The ugly couch. You've seen it on "Roseanne." Maybe one sits in your own home, but you're helpless to do anything about it, even though fear of infectious disease or ukus prevents anyone from sitting on it, save the family dog. Rise and win, couch spuds
Your ugly couch may be the ticket to $2,000, or at the very least, a new couch, thanks to the Third Annual Ugly Couch Contest, sponsored by slipcover manufacturer Sure Fit.
To enter, send a 4-by-6-inch color photo of your couch and a brief explanation as to why it's still in your possession to: Ugly Couch Contest, Sure Fit, 58 W. 40th St. 2nd floor, New York, NY 10018. Deadline is Aug. 31.
Just by entering, you'll be doing good since Sure Fit will donate $1 per entry to the American Red Cross. So get off that couch and enter!
Tour 'Iolani Palace, for free, between 9 a.m. and 2:15 p.m. Sunday. Proof of Hawaii residency is required, and reservations are recommended. Free "Kama'aina Day" tours are offered the first Sunday of each month. Palatial affair
Normally the 45-minute tours are offered Tuesday through Saturday, $8 for adults and $3 for children 5-12. Children under 5 years are not permitted on the tours.
For reservations, call 522-0832.
Popular TV Food network chef Emeril Lagasse will spread his essence to celebrate the second anniversary of Sam Choy's Diamond Head Restaurant July 10. Emeril, live, in Hawaii
Lagasse, in collaboration with Choy, will prepare a six-course dinner that will include wok-seared salmon belly, duck and smoked sausage gumbo, soft-shell crabs, Kahuku pork loin chops and a baked pepper and papaya sorbet.
Wines will be selected by Chuck Furuya, master sommelier; and sommeliers Alan Suzuki and David Nip.
Dinner is priced at $75 with two seatings, at 5 p.m. and 8 p.m. For reservations, call 732-8645.
Lagasse is the chef and owner of Emeril's Restaurant and Nola in New Orleans and Emeril's New Orleans Fish House in Las Vegas. His television shows are "The Essence of Emeril" and "Emeril Live." He is also the author of "Emeril's New New Orleans Cooking" and "Louisiana Real and Rustic."
Get a head start on your Fourth of July celebrating. Some of the events scheduled before the national holiday dawns are: Fireworks, music
begin Fourth events
Fireworks: Aloha Tower and I-94 radio station lead the fireworks this weekend with their synchronized firework display, 8:40-9 p.m. Thursday.
Other events at Aloha Tower include: Performances by Na Leo Pilimehana, Roger and Zap, Kapena and 4PM; clowns and face painting for the children; dancing at Pier 10 and Studio 1; and a car display by Saturn of Honolulu.
For information, call 566-2333.
Tickets are $100 per person or $1,500-$5,000 per table. Proceeds benefit the Hawaii Foodbank.
Information: 836-3600.
Food and beverages will be on sale. Bring blankets or something to sit on.
Information: 257-5744.
Maybe they couldn't find matching aloha shirts in time. Cecilio and Kapono's planned Thursday concert at the Aloha Stadium has been moved to Labor Day at the smaller Waikiki Shell. C&K concert moved, postponed
According to Tom Moffatt Productions, which is producing the concert, Cecilio and Kapono "are excited about the Shell's availability" on Labor Day and decided not to perform until then.
The new Labor Day concert begins at 7 p.m. Aug. 29.
Current ticket holders can take their tickets to the Blaisdell Center box office and exchange them for refunds or comparable seating at the Shell beginning at 10 a.m. tomorrow.
Ticket prices at the Shell are $37.50 for pool and lower terrace, $27.50 for upper terrace, $22.50 for general admission lawn seating.
The $17.50 Aloha stadium tickets will be exchanged for upper terrace seating, and the $10 children's ticket price at Aloha Stadium does not apply to the Shell, although tickets already purchased will be honored. The $2.50 Shell Oil discount is still honored, but will be exchanged at Blaisdell box office only.
Cecilio and Kapono, a home-grown Hawaiian-pop duo, are reuniting to celebrate their 25th anniversary of striking it big nationally in the 1970s.
Information: 591-2211.
Reggae superstar Gregory Isaacs tours four islands next month. Isaacs to tour
Isaacs and his band begin their tour 8 p.m. July 15 at Kauai War Memorial Convention Center; travel 8 p.m. July 17 to the Kona Surf Convention Center; 7 p.m. July 19 to the Waikiki Shell; and wrap up 3 p.m. July 20 at Maui Arts Cultural Center.
On Kauai, tickets are $25 in advance at Jack Wada Electronics in Lihue, Tempo Music at Kauai Village and Kauai Video in Eleele; call 1-(808)-245-9527. Big Island tickets are $22 in advance at MJs Music in Hilo, Rhythm & Reading in Waimea, Tempo Music in Kona, and the Kona Surf Hotel; call 1-(808)-322-3411.
Waikiki Shell tickets are $17.50 in advance for grass seating, $20 the concert day; $20 terrace seating and $25 pool seating; at Connection outlets, Blaisdell box office, or by phone, 545-4000. Information: 591-2211.
For Maui, tickets are $20 in advance at Connection outlets, Tempo Music at Kaahumanu and Lahaina shopping centers and the Cultural Center box office; call 1-(808)-242-SHOW (7469).
This year's theme for the Hawaii International Jazz Festival is "Gospel and Blues," and artists include Azure McCall, Marlena Shaw and Linda Hopkins at the opening night, 7 p.m. July 31 at the Hawaii Theatre Center. Gospel, blues color jazz festival
"International Jazz Night" is at 7 p.m. Aug. 1, and the show includes Ernie Watts, Tiger Okoshi and The Out Takes.
"Vocal and Big Band Jazz" occurs at 7 p.m. Aug. 2, and the event includes the USC Jazz Band, Jimmy Borges and Nestor Torres.
"The Parade of Big Bands" is at 7 p.m. Aug. 3, and features University of Hawaii, University of Nevada-Las Vegas, and CINCPAC Fleet Jazz Bands, and the Oahu Band Directors Big Band.
Free jazz workshops will be held at 10 a.m. every day at the Hawaii Theatre, and there will be jam sessions both before and after the formal shows every night.
Admission to the concerts is $10, $18 and $25; season tickets are $30, $54 and $75.
Information: 941-9974.
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