine exporter of AK-47s to the Nicaraguan Contras, who in turn are eventually flown back to Seal’s Arkansas base for military training. Seal greets them all with an easygoing grin: “Hola, amigos!”

It’s an increasingly absurd circle of drugs, guns and money, all ostensibly for the fight against “enemies of democracy.” The ironies mount, topping out with Nancy Reagan’s war-on-drugs plea to “say no” while her husband’s secret efforts to arm militants is fueling one of the most powerful drug cartels in the world.

“American Made,” written

by Gary Spinelli, has glossed up the story, of course. Seal’s life wasn’t nearly so shiny as it is as played by Cruise. But then again, whose is?

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Danilo Satumba, Carla Mae Satumba

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John Lorenzo, Monique Lorenzo

Kirk Correa, Kari Correa

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nna Broyles reigned as Homecoming Queen over the Waimea High School festivities that paid tribute to “Decades of Inspiration� Friday night at the Hanapepe Stadium.

Prefaced by remarks from Mayor Bernard Carvalho Jr. that included the announcement of the Memo of Understanding with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the annual homecoming game was contested on a Friday night instead of the originally scheduled Saturday afternoon, attracting scores of football enthusiasts whose zeal was fired up a level with the homecoming court.

Kalsie Camelo was crowed Miss Football, Kari Correa donned the Miss Menehune sash, Apryl-Joy Grande was announced Miss School Spirit, and Monique Joy Lorenzo was Miss Victory.

Class representatives included Carla Mae Satumba representing the Class of 2018, Keana Kia-Kinzie announcing the Class of 2019, Kalee Cienna Vea Games heralding the Class of 2020, and Kayana Niheu Kamaka leading the Class of 2021.

Waimea girls basketball

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