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Week of Friday, August 3, 2018 | Vol. 6, No. 31

Battle of the Food Trucks

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INTO THE WOODS 7 p.m. Puhi Theatrical Warehouse Hawaii Children’s Theatre musical.

The musical intertwines the plots of several fairy tales, exploring the consequences of the characters’ wishes and quests. Tickets, bit.ly/2NWLc2t HANAPEPE ART NIGHT 6-9 p.m.

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SUNDAY

ISLANDWIDE YOUTH RALLY 5:30 p.m. Kauai War Memorial Convention Hall Free. Chili/rice dinner at 5:30, doors open at 6, worship begins at 7. Speaker, Pastor Michael Ancheta, director, Calvary Bible College Kauai.

ISLAND GROWN ARTISAN FAIR 1 to 6 p.m. Princeville Community Center.

BATTLE OF THE FOOD TRUCKS 5 to 8 p.m. Kauai Veterans Center Live music. Tickets, $30 to $100. Info: parkinglotpaina.com

SATURDAY

WEDNESDAY

KAUAI MUSEUM LIVING TREASURES LUNCHEON 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Kauai Marriott Resort and Beach Club Honoring some of Kauai’s long-time residents. Tickets, $50. 245-6931, www.kauaimuseum.org.

17TH ANNUAL HEIVA I KAUAI TAHITIAN DANCE AND DRUMMING COMPETITION 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Kapaa Beach Park Arts, crafts, demos, food, silent auction. $7 daily admission, 12 and under free.

HULA WORKSHOP 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Hanapepe United Church of Christ $50 donation includes hula workshop and huaka‘i. Hula Master Kimo Alama

MUSICAL EVENING WITH KUPAOA 6 p.m. Waimea Public Library Free, 45-minute program for ages 5 and up. This husband and wife duo has been performing together for fourteen years. They have released seven albums and won multiple Na Hoku Hanohano music awards.

THURSDAY

INTO THE WOODS 7 p.m. Puhi Theatrical Warehouse Hawaii Children’s Theatre musical.

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The cast of “Into The Woods,” rehearses a scene at the Puhi Theatrical Warehouse.

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“I love how different she is from anything else I’ve ever played,” Gaines said shortly before rehearsal. “This is definitely the hardest role I’ve ever played.”

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Sabryn Rudinoff plays Little Red Riding Hood in “Into The Woods.”

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a stage veteran on Kauai.

“It’s like Mary Poppins evil twin,” she said, laughing.

“Into The Woods” presented by HCT’s After Dark program, opened Thursday and runs through Aug. 19 at the Puhi Theatrical Warehouse.

Ed Eaton is directing the 12-member cast, with many playing multiple roles. The musical’s story for the 2014 movie is described like this:

“As the result of the curse of a once-beautiful witch, a baker and his wife are childless. Three days before the rise of a blue moon, they venture into the forest to find the ingredients that will reverse the spell and restore the witch’s beauty.

“During their journey, they meet Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood, Rapunzel and Jack, each one on a quest to fulfill a wish.”

Music and lyrics are by Stephen Sondheim. Into The Woods was originally directed on Broadway by James Lapine.

Now, this is a different

version of the play. For one, it takes places in a library instead of the woods.

There’s some improv involved, cast is on stage as the audience when not involved in a scene and there’s a bit of audience involvement, too. It is an adult theme.

“I’m so love with what it’s become and how it’s portrayed,” Gaines said. “I think it will show the audience something different and unexpected, which is pretty cool.”

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AND THE WINNER IS …

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afael Villagomez from Rafael’s Aloha Tacos says his honey taro tortillas are sure to bring home the top title from Sunday’s Battle of the Food Trucks.

He’s stacking those gluPhotos by Dennis Fujimoto/The Garden Island ten-free tortillas with local TOP: Jaime Balderas greets people from behind the window ono fish and his signature of the Chalupa’s food truck Wednesday in Koloa. MIDDLE: D lemon cilantro sauce and Greens BBQ truck sits closed after the photographer arrived shrimp with a spicy pineap- just minutes after Chef Darren Green closed down Wednesday in Koloa. BOTTOM: The Chipwrecked food truck at the ple honey sauce.

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“Nobody makes this kind of food like this, fresh and it’s for the challenge. “I’ve been stepping up to the plate in this Iron Chef-style food quite possible I’ll win,” Villag- the chef in front of people omez said on Wednesday as before.” he was solidifying his choice But he’s not the only one SEE WINNER, PAGE 5

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Jennifer Schad of Kauai Nectar Co. shows off the special ingredient for Sunday’s parking lot paina Wednesday while waiting for one more food truck to claim their product during the Kauai Culinary Market at The Shops at Kukuiula.

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truck cook-off happening in the Kauai Veterans Center parking lot from 5 to 8 p.m.

Sunday.

Rafael’s Aloha Tacos food truck is going head-to-head with six other food trucks including Molokoa Food Co., Dim N Den Sum, Chalupas Kauai, D Green’s BBQ, Full-Filling Crepes and Chip Wrecked.

Justin McDaniel of Chip Wrecked said their truck will be slinging Cuban-style nachos with spiraled ham, kalua pork, a homemade Swiss cheese sauce and a honey mustard drizzle.

“Our chances are really good that we’re going to win this thing,” McDaniel said. “Everybody loves nachos.”

Each food truck’s chef will create one dish for tasting and attendees will be the judges of who makes the best food.

Sweet and savory, the sky is the limit for contest chefs as long as they include the single required ingredient in the challenge — honey from Kauai Nectar Company, which is a new business launching a line of honey and bee products harvested from their 200 local hives.

“It’s about promoting local businesses and supporting the food truck community,” said event organizer Jen Schad.

The Battle of the Food Trucks is Parkinglot Pa’ina’s first event and the organization has big plans for activities that will support local food trucks and local food production.

Proceeds are going to the Hawaii Food Bank — Kauai Branch and to the Kauai Veterans Center Museum.

The plan is to start hosting street food nights, gathering food trucks on a monthly basis with music, too.

Admission into The Battle of the Food Trucks on Sunday is free, but tickets are

required to taste each of the food trucks’ dishes.

You can pay $30 for two tastings, $50 for five tastings, or $100 for a VIP ticket that gives you early admission — 4 p.m. — 10 tastings and more.

While all the chefs are rolling up their sleeves for some friendly competition, the chance to get together and share camaraderie is a draw, as well.

“I’m just excited to get with some other food trucks who are being creative and doing something that maybe isn’t in their norm,” said Sterling Snyder, of Full-Filling Crepes.

He was working out his own dish on Wednesday as well and said he’ll be indulging the sweet tooth with a classic crepe and a few fancy twists.

“I’m doing something like a crepe I used to do on my truck,” he said. “Banana peanut butter with honey. We’re lucky to have great honey here and I’m excited to highlight this great product.”

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BEING ‘BAD’ CAN BE OK WHEN IT COMES TO MONEY CYNTHIA LYNN & ED JUSTUS SPECIAL TO TGIFR!DAY

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while back, we reviewed the book “You are a Badass” by Jen Sincero.

Since that time, her moti-

vational book has become one of our bookstore’s regular sellers, with us needed to reorder a stack every week!

And bonus, the author, Jen Sincero, even came into the bookstore and was pleasantly surprised to find her books featured, and learning that her book was so popular even here on Kauai.

(Nice lady, by the way, and certainly walks her talk!)

With the success of “You are a Badass”, Sincero has penned herself a worthy

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derella’s mother and the giant’s wife. As the giant’s wife, she has some fun.

“I show up and wreak havoc quite literally on the entire village,” she said. “A lot bad things happen because I’m around.”

Franks is delighted to be part of Into The Woods and believes it delivers an important message.

“It’s a very relevant show. It’s about the human condition. It’s about how we treat each other and how we think about other people and how we interact in the world,” she said.

The woods are a metaphor for life — the hard parts, the dark parts, the things we don’t like to talk about, the things we drudge through every day.

“And it’s actually the thing that unites every character in the show and it’s something that unites every person,” Franks said.

In these times when hostility, anger and accusations seem the norm, Into The Woods offers a

sequel: “You are a Badass at Making Money: Master the Mindset of Wealth” Utilizing her casual, modern, and frank style and no-nonsense approach, Sincero tackles the next biggest thing that causes so much personal anxiety after self-esteem: money!

What really makes her take helpful, in our opinion, is that she is coming from the perspective of a person who was living month-to-month for many

years, as many of us may have experienced or are still experiencing. It is from this “ground-zero” of sorts that she began her sudden shifts in life that allowed wealth and money to start coming into her life. The change?

Making decisions!

Sometimes the most effective things are the simplest!

In a series of 13 easy and fun-to-read, relatable chapters, “You are a Badass at Making Money” truly helps open the doors many

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of us didn’t know we could open or didn’t realize we were closing unconsciously!

Even though our bookstore is doing very well, we, too, found gems in her writing that helped to put some money things in better perspective with choices. And, you know what? Results seem to come quick!

Definitely worth the read.

Check it out yourself, and discover that you, too, are a

“It’s a lot, but it’s better choice. fun,” he said.

“We’re going to The cast of characters Pitt first heard have to help each ◗ Baker’s Wife: Gabby Davidson about Into The Woods other out and get through it,” she said. ◗ Milky-White/ Florinda/ Rapunzel’s Prince: Chase Pitt in high school. When the movie came out Like Gaines, Franks ◗ Cinderella’s Stepmother/ Jack’s Mom: Angela Soto a few years ago, he said this is “definitely ◗ Cinderella/Granny: Daphne Sanchez loved it. a different version ◗ Cinderella’s Mom/ Giant: Ari Franks “It felt like you were of the show. It’s not ◗ Baker: Thom Newman transporting from real like a normal play. It’s ◗ Witch: Erin Gaines life into fantasy land,” either going to be he said. something that every- ◗ Little Red/ Rapunzel: Sabryn Rudinoff So when he heard one loves or some◗ Narrator: Morgan Liddell HCT’s After Dark was thing that everyone ◗ Wolf/ Lucinda/ Cinderella’s Prince: Jarhett Gaines putting it on, he was does not.” ◗ Cinderella’s Dad/ Mysterious Man: Alan Van Zee pleased to land severIt’s not a question ◗ Jack/ Steward: Taj Gutierrez al roles. of quality, but more a “It’s scary and excitquestion of expectaing, everything I love,” he said. er and Cinderella’s step-mother. tions.

Pitt also spoke of lessons to be It’s her first return to the stage in “The purists might not like it. learned. more than a decade.

Other might go, ‘Oh, I see what “The experience these charac“I remember really liking this they’re doing.” ters go through are things we as play. This is so cool, different fairy Either way, Franks hopes people will go through on a daily tales coming together,” she said. people come out. They won’t be basis. Everything that happens It’s an intricate story with life disappointed. to each character is going to be “It’s not just a play. It’s not just a lessons, Soto added. relatable to someone,” he said.

“No matter where you are or bunch of people being in a play,” Sabryn Rudinoff is playing the who you are, it applies to every she said. “It’s a bunch of humans roles of Little Red Riding Hood one,” she said. participating in a storytelling and Rapunzel, two opposites.

Chase Pitt plays Rapunzel’s experience and it’s very human Little Red Riding Hood is Prince and Milky Way, Jack’s cow, and it’s very true to life.” fearless, loves adventure, and and Cinderella’s step-sister.

Angela Soto plays Jack’s moth-

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when she goes into the woods, she is not afraid to talk to the wolf. Rapunzel has been locked in a tower her whole life and is frightened.

Rudinoff is up to the challenge.

“I love Into The Woods. I always have,” she said.

When Rudinoff was 13, she donned a red cape, found a wooded area and played Little Red Riding Hood, while her sister took pictures. Today, the 15-yearold remains enthralled with the character.

“I love Little Red,” she said. “I love her part. She’s witty, adventurous, the spark of life.”

Into The Woods has light-hearted scenes early on, and emotional ones as the story progresses.

“It really just makes you think, makes you feel,” she said. “It makes you see all different sides of stories people have in life.”

Rudinoff said she and the rest of the cast want the audience to leave thinking about their lives, the good and the bad.

“We’re hoping to touch each and every audience member,” she said.

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he year was 1985 and a group of people got together to hold a parade to celebrate the 150th anniversary of sugar in Hawaii.

The small parade was the seed that gave birth to the Koloa Plantation Days celebration that spans 11 days and offers activities, including the historic parade that started everything.

Today, the parade and celebration at the Anne Knudsen Park offers classic cars, colorful floats, walking units, and lots of horseback riders.

The parade, enhanced by the appearance and performance of the U.S. Pacific Fleet Band, opened up the gates to the Anne Knudsen Park where the “largest craft fair” covered two tents, and local ethnic foods filled one big tent.

Entertainment started with the Tsunami Taiko and included performances by Ka Lei Mokihana O Leinaala and a guest appearance by Beat Lele.

Midori, Elijah Calzo, Daniel Pahulehua, Sarah Keanini

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