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Daily island life, entertainment, events calendar, health and business news in the islands.
Entertainment/TGIF
TGI Thursday - Wed, 19 Nov 2008
The 4 indicates admission is $5 or less, or free. Full-price admission is listed; the * denotes discounts (or free) for students, seniors, military, members, children and/or advance purchase. Call venue for details.
Tube Notes - Wed, 19 Nov 2008
"30 Rock," 8:31 p.m., NBC. This is the year "30 Rock" seems to have it all. It has its best-comedy Emmy, the soaring popularity of Tina Fey and a pile of A-list guests.
Island Life
Size wise - Wed, 19 Nov 2008
Americans aren't very good at recognizing reasonable portion sizes anymore. "If people could cut down on their portion sizes, this would be the single greatest way to combat the creeping obesity epidemic," says Madelyn Fernstrom, founding director of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Weight Management Center. "It's such a simple concept, but it's hard to do. There's so much hidden fat in food, it's hard to know what a serving size is."
Three simple steps can help control hypoglycemia - Wed, 19 Nov 2008
Q. When I skip meals I get shaky, irritable and anxious. I also get lightheaded and can't think straight. Can you explain why this happens? Is there anything I can do to prevent it?
Make a beautiful holiday wreath the affordable way - Wed, 19 Nov 2008
Want a gorgeous wreath but aren't willing to spend a fortune? Here are tips for creating one inexpensively:
Help us celebrate the launching of our site - Wed, 19 Nov 2008
Join Metromix Honolulu — www.honolulu.metromix.com — from 10 tonight until early tomorrow morning at Pearl Ultralounge for a party celebrating the launch of the Honolulu Web site full of photos and details on local dining and nightlife options. It's free, with a bikini fashion show, prizes and benefits to the Surfrider Foundation.
Health calendar - Wed, 19 Nov 2008
"SAFE & SWEET TREATS," cooking class in observance of National Diabetes Month, 6:30 p.m. Nov. 20, Castle Medical Center, Wellness Center Auditorium; registration, 263-5400, www.castlemed.org.
StarBulletin Features
Natural beauty
Developing a skin-care line would seem incongruous for someone whose previous job entailed building-industry research and development for the first LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design)-certified home on Maui.
True (mostly), weird holiday stories wanted
Do you have a bizarre, amusing or funny holiday story? If so, you could be the winner of Honolulu Lite's Weird, Strange or Funny (Mostly) True Christmas Story Contest. The best stories will be printed in a special Christmas edition of Honolulu Lite on Dec. 23, richly illustrated by the paper's crack cartoonist and artist Dave Swann. (He's not on crack, he's just really good at what he does.)
Popo's back!
In 1989, June Tong published a modest little cookbook called "Popo's Kitchen."
Drape the Thanksgiving table in jewel tones
Spring is for pastels; summer for brights. And fall is the time of deep, warm jewel tones — amber for yellow winter squash, emerald for dark, leafy greens, carnelian for the orange tones of yams, ruby for the deep red of beets and cranberries. Why, then, is our Thanksgiving table so pale?
Local Business News
First Flight
Mokulele Airlines debuted jet service yesterday with a morning flight from Honolulu to Lihue followed shortly by a flight from Kona to Honolulu.
Disney breaks ground at Ko Olina
In a vote of confidence in the economy as well as Hawaii's potential as a destination, Walt Disney Parks and Resorts broke ground on its planned resort at Ko Olina yesterday morning.
Rough year ahead, economist suggests
The economy may be downbeat, but what goes down must come up again, eventually. Leroy Laney, economics adviser to First Hawaiian Bank, forecasted a continuing contraction of the economy in 2009 yesterday at the 29th annual Business Outlook Forum at Dole Cannery Ballroom.
Dow falls below 8,000 on economic outlook
NEW YORK » Wall Street hit levels not seen since 2003 yesterday, with the Dow Jones industrial average plunging below the 8,000 mark amid a dour economic outlook from the Federal Reserve and worries over the fate of Detroit's three automakers.
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