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oticed anything dif­ der. "Have extremists ferent about the commandeered the Honolulu airwaves airwaves?" lately? Say you're You got it. Last cruising down H-1 summer, the FM side in your finemachine of KDEO radio, for and you flip on the years a country and radio. George Bush gibbering. western bulwark, was Flip the dial. Paula Abdul. Flip leased by a visionary, again. Muzak. Again. Hall and if chaotic, outfit that Oates. Agai ... whoa, wait a has transformedthe sta­ minute. Was that really the tion into something Red Hot Chili Peppersyou just unique in the annals of American broadcast­ ing: totally listener­ programmedradio - heard? You leave the dial where it is- 102.7 FM- and wonder if this is forreal. Is someone really playing the Dead Kennedys' Let's Lynch the Landlord on commercial Honolulu radio? And The Melodians doing Rivers of Babylon? Next, unbelievably, comes the Village People, fol­ lowed by Nirvana, Modern English, Bob Marley, Public Enemy, Social Distortion and a lot of strange but funky tion now transmits JULIA STEELE a phenomenal col­ lection of music, sounding stuff you've never concocted in an heard before.Interspersed with environment of the music is the omnipresent barely-controlled phrase, "the radio revolution," anarchy. repeated over and over again, Listening to the a shibboleth of the DJs, a station is like liv­ maxim of the music directors, ing a perpetual a slogan of the salespeople and waking dream a liturgy for the listeners. that you're in a ''What's going on?" you won- .. . --. -.---- i.------

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viewers: Young Japanese female ogy; an etiquette column on how to tourists in Hawaii are called "yellow answer AIDSquestions from well­ cabs" because they let you get on meaning but ignorant folk(like some and off any time, any place, and of our Big Papers' gossip colum­ ' , ' they're favored because they are nists); a poem written by a young "clean" and (the writer says) easy. man with AIDS;and a politicalanal­ They're also called "7-ll"s, accord­ ysis of the epidemic (a piece that is ing to the scribe; they are open, you remarkably even in tone when you (UJSINE CONSULTANTS see, most hours of the day. consider the Reagan-Bush adminis­ .._..,�· . tration'sunconscionable reaction to 'f?-'· :� Politically-correct l - the crisis). As the AIDS pandemic ..j:. ·; Whe�er !ts a small cockta� .party, or anelabo �ate we1ding with dumerfor 500, Cuisine Consultants willprovide - fantasies reaches into alleged "low-risk" expertinput for all facets of planning"The Perfect Party." Video stores recently phoned by groups in the '9 0s, we're lucky \ \' indeed that our gay community and .� "-;, Treatyourself or someone special to one of our cooking ' ' the Weekly all reported very brisk ::.·.-�:- classes - exotic and international cuisine offered. Yellow Cabs sales of Fantasia,Disney's 1941 ani­ others have responded so skillfully and thoroughly - and often in the Visitorsto MagicIsland (or at least mated feature.If you wereroped into l face of stupefying antipathy, igno­ ,·, }t those who read handwritten kanji) watching it this season and thought 528-4808 it reada littledifferently than in years rance and/orindifference from those tell us that thumbtacked to palm ·�·... _, past, you're absolutely right. In an who don't yet know how Close To ______trees,stuck on bushes and taped to effort to be "politically correct," Home this unprecedentedillness will rocks, this message, and variations soon hit. thereof, can be found in profusion. Disney artistscut out partsof images fromsome frames and obscured or We quote: "Japanese young ladies - in this world of ours, there are a deleted others completely. Long lot of playboys and otherevil males shots featuringblacks, brown.s and yellows in domestic-servitudeposes runningaround. Ifyou seesuch peo­ FRY& CO. ple, please do not go out with them. or wearingstereotyped clothing were They will get you drunk, or drug nixed. All of this activity is market­ Bishop Trust Building driven,of course, thoughthe irony of you, then take you home and rape 1000 Bishop Street, Suite 802 all the discretionary cutting is that you - whichcan be the cause of 96813 Fantasia Honolulu, Hawaii AIDS. Even in Hawaii there are is now more contempora­ neous than many of today's films, many bad males. Whites, blacksand 531-6726 which still extol Asian and gender - Phone (808) yellow racesas well, Japanese males stereotypes.Guess we won't get our included. I have lived in this town stockingsstuffed with those changes for many years and have seen foranother 50 years. numerous Japanese girls pay the Who'son first, Providersof confuientia,/investment price, but Japanese don't take legal wattson second action, do they? This is no laughing Upcoming 1992 legislation in the seroicesfor global Stocks, Bonds, and matter,so beforeit is too late, please Isles will include a proposal from be careful, and have an enjoyable the state's Energy Division (DBED) Futures Management. vacation. (Signed) Beachboy." to amend Oahu's building code on On Kalakaua, with calligraphyby energy-efficientequipment. If the what appears to be a differenthand, amendment passes, air-conditioners, the basic message has been placed .. � ... ···:...______. lighting and water heaters would be =' ·''--�------strategically: "From the citizens of replaced with newer, more "global­ Hawaii best wishes fora good tour, t·� � ------. friendly"models; and new buildings and the hope that all Japanese would be designed to minimize Educational Tours to the Females will act in a way which exposure to the sun and maximize reflectspride in beinga Japanese and insulation, cross-ventilationand solar in a way appropriate to being an Film criticRoger Ebertfast asleep energy. Figures? You need figures? adult woman." during a recent filmfest showing of On a hot August midaftemoon, our Meanwhile, back in Tokyo, on award-winner The Inland Sea ... island currently demands about 1250 Tetsuko Kuroyanagi's afternoonTV "Contaminated Water" signs placed megawatts of energy. (Pay attention talk-show (much like Oprah)a guest, along the Ala Wai Canal don't work now: one megawatt equals 1 million a Japanese writer now living in very well; many of the fishermen 100watt ligbt-bulbs). If the proposal Shanghai Hawaii, tells the millions of matinee there speak little or no English... Guilin 3-Day passes on all Islands, the savings in Yangtze Channel 22 is planning to upgrade 20 years, proponents say, would give and HONOLULU its community-service program in Hong Kong River us a reduction of 280 megawatts of '92 ... The University of Hawaii. electrical use. Looked at on a more Gorges Board of Regents will soon vote on Cruise personal level, each household with a film/videomajor forthe university an energy-efficient water heater Beijing system, with Kapiolani and Leeward could save money; the heater would, Xian Vol. 1, No. 24 Community Colleges offering in fact, pay for itself in five years Taiyuan December 25, 2991 "feeder" two-year programs... One · and would last about 15. Alas, Chongqing Publisher and Managing of the biggest gay clubs on Kuhio is energy-efficiencyisn't a veryglam­ Yichang Editor Laurie V.Carlson said to be in financialtrouble ... prices orous idea to movers-and-shakers; Wuhan Senior Editor Julia Steele are going way up in several of it just doesn't seem to have the old Calendar Editor Derek Ferrar Honolulu's most popular restau­ Nanjing Editorial Assistant conquer-the-earth charismaof a new rants... 1992 will see beagles trained, coal-fired power plant at an indus­ Wuxi Ann Marie Swan at $10,000 a clip, to sniff out Dazu Contributing Writers tlial park. • Bob Green, Mary Brennan, Guamanian brown tree snakes at Suzhou Cecil Adams, Liza Simon, Honolulu Airport. The reptiles have Changsha Richard Field, Dwight D. Taylor already destroyednine separate bird Contributing Illustrators species on Guam.... Factsof the Week Linda Fong, MattGhali CartoonistsMatt Groening, Ufelines 1990salaries of "THE CHINA CONNECTION" Slug Signorino One of the most undercovered Art Director Bud Linschoten ongoing news storiesin Hawaii over selected 14, 20 and 26 Day Tours Graphic Production In cooperation with Tianjin Travel and TourismCorporation Blaine Fergerstrom, the last few years is how well our government Isabella Forster state's AIDS crisis (and "crisis" is officials A Full-Service Travel Agency Contributing Photographers the word) has been handled, and David L. Moore, Bob Hsing responded to, by a bevy of unsung Governor...... $94, 780 Classified Manager Inter-Island Coupons volunteers, organizations and foun­ Lieutenant Governor... $90,041 Isabella Forster Mayor, Honolulu ...... $84,725 Ticket Delivery Available Advertising Mindy Jaffe dations. 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Too bad, because it's an biographers and became the patron much forthe encyclopedia. unnecessary waste of the beautiful saint of children, virgins, sailors, In the small coastal town of story behind the myth. travelers, those in peril on the high Demre, which encompasses ancient The Columbia Encyclopediasays seas, scholars, merchants, pawnbro­ Myra, a large yellow sign with the unequivocally: 'The career and qual­ kers and numerous medieval guilds legend "Baba Noel" (Turkish for ities attributed to Santa Claus are all of Sicily, Greece and Russia. His Father Christmas) directs the trav­ recently acquired." Oh? Come with name probably derives from the eler to the fifth-century Byzantine me to the southwestern shores of Greek word for" people's victor." In church dedicated to St. Nicholas. what is now Turkey, circa 300 AD., his lifetime, he was renowned for Probablythe oldest church in Turkey, to the country of Lycia, a land of rescuing shipwrecked sailors, trav­ it has four aisles and a rounded, COFFEE MANOA elers, prisoners, the distressedin gen­ three-window apse in which rests a 10,000-foot mountains with freez­ MANOA MARKETPLACE • HONOLULU, HAWAII ing winters, scanty summer rainfall eral and, more than once, his city of small stone altar. Cloisters line one Myra. Supposedly, he once com- side, and the remains of St. Nicholas I and, in the central region, no run­ I\ ning water - only wells that fre­ may originally have rested in, or A place to unwind ...relax ...Collect scattered thomJht5. quently dried up when summer Dwight D. Taylor under, a long niche on the other. The Visit with frien9s ...A place with �ood coffeeand tea. came. As one archaeologist put it: church is rather beautiful in struc­ An espresso bar with sweet treats ...The place to be. "Altogether a hard place, and it had mandeered com from an imperial ture. A sizable gardenwith a modem a hardy folk." Settlement is traced cargo fleet, averting faminefor the statue of.Father Christmas carrying Live music Tuesdays from 7 -9 pm. No cover. back to the third millennium B.C., Myrans. his bag of gift shelters the basilica. Open 7 days a weeR. At Manoa MarRetplace andLycians were among the bravest Nicholas' patronageof virgins and By the sixth century the church had of the Trojan allies in Homer's lliad. children, however, derives not from become a well-known pilgrimage Between Woodlawn & East Manoa Roads From Patara, the most important miracles but from the simplest and shrine. In 808 the invading Saracens harbor ofLycia and once a religious kindest of stories. According to leg­ set out to destroy the tomb, failing center with an oracle that rivalled end, he secretly threw three purses when the saint supposedly misdi­ the one at Delphi, came a true of gold by night into the house of an rected them to another sarcophagus. descendant of this ancient stock, a honorable citizen of Myra who had In 1087 he was less vigilant, and boy named Nicholas. Educated at lost his fortune, thus providing Italian sailors and merchants stole nearby Xanthus, the greatest city of dowries for the man's three daugh­ the body and brought it to Bari, on Lycia, he traveled to Egypt and ters, enabling them to marry. The the southeast coast of Italy, to serve Palestine, became a Christian, was story appears to be the origin of the as their protector. Bari then became imprisoned during the Roman pawnbroker's symbol of three gold the pilgrimage point, and even today emperor Diocletian's persecution of balls. one finds at its charming church of the new sect, then released under This evolved into a reputation for St. Nicholas no ready reference to Constantine. Though obviously tossing bags of coins down chim­ the great saint's trueorigins. Special young, Nicholas attended the neys of poor village girls in general, servicesare still held besidethe tomb Council of Nicaea in 325 A.D., with the sameobjective. Those small in Myra on Dec. 6. where he supposedly slapped a mesh bags of chocolate "coins" in Santa Claus doesn't have to be a heretic "so that his bones rattled." gold foil that appear in candy stores bubble that pops when a child turns One senses why Nicholas became during the holidays, and our myth five.All of the long, traditional his­ bishop of ancient Myra, some 40 of secret gifts fromSanta Claus via tory indicates that he was a real man miles fromPatara, at an early age - the chimney, are probably derived - and a strong, courageous, pur­ an event honored in medieval Europe from this story. The transformation poseful, intelligent one, who lived by a widespread custom of electing of Saint Nicholas into Father forothers. Any child who is ready locally each year, on Dec. 6, the Christmas, which took place firstin to shed the myth is ready to receive Saint's feast day, a boy bishop who Germany, grew naturally from the that message. Why not give it? "served" through Christmas. association of Christmas with chil­ San Francisco Bay Guardian Nicholas was revered when alive dren, family and the giving of gifts. • December 25, 1991 • Honolulu Weekly • 3 Hawaii CollectorsE xpo '92 Continued from Page 1 Hawaii'sPre mierArt, Anti,que & CoUectibks Marketplace February 21,22, 23 - 1992 BlaisdellExhibition Hall

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he actual tabulating of the he station's fearless sound it). "It's the fourth of July, so get out ballots takes place in a small is mirrored by the person­ there and burn some crosses, or cottage on King Street alities of the DJs. "KDEO's explode fireworks, whatever it is ." where Jennifer Winter, deejays are not plastic, Mob's outlandish shows are Norm's daughter, sits typ­ we're real," says Pinkie, KDEO's most controversial-some ing furiouslyinto a massive who hosts the Anarchy Riot love them; some hate them. Either computer. Every couple of every Saturday night from7 way, poeple listen. (Moh,who works seconds she creates a new file and to midnight and an only slightly days as a substitute teacher for the types in requests, like Copernicus' more regimentedSunday afternoon State Department of Education, is They Own Everything or Social show. "DJs can't come on the air recognized at every school he goes ·" '\ Distortion's Mommy s Little Monster here sounding like Ken dolls or to, where he is known as "Mt� "" · or Killer Pussy's Te enage Enema Barbie dolls. We don't want to sound Mohammed.") Moh has been on the Nurses in Bondage. There are also like computer animation." air in the Islands since 1984, at the evergreen requests, which form Pinkie spent most of the last KTUH, K-108 and now at KDEO. •. a de facto Permanent Top 10: Just decade on the air in L.A., operating Fans of his infamous Sunday mom ... , ·· Like Heaven by The Cure, Kiss under the monniker Agent Ava Then ing talk show on KTUH still giggle­ Them fo r Me by Siouxsie and the followed a stint as a scriptwriter at about the days of the "non-prophet Banshees, anything by Jane's KHET, a spell as a K-Five girl and Mohammed," whose show was ,. Addiction, anything by Bob Marley. timeat another radio stationin town. sponsored by Ernie'sIcon Shop of "Actually," says Jennifer, a solid­ Finally she made it to KDEO. In Waipahu and CelestialAirlines ('Toe looking, intelligent woman with long addition to her two shows a week, airline that fliesin the faceof God"). brown hair, "Bob Marley gets more she does a multitudeof production As we go to press, it's unclear negative votes than anyone. But he and createsEarthwatch. a daily news whether or not Moh will remain at gets such a huge nwnber of positive programon environmentalconcerns. KDEO. He was recentlysuspended votes that the negatives are out­ Lips also spent time in LA. plying fordoing what he does best- talk­ weighed." Jennifer says that a war the radio trade. Originally from ing. Or, well, not exactly talki:tig- ,. over reggae is being waged through Hawaii, he got his firstjob in radio after being told one night to coof it the ballots, a war that is largely on the Big Island wherewas quickly with the talk show, he playecf played out along class and ethnic fired forreplacing Julio Iglesias with speeches by Martin Luther King. lines. The majority of requests for Missing Persons; but the station JFK and FDR. The Sheriff- who the genre come from the Leeward relented, and he spent three years in runs the personnel departmentof this side, a predominantly local and Hilo. From '85 to '89 he was in the "radio democracy"with a firmaUt<>'"' City of Angels at KROQ, one of cratichand - apparently didn't see SouthernCaliforni a's biggest (some the humor and took Mohammed off might say most overblown) new the air for seven days (listeners who wave stations. He returned to the called to findout what was up were Islands and short stints at The Fox told he "was on a leave of absence in and KCCN-FM(where his weekend Bangladesh"). Will Mohammed show was rated nwnber one) before remain with the station?. He hopes- arriving at KDEO. so. "Julie," he confides,"Norm can Kathy Nakagawa is currently fire,but he can't shoot."Wm ter says KDEO's music director. She recently the suspension is only temporary. gave up her middle of the day show to concentrate solely on comman­ he station is still experi..: deering music, though she still menting with programming counts down the Top 50 with Norm and staffand, as a result,the every Saturday. Of the station'spro­ air sound is constantly gramming she says, ''First you gotta changing. Partly in response_ educate people about music, you to the deejays' requests for· have to show them that it's all the a little moreautonomy from- same notes, that it's all intercon­ the play lists, KDEO has instituted. nected and that different music is "unchain the deejay'' segments at the just different interpretations. Once end of each air shift,where the jocks you start to break people's barriers actually get to choose - indepen­ about music, other barriers start to dently -what goes out over the air. fall." Then she asks with a laugh, There is also "monkey time," essen­ "Does that sound like B.S.?" tially the equivalent of all-request Unlike Pinkie, Kathy and Lips, radio, where callers are allowed to most deejays at Radio Free Hawaii request songs and get them played were recruited fromHonolulu's col­ right then and there (as long as the lege station, KTUH-FM, still the songs haven't received more nega­ island's best venue for learning the tive votes than positives). And, much pure, unfettered art of radio. Within to the delight of the station's hard­ increasingly impoverished area; most the restrictionsof the FCC (no 2 Live core fans and aspiring radio stars, votes against it come fromHawaii Kai, Crew before lunch) and show for­ KDEO now puts guest deejays on a comparatively affluentand predom­ matting (Jazz, Rock, Classical, etc.), the air. Many of these novice jocks inantly white suburb. Conversely, the KTUHjocks are given absolute free­ are high school students who are majority of votes against heavy metal, dom to determinethe content of their thrilledto play their school's Top 10 the other consistently controversial shows. FormerKTUHer Dave O'Day and generallyraise broadcast hell for music on the air at KDEO, come from is the morning man, a hyped-up an hour at a time. the Leeward side; the most votes for. homeboy with a bandanna wrapped In the last Arbitron rating period, metal come fromEast Oahu. around his head, who rants about the KDEOwas rated the I Ith most pop­ Despite the trends,though, Jennifer radio revolution and slams "coffee ular radio station in the state after says it's follyto make ethnic general­ bongs" - 32 ounces of lukewarm just fourmonths on the air. The next izations about music. "Not all locals caffeine-ladden liquid all in one go. Arbitron ratings results will be like reggae," she says, "and not all (Since Lion Coffee has taken over released in January, and Winter white people don't." She points to sponsorship of O'Day's coffee-guz­ thinks there's a good chance the sta­ KDEO's new programof placing bal­ zling minute, the segment has been tion will enter the state's top 10. lot boxes in the schools to illustrate renamedthe "wham barnjava slam," Nonetheless, he says, "I'm a bit frus­ the impossibility of stereotyping by thus conforming to currentmores by tratedthat we don't seem to bemov­ age, gender, race or wealth. "In the referring only to legal drugs.) ing at the pace that rwanted to - I same school, we get votes forThe The real maverick of the station, really didn't expectus to be thisslow Cure, Metallica, Bob Marley and however, is a garrulousBangladeshi gettingoff the growid.But when you Mozart," she says. Currently KDEO namedMohammed, a formerKTUH have intensity like we have, it's just has 15 ballot boxes in the schools. ethno-shock jock, who talks inces­ a matter of time beforeit growsand Says morningjock Dave O'Day, santly (and nearly incoherently) spreads.We get so many incredible 'We're tryingto focus more on the about lynchings, Ronnie Reagan, letters - 15-page letters that say teens.Right now, they'relistening to George Bush, the meaning of we'rethe greatestthing thatever hap­ 1-94 which is just feeding them shit democracy, the rise of Fascism and pened.The intensity is phenomenal." music. We want teens to get a little any other political,social or religious more inquisitive and realizewhat's topic that he can get his hands on. • out there.We want them to grabthe "All righteeee!" Mohammed roots of life instead of just sitting screamed one day this summer in back and having a blase attitude." his now trademark South Asian Jennifer says the largest listening audi­ accent (so thick that it begata rumor Top to bottom: Pinkie Passion,Mad Mohammed, Sheriff Norm ence - by far - is males 18 to 24. that he is a white Texan who's faking December 25, 1991 • Honolulu Weekly • 5 All cab1dm 111f,m11<111on m11,1 /,: 1,Hii cd /" no"n u11 \'i'd11.:,day 1t1 r, H<'ct, h:f, 11,• /111/,/,cm1CJn Ca/1 528-1185 m :; aJMffiffl; m d&E·m mm IT &£11¥ r .mm e ¥ 1 Blttffii ·TM f ! if! !III CALENDAR December 25--31

High School auditorium: 7 & 9 p.m. Academy of Arts Theatre, 900 S. Iona Pear Dance Theatre Beretania St.: 2:30 - 5:30 p.m. Music concert featuring all three of Gabby Movement performances "in harmony Tradewinds Traveling Puppet Tbis Bandits Sometimes hot, Pahinui's musical sons - Cyril, Bia with the earth and the times." Theatre This troupe from Kauai uses isthe sometimes cool - never tepid. and Martin - playing together Blaisdell ConcertHall, 777 Wa rd Ave.: puppetry to tell Hawaiian legends. second year Ka waiahao Church grounds. 6:30, publicly for the first time. This one's a 10 p.m. Blaisdell&hibition Hall, 777 Ward in Honolulu fo r the non-alcoholic New 7:45 & 9 p.m. must. KalanimokuBldg, Beretania Lullabye'sSalon Creole vaudeville Ave.: 2:30 - 5:30 p.m. Year's Eve communityart sfe stival Kenny Endo andSpirit Sounds Ave. between Punchbowl and Alapai forthe '90s, featuring song, dance and First Night, which also runsin 80 Endo, a master of Japanese taiko streets: 7 & 8:15 p.m. pantomime. Kawaiahao Church other U.S. and Canadian cities. Tbis drumming, bangs his heads and leads meeting rm.: 6:45, 8:15 & 9:45 p.m. year'sfe stival, which will take place at his wind and bass ensemble in Plus... Na Hula 0' La'iKealoha Folk Life 73 locations in the downtown area on traditional and contemporary Body Workers of Hawaii Melt into a Festival favorites from Lanai. Tenney the afternoon and evening of Dec. 31, compositions. Ka!animoku Bldg., Theaterand New Year's massage. Queen Emma Theater, St. Andrew's Cathedral: 7:45 features 115 events, ranging/ram Beretania Ave. between Punchbowl Building, Queen Emma St., mauka of & 10:15 p.m. music and magic to marionettes and and Alapai streets: 10:15 & 11:15 p.m. Dance Beretania Ave.: 7 p.m. on. massage. To helpplan your evening, Honolulu Symphony The Symph Afro-Jazz Dancers See articleon Mad Musketeers Watch forthese we at the Weekry offe r our opinion on rings in the Neues Ja hr with an all­ Page 7. The Magnificent Procession trained fencers who will duel fortheir a fe w intriguing events. A complete Viennese program. Blaisdell Concert starts 5:45 p.m. at Thomas Square Kids honor - and your entertainment. guide to First Night activitiesis Hall, 777 Ward Ave.: 6:30 & 7:45 p.m. and moves down Beretania and Hawaii Volcano CircusThree rings, Rovingper formances. available (with purchaseof a $5 Musical Playground Be any kind of Bishop to King. with everything under the Big Top Waikiki Acrobatic Troupe Gravity­ button, required fo r entry to some musician you wish with Steve Chinese Opera A good chance to but the animals. Blaisdell&hibition defying fe ats to rival the Flying Nun. events) at LibertyHo use, Food/and, Rosenthal's handmade instruments. get introduced to one of the most Hall, 777 Ward Ave.: 2:30 - 5:50 p.m. 'ThomasSq uare. 7:30 & 8:30 p.m. • Honfed and Blockbuster Video. Enjoy. Skygate, King St. between Punchbowl elaborate artforms on earth. McKinley Illusions Native American magic.

gets at the heart, and soul, of the matters at back. -M.B. UttleMan Tate Jodie Foster shows promise hand. Highly recommended. For the Boys For the birds. A lumbering as a director in this carefully crafted "audi­ Film Bugsy Yet another gangster movie. But and anachronistic self-canoniz.ation by Bette tion" film abouta child prodigy. WithDianne Criticism byBob Green unlessotherwise this one - about the hood who conceived Midler, For the Boys is one of those brassy­ Wiest and Harry Connick Jr. (a former child noted. of and "built" Las Vegas - is different. entertainer-through-the-decades movies in prodigy himself). Recommended. Directed by Barry Levinson (Avalon), this which everyone sports blue hair and wears Man in the Moon No one does rites-of­ First Run one has resonances sorely missing fromthis face putty to indicate superannuation. The adolescence passage films like director Brief reviews of selected first-runfilms in year's earlier mob epics. With Warren Beatty film seems loosely based on the career of Robert Mulligan (To Kill a Mockingbird). town. Confirm theaters, dates and times. as Siegel. Recommended. Martha Raye (who's suing Midler). The first Here's another; word is that it's one of the The AddamsFamily A 'IV-thin, but divert­ TheButcher's Wife Terry Hughes, director third is okay, wid1 Midler in good form as a best films of the year (which in 1991 ing, story about a potential Uncle Fester of 1V's Golden Girls, left the series to do shady-lady, but the film disintegrates as she amounts to faint praise indeed). imposter who wreaks havocon the Addams this "comedy" about a psychic country girl becomes increasinglyennobled. Directedby My Girl Macauley Culkin gets his first kiss Family unit. Wid1 Anjelica Huston and Raul (Demi Moore) who moves to the city with Mark Rydell (The Rose). and then dies of beestings. It's a box-office Julia. The family'saltogether "ooky" lifestyle her new husband and discovers a shrink TheHitman A Chuck Norris thing. This time sensation. earnedthe film $24.6 million on its opening (Jeff Daniels, wasted again). Think about everyone's favorite death dispenser stars as NecessaryRoughness A college-football Golden Girls weekend in the U.S. of A. the. worst episode you ever a peace officer who "goes undercover to "comedy" with Scott Bakula and 1V's Sin­ American Tail 2: Fievel Goes West The saw. It was better than this. take on the Mob." Lordy, what will they bad. You'll be seeing it on cable very soon. Bookof Love in concertat Pink's. American streets are not "paved with think of next? Directed by Chuck's brother Other People's Money Danny DeVito is cheese" as the Mousekewitz family had Aaron. -D.F goodin this diluted version of the Broadway hoped, so 10-gallon rodent Fievel, scion of HookIt was evident when I got a chance to hit about '80s-style American greed, but the Short Run and the immigrant M's, leaves New York for the see the just-being-dismantled sets at Sony play is much better. roamingbuffalo and romanticsix-shooters of Studios (neeColumbia) a few months ago The People Under the Stairs Over the Revival the Old Wild West. - Mary Brennan that Steven Spielberg'sHook was going to be top in gore. This ft lm, about people trapped Book of Days (1988) For the last several Beautyand the Disney'sBeast animators a gargantuan production featuring larger­ in an old house by an evil couple, has clever years, innovative filmmakers have used imitate the classic 1930s Disney style and d1an-life pirate ships, docks, coastlines and moments, but it manages to suggest that medieval times as a metaphor for our own raid successful elements from other ani­ mountains (The Jo lly Roger alone cost over alienated audiences need massive doses of age - a time of social upheaval and mated "classics."Among the performers who $1 million). And gargantuan it is, with the mayhem in order to feel anything at all. plagues. Here the metaphor is used again, sing the ersatz Broadway-showtune score biggest director and stars (Robin Williams, Rhapsody in August Akira Kurosawa's forcefully and inventively. The year is 1350, is Angela Lansbury, who is worlds better Julia Roberts, Dustin Hoffman, Maggie latest ft lm: an autumnal rumination onfam­ and various individuals discuss their lives than anyone else.Recommended, cautiously. Smith) that money can buy. What (forgive ily disharmony, changing values in Japan (as if they were being interviewed fora cin­ BlackRobe Director Bruce Beresford (Dri1J­ me) is Hoo/ishook? Why, it's a parable for and the threat of annihilation. Stately and ema verite documentary); a study of uni­ ing MissDaisy, BreakerMorant, Te nderMer- the '90s! Peter (Williams) has grown up to beautiful in a Japanese way. Richard Gere versal, timeless human nature emerges. The cies) has made one of the best films of the become a soulless corporate type. When his is the ostensible star, but really the mind of film is managed gracefully by filmmaker Steve Martin is Father ;, the Bride. year - and his best film by far - in Black kids are kidnapped, Peter discovers his octogenarian Kurosawa is on display here Meredith Monk, whose camera recreates a Robe. Screenwriter Brian Moore adapts his CapeFear Martin Scorsese's re-working of buried self and learns to bePeter Pan again. and the film's overall tone is one of tapestry of human fears and ambitions in own 1986 novel abouta French Jesuit priest a 1962 revenge movie, in which the direc­ Some of this movie is "magical" and enter­ wounded dignity struggling forbalance in 14th-century Southern France. Recom­ (here played by Lothaire Bluteau from Jesus tor shows us the soft white underbelly of taining, but its calculations are a bit obvi­ a chaotic world. Recommended forKuro­ mended. Academy Theatre, 900 S. Bereta­ of MontreaD, who, in 1634, embarks on a respectability and gives retribution its due. ous, and it's far too long. We give it a seven sawa buffs only. nia St.: Mon. 12/30 & Tue. 12/31, 7:30 p.m. 1,500-mile journeyin an effort to befriend Robert De Niro and Juliette Lewis give ter­ out of 10. Star Trek VI One of the best of the series. $4. 538-1006 and convert native North Americans. rific performances. JFKOliver Stone's three-hour exploration Paramount had the goodsense to return to ForeignAffair (19 48) If they ever harbored Accompanied by a handful of friendlyAlgo­ Curly Sue Vicious sentimentality about a of an alternative conspiracy theory in the writer-director Nicholas Meyer (StarTrek IlJ any fondness for comedienne Jean Arthur, nquins (including a chief, his wife and his terminally cute waif and her hobo scam­ John Kennedy assassination. Kevin Cost­ forthis episode which, despite a drastically nostalgia buffs will hwe a field day at this daughter) and a young French carpenter, artist companion.Yet another John Hughes ner stars as an attorney obsessed with reduced budget (cut by $9 million), is a Billy Wi lder comedy. Arthuressays the role the priest makes his heart-of-darkness jour­ confection. Not recommended. uncovering the truth; Sissy Spacek is his sturdy, simplistic morality play, veryeffec­ of an Iowan spinster congresswoman inves­ ney - from Fort Champlain to a mission Fatherof theSteve Bride Martinis a father­ worried wife. Lots of other familiar faces tively photographed by Honolulu's Hiro tigating the morale (and morals) of Gls in outpost- into a world where only violence in-law suffering through the engagement - including, of all people, an unctuous Narita. Thestory parallels the recent breakup Occupied Berlin. Along the (dated) way, can result from of two cultures and marriage of his first-born daughter. John Candy - tum up. -MB. of the Communist(here it's Klingon) empire. we meet up with John Lund as an Army that feel superior toeach other. Black Robe Diane Keaton, a welcome sight, is the bride's TheLast Boy Scoutremains It to beseen Thisis the last ofthe series, they say. If that's Captain who thaws Arthurout and Marlene is not another Dances with Wolves, this film mother. If you're wondering why the face of whether or not the titanic Bruce Willis ship true, the crew of the Enterprise have exited Dietrich as a singer who was once the mis­ shows the realthing - two world views in the daughter's fiance is so familiar, it's of stardom has sunk entirely: After Willis' honorably. tress of a Nazi big-wig. Movie Museum, tragicconflict. The Indians' view of the earth because he was featured forwhat seemed appearancein Hudson Hawk, a deafening What About Bob? A funny little Disney 3566 HardingAv e.: Thur. 12/26 & Sat 12/28, is animistic, magic; the priest's is of a vale of like years in a commercial about a teenage bomb, the Moonlightingstar began to look movie about a shrink (Richard Dreyfuss) 8 p.m. $5. 735-8771 tears, an awful place where one awaits boy who takes his father's new sports car too smirksome forthe big screen. The stu­ who can't rid himself of a neurotic client I Was A Male(1 W.Bride 949) Cary Grant release into heaven. This Canadian-Aus­ out, ostensibly to fill it up with gas. "You dio has high hopes, however, forthis action (Bill Murray). There's notmuch to this ft lm, in drag. He's plays a French army officer tralian production is magnificently pho­ didn't want me to mix the old gas with the adventure, which may get some needed which was originally written for Woody who falls forArmy Lt. Ann Sheridan and is tographed by Peter James, with a finescore new, did youi" he says when he comes juice from In Living Colorstar Damon Ivory Allen, but Murray and Dreyfuss work well forced into all sorts of shenanigans to con­ by Georges Delerue and storytelling that Wayans. - M.B. together. surrunate the maniage, among them female 6 • December 25, 1991 • Honolulu Weekly has a B.A. in English from Pomona College in California. But, she says, her real lessons have come from travel. "If you study the dances of impersonation. Directed cunningly by ings to buy a ticket for this show). Joining people all over the world, you could Howard Hawks, this one still has a few Charles will be his Ray Charles Orchestra be learning about every part of the laughs, thanks mainly to the deftness of and Raelett Singers ("To be a Raelett," he body. Ballet, forexample, is great. farceur Grant, who always made it look used to say in the heady days before the But it is not everything.If you lookat easy. Movie Museum, 3566 Harding Ave.: Thomas hearings, "you have to 'let Ray."') something like Hindi dancing, you'll Fri. 12:27 & Sun. 12/29, 8 p.m. $5. 735-8771 Sheraton Wa ikiki, 2255 Kalakaua Ave.: Tue. see hand and eye movements with a Sure Fire (1990) Another stubbornly 12/31, 9:30 p.m. $75 - $125. 922-4422 communication and meaning you idiosyncratic and rewarding independent Hawaiian Times Square It might be filmby auteur Jon Jost. As usual, Jost found stretching things a bit, but the Restaurant won't see anywhere else." "ordinary" people to help him tell a story Row crowd (never ones to shy away from In her unique self-styled course of aboutAmericans independent of Hollywood ambitious hyperbole) are going for the Big dance study, Chu has logged the kind schlockmeisters. As usual, his theme is free­ Apple effectanyhow. With Touch of Gold, of experiences that would make an dom and the tension between social restraint Johnny and the Dreamers and Big Daddy, academic ethnomusicologist trade and the notion of liberty. An aging Ameri­ featuring Paul Flynn. RestaurantRow. Tue. in a library card foran airline ticket: can entrepreneur undertakes a new scheme 12'31, 6 p.m. on. Free. Tai Chi study in Berkeley, an to achieve the free enterprise dream (in this Honolulu Symphony See First Night box extended gig as a salsa band leader case, selling decent housing and clean air). on page 6. in Amsterdam, a stint with a master He comes up against a series of people pur­ Melveen LeedSparkle galore at Melveen's of classical dance in Bali, and of suing their own dreams, which, in several glitzy New Year's Eve do. Dinner included. cases, involve the right to bear arms and to Ala Moana Hotel, 410 Atkinson Dr.: Tue. course, classes and workshops in the indulge their frustrations in the hunting sea­ 12/31, 7 p.m. $40 - $55. 955-4811 myriad forms of Afro-Caribbean son. Recommended. Academy Theatre, Queen Kapi'olani BirthdayConcert Fea­ dance. Forget the image of the pro­ 900 S. Beretania St.: Fri. 12/27 & Sat. 12/28, turing the Royal Hawaiian Band and Kaha'i fessionaldancer that A Chorus Line 7:30 p.m.; Sun. 12/29, 4 p.m. $4. 538-1006 Topolinski's Ka Pa Hula Hawai'i halau. Also might have stamped on your brain. part of the First Night festivities. 'Iolani Never, says Adela, did she tote a Palace. Tue. 12/31, 2 p.m. Free. sweaty bag of leotards between cat­ SeasideZoo If you can't make it to Oak­ tle-call auditions. People like Anna Music land to catch the Grateful Dead New Year's Halprin, the avant-choreographer Concerts Eve, then you might as well check out this known forher seminal work in mod­ new psychedelic blues quintet, risen like a Bookof Love Sequencers at night, club­ phoenix from the ashes of Melodious em and ethnic dance, simply invited Thunk. Featuring Charley "Sexy .Strings" Adela to join her company afterwit­ bies' delight. If you wear black on the out­ side because black is how you feel on the Myers and new drummer Steve "Laserfoot" nessing her encyclopaedic vocabu­ inside, then these East Coast techno-pop Saunders. Anna Bannana '.s, 2440 S. Bere­ lary of movement. software virtuosos are for you. But for tania St.: Tue. 12/31, 9 p.m. $4. 9'16-5190 After visiting Brazil in 1975, God's sake, don't go unless your hair is Smokey Robinson If we have to tell you Adela became convinced that she right. Pink's Garage, 955 Wa imanu St.: Fri. who Smokey is, then you're probably not could teach Carnival culture as an 12/27 & Sat. 12/28, 8:30 p.m.; Tue 12/31, old enough to want to go see him anyway. art. Responding to the invitation of a 11:30 p.m. 12/27 & 12/28: $12.50 advance, If you're old enough to know who he is, friend to, "come share the sands, the $15 at the door; 12/31: $17.50 advance, $20 then you know that he and his old R&B Queen ofopenCarni invitation to serveva as honoraryl door. 537-1555 outfit,The Miracles, helpeddefine the sound sea and the beauty of Iemanja," she of a generation with such colossi as Liza Simon grandmarshal forthe Carnival."You arrived in Rio when the city was in Ray ChatesAn American music giant even Tracks ofMy Tears, Tears of a Clown and Second know, we didn't even have a permit the midst of mass pandemonium - befo re he started working forPepsi, the 61- ast year, when the organizers year-old pianist/singer has been a virtual That Emotion. This is another ultra-pricey that firstyear. We just did it!!!" she the firstday of Carnival. Later, 300 of FirstNight accepted Adela deity to musicians in every genre, from one. Hilton Hawaiian Village, 2005 Katia marvels. miles away in the jungles of Bahia, Chu's proposal to lead a pro­ country to jazzto rhythm andblues, since he Rd.: Tue. 12/31, 10 p.m. $75 - $125. 949- But perhaps a queen is only as the fracas turnedto unmitigated con­ 4321, ext. 39 cession of costumed Carnival first began perfonning in the 1940s (I guess good as her last Carnival. Bright tent forChu. In nightly celebrations dancers and musicians in a that's why you'd need a half-century of sav- oases of glitter material in her Manoa of samba dancing in the shanty homage to Iemanja (the home indicate that she is once again towns, Adela says she internalized oceangoddess that Brazilians well into the frantic final stretch of the complex rhythms along with a pray to on New Year's forluck), they Carnivalfor this year's First Night. realization: "Dance is a ritual that probably had no idea how fitting her Today at rehearsal she'll be handing unites humans with each other and a presence would be at Honolulu's out materials to dancers who will higher force." most ambitious street bash, First assemble costumes that were This year's Carnivalrehearsal is Night. A longtime friend, in designed months ago. She is clearly underway at a University of Hawaii Honolulu forAde la's processionthis delighted by the support she's gym, and, to the unaccustomed eye, year, sums up her unique talent. Says received from First Night organiz­ it looks like a colorful maelstromof Seguin, a master West African ers. She says her proposal to them chaos. One moment Adela's twirling drummer fromQuebec , "Adela - was very visual. "Imagine this," she a giggling 8-year-old in playful fun, she is the Carnivalqueen. " says with illustrative theatricality, tryingto evince samba clown behav­ Locally, many know Adela as the "beautiful women returning home ior. The next moment she's confer­ teacher of Afro-Caribbeanjazz dance from a ball in masks that hide their ring with her dancers, telling them who founded Hawaii's first version intriguingbeauty. Behind them there to practice the choreography and of the exuberant, exotic Brazilian are mischievous samba clowns doing watch one another so they'rein sync. Mardi Gras known as Carnival. In comical skits to roving bands of All the while the band ( or "batteria" the minds of Seguin and others, her Brazilian- percussionists." The First as it's called in Brazil) plays on. regal ascendency is based on her Night committee didn't need any Their locomotive of rhythm is made zealous creation of Carnival in San Oh, the places -Dr. Seuss explanation of the foreignsocio-cul­ up of complex interlocking patterns, you'll go! Francisco."She has this powerto do tural milieu. "They just picked up played on the surdo drum, the cuica it," Seguin asserts. "She could go to Best Wishes for the New Year on the factthat this would be a way and other exotic looking percussion an Eskimo village and start a from BELKNAP PUBLISHING & DESIGN that peoplecould express themselves paraphernalia. Carnival there if she wanted to." creatively," Adela says. Her students take Adela's advice In her East Manoa home, where Just the same, Adela does notdeny and work assiduously amongst them­ Chu resides with her contractor/artist that Carnival as it's practiced in selves. They know that Adela is hop­ husband and their 4-year-old daugh­ America is ofttimesa paltry echo of ing that they will bring to the Carnival ter, the memory of that first, 1976 on Y.OUr what she grew up with. "Carnival the crucial elements that transform Carnival in the City by the Bay reacling list goes forfour days (in Panama)," she movement into art. The students are brings an ear-to-ear grin to her gen­ says. "Everyone pours into the from all walks of life, different age GOSHEN ,. erously mixed features. (Strangers by MarvinJansma streets. No one sleeps because you groups,racial backgrounds and dance rarely are able to guess fromlooking :) A vast andspectacular panorama \ just have to stay up all night. This is training levels. But this does not ,.at those features that she is :�[�[ of ancient Egyptunfolds in this the time when people get to stripoff bother Chu. She says they have all .... exciting novel of pharohs and Panamanian born and bred, the :•:•.. their nine-to-five mentality and come here ready to dance. "To very slaves in the fertile Delta of the daughter of a Jamaican mother and .::::..• Nile-&>shen. Here a multitude becometheir alter egos, their heroes trained dancers," says Chu, "Afro­ a Chinese father.) "We started the :::: of characterstheir fulfill religions, and heroines." She explains that Caribbean dancing is deceptively :::: customs, place in the Egyptian procession with about 300 dancers ..... there is a spiritual drive that keeps simple. The rhythm is something ..... Empire, and love and battle and 700 spectators. By the time we :...:. against the backdrop of Court people connected to their Carnival internal. And toooften in this mech­ :: finished, there were no spectators. intrigue. Not to be missed. customs year-round. "In places like anized society,we don't listen to that _____ MA1L1HISCOUPON1UDAY ____ _ They had all joined us." San Bahia, the slaves broughttheir deities which is inside of ourselves. We 're Francisco city officials were hip to CARLTON PRESS and their drums. And they turned to tuned to the clock instead." the commercial value and the polit­ 11 West32NewYorlc St, 10001 both for solace." Adela points out In the personal atlas of world Pleasesend mecopy a of ical benefits of sponsoring an ethnic that many Brazilianshave little mate­ dance Chu has drawn through the I GOSHEN cultural event. The following year, My dudl[r,r$21.45is """1std. rial wealth and derivejoy from music years, the Afro-Caribbean style the city became the official backers and culture more often than their holds a special place. "It is charac­ of Chu's Carnival, which has since neighbors to the north. terized by chest undulations," she 1051 w.... St. become one of the Bay area's most Ill.:::: Half-joking, Chu says she has a explains. "What you see is the open­ Honolulu, HI 96814 i_l.1./ acclaimed bashes. Today Chu has an State-l.iP- doctorate of Carnival. In reality, she ing of the heart." • Tel S33·2836 Fax S21-73Sl L..------D-e-c-em____.ber A: 1991 • Honolulu Weekly • 7 Uve Music Venues 923-2172 734-3m AnnaBannanas, 2440 S. Berelania I.a RestaurantSalsa, Row, 500Ala Orson's, 5 Hoolai St., Kailua. 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Kontrast Rock; Moose McGillycuddy 's Bird. 4 - 8 p.m. Brother Noland Jawaiian; Monterey Bay Wa ikiki. Ca nners Wa rd. Leroy Kahaku Contemporary; Black CinderellaRockafella Dance Rock; Wa rn Orchid.5:30 - 9:30 p.m. Wa ikiki. Live Paradise Variety; Wa ikiki Broiler. Ektara & Musica E Jazz; CafeSi stina. Loretta Ables Trio Jazz; LewersLoun ge. Entourage Contemporary; Nick 's Fish mar­ Love Goelz Rock; No Name Bar. 9:30 p.m. ket. Mahi Beamer Contemporary Hawaiian; Horizon Contemporary; Sp i.ndrifter Kabala. Andrew's. Howling Beddies Rock; Moose McGilly­ Mojo Hand Blues; Silver Fox Lounge. Club Acts cuddy'sWa ikiki. Nalu Variety; MontereyBay CannersPear/­ Band schedules are subject to change. Island Irle Reggae; FastEddie 's. ridge. Please call venuesfo r latestinf ormation. J.P. Smoketrain Light Rock, R & B; No No Excuse Dance; Black Orchid. 10 p.m. Consult the Live Music Ve nueslist fo r Na me Bar. Nueva Vida Jazz; Reni's. locations andphone numbers. Joel KurasakiJazz; Orson's. PaganBabies World Dance; Anna Ban­ Jon Basebase Contemporary; Horatio's. nanas. 25/Wednesday Leroy Kahaku Contemporary; Black Pandemonium Worldbeat; The Row. Alisa Randolph & Musica E Jazz; Black Orchid. 5:30 - 8:30 p.m. Raga & Andrea Yo ung Jazz; Mahina Orchid. Live Paradise Variety; Wa ikiki Broiler. Lounge. Augie Rey & City Lights Salsa, Dance; Loretta Ables Trio Jazz; Lewers Lounge. Robi & Friends Contemporary Hawaiian; Nicholas Nickolas. Mahi Beamer Contemporary Hawaiian; MooseMcGil lycuddy'sUniversity. Blue Kangaroo Variety; Jolly Roger Wa ikiki. Andrew's. Rolando Sanchez & the New Salza Brado Jawaiian, Classical, Jazz; The Shore Mojo Hand Blues; Scuttlebutt's. Hawaii Band Latin; Nick's Fishmarket. Nalu Variety; Monterey Bay CannersPea r/­ Simplisity Contemporary Hawaiian, Rock; Bird. 4 - 8 p.m. CinderellaRockafella Dance Rock; Wa ve ridge. Malia 's Cantina. Wa ikiki. No Excuse Dance; Black Orchid. 9 p.m. Warren Johnson & Gator Creek Band Vietnamese Cuisine Encourage Contemporary; Nick's Fish­ North American BushBand Funk, Jazz, Country; Pecos River Cafe . Simple yet Sophisticated market. Reggae; Anna Bannanas. ZigZag Classic Rock; Fast Eddie's. 1160 Maunakea St. Ernie Shea Jazz; Mahina Lounge. Pam Gamboa Top 40; Paradise Lounge. Raga & Andrea Young Jazz; Mahina 28/Saturday Honolulu, HI 96817 Horizon Contemporary; Sp indrifterKa bala. Howling Baddies Rock; Moose McGilly­ Lounge. Alisa Randolph & Musica E Jazz; Cafe cuddy 's Wa ikiki. Rolando Sanchez & the New Salza Sistina. 808 528 3663 J.P. Smoketraln Light Rock, R & B; No Hawaii Band Latin;The Row. Augie Rey & City Lights Salsa, Dance; Name Bar. SimpllsityContemporary Hawaiian, Rock; NicholasNickolas. Joel KurasakiJazz; Orson's. Malia 'sCa ntina. Betty Loo Taylor & Derry! McKay Jazz; Jon Basebase Contemporary; Horatio's. Warren Johnson & Gator Creek Band New OrleansBistro. Jonny & the DreamersVa riety; Monterey Country; Pecos RiverCafe. Billy the Kid Rock; LaSalsa. Bay CannersWard. Blue �ooVa riety; Jolly Roger Wa ikiki. Keoa Variety; JollyRoger F.ast. 27/Friday Blues BanditsBlues; Reni's. Leroy Kahaku Contemporary; Black AlakalContemporary Hawaiian; JollyRoger BradoJawa iian, Classical, Jazz; Tbe Shore Orchid.5:30 - 8:30 p.m. F.ast Bird. 4 - 8 p.m. Live Paradise Variety; Wa ikiki Broiler. Alisa Randolph & Musica E Jazz; Cafe Brother Noland Jawaiian; Monterey Bay Loretta Ables Trio Jazz; Lewers Lounge. Sistina. CannersWa rd. Mahl Beamer Contemporary Hawaiian; Augle Rey & City Ughts Salsa, Dance; Carol AtkinsonJazz; Orson's. Andrew's. Nicholas Nickolas. CinderellaRockafella Dance Rock; Wa ve Nalu Variety; MontereyBay cannersPear/­ Billy the Kid Rock; LaSalsa. Wa ikiki. ridge. Blue KangarooVa riety; JollyRoger Wa ikiki. GoodOle Boyz Country; Pecos RiverGa fe. Pam Gamboa Top 40; Paradise Lounge. Blues Bandits Blues; The Landing. 5:30 - HorizonContemporary; Sp indrifterKabala. Raga& StarWilliams Jazz; New Orleans 8:30 p.m. Howling Baddies Rock; No Name Bar. Bistro. BradoJawa iian, Classical,Jazz; The Shore Jon Basebase & Vince Andrada Con­ SlmpllsltyContemporary Hawaiian, Rock; Bird. 4 - 8 p.m. temporary; Horatio's.

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Moon Phases: NEW MOON - Dec S FIRST QUARTER- Dec 13 FUU MOON - Dec21 LASTQUARTER -Dec27 Tide times and heights are forHonolulu Harbor. Tide and moon information supplied by Doug Paine Design. - people of mixed race - were widely recognized as being distinct fromfull-blooded African slaves. In fact, in some parts of the south, notably South Carolina and Louisiana, freemulattoes were a (rel­ Jimmy Borges Jazz; Paradise Lounge. Hawaii Band Latin; Nick's Fishmarket. Jonny & the Dreamers Variety; Monterey atively)privileged class, with money, Keoa Variety;Jolly Roger East. Simplisity ContemporaryHawaiian, Rock; Bay Canners Wa rd. prestige and sometimes slaves of Kontrast Rock; Moose McGillycuddy 's Malia 's Ca ntina. Joy Woode & Betty LooTay lor Jazz; New their own. Wa ikiki. Zig Zag Classic Rock; Fast Eddie's. OrleansBistro. Live Paradise Variety; Wa ikiki Broiler. Keoa Variety;Jolly Roger East. After 1850, however, southern Loretta Ables Trio Jazz; Lewers Lounge. 29/Sunday Kontrast Rock; Moose McGillycuddy 's whites became obsessed with the Mahi Beamer Contemporary Hawaiian; Augie Rey & City Lights Salsa, Dance; Wa ikiki. idea of racial Andrew's. Nicholas Nickolas. Maxine-KarenJohnson Mixed viola; Ram­ e purit nd white Mojo Hand Blues; Silver Fox Lounge. Blues Bandits Blues; Anna Bannanas. say Galleries & Cafe. 11 a.m. - 2 p.m. � � ·g11t supenonty. If you Nalu Variety;Monterey Bay Ca nnersPea r/­ Bruddah Walta Jawaiian; Malia 'sCa ntina. Over the Hill Gang Dixieland Jazz; Fast had any black ridge. Carol AtkinsonJazz; Orson's. &ldie's. 2 - 5 p.m. Jal blood at all, you No Excuse Dance; Black Orchid. Cinderella Rockafella Dance Rock; Wa ve Russ Donnelly Folk, Country;Jolly gerRo were supposed to be out back chop­ Nueva Vida Jazz; Tbe Row. Wa ikiki. Wa ikiki. pin' cotton. White planters who got Pagan Babies World Dance; Anna Ban­ Dread Ashanti Reggae; No Na me Bar. Pam Gamboa Top 40; Pa radise Lounge. female slaves pregnant willingly nanas. Ernie Shea Jazz; Mahina Lounge. Picture Window Contempora1y; Sp indrijier Pandemonium Worldbeat; Ja ron 's Kailua. Exit 8 Contemporary Hawaiian; Monterey Kabala. Raga & Andrea Young Jazz; Mahina Bay CannersPear/ridge. SydetteJazz; Lewers Lounge. Lounge. GoodOle Boyz Country; Pecos River Cafe. Wes Hamrick Classical, Jazz; Maile Room. Robi & Friends Contemporary Hawaiian; Hawaiian Duo Contemporary Hawaiian; Moose McGillycuddy's Un iversity. Ja ron 's Ka ilua. Rolando Sanchez & the New Salza Jam Session Jazz; Nick's Fishmarket. Continued on Page l2

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y girlfriend is halfblack enslaved their own children. Far and half white. While frombeing scandalized,other south­ Cl.OVJtlS she was fi lling out a erners complained that some mulat­ fo rm recently Inoticed toes remained free to pollute the when it came to the gene pool. question of race she Defeat in theCivil War only inten­ checked "black. " I sified these feelings. States not just askedher why she didn 't mark white in the south but throughout the union since she is as much one as the other. passed increasingly strictantirnisce­ She replied that in America one is genation laws - laws that weren't considered black ifthe amount of struckdown by the Supreme Court BALLET black parentage is one-eighth or until 1967. The one-drop rule was greater. ls or was this true? Why? actually enacted in only seven states Since I am a Mexican male, what (Virginia passed it in 1930); more will the white establishment consider commonly the cutoffwas one-eighth our children? Not that it matters, but black. But according to historianJoel I'd like to knowwhat is in store fo r Williamson (New People: Miscege­ us. -An in-love but mixed-up cou­ nation and Mulattoes in the U.S.), ple, Los Angeles the one-drop rule was the de facto Lord knows.My advice is, if any­ standard throughout the country. e'ss en body asks, tell 'em the kids are Williamson relates an episode Celebrate New Year's Eve Phrygian.Nobody will have any idea from the 1920s musical Showboat downtown! From 2:30 till what you'retalking about and you'll in which a white boy in love with a midnight, wearing a button lets be able to divert the conversation to mulatto actress is accused by a you enjoy a cornucopia of 200 a less stupid topic. Mississippi sheriffof violating the petformances at 70 locations, These days there's not much offi­ state's antimiscegenation law. ride 'uTh@8us2:00 from p.m., plus cial guidance on who's black and Thinking fast, the white guy pricks hop the Waikiki Trolleybetween who's white. The Census Bureauhas his beloved's finger with a knife, sites from 6:30 p.m.-all for $5.00! Come for an hour adopted the sensible policy of let­ swallows a drop of the blood, and or the whole community celebration. International tingyou bewhatever you markdown says, hey, I'm no white man, I've foods for sale. No alcohol. And don't .miss the on the form.You can looklike Snow got Negro blood in me. The sheriff fi,reworks at midnight. Wear your button throughout White and talk like George Plimpton, lets him off. Decemberfor terrific merchant discounts. but if you want to be a Fiji Islander, So where does that leave you? by God you're a Fiji Islander as far Hard to say. No question the one­ as the census is concerned. drop rule still prevails for a Jot of Buttons are on sale now at Things are only marginally more white folks. But since even racists rigorous when it comes to stufflike don't have the nerve to ask for proof liberty House • Foodland • Honfed Bank • Blockbuster Video • affirmative action.A spokesman for of pedigree these days, what matters Sizzler Restaurants• CrazyShirts • U.S. Military MWR Desks and the Small Business Administration most is what you look like. The fact Exchange Malls • Newspaper Building• Queen's Medical Center says they'll basically take your word that you're Hispanic is the perfect Gift Shop • Martin &MacArthur• c:athedral of Our lady of Peace forwhat race you are, although con­ smoke screen. Your kids probably ·•Continental Airlines • First Federal Savings (downtown office) ceivably they might ask for a birth won't pass for Swedish but they'll • Hungry Lion Coffee Shop • Gateway Gallery• St. Andrew's certificate or passport in the rare be able to declare themselves black Cathedral office• Royal Hawaiian Center (gift wrap booth) • event there was some question. or Hispanic as the whim moves Windward Mall (gift wrap booth) • Ward Warehouse (selected Unofficialstandards are a different them. Better yet, have them say it's merchants) • The buttonkia;ks Downtown on New Year'sEve story. Expertson race relationsagree nobody's damn business. that up until very recently, and to -CECIL ADAMS some extent even today, white And thanks to our Community Sponsors Americaheld to the "one-drop"rule: If you had one dropof black bloodin Ha\WiiCommunity Foundation • BankHa\Wii of • FoodlandSuper Marl

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