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EW&F return to stage
Earth, Wind & Fire, one of Hawaii's favorite musical groups, returns to Hawaii after a 13-year absence to perform at 8 p.m. Jan. 5 at the Blaisdell Arena. Tickets, at $55 and $45, go on sale Saturday at the Blaisdell box office and Ticket Plus outlets. Charge by phone at 526-4400 or call 593-8333 for more information.
Prizes for plays
You have until Jan. 2 to write that play that's been kicking around in your head. That's the deadline for the annual Kumu Kahua Theatre/University of Hawai'i Theatre Department Playwriting Contest.Prizes will be awarded in three categories. Hawai'i Prize, for residents and non-residents; Pacific Rim Prize, also open to residents and non-residents; and Resident Prize, only open to residents of Hawaii at the time of submission. One prize will be offered in each category. for more information, call Kumu Kahua at 536-4222.
Free storytelling
In celebration of Children's Book Week beginning tomorrow, storyteller Diane Ferlatte will be giving free performances at 14 public libraries.Ferlatte will combine her skills as an interpreter in American Sign Language with movement and music to bring African and African-American folk tales to life. Readings are as follows:
>> Tomorrow: Kaneohe Public Library, 10:15 a.m.; and Kihei Public Library (Maui), 6 p.m.
>> Wednesday: Molokai Public Library, 2 p.m.
>> Thursday: Aina Haina Public Library, 10:30 a.m.; Waipahu Public Library, 3 p.m.; and Liliha Public Library, 6:30 p.m.
>> Saturday: Kailua-Kona Public Library (Big Island), 9:30 a.m.
>> Sunday: Mililani Public Library, 2 p.m.
>> Nov. 19: Kaimuki Public Library, 4 p.m.
Call 831-6878.
Critter art wanted
Honolulu Botanical Gardens is sponsoring a "Frogs and Garden Critters Art Contest," with prizes to be awarded in five age categories for three-dimensional art creations.Contest rules and registration forms will be available through Nov. 21 at Ho'omaluhia Botanical Garden in Kaneohe and Foster Botanical Garden in Honolulu. The gardens are open 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. daily.
The contest deadline is 4 p.m. Nov. 24, and entries will be displayed at the Ho'omaluhia Visitor Center Dec. 8 through 29. Call 233-7323.
Guitarist plays gutsy jazz
If you know jazz guitar, you know about Russell Malone.Malone is a regular member of singer/pianist Diana Krall's studio and touring band. Unfortunately, Hawaii audiences haven't seen him the two times Krall has been in town, since she appeared as a guest solo act with the Honolulu Symphony.
Malone and his own band have been touring Japan of late, and when he plays here at 7:30 tonight, he, too, will appear sans band. But he'll be playing in a setting he's always favored, namely as part of a duo, just himself and a bass player. Tonight, he'll be accompanied by our own accomplished jazz bassist Bruce Hamada.
Jazz critic Gary Giddins wrote for the Village Voice that Malone is "a spare and gutsy guitarist with a steely sound and sophisticated harmonic sense. ... Malone can kick the beat around and stomp on it, too."
He heard a lot of blues and gospel music in his youth, and grew up as a self-taught guitarist playing in his neighborhood church in Albany, Ga.
His credits include being a sideman in organist Jimmy Smith's band from 1988-90, occupying the guitar chair in Harry Connick Jr.'s big band of the early '90s, and was one of the many young lions that appeared in Robert Altman's 1996 movie, "Kansas City," a film that featured fiery playing from a house band that re-created the great Midwestern jazz that came from that city in its wild heyday.
Malone has also played with such greats as Mose Allison, Gary Bartz, Benny Green and Roy Hargrove. He was named Best Guitarist in the Down Beat Critics' Poll of 1999 (coincidentally, his last year playing with Krall). His latest album on the Verve label is "Look Who's Here," the first to feature his touring band.
>> Where: Honolulu Academy of Arts Theatre
>> When: 7:30 tonight
>> Admission: $20 general; $18 academy members, seniors, military and students
>> Call: 532-8701
WAT DAT?
What has wheels but doesn't roll, one arm and hand but two elbows? Meet MOG. The name apparently doesn't mean anything except that it comes from the MOG Canal Boats company. MOG collects trash from
canal watersBy Burl Burlingame
bburlingame@starbulletin.comIt was purchased by the state's Small Boat Harbors division of Department of Land and Natural Resources in the early '90s to collect trash from shallow waters such as Ala Wai Canal. It cost $219,000 and sat idle for several years while the state dithered over job classifications for the operator.
Here it is on a lowboy at Keehi Lagoon after a recent overhaul. The scoop on the left sits low in the water, while a mechanized arm reaches down and scrapes the bottom, picking up and straining debris, like the perforated shovels used in cat-litter boxes.
The wheels on the end of the jointed arms are used to balance the craft while the arm is scraping the sea floor.
Curious about something you've seen or heard? Write "Wat Dat?" 7 Waterfront Plaza, Suite 210, Honolulu 96813; or e-mail watdat@starbulletin.com
CONTEST
Help! For the seventh year, the Star-Bulletin needs some colorful ornaments to dress our pages in the holiday spirit. Help us trim our pages in
the colors of the seasonSend us a Christmas tree ornament that you have drawn and colored. Starting Nov. 26, we will reproduce one each day in this newspaper. On Christmas Day, we will show them all on a Christmas tree page and announce which one wins our grand prize of $100 and 10 movie passes.
Show above are some examples from past years to give you a few ideas.
The contest is open to children through sixth grade. Fill out the coupon at right and attach it to the back of your drawing. Only one entry per child, and no entries will be returned. Children of employees of Oahu Publications are ineligible.
Enter any time between now and Dec. 4, but the sooner, the better.
Your name:
Age:
Grade:
Address:
Home phone number:
School:
Teacher:Send entries to: "Make an Ornament," Honolulu Star-Bulletin features section, 7 Waterfront Plaza, Suite 210, Honolulu 96813. No fax or email entries.
Here's a great idea. Who’s the best baker you know?
You bring us cookies and we'll eat them.
What's in it for you? How about a cash prize of $100 if your cookies turn out to be the best of the batch? Second prize is $50; third is $25.
Here's how it works:
>> Fill out the entry form below and submit it along with a recipe for a truly great cookie.
>> We'll go through the recipes and choose several finalists who'll be asked to deliver baked cookies to us for taste-testing.
>> The winning recipe and the runners-up will be published in the Star-Bulletin a couple of weeks before Christmas, in time for everyone's holiday baking. Because that's what the season is all about, right? No, not cookies, sharing.
Your recipe can be for a traditional holiday-type cookie or something that's just plain delicious no matter what the time of year. Rolled, dropped, bar, filled, layered, spritzed, pressed -- any kind of cookie is eligible.
In cookies we trust
Attach this entry form to your best cookie recipe:Name:
Daytime phone:
Name of cookie:
Why it's great:Send entries to: "In Cookies We Trust," Honolulu Star-Bulletin features section, 7 Waterfront Plaza, Suite 210, Honolulu 96813. Fax 529-4324; email features@starbulletin.com
Entries must be received by Nov. 28. No more than three entries per person. Employees of Oahu Publications are ineligible. Entries may be published without compensation. Questions? Call 529-4777.
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