Week of Friday, January 2, 2015 | Vol. 3, No. 1
Grinds & Da Kines For Your Weekend
KAUAI VOICES LOVE IN ALL OF ITS FORMS ‘THEORY OF EVERYTHING’ • ANN RANDOLPH • JUDY COLLINS • E KANIKAPILA KAKOU Island Calendar and much, much more!
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IN THIS ISSUE: 2. OUT & ABOUT:
Top picks for the week
3. ART & THEATER:
Ann Randolph
4-5. DINING OUT KAUAI: Eating House 1849
6. FLICKS:
‘Theory of Everything’
7. TUNES:
Judy Collins
8-9. CHECK DA SCENE: Mochi Merriment
10. TUNES: Kauai Voices
11. TUNES:
E Kanikapila Kakou
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TOWN HALL 1 to 3 p.m., Kauai Veterans Center VHA, VBA and Vet Center updates will be provided, followed by a Q&A session.
SMALL BUSINESS 5:30 to 8:30 p.m., The Lihue Plantation Building Participants will learn about entrepreneurship, forms of business organization, key ingredients for business success and services offered by the Hawaii SBDC Network as well as other resources for the startup business. Pre-registration is required at www. hisbdc.org. and seats are limited. $20
JAN 16 HARRY MANX 7 p.m. Kauai Community College Performing Arts Center Harry Manx in concert. $35 gold circle, $20 regular.
SUNSET TO FULL MOON - Sierra Club walk
JAN 9 JAN 10 JAN 11 ‘THE BUDDHA AND JESUS’ LECTURE 7 p.m., St. Michael and All Angels Church Talk on “The Buddha and Jesus.” Speaker will compare key experiences in the life stories of these two extraordinary religious founders.
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‘THE LAST FIVE YEARS’ 7 to 9 p.m., Puhi Theatrical Warehouse A performance by Kauai Community Players. $15 to 25
MAHAULEPU CAVE Join the Sierra Club on a Mahaulepu and Makauwahi Cave hike. 3 miles round-trip. 2123108 BERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC 4 p.m., Kauai Community College Performing Arts Center. Presented by Kauai Concert Association the performance will highlight the winners of the Berklee College of Music
MUSIC OF THE HEART 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. St. Michael and All Angels Church Kauai Voices, the island’s 40-voice auditioned choral ensemble, presents a remarkable musical journey of love. $12 advance, $15 door
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t’s hilarious, provocative, edgy, heartwarming, heartbreaking and witty. Ann Randolph will make you laugh one minute, and then flip it as fast as she can and make you cry. But it’s on purpose. It’s part of the powerful ride she takes her audience through during her solo theatrical perfor o mance, “Loveland.� “Even though the show is hilarious, people are going on an emotional journey,� said Randolph, who calls Princeville home when she’s not touring her show across the country. “It’s not like a regular comedy. It’s hilarious, then poignant, hilarious, poignant. It flips constantly.� The solo perfor o mance is based on the character Frannie Potts, an irreverent oddball trapped on a plane as she travels from Califfor o nia to Ohio to attend her mother’s funeral. Accompanied by a cast of characters, all portrayed by Randolph, the audience watches the tragedy, beauty and humor that unite people in times of grieff. “She’s out of control,� Randolph said of the main character. “She’s not able to deal with the death.� That inner pain maniffests e itself in aggression toward other passengers, inappropri-
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ate behavior, and uncontrollable sexual desires, among other quirks. “It’s pushing the edge,� Randolph said of the outrageous humor. �It’s definitely pushing the edge.� But on the airplane ride back to Loveland — Randolph’s real hometown — Potts also has flashbacks. Without changing costumes, Randolph plays the other characters and paints a picture on how Potts has been unraveling since her mother’s death. And yes, besides a male pilot’s voice over the intercom, Randolph is each and every character. “God blessed with me a rubber ubber face and rubber bodyy, so I can change characters pretty quickly,� said Randolph, who worked alongside “Saturday Night Live� legends Cheri Oteri and Will Ferrell at The Groundlings improvisation and sketch comedy theater in Los Angeles. The San Francisco Examiner named her Best Solo Per-
fo ormer of San Francisco 2010 on Post and The Washingt a reviewed her as outrageous and “inappropriate in all the right ways.� While she does tour across the nation, she has ormed on Kauai beffo ore, perfo a place she’s called home fo or five years. “Audiences here are amazing,� she said. “People keep coming back.� And at the end of the 70-minute show, audience members are allowed to share their personal experiences, a way to complete the emotional journey. It’s a component that Randolph added to her show after people would approach her fo ollowing a perfo ormance and share their own experiences with grieff. “I thought, ‘ This is incredible.’ I thought, ‘Why not do this in the theater?’� Randolph said. “I love helping people tell their story ... It brings ngs this beautiful feeeling of community.� The show isn’t approprio people under 16. 16 ate for Loveland shows at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 15 at Church of the Pacific, 4520 Kapaka Road in Princeville. Tickets cost $20 and can be reserved at Brownpapertickets.com or by calling 1-800-838-3006. o: www.annrandolph. Inffo com
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EATING HOUSE 1849
FROMROYY FROM ROY YAMAGUCHI A IN FEBRUARY floors — but modernized to o table. The be more comffor fo ood will be a walk through ith more than 20 the tapestr y of cultures in Roy ’s restaurants Hawaii. “ The food o is the experiin Hawaii, the Mainland, Japan and Guam, ence,” Yamaguchi a said. “ We Master Chef Roy Yaamaguchi basically do what we do will open Eating House 1849 best, which is to provide ood and great serthe first week of Februar y great fo at the Shops at Kukuiula in vice.” The name comes from Koloa. The interior will be a the first known restaurant take on the old plantation in Hawaii, established in design, with ceiling fans, Honolulu circa 1849 by open windows and wood Por tuguese immigrant Peter TOM LAVENTURE TOM LAVENTURE TGIFR!DAY TGIFR!DAY
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Fernandez. The concept is to blend those immigrant recipes with local ingredients, not to recreate the original menu, but to highlight the o since progression of food that time through the eyes of Roy. The multicultural landscape was probably reflected in the fo oods, and the evolution of those flavors are the vision today. “It is a modern day version of what Peter would have ser ved if his restaurant were built in 2015,” Yaamagu-
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Roy Yamaguchi at his Princeville restaurant, The Tavern Garden. He will open his third Kauai restaurant, “Eating House se 1849,” 1849,” in February.
chi said. Chef Krizpen Oades ran or years and Roy ’s Poipu fo beffor o e that on Maui and Oahu. After Roy ’s eight “classic” items, the “chef driven” appr a oach is to let their personalities and cultures bring some of their unique perspective to the menu. The Por tuguese influence at Eating House 1849 will include shrimp turnovers called rissoles, along with a clam cataplana stew with tomatoes and mushrooms. The Filipino influence includes plantation paella and adobo marinated pork chop vinhadhos. “ This Eating House 1849 is the first of what we are and it is almost like the next generation of Roy ’s,” Yam aamaguchi said. “It is making Roy ’s better and this concept is what I envisioned many years ago.” The restaurant could have been located anywhere, but Yamaguchi a said Kukuiula is where it should be. The beautiful area and the design and tenants of the plaza best reflects the experience that Roy ’s wants
Paella with clams and Spanish bomba rice
Clam cataplana stew
Adobo marinated pork chop vinhadhos
to produce, he explained. “It has a ver y plantation-like look and a great feeel to it,” he said. “ When we walked around, there was
great flow.” The staff is essential in creating that great customer experience and Yaamaguchi said the restaurant design
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tries to invigorate employee spirit. There will be large windows in the kitchen so that they, along with the customers, can enjoy the same beautiful environment around them. “ We have had a lot of great staff for o a long time and they will continue to be with us,” he said. “ We want them to go to the next level of what Roy ’s stor y is about.” Yamaguchi a is known as a fusion artist. It is nothing new, he explained. For thousands of years, as neighboring cultures travelled, they blended the ingredients and styles of others into their own. What makes fusion work is to understand the cultures involved, he said. He began by fusing French sauces with Japanese foods o when he knew what each was tr ying to accomplish. “I understood the culture of the Japanese and the French, and I knew what the French did with making sauces, and I wanted to fuse that with the balance and simplicity and seasonal aspects of the Japanese food o ,” he said. For example, you can’t
Chinese dumplings with the Roy’ touch
just puree strawberries and put them on top of teriyaki salmon or you would end up with a mess, he said. It works when you understand sauces and reduction, whether to blend veal or duck bones, or make a concentrated marinade or wine. At Eating House 1849 it may mean the infusion of soy or Patice fish sauce or other ingredients. It will require an understanding of Spanish, Portuguese and Filipino flavors. The two most important factors are flavor and health, he said. Both are typically satisfied best when using fresh, local ingredients that maintain flavor, minerals and vitamins better than shipped produce. It is
impor tant to economize on salt and to steam or sauté foods o oo instead of boiling, so as not to diminish the health benefits. That also means using uai fo oods wherever posKauai sible. It is in the spirit of the regional cuisine movement he helped to star t in 1991. Yamaguchi a ’s staff recently planted a small garden at an Oahu restaurant, and said Kukuiula is allowing him to do the same star ting this month. “ There are a lot of great products from Kauai and then we build on that,” he said. The first Roy ’s opened in a Honolulu in 1988. Yamagu chi opened the first Kauai restaurant, Roy ’s Poipu in
1994, fo ollowed by The Tavern at Princeville in 2011. “Kauai is a beautiful island and the people are great, and we’ve been blessed to have great people working for o us u from that island,” Yamaguchi aam said. “ There is beauty ever ywhere but the people make it a little speo me, and I thank all of cial for or the individuals working fo us over there, good people, the salt of the earth.” Roy ’s in Poipu celebrated its 20th anniversar y on Sept. 30 and was to close in Deo -month lease cember. A four extension will keep it open until Eating House 1849 is
ready. “It has been a great 20 years there,” he said. The Tavern at Princeville closed after three years on Dec. 28. Yaam amaguchi designed The Tavern in the memor y of his grandfather, a grocer who also operated the Vineyard Tavern restaurant in 1941 on Maui. It was based on what he believed his grandfather would have cooked in 2012. The Tavern building will become a private club with the redevelopment of 1,100 acres under The Resort o by Jeffrey Group, founded Stone, and primar y investor
Reignwood Group under Dr. Chanchai Ruayrungruang. When the project to build a golf course club community is near completion, Yaamaguchi said they will look to see if they can rebuild a public restaurant. “It has been a great run but with the redevelopment of Princeville they are going to make that club private and we can no longer exist when our current customers cant have dinner there,” he said. “Jeff has given us the first right of refusal to open another tavern when they are near completing the socalled village or resort.”
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A BRILLIANT REDMAYNE AS STEPHEN HAWKING T
he famed British physicist Stephen Hawking has never had small ideas or small ambitions, least of all his audacious youthful quest to find a “theory of everything” — one that would explain the entire universe in one simple equation. He may not have found exactly that, but what Hawking has accomplished, we learn anew in James Marsh’s “The Theory of Everything,” featuring a superb Eddie Redmayne, is staggering. Diagnosed with motor neuron disease at 21, Hawking was given two years to live. A half century later, he remains very much alive at 72, and he and his ideas are known around the world; his “A Brief History of Time” has sold more than 10 million copies. It’s a daunting task to capture such a remarkable life in one movie, and “The Theory
of Everything” doesn’t totally escape the typical biopic trap of covering so much time that no one idea is explored deeply enough. Add to that the pressure of having a subject as wellknown as Hawking. On top of it all, there are the physical challenges of portraying his progressive disability, while also channeling the bold, complex and often impish spirit underneath. All this makes the performance of the youthful, freckled Redmayne, at 32 playing his first lead in a movie, so exciting, and reminiscent of another British actor’s memorable performance at the same age — Daniel Day-Lewis, in “My Left Foot.” We begin at Cambridge in 1963, with Stephen, a young graduate student in cosmology, exuberantly racing his bike around town, goofy and gangly, with huge black
glasses and an oversized grin to match. At a party, he spies the winsome Jane (Felicity Jones, thoughtful and touching here), and sets about pursuing her. Love blooms, and life’s possibilities appear as boundless as the universe — whether or not it has boundaries is a key question here — until Stephen starts experiencing marked clumsiness. After a bad fall, he’s diagnosed
Jane’s physical and emotional endurance to the limits (the film is based on Jane Hawking’s second memoir, adapted by screenwriter Anthony McCarten.) It will also survive Hawking’s near-death from pneumonia. A tracheotomy saves his life but deprives him of the ability to speak, leading to his famous computer-generated voice. Redmayne, relying on less and less of his body, with ALS, which will result in succeeds in expressing gradual muscular degener- more and more — with his ation. eyebrows, his eyes, and that “What about the brain?” broad smile, showing what he asks. “You’ll have the a humorous man Hawking same thoughts,” comes the can be. He’s heartbreaking, reply, “only eventually, no though, in the scene where one will know what they he essentially ends his are.” marriage, informing Jane Stephen falls into a deep that he’s asked his perky depression, saved only by nurse, Elaine Mason (Maxine Jane’s stubborn love. Thus Peake) to travel to America begins a marriage that will with him. last a quarter-century, proElaine will become duce three children and test Hawking’s second wife. Jane,
meanwhile, will marry a family friend to whom she’s grown close over the years. The various relationships feel somewhat airbrushed — perhaps not surprising given that the film is based on one person’s memoir. What shines through loud and clear, though, is the humanity in Hawking’s incredible story. “However bad life may seem, where there is life, there is hope,” the physicist tells an audience, and that line could seem hokey in some circumstances, but not here. If anyone gets to say that, it’s Stephen Hawking, so eloquently embodied in this film. “The Theory of Everything,” a Focus Features release, is rated PG-13 by the Motion Picture Association of America “for some thematic elements and suggestive material.” Running time: 123 minutes. Three and a half stars out of four.
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JUDY COLLINS COMING TO KCC CHRIS D’ANGELO TGIFR!DAY
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rammy Award-winning singer-songwriter Judy Collins crashes the Garden Island Jan. 22 to kick off her Hawaiian tour. Les Hershhorn of Lazar Bear Productions said that, to his knowledge, it will be Collins’ first time playing on Kauai and people can expect a night of fantastic music from an amazing performer. “All her hits, all the stuff people want to hear,” he said. “It will be a great show. She’s just tremendous.” For the last five decades, Collins has inspired audiences with
sublime vocals, boldly vulnerable song writing, personal life triumphs and a firm commitment to social activism, according to a release. The award-winning singer-songwriter is esteemed for her imaginative interpretations of traditional and contemporary folk standards and her own poignant original compositions. Her stunning rendition of Joni Mitchell’s “Both Sides Now,” from her landmark 1967 album Wildflowers, has been entered into the Grammy Hall of Fame. Hershhorn described
Collins as an icon of the ‘60s — one he is excited to bring to the islands. “There’s not a lot of icons left from my generation,” he said. The Kauai show kicks off a four-date Hawaii tour, with performances on Maui, Big Island and Oahu.
“She’s very excited about coming to Hawaii,” Hershhorn said. “She’s really up to the tour, looking forward to meeting and greeting her fans.” Collins began her impressive music career at 13 as a piano prodigy dazzling audiences by performing Mozart’s
“Concerto for Two Pianos.” But the hardluck tales and rugged sensitivity of folk revival music by artists such as Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger drew her away from a life as a concert pianist, states a release. Now 74, she is as creatively vigorous as ever, writing,
touring worldwide and nurturing fresh talent. “She brings a lot of peace and wholeness to a baby-boomer audience that grew up with this music,” Hershhorn said. The concert begins at 7:30 p.m. at the Kauai Community College Performing Arts Center. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. Tickets cost $45 for general admission, $65 for gold circle, and can be purchased online at www.lazarbearproductions.com or by calling 245-8352.
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LOVE IN ALL OF ITS FORMS T here’s a lot to be said about love in the world these days. After all, it’s not difficult to find a song that deals with some type of love, said Kauai Voices artistic director Randy Leonard, who is preparing the 36-member ensemble for their its concert of 2015 in two weeks. “What’s interesting about love is that there’s many different aspects of it — there’s good love, bad love, new love, lost love, found love and happy love,” Leonard said. “All these aspects of love extend to us in our lives, in our hearts, and in our music, so it gives us a great theme
to work with. It shows all those different angles on love, so that’s how I got started with the program.” To showcase love in all of its forms, Leonard said he is using it as the focus of the upcoming Kauai Voices concert on Friday, Jan. 16 and Saturday, Jan. 17. The biannual concert, called “Music of the Heart,” will begin on both days at 7:30 p.m. in St. Michael and All Angels Episcopal Church in Lihue. Familiar tunes include those composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber, Irving Berlin, Fred Ebb, John Kander and Jonathan Larson; recorded by artists such as Rascal
Flatts, The Nylons, the Eagles, The Beatles, and Jennifer Hudson; or sung in musicals like “Chicago,”“Rent,” “White Christmas,” and “The Pajama Game.” “What I always like to do is to have someone walk away with a feeling of being taken away for an evening — taken away from their typical lives and have something in the program touch them that is special to them and that’s why I really focus very hard on having a widely varied program,” Leonard
said. “Everybody likes different styles of music and it’s nice to expose people to things that they haven’t experienced and the things that touch them in their hearts that they’re familiar with. I want them to sit back, laugh, cry and experience all
kinds of different emotions.” The concert will also include instrumental accompaniments from Alan Van Zee on piano, Paul Koulbanis on guitar, Edd Cook on bass guitar, and Ron Margolis on percussion. Sandy Poehnelt, owner of
The Right Slice in Puhi, will also be on hand to sell pie slices and refreshments during the concert’s intermission. Tickets, which are available from the Kauai Voices website or from individual singers, are $12 in advance or $15 at the door. For more information, call Liz Hahn at 482-0133.
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AVERIE SOTO TGIFR!DAY Last year Auntie Beverly Kauanui, center wearing blue, brought her halau to E Kanikapila Kakou. This year she will be one of the leaders of the ukulele groups that will perform Jan. 19.
MUSIC INTO THE COMMUNITY E Kanikapila Kakou to host 10-week concert series
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s a young woman, Carol Yotsuda had a deep love for Hawaiian music. And although she strongly desired to learn its words, she never dreamed she would create a program that would teach others who wanted to learn as well. Now, 32 years later, Yotsuda’s program, E Kanikapila Kakou, meaning “let’s strike up the music,” will treat Kauai to its annual 10-week concert, “Music into the community.” “All I wanted to do was to learn to sing Hawaiian songs because I had a lot of Hawaiian singing friends,” Yotsuda said. “It’s a history, an oral history, of all the things that the Hawaiian people feel, do,
love, cherish, enjoy.” It’s “so woven into their lives you could just go through the songs and the hulas and you would get a sense of what the Hawaiian person is,” she added. While she was at her friend Sam Kaahanui’s house, Yotsuda expressed her desire for a place for her and others to learn Hawaiian songs. As a school principal, Kaahanui wrote a proposal for Yotsuda’s program idea and, after receiving funding for the project, EKK was launched in 1983. Although the program began small, it has grown to 450 members, who, in addition to learning to sing Hawaiian songs, are also able to enjoy local music perfor-
mances there. “The season brings a chance for all the local people and all the visitors who come to the program to meet and hear the stories and songs from the artists who see them, the composers who write them,” Yotsuda said. Beginning Jan. 19, the organization will feature different Hawaiian musicians, composers, dancers and storytellers to preform every Monday night in the Jasmine Ballroom of the Aqua Kauai Beach Resort from 6 to 9 p.m. From 6 until 7 p.m., the group will host an ukulele circle where an artist will teach them a Hawaiian song. EKK will kick off the festivities by featuring the
five ukulele groups from Kalaheo and Kaumakani, Lihue, Kilauea, Hanalei and Kapaa. The performances will conclude on March 23 and will feature local made products for sale, food booths and different classes and workshops. Although there is no fee for the concert, donations are welcome. On Monday, Jan. 26, E Kanikapia Kokou will feature the ukulele artists group “Kupaoa,” featuring Kellen Paik and his wife Lihau Hannahs. The couple’s instructor, Puakea Nogelmeier, will also be present at the concert as Kupaoa performs songs he composed.
The ukulele circle that gathers to play from 6 to 7 p.m. won’t meet Jan.19 because the entire evening will have presentations by ukulele musicians from all over Kauai.
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