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In response to popular demand, Cinema Paradise 2002 will screen the anthology film "11'09"01" at 9 p.m. today at the Wallace Art House at Restaurant Row. Festival director Sergio Goes said that around 100 people were turned away at Saturday's scheduled screening, and that he was receiving phone calls every day to show it again. The film offers 11 views from prominent directors from different cultures about their own responses to 9/11. The directors include Mira Nair, Amos Gitai, Ken Loach, Sean Penn, Samira Makhmalbaf, Claude Lelouch and Alexandro Inarritu.
Also tomorrow, the sixth annual DJs Against AIDS, benefiting the Life Foundation and UH Educators Against AIDS, will kick off with a pre-party at Hula's Bar and Lei Stand. The celebration continues Saturday at Wave Waikiki. Both events start at 10 p.m.; $5 admission for those 18 and over. For more info, go to www.double-o-spot.com, or call 591-3500 or 941-0424, ext. 12.
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'Gifts to Go'
Just in time for holiday gift-giving comes a book about gift-giving, at the holidays or anytime.
"The Omiyage Guide: Island Gifts to Go" is the third in Watermark Publishing's "Puka Guides," a series that focuses on small, mom-and-pop operations that best represent local tastes.
Over the last two years, authors Donovan M. Dela Cruz and Jodi Endo Chai have compiled "The Okazu Guide" and "The Puka Guide: Oahu's Hole-in-the-Wall Restaurants." (If Dela Cruz's name sounds familiar, that's because he just won the District 2 City Council race).
Through a simple format, the authors present basic need-to-know information: addresses, hours, phone numbers, what to buy, where to park, when the shops are closed for family vacations. Little space is wasted on narrative prose.
"The Omiyage Guide," for example, tells you that Alonzo's Poke & Meats in Aiea's Harbor Center specializes in Hawaiian Steak, has plenty of parking and is closed for a week after New Year's. Also, while picking up your steak for carrying as omiyage to the neighbor islands, you can pick up some mixed-to-order poke for yourself. Really, what more is there to know?
The new book sells for $8.95 and has just reached bookstores statewide. Or order by mail through Watermark Publishing, 1000 Bishop St., Suite 501-A, Honolulu 96813. Call toll-free (866) 900-BOOK or e-mail sales@bookshawaii.net.
Bakeshop goodies
Traditional holiday goodies of Christmas Pudding, Mulled Cider-Flavored Rum Cake and Sugarplum Bonbons -- plus the less traditional Baked Banana Gao -- are on sale this week only at the Hawaii International Convention Center bakeshop.The shop is open 2 to 5 p.m. today and tomorrow and 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday. A 26-by-18-foot gingerbread Kalikimaka Castle will be open for viewing at the same time. Both are on the third floor. Call 943-3500.
No meat, please
Pattrice Le-Muire Jones, coordinator of the Global Hunger Alliance, will speak on "Food Sovereignty, Environmental Justice and the Geopolitics of Meat" tomorrow at the Seventh Day Adventist Church on Maui and Dec. 14 at McCoy Pavilion at Ala Moana Beach Park.Jones' alliance is an international coalition of environmental, animal rights and social organizations that oppose Western meat-based diets and the "industrial animal agriculture." The group supports instead "environmentally sustainable solutions to hunger and malnutrition."
The two sessions are presented by the Vegetarian Society of Hawaii. They begin at 7 p.m. and are free and open to the public. Food samples will be served. Call 944-VEGI.
Salad and salsa
Chef Mike Barry of Leilani's on the Beach will offer some relief from heavy holiday fare, hosting a free salad-and-salsa cooking demonstration, 5 to 6 p.m. Dec. 19 at Maui's Whalers Village.Barry will appear as a guest of "Cookin' at the Village with Peter Merriman & Friends." He will prepare Spicy Ahi Salad with a Papaya Lime Dressing and Tropical Fruit Salsa.
Along with the monthly cooking demonstration, Merriman hosts a weekly radio show, broadcast live from his restaurant, Hula Grill Barefoot Bar at Whalers Village, 2 to 3 p.m. Wednesdays on KAOI radio.
Call (808) 661-4567.
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