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Posted on: Thursday, December 12, 2002

THE LEFT LANE
Must-see lights

Advertiser Staff and News Services

The Bishop Museum Luminarium features walk-through light sculptures.

Bishop Museum

If your hectic holiday schedule means squeezing just one Christmas light display onto your "to see" list this season, consider Bishop Museum's Grand Festival of Lights, a dreamland of 20 giant light sculptures, including Christmas trees, a nine-foot waving snowman and even volcanoes on the museum's great lawn, 6 to 9 nightly through Dec. 28.

Visitors can take a train ride through the sculptures on Santa's Express, check out a Planetarium show called "Under the Winter Sky" (showtimes are 6, 6:30 and 7 p.m.) or build an actual snowman in the Snow Zone (weekends only). Also check out Luminarium, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. daily Dec. 14 through Jan. 5. The outdoor exhibition is a huge walk-through sculpture with gigantic columns, bright passageways and high domes, all bathed in multicolored lights. Admission is $5; free for children 3 and younger. Information: 847-3511.

Tribute to mullets

Bolton during his dreadfully-coiffed days.

The mullet — that hatchet-job hairdo popularized by Billy Ray Cyrus, Patrick Swayze and Michael Bolton — will be musically celebrated in "Mullets Rock!," a two-CD collection of hard rock classics that toasts the musical tastes of the dreadfully coiffed subculture. Due Feb. 11, the collection looks beyond those mascots for grittier tunes favored by those sporting maimed manes.

Deep Purple's "Smoke on the Water," Foghat's "Slow Ride," Ted Nugent's "Free-for-All" and Mountain's "Mississippi Queen" are among tunes to make the cut. "Short in the front, long in the back, this bi-level phenomenon is now a beloved symbol of trailer-park tastelessness," Barney Hoskyns, co-author of "The Mullet: Hairstyle of the Gods," observes in the liner notes. "What is often forgotten is that Mulletheads have peerless musical taste, a point made beautifully by this ace anthology of stonking hard rockers."

New year, new career

Career goals will surpass health and fitness resolutions for 2003, according to 2002 year-end goal-setting activity reported on mygoals.com Web site. The site predicts that jobs are on the minds of 27 percent of people, who will set professional goals for the new year, an 18 percent increase from last year.

The Scottsdale, Ariz.-based Web site, which offers tips for making resolutions, expects 24 percent of people will set health and fitness goals, followed by personal growth and interests (14 percent), education and training (8 percent), personal finance (8 percent), time management and organization (8 percent), family and relationships (5 percent), recreation and leisure (3 percent) and home improvement and real estate (3 percent).

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