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Week of Friday, February 27, 2015 | Vol. 3, No. 9

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ONE FINE NIGHT • ‘JUPITER ASCENDING’ • CAFE NIRVANA • BOWL FOR KIDS SAKE Island Calendar and much, much more!

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

3. JUST FOR TEENS: Mission Yes

4-5. DINING OUT KAUAI: Cafe Nirvana

6. FLICKS: ‘Jupiter Ascending’

7. TUNES: Hoedown for Hope

8-9. CHECK DA SCENE: Waimea Town Celebration

10. ENTERTAINMENT: One Fine Evening

OUT & ABOUT: TOP PICKS FOR THE WEEK FRI SAT SUN NAKAI AND KATER IN CONCERT 7:30 P.M. KAUAI COMMUNITY COLLEGE, PERFORMING ARTS CENTER Multi-platium selling pianist/ composer Peter Kater, together with R. Carlos Nakai, the world’s premier performer of the Native American flute will enchant the audience with an exquisite, magical evening featuring selections from their new album, “Ritual.” $25 and up, 1-888319-5327

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LATIN JAZZ CONCERT 8 P.M. ASTON ALOHA BEACH HOTEL Multi-Grammy award winner Howard Levy will perform with Kauai’s Latin Dance Band Rumba de Fuego in this Latin jazz concert and dance.

Must be 21 and older to attend.

ONE FINE EVENING 5:30 P.M. KILOHANA LUAU PAVILION A fundraising event for the Rotary Club of Poipu Beach.

This is a fine arts, culinary, wine and music experience. $50, Jan Pascua 634-4234 CRAFT FAIR 8 TO 2 P.M. CHURCH OF THE PACIFIC Kauai artisans and crafters will be displaying their handmade products.

There will also be food for purchase.

Proceeds to benefit the Church of the Pacific. 635-4314 REWIND 9 P.M. TO 1 A.M. KAUAI BOWL Dance to the best of the 70s. 21 and over event

MATILDA’S WALTZ 4 P.M. PUHI THEATRICAL WAREHOUSE Kauai Community Players presents “Matilda’s Waltz” a continuation of ,the saga of “Emma’s Last Dance.” $20 PANCAKE BREAKFAST 6:30 TO 10 A.M. WILCOX ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CAFETERIA The East Kauai Lions Club annual pancake breakfast with pancakes, eggs, sausage, rice, fruit and more. Proceeds help support various service projects for East Kauai Lions Club.

SLACK KEY GUITAR 3 TO 5 P.M. HANALEI FAMILY COMMUNITY CENTER Traditional Hawaiian slack key guitar and ukulele concert. $20, 826-1469

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Jennifer Cullen rehearse a scene for Matilda’s Waltz. The play will be showing all weekend long. Tonight and Saturday the show begins at 7 p.m. and Sunday at 4 p.m. Tickets are $20

MON TUE WED COMMUNITY YOGA 6 TO 7:30 P.M. NAWILIWILI YACHT CLUB Hosted by the Kauai Sailing Association, weekly on Monday.

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346-7671 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.

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This is a four-week beginners class. $25, 822-4599 WEIGHT WATCHERS 5:30 P.M. ST. JOHNS EPISCOPAL CHURCH Weekly Weight Watchers meetings held same time on Tuesday.

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 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.

NORDIC WALKING CLASS 4 TO 5 P.M. KAPAA NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER Improve your health, balance and strength with Nordic walking. This is a 4-week beginners class. $25, 822-4599 NATURE LECTURE 5:30 P.M. KAUAI COMMUNITY COLLEGE Balance of Nature lecture series by the National Tropical Botanical Garden.

SURI RETREAT 7 TO 9 P.M. CHURCH OF THE PACIFIC This is a three-day Suri Retreat on spiritual teachings and practice led by Pir Shabda Kahn.

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New organization offers nightlife to youth

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Dining nirvana

South Indian cuisine served up in Wailua

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he entrance to Wailua now boasts an Indian vegetarian restaurant to go along with Filipino, Chinese, Mexican, Japanese and Korean establishments at the busy Houselots intersection — not to mention an American bakery and one of the best sushi houses on the island.

Robin (Kashi) Parmley opened Cafe Nirvana in January at the Wailua Shopping Plaza, at Kuhio Highway and Haleilio Road.

The vegetarian South Indian restaurant is similar to his first restaurant, the India

Bazaar in Moilili on Oahu that his spouse and son still run today.

“We ran the first Indian grocery store in Hawaii and it evolved into a restaurant,” he said.

There are a few tables in a cozy but comfortable atmosphere and the bulk of business is takeout.

Parmley will offer three choices each day, along with lemon cashew rice, for $8.

“Fresh, fast and tasty,” Parmley said.

A yogurt condiment comes on the side. Samosas and mango lassi is coming soon.

Parmley is a yoga teacher, creates stain glass mantras and a Thai yoga masseuse, along with catering and teaching Ayurvedic cooking.

Vegetarian and vegan, without dairy, and prepared in the Ayurvedic tradition, Cafe Nirvana follows a South Indian philosophy around food that involves pureness of thought while cleaning, preparation and cooking.

Parmley tweaks the items on the menu each day depending on the vegetables and spices available.

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Some are imported but most is what he finds at local farmers markets.

“I am trying to do as much organic and local as possible,” he said.

Ayurvedic medicine is about lifestyle, and the selection of one’s food begins with a self-reflective look at one’s physical and personal makeup, he said. The way it is prepared, the way it is eaten, and even the cleaning up has as much to with digestion and health benefits as the ingredients.

“Proper habits,” he said.

“Everything here is made from scratch, and done in the tradition of Ayurvedic and South India cuisine.”

Sharing the Cafe Nirvana space is Potions Kombucha Bar, which will open as soon as owner Jonathan (Gadhai) Reeves perfects his kombucha culture strains that originated in the Caucasus region between Europe and Asia. He said it may take batch after batch before it is perfect.

“I got it down to a refined process and people say it is better tasting than others they have tried before,” he said.

Reeves researched the base of the potion as a

Part of the menu at Cafe Nirvana, including lemon cashew rice; chile-chic peas in curry sauce; coconut cauliflower curry; dal with mung bean, friend mustard, cumin and curry leaves.

starting point. He added herbs to preserve it and to keep its potencies and properties intact.

“I had in mind that the idea of a raw enzyme culture was always better fresh,” he said. “You can bottle potency but it is not the same as fresh.”

The answer, he found, was the draft tap model that pours out like a dark beer, only without the alcohol. He will divide his time making kombocha and using the kitchen to do prep work for his French crepe

food truck in Kapaa.

Reeves started out as a student of traditional film animation in the days before computers came into the picture. He plans to have some of his storyboards as art in the restaurant.

During his college days in England, Reeves began to see a synchronicity of events in his life and work that led him to guru Gadadhara Pandit Das. After graduating in 1993, he toured Europe with his guru settled in with a Hari Krishna community in India.

Ed Kaahea, standing, of Kapaa, talks with Adam Prall, of Wailua, and Noreen Chun, of Kapaa, who both just finished dinner at Cafe Nirvana in the Wailua Shopping Plaza. “Affordable, and delicious,” Chun said. “Everything is good.”

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REVIEW ASSOCIATED PRESS JAKE COYLE

‘Jupiter Ascending’ a soupy cosmic fairy tale

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ithin the warped wardrobe of the Wachowskis latest sci-fi extravaganza, “Jupiter Ascending,” there are some fantastical feasts of intergalactic ridiculousness. Channing Tatum as a combination elf and speed skater. Space dinosaurs in leather jackets.

A robed Eddie Redmayne as the universe’s overload, who so gravely whispers his lines that you fear he is, for the length of the movie, being castrated just off camera.

That, at least, would explain his sporadic shrieking.

Redmayne, who may be on the cusp of an Oscar for his more earthbound performance as Stephen Hawking, is the best and worst thing in a movie that rides the campy line of simultaneously great and terrible

with intermittent success.

For more than a decade now, writer-directors Lana and Andy Wachowski have capitalized on their “Matrix” fame to conjure up mystical blockbusters of grandiose, garish style (“Cloud Atlas”), luring moviegoers who like bananas with their popcorn.

Did I mention the space dinosaurs in leather jackets?

“Jupiter Ascending” begins with the birth of a girl, Jupiter Jones (Mila Kunis), to Russian immigrants while midway across the Atlantic.

Looking back from later on, she narrates that she was born an illegal alien, betwixt worlds. As the film stretches out into the cosmos, it fills its adventure with mutants and “splices” who have genes of mixed species.

Tatum’s Caine Wise is one

such fusion. He’s an elite soldier whose (literal) wings were clipped for a mysterious past incident.

Made with part wolf blood, he has pointed ears and a blond goatee, neither of which makes him particularly easy to take seriously as a hero. Oh, and he has jet-propelled boots that he skates through the sky with: an extraterrestrial Apolo Ohno.

Jupiter lives as a cleaning lady with her humble family in Chicago, a regular existence shattered when spindly aliens show up and try to kill her. Caine comes to the rescue, an unfortunately repetitive occurrence in “Jupiter Ascending,” in which Kunis’ character is always in need of being swooped out of danger by her hulking

werewolf man. And after a lengthy chase above the Chicago skyline, she’s introduced to a wider universe ruled by the Abrasax dynasty and teaming with sci-fi tropes.

The full picture of the plot of “Jupiter Ascending” takes a long time to clear up, as it flashes between different worlds, space ships fly this way and that, and various bounty hunters (Sean Bean is one) cloud the allegiances. Character and story get washed out in the relentlessly ornate 3-D imagery, a blend of grandiose spacescapes and gaudy metallic machinery.

Though why isn’t quite evident, Jupiter turns out to be a galactic queen (the Wachowskis love their messiahs) fiercely sought by the

ruling royalty. The Abrasax family (not to be confused with Santana’s “Abraxas,” even though they share something of its flamboyant album cover) are led by a trio of handsome Brits: Balem (Redmayne), Kalique (Tuppence Middleton) and Titus (Douglas Booth), who, we learn, use planets like Earth to harvest human DNA to create youth-preserving gels. Somewhere here is a capitalism critique.

Though she has more space opera swirling around her than any actor could possible hold together, Kunis does an admirable job even if never given much of a chance to be the prime mover in her fairy tale. Tatum, as game as they come, is understandably undone by his get-up; pointed

ears and flying boots will do that. But no one fares as poorly as Redmayne, who quivers with such hushed ferocity that he wins the most giggles in a blatantly silly movie.

“Jupiter Ascending” unfolds as a mostly entertaining mess, a cosmic soup of baroque grandeur that the Wachowskis swim happily through, even if few others will. They seem increasingly adrift in their own sci-fi seas, a quixotic plight that would be more admirable if the waters weren’t so familiar.

“Jupiter Ascending,” a Warner Bros. release, is rated PG-13 for “some violence, sequences of sci-fi action, some suggestive content and partial nudity.” Running time: 127 minutes. Two stars out of four.

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Heckuva Hoedown Maddie and Tae headline ACS country western fundraiser

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hese girls will be right in the middle of this country party.

“Maddie and Tae,” the country western duo whose debut single, “Girl in a Country Song” reached No. 1 on the Country Airplay chart last year, will headline this year’s Hoedown For Hope fundraiser for the American Cancer Society March 21 at the Kilohana Luau Pavilion.

The seventh annual event raises funds for the nonprofit using a Western flair, and the Nashville singers will be accompanied by the local country act, “Not My First Rodeo.”

“It’s a great cause and it’s a great party,” said Yvette Sahut, Hoedown for Hope’s event co-chair.

The festivities kick off at 5 p.m. with food, dancing, games, a silent auction and music. The celebration will also auction off a Smart car.

Guests are encouraged to dress up in cowboy and cowgirl outfits in keeping with the Western theme.

Tickets are $125 for individual and sponsor patients, $1,500 for a table of 10.

Tickets for $1,000 are also available to Yellow Hibiscus Members who will receive a special V.I.P gift bag with treats from the event’s sponsors, prominent seating at the concert close to the stage, a V.I.P tent, which will include a special bar with two free drink tickets, special pupus created specifically for them, two Hoedown for Hope T-shirts and recognition in the celebration’s program, marketing ads and website.

Proceeds benefit the ACS patient care and aid in the construction of the Hope Lodge on Oahu,

where patients will be able to receive treatment.

The organization hopes to raise $60,000 to fund its health programs.

“I just think it’s a great event. It helps people in our community,” Sahut said. “The event makes you feel very good. You see how much people on Kauai care for each other.”

Co-chair Jose Aguayo is also looking forward to the celebration.

“We are very excited about this and we hope that the community supports us,” Aguayo said. “It warms my heart to see so many people fighting for the same goal.”

Because his beloved niece contracted ovarian cancer, Aguayo said he understands the difficulty of battling cancer and joined the efforts of the American Cancer Society to help end the disease.

“Rather than being negative about the situation, I decided to be positive,” Aguayo said. “I wanted to do my part somehow and let her know that I was supporting her.”

The celebration will also honor retired Judge Clifford Nakea and his wife Gloria for their contributions to Hoedown for Hope.

“We thought they would be the perfect choice for being our honoree chair people,” Aguayo said.

As the largest funder for cancer research, the ACS has contributed to all major cancer treatment breakthroughs in recent history and has provided lodgings for more than 99 patients within the state of Hawaii.

Tickets may be purchased at hoedownforhope.org

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CHECK DA SCENE

Ken ‘Kawika’ Lardizabal, Rhiannon Mahealani Asher-Lardizabal, Christian Lardizabal

Princess Bumanglag, Nicole Masulit, Erica Owan, Kristen Bernardo, Veronyka Tanihiro, Leslie Namoa

Naoko Ho

Sister Monica Martin, Mary Jean Buza-Sims, Rose Ryan, Judy Ryan, James Ryan, Sister Janet Rose

Roy Miyashiro, Priscilla Badua

Thomas Nizo, Puni Patrick

Amaya, Carmen, Zakiya Twiggs

Winnie Kali, Janet Ortiz

Mercedes Casticimo, Natasha Perry, Leiilima Rapozo, Linda Sweitzer, Kehau Kaaihue, Kumu Leinaala Pavao Jardin, Maggie Simola, Krystie Ramos, Kuuhau Garza

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Julie Nguyen, Ken ‘Kawika’ Lardizabal, Mackensie Melkemes

Ambyr Mokiao-Lee, Katie Nalesere, Seanne Andrade

Brianne Kanahele, Kathleen Singson, Alyssa Pigao

Jeff Lederer - Israel

Nick Castillo

Celebrating in Waimea

B Imai, Poohala, Waianuhea Karratti

Jessica Carvalho, Stel Pimental, Taylor Carvalho, Jerrelyn Mahiai

Virginia Beck, Tara Pascua, Natalie Thompson, Raquel Samio, Casley Noda, Rebecca O’Brien, Mai Medeiros, Tisha Pancho

ecky Komaki, chef of the malasada dough for the West Kauai Methodist Church, said they went through 21 10-gallon barrels of dough for the two-day Heritage of Aloha Hoolaulea, which was part

of the weeklong Waimea Town Celebration.

“We got Wilson Nitta to provide the muscle power this year,” Komaki said. “Otherwise, we would have to power through the stirring.”

People reveled through

eight days of live entertainment, rodeo, sports competitions, lei contests and more.

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‘One Fine Evening’

Rotary Club of Poipu plans fundraiser with music, food, art

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he Rotary Club of Poipu Beach is having its fundraiser, “One Fine Evening,� Saturday at the Kilohana Luau Pavilion.

It will feature fine art, food, wine and music to benefit local youth, education and community programs. “We are so excited by this year’s lineup and by the generous support of businesses all over the island,� said Michael Carlsson, event co-chair and president-elect.

This year’s event will include delicious food from 10 fine restaurants: Brennecke’s Beach Broiler, Gaylord’s, Hapa Grill, Hukilau Lanai, Kauai Community College Fine Dining, Keoki’s Paradise, La Spezia, Sushi Bushido, Red Salt and RumFire. Exquisite, affordable wines can be tasted and purchased from four major wine distributors.Â

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Above: Crowds mill around for the annual fundraiser of The Rotary Club of Poipu Beach.

Right: Kauai Community College was part of the fundraiser of The Rotary Club of Poipu Beach.

Music will be provided by Rumba de Fuego (Latin jazz band) and Jazz Trane. Fine art will be exhibited and available for purchase from artists including Fred

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Rotary Club of Poipu Beach uses the funds from this annual event for programs that support the community. Among their many projects are the rescue tubes at Kauai beaches. Other key programs include the Rotary Youth Leadership awards, Rotary International exchange students, college scholarships, and community grants.

College scholarships are awarded to Kauai Community College nursing and culinary students. Some of the groups that have benefited from past community grants include Kauai Police Activities League, Waimea Kids Christmas Party, Kauai Underground Artists, Koloa School Library, YMCA Camp Naue, and Boy Scouts Camp Alan Faye. “We value the opportunity and the volunteers

that help us to put on this annual event,� said Tom Gross, Rotary Club of Poipu Beach president. “It enables us to serve the community in our projects throughout the year.�

A donation of $50 is requested for admission.

An additional $20 donation gains you access to the Connoisseur Table with a tasting of five special wines are usually not available on the island. Donations for tickets can be made online at www. poipurotary.org or at Big Kmart in Lihue, Kauai Music in Kapaa, Kalaheo Cafe in Kalaheo, Makai Properties in Koloa, The Wine Shop Koloa, and Ultimate Nails in Waimea. You must be over 21.

Rotary Club of Poipu Beach was created in 1982.

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Strikes, for ‘Kids Sake’ Bowling fundraiser set for Big Brothers and Big Sisters

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s a member of several community organizations and boards, Kaulana Finn knows the importance of providing opportunities to mentor young adults.

It is a mission she and other Big Brothers and Big Sisters volunteers on Kauai

work to achieve each day through the nonprofit’s programs.

To keep these efforts going, the Big Brothers and Big Sisters chapter on Kauai will host its annual Bowl for Kids’ Sake fundraiser on March 7 at the Lihue Bowling Center.

“It’s not competitive bowl-

ing, and one thing I think I hear from some of the companies is that it builds camaraderie between employees and staff,” said Finn, who serves as the community director for Big Brothers and Big Sisters on Kauai. “For example, PS&D Tires comes out with two teams every

year, and boy do they make it a night. What it all comes down to is that we’re really, really blessed to have the support that we do.”

The event, now in its sixth year on Kauai, will kick off at 6 p.m. and feature a “Wild Wild West” theme.

Each team assigned to a bowling lane can have up to six bowlers and must raise money for the nonprofit.

Team participants, in return, are allowed to bowl up to two games, provided with event T-shirts and eat food provided by Chef Mark Oyama from Contemporary Flavors Catering.

Prize drawings will also be held throughout the evening.

Miss Hawaii 2014 Stephanie Steuri is slated to bowl the first ball with Mayor Bernard Carvalho Jr.

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Clockwise from lower left: Team Grove Farm also sponsored a couple of lanes; Team Mark’s Place & Contemporary Flavors Catering-donated the food and came out to bowl; Taylor from KCFCU & Lucas from PS&D Napa Auto danced off for a Tie to earn Team Spirit Trophies for their companies. Some of the Bigs and Littles that bowled.

and Capt. Bruce Hay from Pacific Missile Range Facility.

The 20-year-old Kalaheo native will also serve as this year’s event emcee with veteran radio personality Ed Kanoi from HHawaii Media.

Corporate sponsors include: Kauai Community Federal Credit Union, Dow AgroSciences, DuPont Pioneer, Syngenta, Grove Farm Company, Bank of Hawaii and Central Pacific Bank.

The organization was able to raise $20,640 last year and will likely exceed its $25,000 goal by the end of this week, Finn said.

“Every year, we go up a couple thousand, so we’re just super lucky,” Finn said.

“If we continue to go at this pace, I’ll probably have to add another (bowling) shift for teams. Right now, we’re just doing one shift.”

Top fundraisers will vie for prizes that include two roundtrip tickets to any Alaska Airlines destination and an iPod Nano.

“I think it’s amazing what can be done when folks pull together toward a mission, and that mission, of course, is providing quality mentors for Kauai’s youth,” Finn said. “I serve on a few committees and our keiki really, really need this support on so many levels.”

Info: http://bit.ly/18iyFSC or Finn at: (808) 631-8642

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