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October 02, 2008
photo:Michael Angel.
Thursday (Oct 2), 7pm, Ka Lama 103
If you're like most people, you keep a list of your Ten Favorite Canadians on your person at all times, and you update it each month. Neil Young and Joni Mitchell have held steady at the top of my TFC list for as long as I can remember, and Michael Moore usually holds a spot somewhere between seven and nine. Moore's free distribution of his latest film, Slacker Uprising, catapults him to my #5 spot this month (after Seth Rogan and Geddy Lee). The film, which Maui Peace Action will screen Thursday night, features speeches by Moore as well as performances by Eddie Vedder, R.E.M., Joan Baez and others. It documents Mooredrive to register Americans aged 18-29 to vote just ahead of the 2004 election…Okay, so we still got ripped off again that year, but let's not get too discouraged this time around, eh? Free.
No 'Stairway'? Denied!
Friday (Oct 3), 5pm, Market St, Wailuku
So, why should you come to the Maui Time Weekly Rock Band Party? Well, why shouldn't you? The consensus among MTW moms is that the staff here is the coolest, best-looking, smartest and funniest alt-weekly staff in the whole school. Plus we have awesome video games. Come try a hand at Rock Band. It's kinda-sorta like playing in a real band, except not. The rocking will take place in the courtyard of our building at 33 Market St. in Wailuku. This month's MTW Rock Band Challenge: if you hit every one of Geddy's Lee's high notes on "Today's Tom Sawyer" I will buy you a Pabst. Hazah! As if you needed another reason to head to Wailuku on First Friday. Free.
Nothin' but the breast
Friday (Oct 3), 10pm, Hard Rock Café, Lahaina
Think that every time you buy something pink you're helping in the fight against breast cancer? Not so, according to thinkbeforeyoupink.org. For example, you may buy a Lean Cuisine because of the pink ribbon on the box (I mean, seriously, why else would you?), but when you get the thing home you discover that you actually have to buy a pink Lean Cuisine "lunch tote" from the company's Web site before they will give your money to the cause. This month, Hard Rock Café Maui is holding a series of shows in the hope of raising $10,000 for the breast cancer division of the Pacific Cancer Foundation (a Maui-based nonprofit). Tonight's goal is to raise $500. Kihei's Byron Brown and the Derelicts, whose funky sound is a must-hear, will play with support from Guerilla Jazz. $8.
Dispatches from the Motherland
Friday (Oct 3), 10pm, Casanova, Makawao
What do you associate with the word "marimba"? I imagine equatorial breezes, fried plantains and the Dark and Stormy, a drink that involves concentrated ginger and rum. But that's my lack of knowledge on the instrument and its history talking. According to Marimba.org, the instrument originated in South Africa, and is believed to have once consisted of a hole in the ground overlaid with wooden bars that were struck with sticks; a far cry from the rosewood and brass that now typically constitutes the instrument and its sound. Anyway, Kenyan-born singer Zuni and her nine-piece marimba band Mapenzi (which is both Zimbabwean for "crazy" and East African for "love") will heat up Casanova with their bouncy, bright tunes. This is definitely one for the Little Beach crowd (note: wear clothes). $10