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New home for 'Baby'
Makana Mother & Baby has found a home. For the past year, Deborah Sharkey has schlepped tons of fashionable maternity clothes to Blaisdell Center meeting rooms for trunk shows.
Deborah Sharkey
Now she has her own retail space, at University Square, 2615 S. King St., Suite 308, upstairs from Uyeda Shoe Store, open Fridays and Saturdays only, from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. She opens just in time to do her own maternity shopping: She and her husband, Jerry, and son Ian, will greet baby No. 2 in April.
Call for condom art
"How'z your package? You wen wrap 'um, I hope," a guy tells his buddy. So goes the beginning of a local radio advertisement that's not about Christmas gifts, but the importance of using condoms. "Of course! No glove, no love!" the guy's friend exclaims.
The ad is a call for entries in the "How's Your Package?" 2002 Condom Cover Art Contest, sponsored by the state Department of Health and radio station 1043 XME. The winning entry will be printed on condom packets and distributed statewide. The contest is for anyone under age 25; deadline is Dec. 31; first prize is $500. Online voters will choose the winner. Information: 1043xme.com or call 275-1043.
Checkout charity
You'll find a simple way of taking care of some holiday giving in the checkout line at your local Safeway or Times, or at Tamura's Fine Wines and Liquors in Wahiawa or Kaimuki. The bright green display with green tear-off tags saves you "frazzle" — no check to write or envelopes to lick. Just tear off a $1 or $5 certificate and hand it to the cashier, and a donation in that amount will be made to the Hawaii Foodbank, where $1 allows the distribution of $10 worth of food.
The gift of poetry
Poetry gets a bad rap sometimes — too hard to understand, too full of obscure references. But here's a good rap, three of them, in fact: A new CD featuring readings by a trio of feisty septuagenarians whose roots lie in the Beat era of the '50s. "Jan Ken Po, Live in Honolulu with Gary Snyder, Albert Saijo and Nano Sakaki" was recorded at a standing-room-only performance March 2, 2000.
The poets snarl, growl, howl, whisper, exclaim and sigh their way through 72 minutes of an exceptional, one-of-a-kind performance. Got beatnik nostalgia? Then this is for you. It's $9.95 at Native Books and Na Mea stores.
