Week of Friday, March 8, 2019 | Vol. 7, No. 10
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KAUAI HIGH SCHOOL POPS CONCERT 6:30 p.m. Kauai War Memorial Convention Hall Performances by the Concert Band, Jazz Ensemble, Ukulele Band and Chorus. Theme, “Queens.” Free. THURSDAY
KAUAI CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FIRST QUARTER GENERAL MEMBERSHIP MEETING 6:30 p.m. Kauai Marriott Resort & Beach Club Sponsored by Kauai Lifeguard Association. Forum includes Dr. Monty Downs, KLA president; Kalani Vierra, SUNDAY Kauai Fire Department Ocean Safety Bureau chief; AN EVENING OF JEWISH MUSIC Arryl Kaneshiro, County Council chair; Sue Kanoho, 5:30 to 7 p.m. Kauai Jewish Center, 4531 Pouli Kauai Visitors Bureau executive director; Paul Toner, Road, Waipouli Kauai Marriott Resort & Beach Club general manager; $10 at the door. Kauai’s “JuZone Band,” Ken Solin on Mike Coots, shark-attack survivor, photographer, guitar; Miles Greenberg, harmonica; Steve Dubey bodyboarder. Tickets are $70 by March 7, $80 after for on trumphet; Ron Margois, drums; and Toby chamber members, $90 for all others. Info: 245-7363 Brown, bass. STATE OF THE COUNTY ADDRESS WALK THE 88 SHRINES 8:30 a.m., Lihue Civic Center Mo‘ikeha Building Guided tours are at 10 a.m., noon and 2 p.m. at courtyard Lawai International Center in Lawai Valley Mayor Derek S.K. Kawakami delivers his first State of Donations accepted. Info: 639-4300, lm@hawaii. the County speech. Info: 241-4900, mayor@kauai. rr.com, www.lawaicenter.org gov
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ABOVE: The lemurs make their appearance in Madagascar in a scene from “Dreamworks Madagascar — A Musical Adventure Jr.” ON THE COVER: From left, Marty the zebra, portrayed by Ocean Amador; Gloria the hippo, portrayed by Bailey Contrades; Melman the giraffe, portrayed by Sage Keller; and Alex the lion, portrayed by Gingerr Hilliard, headline the production, presented by the Kilauea School Performing Arts Program today and Saturday.
‘FOOSA HUNGRY!’
‘Dreamworks Madagascar — A Musical Adventure Jr.’ staged today, tomorrow in Kilauea DENNIS FUJIMOTO TGIFR!DAY
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oosa hungry! Foosa want food.” The interaction of the hungry lioness and lemurs (that’s how you know you’re in Madagascar) is just one of the antics of the animals who end up getting lost from their comfortable confines of a New York zoo, and finding new adventures in Madagascar. The Kilauea School Performing Arts Program invites the community to escape the zoo of life tonight and Saturday starting at 6 p.m. at the school’s cafeteria when the curtain rises on “Dreamworks Madagascar — A Musical Adventure Jr.” “The saga follows four friends — Marty the zebra (portrayed by Ocean Amador),
Alex the lion (portrayed by Ginger Hilliard), Gloria the hippo (portrayed by Bailey Contrades), and Melman the giraffe (portrayed by Sage Keller) — who are thrust into an exciting, high-stakes, international adventure at the moment in which they start to imagine the possibilities beyond the safe environment in which they live,” said Farrah Krovoza, the production’s director and choreographer. “The Kilauea School students are on a similar journey as they experiment with new skill sets while venturing into new territory personally and creatively while forming new friendships through the shared experience of collaborating on this show,” she said. Admission is $10 for adults, $5 for SEE HUNGRY, PAGE 3
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students kindergarten through grade 12, and free for preschool and under. Tickets are available at the door, or at the school’s office at 828-1212. “Dreamworks Madagascar — A Musical Adventure Jr.” features original music and lyrics by George Noriega and Joel Someillan from a book by Kevin Del Aguila. Marty, celebrating his 10th year at the zoo, longs to experience life outside the zoo’s walls, and after eventually escaping, is pursued by his animal friends into New York
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ABOVE: Alex the lion and Marty the zebra are best friends in a New York zoo in this scene from the Kilauea School Performing Arts Program production of “Dreamworks Madagascar — A Musical Adventure Jr.” BELOW: The cast pauses for a group photo.
City, where they encounter escapades and police chasing them before being felled by tranquilizer darts.
Awakening in crates on a ship, the animals are thrown off course before being shipwrecked on the island of Madagascar. “Ultimately, it is only in being lost that they can begin to discover where they really belong,” Krovoza said. “Dreamworks Madagascar — A Musical Adventure Jr.” is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International. Jeremy Brown is the music director, Kayti Lathrop is the stage manager, Arnoud Tersteg handles lighting design, and Morgan Bowen heads the sound system. The production crew expresses its mahalo for the
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EAT, DRINK AND TALK STORY AT GINA’S CAFE IN WAIMEA It is the standard for good food, prices and friendly vibes BILL BULEY TGIFR!DAY
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henever we’re in Waimea, we have a particular place we like to stop. The reasons are simple: Fast, friendly service, good food, good prices, bright, clean atmosphere and, finally, a nice spot to relax. By now, you might know which particular place this is: Gina’s Cafe. This is one of those places where they want to make you feel right at home. That’s likely why it’s always busy for breakfast and lunch. They greet you with a smile, talk story, get the orders out quickly, and send you off feeling full and that your money and time were well spent there. It has some personality, too. The lineup can stretch out the door, onto the sidewalk, because you have to wait to order at the main counter. Don’t try to sneak in and grab a table and wait for the staff to take your order. That won’t happen. And people will not be happy if it looks like you’re in a rush and are trying to steal a table. Take a good look at the reader board and by the time it’s your turn, you’ll
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LEFT: The Waimea Wave omelet at Gina’s Cafe in Waimea includes ham, bell pepper, mushrooms and cheese. RIGHT: The breakfast platter comes with eggs, rice and Portuguese sausage.
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LEFT: The offerings are many at Gina’s Cafe. RIGHT: This is a popular stop in Waimea.
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Well, maybe you can. The Sunrise Sandwich, at $5.95, is excellent. It comes with your choice of meat, one egg, cheese and toast. This might just be the better deal around. The Waimea Wave omelet, for
$9.95, is enough so you come away satisfied, but not so much you come away with your belt needing to be let out a few notches. It’s good, too, with three eggs, ham and bell peppers, mushrooms and cheese, and two slices of toast. If it’s lunch you’re after, the burgers are the best, ranging from $4.50 for the basic hamburger to $11.75 for the lava burger stuffed
with cheese and topped with bacon, onion and more cheese and fries. Specialty sandwiches include the BLT for $4.25, crispy chicken for$5.25 and a taro burger for $11.95. Watch the reader board for “Today’s Special.” The other day, it was biscuits and gravy or $3 for a slice of apple pie. Can’t go wrong
with either. Gina’s Cafe does it right. And it doesn’t take long for your meal to arrive. If it’s really busy, people may be staring at you, waiting for you to give up your table. So, you might not want to gab for too long. But it’s there no lineup, sit, talk story, listen, and you’ll likely learn in a short conversation about all that is happening in town that
day and the coming days. And you’ll get a great meal to boot. That’s how it should be. Now, take that stroll around town and discover the rest of Waimea and all the shops out there. Tell them Gina sent you. ••• Bill Buley, editor-in-chief, can be reached at 245-0457 or bbuley@thegardenisland.com.-
‘CAPTAIN MARVEL’ GETS AN AVERAGE INTRODUCTION LINDSEY BAHR ASSOCIATED PRESS
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f there is one thing that’s true of most of the movies in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, it’s that they have life and spirit to spare. It’s a kind of an intoxicating joy that dares even the most comic book-apathetic to get onboard and delight in the spectacle, and it usually comes down to the characters. You might not care about whatever Earth-threatening foe is at large this time, but you care about Captain America, Black Panther and Black
Widow and enjoy spending a few hours with them. I spent over two hours with Captain Marvel/Carol Danvers and I still have no idea what her personality is. Sure, there’s a lot more going on in “Captain Marvel” (two and a half stars out of four), but it’s a pretty egregious failing considering that the creative bigwigs at Marvel had 10 years and 20 films to work it out. It’s hard to say whether that’s a flaw in Brie Larson’s performance or a failure of the script, but I came out of the film from writers/directors Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck not
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Brie Larson shows her mean eyes as Captain Marvel in a scene from “Captain Marvel.”
caring all that much about her beyond what her dazzling powers might mean for the next Avengers film, which is perhaps the lamest way of all to experience these movies.
The story drops you in the middle of things and gives Carol Danvers a convenient case of amnesia as she tries to piece together her past by dreaming of Annette Bening while training to be
a soldier with Jude Law on the planet of Kree. She is told at least 10 times in the first 10 minutes of the film that she needs to control her emotions, mostly by Law. This is a charged thing to say to a woman, but also confusing because “emotional” is the last word I would use to describe the character as she’s presented. She’s more impulsive and bullheaded than anything else. Things start to come together when she crashlands on Earth in the middle of a Los Angeles Blockbuster Video somewhere around 1995, which you know be-
cause there’s a “Babe” poster and a cardboard display for “True Lies.” In LA, she comes across a young Nick Fury, played by a digitally de-aged Samuel L. Jackson, whose infectious liveliness is a godsend. Together they try to both track down shapeshifting alien invaders called the Skrulls (led by Ben Mendelsohn) and also get answers about her past, which honestly sounds a lot more interesting than her present. But this is the origin story they went with and it does not include Bening teaching Larson how to fly a fighter plane.
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‘PAYBACK’ TAKES YOU ON A RIDE INTO KEY WORLD WAR II BATTLE BILL BULEY TGIFR!DAY
at the Battle of Midway.” Avenge it they did, but at great cost. Moore tells a brilliant story about ne of the critical World War II victories for America how this might have been the most important battle of World War II. It’s in the Pacific campaign against Japan came at the Battle of one everyone should know. With perhaps just a few minutes differMidway. ence in the arrival of American dive This, many historians have said, was the turning point of the war for bombers over the Japanese fleet of the United States. Through courage, carriers on that fateful day — which planning, execution, intuition, sac- would leave them ablaze, smoking rifice and a bit of luck, the fortunes and doomed — it’s questionable as to what might have gone on. Japan of war turned in America’s favor at was now retreating and the U.S., this point, and Japan would never island by island, was pushing them recover from the losses it suffered. back. That’s why this book, “Pacific It all started with the U.S. success Payback,” by Stephen L. Moore, is a must-read for anyone interested in at Midway due to the courage and sacrifice of those aviators. what happened and why at MidRemember, finding ships in the way. He tells the story of “The carrier aviators who avenged Pearl Harbor Pacific Ocean was a trick in itself.
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Actually landing bombs on those ships, while facing anti-aircraft fire and attacks from fighters protecting those ships, all while diving from two miles above, took skill
and bravery. Yet, that’s what happened. Moore covers this with details, and keeps the story moving. He introduces us right into the midair fights that often ended with the losses of American pilots and gunners. He writes, in his epilogue: “The Battle of Midway was the most decisive naval victory for the United States during World War II, and it was decided by carrier aviators flying the Douglas SBD Dauntless. The war was still young, and four more major carrier battles would be fought in the Pacific, three of which included SBD dive-bombers. Dauntless alumni from the first six months of the Pacific War participated in each of those clashes. Yet the prospect for
an American victory in World War II was achieved by the carrier aviators who took the fight to the Japanese during those first six months. By June 1942, the advance of the Japanese war machine had been checked at times, and was forcibly thrown back at Midway.” “Pacific Payback” is an outstanding story, and gives us a look at just how brave these aviators were — many gave their lives, knowing when they flew in on a torpedo run they would not survive. But they went anyway. Their sacrifice opened the skies to the dive bombers from above, and changed the course of history. ••• Bill Buley, editor-in-chief, can be reached at 245-0457 or bbuley@thegardenisland.com.
JULIANNE MOORE SHINES IN ‘GLORIA BELL’ JAKE COYLE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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veryone is vanishing around Julianne Moore’s title character in Sebastian Lelio’s “Gloria Bell” (two and half stars out of four).The disappearances don’t come with blood-curdling shrieks or thundering score cues, but with the humdrum ebb of middle age. People just move away or recede from view. Gloria is a divorced, fifty-something Los Angeles insurance agent by day and dances disco at a nightclub by evening. Her son, Peter (Michael Cera), is caring for a newborn while his wife is away somewhere in
the desert “finding herself.” Her daughter, Anne (Caren Pistorius), has an extreme surfer boyfriend chasing waves abroad — and she might soon join him. Gloria’s closest colleague at work is sent packing. And, most of all, her promising new boyfriend Arnold (John Turturro) has a funny habit of disappearing every time his ex-wife calls. Just about the only one who’s consistently there for Gloria is a hairless cat that keeps turning up in her apartment. “It’s like an Egyptian mummy cat,” she complains. “Gloria Bell” isn’t a dour midlife character study but a warmly affectionate one, in
large part due to Moore’s radiant, lived-in performance as a woman committed to self-renewal. The film is an English-language remake of Lelio’s own 2013 drama “Gloria,” which starred Paulina Garcia in the lead role. With a dreamlike sheen (aided by Matthew Herbert’s technicolor score), “Gloria Bell” follows Gloria through her modest days where any disappointments or slights are usually worked out at the nightclub. “When the world blows up, I hope I go down dancing,” Gloria says brightly to friends. Gloria’s world isn’t imploding but it’s not exactly soaring, either. Her life, like most, is full of impermanent
connections and stabs at self-improvement. But she is blessedly undaunted, like a personification of the uplifting spirit of the Laura Branigan anthem “Gloria.” In Los Angeles traffic in her car, she belts out ‘80s songs. Vulnerable and guileless, this is as natural as Julianne Moore has ever been, even if her Gloria feels too secure for us to ever fear much for her future. It’s at the nightclub that Gloria meets Arnold, an ex-Marine who owns a paintball park. His first line at the bar is: “Are you always this happy?” ‘’Some days I am,” responds Gloria, fresh off the dance floor. “Some days I’m not.”
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John Torturro and Julianne Moore check in in this scene from “Gloria Bell.”
Their budding relationship moves to the center of the film but Arnold — as all paintball park owners do — remains a mysterious figure. He’s clearly still attached to his ex-wife whose calls disturb nearly every romantic
moment. While smitten with Gloria, Arnold is so absurdly tethered to his ex-wife and their apparently unstable young adult daughters that the character — though so poignantly rendered by Turturro — verges on parody.
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he Big Brothers Big Sisters Hawaii bowling tournament, a fundraiser for the Kauai branch of Big Brothers Big Sisters Hawaii, was sold out Saturday at the Kauai Bowling Center. Nicole Cowan, Kauai Big Brothers Big Sisters Hawaii island coordinator, said the goal was to raise at least $26,000. Food was catered by Mark’s Place and Contemporary Flavors Catering, and a silent auction interrupted the bowling with bidding. DJ Marv De Vera provided entertainment via his mobile disc jockey station, and prize giveaways spiced the evening that was costume themed for the ‘80s. Proceeds from the annual bowling party help with Big Brothers Big Sisters Hawaii programs, including the conducting of background checks on volunteers to ensure child safety, as well as providing support for children, families and volunteers to build and sustain long-lasting relationships.
Nicole Cowan, Aries Labanon, Mayor Derek S.K. Kawakami
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