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@ 1991 JOHN S, PR ITC:HETT Mauka to Makai Highand Low Not your A Classon Class everyday s a teacher of English to tour. The tour guide, thinking she they were not gloomy. I thought they Japanese students, I am had some potential customers in her have hope. I want to do service constantly exposed to the midst, triedto sell the hotel through again." ways in which they view out the hour we were there. The sell Writingof thedifferences between news America; some ways are job probably wasn't necessary. The the Japanese and theAmerican meth pretty strange. Most know kids oohed and aahed at the hotel's ods of helping, Maki wrote: "The America only throughbig pool with the orchid painted on the Japanese formis dirty and smelly, time Hollywood movies. To make bottom. They expressed disbelief at dark and unhappy. Hawaii formis paper my students feel at home, I some · the swift, smooth elevators. They happy and clean, happy and light. I times let them choose American smiled when fedchocolate fromthe was astonished at the sight because names forthemselves: Last summer hotel's own bakery. And they went not any homeless helpers in Japan." one studentwanted to becalled Clint, crazy inside the Royal Suite, a two Tamami was confused: "Why another chose the name Arnold, and bedroom luxury apartment that they have no home? It is very diffi another, Sylvester. fetches$2,500 per night, and comes cult and complicated question. with a grand piano, a private kitchen America has many questionsbecause Ted Lerner withchef, a wrap-around ocean-front it is so big." Miko thought she would lanai and even a personal butler. be in danger: "I supposed homeless Although this is amusing, it points Thirty minutes after our tour of arefearful but they are kind." Cheiko out a seriousphenomenon that most the Halekulani, my students were was straightforward: "Why don't certainly leads to miscommunica standingin the kitchenof the Institute they help themselves? They aren't tion between the two cultures. If for Human Services, serving over look homeless. There is a strange Hollywood is the medium by which 100 freelunches to people who had place and a strangesight. It is diffi the Japanese learn about America, no home. At firstthe students acted cult problem to solve." then thetwo peopleshave a long way very shy. Once they started filling The episode proved that, contrary to go before there is real mutual up the plates with food, however, to what the Chamber of Commerce Honolulu Weekly understanding. they looked like old pros. Their might think, foreigners can have A new independent newspaperthat specializes in This summer I had the opportu English wasn't very good, but their memorable experiencesin thiscoun nity to engage in an interesting diligent work and smiles made them try when they see beyond tourist investigativereporting, consumer�oriented experiment while working as an fast friends. A couple of people attractions. And there are now 24 features, arts and entertainmentcoverage and English instructorin the University picked up their lunches and said ari students back in Japan who no longer political commentary. of Hawaii's Special EnglishProgram gato or konnichiwa. The kitchen think Americans are all like John (SEP). I had 24 Japanese students manager, Ralph, stoodby with a grin. Wayne and Tom Cruise. Available free every Wednesday at the (ranging in age from 18 to 24), most Afterwardhe and his staffthanked us following locations: of whom had never been out of their and asked if we could come back country, take a tour of a luxury another time. Letterto the Editor Waikikihotel and then take a short For homework that night I had the Downtown Records Hawaii Hawaiian Graphics Another feeble stab at humor fromDan bus ride down to the Institute for students write about their impres Boylan (HW8/28), only this timeto a pub YWCA RichardsStreet Jelly's Comics and McCully Bicycle and Human Services where they served sions of the experience. Although Ron's Place Books SportingGoods lic that deserves better reportingon a sub Croissanterie Paul Brown's McCully-Moiliili lunch to Hawaii's homeless people. their writing skills are poor at best, ject that deserves more serious, intuitive Bravo Expresso Honolulu Academy of Library It was an experiment designed to their honesty and sensitivity came attention. Che Pasta Arts Theatre Marco Polo Apt. Bldg. show the students several things. through easily. First and foremost, the handkerchief Heidi's Delicatessen Cafe Sistina Kaimuki First, I wanted them to see the irony Kaya didn't mince words: "When wringingabout the 3,000homeless children Dillingham Honolulu Club 7-11 (3105 Waialae should not be allowed to obscure the truth Transportation Building Ave.) of America that often escapes its I visited Halekulani and homeless own citizens: -peopleliving in ulti people, I very surprised.There were of the''Homeless Issue." Thetruth is thatthe Building Interlude Books Columbia Inn problem was not created by the people of Bishop StreetCafe 7-11 (1695 Kapiolani Che Pasta mate luxury next to others who have powerfulpeople and powerless peo Grosvenor Center Blvd.) Pillbox Pharmacy Hawaii Kai or Manoa or Waimanalo, but no home. p le. I think powerful people are by the governor, the Legislature, City Russell's Kabala Harry's Music Next, I wanted to e_xpose them to lonely in the heart. I feel pity for (Tamarind Park) Bravo Expresso Movie Museum Counciland all those that play games with Russell's. Frame Shack Gecko Books & real life here, show them that wher homeless. I'm happy now because the "Development" industryto insure that (Grosvenor Center) Subway Comics ever you go, people are people. I I'm growing up." Tetsuya wrote: "I they never have to build affordablehous Russell's Kakaako Kaimuki Library wanted them to get over their intim feel sadness and the uncertainty of ing or have anyresponsibility to the com (Amfac Center) Cardio Club 7-11 (3546 Waialae idation about America so that they life. I think humanity needs com munity in which they reap their greedy Beef Bowl Columbia Inn Ave.) would have a strongerdesire to learn munication." Tamie wrote: "They millions. Furthennore,this attemptto shift Ditto's Pink's Garage CharninadeUniv ersity the blame away fromthemselves by using Waterfall Gallery Hawaiian Bagels Library our language. Although the Hawaii are homeless but at first sight,looks A Little Bit of Saigon Fisher Hawaii Ward Warehouse Visitors Bureau would definitely like the common people. I wonder such tenns as NIMBY, was done with the Ramsay Gallery Kalihl Frame Shack cringe at such a tour, each one of my if they have nothing to live for." assistanceof the bought-and-paid-forlocal City Art Works Hawaiian Graphics Horatio's students came away with an experi Ayako noticed that homeless peo mediaIt was their intentionto hide the fact Gateway Gallery Kapahulu Chowder House that priorto site selection,no consideration Krung Thai Restaurant Go Bananas Liquor Collection ence more rewardingthan any pack� ple here are treateddiffe rently than was given those communities chosen to Ba-le (King Street) Waikiki-Kapahulu Walden Books age tour could ever provide. in Japan. "They are happier than have anysay in that selection or how each Ba-le (Fort Street) Library Ward Center Our adventure into the highs and Japanese homeless becauseJapanese community's needs were best served. Patisserie Irifune Big Ed's lows of America took just two-and don't give help to homeless and Boylan'sattempt to polarizethe people of Asia Mall Island Triathlon & Bike Mary Catherine's this statea little bit more (newcomersvs. Restaurant Row Kapahulu Wine Bakery a-half hours. I chose the Halekulani, Japanese dislike homeless." Yoshiaki Rose City Diner 7-11 (707 Kapahulu Mocha Java which bills itself as the only five wrote: "I feltlonely at theIHS. There locals)ove rlooksthe factthat the protesters Sunset Grill Ave.) Kailua star hotel in Waikiki, for our hotel were lots of pity people. But I felt were fromall walks of life, all ethnicback Paradise Bakery Manoa Tusitala Books grounds,all incomelevels andeven included Ciao! Ciao! Gelato! Manoa Library Michael's Liquor many of the homeless themselves. Waikiki CoffeeManoa Kalapawai Market HONOL UL U Who cares whereDan Boylan lives or CoffeeConnection Manoa Health Mart Hungry Ear what he drives? If this articleis any indi Margie's (Eaton UH Campus Center Kailua Library cationof his worth,then he probably should Square) UH Hamilton Library Gecko Books & beone of the homeless, and rideto workon Wave Waikiki UH SinclairLibrary Comics a used bicycle. CaffeGuccinni UH Manoa Gardens Jaron's 80% Straight Coffeeline Ron's Place For a more realisticidea of what really Tropical Trading Post Mollllli The Source Vol. 1, No. 11 Contributing Photographer went on with the "Homeless Issue," Ian Hula's Barand Lei Bubbies Kaneohe September 25, 1991 David L. Moore Lind'sserious article (HW 9/9) tells it pretty Stand McCully Shopping Dittos Publisherand ManagingEditor CartoonistMatt Groening much as it is. Pink Cadillac Center Kaneohe Library Laurie V. Carlson ClasslfledManager Unless more peopleget involvedin let Keeaumoku RainbowBooks Alea Senior EditorJulia Steele Isabella Forster tingthe peopleof thisstate know how badly Cafe Cambio Mama Mia Pizza Jelly's Comics & Books Calendar Editor DerekFerrar Advertising their democraticrights get trampled upon, The Jazz Store Second Image Tower Records Edltorlal Assistant Mindy Jaffe andhelp to provide solutionsas to how to Tower Records Diem Coffeeshop Kaaawa change the situation,soon we may all be Honolulu Medical Pretty Tomboy Kaaawa Country Ann Marie Swan Honolulu Weekly Contributing Wrlte,rs ISSN #1057-414X homeless, or helpless or unableto afford Group Anna Bannanas Kitchen Entire contents © 1991 Gallery EAS Kokua Co-op Mary Brennan, Bob Green, to live here in Hawaii no matter what we Ted Lerner,Betsy Reynolds, Cecil by Honolulu Weekly, Inc. drive to work. Our beautiful island home McKinley Car Wash Taniguchi Mart Adams, Alan Young All rights reserved 1200 College Walk, Suite 212 will then be a playground for the very Art Director Bud Linschoten Honolulu, Hawaii 96817 wealthy, and our people who do remain Production Manager Telephone: 808 528-1475 here will be their servants.Wake up, Dan Honolulu Weekly Blaine Fergerstrom Subscriptions: Boylan! Wake up, people of Hawaii! Contributing Artists $50/six months $75/year A Good Read John Pritchett, Slug Signorino David E.Matthews, Honolulu 2 • September 25, 1991 • Honolulu Weekly Ocean H o P P �R G-A LL.13' R y Water on theBrain OceanographerSylvia Earle brings her dream of wild ocean reserves to Honolulu
t's easy to rack up Dr. Sylvia readilysee that lifehas changed Earle's accomplishments: anyway. The planet is different over 5,000 hours underwa now than, not just a million ter; holds the record for the years ago, but even 10 years world's deepest solo dive ago. We're in a perpetually (3,000feet); made the deep changing system, but there are est untethered dive in his- patterns of stability that we tory to 1,250 feet,off Makapuu count on forour survival and Point in 1979; part of an all well-being, such as patternsof female, two-week underwater weather and climate and the expedition that paved the way ability of damaged ecosystems for women in NASA in 1970; to repair themselves. In order ... the namesake of the sea urchin acting ecosystem, the planet. The to be repaired, there needs to be a Diadema sylvie and the underwater view we have through the eyes of healthy system somewhere. That's plant Pilina earli.; chief scientist for astronauts, looking at the earth as one great value of the Wild Ocean the National Oceanographic and one system, certainly makes it clear Reserve concept. Atmospheric Administration that what happens on one part of the (NOAA); committed environmen planet influences the system as a whole. Just as your toesare not inde What is a wild talist who is currently monitoring ocean reserve? Kabala Mall NBC Concert Hall Bishop Square environmental damage in the Persian pendent from your shoulder or the M-Sat. 7a.m. to 9 p.m. Symphony M-F 6:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Gulf; marine biologist; botanist; con top of your hips from your elbow. It They arelike nationalparks but more Sun. 7a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Operas Closed Sat. & Sun. Special Events servationist. all has to work together and be in than that. We think the idea has many But a mere resume does not con reasonably good health. virtues, one is an area to measure 735-1329 vey the 55-year-old Earle's passion change against. It would set aside for the deep. She calls sea creatures Betsy Reynolds large areas and we would agree to "our fellow citizens with scales and just leave (them) alone. It is vital in fins" and refuses to eat them. In her terms of our own survival. we cannot go. We are pushing those own words, she "thinks like a fish." More fundamentally, the deep sea To just insist that such areas be limits, in some cases above water as And she believesthat preserving the encompasses an enormous amount leftin their natural stateis ideal. Just well as below.What we are going to deep ocean's natural state is crucial of territory.The ocean occupies two as there are protected places above try to achieve is a plea to be wise, to the ecological survival of the thirds of the planet and it is mostly water, we also need substantially to loolc ahead and anticipate what planet. She is currently campaign cold and dark. Ninety percent of life larger protected places in the sea. the futureis going to bring. ing to establish a series of "wild lives in the sea and this shapes the Small areas are OK, but big areas Representatives from about 20 ocean reserves" that would protect character of the planet. The history of may be essential to have any hope nations will be on hand, and the goal and preserve large deep-ocean areas. life is truly written in the sea. of coming to grips with the idea of is to try to stimulate people to think On Oct. 4, Earle will bring her cam keeping a stable system. of ways that we could implement a paign to Honolulu, chairing a work How much do we solid next step in creating these shop on her ocean reserves concept. know about the How did you reserves. This is an occasion to pre Recently, Earle took time out of her become sent ideas about how to go forward. hectic schedule and a barrage of deep ocean? The representatives will be scientists media coverage (Earle has been pro We are just beginningto explore the interested in wild and some policy-makers that have filed in The New Yorker, The New oceans. The magnitude of our igno ocean reserves? either been invited or have shown York Times Magazine and Life rance is enormous, and it starts with This has been a lifelong interest. I an interest in wild ocean reserves. Magazine) to answer a phone call not appreciating how much we do have lived at a time, as have all of The public will beencouraged to ask from the Honolulu Weekly. not know. One of the greatproblems us, when we are seeing unprece questions and make suggestions. is the misguided view that we must dented change. Things that I knew It is ultimatelyin thepublic's inter You recently had reach beyond this planet to find new and loved and cared forand thought est. It is in the interest of all people frontiers, places to explore for the were permanent as a child are gone. everywhere that human beings the opportunity to first time. Actually, most of the I grew up in Clearwater, Fla., and it decide to offer protection to these go down to 4,000 ocean has not yet been explored. Of once had clear water. I knew places natural systems. Sometimes,because meters (12,000 the places we have looked at, we that had changed so much, it pushed nobody consciously cares, we're los feet) off the coast have a long way to go before we me over the edge to seek remedies. ing the. aspects of planetary health of Japan in a deep understand them. Places I knew as a child, then (as) a which yield wealth inthe end. When student and later as a researcher are people don't know about it, don't sea submersible. understand it, how could they pos What was it like? What do you think drastically changed - bays that I are the biggest worked in have been filled in with sibly care? They lose it without real It was a splendid opportunity to see housing developments on top, pro izing what they lost until it is too the ocean from the inside out. We threats to the ductive sea grass beds turned into late. It is in every one's interest to turned the lights out on the way deep ocean? ship channels. You almost don't understand what is going on. down and it was literally like falling I'm concerned about the rapid know where to tum. One remedy is into a starry night. We could see changes that are all about us. to secure and protect as large an The Wild Ocean these bioluminescent creatures all Changes that are not planned. They area as possible where you can draw Reserves around us. We got to the bottom, are simply a consequence of our the line. turned thelights on and offeredsome activities. We dump things into the Workshop bait to passing fish. It was just great. ocean without knowing the conse What will happen will be held Oct. 4, 1991 at the Why is the deep quence, without even giving con Hilton Hawaiian Villagiy in con sideration to the way we could at your wild ocean junction with the Oceans '91 con ocean so drastically impact ecosystems reserve ference. For more information, important to the through chemical alterations, noise workshop? contact Mary Leach, NOAA global pollution, dumping plastics, or This will bean opportunityto lookat National Ocean Service, Office of ecosystem? through the dredging and fillingof the environment in a different way. Internal Affairs at (202) 673-5178. Well, everything is important to inshore waters. We have taken so much forgranted, • everything else. There is one inter- Anyone who has half a wit can but there are limits beyond which September 25, 1991 • Honolulu Weekly• 3 hich picture is closer extent alarming, about the alterna use (HSST/Mitsubishi International) to the truth?The city tives presented is that few real • a train with rubber-cushioned steel is nearer than ever choices are offered."The executive wheels that runs on a steel rail (Oahu before to approving summary of the report stated, "it is Transportation Group) the greatest public not clear why dedicated busways, • a straddle-beam monorail similar works project in its mixed-trafficlight rail, and a broader history, but just what range of transportation system man to the one at Disneyland; it's never the finished product agement options (such as) regional been used for urban transportation will beremains, to the public at least, van pool services, timed-transferbus (Honolulu Monorail/fGI) largely a mystery. Despite all of the facilities and auto-restraint measures • a trainwith rubber-tire cars that studies, the environmental impact were excluded from consideration run on concrete;it apparentlyhas the statements, the pressconferences and in the final analysis." Did the city widest guideway (Group One the hearings, the views of mass tran decide that the AA/DEIS was a Transit/MATRA) sit being propounded in this town biased report? Try the other door. • a train that runs on linked steel arewi ldly disparate... And thatleaves The city sticks by the document and rails (UTDC Corp.) the average taxpayer confused and says critics of the AA/DEIS didn't The selection committee, which unlikely to speak up -just the way see earlier studies which showed that consists of eight of Fasi 's cabinet the politicians like it. expanded busways in the city would members, will announce the "win Most of the confusionis fueled by not work. Chris Parsons, who three ner" on Oct.3. Very little infonnation a lack of tangible, accessible infor months ago becamethe city's transit on the specificsof each proposal - mation presented in a rational man PR man, says the city has studied cost, financing, construction, oper ner. When most of us think "mass alternativesfor the last 30 years, and ation - has been provided to the transit,"we tend to think in purely has conclusively shown that rail is public. Thecity's statedit was forced theoretical terms:fewer cars, less air the most effectivetransit syst em. Rail to keep everything confidential so By Julia Steele pollution, greater efficiency. It critics counter that statement with that the bid process would not be sounds like the politically correct the argument that the studies were tainted, and it even went so far as to path to pursue. Who has not sat stuck not good or comprehensive enough place a gag order on City Council in traffic, watching other cars crawl and that the city,under F�i. has been members who traveled abroad to rank Fasi has a dream: Efficient, by, each with only one driver, and pursuing its plan forrail for the last examine the systems at use. Public quiet trains whip back and forth thought, "There has to be a better 20 years at the expenseof adequately citizenswi ll have absolutelyno input between the city's suburbs on the way to do this?" exammmg the alternatives. into selecting the system. But mass transit in Honolulu is Meanwhile the city administration Leeward side and its urban core, now more than just a dream - it's a has accused critics of the plan What will it cost concrete plan on its way to becom (including Honolulu businessman to build? each laden with happy passengers ing a reality in concrete. And so the Slater, who has become the de facto The city is estimating between $1.4 far removed from the fracas ofthe city's specificproposal forexpanded spokesman for COST, the Com billion and $1.6 billion. Astrid freeway, lodged close to the heavens mass transit - a 17-mile extended mittee on Sensible Transit, which is Monson, an urbanplanner and mem rail system - warrants careful leading the fightagainst rail) of "bla berof the League of Women Voters, on a raised rail system. The entire pro examination. It will cost, at the most tant misrepresentations" and "dis who is utterlyopposed to the city's ject is constructed in four years and conservative estimate, 1.4 billion tortions." And the beat goes on. plan formass transit, estimates that dollars to build. It will dramatically Many, many questionsabout mass the billfor the project, with overruns, paid for jointly by magnanimous devel· alter the faceof the city. And, accord transit remain unanswered in any could reach as high as $6 billion if opers, an agency in Washington and ing to the city's own calculations, it thing more than general terms. A lot the city can't get the financing it state coffers. will do verylittle, if anything, to help of crucialinformation remains miss wants and is forcedto floatbonds to the island's trafficproblem. It would ing. What followshere is an attempt finance the deal. Parsons says \ \ \ I I \ I I J J -1: be easy to accept the plan just to examine and answer some of the � , J, the city would only float \ \ 1 because its "mass transit" label critical questions that everyone on bonds if a dedicated - sounds desirable, the idea of a train the island should be considering as \ " source of fund- \ \ in the city is sexy andthe facts and the city government nears a final ing fell '\ figures are just too complicated to decision on the project. through,· ,'\ sort through. But with so much at What will the which, .,, , stake, Honolulu residents simply he .....,,� �� ===== can't affordnot to take a serious look rail system :..;.-=::::=:: =::::::::=:::-- .=::.--� at the plan's pros and cons. consist of? ,..... "- -- Most of the existing information In its AA/DEIS, the city looked at ...... � on the city's current project is in its nine rail options. It decided on a rail Alternatives Analysis/Draft Envir system that will run primarily, and onmental Impact Statement perhapsentirely, aboveground from ?�· (AA/DEIS) of March, 1990, a doc Waiawa, just next to Leeward ument that has been criticized for Community College, to town Gust claims, is highly unlikely. Parsons ---;;:;;;::::::::::::----::"' beingblatantly pro-rail and forignor- where in town remains unclear; pos says the city is contracting the sys 1ng less expensive, less intrusive sible sites include Waikiki, the tem in an entirely new manner; he liff Slaterhas a nightmare: options. TheAA/DE IS looked at 11 University of Hawaii at Manoa and says there can be no cost overruns A massive, scandalouslyinefficient options formass transitin Honolulu: Hotel Street). The route will tenta because whoever gets the contract The firstwas to do nothing, the sec tively cover 17.3 miles and have 24 will beforced to absorb them. "It's a and expensive rail system drains ond was to expand the bus service stops. Buses will act as feeders to tumkey contract,"says Parsons. "If the city and state governments of and the other nine were varying pro the trains.Trains areproj ected to run they sign the contractto build the billions of dollars, which they posals for rail. Critics of the 20 hours a day and every two min system, they have to complete it... AA/DEIS say the expanded bus ser utes during rush hour. and if they don't, the city can sue." recoup by raising property and vice optionwas thrown in as a "straw The city received bids from five That, of course,assumes that the bid excise taxes, thereby passing the bur man" to be cited by the city when companies to build the train; its ders will accept such a deal. they werecriticized for ignoring tran selection committee is currently At the end of last year, there was den oftheir folly straight onto the help sit choices. In 1990, the Office of reviewing the fiveproposed systems. a flap between the council and State Planning commissioned transit lesscitizen. Meanwhile, trafficworsens. They are: Fasi's administration when it was experts to analyze the city's revealed that, even by the city's own When the noisy, unsightly railsyst em is • a train that "floats" above the rail AA/DEIS. Several criticized it on projections, the cost of the rail could and runs by magnetic levitation; it finally built, it removes less than 2 per the groundsthat it was overly favor shoot up to $3 billion if private sec exists only as a demonstration model able to rail. Stated one, "Perhaps tor fundingfa iled to materialize (the cent of the cars from the road ...and and has never actually been put to what is most surprising, and to some increase would come from fm anc- bankrupts us all in the process. 4 • September 25, 1991 • Honolulu We ekly ------"'------��------....�------�------:
ing costs and debt services). When the U.S. House would allocate $485 Bus and 25,500 more passengers "The argument that it's only going they will most likely not beuntil the members of the council expressed million to the city. Under thelegis than an increasedbus system would. to take so many cars offthe road system is well underway. concern, Harris accused them of lation, the U.S. transportation secre Since many peoplewill use the train doesn'tfaze me at all. The thing is, "misleading statements" and said tary is instructedto signa multi-year both to go to work and to return you have to have an alternative What does the comparing capital cost estimates grant agreement with Honolulu by home, this may in fact mean the methodfor people to travel." Parsons public think about and total capital and financing costs Apr. 30, 1992. actual numberof new riders will be says building a rail system will pre all this? "is like saying the purchase price It allsounds a little toogood to be closer to 31,250 (12,750, or .8 per vent peoplefrom being at ''themercy Just how do the peopleof Honolulu of a $200,000 house should be true, allthis money flowing in tobuild cent more than an increasedbus sys of private industry" (as they would feel about the whole idea of a rail between $600,000 and $800,000 a system at no cost to Oahu's resi tem). This increase in transit riders be if the city worked with existing system? A Honolulu Advertiser/ when you add in the 30-year mort dents. Skepticsof the plan point out and the projected decrease in cars private bus operators). City Council Channel 2 News poll by SMS some gage payments." In response, that all themoney comes from amounts, according to theAA/DEIS , ChairmanArnold Morgado, who has Researchrecently put forth the statis where: Councilman Gary Gill noted that Ifthe state taps into its gen to a decrease in traffic island-wide come out against rail, says, "I think, ticthat 62 percentof Honolulu's pop taxpayers would still footthe entire eral fund to build the rail system, that of 2.6 percent (if the bus servicewere sincerely, that a groupof peoplefe el ulace supports rail. The newspaper bill, debt payments included. meansless money forsomething else; beefed up, traffic would decrease 1.4 something must be done and thatis failed to report, however, that in a In the city's AA/DEIS, it esti if the fed s giveHonolulu half a billion percent). In fact, the largest single why so many have jumped on the further breakdown of the study 29 mates an annual cost of $250 mil dollars fortransit, they may decide objectionto the system to date is that mass transitbandwa gon." Monson percent strongly approved rail and lion forthe rail, foroperat ing and not to fund other programs in the it will cost too much and do too lit says she believes the rail is being 33 percent somewhat approved rail. capital costs. future; money taken from thetourists tle. Parsons says the Oahu built because Fasi wants it built. A further 10 percent somewhat dis Who will pay to build transit couldjust as easily be Metropolitan Planning Organization "Whether it makes any sense or not approved rail, 15 percent strongly taken fromthem to fund, say, better completed a study entitled HALI doesn't matter," she says. "This is disapproved and 13 percent were for it? schools or affordable housing. 2000 in December of '89 that pro his legacy he wants to leave." She undecided or unsure how to answer The city says it hopesthe cost willbe Monson says thecity's projections jects a decrease in traffic in the "cor also points out that if the system goes the question. Looked at another way, sharedequally between the state, the are all smoke and mirrors. "They're ridor" from Waiawa to town of 4 forward, there will be "contracts to then, the poll seems to suggest that private sector and the federal gov just floating everything," she says, percent, 6 percent during rush hour. be let, campaign contributions to be 56 percent of the population is ernment. pointing out that the city as yet has How has rail made, gratitude to be expressed. unsure about rail while 29 percent The state has agreed to throw in no money in the bank. The psychol Understand, I'm not talking about strongly approve and 15 percent $50 million a year for 17 years (this ogy, she says, is similar to saying, worked in other graft. It's just the way the system strongly disapprove. A total of 69 year, though, the first yearit was sup "If we had ham, we could have ham cities? works." Slater says he thinks it's percent said they were opposed to posed to turn in the money, it and eggs, if we had eggs." Monson Rail works well in cities with very being built "so some people can giving private developers zoning reneged, citing fears of a recession. says she doubts the city will ever get high urban density - cities like New make a lot of money. It's a very cir concessions in exchange formoney Not an auspicious beginning). more than 30 percentof the total cost York, Boston and London. It has been cular thing. Some people - for forthe rail. Another 48 percent said Money from the private sector will to build from the feds since several less successful in other cities, where example, builders, engineers, they thought the project was too most likely come from increased miles of the system don't meet the actual ridershiphas failedto match up Hawaiian Electric- will make a lot expensive (37 percent said they taxes forbusinesses close to the rail federal government's cost-effec to projected figures: in Miami, it was of money. They all do business with thought it was worth it). Seventy and the sale of development rights tiveness index and so cannot be off by 82 percent, in Buffalo by 57 everyone else, and since no one fivepercent said they thought Oahu and zoning concessions. According funded. Parsons acknowledges that percent, in Portland by 54 percent wants to prevent them making would need to build mass transit to Parsons, the city is willing to look portions of the rail currently don't and in Pittsburgh by 78 percent. A money, no one wants to speak someday, and 64 percent said they at any andall proposals forgenerat meet the federal standard; he says Congressional Budget Officereport against the project." A council aide thought it would help reduce traffic ing money from the private sector, the city is re-examiningand renego on rail transit from 1988 said, "New who points out that Sen. Daniel congestion. But 54 percentsaid they "We said, 'Come to us with your tiating the costs. transit systems financedwith federal Inouye, among others, is firmly thought the system wouldn't make ideas -show us how you can lower What will it cost aid - particularly rapid transit rail behind the project says, "It's classic it any easier forthem to get to work. the cost."' If the money from private projects -have not lived up to their pork-barrelpoliti cs. What betterway Also, one of the problems with the industryfa ils to materialize, the city to ride? promise. Generally, they have low is there to look good than to bring poll is that the city's residents have says it will put its fall-back plan into The city estimates the rail will have ered the efficiency of transitservice more pork into the barrel?" receivedlittle of the information they effect. The Legislaturerec ently gave the same fare structure as the bus, by adding expensive unused capac What services will need to evaluate the specific plan. the county the right to increase the which produces, very roughly, 25 to ity... The new rail systems may be Arlene Kim-Ellis of the League of general excise tax from 4 to 4.5 per 30 cents a ride on average (factor less attractive to previous bus riders be sacrificed to Women Voters says she'd like to see cent - which means an actual ing in bus passes and children's than the buses they replaced, and pay for the rail? a poll that asks, "Are you willing to increase in the tax of 12.5 percent fares). Critics, however, say there is hence, as a corollary, are less likely to Parsons says none, sticking by his spend unknown billions to build a , , I -for 10years. This increase would no way the city can keep the fares divert auto drivers to transit... Some argument that the project will be 17-mile rail system fromWa iawa to 1 1bring in an estimated $100million thatlow without massive· subsidies to form ofbus transitwill inevitably be financedby everyone but us. Others town that will decreasetraffic island � J , year. Theexcise tax is not tied whichever company is running the cheaper, more effective, and of a are not so sure of his logic. But as wide by 2 percent?" , �� · �- to income, however, and system - they estimate that with a higher quality than any rail system yet, no specific programs and plans • .. consequently it is fare structure of 25 to 30 cents and � in most U.S. cities." forcuts have been discussed - any Continued on Page 12 · -..;:,__� considered one the projected ridership, fares would A report prepared by the U.S. \ � of the cover only about 10 percent of the TransportationDepartment and given mo t annualized cost of the system (with � � to Congress in June of 1988 noted, the bus, fares currently average 30 "The actual cost of constructingthe percent of the operating costs). The (rail) projects has often been nearly city has projected that fares will twice as high as the estimates. cover 25 percent of operating and Coupled with the overly optimistic maintenance costs, though the OSP's ridership forecasts, it is clear that for commissioned study called this a � most of these projects, the capital regressive "major uncertainty." Monson esti cost of attracting ridership has been taxes in existence. The mates fares maygo to $1.50 perride, more than fourtimes as high as was COFFEE MANOA city counters the argument that even witha pass. The pay-at-the win originally forecast... Planners and the tax discriminates against the poor dow fare in Los Angeles is currently local officials should remember this MANOA MARKETPLACE • HONOLULU, HAWAII by saying that the money will actu $1.10, in San Francisco from 80 when they are evaluating a proposed ally come from the tourists, since cents to $3, in Va ncouver up to $2.75 project." residents will be able to recoup the and in Sacramento, a dollar. A place to unwind ...relax ...Collect scattered thowJhts. Other questions remain: increase when they file their returns. What will it do to Visit with friends-...A place with qood coffeeand tea. The tax is being discussed more and Why is it being An espresso bar with sweet treats ...The place to be. more as a viable option forfinancing ease the city's built? the system. traffic problems? Open 7 days a week. Federal money, which is expected Almost everyone you talk to has a Even the city says not much. By the different answer. The city says the to total $485 million, would come city's own estimates, the rail transit At Manoa Marketplace from the Urban Mass Transit rail is being built so that the people system will carry 62,500 more pas will have a choice. Fasi recently said, Between Woodlawn & East Manoa Roads Authority. Legislation currently in sengers a day thancurrently rideThe September 25, 1991 • Honolulu Weekly • 5 "Does the arm have a soul of its own?" The enter the theater have instructions in five ents (all except Short in the The Big Pic do with a black actor who disguises him only scary thing about this thriller was the languages printed on them. ture). Short plays an incredibly accident self as white in order to escape pursuing Sep 25 Saturday matinee audience in attendance. Graveyard ShiftThis ft lm, shock-schlock at prone accountant who teams up with a gangsters. Directed by Charles Lane (Side Boyz N the HoodJohn Singleton's screen its most cynical, has the distinction of being no-nonsense black cop (who else but Danny walk Stories). Unfortunately, Lane, Disney's play and direction breathe life into this study the worst movie ever made from a Stephen Glover?) in order to fm d an incredibly acci first black director, is also bushwhacked by of the deterioration of a black neighbor King source. The story, about a dormant dent-prone heiress. Not recommended. the studio's tight control. Oct 1 hood in South Central Los Angeles. Rec monster (it's supposed to be a giant bat, but Regarding Henry Disregard Henry. This ommended. it looks more like badly mistreated roast sappy ft lm stars HarrisonFord as an unpleas Short Run & Revival All calendar information Child's Play 3 Chuckie the Killer Doll ant yuppie attorneywhose cold existence is beef), features lots of strategically-placed AK Part of the Kurosawa:Perceptions of Life must be received by noon continues to brandish kitchen implements suddenly altered. Also with Annette Ben product plugs (ever since E.T. startedeating series at the Academy Theatre. AKis Chris on Wednesday two weeks in his quest for box-office success. Uni ing. Reese's Pieces, "sponsors" have been paying Marker's loving documentaryon Akira Kuro before publication. versal Pictures apparently couldn't resist a Robin Hood The movie that robs from the up to $50,000 forsuch plugs). In this dumb, sawa - more specifica!ly, on Kurosawa's Call 528·1185 subtitle for this installation -Number poor (the audience) and gives to the rich badly acted movie, even the ending is plu filmingof Ran. We see, in instructive detail, Three is also called "Look Who's Stalking!" (guess who). gola: The monster is defeated by tl1e hero's the Master at work - with thousands of - Mary Brennan Showdown in UttleTokyo Dolph Lund adroit use of a Pepsi can, which is featured extras, with his leading performers and with CitySlic kers See Short Run. gren (Grace Jones' ex) and Brandon Lee prominently in several close-ups. Capital his legendary production team. If you don't Company BusinessPost-menopausal spies (Bruce Lee's son) team up to fight off a ism marches on ... know Kurosawa's work, this is a helpful Film Gene Hackman (he of the CIA) and Mikhail Hartey Davidson and Marlboro Man Japanese syndicate's takeover of the the (and impressive) introduction. (All 18 films Criticism by Bob Green unless otherwise Baryshnikov (KGB, don't you know) have to United States. Crowds have stayed away fromthis potboiler in the Academy's Kurosawa series are free noted. team up when their Berlin spy- swap scheme Terminator II Recommended. The real stars in droves this season, and so should you. to the public). Recommended. Academy goes awry. On the run, the two form an Hot Shots of this visceral production are the computer Lloyd Bridges (yes, Lloyd Theatre, 900 S. Beretania St.: Tue. 10/1, 4 First Run odd alliance. Luckily, this confection was Bridges) steals tl1e show in tl1is funnysend imagists who whipped up the visuals. Brief reviews of selected fi rst-run films in directed by Nicholas Meyer (The Seven Per up of Top Gun. The jokes are sophomoric, town. Co nfirm theaters, dates and times. Cent Solution, Star Trek VI), who knows a but this film's the brightest in the summer's thing or two about breathing life into old-hat class. The special effects are genuinely witty. Backdraft You'll get burned if you go genres and plot lines. Charlie Sheen stands in for Tom Cruise. Film Pick expecting anything more than goodfighting DeadAgain The Honolulu audience found Late for Dinner W.D. "Rick" Richter's long the-flames special effects. parts of this intriguing suspense film about awaited sci-fl comedy/drama is about two Barton Fink Joel and Ethan Coen (Raising murder, reincarnation and bad karma unin brothers who undergo a high- science exper Arizona, Miller's Crossing) have succeeded tentionally funny. So might you ... as much iment in 1962. Twenty-nine years later, tl1ey hilariously with their dark comic allegory out of giddiness as anything else. The cross return to the homestead, physically about the perils of "success" in Hollywood cutting between 1949 and the present is so unchanged. (Richter is the director who gave - depicted here as Life in Hell. John Tur often awkward, the pacing so "foreign," in the world Buckaroo Banzai, a big cult ft lm turro is wonderful as Fink, a New York play this movie that you can easily lose track of on the university filmcircuit). wright wooedby Capitol Pictures. His arrival - and interest in -who did what to whom Uvin' LargeDexter Jackson, a student at a in California is heralded by the image of a in which lifetime. Most of the actors are Irish cut-rate school of broadcasting in Atlanta, giant wave crashingagainst a rock, andthen or British and do (or overdo) American stumbles across a career-making news flash Fink checks into a strange, almost accents, among them director-star Kenneth and is subsequently catapultedinto network Kafkaesque hotel. (From here on in the Branagh and his real-life wife, Emma stardom. Stars T. C. Carson, Lisa C. Arrindell images cease to be"reali stic," and we under Thompson. Guesting in smallish roles are and Nathaniel "Afrika" Ha!!. With music by stand we are in a subjective fantasy). The Robin Williams, Andy Garcia and Campbell Herbie Hancock, Slick Rick, Terminator X I \.! writer soon has a run-in with an insurance Scott. and The Jungle Brothers. - M.B. salesman (John Goodman),who's both dev DocHollywood NorthernExposure it ain't. McBain Listen to this press-release synop @ Jobana l'el
Hourof theWolf (1968) IngmarBergman's procured from certainads - the product masterwork about the plight of the artist: is marketed well, and the factthat it has no the man or woman who needs demons - substance is beyondthe point. The behind but who can be destroyed by them. The the-scenes stuff (shot in 16mm black and story revolves around an artist for whom white so it will lookgrainy and authentic) is the internal haunting becomessubjectively staged, but adroitly so, by director Alek externalized little bylittle; this is Gothicism Keshishian. The concert footage is 35mm before it was trivialized by pop "writers" color. Madonna describes this film as "an and "filmmakers." Brilliantly - brilliantly emotional journey" - all the way to the - conceived and executed by cinematog bank. Recommended. UH Foreign Film Soci rapher Sven Nykvist, the increasingly Gothic ely, Physical Science building, rm. 217, UH imagery,which culminatesat a castle soiree, Manoa campus: Fri.9/27 & Sat. 9/28, 7 & 9 perfectly correlates the artist's dementia. p.m. $4.50. With Max Von Sydow. Academy Theatre, Water andPower (1989) Avant-garde film 900 S. Beretania St.: Thur. 9/26, 1 & 7:30 maker Pat O'Neilljoins rankswith such con p.m. $4 538-1006 temporary theoreticians as stage director No Regrets for our Yo uth (1946) Part of Peter Sellars in declaring, against conven the Akira Kurosawa festival. One of the pio tional wisdom, the vitality and promise of neers in the humanist movement in Los Angeles (perhaps as a reborn City of Japanese film- which entailed a political Promise in the Electronic Age). One doesn't shiftfrom the right to the left- Kurosawa have to subscribe to that notion, however, undertook, in this film, to dramatize the to enjoy Wa ter and Power. Its images are plight of tl10se suppressed becauseof their the richest O'Neill, once a mininlalist, has political views. Moreover, the filmmaker employed yet. He describes thefilmas being chose to focus on the conflict through a about, among other things, '·cyclic motions ... woman's view of the events. Often called the planets... tl1etides ... the motions of per tl1emost Western of Japanese filmmakers, formers." But L.A. is reallythe star here, and Kurosawa is much more than that; in this tl1e filmmaker took five years to tryto prove early post-war film, he showed how indi that the cityis neither brain-dead nor static. vidual nation-state truths, political and per The results are impressive. Academy The sonal, are really universal in their atre, 900 S. Beretania St.: Sun. 9/29, 4 p.m. inlplications. In an age in which personal & Mon. 9/30, 7:30 p.m. $4 538-1006 freedoms are again threatened in so-called free countries, this film re-emerges, fresh and as relevant as today's headlines. Rec ommended. Academy Theatre, 900 S. Bere Music Continued from Page 1 when its other members taniaSt.: Tue. 10/1, 7:30 p.m. Free. 538-1006 It was plain to see in foundKrishna). Later that Switch(1991) A Blake Edwards ( Vi ctor/Vic Concerts toria) comedy starring Ellen Barkin as a BobWinn Sax player and flautistWinn has singer PerryFarrell's aus- year, a pair of high school tough guywho comes back as a dameafter tere lyrics and the unruly, buddies, guitarist Dave performed over the years with such jazz Jo ne's being murdered. There are a few laughs, dignitaries as Artie Shaw, Miles Davis and psychedelia-driven inven Navarro and drummer but this isnot one of Edwards' better films. Wes Montgomery. As partof Friends of Jazz tiveness of Jane's volume Steve Perkins, joined Hemenway Theatre, UH Manoa Campus: Hawaii's ongoing Jazz Hot Sunday! series, assault, both of which her Farrell and Avery and Tue. 10/1 - Sun. 10/6, 6 & 8:15 p.m. $3.50. Winn leads an accomplished local quartet alded a band with Impact. Addiction Jane's was formed. The 956-6468 that includes pianist Rich Crandall, bassist Youjust knew that IO or band's reputation began The Great Flamarion (1945) A circus Bruce HamadaJr. and drummerJess Gopen . 15 years from now, musicianswould They posed as Christians without to build on the strength of its now vaudevilleimpressario seeks revenge forhis Beacon Reslaurant, 98-108 Lipoa Pl., Aiea: be talking about Jane's Addiction giving up their truebeliefs." legendary stage shows. In the sum wife's betrayal. Forgettable - except that Sun. 9/29, 2:30 p.m. $9 946-2144 the way bands today talkabout the Sexual anatomy and paganism mer of 1987, Jane'semerged from the impressariois played by Erichvon Stro Jane's Addiction See article onpage 1 heinl, billedin Hollywood "theas man you aside, what probably disturbs your Aloha Tower, Wed. 9/25 & Thur. 9/26, 8 Velvet Underground. an intense bidding war over the band love to hate." 3566 Hard 'Course all the Parent's Music average citizen most about Jane's with a WarnerBros. contract that Movie Museum, p.m. Both shows are sold out. ing Ave.: Sun. 9/29, 8 p.m. $5. 735-8771 Jawaiian Fevah ResourceCenter typesnever got any Addiction is their openness about afforded them fullcreative control Holy sinsemilla,Batrnon, The VanishingSee Film Pick. it's another Jawaiian concert! This one's a of that. All they ever saw were the using heroin- and likingit. Several over their work. That arrangement ThreeStrangers (1946) Peter Lorre, Geral benefit forWinners at Work, a non-profit breasts on the album's cover. Never band members flaunt their habits, resultedin two albums, Shocking and dine Fitzgerald and Sidney Greenstreet star organizationiliat helps people with physi mind that they were only plaster past and present, as a matter of per Ritual (Jane's' first release was a as an unlikely trio sharing stakes in a win cal or learningchallenges trainfor and find sonal freedom.''I don't think it'sany self-titled live album on Triple X ning sweepstakes ticket. This is a typical jobs. With Mana'o Company, Butch Hele Derek Ferrar one's business if I chooseto sit there Records).The band has touredoften; Hollywood productof the tinle,and is gen mano, the Pagan Babies and Cross Over. and bang myself on the head with a this summer they headlined the erally thought well of. Co-written by John Andrews Amphitheater, UH Manoa cam (partof a sculpture by Farrell),they board," the 33-year-old Perry - a Lollapalooza, a massive tour of Huston and (an uncredited) William pus: Sat. 9/28, 6 p.m. $15 advance, $20 at Faulkner (see for context). were enough to get the album son of a Jewish jeweler on New socialdissent that also featuredsuch Barton Fink the door. 522-8851 Movie Museum, 3566 Harding Ave.: Thur. NataleCole. Woul d that we all had a father bannedby severalretailers. Not that York's 47th Street, who now lives alternativetalent as Siouxsie and the 9/26 & Fri. 9/27,8 p.m. $5. 735-8771 Jane's' members were bothered, andsurfs on L.A. 's Venice Beach - Banshees and the Butthole Surfers. who was one of the finest crooners of the Truth or Dare (1991) In her latest crafty century. Natalie is currently cashing in on mind you; the banno doubt actually told BAM. "If anybody thinksthey It even seems somewhat anticli incarnation,trash-goddess Madonna has cast father Nat King's timeless music - her lat increased record sales, and it gave wantto live like me, they're com macticthat bandmembers have been herself in therole of purveyoress of Truth, estalbum, Unforgettable, features an incred the band a handy excuse to speak pletely moronic. I don't like people talking break-up all year (I've even but this "documentary" is really far too cal ible technical feat: Natalie sings with Dad out on censorship. copying what I do. I didn't get into heard rumors that the band'sshows culated to claim the title. Purportedlya can through the miracle of Memorex. Don't Perry, to stressthe point,designed this to makesermons or set up struc at Aloha Tower thisWe dnesday and did look behind the scenes of the singer's count on seeing Nat senior at the show, two covers forJane's 1990 release, tures forothers to live by. My intent Thursday may be their last - oh, BlondAm bition tour, Truth is propaganda though. BlaisdellArena, m Ward Ave.: Sat Ritual de Lo Habitual. The regular has nothingto do with teaching. It's and ifyou' re worried that the band inlpure and sinlple. But Madonna knows 9/28, 8 p.m. $20. 521-2911 cover displayed a Santeriaaltar con to amuse myself on this completely that her audience - the emptyfaithful - OdettaThe legendary folk singer, who has might cancelat the last minute as won't know the difference, or care: They taining figurinesof Perry lying nude boring planet." they did last spring, Golden Voice, been influencing the folk world since the justwanna have fun. And thereis somefun late '40s, makes a rare Honolulu appear- with two women. Thealternate cover Of course none of this would mat the band'sL.A. promoters, assures here - the same kind of fun that can be (for stores that balked at the first) ter a damn if Jane'sdidn 't makesuch us that Jane's is "positively, abso was blank except for a print of the phenomenal music. "Shocking and lutely" coming this time). First Amendment on the front. Ritual areridiculously goodrecords ," "In the beginning," bassist Avery Did I say Santeria? Perry's fasci writes GuitarPlayer magazine's Joe told Creem Magazine, "Perry andI nation with theAfr ican-derived reli Gore, "j oyous train wrecks of high went into this as a pair of art-dam gion is surely another sore in the concept artsinessand low-down psy aged kids. It's not thatwe wantedto side of the fundamentalists, what cho-metallic grunge. Both recapture be aRolling Stones or anythinglike with its blood rites andall. Ritual is the free-form spontaneity of classic that. Rock stardom was not some choke with Santerian symbology, late-'60s rock without ever sound thingwe were shooting for.It kind of Two locations: and Farrell used footage of his ing merely retro. They reek of a feels like there's a crescendo to Gecko Dooks & Comics Santeria wedding in Mexico - he funkydanger rarely sniffe d since the (Ritual), likea time to stop." andgirlfriend Casey Niccoli puri Stones, Doors and Velvet Farrell, like the other band mem 3613 Wo ioloe Avenue fied and mingled their blood under Underground were in full flower." bers, seems unfazed by the prospect Honolulu, Hawaii the ministrations of a brujeria, or Seen in thatlight, it is perhaps not of Jane'sdemise. ''This is not theend 96816 medicine woman- inScenes From surprising that Jane's recorded a forme," he told Creem.''I don't have (808) 732-1292 Gift, the film he made to accompany cover of the Grateful Dead's freak anyfear aboutnot beingPerry Farrel l, Gecko Dooks & Comics the album. anthem Ripple for last spring's the singer of Jane'sAddiction. I'm "I guess I was just drawn to the Deadicated CD. not scared at all." 1347 Koiluo Rood colors of it all," Farrell told BAM Somehow the giant stature given Aboutall that doesseem important Koiluo, Hawaii 96 734 magazine's Roy Trakin. "I also Jane's within the world of rock - and very important at that - is (808) 263-2004 responded to the pageantry.There's makes the band's history seem that Jane's has proven that rock can something very basic about it ... almost irrelevant: In mid-19'86, still achieve revelationon the edge of Stop by when These people used Christian sym Farrell met bassist Eric Avery at the Abyss, even here at the cusp of you're in the bols to (fool) theircaptors because auditions for anL.A. post-punk band the '90s and the New World Order. neighborhood they dido 't want to get flagellated. called Psi-Com (botheventu ally quit • September 25, 1991 • Honolulu Weekly• 7 JollyRoger Waikiki, 2244 OasisNitedub, 2888Wa ialae Live Music Kalakaua Ave. 923-1885 Ave. 734-3Tl2 JollyRoger East, 150 Orson's, 5 Hoolai St., Kailua. Venues Kaiulani Ave. 923-2172 262-2306 AnnaBannanas, 2440 s. I.ewersLounge, Halekulani, ParadiseLounge, Hilton Beretania St. 946-5190 2199 Kalla Rd. 923-2311 Hawaiian Vi llage, 2005 Katia Andrew's, Ward Centre, 1200 MahinaLounge, Ala Moana Rd. 949-4321 Ala Moana Blvd. 523-8(,Tl Hotel, 410 AtkinsonDr. Pecos99--016 River c.afe, BanyanVeranda, Sheraton 955-4811 Kamehameha Hwy., Aiea. • Moana Surfrider, 2353 MaileRoom, Kahala Hilton 487-7980 Kalakaua Ave. 922-3111 Hotel, 5000 Kahala Ave. JlaimayGalleries & C.are, BlackOrchid, Restaurant 734-2211 1128Smith St. 537-ARTS Row, 500 AlaMoana Blvd. 0 Malia's<:antina, 311 I.ewers Rcnl.'s,98-713 Kuahao PL, 521-31ll St. 922-7800 Pearl City. 487 -3625 C.areSlstina, 1314 S. King St. Monterey Bay Canners SilverFox Lounge, 49 N. 526-0o71 Ootriger, 2335 Kalakaua HotelSt 536-9215 • • • Capaln'sRoom, Hawaii Ave. 922-5761 SpindrifterKabala, 4169 PrinceHotel, 100Holomoana MontereyBay Canners Waialae Ave. 737-7944 • St. 956-1111 Pearlridge,98-1005 Steamer's, 66-1445 • Coffedine, 1820 University Moanalua Rd. 487-0048 Kamehameha Hwy.,Haleiwa. Ave. 947-1615 MontereyBay Canners 637-5085 CoffeeMaooa, 2851 E. Ward, 1200 AlaMoana Blvd. SugarBar, 67-0fJ9 Manoa Rd. 988-5113 536-6197 KealohanuiSt., Waialua. 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Consult Jon Basebase Contemporary; Horatio's. Blues; Ja ron 's Kailua. Name Bar. Jimmy Borges Jazz; 900S. Beretania St.: Wed. the Live Music Ve nueslist fo r locations and Jonny & the DreamersVa riety; Monterey BettyTaylor Loo & RachelJazz; Gonzalez Paradise Lounge. Academy Theatre, Jon Basebase & Vince Andrada Con 9/25, 8 p.m. $20. 538-1006 phone numbers. Bay CannersWa rd New Orleans Bistro. Blue temporary; Quiet Riot A nostalgic stroll down head Just Level Reggae; Anna Bannanas. Kangaroo Variety; Jolly Roger Wa ikiki. Horatio's. 25/Wednesday Blues Jonny & theDreamers Variety; banger's lane. Ah, remember that rosy Kawika Finfrock Variety; MontereyBay BanclHsBlues; Tbe Landing. Monterey BlueKatgsoo Va riety; yesteryear when you still had all those brain Jolly Roger Wa ikiki. Canners Outrigger. Eden Dance Rock; Wa veWa ikiki. Bay Canners Wa rd. Eden Dance Rock; Entourage Joy Woode & BettyTa Loo ylorJazz; cells, your Spandex fit, Republicans never Wa veWa ikiki. Keoa Variety; JollyRo ger F:ast. Contemporary; Nick 's Fish New Entourage Contemporary; wore long hair and Quiet Riot was big? Nick's Fi sh Kontrast Rock; Moose McGillycuddy 's - market. Orleans Bistro. J.P. Smoketrala Kawlka Finfrock Variety; Kinda makes the '80s seem notso far away, market. Wa ikiki. Light rock, R & B; No Monterey Bay Emle SheaJazz; don't it GussieL:Amour' s,3251 Nimitz Hwy.: Mahina Lounge. Leroy Kahaku Contemporary; Black Name Bar. Ca nnersOutrigger. loel Kurasakl Jazz; Keoa Variety; Jolly Roger F:ast. Orson's. Kontrast Rock; Moose McGillycuddy's. 1 a Basebase Contem Wa ikiki. porary; Horatio's. Leroy Kahaku Contemporary; Black any & the Dreamers Orchid. 5:30 · 9:30 p.m. Va riety; Monterey Bay Live Paradise Variety; Wa ikiki Broiler. Canners Wa rd Loretta Ables Trio Jazz; !ewers Lounge. lawlka FinfrockVa riety; Mahl Beamer Contemporary Hawaiian; Monterey Bay Canners Andrew's. Outrigger. Maaa'o Co.Contemporary Hawaiian; Malia INa Variety; Jolly Roger Cantina'.5. liast. Mojo Hand Blues; Silver Fox Lounge. Kontrast Rock; Moose Na Mele Rasta Reggae; Fast Eddie's. 9- McGillycuddy's- Wa ikiki. 11 p.m. Leroy Kahaku Contem Nalu Variety; Monterey Bay Canners porary; Black Orchid. 5:30 Pearl ridge. -8:30 p.m. No Excuse Dance; Black Orchid. 10 p.m. Uve Paradise Variety; Nueva Vida Jazz; Reni's. Wa ikiki Broiler. Pagan Babies World Dance; Anna Ban laretta Ables Trio Jazz; nanas. I.ewersLoun ge. Pandemonium Worldbeat; TbeRow. llahi BeamerContempo Raga & Andrea Young Jazz; Mahina raryHawaiian ; Andrew's. Lounge. Nalu Variety; Monterey Robi & Friends Contemporary Hawaiian; Bay Canners Pear/ridge. Moose McGillycuddy 's - Un iversity. • Excuse Dance; Black Rolando Sanchez & the New Salza Orchid. 9 p.m. Hawaii Band Latin; Nick's Fishmarket. NorthAmerican Bush Va ndage Rock, Pop; Ja ron 's Ka ilua. landFunk, Jazz, Reggae; Warren Johnson & Gator Creek Band Anna Bannanas. Pam Country; Pecos RiverCaf e. 811mboaTop 40; Paradise Willie K. Contemporary Hawaiian; Lounge. Steamer'.\". OUR ALL-TERRAIN VEHICLES DON'T RUN OUT OF GAS UNTIL YOU DO. laga & Andrea Yo ung Zig ZagClassic Rock; Fast Eddie's. 11:45 p.m. If you're planning to conquer a few mountains, we've got the toughest off-road machines to do it with. Jazz; Mahina Lounge. Bikes that won't break down, even when you're going for broke. The Bike Way 250 Ward Ave. ..andoSanchez & the 28/Saturday New Salza Hawaii Band Alisa Randolph & Musica E Jazz; Cafe IiiTHE BIKE WAY Latin; Tbe Row. Sistina. 8 • September 25, 1991 • Honolulu Weekly collapsed, the notion of a little-C s it true that, as my fa ther says, AzureMcCall Jazz; Captains Room. Bistro. commonwealth assumed a distinctly companies that produce maps Bae N Thyme Contemporary; Sp indrifter Ronda Michaels Jazz; Captain's Room. antimonarchical cast and "com (Rand McNally, etc) make up Kabala. SydetteJazz; LewersLoun ge. Betty Loo Taylor & Derryl McKay Jazz; Wes Hamrick Classical, Jazz; monwealthmen" became ardent some little bitty towns and dot Banyan republicans. For that reason, as well Ne w OrleansBistro. Ve ra nda. them around their map design Blue Kangaroo Variety; as the original idea of common JollyRoger Wa ikiki. so theycan tell ifanyone copies Blues Bandits Blues; Reni's. 1/Fuesday enterprise, the term commonwealth it? Has anyone ever gotten lost Carol AtkinsonJazz; Orsons. Betty LooTaylor & Derryl McKay Jazz; commended itself to rad (well, trying to find one of those made-up Cast Offs New England Contradance; New OrleansBistro. semirad) Massachusetts statesman towns? --Susan Owen, College Hawaii Loa. Blue KangarooVariety; jolly Roger Waikiki. John Adams. Adams must have Station, Texas Eden Dance Rock; Wa veWa ikiki. Cool BreezeJazz; Coffee Manoa. been a good persuader; the folks The folksat Rand McNally swear GoodOle Boyz Country; Pecos RiverCafe. EntourageContemporary; Nicks Fishmar who walked into on a stack of road atlases that they Jon Basebase & Vince Andrada Con ket. e the Bay State's would never do such a thing. temporary; Horatios. Ernie Shea Jazz; Mahina Lounge. JQnny & the Dreamers Variety; Horizon Contemporary; cons�ituti�nal con However, they admit that a small Monterey Sp indrifterKa bala. •g11t Bay Ca nners Wa rd. Howling Beddies Rock; vent10n m 1780 regional map company called Moose McGilly I Jimmy Borges Jazz; Paradise Lounge. cuddys - Wa ikiki. styled themselves ra Champion, which they bought a Kawika Finfrock Variety; J.P. Smoketrain MontereyBay Light rock, R & B; No "the Delegates of the People of the while back, did put a "copyright Canners Outrigger. State of Massachusetts-Bay" Na me Bar. trap" into a map on at least one Keoa Variety;Jolly Roger East. Joel Kurasaki Jazz; Orson 's. Kontrast Rock; Moose McGillycuddy 's - Jonny & the Dreamers Variety; Monterey Wa ikiki. Bay Ca nners Wa rd. Lawai'a Jawaiian; Fast Eddie s. 11:45 p.m. Kawika Finfrock Variety; MontereyBay Live Paradise Variety; Wa ikiki Broiler. Canners Outrigger. Loretta Ables Trio Jazz; Lewers Lounge. Keoa Variety;Jolly Roger East. Mahl Beamer Contemporary Hawaiian; Leroy Kahaku Contemporary; Black Andrews. Orchid. 5:30 - 8:30 p.m. Mana'oCo. Contemporary Hawaiian;Malia Live Paradise Variety; Wa ikiki Broiler. Ca ntinas. Local Band Night Three progressive rock Mojo Hand Blues; Silver Fox Lounge. acts; Wa veWa ikiki. Mondo Incognito Rock; No Na me Bar. Loretta Ables Trio Jazz; LewersLoun ge. Nalu Variety;Monterey Bay Canners Pear/ Nalu Variety;Monterey Bay Ca nnersPear/ ridge. ridge. Excuse Dance; Black Orchid. Pam Gamboa Top 40; Paradise Lounge. Nueva VidaJazz; Tbe Row. Shlvani Kumar Jazz; Captain's Room. Pagan BablttsWo rld Dance; Anna Ban Warren Johnson & Gator Creek Band ·cg nanas. Country; Pecos River Cafe. 0 Raga & Andrea Young Jazz; C Mahina Wes Hamrick Classical, Jazz; Banyan IIIIO Lounge. Ve ra nda. e,;; Rolando Sanchez & the New Salza Simpllslty Jawaiian; DO Malia Cantina's. :::, Hawaii Band Latin; Nick's Fishmarket. ZigZag Classic rock; FastEddies. Simpllsity - Jawaiian; Malia Ca ntina's. C Vandage Rock, Pop; Jaron s Kai/ua. WHIie K. Contemporary Hawaiian; Fast Eddies. 9 - 11 p.m. Theaterand I:::, 29/Sunday Dance Blues Bandits Blues; Anna Bannanas. Evita Diamond Head Theatre takes yet Carol AtkinsonJazz; Orsons. anotherbig chance with this Tony-laden recently movedfro m Minnesota Dread Ashanti Reggae; Webber/Rice house-packer about that but came out carrying "the Consti occasion. The trap consisted of a No Na me Bar. to Wa shington, D.C. Not only EdenDance Rock; Wa veWa ikiki. whacky Peron family. The show was origi tution of the Commonwealth of nonexistent street stuck into a map Ernie Shea Jazz; nallyscheduled to run at Leeward Commu did / leave behind IO ,000 lakes, Massachusetts." Mahina Lounge. of a medium-sized city in New York GoodOle Boyz Country; Pecos River Cafe. nityCollege last spring, but it was cancelled it seems / leftthe United States Later "commonwealth" evolved as well. No, I'm not talking state - a fact that was gleefully HorizonContemporary; Sp indrifterKa bala. becauseof - yep - money problems. So to mean a voluntary association of Jam Session Jazz; DHf picked it up out of the goodness of about the drive fo r District revealed on CBS This Morning a Nick's Fishmarket. colonies or nations. Thus in 1900 fewmonths ago. On investigating, Joy Woode & BettyTa Loo ylorJazz; New its heart. Directed by UH prof Glenn Can statehood. I'm wondering why we had the commonwealth of Orleans Bistro. non, with choreographyby LCC's John Ram my new home, Virginia, is called a Rand McNally found some smart Australia, a collection of former aleck cartographer (you know what Kapena Jawaiian; Malia Cantina's. page and musical direction by Emmett G. commonwealth instead of a state. Yoshioka. Starring Carolyn Heitzman as colonies amalgamated into a nation, a wild and crazy bunch they are) Maxlne«arenJohnson Mixed viola; Ram ls there a difference between and later the BritishCommonwealth say Galleries& Cafe. 11 a.m. - 2 p.m. Evita, Bill Ogilvie as Peron and BryanArse Virginia -and the commonwealths had gone ahead and done the Mondo lncognHo Rock; nault as Che. It's your money and you can (now merely the Commonwealth, wicked deed on his own. Whether Moose McGilly of Massachusetts, Pennsylvaniaand cuddys - Wa ikiki. cryif you want to. Diamond HeadTheatre, to avoid the imperialist taint), an they torturedthe guy to reveal other Over the Hill Gang DixielandJazz; 520 Makapuu Ave.: Wednesdays through Kentucky-and the commonwealth association of former British sub Fast cartographic sabotage by sticking Eddie's. 2 - 5 p.m. Saturdays, 8 p.m., Sundays 4 p.m. Runs of Puerto Rico? If there's no legal ject states. difference, how come Puerto Rico double-0 drawing nibs under his Pam GamboaTop 40; ParadiseLoun ge. through 10/13. $7 - $35. 734-0274 It was apparentlythe latter brand fingernails 1 do not know. But the Phil's Combo Contemporary Hawaiian, ForbiddenBroadway Big time show tunes doesn't get a star on the U.S.flag? of commonwealth that Wa shington rock; are spoofed in this off-Broadway hit that's -Tim Wa lker, Wa shington, D.C. possibility of additional fakerydoes Sugar Bar. brain-trustershad in mind when they exist - and may fora while, since Ronda Michaels Jazz; Captain's Room. been runningfor nine years and, by golly, pondered the future of Puerto Rico checking every detail of a map is a SycletteJazz; LewersLoun ge. is still. Starring singers Annie Maclachlan, Oh, fine, Tim, stir up the revolu Wes Hamrick Howard Bishop, Katie Doyle,Rebecca Silvey in the 1940s. "Commonwealth" sta huge job. Not that I'd get into a Classical, Jazz; MaileRoom. tionaries. Fact is, in this country and Scott Willis. Directed by Brad Powell, tus was the perfect have-your panicabout it, but on your next road we've got commonwealths and then 30/Monday withmusical direction by JohnAlexander . cake-and-eat-it-toocompromise, sig trip you might want to bring a flash we've got commonwealths. Old ErnieShea Jazz; Manoa Va lley Theatre, 2833 E. ManoaRd.: nifyingthat Puerto Rico was sort of light and a canof Spam just in case. Mahina Lounge. style CWs, including VA,MA, PA, GoodBoyz Ole Country; Pecos River Cafe. Wednesdays through Saturdays,8 p.m.; Sun independent but not really and sort -CECILADAMS Horizon Contemporary; days 4 p.m. Runs through 10/6. $18 - $20. and KY, hark back to a 17th-cen of a state but not really that either. Sp indrifterKa bala. tury notion of the state (generic, not J.P. Smoketraln Light rock, R & B; No 988-6131 Don't worry about the Old Is there something you need OnceUpon One Time UH's Kennedy The U.S.) as common enterprise -you Na me Bar. Dominion, though. Legally the old to get straight? Cecil Adams JoelKurasakl Jazz; atre opens its Cultural Encounters season know, all for one, one for all, that Orsons. style commonwealths are indistin can deliver the Straight Dope Kapena Jawaiian; with thisfull-length kids' musical featuring kind of stuff.The proto-Virginians Malia Cantinas. guishable fromstates, and fromthe on any topic. Write Cecil Kawika Finfrock Variety; MontereyBay ye olde fairytales adapted by local play at Jamestown referred to their standpoint of terminological cool Adams, Chicago Reader, 11 E. Canners Outrigger. wrightLisa Matsumoto (Bye By e, HanaBut undertaking as a commonwealth A sampling of the cast of ness you've got states beatby a mile. Illinois, Chicago 60611. Leroy Kahaku Contemporary; Black tab Days) . virtually from the day the colony Orchid.5:30 - 8:30 p.m. characters tells all: Red Rose Haku (who was foundedin 1607. MilestoneJazz; Nicks Fishmarket. meets Da Mean Mongoose on the way to A few decades later in England Correction: Open Jam Session Rock; Fast Eddie's. Tutu's house), Da WickedQueen (who tries "the Commonwealth" came to Rates atAisen Shiatsu as quoted in The Phantom Browser Pam Gamboa Top 40; Paradise Lounge. to poison Noelani with a tainted mango) mean the period of Puritan rule (HW 9/11) were incorrect. The ratesare $30an hour; Raga & Derryl McKayJazz; New Orleans and Kekoa and Maile (who discover a under the Cromwells, 1619-1660. $17.50 for a half.hour. We apologize for any The big-C Commonwealth having inconvenience.
® ®ll'JP (!!Q TIDES - September 25 to October 1· c rr lffiID/} 11� IIID WEDNESDA Y THURSDA Y FRIDA Y SATURDA Y SUNDA Y MONDA Y TUESDA Y ™ ""' NOON Formica Tables "Screw the eclipse. I'll catch the next one!' Yes ,�Have No Eat well, take care of yourself, and who knows what you could live to see? At Kokua Co-Op we have Hawaii's best selection of fresh organic produce. Plus a complete Cilantro line of natural foods. Even naturally raised poultry. We hope to see you here soon. And for many When you sit down, you are pre French bread); hot and spicy sate years to come. Alan Young sented with a menu with several sec beef noodle wonton and on and on. tions -appetizers,salads, beefsoup Summer or shrimp rolls ($3) are K9KUA CO·OP ou'll findbroths made from pfw, seafoodnoodle soup (which for served cold and accompanied by a 2357 S. Berdania, at [&enberg/Ph one: 94/-/922/0pen 7 days a we�. scratch, fresh-pickedherbs some arcane reason lists two seafood sweet, tangy peanut sauce. Chicken and greens, ivory mung noodle soups and then continues on salad is wonderful. Crunchy, with sprouts, moist wedges of MSG, with pork, beefand chicken noodle peanuts and fried brown bits of lime, no and, on soups), cold rice noodles, rice dishes onion, it comes with a small bowl request, fresh,hot (!) slices and beverages/desserts. The menu of fish sauce dressing. Pour it on, of canninechilies. But you is a cross-referencer's dream: It's grab your bowl of hot rice and wail. can't get no cilantro(unf ortunately written in English, romanized All the soupy dishes have home for those of us whose palates and Vietnamese, Chinese andJapane se made broths. And the varietyof noo noses hanker for its fulsomeness). dles areserved ! There are thick bean Where are we, you ask? threads, egg noodles,wide and slen Why herein Honolulu's heartland, der ricenoodles and saiminnoo type at Wah-Fung Binh Dan Quan (in the Killer dles. Wah-Fung's pho got a thumbs University Ave.area at 2636 S. King up froma dining companion, and the St. mauka diamond head of Puck's Vietnamese lemon grasschicken got raves from Alley, just past Chan's Restaurant another of my dining partners( a pro - good dim sum - and next to at Wah· fessional cook himself). India House -not very good vege To drink,there is goodVietnamese tariandishes but, I hear, an excellent Fung coffee, black and very strong. lamb curry). Binh IJa n Lemonade is fresh and made to The place is your basic dynamite order. The pink or green plastic el cheapo killer nice family-run Quan condiment baskets on each table con Vietnamese restaurant. The propri tain sugar, salt and pepper, shoyu, etors are a husband/wife, and also numbered. Along with the nuoc man (fishsauce), fwi sin(sweet Vietnamese/Chinese team (She menu, you are given a small photo bean) sauce, samba! oelek(thick, ,,,,,. Gulde addresses me with more Cantonese album with the dishes listed by num seedy chili sauce), sriricha (smooth, than I can possibly cope with, what ber and shown in full ( cooked and vinegary chili sauce) and sate sauce. Mid I If•• ,_ 1Z·31/1 U,. flJII llild with my third-generation legacy. It presented) color. Clever, huh? And Spice and season to your heart'sand must bethe eyes that trigger this flow does it work! These are well-done stomach's (dis)content. If you're of Asia speak. It's certainlynot my photos of some veryappetizing-look going to Varsity Theater, this place is command of vocabulary or my ing food. perfect for before the late show or superb accent). Besides the connu A warning: If you are vegetarian, after the early show. After your bial duo, there also seems to be a Freetorm Jm Rock l.tve this may not be the place foryou. prawns and rice, may I suggest ice Cl8ssical Hawaiian Jazz Rock* numberof older women (aunts and .., There is only one dish on the menu cream and cookiesat Bubbies? Binh grannies?) behindthe scenes, wash (#36 - steamed rice with chop Dan Quan is another Tuesdayclos er. �tty ing up and chopping and cooking suey) that has no animal protein Hoursare 10 a.m. til3 p.m.and from FreehJrm Clasifcal Ja!Z Roek Jm Rock and cuttingup vegetables. Out of the ,.,,,, Show involved in its production.If you eat 5 p.m. til9 pm. Wednesday through cornerof my eye, I see a diminutive seafood and/or poultry, you are Monday. • gray-haired lady wearing yellow somewhat better off. But it's really latex gloves appear in the kitchen the no-holds-barred, eat-it-all-and doorway to peer into thedining room anything grinder who will get the and then quickly disappear. most out of this menu. Wah-Fung Honolulu Jazz Rock Jalz Rock Wah-Fung is not a big place (nine does some delectable things that to 10 tables), but it's popular. The involve pork andbeef and combos Weekly ... restaurant has been operating for a with seafood and chicken - roast Fclk fewyears now,with pleasingly c?n porkand spring rolls; beefsate salad; Freetorm Clissical Jm Rock Show Reggae flock sistent quality in food and sei:v1ce. the Vietnamese national soup, pho The dining areais fluorescent-lit,but (clear beefbroth with beefballs, rare not overly so, and thickly populated Political Alumni steak, well cooked flank, tendon, SalDPday Freeform Classical Jazz Forum Reggae Rock with money plants wedged into tripe, et cetera); rice noodles with @c9 Show ceramic owl, pink elephant and rac For advertising call grilled or sauteed pork; beef stew 528-1370 coon vases. (generally served with a hunk of *9-10:30 pm Uve! September 25, 1991 • Honolulu Weekly• 11 Continued from Page 9 Blue Skies to DancingWaters Watercol 1820 University Ave. 947-1615 SelfPortraits in Print18 prints frommem tival Polinisia, 6:30 p.m., Kapiolani Park. macadamia-shortbread house). Directed by ors by Sally R. Simmer. Through 10/26. Faculty ExhibHion Works in a variety of bers of the Honolulu PrintmakersWor kshop, Fri.9/27: Wa ipahuPla ntationDays, 10 a.m. UH prof Tamara Hunt with originalmusic by Bakkus Gallery, 928 Nuuanu Ave. 528-4677 media by current and retired UH Manoa using a variety of techniques. Through 10/5. - 4 p.m., Wa ipahu Cultural Gardens. Sat. Paul Palmore. Kennedy Theatre, UH Manoa ColorRomanticism Neo-impressionist oil fine art faculty members. Through 10/18. Koa Gallery, Kapiolani Community College, 9/28: To rchlite Wa ter Parade, 6:30 p.m., campus: Sat. 9/28 & Sun. 9/29, 2 & 7 p.m. paintings by Mike Breen. Through 10/4. UHArt Gallery, Art Bldg., UH Manoa Cam Diamond Head Campus. 848-0402 Ala Wai Canal. Sun.9/29: FestivalPolinisia $6 956-7655 Cafe Che Pasta, 1001 Bishop St. 524-0004 pus. 956-6888 ShadowedExpressions: The Graphic Art DevotionalServices, 10:30 a.m., Kawaiahao The Reluctant Dragon It's a kid's story, CulturalExchange Art Faculty Wo rks from Fukuoka Prefectural Art A show of 150 of Eugene Carriere Symbolist Carriere Church. Polo Matches, 2 p.m., Mokuleia Polo adapted from the book by Kenneth Gra the art faculties of Windward Community works, including calligraphy, paintings focuses on the nether world of French Fields. Free. 944-8857 hame, and it goes like this: Boy meets College and its sister school, Kagawa Jr. Col and textiles, to mark the 10th anniversary bohemians. 18 lithographs and one painting Nihon Bunkasai A Japanese cultural cele dragon, discovers dragon would rather drink lege in Shikoku, Japan. Through 9/27. Ram of the sister-state bond between Hawaii Through 10/13. Honolulu Academy of Arts, bration with lectures, chants and a fire cer tea and recite poetry than barbeque virgins say Galleries& Cafe , 1128 Smith St. 537-ARTS and Fukuoka, Japan. Through 10/9 Hon 900 S. Beretania St. 538-3693 emony, all examining the spiritual meaning with his breath. Boy tells villagers, but they Deb Aoki: Recent Prints & Current olulu Academy of Arts, 900 S. Beretania The ArtRecyclosis of A bottle-cap/pull-tab of the Buddhist images in the Vi sionsof the no believe and so summon dragon-slayer ObsessionsAoki, a versatile artist who has St. 538-3693 baby sea turtle swimming to heaven is just Dharma exhibit at the Academy. Honolulu Saint George. Boy uses head and comes up done everythingfrom cute ceramic jewelry Hawaiian Womentheir and Perspective one of Chauncey Carter's transformations Academyof Am, 900 S. Beretania St.: Sun. with peaceful solution. Directed for Hon to radicaldrawings for KAOS, "comes out of • Faces, Places & Legends Watercolors of trash into art. Ongoing. Something Good 9/29, 1 - 5 p.m. Free. 538-3693 olulu Theatre for Youth by artistic director the closet" with a variety of media in her by Helen laea. Through 9/'30. Tbe Gallery on Cafe, 301B Hahani St., Kailua. 262-8792 Rainforest Jungle Walk A lush walk in Pamela Sterling. CastleHigh School Theatre, first show. Her recent pieces feature dogs the Pali, 2500 Pali Hwy. 595-4047 The RiseKundalini of Sculpture by Richard UpperNuuanu Valley which winds through 45-386 Kaneohe Bay Dr.: Sat. 9/28, 7:'30p.m. and cats in represention of lives in transi HoHung Wong: TheMaster ZhongShan M. Fand. Through 10/22. Galleryon the Pali, the groundsof Queen Emma's summer cot $7.50 grownups, $5 kids. 839-9885 tion. Through 9/28. Keiko Hatano Studio & Brushstroke paintings of Zhong Shan, Wong's 2500 Pali Hwy. 595-4047 tage. No smoke breaks, since it's sponsored Gallery, 903 Waimanu St. 528-0146 hometown. Through 9/28. Robyn Buntin Visionsof the Dharma Fifty works from by the Clean Air Team. Ve teran '.5Me morial "Do you sometimes get that not•so Galleries, 900A Maunakea St. 523-5913. the Academy's collection of Japanese paint Flame, S. Beretania St.: Sundays, 9 a.m. - 12 freshfeeling? Oh yeah, the an. to self. Imported Arts and Crafts Pieces from ings and woodblock prints depicting a p.m. $3.20. 944-0804 cleaning." Womyn! Bring your diet pills, China, Thailand, Burma, Bali and more. range of Buddhist images from the12th Remembering the Olden Days - The AlexArt KatzSmall oil paintings on boardand corsets, coat hangers and other tools of Ongoing. Wa terfall Gallery, 1160A Nuuanu through the 19th century. Through 10/20. Filipino-American Experience Panelists masonite. Through 11/17. Contemporary female oppression to the Altar of Abuse. A Ave. 521-6863 Honolulu Academy of Arts, 900 S. Bereta talk story about how they grew up as Museum, 2411 MakikiHeights Dr. 526-1322 Coffeeline original. Ongoing. Coffeeline, Innocence & Experience Nicholas nia St. 538-3693 "locals" in Hawaii but preserved their Fil Africano's paintings, sculptures, works on ipino heritage. Honolulu Academy of Arts, paper. Through 11/10. Contemporary 900 S. Beretania St.: Sat. 9/28, 2 p.m. Free. r------Museum, 2411 Makiki Heights Dr. 526-1322 538-1006 • It's aCat's World Acrylic and oil paintings Learning of playful kitties by Suma. Through 9/27. Aloha 'Aina Action Congress See Learn , ing Pick. MoratinDowntown Gallery, 3 N. Pauahi St. 521-9669. Israeli Folk Dance A professional folk 1 I Land, Sea & Sky Kiri-e cut paper by Aki dancer from Los Angeles teaches begin Sogabe. Through 9/27. Ramsay Galleries & ning/intermediate and advanced workshops. Cafe, 1128 Smith St. 537-ARTS You pay for anyglasses you break. Temple I I Mark Kadota & Dennis Morton Mixed Emanu-EI, 2550 Pali Hwy.: Beg./Int., Sat. media landscapes with graphic elements 9/28, 6:30 p.m. Adv., Sun 9/29, 2 p.m. $5. Mass Confusion Continued from Page 5 that have an East Asian flavor by Kadota, 373-2561 I I and more traditional local scenes by Morton. Te mple Tour Rituals, art and the role of Through 10/3. Honolulu Club, 932 Wa rd women in preserving Japanese culture are What happens Ave. 523-5913 explored in collaboration with Bishop now? Michael-Jay RobinsonHuman figures with Museum's Strength and Diversity exhibit. I I Mask-making is featured in addition to tea After Fasi announces the winning cow and horse skulls are among Robinson's mixed-media drawings on paper. Acrylic ceremonies and flower arranging. Hong company on Oct. 3, theproposal will paintings on canvas will also be shown. wanji Mission, 1728 Pali Hwy.: Sun. 9/29, go before the City Council, which I I Through 9/30. CroissanterieRestaurant, 222 IO a.m. - 1 p.m. $8. 848-4149 will thenvote to approve or disprove Merchant St. 533-3443 TracingOur Roots: JapaneseGenealogy the project. To date, three members NeighbomoodFlowers 3-foot-by+foot oil Workshop Ever get the feeling you - Morgado, John DeSotoand Steve descended from the sun? This workshop I I paintings of flower close-ups by Barbara Holmes - are against the project Burger. Through 10/4. Che Pasta, 3571 will help you research your familyroots �/ you could be blue-blood.Japa neseCu ltural and six - Donna Kim, Rene Waialae Ave. 735-1 m Mansho, Leigh-Wai Doo, Andy On Assignment The Advertiser's pho Ce nter, 2454 S. Beretania St.: Sat. 9/28, 9 I I a.m. - 1 p.m. $20. 945-7633 Mirikitani,John Herny Felix andGill tographers display their finest. Through Truth Meets Traditional Japanese Papermaking & - areon the fence. All six say they 10/2. Tbe Honolulu Advertiser Gallery, 605 Kapiolani Blvd. 526-1322 PaperCrafts Yoichi and Mieko Fujimori are waiting to see the final costs and I I Paintings by Alf Hurum Hurum, a Nor teach their eight-generation-old Japanese financing plans before they make Beauty hand-papermaking tradition fromShikoku , theirdecisions. Doo said he is "con wegian, came to Hawaii in 1924 to conduct the firstsession of the Honolulu Symphony. Japan to Temari. Classes in fold-dye papers, ceptually" in favor of the rail and Whosays truth preisn't tty?Case inpoint: the paper fan collage and more. Te mariCe n I I In 1934, he began painting local landscapes calls himself "an advocate" of it. terfo r Asian and Pacific Arts, 1329-A 10th Honolulu WeeldyT--shirt .Availab"lein se veralsizes and on silk, a technique he'd learned from a Said Gill, "It's a verycomplex issue. Ave.: Through Mon. 9/30. Call for prices. onecolor scheme : b"lackand whiteand read all over! Japanese master in Paris. Through 10/20. It would be very easyto do it wrong. Honolulu Academy of Arts, 900 S. Bereta 735-1860 I I Zero Population Growth A meeting for From a philosophical standpoint, I nia St. 538-3693 Name think it can be a good thing. But the Prints by Joseph Singer Singer, who is people concerned about the environmen question is, can we afford it? Once Address described in his press release as a "perpet tal and economic impact of Oahu's uncon I I ual student" at UH Manoa's art school, con trolled population growth. Ka imuki Public you pour the cement, it's there." tinues his "search for clues" through the Library, 1041 Koko Head Ave.: Mon. 9/30, The entire proposal must beon the religious and mythological themes that 7 - 9 p.m. 737-9141 governor's desk by Nov. 15, or the I Phone Size* (Qty.) 0 M OL 0 XL I abound in his prints. Through 10/23. Hon funding will expire. If the project olulu Printmaking Wo rkshop, 826-A Dilling Please send me shirts at $12 each. I've enclosed the required funds. moves ahead, construction is pro ham Blvd. 848-0402. jected to beginin late 1992 and com Richard Moratin Whatevahs I *Sizes run small, order larger than you need. Include $3.50 per shirt forHawaii I Recent oil and acrylic Aloha Week The tail end of this year's pleted by 1996. If everything goes general excise tax, shipping and handling. Allow 2-4 weeks shipping. Send to: seascapes and scenics. Through 9/27. pomp and circumstance includes: Thur. according to Fasi 's plan, servicewill 9 ..I Mora/in Downtown Gallery, 3 N. Pauahi St. onolulu Weekly, 1200College Walk, Suite 212, Honolulu, Hawaii 6817. 9/26: Pacific Culture llxpo,3 - 6 p.m., Fes- begin in 1997. • ------521-9669. "Louies, Bay Shrimp Louis . Deliciously chilled, served '' with a tangy sauce! L ou1es ... Crab Louis Sliced bell pepper, tomato lettuce, carrot, crabmeat and olive. 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