TGIFr!day by The Garden Island Newspaper

Week of Friday, November 20, 2015 | Vol. 3, No. 47

Grinds & Da Kines For Your Weekend

CHARLIE MUSSELWHITE IN CONCERT NOV. 27 The Right Slice

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IN THIS ISSUE:

OUT & ABOUT: TOP PICKS FOR THE WEEK TODAY SATURDAY HAWAII INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 6 p.m., Historic Waimea tHeater The film “In Football We Trust” by Directors Tony Vainuku and Erika Cohn will screen today followed by “Wonderful Nightmare” by Kang Hyo-Jin at 8:30 p.m. $10/film

2. OUT & ABOUT:

Top picks for the week

3. CONCERT: Charlie Musselwhite 4-5. DINING OUT KAUAI:

The Right Slice

GARDEN ISLAND FILM FESTIVAL 6 p.m., Westin princeville ocean resort villas A free screening of “Papa Mau” directed by Naalehu Anthony. 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

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ON THE COVER: Charlie Musselwhite Photo by Danny Clinch

WHISKEY-O 7 to 9 p.m., cHurcH of tHe pacific Celebrate the beginning of the holiday season with Hawaii’s own Celtic band, Whiskey-O. Irish melodies, traditional rollicking jigs and five-part vocal harmonies. Tickets available at Kauai Music and Sound, $12 in advance, $15 at the door. BEETHOVAN & DVORAK 7:30 p.m., Kcc performing arts center Hawaii Symphony Orchestra, 50 members, presents Beethovan & Dvorak with Maestro Michael Stern, Conductor and Alexander Kobrin, Piano.

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In addition to Authentic Mexican Cuisine our menu also features Omelettes, Pancakes, and French Toasts as well as Club and Santa Fe Sandwiches, Vegetarian Burger and Mahi Mahi Sandwich.

FASHION SHOW FINALE 6:30 p.m., Poipu Beach Athletic Club Grand finale runway fashion show and dancing, a part of Hawaii Fashion Month. $10 CKTV CRAFT FAIR 8:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., cHiefess KamaKaHelei middle scHool cafeteria ZUMBA FUNDRAISER 10 to 11:30 a.m., cHiefess KamaKaHelei middle scHool KiloHana playcourt Fundraiser to benefit CKTV. $15 ticket HAWAII INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 10:30 a.m., Historic Waimea tHeater The films will screen as follows: “Made In Hawaii Shorts” 10:30 a.m., “Monster Hunt” 12:30 p.m., “Sons of Halawa” and “Roots of Ulu” 3 p.m., “Kakekomi” 5:30 p.m. and “Assassination” 8:30 p.m. $10/ film

SUNDAY THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING 6 p.m., Kcc cafeteria “This Changes Everything” is an epic attempt to re-imagine the vast challenge of climate change. Free admission PINK SUNDAY 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., Kauai veteran’s center YWCA Kauai Women’s Expo with arts and crafts, dance performances, fashion show, food booths, food trucks, cooking demo, health and wellness and dog training exhibition. 245-5959

HAWAII INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 9:30 a.m., Historic Waimea tHeater The films will screen as follows: “Voyage: Into the Depth of Kanaloa” and “Waiting for John” 9:30 a.m., “Hana’s Miso Soup” noon and “Kid Kulafu” 2:30 p.m. $10/film

GARDEN ISLAND FILM FESTIVAL 5 p.m., Kcc performing arts center “The Haumana” directed by Keo Woolford. Q&A with Woolford following screening. $5, 241-4953

GARDEN ISLAND FILM FESTIVAL 6 p.m., Waimea tHeatre Garden Island Film Festival Honoring Hawaii’s Cultural Heritage with a screening of “Visions in the Dark” directed by Ty Sanga. $5, 338-2027

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

MARY POPPINS 4 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

HAPPY THANKSGIVING TURKEY TROT 6:45 a.m., Kapaa BeacH parK Informal 5k/10k fun walk, run or bike on Thanksgiving Day. Check in starts at 6:45, run at 7:30 a.m. THANKSGIVING LUNCHEON 10 a.m. to noon, liHue salvation army; 10:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., Hanapepe salvation army

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‘I feel like I’m 16’ Charlie Musselwhite brings the blues to Kauai

harlie Musselwhite doesn’t need to travel and play music. This is a guy who has been inducted into the Blues Music Hall of Fame. So accomplished as a musician, he has received 35 Blues Music Awards, 11 Grammy nominations and a win in 2014. Such is the respect for his abilities, he played at the White House on July 25,

2013. He and Cyndi Lauper performed “Try a Little Tenderness.” “I knew everybody there,” he said, laughing. “It was like old home week at the White House.” Charlie Musselwhite’s career has spanned nearly five decades. He is described as having “truly earned legendary status as one of blues music’s most important artists.”

And yet, even at the age of 71, when he could easily relax at one of his homes in Sedona, California or Clarksdale, Mississippi and just enjoy the sunshine on his face, Musselwhite loves life on the road. It keeps him young, he said. “I feel like I’m 16,” he said during a phone interview with The Garden Island on Wednesday.

Musselwhite will bring his youthful ways, his harmonica and his band to Hawaii for a three-island stop, including the Kauai Beach Resort in the Jasmine Ballroom on Nov. 27. “I have lots of old friends to see and catch up,” he said. Musselwhite travels 250 days a year. He sees new places, meets new people, SEE CHARLIE, PAGE 6

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Charlie Musselwhite playing his harmonica.

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IT’S PIE TIME

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With 50 flavors to choose from, The Right Slice will be baking for the holidays

hey’ve got fruit pies, meat pies, tiny pies, pot pies, pie on a stick, hand pies and lotus cup pies — and the folks at The Right Slice are still coming up with different ways to serve more than 50 flavors of fruit pies and 30 flavors of meat pies. “We’re always using our creativity and asking what customers want,” said Sandy Poehnelt, owner of The Right Slice. “Like the hand pies, those are little turnovers that are new because customers wanted something that they could eat when they Photos by Jessica Else / The Garden Island The Right Slice’s bite-sized mini pies. were driving.”

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Sandy Poehnelt is the owner of The Right Slice, a pie shop with locations in Lihue and Kalaheo, as well as a presence at area farmers’ markets and events.

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Brunches of biscuits and gravy, or quiche and organic salad greens from the North Shore, are two other new additions to The Right Slice’s menu. “We wanted to provide another option for breakfast, so we went with biscuits and gravy and quiche because the way those are made are so similar to pie crust,” Poehnelt said. “And we added the organic salad greens as just another option as well.” The goal, Poehnelt said, is to have a place where people can drop by and pick up meals on the go. “We have different meal options on the menu; like, for example, you can get four different flavors of pot pies with drinks for the family’s beach day and everybody is happy,” Poehnelt said. The Right Slice has a store in Kalaheo and just opened

For the next few weeks, Poehnelt and her staff will be all about pumpkin filling, cranberries, walnuts and apples. They’ll be taking pie orders up until Saturday. “After that, we’re cutting off the pie orders so we can get all of our supplies and get ourselves organized,” Poehnelt said. “We don’t hire on any seasonal help for this because we’re really focused on quality, so our staff works so incredibly hard during Kylie Kane pushes a crust into this time of year.” a pie tin for a baby pie. Kylie Kane of Koloa has been working at The Right the doors to their second Slice for a year. She said even location at the Harbor Mall though the holidays are in Lihue. All of the new hectic, she loves working for additions come just in time Poehnelt. for the most important pie “Sandy really takes care of holiday of the year: Thanksus as employees,” Kane said. giving. “She really invests in us and “It’s going to get crazy makes us feel special.” here,” Poehnelt said. “We Kane said the great work already have a huge stack of atmosphere spurs her to do orders for pies.”

her best when she’s making those holiday pies, and the idea of taking a few days off after the Thanksgiving rush is enough incentive to get through. The most popular holiday pie is the Cranberry Walnut Pudding Pie. Poehnelt said that as Christmas approaches, The Right Slice will be releasing its ever-popular chocolate mint and eggnog pies. “My favorite out of all of them, though, is the Island Lemon,” Poehnelt said. “I don’t have too much of a sweet tooth, and this pie is tart and fresh.” The Island Lemon Pie is a basic lemon meringue pie

with a twist — there’s no meringue. “The meringue wasn’t holding up at the farmers’ markets at the beginning, so we took it out and put a top on the pie,” Poehnelt said. “With the Meyer lemons being in season right now, it’s perfect, and it’s a little bit different kind of lemon pie.” It was at the farmers’ markets that Poehnelt’s business first began to pick up steam six years ago when she started The Right Slice. “I had moved here and was working for a cafe, and part of my job was making the apple pie,” Poehnelt said. “People kept saying that it was the best pie ever and

they couldn’t get that kind of homemade pie anywhere anymore.” The job at that little cafe didn’t work out for Poehnelt, but pie did. “I really didn’t want to take a job off the market having just moved here, and I thought, I can make pie,” Poehnelt said. “So I made pie.” Both of The Right Slice’s stores are open six days a week, and on Sunday for brunch. You can also grab a piece from stands at various farmers’ markets throughout the island, and at Hanapepe’s Friday Art Night. The Right Slice also sells pie at both the Kapaa and Kilauea Saturday Art Nights.

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Musselwhite says, inviting people to his Kauai Continued from page 3 concert. As for next Friday’s show, and experiences his own Musselwhite promises music in a new way with good times. each performance. “You’ll have a lot of fun, Being on the road is a gift for Musselwhite. It keeps him everybody will leave with a sharp — mentally, emotion- smile on their face,” he said. When his 90-minute ally and physically. “When you travel like that, performance is over, Musselwhite doesn’t disappear it’s an exercise in itself,” he said. “I watch what I eat, get into the night. He’ll greet folks in the lobby and sign in some good walking, stay copies of his CDs that will active.” But it’s the blues that put be available. It’s then he gets a chance a joy in his voice. Because to really talk with his fans. blues, he says, are anything but blue. They’re fun. They’ve He’ll hear stories, too, from some who heard him alive. They’re energy. Blues are not sad, he says. play decades ago (his first Blues won’t bring you down. album came out in 1967) and brought their children Listen to Musselwhite’s or even their grandchildren version of the blues, when to hear him. his harmonica fills the air, “It’s really rewarding to and you’ll feel like you’re at a see people so happy about celebration of life. musi,” he said. “All those peo“We have a lot of fun,” he ple can’t come to my house said. So much fun, in fact, that so I have to go around the world playing for them.” audience members are The instrument he’s known to dance during his known for, the one he’s show. mastered, the one millions “Come early, stay late,”

have heard him play, is the harmonica. Growing up in Memphis, he said it seemed like every boy he knew had a harmonica. So he got one. No training. No classes. He listened to old blues records and practiced. “As a little kid, I would just make up stuff on it,” he said. “I’d go out in the woods and started making up my own blues. That’s how I started playing.” The harmonica, Musselwhite said, is the only instrument you cannot see how it is played. Every other instrument, you can see it, watch it. Not so with the harmonica. So he played. “I just soaked it up,” he said. And he became very, very good. Enough to where it got him in the door to meet blues legend Muddy Waters. A friend, told Waters, “Hey Muddy, you ought to hear Charlie play harmonica,” she said. He did. Soon, Musselwhite

got to sit in with Waters. More musicians heard him and soon, offers for gigs came in and Musselwhite’s career was off and running. “It felt so good, the way the harmonica sounded,” he said. “I didn’t know I was going to become a professional musician,” he said. “I just loved the music. I just thought I was having fun, and I was, and it turned into something much bigger.” Doors for Musselwhite’s show on Kauai open at 6:30 p.m. The concert begins at 7:30 with opening act Swampdaddy featuring Dan “The Man” Parslow. Tickets start at $45 and are available at outlets around Kauai, including Hanalei Surf Company, Island Soap and Candle Works in Kilauea, Kauai Music and Sound in Kapaa, Scotty’s Music in Lihue, Progressive Expressions in Koloa, Jacqueline On Kauai in Hanapepe and I Aloha-N-Paradise in Waimea. L Info: (808) 337-9234 and B longhairproductions.com

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apaa High School football will be kicking off at 4:30 p.m. Friday at the Aloha Stadium on Oahu against Radford High School for the championship of the First Hawaiian Bank Hawaii High School Athletic Association Division II state football. The Warriors improved on its 9-0 season by defeating Lahainaluna Saturday before a wildly cheering home crowd at Vidinha Stadium. Kalena Harder, a junior varsity bring-up, pulled for a

net gain of 98 yards, including three touchdowns, to lead the Kapaa win. The Warrior defense, led by Akauola Tatofi with eight unassisted tackles, held the Lunas to negative yardage on offense while Kapaa improved to scoring 250 points while allowing no scores since its second preseason game. A victory at Aloha Stadium will bring the gold to Kauai for the first time since the HHSAA started keeping records in 1999.

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