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KCC benefit gala

Hookipa, the annual fund-raiser for Kapiolani Community College's culinary programs, will be held Oct. 13 at the Royal Hawaiian Hotel Monarch Room.

Entertainment will be by Hookena, with Miss Hawaii Malika Dudley as emcee, but the real stars will be KCC's students and staff, who will set up 11 food stations for all-you-can-eat dining.

Dinner starts at 6:30 p.m.

Tickets are $100 in advance; $125 at the door. Corporate tables are available for $3,000, $5,000 and $10,000.

Hookipa has sold out five years in a row. Call 734-9544

Hurry up!

If you've been feeling that there just isn't enough time to get a decent meal out of your kitchen, Kapiolani Community College offers these classes in October to help you work. Call 734-9211.

Quick Main Dishes: 8 a.m. to noon Saturday; $55

Quick Side Dishes: 8 a.m. to noon Oct. 8; $55

Speed Scratch Cooking: 6 to 9 p.m. Oct. 3; $45

Quick Desserts: 8 a.m. to noon Oct. 29; $55

Slow down!

On the other hand, if you need to calm yourself, KCC offers "Getting Off the Roller Coaster," a class in dealing with mood swings through diet, 8 a.m. to noon Oct. 22.

Personal chef Leslie Ashburn will talk about foods that have extreme effects on the body.

Cost is $45. Call 734-9211.

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Free film screening

The Cinema of Southeast Asia series continues at the University of Hawaii-Manoa campus with the Cambodian feature "Monsoon Wife," showing at 6:30 p.m. tomorrow at the Korean Studies building.

The film follows a young American expatriate, Thomas, who is on the fence between his being a "butterfly man," sampling one young prostitute after another in the country's unsavory sex and drug culture, and a lasting relationship with his "monsoon wife," the Cambodian woman he won't yet allow his heart to trust.

Things get complicated when Thomas plays tour guide for his former college nemesis, Cliff, and his wife, little realizing that Cliff has his own hidden and very dark agenda.

Admission is free. Call 956-2688.

Festival of beads

The annual Best Bead Show returns to Victoria Ward Centers this weekend.

Forty exhibitors from Hawaii and the mainland will offer beads, findings and other glass art from noon to 8 p.m. Friday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday at the Ward Warehouse second-floor conference rooms.

Admission is free.

Exhibitors will donate proceeds from Saturday and Sunday sales of select beads and completed jewelry to the American Red Cross.

Grave matters

If you find cemeteries intriguing, not creepy, check out Malama o Manoa's general membership meeting, which will focus on the lore of the Hawaiian cemetery at Manoa Valley Theatre.

Sylvia Hormann-Alper will speak at 7 p.m. Tuesday at the theater, 2833 E. Manoa Road. The meeting will also cover a clean-up project for the theater and graveyard pegged for Oct. 22, Make a Difference Day.

Music and dance numbers from the theater's current production, "Footloose," will also be presented.

The meeting is free and open to the public. Call 988-3062.

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