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ME�,N� RESTAURANT diaRy The Only Restaurant To Bring Both Incredible Food And Outstanding Value Back To Waikiki to suggest that any of the scientific seehow they arefudged, saysSifton. PatrioticPOGs data presentedat the symposiumwas By placing initialorders in quantities WhilePresident Bill's economicstim massaged to shed a friendlylight on and places that will virtually guaran ulation package languishes in the nut in question- an increasing teea book'sappearance on TheList, Congressthanks to a Republican fil ly importantcash cropin Hawaiiwith largechains, clever sales forces,and Four-Star Food ibuster, the localwireless outfit KSSK the declineof sugar and pineapple - resource-rich marketingpeople can has sprung to actionwhere it counts it is clear that the event's sponsors distortthe rankingsfrom the get-go. - right in the POGs. A recentnews feel the mac has gotten a bum rap. Then, since some chain stores dis At Two-StarPrices release announcesthat the radio sta The symposium'sbrochure laments: countbooks onThe List, sales of those tion raised a wad to help offsetthe "In recentyears, the FDA and many books can increase to the detriment Conveniently Located In national debt by selling off 10,000 nutritionistshave suggested that nuts of others. There is also The List's ''Penyon the Left,Price on the Right'' areone of the 'diet monsters' due to "megaphonic effect."When books The Waikiki Terrace Hotel POGs- at a buck a pop- in a mere their high fat content. Macadamias, on The List go "hot," touted on tip 2045 Kalakaua Avenue six hours. The cool 10 grandraised particularly,have come to beregard sheets, posters and ads within the At The Entrance to Waikiki fromthe sale of the little suckers will ed as 'fattening' and thus potential trade,they get mentioned to customers besent to the prez as a debt-fighting ly unhealthy." by telephone reps. Finally, books are Free Validated Parking "donation to the nation." But new research, the brochure constantly being shipped back and In case you've beenfrozen under asserts,has indicated that the typeof forthbetween warehouses, retail out an ice flowfor the last six months, fat presentin a human bodymay have lets, and the publisher, leaving plen POGs are facsimilesof the old card more health impact than the amount ty of convenient opportunityto report Reservations Recommended- board milk caps, named forthe ones of fat: 'Thereis much evidence which them twice. 955 • 6000 usedyears ago on bottlesof Haleakala suggests that foods with high levels The List is ultimately about the Dairy'sPassion OrangeGuava drink. of monounsaturated fats, such as business and big-bucks trade, says Kids in Hawaii have developed a Double-Award Winning macadarnia nuts, are in fact nutri Sifton.Its effect,she says, is dispro 11 11 11 11 game similar to marbles fortrading tionallybeneficial ... possiblyhaving portionatelystrong on ordinary read the disks, settingoff a collectors'fren Best Seafood And Best Pizza In Honolulu a cleansing effecton the arteries and ers, who are "uncertainand defensive ThisWeek's Specials: zy so intense that even Newsweek reducing the risk of heart disease." about their knowledgeof books and magazine- which has sofar ignored Appetizer: Smoked Salmon Won Tons Speakingof diets and heartattacks, judgmentin buying them." Her solu Entree: Keawe GrilledLamb Chops such crucialHawaii events as the cen chew on this: The symposium and tion?'The List has becomedestruc tennialof QueenLili 'uokalani 's over ongoing MacadamiaResearch Project tive as much to popular sales as to Stop In 'lbPick Up Your Copy Of The Weekly throw - felt compelled to report on And A ComplimentaryCup Of Coffee were fundedby more than $500,000 good reading. Its abolition would do During Service Hours the fad in a recentissue. Entrepreneurs of your tax money in the formof fed wonders to improve both." - Don have been making a killing by hav eral and state grants,largely secured Hazen and LaurieOuellette ing the disks printed forless than a by Sen. Dan ''PodeKing" Inouye. Not quarter apiece and then selling them surprisingly,macadamia industry lead forseveral timesthat amount. There ers "lauded" the grants,according to They want have even been several recent a news release as "the bestway for... 1993 HALE 'AINA WINNER- Honolulu Magazine "POGjackings," in which entirevan your body governmentto support agriculture. If you are a woman who is at BEST BRASSERIE IN HAWAII- Best of the Best Int'/ Guide loads of the milk caps were heisted. increased risk of developing breast With KSSK settingthe lead, per cancer- the most common formof haps the governmentwill soon get Thehit list Nothing can make or break a suc cancer in Hawaii, where more than hip to the profitpotential and start cessfulbook faster than The New York 600 new cases are diagnosed each issuing POGs instead of bonds. 6Tew for '93 ! Times Bestseller List. In fact, as year - researchers participatingin Elisabeth Sifton writes in the New the Breast Cancer Prevention Trial Hotspots York Observer, securing a spot on (BCPT)are seekingyour help to test Late night coffee house Weather forecastingon thePacific - The List fortheir booksis so crucial the preventativeproperties of tamox atmosphere with traditionallyamong the iffiestof enter to most publishersthat they will spend ifen, the most frequently prescribed prises - might be in for some real an amazing amount of time and drug in treatingthe disease. giant cappuccinos and improvements. An internationalcol resources to do so - starting with "Research has shown that taking lection of scientists has begun an timingits releaseso as not to conflict tamoxifenpills aftersurgery for breast homemade desserts! extended on-site study aimed at with the shipping datesof competing cancer can decreasethe development improvingweather forecasting.More Big Books. Authors are paid large of new cancersin the oppositebreast than 1,200researchers from 19 coun bonuseswhen and if their books get by as much as 50 percent," says Dr. triesare now collectingdata fromair on The List. Movie deals are made Virginia Pressler, a facultymember craft and ships to examine areas of based on The List. Even publicity at Honolulu's CancerResearch Center unusuallywarm air and oceanaround efforts,TV appearances,author tours, and principle investigator for the KapingimarangiIsland in thesouth and new printings, says Sifton, her BCPTin Hawaii. The new study is ernmost Federated States of self a bookpublisher, dependon The designed to determinedwhether the Micronesia. List. drugcan also help preventbreast can Coordinated in Townsville, Yet behindall this is a cruel irony: cerin womenwho have not yet devel Australia,the TropicalOcean Atmos The List is a big hoax, and profes opedit Eligible subjectsfor the study phere ResponseExperiment is being sionals in the book industryknow it, must beat least 60years of age, or at called the most sophisticatedstudy says Sifton."Each week, we experi least 35 andat increasedrisk of devel ever undertakeninto thelink between ence the amazementof findingbooks oping breast cancer basedon the fol the oceanand atmosphere.The goal, appearingon TheList, or moving up lowing criteria: the expertssay, is to visibly improve or down on it, by what can only be • Thenumber of relativeswho have long-range forecasting- and to get puredumb chance, and we knowthat developed the cancer; Liftyour spirits with good friends and great food! a better handle on the greenhouse the figureson which the rankingsare • Age of firstlive birth; effect.The study's findingsshould based are surely arbitrary,or, worse, • A history of one or more breast make it into print by early 1994, the 'adjusted'- that is, cooked.These lump biopsies; researchersavow. pseudofactoidshave an extraordinary • Age at first menstrual period. powerto affecta book'sfortunes. The Thescreening for eligibility for the The nutstate power comes notfrom the validity of study will include a mammogram, Been noticing a lot of news lately the lists - which cannot be ascer health exam and individualized risk about the amazinghealth properties tained - but fromour awe of the assessment. An informationalmeet of themacadamia nut? That'sbecause Times itself." ing on the BCPTstudy will beheld UH's John A. Bums School of The Times describes its rankings at the Cancer ResearchCenter, locat Medicine held an internationalsym as "computer-processedsales figures" ed behind Queen's Medical Center, posiumlast week on the ''health and reportedby bookstores,wholesalers, on Saturday April24 at 10 a.m. For nutritionalbenefits" of the mac, tout and retailoutlets like supermarkets. more information, call the center at Restaurant Row • Validated Parking ed in the symposium's logo as "the From an insider's view, it's easy to 586-2979. • health nut" Whilewe wouldn't want April 14, 1993 • Honolulu Weekly• 3 • police curfew, Gladstone's restau rant has installed an artificialbeach surrounded by palm trees specially selected fortheir bent posture, "making it look like the wind is blowing," as Reed says. For CityWalk'sdining clientele, at least those who prefer "beachside" tables, atmosphere will be height ened by regul�ly staged volleyball games and wet T- shirt contests. At the other end of the Walk, a wave machine in an imitation ocean will stirmemories of Annette and Frankie dancing to the rhythms of an endless summer. As icing on the ersatz, the Museum of Neon Art is MARC COOPER donating 35 vintage neon street signs. But don't think this is just some whitebread paradise, there's plenty of multiculti correctness. A "real working rain forest" inside the Nature Company store. A Mexican "cantina," a sop to those whose land this is all built on. Even some real lived-in like inner-city grit. "We're leaving some ugliness, like a real city," says Reed. ''There'll be some pipes and drains visible, rough edges." There are plans for billboards too, maybe even some acceptable graffiti. CityWalk, then, debuts as the highest expression of Los Angeles's most secret desire: urban life without the urbans. The perfect antidoteto dystopic civilization. A city traditionally phobic about crowds comes up with the final solution: a miniature city only for the upscale, and sans the homeless, , the foreign-born, the panhandlers and the ... the ... um ... you know . SORRY.. who. If there was ever a moment when Wt'P. E' ' you could sell a controlled version f no one else was willing to of Los Angeles back to its own EMPT As we go to rebuild Los Angeles a year people, this is it. If Los Angeles afterlast spring's itself seemed beaten into confusion press, the disturbances, the goodpeople by the 57 televised blows struck at Universal Studios were. night afternight against Rodney federal trial of And with no federal fundsor King, then one year afterthe great tax increases, either. The stu est civil disturbance in modern the policemen dio's parent company, MCA, American history, the city appears accuse d of sank $100 million -about five to have been blinded by the fires, times the aid given L.A. by the permanently brain-damaged from PHOTOS: (INSIDE AND COVER) TED SOQUI FROMINSIDE mE LA. RIOTS Bush administration after the riots excessive smoke inhalation. That violating Rodney - into its new City Wa lk venture. Los Angeles has learned nothing This new, improved L.A. sits like a from its recent travails is symbol King's civil rights fortress on a Hollywood Hills sum ized not so much by CityWalk show circuit themselves, while officersays that if all public mit, buffered on one side by itself - which has been on the Sergeant Stacey Koon flogged his services except police, fire and trash has been put Universal Studios Tours and on the boards for adecade - but by the own literary contribution. In con were shut down, if all 9,100city other by Universal's gargantuan revealing detail that of the 100or trast, the black defendantsin the employees were laid off,the deficit before the jury. Cineplex, accessible to the rotting so constructionworkers I saw on Denny case remain in jail, with bail would stillnot be plugged. And the sprawl below only by a steep com the site last week, not one was as high as $580,000.Unlike the first victimof redink is the Los Depending on the pany-built roadway. black. police, they are charged with Angeles Unified SchoolDistrict, Once you ascend, forfour Above the cacophony of police attempted murder. whose teachers, facedwith a 12 ve rdict that jury blocks, along some 200,000 com and fire sirens, of sniperand police The appointment of Wi llie percentpay cut, after threatening to mercial square feet, CityWalk will gunfirethat drenched the city last Wi lliams as new LAPD chief pre strike,compromised in accepting a returns, Los unfold before you as an idealized April, one slogan rose: "No Justice! maturely stifled all public criticism 10 percent reduction - only to Los Angeles street, a living muse No Peace!" In the year since, there of the force, even though19 92 learn that the state can't make that Angeles -and um of everything the city used to has been neither. And with the fed marked a IO-year high of civilian payroll. With no funds in state cof be and everything it never quite eral trial of the fourLAPD officers shootingsby cops. For the fifth fers, California'seducation spend other U.S. cities became. Not a Chinatown, nor a who beat Rodney King just ended, straight year, gang killingsbroke ing has slipped fromfirst to 41 st in Little Italy or a little Tokyo. Not an and with the trial of the young records, topping out at more than the nation. White parents, whose - could again Alpine Vi llage. But a "people black men accused of beating white 800, part of nearly 1,100total mur children now comprise only 12 per place," a collection of restaurants, truckerReginald Denny set to start ders in the city. In February, forthe cent of L.A. public school students, dissolve into stores, public spaces, entertainment in a fewweeks, Los Angeles once first time in history, a city school and who have no intention of rais venues, a "real working business again teeters on the precipice. The became the site of a gunshot killing. ing their property taxes to fund the chaos. A re street,"says PR guy Kim Reed, firsttruly competitive mayo r's con And then a fewweeks later, it hap learningLatinos of and blacks, are and one built from scratchjust like test in 20 years - its primary set pened again. Then the city was now spearheading a drive to shatter flection on the the "real earthquake" ride next forthis potentially incendiary week transfixedby the spectacle of a the city's districtinto six smaller door at the Studio Tour. Like an before the April 29 riot anniversary "disgruntled patient" shooting ones, aggravating already rampant decades of so cial assembly of ghosts, each building - may just help push it over the down three doctors inside the coun segregation and balkanization. along the walk fronts its own edge. ty hospital emergency room. Hopesfor local economic recov iniquity that have unique L.A. architectural style - Anger and fear burnin Los The triple whammy of the reces ery in the short term are grim, con Spanish colonial, Art Deco, '50s Angeles. Police Chief Daryl Gates, sion, defensecuts and the 1978 tax tributingto the city's funereal pushed L.A. to "Googie," modern, futuristic- a perhaps the man most responsible cutting Proposition 13 coming atmosphere. Twenty-seven percent reminder of the city's once rich and forleading the city into the abyss, home to roost has leveled the of all jobs lost nationwide in the the brink. eclectic heritage, now all but paved finallyre signed last year only to be Californiaeconomy, and Los recession were lost in the Los over by metastasizing gallerias, awarded firstwith a bestselling Angeles is the epicenter of devasta Angeles area. Economists predict strip malls andminim alls. For memoir and now with a 50,000- tion, with an 11.2 percent unem the disappearance of 50,000 more those who remember the pristine watt drive-time radio talk show. ployment rate. The city faces a 25 local aerospace jobs through 1994. days of the city's fabled shoreline, The accused LAPD officers were percent - $500 million - budget And the Pentagon plan to close now polluted and usually under freed on low bail, making the talk shortfall. L.A.'s top administrative eight more Californiabases threat- 4 • April 14, 1993 _. 1-Jonolulu We ekly ens thousands more jobs. And yet, the city, disoriented and Mayor Bradley's administrationcan Can it be a surprise, then, that 43 confused,per ilously perched on the hardly beblamed fora malady that percent of Angelenos say they are edge of the sort of suicidal dement swept the entire nation and that was staying here only because they ed episode played out on the screen aggravated by successive rounds of haven't the money to leave? Or by Michael Douglas in Failing federal defunding. But it's also true that the L.A. Times recently pro Down, pays little attention to the that over the last decade some $223 filed Salvadoran warrefugees who mayoral election. Los Angeles, for million in campaign contributions said they were going back home the most part, doesn't care who gets flowedinto Bradley's and other because L.A. was too poor and too elected mayor because Los Angeles local politicians' officesfrom dangerous? as we know it, Los Angeles as a downtown and affluentWe stside Against this apocalypticback coherent city with its own identity,. developer interests, encouraging a drop, the pious promises made has ripped itself apart. probusiness bias on the partof city while the embers still glowed have governmentthat leftSouth Central been blown to the wind. "The poli to flounderand disintegrate. ticsof riot control," says local Earth to Today only 45 percent of South social historian Mike Davis, "have Central's black males are employed replaced the politics of reform." Mayor Tom - compared with 80 percent of Indeed. In these tense weeks local their Latino neighbors, wholive in television and newspapers have he L.A. uprising of 1992, equal numbers in the same commu overflowedwith pictures and sto some thought, might have nity. Some observers, most notably ries promising that this time around been an effective, if nec L.A. Times editor Jack Miles writ the forces of law and order will be essarily rude, way for the ing in The Atlantic, argue that ready. It's a rather bellicose laundry black community to unchecked Latino immigration into list: county sheriffs showing off reassert itself in the politi Los Angeles is the primary cause of new rubber bullets, the Simi Valley• cal arena. This is the black economic displacement. A police introducing a new pepper "wake-up call" theory. In convenient argument, certainly, for gas, dozens of U.S. marshals grunt retrospect, the riots might now bet a white power structurethat brick ing and jabbing their nightsticks ter be viewed as the community's by-brick dismantled black jo� vowing to protect government political death rattle. "The black opportunities. buildings, National Guard troops middle class, the black political Twenty years ago blacks compet rehearsing contingency plans to put class, fightstoday mostly to protect ed not with Latinos but with work 7 ,000 soldiers on the street in what it had won in this city," says ing-class whites forindustrial union "Operation Angel Guard," and last Joe Hicks, the c;ombativeexecutive jobs. Over the years, those jobs but not least the "new" LAPD director of Los Angeles' s Southern migrated, not only across the bor treating whole divisions of image Christian Leadership Conference. der, but also to the so-called "edge hungry reporters to weekly "unusu "But all that has added up to is city" technopolises that have al occurrence" training sessions in great access to the mayor. For 20 sprung up as affluent, high-tech the stark and sterile parking lots of years you could pick up the phone boomtowns on the other side of the Dodger Stadium, screeching and get To m Bradley. But now this L.A. suburbs - 50, 70, 100miles around in patrol cars, swarming out black elite feels threatened by from SouthCentral . White workers with gas masks fixed, viciously Bradley going, by the explosion of who lost their jobs left L.A. and "power-stroking" their aluminum Latino and Asian populations. And followed the pioneer trailto the batons. this black political class has hardly new edge-city oases. Blacks, mean By pumping up the phobias shown much political vision." while, had no public transport around the trials and the riot Blacks are expected to cast 8 access to the new jobs and, in any anniversary, all of the power insti percent or less of the votes in the case, were actively encouraged not tutions in Los Angeles that so mis upcoming election. Even more dis to integrate the new towns. South erably failed their duties and heartening, after 20 straight years Central's blacks were left behind to obligations in the past 20 years - of rule by Bradley, after blacks had pick over the carcass of a rotting the judicial system, the LAPD, the finally won a respectable number local economy, competing with mayor's office and the media - of seats on the city council, Los incoming Latinos forminimum the same entitiesthat abandoned Angeles's African American com wage and casual labor jobs. Latinos and criminalized half the city, are munity has little to show for it. It didn't take away the well-paying cynically laying the groundwork has no unified political movement, posts, those jobs were just moved for what Davis calls their own not even one credible candidate for out of the range of the black work ''heroic vindication." In the mayor, a rather astounding thought force. process, all of the complicated and given that this campaign began just The result is an increasingly distasteful root causes of last year's a handful of months after theerup ugly, and sometimesviolent, scram eruption are collapsed down and tion. ble between two minority commu shoehornedinto the federal court Bradley was originally elected by nities. And in Los Angeles, room where the LAPD case was a coalition of inner-city blacks and employer preference is unquestion heard. But the simple fact is that white liberals. The whites have ably pro-Latino. Los Angeles, says Los Angeles's politicalleadership since deserted the coalition, forging James Johnson, head of UCLA's evaporated years ago. Since the riot new alliances with the city's Center on Urban Poverty, "is a we've been treated to an ongoing Latinos. "And our boys just fell labor-surplus environment where ghost dance of shadows and illu asleep," says a top politicalaide to employers can act on their preju sions. Over the last 10 months, one of South Central's leading dices. Blacks are caught between a Mayor Bradley has all but vanished AfricanAmerican politicians. "It's rock and a hard place. Our political from the public eye, not bothering 20 years later, and we awake to a leaders have oftenfa iled to see the to face a city he helped cede to dis nightmare. We have failed at every wedges planted among us by a aster. His fabledmultiracial city level, and I mean from way before white power structurethat has not wide coalition has exploded, the uprising. The African American sat idly by watching huge demo fragmentinglike a cluster bomb, leadership failed to take risks in graphic shifts. The wind is blowing each divided neighborhood hunker identifying areas of collective and in the wrong way for us, the num ing down and bunkering in. individual responsibility, including, bers are not on our side. Blacks Currently the city has before it 147 not incidentally, Tom Bradley. I have to understand our only hope is separate requests from neighbor hold him personally responsible for to ally electorally with others. hoods that want their public streets much of what you see now. I mean Latinos. Asians." gated offor barricaded. we're talkingabout a five-time But many black activists are just Bradley's political heirs have all incumbent. Someone who pessimistic. The SCLC's Joe Hicks gone their separate ways, like so possessed enormous political capi cringes at the growingra ce-based many warlords, each competing to tal he chose not to expend on his politics sprouting in all ofL.A.'s succeed him. Twenty-fourcandi own community. And no one said communities: the surfacingof a dates, 10 in the top tier, are running 'boo."' militant, antiblack group in the in the nonpartisan mayoral primary. The decline of AfricanAmerican Chicano sphere, the drowning out Since no one is expected to get political fortunes in Los Angeles of the progressive minority among anywhere near a 50 percent majori neatly parallels the ever-mounting Korean Americans, the mean-spirit ty, the top two finishers will face isolation and impoverishment of the ed mood of the white suburbanites each other in a June 8 runoff. South Central heart of the city. As and the mushrooming Afrocentrism Taken together, they appear on the the color bar was liftedafter Watts, in his own community, which he stage as a stumbling troupe of some 75,000 middle-class and pro feels is fed by the traditional black political and moral midgets; hands fessional blacks fled the ghetto. leadership's turningever inward. linked, eyes tightly shutagainst Almost a quarter million well-pay "There is a frightening dimension reality, they madly chant a com ing industrialjobs that supported of growing nihilismout there, a mon mantra: MoreCops, Higher black families have also glorification ofthe lumpen, of gang Walls! More Cops, Higher Walls! disappeared in the last 25 years. members." April 14, 1993 • Honolulu Pritche
Latinos who live in L.A. - about half of them undocumented and Hell in LA "illegal" - sufferthe greatest over all disproportionallack of political representation. And that symptom, says Hicks, is For the city's foreign-born most visible in the politicalactivity Mexicans and CentralAmericans, surrounding the so-called L.A. 4+ upon whom all of the growth indus - the seven young black men triesof Los Angeles increasingly caught on television beating depend forcheap, available and Reginald Denny. "Not a lot of nonunion labor, last year's riots courage in our community to stand were their own fieryBoston Tea up in a meetingand say, 'L.A. 4 Party.Blood, sweat and taxation Committee- that's bullshit!' It's without representationlead to vio not like defendingHuey [Newton] lent confrontation. or Angela [Davis]. It says some No matter who gets elected thing politically about our commu mayor in June and when all the nity being at a low point. No moral accounts of the two trialsare filed component to the struggle,nobody away and forgotten,the central willing to speak out foreveryone in definingtruth of Los Angeles will this city. The L.A. 4 has become a reside in the triangleof social hier lightningrod forevery political archyin the city: at the pinnacle an dinosaur in this city." aging, Anglo class that retainsthe Hicks doesn't discountthe egre levers of control,below it an Asian gious elements of injusticein the business and scientificstrata, just case, but says they are not the point. below that a black professionalelite "Hey, we know the D.A. is trying to hanging on to footholds in the city fuck those guys," he says. "We governmentand service bureaucra know all aboutthe dual standard of cy, and at the base of the triangle, American justice.But that's a dif supportingthe whole structureon ferentissue. The peopledefending its back, a facelessmass of Latino the L.A. 4 are saying something laborers. else. They want to cut those kids During his 20-year tenure, Mayor loose. And I admit there's a lot of Bradley mesmerized the media and sympathy forthat position.Because the commercial class, spinning out VOICE there's no movement out there, no a glittering fantasy that had some center of gravity that will take issue thing to do with Los Angeles and say, 'Look, 40 people on that becoming the jewel in the crown of comer of Florence and Normandie something called the Pacific Rim. were brutalized on the basis of their Well, he turnedout to be half right. color alone. And that's not what Japanese companies did buy up Malcolm X was talkingabout.' But most of the downtown skyscrapers. MAil But the globalization of the local no, people are saying they kicked that white boy's ass and good for economy has much more to do with them, because we get our ass kicked L.A. drifting south than its merging all the time." with the East. Indeed, the signposts of L.A.'s global economy point $ 249.�i!? .. toward Mexico Cityor Rio de Janeiro. Any morning of the week only Wa nt individual Townhouses on literally scores, probably hun phone numbers dreds, of streetcomers, knotsof 10 and to 50 Latinomen stand and wait to 8 foreach employee? Tenements be "hired" - by constructionfore in stock men, contractors,painters, restau ,v1want to "test- drive " he great underreported rant managers, by young couples 1993 Mazda Protege DX factof the L.A. with rent-a-truckslooking for voice-mail service disturbances was that "movers," even by homeowners fora fe w months? more Latinosthan blacks needing someone to liftsome patio were arrested -45 per furniturefor an hour or two. On the cent of the 12,000total, as same streetcomers, these laborers' compared to 41 percent. wives and sisters pile into buses and For$1 6 a month, Most of the city's poor are ride across town foras much as two only Latinos.Seventy-three percent of hours, serving in the city's corps of Vo iceMail Hawai i the children in public kindergartens nannies, baby-sitters and maids. are Latino.Two-thirds of the babies Prevailing wage forany of the s has thesolution bornin the county hospital system. above: fivean hour. And no one in stock are children of undocumented even dreams of Social Security. ... andwith no Latinos. Soon, most of the city And those who have steady jobs set- itself will be Latino. findlittle difference, except maybe 1993 Mazda Protege LX up The city's establishment, realiz another dollar an hour. ing black political power has crest "Nothing, nothing at all has been • 60Mo. Closed end leases;OAC;Mazda American Credit; 1st mo.payment & refundablesecurity fees ! deposit required;CAP reduction paid byMazda Rebates; All taxes included; Initial license & Doc. (Askabout ed and is now receding, knows that learnedfrom the riots," says Maria fees additional. DX residual value $3460.32& total payment $14940.00 LXresidual value $4306.96 it must make a political accommo Elena Durazo, leader of the mostly & total_payment $16,740.00; DX stocl<#'s 22029,22027,22028,22182,21607,22126,22280; LXstock #'s 22114,22Cl55,21(,03,21650,2174S.Sub)"ctto prior sale or lease. dation with the new population. Latino Hotel and Restaurant Over the long run, that is: Anglos Employees Local 11. "It's not just 831-2503 • 2999 N. Nimitz Hwy. · still make up two-thirds of the actu . that the promised jobs didn't mate Vo ice Mail Hawaii the Answer to your calls. al voting electorate. So in the short rialize. Our people have jobs. 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F� DownThis is one of tl1ose deeply divid Evans (who directs as well), this is a comedy ruptcydeclaration, directorFrancis Ford Coppola ed big studio filmsthat wants to besocially rel with mystic undertonesabout baseball-playing came up with the umpteenth version of the evantand somehow winds up feedingthe flames kids who confront a mysterymore complex than Dracula myth, this one purportedly the closest Music Pick of d1e firesit seeks to put out. Michael Douglas, the rulesof the games. With the ubiquitousJames ever to the Bram Stoker novel - and with more the ultimate Hollywoodstar of the '80s, plays a Ear! Jones and underusedKaren Allen. erotica,a huge ($40 mil) budget, a stellar cast Men on drums laid-offL.A. defense worker who snaps under Scentof aWoman The kind of movie that (Anthony Hopkins, Wmona Ryder,Keanu Reeves The rhythm. It calls you. From deepwithin your breast, it calls.You must go. go to the urban fin-de-siecle pressure(s) and - afterhis wins awards. Al Pacino, carefullysurrounded and, as the no-countCount, Gary Oldman) and rh}thm. You must let the rhythm wa:;h over you. shake your bones, Jeanst: you. You car is stalled in gridlockedtraffic - takes offon by a castof lesseractors, chews the sceneryart special effects that look terrific. Film buffs will must go to seethe men. The four men. The rh}thm men. Bailey Matsuda, he is the jazz footinto the very heart of the concrete nighr fully inthis story of a blind man. fullof the life rememberthat Coppola began his careermak man He is the keyboard man,the music scholar. You knowhim; he is a Pagan Baby. mare.The violence escalates as hismounts anger fon:e, who teaches a novice aboutlif e and "love." ing Roger Corman horrorquickies. But is there Ktrmy Endo, he startedin theWest, in the City of Angels. He wa:;the fusion man. Then - though it's all, of course, very "cinematic." Actually, Pacino's relentless interpretation dis any bloodleft in this story? There'sa lot at stake ,ie went&st, tothe Rising Sun, tohis past. Now he is the Zenman, the taikoman, mighcy A FarOff Placegang A of elephant poachers torts the inherent sentinlentof this overly long here... and soon. Hemenuay Theatre,UH Manoa be.iter of Japanese drums: fa.;1er... fa:;terfa.. -teifasterfaster stop. Heis the honored man, force two (Disney) teens into a thousand-mile movie - Pacino refusesto make his character campus:Tue. 4/20- Sun. 4/25,6 & 8:30 p.m. firstforeigner ever to receive the 1u1tori, the stage name. in the taiko. Seguin, he is the trek across the Kalahari Desert. Former cine lovable. Scent of a Woma11 received a rash of $3.50. 956-6468 wild man. He is the Sun Drun1 man, the itiner.mt traveler man, collector of beats. Now matographer MikaelSalomon directs.Visually Oscar nominations (and actually won Pacino 'i Fallen(1945) Al.gel Otto Preminger(I.aura) he is Cajun, nov., African, now I.atino. Sornetinies he L� alland sometimesnone. Carlinhos stirring, "family"-oriented. one) - probably because it's a semi-thought directsAlice Faye (when she was still a top box de Oliviera, he is thesamba man. A man of Brazil, belovedin Brazil, landof rhythm. He A Few GoodAdapted Men fromthe long-run ful big studio picture made in the year when office draw) and Dana Andrews in a melodra found these shores andhas remained. The tambourineof his homeland b his strength, ning Broadway play, Rob Reiners film is about box officewinners were swamped by low bud maabout small town life, murderand those who but all the sambapercussion elements arein his command. two young, strapping, sincere (one is sincere, get, non-star-driven independentprojects. Written live on opposite sides of the tracks. If you know anyway; the other is retarded) Marines charged byBo Goldman (.Melvin and Howard)and direct the following names, you'll probably want to Now the four become one,as theydid before.One rhythm. rnthe fall, theyCJ.me togeth er as Pan World Percussion. Tht:y can1e together forthe NewMusic Festival, and their with hazing, and accidentally killing, a hapless ed by Martin Brest (Midnight Run). seethis film: Llnda Darnell,Anne Revere, Charles rhythmcleansed the peopl e. Now they come togetheragain. Back By Popular Demand! fellow soldier. Reiners usual easy humor here Sliperhotshot A marine sniper (Tom Berenger) Bickford. If not, not. Movie Museum, 3566 It b the RhythmSummit They are rhythm academicsat the Academyof Arts. You will gives way to importance and earnestness; any plunges into covert Panamanian action with HardingAv e.: Fri. 4/16& Sun. 4/18,8 p.m.; mati come. and tht rhythm will wash you. potentialfog ofmoral complexity is dispelledby untried partnerBilly Zane (DeadCa lm). Closer nees4/18, 3 & 5:30 p.m. $5. 735-fml the director'soversimplifications of motive.Jack to the truththan Rambo -forwhat that'sworth. 'i Incident at Oglala (1992) Michael Nicholson and Kiefer Sutherland are not real Directed by Luis Llosa. (Tbunderbeart) Apted's elliptical documentary characters, just motives in uniform. And as for Street KnightAn ex-cop (JeffSpeakman) tries about the trials of Leonard Peltier, a Native TomCruise, he's muchtoo pleasmtto careabout to locate a missing gang member in the teem Americanactivist accusedof murderingtwo FBI A FewGolXIMen isn't bad, but it is long and obvi ing, cliche-filledstreets of LosAngeles. Directed agents. Peltier's story is a gripping one, though ous and as smooth as Velveeta. Of course Cruise by Albert Magnoli, who gave the world Purple somewhere amid all of the talking head inter is going to win the big case; of coursethe car Rainonly a few shortyears ago. Don't say you views in Incident,its impact is lost.Nonetheless, toonish villain will get his comeuppance; of weren'twarned. if you don't know the ;u11story of his case, you course decency will prevail. -Ma7J•Bren nan TeenageMutant f6ia Turtles When ID sequel should - and Apted's film is worth seeing for Fn in theJames Sky Gamer returnsto movies characters start travelling back in time, as the thatreason alone. Hemerwxry Ibwtre,UH Manoo in this allegedlytrue tale about fourloggers who turtles do here - to the Japan of 1603,we're campus: Wed. 4/14-Sun. 4/18,6 & 8 p.m $3.50. witness the temporarykidnapping of one of told - you know the series is in trouble. Still, 956-0468 their fellows by a UFO. Citizens of their little the anachronistic language of the trio might be i Jindalee(1992) Lady This, the firstfeature by Arizona town accusethem of making the story amusing to the kids. And the producers have an Aborigine directorwith Aboriginesin the lead up. With D.B. Sweeney and Robert Patrick. beefed up the action, if not the gore, forthis roles,last premiered year at theHawaii International 'i GroundhogDay Bill Murray is back in top outing. The newset child love figuresof Amerira's Film Festival. This Australianfilm is an allegoryof form in this original comedy about a 1V weath ·pubescents, Elias Koteasand Paige Turco, return . sorts, about the plight of deracinatedAborigines. ..., erman who keeps reliving Feb. 2. The philo 'i Unforgiven One of theexaminations best of Having "crossed" into affluentcity life, a manied The Pan World Percussioa rhythmtribe (left to fight): deOliviera, Endo, sophicalunderpinning to this movie is how we the American psyche in a long time. David Webb couple(she's a fashiondesigner, he's a corporate Matsuda,Seguin. dealwith incessant repetition in our lives: is it People'smasterful script, Clint Eastwood'sfirst achiever) seesth eir marriage flounder. The wife a dragor an existential opportunity?Directed rate direction and solid perfonnancesby a fine - Lauren-seeks toher returnto outhick roots. by longtime Murraycohort Harold Ramis. With rastmade Unjorg iwn(as theAcademy ri Mction Directed by Brian Kearney. With a composite Rhythm Summit:s. Academytheatre,900 Beretalia: Fri. 4/16 a Sat.4/17, a Andie McDowell and Chris Elliott. Picture Arts and Sciences noted) the best Aboriginesoundtrack. Highly Jaw recommended. p.m.;Sun. 8/18, 4 p.m.$10. 53H700 HearNo Evil And leave no cliche unturned. Americanfilm of 1992. Highlyrecommended. Jaw Cafe, 760 Kapahulu Ave.: Tue. 4/20, 8 p.m. But this film, a suspense item about a deaf Untamedtimid HeartA Minneapolis busboy $3. 732-'lfJ?O a role to fit the Kewpie-doll voice of Melanie woman (Marlee Martin)stalked by a killer who Post No(1992) Bills Urban guerilla posterartist Griffith? Well,maybe. this updatedremake of (Christian Slater) screwsup his courage to win rn usesher deafness againsther, givesMartin her the hea.rt of faira waitress (Marisa Tomei) in this Robbie Conal, whose paintings-as-posterspunc Film the Judy Holliday classic, Griffithessays therole best screen role since Children of al.esser God. Baboon Heart tuate the United States' urbansprawl, here has Criticism byBob Green unlessotbenoise noted. of Billie Dawn, a gangster'smoll who yearnsfor luv story originally titled (that 'i Homewsd Bcmt: 1he lncradbleJourney might give you a hint about the subplot). his workdocumented a in commixtureof humor 'i, theWeekly 'sdingbat ofapproval, indicates erudition. Enter tutor DonJohnson, whose pres A Disney remake of an earlierhit aboutthree and moral outrage. Clay Walker arrangedthe filmsof more than average interest. ence the gangster (John Goodman) no like. If petswho are, througha seriesof aa:idents, sep montages artfullyand controversially. Academy you haven't seenthe original, this one might do arated from their owners; the bulk of the film Short Run and Revival Tbealre, 900S. Beretania St:Tue. 4/20,7:30 p.m. foryou . Otherwise, buyer beware. details the animals' perilous attempts to find 'i Dracula(1992) rn the wake ofhis latestbank- Continued on Page 10 First Run 'i CB4There's plenty of raw language (written Brief reviewsof selectedfi rst-rnn films in town. their masters. Set in the Pacific Northwest, this by SaturdayNight Lives Chris Rock)in this tale version is much better than the original, pri Confirmtheaters, datesand times. aboutCell Block4, the home of "Gusto," a hus- 1heAdvenbns of lb:kHuck Filll Finn Lite. marilybecause it V'l3Sby directed longtime David tler who thinksrap's the new nameof the game. Lynch editor Duwayne Dunham (here making The greatestAmerican novel is trivaliz.ed(again) With lots ofcameos and supporting partsdone Word Pick by the movies.This tinle Disn Studios(known his directing debut). Dunham's editing sense ey bySNL members,cast Phil Hartmanamong them makes things far more suspensefulthan you in the industry as "Mouse-witz") doesthe trivi- Symptomatica, done up to a fare-thee-well. alizing, reducing the epic story of moral growth might anticipate given the plot. A Cop nl aBurt Half Reynolds plays a burnt- Indecent Prqposal See review on Page 9. Word up and civilization's assaulton personalfr eedom ootdetective revived by the precocity rJ an8-year- Jack thelong-shelved BearA Danny De Vito Rohm Wmfisa linguib1University fromthe of Califurni1 to just another cozy littlepiece of domesticalia. old black kid withwhom he is saddled in order comedy-dramaabout a single alcoholic father who gained accolades in 1975 for herbook, I.anguage The (astute)casting Cowtney of Vance and Elijah to solvea aime.Need we mention thatit's meant rearing a batch of kids. Things heat up when and Womans Place, which examinedway the inwhich Wood (made up to lookcute) helps some, but to beheart-warming' one of the keikis disappears. The 1V-thin dra language perpetuates women's powerlessness. Since you'd be alot betteroff taking the hour and half TheCrush Another movie about an obsessed maticsare engineeredby 30 !YJmethings Marshall then. Lakoff risenhas to prominenreas an innovativeand to read the book. female. This time it's a teenager(Jennifer Rubin) Hershowitz. conciseinterpreter of theterms withwhich we construct 'i Aladdin Disney goes hip - well, sort of. whohas the forhots a cute guy(Caiy Elwes, blond Pointof NoRetum An Americanizationof the our lives. In the'80s she coauthoredFace Vahw, a / When, 30 minutes into the movie, the Genie look atthe role "beauty"plays inwomen ·s lives; and vacuous)who's staying in her parents'guest idiotic French thriller LaFe mme Nikita, with ' appears, things pick up considerably- Robin house.Things tum nastyand violent (and that's BridgetFonda taking over the roleof a beauti WhenTa lk isNot Cheap, a guide tothe language Williams, who suppliesthe voice of the shape justin the theatrelobby) in this "thriller"written fulwoman who takenis off death row tobecome used intherapy; and Talki ngPower, which has shifter released from the magic lamp, was let and directedby Alan Shapiro. a hit personfor the state.The perversely as.5e!ll been described a:; a "demystificationof the looseon this vehicle, and after he'd recorded 'i 1he CryingThis Game 1992 Irish romantic bled castincludes Anne Bancroft(in the Jearme politicsof language use." Thisweek I.akoff his wild track, the animators simply drew it in. will speaktwice at theUniversity ci Hawaii: thriller"about" is how people are set up: the Moreaurole), HarveyKeitel and Gabriel Byrne. Other elements of the filmare more conven- plotline concerns anIRA soldier (Stephen Rea) The cross-cultural accents alone should keep once onthe issuesand problemsof Ian- 1 i tional:Aladdin, the teenster onArabian the rueets, who, aftera ruseresulting in the kidnapping of you away. You are herebywarned . guage,the FirstAmendment andhar.lss is the likeness of Tom Cruiseand the big musi- a British soldier (Forest Whitaker, in yet anoth- Ring of f1renewest The IMAXmovie in town ment law (be it sexual or racial);and calnU!llbers are patterned afterBroadway must- er terrific perfonnance), befriends the Brit vic- is a mixed affair: it has an irresistible premise onceon thethe ways in which language l cals ofthe late '50sand the '(J()s.Said to befunny tint later, as an act of allegiance to his friend, (it's a photographic study of the volcanoes of can beused to silence women, par- .J!'- andchanning, a with visualstyle patterned some- Rea looks up the Brit's old girlfriend (Jaye the Pacific Rim); some spectacular computer ticularly in the sectorpublic I.akolfs what afterthe New Yo rkers Hirschfeld curvy Davidson), to whom he begins to feel deeply generatedgraphics and animation that "explain" work to languagedemystify Ire used caricatures. Music by Alan Menken, Howard attracted. What happens then - and what how eruptions happen; and uneven photogra in everything from a phonecall to an insult ro a ses.5ionwith the shrink r, Ashman and Tim Rice. doesn'thappen - completesthe film's mirrors- phy, rangingfrom mediocre fish-eye lens shots is astimulating reminderthat every : 1he Best ofII theBest This film'sprecursor, and-illusion storyline. Some PC-oriented critics to the spectacular. The dull-as-dishwater woroCOU!US. a hit on home video, was basically a revenge find the movie anti-feminist; others, old-fash- voiceovers are by RobertFoxw orth;the music movie trickedout in martialarts garl,. The sequel ioned; others, homophobic. Still otherssay that -original and indigenous- was written and is more of the same. Two ex-members ofthe it fails to resolve the issues it pretends to raise. compiled by Michael Steams (Chronos). Is it U.S. karate team tryto avenge the death of a In short, The Crying Game sets us up too - worthseeing' Yes ... but such a tourist-oriented buddy who was offed in a competition in I.as and, in the process, showsus what we don't product denies the full potential of the IMAX Vegas. Eric Robertsre rums tobrood as the lead. necessarilylike to admit:that we've beenconned, process... again.(W aikiki IMAX) SomYestaday Could it bethey've finallyfo und one way or another, most of our lives. 1he WrittenSandlot by Radio Flyers Mickey 8 • April 14, 1993 • Honolulu Weekly -- -...:...----
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Your t1111e 1s valuable, so why waste it going out of your way to buy sioning a rapture of hushed emotion a two acre parcel on the beach in on and off in Lyne just one gift ce1tificate from one restaurant? among Harrelson's audience of Santa Monica) and everythingbegan borrows also from Gus van Sant, cut Make one stop and purchase any number of gift ce1tificates, dewy-eyed architecture students. I to look up. Sure, the mortgage pay- ting bizarre home movie flashbacks for any occasion, to many of Hawaii's top restaurants, such as like the line: it has a nice ring. In its of the happy young lovers, shot in u r a k u original context (it's borrowed for MARY BRENNAN shaky hand-held 16 mm, a la the occasion from Louis XV, Drugstore Cowboy, into the body of .-�!�r �� 111� although I thought forthe longest ments werea little tough (yeah, right the narrative. When he isn't pilfer te �-- - about $50,000a month) but their ing from his betters, he's rehashing RESTAURANT time that the folksyHarrelson was � THE!yti� quotingsomeone named Louis Cans, future seemed to be rushing toward his usual glib MadisonAv enue tricks. . , "' .;�. Michel's•Rex's Black Orchid a naggingly familiar personage I them. Then came the recession. The film is as hollow and pretty as Maile Reslauranl• Baci Due• T ralloria • Tahitian Lanai •Malleo's•Crouching• Lion Inn couldn't quite place) I'm sure it had Unemployment, looming foreclo a two-hour Calvin Klein Obsession Bobby McGee's• Buzz's Original Sleak House•Cafe Che Pasla•Sergio's some inspirational quality. But in sure, nowhere to tum. Egads. ad. In one aggravatingscene, strung Beaulifully packaged in a custom-made gold fo il burgundy box, in denominations Indecent Proposal, Overextended and desperate, they together out of Guess Jeanjump cuts, of choice _fro1!1 . $20-$250, with tl e convenience of ordering by phone or a movie which Y,Ollr ,1 fax, comes to its climax at a hippo auc decidedthat the only thing to do was a frustratedHarrelson paces for what we ve made g1ft-g1v111g easy all year round. Take care of your enlire gifl list at tion, it's just another slice of pre to take their last few thousand and seems like several minutes around tentious idiocy. Why areyou saying go to Las Vegas, where certainly an elevator. The director takes no s cret 1;:, oaY Gift Certificates Hawaii e ae that, Woody? What do you mean? they would win the money they chances that we might missthe point, sp � Ala Moana Center ·ve1 " • Did you think you were in a needed within a couple of days. that Harrelson is like a caged ani 1wcC: 1wse ij � Sears, Ground Floor, 5ilk ,ch,,sc Airline Ticket Counter Area What a surprise it was when they mal. There's also a slippery under free • u -• Merchant and Ivory film? .,;1h 11"' " Phone: 941-4052 Fax: 941 -4053 Indecent Proposal, which opened lost all their dough. Bob's offer current of misogyny, another Lyne 1 � Friday, is terrible. The plot, a ves couldn't have caught them at a more trademark. One throwaway scene is tige of the out-of-style '80s sensi vulnerable time. of a blonde, buxom receptionist read bility that gave us Michael Douglas' It's all such twaddle. The only ing Susan Faludi's Backlash as she Quality, Style, Fit, Comfort bug-eyed Wa ll Street injunctionthat good thing about the movie is files her nails. "greed is goodt fits in a thimble. Redford. He looks,finally, like a dis The final indignity is the tacked in si I k and cottonlin gerie. That's where it ought to stay. Happy tinguished actor: he's entered his on moral - that there are some couple, down on their luck, arefa ced Cary Grant phase. Redford radiates things money can't buy. This plati with a tempting, sordid proposition. dignity and intelligence as John tude seems especially creepy com If the wife (Demi Moore) will spend Gage, the Rich Man to Moore's ing fromthe voyeuristicLy ne, who one night with a billionaire "poon Pretty Woman. In the movie's best has spent two hours making certain bound" (RobertRedf ord), they'll be scene, he reminisces about his that his main characters aregrabby a million dollars richer. They do it, romantc history. As a young man he and unappealing.The one ray of sat of course, after pretending to be saw a beautiful girl, once, on a sub isfactioncomes from knowing that shocked for about three minutes. way; he couldn't nerve himself to Redford won't be saddled with the Then their relationship, which they approach her, and still carries the whining Moore or the dribbling had thought could survive anything, wounding memory of her parting Harrelson (poor agreeable Woody, beginsto wobble. Paranoia,recrim smile. In all the decades since "I he's horribly miscast as a sexy lead inations,etc. That's the whole story, don't think that there's a day that ing man - he always looks like all the eggs in one frayed basket. It goes by that I don't think of her." some invisible person is squashing can't possiblywork if we don't like, Redford delivers the lines beauti an invisible pane of glass against his fully, with a complex mixture of face). Thefilmmakers simply haven't The Kona Center or at least care about, Moore and (Across from Alo fv!oonoShopping Cenler) Harrelson. crushing adolescent regret and bit done the work toearn the happy end 1430 Kona Street #103, And we don't, because they're tersweetmiddle-aged self-mockery. ing they'repeddling. Poor little rich Honolulu, H-an 968 14 They're the best lines in the film, in movie. It wants to besome thing. But (808) 946-2110 greedy idiots. Moore explains, in Wilh !his ad, freegitt wilh oAy purchase. l 00% cotton slips ovoiloble. voice-over, how Mr. andMrs. Happy fact, and that's probably because it's just a brick. • April 14, 1993 • Honolulu We ekly • 9 Cive Nlwsic Venwes Anna Bannanas,Bereunia 2440S. 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Music for HonoluluHap 11111Olgan Symphony ExitVariety; 8 MontereyBay Canners Pear lridge. harpist Constance Uejio and St. Andrew's Fnn:iosContempora Kahale ry Hawaiian; Chart Cathedral organistJohn McCrearypool their tal House. 5 - 8 p.m. ents in works byMahler, Bach and Grandjany. J.P. Smoketrain Rock; No Name Bar. The Kamehameha Schools Concert Glee Club Joe RaccaContemporary Tllo Hawaiian; Ha rry's will also perform, presenting Vierne's Ky rie Bar. 3:30 - 7 p.m. Fleisonfor organ and choir and Berkey's]esu, JonBasebese Variety; MontereyBay Canners Son Most Sweetand Dearfor harp and choir. Wa ni.4:30 - 7:30p.m. , Bernice Pauabi Bishop Memorial Chapel, JonahCummings Contemporary Hawaiian; KamehamehaSchools campus: Sun. 4/18,4 p.m Duke'sCanoe Club. 4 - 6 p.m. Free. 842-8412 Kit Samson a the Sound Advice TheMusic of Frank Sinatra, Part2 Local Contemporary Hawaiian; Kabala Hilton. croonerJinuny Borges returnsto the Honolulu Loretta Ables Trio Jazz; Lewers Lounge. Symphony's "Light Side Pops" series for a fol MangoContemporary; 3 Bandito's. lowup to his sold-out 1991 tributeto Ol' Blue Nelda Alvarez Cornemporary; Horatio's. Eyes. Borges and friends will bedoing arrange New HeightsDance; NicholasNickolas. ments from Frankie'sprivate libraryof numbers �ContemporaryHawaiian;J dmDominis. like Luck Bea I.ady, My Way and I've Got You Nolth AmerlcaiFunk, BushBald Rock;Anna UnderMy Skin. Soget with it. BlaisdellCo ncert Bannanas. Hall, mwaro Ave.: Fri. 4/16 &Sat. 4/17, 8 p.m. ShirteyWalker DuoVariety; Jolly RogerFast. $10 - $30, 537-6191 4-7 p.m. TheNew Four Preps Tuxedoed, K-Tellish har The LoveCats Dance Rock; Wa ve Wa ikiki. mony-popfrom four longtime industry p!U5who TitoContemporary Berinollls Haw aiian; Chart TIDES - April 14 to April 20 practically wrote the bookon the genre: origi House. 8:30 p.m. - 12:30 a.m. THURSDA Y FRIDA Y MONDA Y TUESDA Y nal Preps Bruce Belland (who also, you might WIiiie K Contemporary Hawaiian; Malia 's. """ note, did a number of the voices for Disney's Jungle Bookand was a regular on Ozzieand 15/Ibursday Harriet) and Ed Cobb; David Somerville,for Asher PeninJazz; Hilton Hawaiian Village. mer leadsinger of TheDiamonds; and Jim Yester, Augie Rey Contemporary; Spa ts. original lead singer of The Association. Between Bernadette and the New Sensation them, the NFPs have penned such monster hits Contemporary Dance; Rex'sBlack Orchid. Moon Phases: LAST QUARTER - Apr 13 NEW MOON -Apr 21 FIRST QUARTER -Apr 29 FUU MOON -Apr 6 as WhyDo Fools Fall in l.ru!?,Along OJmes Mary, . . . . . BettyTaylor Loo a Rachel GonzalezJazz; Tide times and heights are for Honolulu Harbor. Tide and moon mformat,on supp/Jed by Doug Pame Design. DoYo uBelieve inMagic?and Cherish. The Preps New OrleansBistro. will bespending a month at the Outrigger Main Blue Kangaroo Country & Folk; Jolly Roger From Page s 4/14& Thur. 4/15,7:30 p.m.; matinee 4/15, 1 HawaiiYouth Symphony Spring Concert A Showroom while the Societyof Sevengoes on Wa ikiki. p.m. $4. 532-8701 concert in the "minor" key: Aspiring virtuosos tour. Main Showroom,Outrigger Waikiki Hotel, Bandito's. $4. 532-8701 1812 BrianHuddy Variety; - more than 300 of'em - perform the 2335 Kalakaua Ave.: Mondays - Saturdays, 7 & carolAtkinson Jazz; Cupid'sLounge. 'i ReservoirDogs (1 992) This showy inde Overture, The Barberof Seville and moreunder 9 p.m. (Wednesdays, 9 p.m. only) from 4/19 Dean DeanContemporary Hawa iian. Chart pendent filmis a megaviolent st01y abouta bank the adult ha.tonsof maestros HenryMiyamura, a robbery gone awry with ultrabloody results. through 5/18. $27. 923-SHOW House. 8 p.m. - 12:30 a.m. Music Michael Nakasone, Wayne Kawakami and Stan LaNueva ThisLay new salsa outfitshows you DonKini Keyboard; Mabinalounge. 8 - 11 p.m. ReserooirDogs has deeply divided audiences: Kim. BlaisdellConcert Ha� m Wald Ave.: Sun. Some sayit is an initial cynical exercisein gore how to setthe ooseon firegetting without tU5.5ed Easy Does It Variety; Sp indrifter Kabala. Concerts 4/18, 4 p.m. $10. 941-9706 in the brig. NCOBldg . 422, Hickam AFB: Sat. ExitVariety; 8 MontereyBay Canners Pearlridge. written and directed by a film-school ba.bywho The11, .. waio's stable Part of ChamberMusic hasn't yet felt the sting of death and so canpile Bach, BrallftsMusic aidMoza't from theBig 4/17, 9 p.m. $8. 682-5101 J.P. Smoketrain Rock; No Na me Bar. Hawaii's popular"Sound-In-Light" series, which LaurencePaxton and Dalton BaldwinUH JonBasebase Variety; Monterey Bay Canners on the gooas if Dogs were a comic opera of Boys performed by a quartet of Honolulu combines chamber music with multimedia art blcxx:I and pain. Itsfan.5 say that direaorQuentin Symphonymusician.5: Steven Aanter, viola; Beebe opera andmusical theater prof Paxton,a tenor, Wa ni.4:30 - 7:30 p.m. displays and commentary by Jim Becker to perfollllS with the internationally noted pianist Jonah CummingsContemporary Hawaiian; Tarantino's debut film transcends its excesses Freitas, piano; David Moulton, cello; and Keiko "evoke the spiritof othertimes andplaces ." This SonataNo . Baldwin. The program will include works by Duke'sCa noeClub. 4 - 6 p.m. and becomes a passionate exercse in esthetics Saito, violin. On the program: Bach's week's concertwill focus on the work of three and storytelling. One thing is sure- it is violent 1 in G, Brahms' Sonata in Eflat and Moz.art's Schubert, Duparc,Hahn, Liszt,Poulenc and oth Klmo Blcoy Guitar; Mezzanine Restaurant. E>ivertimentoin E AthertonPerf orming Ans proteges of the influential Sergei Pavlovich ers. OroisAuditorium, UH Manoa campus:Fri. Kit Samson the Sound Advice and it is bloody. And perhapsa hipster's delight. flat. Diaghilev, who, as impresarioof the BalletRusse a Harvey Keitel stars. ArtAuditorium, UH Manoa Studio, Hawaii Public Radio, 738 Kaheka St.: 4/16,8 p.m. $8. 956-8742 Contemporary Hawaiian; Kabala Hilton. just after theturn of the century, helpedinspire Rhythm Summit See MusicPick on Page 8. LanceOrillo Contemporary Hawaiian; Chart campus: Sat. 4/17 & Sun. 4/18, 7 & 9 p.m. $5. Sun. 4/18,4 p.m. $15. 95S-8821 a flourishing collaborationbetween composers 'i Royal Scandal(1945) One of the few pic Bach SoloThe Contatas final concert in the YOUC �s�Comeseewhat House.5 - 8 p.m. and set-design artists. Featured will be pieces the Gcxx:I Kids were doing while the Bad Eggs Loretta Ables Trio Jazz; Lewers Lounge. turesTa llulah Bankhead, a greatstage star,ever LutheranChurch of Honolulu's "Abendmusiken" byStravinsky, Borodin and Poulenc,all ofwhom ("Music for Evening") series features soloistsCarl were dfgarage� Slllting raIXls. Featuring MojoBlues; Haicl Jaron 'sKai/ua made- and hereit's obvious why. Bankhead hadworks • byDiaghilev. AcademyTbwJtrF, . plays to the upper balcony and even director CIU5ier, countertenor; TimothyCarney, baritone; work fromthis semester's aop of UH composi New HeightsDance; NicholasNickolas. 900 S. Beretania St.: Mon. 4/19, 8 p.m. $12. tionstudents. Room108, Music Dept, UH Manoa �Contemp:lra!yHawaiian;]dmDomtnis . OttoPreminger is unable totone her down. She Karin Brown, soprano; and LesCeba llos, tenor. 947-1975 plays Catherine the Great, but the performance Lutheran Church of Honolulu, 1730 Punahou campus: Thur. 4/15, 8 p.m. Free. 956-8742 Nolth America'IFunk, BushBald Rock; Anna International MusicThe Festival 22nd install Bannanas. is soover the top that GreatKate looksand acts St.: Sun. 4/18, 8 p.m. $10 donation. 941-2566 ment of an annual jamboreeof high-schooland more like a drag queen. With Charles Coburn BrownBags to Stardom This annual talent Club Acts PaioranaVariety; Roy'sPark Bistro. junior-college music groups from around the Pua MelaContemporary Trio Hawaiian; Harry's (waggling his dewlaps), Anne Baxter and a search,which in students from 34 high schools Bandschedules are subjectto change. Please call map, including concert bands, marchingbands, Bar. 3:30- 7 p.m. smooth-as-silkVincent Price. Worth seeing as a statewide competefor a cashprize and record choirs and more. Wa ikikiSbel4 Kapiolani Park: venue;for /ate;J infom,anon. Omsult the liwMusic curiosity. MovieMus eum, 3566Harding Ave.: ing contract, has helped launch the careers of Venues listfo r locations and phone numbers. Random Cowboys Country; Scuttlebutt's. Thur. 4/15, 5:30 p.m. Free. 521-2911 Scott DanceWIiiams Bald Rock; Fast &ldie's. Thur. 4/15, 8 p.m.; matinees Sat. 4/17, 1, 3 & big stars like Glen Medieros. Featured at this ZacharyKai Wu This 23-year-old pianist, a 5:30 p.m. $5. 735-8771 year's show (the 13th BrownBag gala) will be Shirley WalkerDuo Variety; Jolly Roger F.ast. California native of Chinese-Spanishdescent, is 14/Wednesday 4-7 p.m. Twilight�the Cockroadles Hawaii poet and Mainlandharmony act Shai and sometime Mariah considered one of the bright young stars of the Carey backup singer Trey Lorenz, as well as An*8aYoiq, Les Peelz & LomeJacab&on StraightCountry; Shot Malia 's. editorJoseph Stantoninnxluces Hiroaki oshida's Y classical circuit, prompting many prestigious Jazz; New OrleansBistro. local favorites like Willie K. Wa ikiki Shell, The Love Cats Dance Rock; Wave Waikiki. absurdist film, described by its progenitors as venues and contests to, er, woo Wu. Pieces on Asher PeninJazz; Hilton HawaiianVillag e. Kapiolani Park: Sat. 4/17, 5 p.m. $12. 521-2911 Tommy D & the D Rock;Bald MaiTa i Lounge. "FranzKafka meetsRoger Rabbit." ArtAudiJoriun� his free programat Kamehameha Schools will AugieRey Contemporary; Spa ts. DomlnadorI. de losSantos A free evening Watusi Reggae; Oink's. UH Manoa campus: Fri. 4/16, 7 p.m. Free. include the "Don Juan Fantasy" from Don Baird BrittinghamRock; No Na me Bar. 5:30 - of Filipino and religiousmusic from baritonede Windward Soul Brothers Contemporary 'iUranus (15)<)1)France 1945 - afterthe lib Giovanni, Schubert's Wa ndererand Chopin's 7:30 p.m. los Santos of the Philippines' SillimanUniversity. Hawaiian; Horatio's. eration. A small town - collaborationists? Ballade in Aflat. Bernice Pauab i BislxpMemorial Bernadette and the New Sensation Newman Center, UH Manoa campus: Sat. 4/17, ignorers of war's realities? a mixed bag? - Chapel, Kamehameha Schools campus: Thur. Contemporary Dance;Rex's Black Orchid. 7:30p.m. Free.944-76 10 16/Friday shivers in moralanguish astruths are revealed. 4/15, 7:30 p.m. Free. 842-8412 Blue Kangaroo Country & Folk; Jolly Roger Based on Marcel Ayme's novel. With the great DoubleReed Part Rhapsody ofMusic Projects Mike Lawisand TrumpeterFriends Lewis et Wa ikiki. Alisa Randolph Jazz; Rex's Black Orchid. Honolulu's freecommunity chamber music series. Gerard Depardieu, Phillipe Noiret and Michel al play a Friends ofJazz-Hawa ii gig atthe Blai5dell carolAtkinson Jazz; Cupid'sLounge. AugieRey Contemporary; Spa ts. Mililani To wn Recreation Center Ill, 95-282 JollyRoger Blanc. In French with English subtitles. Hotel. BlaisdellGarden Cafe, 1154 Fort St. Mall: Don Keyboard;Kiri Mabina Lounge.8 - 11 p.m. Blue Kangaroo Country & Folk; Academy Theatre, 900 S. Beretania St.: Wed. Kaloapau St.: Tue. 4/20, 7:30p.m. Free. 623-7110 Mon. 4/19, 5:30 p.m. $10. 531-7511 Easy Does It Variety; Sp indrifter Kabala. Continued on Page 12 JO • April 14, 1993 • Honolulu Weekly ---- �
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For reservationscoll 735-5522 Personalities L ______J y the timemonologist Amy Hill was old enough to head for Tokyo as a college WHERE THE DEVILIs ANGEucA's? exchange student, she thought herself immune to In the heartof lwilei. culture shock. Growing up in South Dakota as the apartment. "I guess it was important essentially a porcelain hole in the A haven of heavenlydining in a place daughter of a Finnish-American to them becausethey had never real floor. you wouldn'tfigur e it tobe! father and his Japanese war bride, ly seen anything that reflected their At first, she found some solace run Hill says, she was reared in a con experience before. It's hard to grow ning with the trendy Eurasian crowd tinual state of culture clash. up in a culture that doesn't reflect at school. ''They seemed so jet-set," There was, forexample, "the fish who you are." she says. "But the more I hung with thing," as she puts it Dad liked his ''When I sat down to write To kyo these people, themore I realizedthat Scandinavianlutefisk, somewhat on Bowui,"she says, ''Iwasn 't surewhat they were treated like outcasts from the odoriferous side, while mom was it was about. I just knew the way Japan's general society." into the raw stuff - sushi. "To the Japan profoundly affected me, and The bad times notwithstanding, neighborsaround us, boththings were I'd seenmany Asian-Americansthere Hill says, she also learnedvaluable equally repulsive," Hill says with a during the '70s on a searchfor their lessons from hermother 's homeland, generous laugh. roots.They expected to beembraced, such as a sense of gaman. No real A diningexperience unlike any other. LIZA SIMON but they were shunned as outsiders, Fnglishequivalent for the word exists, Breakfast,lunch and romanlicc:andleligfit din ner. and they came back angry and dis she says, explaining that Japanese Reservationsrequested. 537-6619� GentryPacific C.enter, 560 N. Nimitz Hwy. appointed." use it to mean "the need to get But once she was in Japan, Hill Thetruth, she says, is thatyou can't through hard times without com found that, with her accented create your identity fromscratch: plaining." Japanese and Eurasian looks, she had ''There's a point at which you have ''It's assumed that if you seethings to grapple with the constraints of a to deal with what is already inside through, something positive will society that didn't even pay lip ser you." come out," she says. vice to the melting pot. She never Hill's ruminationson cultural iden Hill says that ethic has helped her felt so brash, Hill says, so aggres tity began long before she went to in her career. After returning to sive ... so American. Japan, as far back as her early child America and ending her marriage, Hill embarked on what she says hood inSouth Dakota. When she was Hill plunged headlong into acting was a profound,six-year journey of six, her family moved to Seattle, projects that didn't always work out. self-discoverythat continuedthrough where Hill remembers encountering To get by, she had to accept her share her collegeyears, her now-dissolved subtle prejudice: "People would say of stereotyped TV roles (don't ask COFFEE MANOA marriage to a Japanese national and things like. 'Oh your mother is so her, she says, how many times she's her achievement of limited Japanese cute ... what kind of food does she been cast as "the placid nurse"). MANOA MARKETPLACE • HONOLULU, HAWAII "' celebrity as a spokesmodeland broad eat? Hill says she chose the one-per cast personality. Hill has compiled In high school, Hill submergedher son format for To kyoBound as the A place to unwind ...relax ...Collect scattered thoIBJhts. her mental postcards from that jour culturalconflicts in a Bohemian per most expedientway to reachan audi ney into a critically praised one sona. "I just decided I was going to ence with an authentic story. Visit with friends ...A place with qood coffee and tea. woman comedy, To kyo Bowui, which bethis creative-typeperson - make Acknowledging that many feminist, An espresso bar with sweet treats ...The place to be. will have its Hawaii debut this week films and all,"she says. "So I smoked minority and gay theater artistshave at the Lizard Lounge. unfiltered cigarettes, talkedabout rev gone this route lately, making for a Live music Tuesdays from 7 -9 pm. No cover. Developed in 1990 for L.A.'s olution and wore this big black cape." bumper crop of one-person dramat Open 7 days a week. At Manoa Marketplace Japanese-American Cultural and Hill wantedto go tocollege in Paris, ic works, Hill says she "worried at Between Woodlawn & East Manoa Roads Community Center, Tokyo Bound but her plans were thwarted when first that the one-person thing was employs multimedia effects, mime, only Tokyo's Sophia University too self-indulgent. Afterall, I don't song and dance to conjure up char offered her the necessary financial have a life-threatening disease or an acters evocative of the people who aid. Going there "turnedout to be a experience with incest, just a little helped Hill come to terms with very bad idea," she says, explaining travelogue aboutlearning to feel com ...... -, Japanese culture as well as her own that she cried literally every day for fortable with yourself." heavily hyphenated heritage. the first six months. "How could I But Hill's "little travelogue" has Hill's "cast" includes some com even knowhow to cook for myself? received rave reviews, marking it as nc.: posite characters, such as a passive I had a Japanese mother - she did a standout from similar works. The .. -··--·---- 8 I I 11 Tokyo department store attendant, it all forme !" And then therewas the criticsseem most struckby the things who never stops dutifully wiping the overwhelming sense of being an out Hill doesn't do: romanticize Japan escalator rail and never stops smil sider and the unfamiliarity of such or dis the decadent West. Instead, ing, and a kittenish songstressbeset basics as the standardAsian toilet - Hill parodies the modem behavioral by a gang of businessmen who engi mode of trying to have it all. neer a vulgar "new look" forher - "When I firstgot to Japan," she a phenomenon so common that it has says, "I would look at people park its own Japanese slang term: "image Tokyo Bound ing cars fora living. They worewhite change-i. " Also representedare real • Lizard Loft gloves, and they'd been doing it all with this ad lifeindividuals like a beloved ike their lives. I thought, 'What a shame, bana teacher and Hill's own mother. 760 Kapahulu Avenue one coupon per print Wednesday 4/14 & their life is so plotted out.' But then Hill says she was surprised by the 5 you realize that they're really proud critical and box-office success of Thursday4/1 , 8 p.m.; any print up to 20"x 24" Friday 4/16 & Saturday of what they do. Here, we have so (from slide or negative) To kyo Bound, which she's performed much trouble taking pride in our in San Francisco, L.A., New York 4/17, 8 & 10 p.m.; Sunday 4/18, 4 & 8 p.m. selves; it's distressing. Sometimes Please allow two weeks delivery. Sales end April 30,1993. and Seattle. 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Please Include punctuation & space between words. 23 38 PHOTO:JEFF HELBERG Home-made Formica Tables Pasta & Ravioli Cafte Cannolis Creme BrOlee Out-of-the-way Yo hei Guccinni Full Bar THE BEST CAPPUCCINO IN TOWN Sushi Secret hanks largely to the Naturally, you can order soba rise and fall of sushi, noodles, udon noodles, don Spice up your appetite Japanese cuisine is buriand other items a la carte, today one of the and even these items come with the authentic world's most misun with accompaniments that Indian cuisine. Vo fieiSu5/zi make them substantial derstood foods. /� ESTAURANT Despite its simplici enough to prove a full din Open forLunch � t t:30 - 2:00 ty and low-fat ingredients, ner. Prices range from $9 to Dinner � 5:00 - t 0:00 sushi rose to international the low twenties, with most acclaim in the decade that choices under $15. One par At the praised extravagance and ticularly interesting house rewarded overindulgence. The special: the Yohei tsuboyaki Hawaiian Monarch Hotel sushi bar crazeof the '80s fed (flamingsea snail served in the notion that raw fishis the the shell). Thisshowcase item zenith of Japanese food, and is prepared by thinly slicing ultimately sushi supplanted the meat of a sea snail, which nouveau cuisine as ''the-more is then mixed with a shoyu you-spend, the-less-you-get" marinade and returned to its meal of choice among restau home. The shell is placed on rant goers who were hungri- an alcohol-soaked salt block er for trends than for food. which is set on fire. The dish That, though, was on the is flambeed to allowmeat the Mainland; in theIslands sushi, to cook in the shell. along with saimin, tempura In the six to eight times and sashimi, has been a sta- that I've been to the restau ple of the kamaaina diet fordecad es. forsix which requires that diners sit rant, the service at Yohei has never While in L.A. or New York saying, on the floor; whilethat dubious priv been anything but accommodating, "let's go out forJapanese" may now ilege may add a sense of Japanese even when I requested additional be the culinary equivalent of grow ambience forsome, beaware that the soup broth, ingredient substitutions ing a ponytail, listening to Madonna absence of the usual tatami mats and custom-rolledsushi, which brings or buying junk bonds, in Hawaii it's makes sittingin thissection less than me back to wherewe began - at the about as commonplace as heading comfortable. (While we're on the sushi bar. subject of atmosphere: Yohei Sushi If your idea of the perfect Japanese has a very authentic feel,reminis dining experience means sitting at a DON DOUGHERTY cent of many inexpensive Tokyo counter, watching a master chef at to Longs. But while the passing of restaurants and without the faux work and listeningto colorfulrepar the Mainland fad may have had lit Nipponesque touches that make tee, Yohei is just the place - if you tle impact on the actual number of Waikiki'sfiner Japanese restaurants speak Japanese. If you don't, their Japanese restaurants in our city, it seem embarrassingly like a Walt sushi bar may be a tad uncomfort "Louies,Loui es ..." may well have influencedthe direc Disney interpretation of theOrie nt.) able; be aware that the chef may not have the time or the ability to deal / tion of those restaurants; these days While the 50-50 mix of local and Japanese cuisine has become has visiting Japanese who dine at Yohei with the lone English speaker mak become "Japanesque," andyakiniku , Sushi may seemdaunting to the non ing clumsy requests. There is a pic teppanyaki and shabu-shabu have nihongo speaker, the waitresses all turemenu which allows you to point replaced sushi, at least in name. speak English and seem oblivious at whatever looks appealing, but if Yohei Sushi, then, one of the city's to your race, creed, color or sexual you order this way, you will certainly best Japanese restaurants, is some orientation - even when you hap miss out on freshcatch items and house specials. All the normal sushi thing of an anachronism. pen to be the only one of your kind O:tRESlltPrepareJ te•()rder;t] Yohei Sushi's relatively hidden in the place. items are available (albeitat a slow er pace) safely at your table; single Bay Shrimp Louis location (in Kalihi, on Dillingham, As to the food: the quality is high, Deliciously chllled, serveawith a tangy sauce. sushi orders from the menu vary in in a shopping center just diamond the pricesare very reasonable andthe Crab Louis head of the canal) and its failure to portionsare gen erous.That just about price from$3 to $5 per plate, while Sliced bell pepper, tomato, lettuce, carrot, crabmeat & olive. actively promote itself means the the unlisted specialsrange up to $20, summarizesall the qualitiesone looks Seafood Louis or Shrimp Louis restaurant is relatively uncrowded; for in a restaurant, doesn't it? The so be careful. Itadakimasu! • normally you can get a table imme vegetable tempura teishoku ($11) diately without a reservation (except contains not only the usual tempura, Y Friday nights). But if you want to rice, Japanese pickles and green tea, ohei Sushi n dine at the sushi bar, which seats but also miso soup, a chawan mushi 1111 Dill ingham Blvd. ���r�r Cili@A�·:•e• .�!r exactly 14 people, you'd better call (Japanese custard) and hiyashi soba 841-3773 ahead. Although it's small, Yohei (a bowl of cold Japanese buckwheat un L ch 11 a.m .. 1:45 Sushi feels more intimate than noodles). Theseadditional items also Dinner p.m. s . 9:30 p.m. cramped. Its eight tables each seat Clo accompany the sashimi meal set, the sed Sundays DIM SUM only two; the restaurant also has a sushi/tempwa combination,the grilled (Yum Cha) small elevated area with two tables fishmeal and other dinnerentree sets. Over 30 different kinds of force," Durazo continues. "Don't system, with a totally corruptand Hong Kong style Dim Sum they see they are creatingmore of aggressively abusive police force, a j to choose from. Hell in LA the very same conditions that led to city government no one takes seri Famous Dim Sum Continued fromPage 6 the riots?" ously, millions living in substan Chief Cook in Town Wagon Service & Take-Out Perhaps they do. Perhaps it dard housing, twice the ICenneth C.K.. Chan available. jobs. It means raising the wages of doesn't matter. Maybe Los Angeles unemployment rate of Los 20 years experience all jobs in this city, raisingpeo ple's is just one more illusion America Angeles, razor wire andarmed living standards, and nobody wants has to shed. Why assume any guards protecting the monied to hear about that." longer that L.A. has to get fixed,or enclaves, and even a level of street Since the riotsthe business com else? Or else, what? It's not going violence that, while not as intense to disappear. It will just go on. as the L.A. riots, is certainly more CHAN'S munity has been pushing the city :r:�1:ao and the state to roll back environ Again, no need to look any further sustained - a permanent "quiet Hll'IBSE RESTAURANT mental, tax and workers' compen than Mexico City to see that a riot." • Peking, Szechuan, Shanghai, Hong Kong Cuisine sation regulations. "What it means world capital of 20 million people Village Vo ice Puck's Alley, 2600 South King Street is that they want to squeeze even has learnedto get along just fine more out of a vulnerable work with no functioningpublic school 949-1 188 or 949-1093 • Validated Parking April 14, 1993 • Honolulu Weekly • 15 ....,, ::::;;; == From Page 13 Full series shots now cost $ l 25 (public clinics) $244 (private physioansj Va cones would be FREE under Clintons 1993 Comprehensive Childhood Immunization Act ture and guided tour. Registrationrequired. 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